MST3K is Back, Sort Of 264
Polar Star writes "Retrocrush reports that Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett are back making fun of crappy movies again in a new incarnation called The Film Crew. In the first of many new DVDs to be released, they take on a 1969 abomination called Hollywood After Dark which features a still-not-very-young Rue McClanahan as a down-on-her-luck actress who becomes a stripper. Needless to say, it's one of the scariest movies you'll ever see. There's plenty of funny jokes throughout, and they definitely prove themselves worthy of carrying on the MST3K tradition." Update 1925 GMT by SM: Corrected a few oversights and pointed to The Film Crew's actual website.
There's also RiffTrax (Score:5, Informative)
Download mp3s, and start them up at the same time as your DVD....
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Download mp3s, and start them up at the same time as your DVD....
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Your 'geek' license is immediately revoked. Please hand it in now.
"Get the gist of it from the summary? Me neither."
MST3K = Mystery Science Theater 3000. Please go google it.
Google is your friend.
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Are there any players that will let you sync the audio to the video and let it work for fastfoward and pausing? That's the only problem I can see with it, be a real pain in the ass if you had to just let the damn thing run, no pausing. If I'm in an audience of a size greater than one, there will be pauses, rewinds, etc.
The do try and make it easier to sync mid-movie by occasionally having a robot-voiced character read a line that should be synchronized with a line in the movie. This way, you *can* still start in the middle of a movie, but it is a PITA.
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Prior work? (Score:3, Funny)
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I was thinking the exact same thing, then I thought, "Wait! This is a doup [slashdot.org]!" But a little checking around [dapcentral.org] would seem to show that they indeed are, all three, united in a new project. They've been The Film Crew for a while, but they seem to be jumping in on actual DVD releases now as we can see on The Film Crew's website [filmcrewonline.com] the link for which seems to be missing in the article. Still, though, this is pretty old news. I remember voting for my 'first release' several months, if not a year, back. That could've bee
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Whatever happened to Joel??
Didn't he really come up with the MST3K idea, even the theme music? Why did he just disappear?
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Didn't he really come up with the MST3K idea, even the theme music? Why did he just disappear?
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When he left MST3K he filmed a pilot for HBO, a sketch comedy show called 'The TV Wheel'. My buddy and I were big enough fans that we went to the filming of the pilot, after being tipped off from Usenet that you could get free tickets. The show was never picked up.
Wikipedia lists some other projects of his post-mst3k..Favorite MST3K Line? (Score:4, Funny)
Mine: "We will be approaching speeds of... 3!"
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Or the car trying to start... "RRR RRR RRR RRR ROWSDOWER!"
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When Zap Rowsdower talks, people become intoxicated by the alcohol fumes from his breath
There are no endagered animals, only animals that Zap Rowsdower hasn't eaten... yet.
Zap Rowsdower once killed an entire cult with a single roundhouse kick. They died laughing.
Bullets are deflected by Zap Rowsdower's hockey hair
There is no forehead under Zap's mullet... there's another beer gut
In the unlikely event that Canada ever runs out of beer, they can drink Zap Rowsdower's blood, which is 120 proof.
You are what you eat, and Zap Rowsdower is 200 pounds of bacon fat
The only force known to withstand the force of a Chuck Norris Roundhouse Kick (tm) is Zap Rowsdower's doughy gut
That's all I have for now... Rowsdowermobile, awaaay!!
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Big McLargehuge
Gristle McThornbody
Buff Hardback
and
Thick McRunfast
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Butch Deadlift
Blast Thickneck
Lump Beefrock
(that's one of the greatest episodes - not just because the movie re-uses old BSG props, but because it's the best "wrong name" gag implementation in all of entertainment, ever)
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Final Sacrifice MST3K premiered today in 1998 (Score:2)
Larry Csonka unavailable for comment...
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Mike: "Okay, but this is the final sacrifice."
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The funniest part is that it was just "in another scene", it was in the very next scene after her death. If you watch the credits, they make fun of the person responsible for Continuity.
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Mike: "And our brave hero roasts the disabled man!"
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Big McLargehuge!
Pack Blowfist!
Slab Bulkhead!
Stump Chunkman!
