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B.K. said:
Tapes? People still have tapes? They haven't transferred them to DVD yet?
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The guys involved at MST3k have to buy the rights to the movie for everything they do. It's expensive, and it means a good bit of stuff might never see a commercial release. So, they've been telling the fans to record and circulate the stuff.

I have most of the eps from season 7 on. I really need to burn them to DVDs.
 
B.K. said:
Tapes? People still have tapes? They haven't transferred them to DVD yet?
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"Keep Circulating The Tapes" is just the term that the cast uses. The cast wants people to keep trading them since there are episodes that have no real chance of ever getting an official DVD release. Some of the copyright hodlers of the films were not happy being mocked and wont give up rights for a DVD release. Godzilla is a good example (Though one was "accidentally" included on a DVD set that was quickly pulled from shelves), of a movie that wont get a DVD release.

Obviously they want fans to buy the eps that are on DVD, but they don't want fans to miss those other eps. Might also stem from the first 3 episodes from their KTMA days being totally lost with no known copies existing.
 
StormyTheRabbit said:
I've never watched this...but want to badly now.

Recommend me the best ones!
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Godzilla Vs. Megalon

Fugitive Alien

Time of the Apes

Teenagers from Outer Space

Podpeople ("Oops...Trumpy dumpy")

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

Gamera Vs. Guiron

Jack Frost

All of those are brilliant and some of my personal faves. Godilla Vs. Megalon may be my all time fave.
 
AMUSIX said:
Joel and Mike were both great (though I did prefer Joel) but the bigger truth is:
Dr. Forrester > Pearl
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They're both extremely unfunny. Though at least Pearl had Bobo and Brain Guy, so +1 for that.
 
This took me a long time and a fortune in ink and DVD cases to put together, but I'm glad that I did it.

r5n3t7


qwle5s


Yes, the DVD cases are color-coded by season. The custom covers were taken from this website.
 
Whimsical Phil said:
This took me a long time and a fortune in ink and DVD cases to put together, but I'm glad that I did it.

[IMhttp://tinyurl.com/r5n3t7[/IMG]

[IMhttp://tinyurl.com/qwle5s[/IMG]

Yes, the DVD cases are color-coded by season. The custom covers were taken from this website.
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Jesus Christ, Phil!

I'd like to do something similar, but on a Drobo connected to my Apple TV.
 
Whimsical Phil said:
This took me a long time and a fortune in ink and DVD cases to put together, but I'm glad that I did it.

http://tinyurl.com/r5n3t7[/

[IMG]http://tinyurl.com/qwle5s[/I

Yes, the DVD cases are color-coded by season. The custom covers were taken from [URL="http://mst3k.joshway.com/"]this website[/URL].[/QUOTE]

That is amazing. That would be an absolute dream to have.
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theinfinityissue said:
Punch Rockgroin
Thick McRunfast
Big McLargehuge
BOB JOHNSON!

oh wait
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The funny thing about this joke is that most people don't realize it didn't begin in Space Mutiny. It's a continuation of a joke from 12 to the Moon.
 
Draft said:
BTW, Mike slaughters Joel.
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Meh. The usual debate. The correct answer is they are both great even though I prefer Joel.


They brought two different styles. Which is probably a good thing in retrospect.
 
Stoney Mason said:
Meh. The usual debate. The correct answer is they are both great even though I prefer Joel.


They brought two different styles. Which is probably a good thing in retrospect.
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Like I said earlier, back in the day, that would get you banned.

You're correct. Switching hosts (and villains) kept the show fresh. The cast believes that's actually one of the reasons why they were able to keep going for 10 years, because they wrote differently for mike (and Bill's crow vs Trace's crow).
 
TheSonicRetard said:
Like I said earlier, back in the day, that would get you banned.

You're correct. Switching hosts (and villains) kept the show fresh. The cast believes that's actually one of the reasons why they were able to keep going for 10 years, because they wrote differently for mike (and Bill's crow vs Trace's crow).
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Both versions are great.

I loved the chemistry between Trace and Joel because they tended to have a very light and just charming tone that makes you feel good along with thinking they were funny.


But the three way team of Bill, Mike and Kevin also has their own unique chemistry that is both a bit meaner with an edge at times and more sarcastic but still funny.


