Walker_Boh
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Off topic but has Netflix said when/if they are going to add more of the old episodes to their catalog?
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 Season 11 |OT| It Stinks!
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Nappuccino
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I can't imagine it's doing poorly
It's super weird. Shout! Factory got the rights to MST3K, but their streaming service only had 30 episodes. Netflix currently has 20. I wonder if they only acquired the name and format and all that entails (and home video), but if the licensing on some of the movies have left some of the other episodes from being streamable. I don't know enough, maybe someone else can expand on it!
BattleMonkey
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There are episodes sprinkled everywhere including the free streaming eps on their official youtube page. I imagine they simply don't want to release everything in one place, and also you have the old episodes being sold so giving them all to a streaming service would cut into those sales. Rifftrax now sells episodes for example and been slowing adding to their catalog
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Shout Factory does not (and most likely never will) have the rights to stream every episode.
Streaming availability will most likely be based on the rights they have secured for DVD set sales for the foreseeable future.
Streaming availability will most likely be based on the rights they have secured for DVD set sales for the foreseeable future.
ElectricBlanketFire
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Believe me, I've been telling everyone I can.
ElectricBlanketFire
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I've just been letting it play while I play Zelda on the Switch.
I've been trying to work out a way I can reasonably convey to Netflix "If you fund a series 12, I will subscribe" without actually already being a subscriber. It's easy enough to imply that through, well, viewing if you're an existing viewer, but not so easy to offer that metric from the outside.
There is a relatively popular gif from Reptilicus that has been bouncing around the internet for years.
Oh man, ep1 Reptilicus, with the hilarious character Peterson had me in tears laughing, the scene where he panics and runs out to the porch on his way to the police station, and the gang dubs scooby panic sounds ... that actor is hilarious as is but the gang's sound FX for him , interspersed with the German accent scientist "where is my beaker??" was comedy gold! I lol'd a couple times in this ep. I remember seeing Reptilicus on Saturday afternoon when I was a little kid and loved it back then.
Ep 2 is Cry Wilderness, I liked it less. The film itself was more uninteresting to me. So far Ep1 > Ep2 for me.
I don't think streaming rights are available for every episode.
Sign up for free month, watch nothing but MST3K, unsubscribe at the end of the month.
Lately I've been going back and forth between Season 11 episodes and old Season 1 & 2 ones I hadn't seen before but that I have on VHX. The Beast of Hollow Mountain reminded me a little of The Black Scorpion, and upon checking IMDb they were closer than I realized. The actors who were Pancho, Panchito, and Felipe in The Beast of Hollow Mountain were in The Black Scorpion, too. Released in neighboring years.
Not only that, but Willis O'Brien, the special effects guy from The Black Scorpion (as well as King Kong) came up with the story and co-wrote The Beast Of Hollow Mountain.
ZekeThePlumber
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If you have Comcast, you can sign into their streaming website and right now there are about 40 episodes available to stream. Additionally, the MTS3K youtube account has 22 full movies and you can find just about any episode if you really wanted to by just searching the episode number and title via Youtube, although the video quality tends to vary.
Escape Goat
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The Hercules sight gag with Servo was the best. Sadly, this is the worst Hercules movie ever.
neurosisxeno
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It's the first one since Reptilicus that had me laughing out loud. "Please, mansplain this to me harder".
Hulu has way more episodes than netflix plus a bunch of them are on the mst3k youtube channel.
The problem is, I think that comes across as "I'm willing to watch for free". It doesn't quite imply I'm willing to go the extra mile and sub for it.
ChemicalCutthroat
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So got a few more episodes in. Starcrashers was a good time, and The Beast From Hollow Mountain had my favorite in-between sketch out of them all so far. Avalanche wasn't too bad either.
I do think Cry Wilderness was the weak one so far, and having it followed by The Time Travelers wasn't the greatest. But I am really looking forward to more. After I finish these up I'm gonna watch the 'Collection 1' that they have up on Netflix with the wife so she can see some of the classes.