(Are the first few I remember off the top of my head)
Never have I seen the "wrong name" gag taken to such dizzying heights of hilarity.
OTOH, if we're just going all-time great lines:
"Gamera's never seen a mohel" (from one of the Gamera movies, obviously, though I regret to admit I don't recall which)
or
Actor: "Why are you so worried about this box?"
Mike: "Because it doesn't
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Space Mutiny--it's a mutiny I N S P A C E!! (Score:2)
Seriously, the one thing they DIDN'T make fun of in this one was actually the funniest part--the fact that all the "special effects" footage was stolen from Battlestar Galactica.
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From: Pod People
"Oh, man, this guy's got renaissance faire written all over him."
(Man pulls out a crossbow from the front seat of the car)
"Huzzah!"
Swi
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"Oh, man, this guy's got renaissance faire written all over him."
(Man pulls out a crossbow from the front seat of the car)
"Huzzah!"
Renfair boy: [ready to poach some deer] Good. Now I can go shoot something in peace and quiet.
Tom Servo: Do you even realize what you just said?
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Members of a really crappy rock band try to contact the outside world (from memory):
Singer 1: "The TV's not working!"
Singer 2: "The radio's making a funny noise, too."
Bots: "It's called MUSIC!"
Also, in The Atomic Brain (again, from memory):
Housekeeper 1 (with a really bad fake European accent): "Oh, leave without me, I won't make it!"
Housekeeper 2: "Don't talk like that!"
Bots: "We've been saying that the WHOLE MOVIE!"
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"I like potatoes!"
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Ivan: This is the first time I've sat on a shovel.
Mike: Well, at least the flat end.
It was simply the best.
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Puma Man (Score:2)
Puuuuuma-maaaaan... when will he find love? [riverblue.com]
Classic.
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"Puma man, he flies like a moron..."
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As "music" from soundtrack plays: Note note note note note note other note
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Special effects by Industrial Light and Morons.
Cmdr. Jansen: It's very perilous for everyone on board... we do not make wild accusations... so we keep this Top Classified Secret.
Servo [as Cmdr. Jansen]: Top Super-Duper Maxi-Extreme Ultra Secret.
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When skewering a black and white short called At The Circus:
"Oh my God, they're doing it clown style!
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What's everyone's favorite line from MST3K?
There are so many good ones, I don't know where to start. Some of the best lines just aren't anything without seeing the visuals that inspired them. Here are the ones I can think of off the top of my head:
Thug: I got a guy, he knows all the angles!
Crow: Name's Euclid.
Some weird wicker coffin used by paramedics to move a body
Crow: Oh, look, it's a picnic casket!
From Clash of the Moons
Winky: [after leave is cancelled for a mission] So much for that gay nightlife. Looks like I'm going to have to go ride the r
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"Object ahead."
"Can you be any more vague, Winkie?"
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Prince of Space (Score:2)
Mike as the CO: I understand you're stuffed with cheese.
Best abdominal workout I'd had in months.
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at which point he's mercifully cut off. Snarfed out half a beer out my nose after hearing t
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"Who would her friends be?"
Who would be her blood enemies? Would she smoke thin black cigarettes and reject the triune god?
Damn, I miss MST3K!
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Tom: Say, fellas. There sure is a lot of skin in this movie, isn't there?
Mike: There sure is!
Crow: Yet, despite all the acres of flesh in this film I just can't come up with a word to describes it.
Tom: Well, I can!
Mike: You can?
Tom: Why sure! (sings) It's breasticaboobical, chesticamammical pendular, globular fun!
Mike: Fleshical orbital moundular scoopular?
Tom: Righto! That's the one!
Crow: Is it glutial maximal, tushital, crackular, bunular, morning 'til night?
Tom: Well, you're
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"She'll drink anything."
... and the baths ..."
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And of course, anything from "Mr. B Natural"
Damn, that's probably one of the best shorts ever.
"Who is this, Liberache's mom?" "Oscar Wylde only wished he were this gay."
Link to B. Natural
http://youtube.com/watch?v=I8kH4XyWjq4 [youtube.com]
Alphabet Antics was also hysterical
narrator lady: P is for the queer, queer pelican, whose beak can hold more than his belly can
Joel: P is for plagiarism of Ogden Nash
narrator lady: D is for dancing, look at these children dance
Crow: D is for Damned, as in village of
Tom: (when you see this creepy looking austrian kid in full lei
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(Tom Servo) "There's a flaming moose on I95..."
