God, Bride of the Monster was great! Or rather, terrible!
I first read about the movie in The Golden Turkey Awards. The description of the totally irrelevant mushroom cloud was classic (apparently, Ed Wood’s financier included, as a condition, that the film star his son, and that the movie make a statement against nuclear holocaust). Also the description of Wood having to use a non motorized, rubber octopus for Bela Lugosi’s character’s demise–Bela had to act like the octupus was strangling him while pulling the rubber octupus on top of him!
Thanks, mrblue92–no wonder I never saw it–I lost access to MST3K when it moved from Comedy Central to Sci-Fi. My cable provider didn’t carry Sci-Fi at the time. :mad:
sk8rixtx–Monster a Go-Go, I think, is the one where some poor crew member has to try to imitate the sound of a phone ringing because they forgot to dub in the ringing sound. :eek:
(I’m not sure if the “Colossal Episode Guide” had season 7 or not, but I got my copy from Amazon a month ago, so it’s probably still available. I think it had at least the first six.)
The Bela Lugosi vs. Octopus scene sounds like the Hobgoblins scene where the kids are being “attacked” by puppets. Or, more accurately, attacking themselves with puppets. Servo says something like, “If they’d just let them go, they’d fall to the floor.”
I’m not even half way through this thread but in case its not mentioned again, I don’t want to forget. My favorite line from this short was when the ‘pegs’ or whatever it was representing the happy couple stretched their rubber bands too fast and they went flying, to which Servo yelled, "OH MY GOD! WE’RE GONNA DIE!!
I have to finish reading now
Ok, someone did mention it, but now I have thought of so many more. I think my favorite moment was in one of the Hercules movies during a battle you see two guys carry a ‘wounded’ soldier off the field and Servo yells, IXII, IXII!
I can’t believe no one mentioned Ring of Terror with the worlds oldest living college students. Whenever my friend and I are looking for each other we call,“Puma? Puma?”
There was one movie, I think it was the one in which it was a post apocolypse (sp?) world and everything depended on these idiots on motorcycles. There was a shot of a cow hide on the barn that just killed me.
Joel, during the Snow/winter short, about ski is pronounced ‘skit’
Fav 'bot is the one and only Mr. Tom Servo! My ex got me a tiny little gumball machine in honor of him. It was the only smart thing he ever did.
I can’t believe I don’t know Mitchell. I must have seen it. Will someone sum up for me?
my favorites are probably Pod People (also the first one i saw while channel flipping, lucky me) Space Mutiny, and Mitchell.
Other memorable ones have been Hercules Unchained, Agent for HARM, This Island Earth (which i was lucky enough to see in the theater). yah, mst3k is good stuff. too bad it got cancelled. i cried.
Basically, Michell is a spectaculary repulsive cop who spends an entire movie wandering around, harrassing suspects, sleeping with a prostitute sent to him as a bribe, then arresting her, getting into screaming matches with 8 year olds, participating in 12 mile an hour car chases and occasionaly shooting people.
It’s impossible to describe just how disgusting Joe Don Baker was in this movie. To say nothing about the shot where he grabs a sixpack with his toes while sliding his doughy face across his bribe girl. A man of class and impecable taste, our Michell is. He makes the disgusting “You’re hittin’ the BOOZE again” hillbilly in Giant Spider Invasion look like James freaking Bond.
If you asked Dworkin to describe the worst man in the world, you might get something like Michell, though less repulsive, and smarter.
The amazing thing is that the writer and director obviously want us to sympathise with Michell. Even love him. And the REALLY trippy folksy themesong didn’t help.
In Final Justice, JDB plays a racist, casualy murdering, oafish ugly-american bully who threatens women with coat hangers. And that character is FAR more appealing than Michell.
Great episode, though. It’s also Joel’s last.
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“You don’t have to be a pig for the rest of your life, Michell!”
Actually, he kind of does.
Why, it’s the initials of the late, lamented, heavily-off-topic Mystery Science Theater 3000 UseNet newsgroup:
rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc
The ueber-fan Chris Cornell, who nicknamed himself “Sampo” in honor of the gizmo from The Day the Earth Froze, was a regular there from time to time. As was T-Bone, Big Rob the Midnight Rambler, Mellie, OdiePal, Tammy Stephanie Davis, Noah Singman and his wife the Jungle Goddess, Jess “I am a big femme” Nevins, Julia Sober, Clarinda Carrington, Christine “Indestructable Gouda Llama Woman” Malcom, Mike Czaplinski, and of course myself.
Most of the conversation quickly devolved into either flirtation, cascades, or vehemently defending MST3K against those scum who thought it wasn’t perfect.
Another favorite pasttime on RATMM was “Mystery Usenet Theater 3000”, which was when one or more of the posters did a MSTings of a really bad UseNet post (a rant, a hairbrained theory, Star Trek fanfiction, etc.).
