The MST3K Turkey Day 2021 Marathon starts today at 9:00am ET / 6:00am PT.
You can watch via:
- MST3K YouTube channel
- Twitch
- Pluto TV MST3K channel
- http://www.shoutfactorytv.com
- Shout Factory TV YouTube channel
- Shout Factory TV App via Apple TV, Roku, or Amazon Fire
- STIRR
- Shout Factory Xumo channel
- The Roku Channel
- TCL TVs
- Vizio
- Redbox
- THETA.tv
- LocalNow
Official hashtag is #MST3KTurkeyDay. Follow along below!
Edit -- here's the schedule so far:
- 9:00am ET: The Brain That Wouldn't Die
- 11:00am ET: Hercules Against The Moon Men
- 1:00pm ET: Escape 2000
- 3:00pm ET: Gunslinger
- 5:00pm ET: Avalanche
- 7:00pm ET: Giant Spider Invasion
- 9:00pm ET: Magic Voyage of Sinbad
- 11:00pm ET: Prince of Space
I think the Christmas That Almost Wasn’t is a great entry into the catalog. I can’t wait for A Christmas Dragon!
A few songs referenced in the show, have made it permanently into my occasional play list. A few that come to mind:
- A Cat Named Kalamazoo
- Common Man (With a Common Van)
- Where The Boys Are -Ode To Billie Joe, and, of course, Pig Sticker. Has this happened to anyone else?
Surely I'm not alone. The amount of times I've watched Werewolf (war-wilf), for example, is nearing three digits.
What's a good movie to watch and make fun of with friends MST3K-style? There's some obvious choices like The Room and Troll 2, but what are some other good choices?
Examples:
- Batman & Robin (1997): Batman and Robin try to keep their relationship together even as they must stop Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from freezing Gotham City.
- Simon Sez (1999): Basketball superstar Dennis Rodman stars as a hip Interpol agent attempting to defeat the deadly plans of a crazed arms dealer.
- Dungeons & Dragons (2000): Profion, a tyrant, attempts to overthrow a peaceful kingdom ruled by a tough empress.
Anyone going to the Jan 31 MST3K show at the DPAC and interested in a pre or postshow meetup with fellow fans? Given the weather, omicron, and the fact it's a Monday, it's a longshot but figured there are others like me who didn't want to miss a chance to meet likeminded fans in the area!
It’s very rare for an American show, especially one that ran for as many years as MST3K, to not be broadcast in Canada. I discovered the show on VHS tapes at the video store. (Fortunately, it wasn’t too long before you could download episodes from the internet.). My first episode was “The Amazing Colossal Man” amd I was instantly hooked.
Did it have something to do with rights issues? Im sure at least some of the movies featured on the show were in the public domain in Canada. We do have the new Netflix seasons.
I hadn't seen TBTWD before this year's excellent Turkey Day marathon. My only previous exposure was the clip of a smiling "Jan in the pan" that was used in a few seasons (?) of the Joel-era intro, so I assumed that it was a silly variation on The Corpse Vanishes.
...and it is, basically. "Amoral scientist exploits women to help his beloved and is killed by a creature he created"? Yup.
But at every opportunity, TBTWD leans into the creepiness. The protagonist drives like an idiot and gets his fiancé "killed", then spends the rest of the film leering at women while making double-entendres about murdering them. Meanwhile, what's left of his fiancé becomes understandably deranged/psychotic. And the whole thing is really just an excuse to ogle beautiful women?
Red Zone Cuba is creepy. The protagonists are bad people who do terrible things while trying to make a few bucks. And Sidehackers is creepy too: the antagonist and his girlfriend are loathsome.
But right now, The Brain That Wouldn't Die gets my vote.
I'm working to complete the list "101 War Movies You Must See Before You Die," and tonight I'm watching the John Sturges film The Eagle Has Landed (1976). Watching the credits: Michael Caine, nice ... Donald Sutherland ... Jenny Agutter, lovely ... what, Donald Pleasance?! Oh, yeah - he did non-crappy movies too. I forgot.
It shouldn't surprise me when this happens, but it does. Joe Don Baker did Walking Tall and a couple of Bond movies. Ernest Borgnine had an Oscar. Christopher Plummer would later win an Oscar. And yet they also did stuff so wretched that it was used to torture interstellar prisoners and their robots. Fascinating.
Idk if this is the right place to ask (and probably a dumb question) but does MST3k own the "format" of showing a movie and riffing on it for comedic effect?