(Crow, I think, in Bullwinkle voice) "Rocky! Help me! I appear to be on fire!"
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Satellite News (Score:5, Informative)
I guess I'm old.... (Score:2)
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Another Link & Rifftrax (Score:3, Interesting)
A few months back on Shout!'s website, fans were asked to vote on which of the four scheduled Film Crew releases would be the first on store shelves, the winner was the 1961 clunker Hollywood After Dark. Also know as Walk The Angry Beach and The Unholy Choice, the "film" features future Golden Girls star Rue McClanahan getting down to her skivvies and shaking it for all she's worth when her acting career fails - oddly enough that's the story of the film too.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0055612/ said it best. :-) (Score:2)
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What is this IGN guy smoking? It was the sketches that first got me watching MST3k. I remember a number of times, I'd see the sketch, then turn down the vol while I worked on catching up on my reading for my ancient greek history class. In a number of cases the movie they're forced to watch is so awful that nothing can make it interesting. That's when the sketches save the show. Try watching Manos or the one about the brain swapping wi
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What is this IGN guy smoking? It was the sketches that first got me watching MST3k. I remember a number of times, I'd see the sketch, then turn down the vol while I worked on catching up on my reading for my ancient greek history class. In a number of cases the movie they're forced to watch is so awful that nothing can make it interesting. That's when the sketches save the show. Try watching Manos or the one about the brain swapping without the sketches and see if you think the show is still enjoyable. Hmmm come to think of it, maybe this IGN guy did watch some episodes without the sketches and has totally lost his mind.
I first started watching MST3K when I was 12. I didn't know what the show was at first, I knew there was a show with silhouettes beneath movies and there was the stoned guy with prop robots but it took me a while to put the two together. I didn't think the sketch bits were funny at first and so quickly flipped by them. The first sketch I actually watched through was Joel's cinescope invention where you get to put binocular and telescope filters over the camera. "Now if you combine the glaucoma-vision with
And MST3K is... (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.mst3kinfo.com/mstfaq/basics.html [mst3kinfo.com]
(Q1 says "What is Mystery Science Theater 3000?"
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Blasphemy (Score:4, Insightful)
The sketches *were* essential. Some of them were great, and almost all of them were funny. Well, at least when JOEL was doing them.
Joel was better than Mike. By a lot. People that like Mike will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes.
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How could we have withstood the horror that was "Attack of the Giant Leeches" if it was not for the Joel/Tom/Crow: "A Danger To Myself and Others" (The Hillbilly Song) sketch?
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Dr. Who. I'd say at least 3 or 4 of the Doctors were better than the one they replaced.
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The humor also changed in "tone" when it went from Joel to Mike. Joel (the actor) would always ixnay a lot of the "edgier" jokes on the show behind the scenes. Even in the filming of the show itself whenever Crow would attempt to make a dirty reference, Joel would shush him up.
When Joel left and the "character Mike" got shot up into space, the jokes got a lot less generic, and started curving "blue" sometimes. Personally, I enjoyed Mike a lot more in the show, though it definitely wouldn't have been wha
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Actually, Mike had been head writer since season 2 IIRC. So he wasn't brought on, as much as he stepped up and got in front of the camera. His humor was there since the second Comedy Central season at least.
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Joel or Mike? (Score:5, Funny)
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Superior??? I've heard he uses vi.
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rmcclanahanfan saw this comming 6 years ago.... (Score:2, Insightful)
Oh, and nuts to "thom walker" from the UK!!!
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Bring the Bots Back, Please!!!! (Score:2)
Maybe someday there will be a MST3K reunion movies or movies, LOL
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Deeeeeeppp hurrrtttinnnggg
Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep HUUUURRRTTTTINNNGGGG
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In any event - Main Entry: cut
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Any Tom Waits references also rule
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And don't you mean s/asteroid/moon/?
Dude, if you're going to correct a statement, don't half-ass it. s/battlestation/spacestation/
/me wanders off, muttering "You know what, I don't need your kind of help, all right? Have a great assault. Jerk."