I was one of those people who held a grudge at Mike for years when they switched over but now that time has passed and I can go back and re-watch and appreciate the Mike years, you realize it was as good as it ever was. Just slightly different.


For what it's worth I much prefer Rifftrax to Cinematic Titanic although neither really approaches the genuis of the mst3k years for me.
 
Stoney Mason said:
Both versions are great.

I loved the chemistry between Trace and Joel because they tended to have a very light and just charming tone that makes you feel good along with thinking they were funny.


But the three way team of Bill, Mike and Kevin also has their own unique chemistry that is both a bit meaner with an edge at times and more sarcastic but still funny.


I was one of those people who held a grudge at Mike for years when they switched over but now that time has passed and I can go back and re-watch and appreciate the Mike years, you realize it was as good as it ever was. Just slightly different.
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I always preferred mike because my favorite Joel segments were when he was being his most critical of the movie. Mike, and Bill especially, always seemed like they were angry at the movie to a degree. My favorite line from Bill was in Hobgoblins, when they're supposed to be frightened of the off-screen hobgoblins running by their feet: "Look at the Nothing, nothing! Look at the nothing running by you!"

For what it's worth I much prefer Rifftrax to Cinematic Titanic although neither really approaches the genuis of the mst3k years for me.
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Just repeat to yourself "its just a show, I should really just relax."
 
Draft said:
Arguably the best website:

http://www.justin.tv/thesynth

24/7 (almost) MST3K.

Jack Frost is on now. One of the best.

BTW, Mike slaughters Joel.
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this.. is.. FANTASTIC! I have no idea how many hours I'm gonna kill on this or how many drunken end of the night sessions will suddenly fail to devolve into miserable boredom.

I have to agree, Mike kills it, I just can't get into the Joel episodes nearly as much. It's strange, though; it seems like Mike and Joel are equally funny, but that the writing got much better during the Mike era. shrug, dunno. maybe it's just Joel's unbearably flat inflection.
 
theinfinityissue said:
this.. is.. FANTASTIC! I have no idea how many hours I'm gonna kill on this or how many drunken end of the night sessions will suddenly fail to devolve into miserable boredom.

I have to agree, Mike kills it, I just can't get into the Joel episodes nearly as much. It's strange, though; it seems like Mike and Joel are equally funny, but that the writing got much better during the Mike era. shrug, dunno. maybe it's just Joel's unbearably flat inflection.
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I agree, that is so bookmarked.

Mike vs. Joel is a mistake we should avoid in this thread by the way.
 
Joel had better skits. Mike had better riffs.

The Mike-era skits are so bad there should be a spin-off show making fun of them.
 
Clevinger said:
Joel had better skits. Mike had better riffs.

The Mike-era skits are so bad there should be a spin-off show making fun of them.
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Speaking of meta-tv

anyone remember when Mike and the bots appeared on ESPNs Cheap Seats to make fun of the show?

That is, a show which makes fun of shows, making fun of a show that makes fun of shows.

Man MST3K is so awesome.

EDIT: Also, MST3K had one of the best final endings in TV history. "This seems familiar..." "Hmmmm..."

Always makes me smile.
 
By the way, anybody who hates on Mike's skits, I have just one way to describe them to you...

It's breastakaboobical, chestakamammical, pendular globular fun!
Fleshical orbulal, moundula, scoopula?
Right-o! That's the one!
Is it gluteal maximal, tushital crackular, bunular morning 'til night?
Well you're absotiglandular, fanny-fantastical, mastokafleshular right!

It's an arealogical autoerotical tubular boobular joy!
An exposular regional, batchical pouchular fun for girl and boy!
A litisimal dorsical, hung like a horsical, caliphyligical ball!
The most bunular funular!
Fruit of the loomular!
Frenchical tongular!
Wabitaboobular!
Movie of them alllllllllll!!!!!
 
If you use MediaPortal's MyTVSeries, the descriptions it downloads for each episode are hilarious.