Still deciding if I'm going to actually have her watch Manos The Hand of Fate. That is borderline cruel and unusual punishment.
I do think Cry Wilderness was the weak one so far, and having it followed by The Time Travelers wasn't the greatest. But I am really looking forward to more. After I finish these up I'm gonna watch the 'Collection 1' that they have up on Netflix with the wife so she can see some of the classes.
Still deciding if I'm going to actually have her watch Manos The Hand of Fate. That is borderline cruel and unusual punishment.
Its only torture if you watch it without Joel and the bots.
Oh, it's still torture, but torture with company is still easier than torture alone.
JoshuaJSlone
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Halfway through Starcrash, and I'm half convinced this is that sci-fi movie they made in a season 6 episode of Community.
I've got that Christmas That Almost Wasn't theme song stuck in my head. It's bizarrely catchy.
Speaking of music, how great is the Skeleton Crew band? Just got finished listening to Patrick Swayze Christmas. Their covers of classic MST3K tunes are becoming one of my favorite parts of the show.
Speaking of music, how great is the Skeleton Crew band? Just got finished listening to Patrick Swayze Christmas. Their covers of classic MST3K tunes are becoming one of my favorite parts of the show.
The musical slide show at the end of that episode is going to age very well. So nicely done.
ChemicalCutthroat
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At least then she would understand if I'm watching a movie that is really dull and I say, "Manos... the Hand of Fate" completely out of nowhere.
Skiptastic
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I agree with your thoughts about the Skeleton Band. I just wish there were more songs they covered. When you binge them like I did, you hear the same ones over and over and the charm wears off a bit. But when I first realized they were MST3K covers my mind was blown.
Rodney McKay
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So at the beginning of some episodes where they talk about spilling some of the film liquid, is that when they need to trim the movie down a bit to make it fit an episode, or is it a gag that will be brought up in future?
Seems like it's the former.
Skiptastic
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It's absolutely the former.
I think it is to acknowledge that they are editing the movie down. In the old days the access to the original movies was probably fairly limited. These days it is assuredly much easier. So better to get out in front of that before people start crying foul.
Escape Goat
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Why does Jonah get sucked up into the tube and then we cut back to the start of the show where at the end of the theme song it's like he never left? Where did he go? It's bugging me. Halp
VendettaRed07
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HOLY SHIT
Crow dropped a Hartford Yard Goats bomb LMAO
Crow dropped a Hartford Yard Goats bomb LMAO
I think the premise is that he's sucked out to re-enact the intro every episode.
Escape Goat
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That doesn't make much sense. Oh well.
Also is this show in continuity with the other shows? Everyone went back to Earth with Mike in the last episode.
VendettaRed07
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The mads are dressed like they are ready to start a social link
Walker_Boh
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They mention Joel and Mike a couple of times.
Yeah, Kinga's liquid technology apparently can't splice in the original show opening. It's just another stack of silly of constantly making Jonah re-enact everything. He's constantly being sucked out of and then back into the SOL, which has to add to the attempt to make him go insane
Just repeat to yourself "It's just a show I should really just relax".
Due to how some of Kinga's liquid tech works (or doesnt as the case may be) he has to reeneact the opening every time
Complistic
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You should really just relax.
Kingachrome doesn't do recording very well, so he has to perform it live each time. Else he gets poked with a cattle prod.
(Although given that he's got a screen projected in front of him, where's that footage coming from?)
Fancy Clown
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All the jokes at Danny the electrician's expense killed me in episode 3 lol.
Complistic
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Episode 3 really seemed to turn down the joke's per minute. Or maybe I'm just getting used to it.
Fancy Clown
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They seemed to come at the same clip as the others I think. That doesn't bother me though.
Matesamo
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My wife (who is ten years younger and isn't familiar with the show) thought it was the stupidest idea she had ever heard of and had no interest in watching with me. Half way through the first episode she wonders in and sits down and starts laughing. Now we are watching every episode together.
I think its that they stopped talking over each other quite as much
Any idea what the 'gateway riff' was?
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