Common sense says no since it's a pretty generic idea. but at the same time theyre well known for doing it so it could arguably be associated with them and in that case it's feasible that they could stop others from doing the same thing.
You need to have a subscription to make use of the free month, so I got the full year subscription, since I finally have a comfortable income and love supporting the boys. SO MUCH GOOD STUFF!!! Before I would fire up PlutoTV to see what was streaming live, or YouTube to see what I could dig up. But now, I'll be checking out the Rifftrax streaming app several times a week. Things are gonna get WEIRD!!!
Did he end up having to buy out Jim? Did they reconcile? I don't really understand how all that ended up happening.
Today's update for the latest Mystery Science Theater 3000 Kickstarter campaign includes a profile of Ross! This is an exciting crossover for nerds fans. I love everything Ross has done with the Network, and the Tin Whistles will live forever in my heart.
I'm currently sick in bed and wanting to explore MST3K episodes that I may have neglected in previous (obsessive) watch-throughs. What's your favorite episode that you think is underrated/don't see a lot of buzz about?
I'll go first- mine is probably Gunslinger because it's an actually (vaguely) interesting plot (strong woman needing to clean up a town) paired with typical Corman lunacy.
Edit: Thank you to everyone for your recommendations! I have now watched Monster A Go Go (disappointed it wasn't a Horror at Party Beach style movie) and Wild Rebels! Dozens more still on the list I made of your recs- I'll be busy for awhile!
This one is back on DOTW for the second time in a month.
Hide the Sampo 'cause American International Pictures is coming for The Day The Earth Froze! This Russo-Finnish co-production is based on the Kalevala, a collection of tales from Finnish oral folklore compiled into an epic poem in the 1800s. It concerns the conflict between the good people of Väinölä and the evil of Pohjola, and what we get in this US dub of the film is a not terrible (to my understanding) depiction of some of the events between the two. The central story revolves around the Sampo, a horn of plenty style magical macguffin that produces incredible wealth and prosperity for its owners (I think we're talking food and such here, not gold so much, but whatever). On one side, we have the legendary smith Ilmarinen, the only man capable of creating the Sampo, and his sister Annikki. The Sampo can't be made until Annikki, who rejects all suitors, falls in love. She finds that love in Lemminkäinen, the hardest working man in the land, but as soon as she does, she's whisked away by Louhi, the evil witch ruler of Angmar...wait, Pohjola (this is one of the tales that supposedly influenced Tolkien the mad linguist, btw). Louki wants that Sampo, and thus, conflict arises.
Honestly, the movie isn't so bad. It was clearly a lavish production for its era and region. There's no real problem with it per se, but it suffers two issues relating to more modern American audiences. For one, it's decidedly dated in special effects, which is frankly a bit endearing to a lot of us. It's also, however, a compilation of different stories in an attempt to turn a very big story into a film length one, so things seem a bit abrupt and abridged, especially in the AIP edit, which cuts some scenes to make the movie short enough to release on a double billing. The movie is still follow-able, though, and just not too bad. It's just a bit different and weird, with funny names and oddness. Which results in creativity.
Less creative, and more weird, is our short, Here Comes The Circus. This one's pretty much what it says on the tin, a short about watching the circus. It's basically a 1946 ad for the Ringling/Barnum and Bailey circus (I think) and features star performers, most notably Emmet Kelly, the first of the sad sack, Whizzo clowns. Again, this thing is probably fine at what it does, but showing people decades later a 1940s circus involves a culture gap that's hard to get over
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RADAR!!! The greatest technology of all time. Without it, we would all assuredly be DEAD! With the fearsome power of 4 quadrillion atomic bombs and the radiant beauty of Melissa Joan Hart, it is the zenith of all human creations. Or so they would have us believe in Season Five's twentieth episode, Radar Secret Service. Communist loving mobsters are trying to aid their pinko masters and destroy freedom, but they'll fail with radar on the watch! But first, get crushed by a train!