Teenage Crime wave: "A group of teenagers commit one crime, not a wave of them."
The Atomic Brain: "A mad scientist does odd experiments on peoples brains. Nothing atomic is involved."
The Starfighters: "A really bad movie about Air Force pilots. There is no plot."
Deathstalker and the warriors from hell: "Hard to follow film about a disgusting hero and the princess he tries to protect, but doesn't."
I was a teenage werewolf: "A teenager becomes a werewolf."
Invasion of the neptune men: "Japan is attacked by an alien, and saved by an insignificant hero. Keep an eye out for Adolf Hitler."

:lol :lol
 
TheSonicRetard said:
If you use MediaPortal's MyTVSeries, the descriptions it downloads for each episode are hilarious.

Teenage Crime wave: "A group of teenagers commit one crime, not a wave of them."
The Atomic Brain: "A mad scientist does odd experiments on peoples brains. Nothing atomic is involved."
The Starfighters: "A really bad movie about Air Force pilots. There is no plot."
Deathstalker and the warriors from hell: "Hard to follow film about a disgusting hero and the princess he tries to protect, but doesn't."
I was a teenage werewolf: "A teenager becomes a werewolf."
Invasion of the neptune men: "Japan is attacked by an alien, and saved by an insignificant hero. Keep an eye out for Adolf Hitler."

:lol :lol
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:lol :lol

Also, I loved the Noh Theatre sketch from Invasion of the neptune men. Best "Who's on first" rip-off ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa-Kx5M-8Ak
 
Tobor said:
Mitchell is one of the funniest movies they ever did. "Mitchell!" became an all purpose expletive for me and my friends over the years.

To continue with my favorite lines:

God, I love Seinfeld.
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Mitchell was indeed amazing ... I too used to yell it out for no apparent reason :lol
 
Fun fact: in both "who shot Mr. burns" episodes of the simpsons, you can see MST3K playing in the background at Moe's Tavern.

Matt Groening is admittedly a HUGE MST3K fan.
 
TheSonicRetard said:
Fun fact: in both "who shot Mr. burns" episodes of the simpsons, you can see MST3K playing in the background at Moe's Tavern.

Matt Groening is admittedly a HUGE MST3K fan.
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:lol That's awesome.

I once had a dream that Joel Hodgeson was a taxi cab driver and I begged him to go back to MST3K. He said he'd think about it and he signed my info club card.


This was last year :{
 
GDGF said:
:lol That's awesome.
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Edit: this is during a moment where they're making a point about watching comedy central, and moments before you see a comedy central station ID on the TV.

EDIT: The bots also appear, in silhouette form, during the futurama episode "Raging Bender." They tell the futurama crew to quit talking during the movie, because it's ruining it.

MST3k_3.png
 
That's really awesome! I knew about the Futurama one, but I never knew about the Simpsons reference.


I wish the show still came on TV, but it's great that there are so many ways now to catch episodes. I remember about eight or nine years ago a friend of mine bought (almost)every single episode from some guy he met on the internet (and yes, they were tapes then) I forget the price he paid, but it was expensive as hell. It's much easier now a days.



[Turn down your lights where applicable]
 
Actually, the first MST3k reference in Simpsons was during Itchy and Scratchy Movie ep. In the future, there's a shot with just Bart and Homer in black before the movie screen. Matt mentioned this in the commentary as their homage, and also he got a big kick whenever MST3K referenced the Simpsons.
 
StormyTheRabbit said:
Recommend me the best ones!
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Every single one.

Whimsical Phil said:
This took me a long time and a fortune in ink and DVD cases to put together, but I'm glad that I did it.

r5n3t7


qwle5s


Yes, the DVD cases are color-coded by season. The custom covers were taken from this website.
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Wow. Nice. I just download every DAP-DVD I can and put it in one big Case Logic book lol.

As SonicRetard mentioned, SUPPORT THE DIGITAL ARCHIVE PROJECT!

I got into MST3K when I was 16, which was ten years ago. So I basically missed out on the entire TV show run. But I now have every episode available on my hard drive and I usually listen to an episode while I go to bed.

It's not even close, in my opinion. Greatest television show of all time.
 
Skiptastic said:
It's not even close, in my opinion. Greatest television show of all time.
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This is fucking gospel. I would not be the same person I am today had I not watched MST3K. I don't care how that sounds.
 
