Is that the one with Servo in the mini-convertible hitting on the Magic Voice prompting it to say that it can make out with Servo if just for the fact that it doesn’t have a body? I just remember the skit, not the movie.
We picked up Vol. 7 recently, and this one really hurt. It’s pretty bad on its own, and that pointless sandstorm sequence - though it’s intercut with other scenes - was more than ten minutes.
My main memories of Attack of the the Eye Creatures are the weird, greasy guy who wears the colorful, skintight minidress as pajamas, and the one Eye Creature who’s just wearing the head of the costume without the body part, so he’s just some guy with an alien head. It was obviously shot somewhere in Texas, given all the Texas license plates on the cars. God, that movie is pathetic.
We got the first two box sets for Christmas and had big Cave Dwellers fun the other night. I just about died when Ator showed up in his hang glider.
Correct! First he hits on Crow, then Gypsy, then Magic Voice.
Favorite Episodes: (not in any particular order):
– Girl with Gold Boots
– Space Mutiny
– Manos: The Manos of Fate
– Prince of Space
– Future Wax (…er, War)
– Zap Rowsdower (i.e., The Final Sacrifice)
– Jack Frost
– The Space Children
Favorite Bits:
– The host segments in the first episode with the Observers. Paul “observing” Mike was hilarious.
– “Tragic Moments” figurines.
– The voice of the crusty old prospector/“archeaologist” in Final Sacrifice
– I think Mary Jo had an incredibly good delivery. She was the funniest actor during the whole run.
Favorite Songs:
– “Idiot Control, Now” (from Pod People)
– “Patrick Swayze Christmas” (Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
– “The Bouncy Upbeat Song” (from Red Zone Cuba – so desperately needed!)
– “Loving Lovers Love” (Overdrawn at the Memory Bank)
– “They Look Pretty Good with Fake Hair” (Sir Thomas Neville Servo Concert of the Middle Ages Just After the Plague Singers, from Quest of the Delta Knights)
Favorite External Reference:
TV listings from The Onion:
Actually, it was hyping colored telephones.
Holy Bob, DO NOT start with WWoB! It’s pure shit of a movie, the images are almost impossible to make out, the sound is excreable, and the riffing is just “ok”. It’s a terrible first ep!
Pick something easy and watchable, in color and with good sound, like MST3K: The Movie, or Space Travelers, or Time Chasers or something! If all I had to go on was WWoB, I’d never watch another episode!
Can anyone say for certain that the SoL is (or, sadly, was) shaped like that as a nod to Firesign (as was so much MST3K work)? You know, as in: “All I had to do was put the balls on the other side!”
I’ve always thought it was a reference to the moment in “2001: A Space Oddesey” when the pre-human throws the bone in the air and “becomes” the space station.
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Favorite Episodes: (not in any particular order):
– Girl with Gold Boots
– Space Mutiny
– Manos: The Manos of Fate
– Prince of Space
– Future Wax (…er, War)
– Zap Rowsdower (i.e., The Final Sacrifice)
– Jack Frost
– The Space Children
Favorite Bits:
– The host segments in the first episode with the Observers. Paul “observing” Mike was hilarious.
– “Tragic Moments” figurines.
– The voice of the crusty old prospector/“archeaologist” in Final Sacrifice
– I think Mary Jo had an incredibly good delivery. She was the funniest actor during the whole run.
Favorite Songs:
– “Idiot Control, Now” (from Pod People)
– “Patrick Swayze Christmas” (Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
– “The Bouncy Upbeat Song” (from Red Zone Cuba – so desperately needed!)
– “Loving Lovers Love” (Overdrawn at the Memory Bank)
– “They Look Pretty Good with Fake Hair” (Sir Thomas Neville Servo Concert of the Middle Ages Just After the Plague Singers, from Quest of the Delta Knights)
Favorite External Reference (repaired):
TV listings from The Onion:
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What, is this a subtle homage to Attack of The The Eye Creatures? 
I just watched “Monster A Go Go” by Mr. Rebane. The same Rebane who would brings us “Giant Spider Invasion.” Both of those movies sucked so bad I can’t imagine how much denial and self-delusion it takes to think that they’re going to make a profit or even cover any of the (meager) production expenses. I don’t remember when “Monster…” was made, but “Giant Spider…” was recent enough that the B-movie market was already gone but not recent enough for the straight to video crowd. So apart from the occassional “Crappy Movie Theater” shows on local UHF stations, I don’t see how either of those flicks would ever be viewed by people who were not related to the cast and crew.
**MST3K 4.19 - The Rebel Set **
Shown with short, Johnny at the Fair. Little Johnny wanders away from his parents at the Canadian National Exhibition; he manages to meet Joe Louis and the Canadian Prime Minister. The riffs on the short are excellent, particularly as Johnny wanders through the ‘Chemical Wonderland.’
The movie is… not bad. Ed Platt (Get Smart’s Chief) plays a criminal mastermind who manipulates three fellows that are hard up for cash into working for him in a robbery scheme. It involves a four-hour train stopover in Chicago that gives them just enough time to hit the money truck leaving a gambling track. Once back on the train, though, things start to go south as he begins to eliminate his dupes - one, a struggling actor, has an attack of conscience and helps the police capture Platt. And by capture, I mean ‘accidentally electrocute.’
