Comment Re:How about a "Slashdot Poll" of Favorite MST3K E (Score 1) 165
Oh, man... my choice has to be "Giant Spider Invasion" from season 8: Alan "The Skipper from Gilligan's Island" Hale, his sister Barbara "Della Street from Perry Mason" Hale and paunchy character actor Steve Brodie as named protagonists, stumbling their way through some vintage early-70s ineptitude, hobbled further by serious "made-for-TV" production
"values", and featuring the cheapest, fakiest monster EVER (yes, *worse* even than the Eye Creatures). This is a gold mine of ridicule-fodder for Mike and the Bots. The side-story focusing on the repulsive white-trash hick family inspires some of the finest heckling ever to issue forth from The First Row.
And because director Bill Rebane set the movie in Gleason, Wisconsin, the Minnesota-based cast of MST3K gets all the ammo they need to take broad cold-blooded potshots at their neighboring state (rioting mob sequences in the movie + repeated allusions to the Green Bay Packers from Mike & Bots = utter hilarity)
You'll find "GSI" in the tenth boxed set, the one which originally included the classic "Godzilla v. Megalon" --a.k.a. Jet Jaguar--- which was pulled and re-issued, with Giant Gila Monster replacing the Godzilla movie, when licensing issues regarding the latter could not be overcome.
And because director Bill Rebane set the movie in Gleason, Wisconsin, the Minnesota-based cast of MST3K gets all the ammo they need to take broad cold-blooded potshots at their neighboring state (rioting mob sequences in the movie + repeated allusions to the Green Bay Packers from Mike & Bots = utter hilarity)
You'll find "GSI" in the tenth boxed set, the one which originally included the classic "Godzilla v. Megalon" --a.k.a. Jet Jaguar--- which was pulled and re-issued, with Giant Gila Monster replacing the Godzilla movie, when licensing issues regarding the latter could not be overcome.