I was also a RATMMer (1995-1998). I posted as Enoch Forrester. I did Voyager MSTings every week with some friends of mine when I was still in college. We’d watch the show, heckle it, write down what we said (as best we could), edit a little, and post it on the newsgroup. I was very briefly listed in the RATMM FAQ.
(Once I was egosurfing on Altavista, and I found something called the “Enoch Forrester Memorial Page,” but sadly there was nothing in it.)
Leafed through my Amazing Colossal Episode Guide last night and came across one I’d completely forgotten: The Dead Talk Back. Hilariously bad movie, great quips by Mike and the bots, a short about freezer space with a freaky non-speaking woman, AND a great host segment with Crow doing a Jerry Garcia-esque endless, meandering guitar solo. OH, what a show…
Apropos of nothing, I thought I’d share a whimsical moment from the first ConventioCon ExpoFest-A-Rama: Oddly enough, there was a MENSA convention being held at the same time, and the hotel’s bulletin board had the lists of upcoming MENSA activities and lectures. In the bottom corner of one of the boards someone had posted a notecard reading:
WANTED:
One Sampo
Will trade one box of Hamdingers
At The Circus(?) is my favorite short (“Heeere comes the Devil!” “They’re doing it clown style!”)
Some of my favorite movies:
Attack of the the Eye Creatures
Fire Maidens
Hobgoblins
Space Mutiny (I liked the way that they didn’t even dignify the obviously stolen space fight scenes from Battlestar Galactica with a comment or joke)
voguevixen, you went to the ConventioCon? Can I touch you? I wanted to go to that so bad, but, alas, could find no one willing to travel to Minnesota with me. Would have gladly gone solo but lacked the cash to swing a hotel room by my lonesome at the time.
Anyway, I would like to say that I have an autographed copy of the Amazing Colossal Episode guide. Ordered it from Best Brains shortly after it was released. I’m so proud.
Favorite bot? Tommy! So suave, so dashing, and that voice! Who remembers the host segment where Tom and Crow told Joel they were running away? Magic Voice tracked their movements, and it went something like “They’re stopping… they’re arguing… Crow is hitting Tom… Tom is crying… they’re coming back.”
The first episode I stumbled across, btw, was a prehistoric epic featuring miles and Miles O’Keefe-- Cavedwellers, I think. At the end, Joel and the bots pointed out several key continuity problems, such as a guy wearing sunglasses in the background of one scene. I was hooked from then on.
Did you guys know that Mike is married to Bridget Jones, aka Flavia, aka Mr. B Natural, aka Nuveena, Woman of the Future (I"ve ALWAYS wanted to see that last one!)
Now now, don’t shove…you can ALL touch me! er…anyways, I just remembered another cool thing they had. There was a actual-size replica of the bridge of the SOL that you could pose on with the Bots. It was so fun to get right up to the giant pic and see if you could make out all the shapes on the back wall. (Some you can make out clear enough on the show…there’s an obvious Hungry Hungry Hippos game that always distracts me.) Cookie cutters, drawer dividers, those kidney-shaped hospital spit bowls, toy trumpets. What creativity went into this show!
There was also a costume ball one night (we didn’t go because I had to appease hubby and go to an Indian Casino as a payoff for putting up with the whole thing.) Did see quite a few people with homemade Gizmonics jumpsuits and a couple of guys who had exact replicas of Tom and Crow. For the live show the next evening, we lucked out and got to sit in the third row right behind Mike and the Bots. They did a montage of songs and when Tom Servo burst into “Creepy Girl” I squealed with delight and my husband teased me about it for MONTHS!
That was probably the highlight of my life, really. It’s all been downhill from there.
1st Season: Robot Holocaust (“The Dahg Won”)
2nd Season: The Side Hackers (the favorite sport of cheap white trash)
3rd Season: Pod People ("It stinks!) & Fugitive Alien (“Bwhahahahahaha YOU’RE STUCK HERE!!”)
4th Season: Teenagers From Outer Space (“TOR-CHA!!”)
5th Season w/Joel: I Accuse My Parents
5th Season w/Mike: Santa Claus
6th Season: Racket Girls
7th Season: Laserblast
8th Season: Jack Frost
9th Season: Werewolf (“If I could just fart, I’d feel so much better.”)
10th Season: The Girl in Gold Boots (best scene: when the guy suddenly appears in the diner. Love that editing!)
Favorite shorts: “Mr. B Natural” (“Knew your father, I did!”),“Snow Thrills”; “Here Comes the Circus” (“Here comes the devil!!”); “Speech: Using Your Voice” (“Plenty of lip and tongue action”); “Circus on Ice” (“It’s prostitutes on ice!” “Hey!” “Well, in anice way.”)
Favorite songs: “Tibby”; “If Chauffers Ruled the World”; “The Janitor Song”; “Let Me Frank about Frank”; “Hike Up Your Pants”