There’re a lot of fun riffs in this one - despite Platt’s character being nicknamed ‘Mr. T’, none in that direction. Some Get Smart stuff, great bits about a Wicker Casket, and … ‘IT’S NOT MERRITT STONE!’
Host segments include Joel reading scary stories to the Bots to no avail, until he tries ‘Life’s Little Instruction Book’; Crow orders acting records featuring Scott Baio; the crew discusses what to do on a visit to Chicago, Crow gets carried away; the SOL has a writing workshop based on Joel’s reading of Merritt Stone’s book on writing; and lastly, Tom Servo as Hercule Poirot, analyzing the mystery of ‘who is Merritt Stone?’ and leaving TV’s Frank quite stricken with the mystery. (‘WHO IS MERRITT STOOOOONE?’)
As a footnote, Merritt Stone does not appear in this film. Gene Roth, however, does.
Signature Riff :
(as Platt explains the train arrangements, when the train leaves, et cetera)
“It’s the SAT caper!”
Joel and the Bots will return, in : The Human Duplicators
I did not realize that Johnny at the Fair was narrated by Lorne Green(!) Now I have to go back and watch it again just for that.
**MST3K 4.20 - The Human Duplicators **
Richard Kiel (Jaws, Eegah) stars as Dr. Kolos (and Diet Kolos), an agent of alien powers who comes to Earth, hijacks a brilliant scientist’s lab, and begins to make robot doubles of folks, to infiltrate our government. The scientist is Professor Dornheimer, whose name sends Crow into giggles almost every time. He has a very tiny, blind neice that Kolos begins to feel affection for. Rounding out the cast are a couple of FBI agents and a secretary. The lead FBI man is Hugh Beaumont, in his final role, apparently. The robots turn on Kolos at the end, setting up the final anticlimactic battle.
There’s a geat moment between the secretary and the FBI agent she’s dating, at an apartment, while he mulls over the rash of electronics robberies he’s investigating. She says, “Say something.” Crow pipes in, “Something!” and then the agent pipes in “Something!” Crow jerks a little as if shocked, and says “I got riff-back on that one…”
The host segments - Joel plans some potential modifications to the Bots, and Tom has big plans - meanwhile, the Mads can’t stop laughing at their William Conrad refrigerator alarm; the crew has a crafts project to make spaceship models out of household objects - Crow’s model of the SOL being most impressive, and Joel’s spaceship made of Crow parts is a bit creepy; Servo, inspired by the movie, builds a legion of duplicates to serve as his slaves; the crew muses that Hugh Beaumont is really a jerk in this movie, and Mike shows up playing Hugh on the Hexfield; lastly, Crow and Tom come out of the robot closet.
Signature Riff:
(as the duplication process is performed on an Asian female scientist)
Crow : “Hunan Duplicators!”
Joel and the Bots will return, in : Monster A-Go-Go.
I just wanted to add, Richard Kiel in Human Duplicators wins the award for ‘Smarmiest Voice ever used on screen’. And the robots get a nomination for ‘Bulletproof Nemeses most likely to fall apart after stubbing a toe.’
CandidGamera, I’m looking forward to your next entry, for Monster a Go-Go. I just saw it for the first time, and…words fail me.
Let’s just say that people who say Manos was the worst movie ever have never seen this turkey.
I believe the boys themselves said that Monster a Go-Go was the worst movie they’d ever seen.
True; I just read that in the Amazing Colossal Episode Guide. It makes Plan 9 look like Citizen Kane.
**MST3K 4.21 - Monster a-Go Go **
Ow.
This stinkburger is available on MST3K Collection, Vol. 8. It’s by auteur Bill Rebane, of Giant Spider Invasion infamy. Shown with short, Circus on Ice.
The short’s a bit dull, but adequately riffed, but then we get into the true horror that is the movie. Poorly acted, and poorly recorded, this one’s a pain to watch. Not quite as dull as Giant Gila Monster or as atrocious as Castle of Fu Manchu, but bad. Joel and the Bots start out predicting doom in the credits sequence, and their predictions are fulfilled.
Our “story” concerns an American astronaut, who returns to Earth, quite insane and radioactive, and goes about killing people. This occurred, we learn, because of an experimental anti-radiation chemical. Except… none of that happened, apparently, because at the end of the movie, the “monster” vanishes while cornered, and the astronaut is found, alive and well, elsewhere. It’s like they ran out of budget quite suddenly, and decided to cap it off with a title card : “And then suddenly, everything was okay. The End.”
Host Segments include the Bots making Cheese; Invention Exchange action figures - the Mads invent Johnny Longtorso, the doll who is, himself, sold separately; Gypsy doesn’t get Crow - or is it Tom?; Keepaway from Crow; Questions of the Universe : The Pina Colada Song; and finally, Joel dresses Tom and Crow as a King and Jester to try to cheer them up.
Signature Riff:
(in regards to the odd, plunking music over one scene)
<Joel> : “What is this, Chinese Music Torture?”
Next Up : The Day The Earth Froze
Truly, truly an awful movie. One of my favorite riffs – the lighting/cinematography is SO bad that occasionally the actors features are completely washed out. Which leads to the riff - one character to another, “do you have a problem with your face disappearing?”