This episode begins with the kind of fast and hot fun you'd expect from MST3K around this point, in the season 5-6 sweet spot, as Mike "repairs" Crow into Horshack, a terror you can only understand if you have seen Welcome Back Kotter. After a comparatively mild impersonation of Horshack, Gypsy fixes Crow, just in time for a Freud/Ludwig Von Duck impersonating Frank to introduce Hypno-Helio-Static-Stasis, the newest trick in "subliminal poopie". The torture comes in two courses, with the first being a short: Last Clear Chance
This callback generating classic short stars William Boyett, possibly best known from the 60s and 70s Mark Seven Productions shows (he was the Sergeant on ADAM-12, reappeared several times as the Battalion Chief in Emergency! and popped up in several different roles on Dragnet) and, shockingly, he's playing a sergeant. This time he's here to brutalize a farm family about the horrifying, non radar sanctioned, terrors of train crossings. The problem, you see, is that they don't look. Basically he lectures them in a circle for ten minutes, before the short ends by simultaneously proving his point and that he was useless in getting it across. The riffing here is energetic and free flowing, thanks to the comparatively light hearted feeling of the short and how it clashes with its purpose. Plus, we end with a legendary quote, one that they pump up into a long standing recurring bit in the follow up sketch.
But coming out of the sketch, we go into the feature, and boy oh boy, it's a lot less fun. It's not bad, really, this is a
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Happy Turkey Day season! Again!
Life got you down? Modern times a drag? Covid got you stuck inside...still? Shout Factory Turkey Day marathons a little short for your liking? Want your marathons to last through Black Friday? Or maybe even the weekend?
Wish you could escape your plague-ridden existence for a simpler time? A time with abundant and ample 30+ hour MST3K Turkey Day marathons, complete with lots of nostalgic early-90s commercials? Well wish no more!
Presenting my exhaustive (and ever-growing) collection of Turkey Day Broadcast Editions! I'm currently adding to Turkey Days '93 & '94.
- #1 - 206-Ring of Terror (midnight)
- #2 - 301-Cave Dwellers (2am)
- #3 - 203-Jungle Goddess (4am)
- #4 - 202-Sidehackers (6am)
- #5 - 201-R-XM (8am)
- #6 - 205-Rocket Attack USA (10am)
- #7 - 306-Time of the Apes (Noon)
- #8 - 207-Wild Rebels (2pm)
- #9 - 309-Amazing Colossal Man (4pm)
- #10 - 213-Godzilla vs The Sea Monster (6pm)
- #11 - 303-Pod People (8pm)
- #12 - 310-Fugitive Alien (10pm)
- #13-15 - Currently missing...
- #1 - 415-The Beatniks (6pm)
- #2 - 322-Master Ninja I (8pm)
- #3 - 401-Space Travelers (10pm)
- #4 - 208-Lost Continent (Midnight)
- #5 - 403-City Limits (2am)
- #6 - 317-Viking Women and The Sea Serpent (4am)
- #7 - 402-Giant Gila Monster (6am)
- #8 - 210-King Dinosaur (8am)
- #9 - 321-Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (10am)
- #10 - 411-The Magic Sword (Noon)
- #11 - 404-Teenagers From Outer Space (2pm)
- #12 - 412-Hercules and the Captive Women (4pm)
- #13 - T
https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/uxrow/-4-99-Winter-Weekend-Deals/12771?offset=90
Vudu’s doing a weekend sale of $4.99 digital titles. Several MST3K episodes are part of this sale.
- Manos: The Hands of Fate
- Shorts Vol. 1
- Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders
- Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
- Daddy-O
- Teenage Cave Man
- Angel’s Revenge
- The Skydivers
- The Sidehackers
- The Wild Rebels
Years ago, when I was a younger man, how I laughed at bad movies was listening to a (then) wonderful little podcast known as How Did This Get Made? In recent years imo the podcast has really gone downhill for the most part, and MST3K really came in and filled that void for me and then some. Is there any connection at all between the two enterprises? Are any of them friends or have worked together? The podcast hails from the realm of Earwolf studios and Comedy Bang Bang, and from the Mads show last night and the q and a I didn’t get the sense that there was any real overlap. I’m sure Paul Scheer was a mistie, maybe still is, if not I’d be wildly surprised. Is there anything there or is this a dead topic?
Which movie has the coroner pronouncing autopsy as AuTOPsy?
I initially thought it might be The Girl Down the Lane, but I'm not sure.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I know I’m a nerd but I always look for the ultimate “that about sums it up” moment/riff in an episode.
For example, in “Wild Wild World of Batwoman” Mike states, “I have a feeling Satan would regret making this movie.” That about sums it up to me!
Or in “Manos” when Joel riffs, “every frame of this movie looks like someone’s last known photograph.” Lol. Sums it up.
What are your votes??
