mystery sience theater 3000
POSTED BY: leelu777
UPDATED: Thursday, November 3, 2005 16:03
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Yes, I have seen Undead. I found it hilarious, especially the part where the chubby guy does a backflip and hangs upside-down by his spurs, shooting zombies. until i saw that film, i never new that a soda can could explode if you threw a ballpoint pen at it!
"That's why I never kiss 'em on the mouth."
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I loved the "Up-North" humor.
I used to have to explain some of the gags to my NY-born hubby.
Our "thing" used to be sleeping in on Saturdays and watching MST. I miss that stupid show. The episode I remember the most was the weird Santa Claus movie.
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"Funny and sexy. You have no idea. And you never will."
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Originally posted by batmarlowe:
Don't get me started on MST3K! I miss it so much I can't begin to explain. It was one of the best things on TV ever! I was one of the lucky ones who discovered it in its first season on what was then The Comedy Channel. I had a friend from Minneapolis who was there from the very beginning and saw all the KTMA's and man, did I envy her.
Yes, it must have so cool to have discovered MST3K at the beginning and started the ride from there! Luckily I also found it fairly early on... The Comedy Central days. I think the very first show I saw was "Jungle Goddess". It may not have been one of their most classic shows, but it was definitely laugh out loud funny and original enough to get me hooked. I kept watching regularly after that and fell madly in love. Firefly was the only other show to get into my heart like that.
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I went to the second con and it was great! The parade of Torgos, the costime contest, touring the set and the offices--all a lot of fun.
Ooooooo... you got the ultra special convention package! I missed out on one of those (they sold out fast) but I did attend the convention. I suppose I qualified myself as a true MST3K geek to use my vacation time to fly from L.A. to Minnesota just to attend this con.
What a wonderful time I had... and yes the Parade of Torgos was wild, surreal and creepily hi-sterical. I remember Mike was the judge and he got speechless a few times. It takes a lot to get Mike stunned!
I did give in to fan geekdom to get a picture with Trace Beaulieu (Dr. Clayton Forrester, Crow T. Robot). I think this picture was my first ever picture with a TV or movie person. I always avoided the fan girl thing, but MST3K was just too awesome... so I gave myself over to the Fan Side...
Of course, these were the proto-fangeek days, down the road would come Firefly...
In January of 2004 the Sci-Fi Channel announced it would not be renewing the contract for Mystery Science Theatre 3000. I started a thread over at the Firefly message board in honor of the show. There were a lot of replies and great comments from folks. It's a good read for any MST3K fan:
http://forums.prospero.com/foxfirefly/messages?msg=12873.1
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It was brilliant, clever, and innovative show not to mention laugh-out-loud funny! Most importantly the cast were incredibly talented comic actors and writers who were smart and they didn't dumb down their humor to the audience.
The show starts kicking into high gear in Season 2 and gets better. I lot of people didn't like the switch from Joel to Mike during season 5 (MITCHELL!) and I can see their point but the commentaries on the movies got sharper and sharper.
It did suffer in terms of the host segments when Frank, then Trace left the but the commentary was still worth it.
Then there's the songs, and the Amazing Colossal Episode guide, and the Oscar Preview Special, and the shorts! Oh man, the shorts were so funny!
Go to mst3kinfo.com for a rich bounty of information. But by all means see as many episodes as you can.
Yes, yes, yes, yes and YES. You write about MST3K the way I do!
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God, I miss it.
And this most of all...
11th Hour
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"Because teenage pranks are fun when you're about to die!" - Hoban Washburne
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Cool photo 11th....
You are so pretty!
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Originally posted by UnregisteredCompanion:
Cool photo 11th....
You are so pretty!
Thank you hon... though I do think Trace is the prettiest one in that picture!
I like that it can be seen that I'm wearing my little Crow T. Robot pin! I was wearing a Tom Servo pin on the other side. But for this paricular pic, it was better that the Crow one could be seen.
11th
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"Because teenage pranks are fun when you're about to die!" - Hoban Washburne
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Yup, another old-time Misty here. I've got a few of the shows on DVD, and plan to get more. My all-time favorite is still "Warrior of the Lost World", a *supremely* cheesy Mad Max/Road Warrior ripoff with Persis Khambatta (that cute bald chick from the first Star Trek movie) and Donald Pleasance, and "that guy from 'The Paper Chase' " as our beloved 'bots call him. Unfortunately, Rhino hasn't seen fit to release it on DVD, but I found it on DVD through another "unofficial" site ( www.cupandblade.com) that sells episodes that aren't commercially available elsewhere.
Some of the episodes are of pretty cheap quality, obviously taken from a VHS tape. I got a few of the Season One (KTMA) shows, including the awesomely bad "SST: Death Flight" with Billy Crystal as the gay flight attendant, Burt Convy (the original famous for being famous guy), and even Regis Philbin in the cast! During the show, you get to see the time and temp on the screen along with the KTMA logo at various times (10:32pm, 9ºF!).
They offer DVDs from all ten seasons of MST3K; so far, I've only bought a handful though. At $6 a pop, it'd be easy to blow a wad of cash there...
Mike
"Any fruit to declare?"
"We hated you in The Paper Chase!"
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MST 3k, was the funniest thing ever... movies sucked, but the show itself was hiliarous... its where i got my current movie going habit ,randomly cracking jokes during hte movie about the stupid sh^t there doing, of ocurse not done during serenity...
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"It's not that there HAS to be a sequel. It's just that I've got so many IDEAS..."-Joss Whedon
*Andersen AFB, Guam*
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Horray for MST3K!
My mom got me into this show while it still came on SciFi. We rented the movie and got hooked! Now we quote Mike and the Robots all the time and no one understands what we're saying. It's really fun!
I highly recommend this show, especially The Mole People, The Movie (of course), Santa Clause Vs. The Martians, Prince of Space, Overdrawn at the Memory bank (I also reccomend the movie. It's cool!)
That's about all I got! Enjoy your new fandom, Leelu, but don't forget, Serenity comes first!
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Originally posted by BoomChick:
I highly recommend this show, especially The Mole People, The Movie (of course), Santa Clause Vs. The Martians, Prince of Space, Overdrawn at the Memory bank (I also reccomend the movie. It's cool!)
Other great episodes include "Time Chasers" and "Space Mutiny" as well as "Pumaman". Good stuff.
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