GDGF said:
This is fucking gospel. I would not be the same person I am today had I not watched MST3K. I don't care how that sounds.
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Like a sane person would say?

I still remember the first time I saw MST3k. It was back when the show was on Comedy Central (Or maybe it was still the Comedy Channel then), I was flipping through the channels after watching my Saturday morning cartoons, and came across one of those old Sinbad the Sailor movies. Bored, I started watching. After a few minutes, I realized there were people in front of the movie, and they were making jokes.

It was a marathon. That ended up being an awesome day.
 
Whimsical Phil said:
This took me a long time and a fortune in ink and DVD cases to put together, but I'm glad that I did it.

http://tinyurl.com/r5n3t7

http://tinyurl.com/qwle5s

Yes, the DVD cases are color-coded by season. The custom covers were taken from this website.
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I'm...

So....

Jealous....



I loved MST3K so much back in the day that I set our VCR to record episodes every night and would watch them the next day after school. This plan of course horribly backfired when someone left one of our old family recordings of a 4th of July picnic in the VCR one night, where it promptly got overwritten by "The Killer Shrews".

I was surprised my mother was able to yell for that long at that volume without breathing when she found out. And in retrospect, I am sorry that I erased precious home movies, but man was "The Killer Shrews" funny.

I can't wait to get my hands on the rest of the episodes.
 
I hate the sketches, but the movie commentary is genius.
Don't think I've ever laughed so hard, or so often, watching any other show...
 
Owensboro said:
I'm...

So....

Jealous....



I loved MST3K so much back in the day that I set our VCR to record episodes every night and would watch them the next day after school. This plan of course horribly backfired when someone left one of our old family recordings of a 4th of July picnic in the VCR one night, where it promptly got overwritten by "The Killer Shrews".

I was surprised my mother was able to yell for that long at that volume without breathing when she found out. And in retrospect, I am sorry that I erased precious home movies, but man was "The Killer Shrews" funny.

I can't wait to get my hands on the rest of the episodes.
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My father and I had a saturday routine from 97-99. We'd go to the movies in the mall during the day. We'd get there usually about 3 or so hours before the movie began, so we could go check out Sam's Club for PC games, or Electronics Boutique for console games, or kill some time at the arcade, or grab a bite to eat at whataburger or something. Then, around 5 pm or so, we'd see our movie. We'd get out at around 7, get home around 8. We'd dick around on the PC or sega with whatever game we'd bought for an hour or so, then we'd go to the family room, pop some popcorn, turn on the sci-fi channel, pop in a blank VHS tape from the bulk collection we'd bought, then record the MST3K of the week. We did that just about every single saturday from 97 until the show ended in 99.

Damn. I was like 13 years old when that routine started. I suddenly miss living at home.

sky said:
I hate the sketches, but the movie commentary is genius.
Don't think I've ever laughed so hard, or so often, watching any other show...
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The humor in the skits occasionally fell flat, but there were some real funny ones. The episode The Starfighters is awesome just because it showcases what the internet was like in 1994. All the skits revolve around unfulfilled promises, nerd forum debates, and how freaking hard it was to just get online :lol

Plus, every single song sung during an intermission is fucking gold. Fun fact: they were all written by Mike Nelson. He has some unique musical talent.
 
I checked the schedule on that live Justintv MST3K channel and found out that my favorite episode is playing today :) Fugative Alien



Future War is on right now if anyone is interested.
 
Stoney Mason said:
For what it's worth I much prefer Rifftrax to Cinematic Titanic although neither really approaches the genuis of the mst3k years for me.
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I'm not up to date with the CT releases. The first two didn't do much for me, but I really enjoyed The Wasp Woman. I love it when the scientist has two test animals to show off because he didn't think they'd believe the first one; Frank's line is "I'm like a psycho Noah!"

TheSonicRetard said:
I always preferred mike because my favorite Joel segments were when he was being his most critical of the movie. Mike, and Bill especially, always seemed like they were angry at the movie to a degree. My favorite line from Bill was in Hobgoblins, when they're supposed to be frightened of the off-screen hobgoblins running by their feet: "Look at the Nothing, nothing! Look at the nothing running by you!"
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This reminds me, Hobgoblins 2 is finally out! My copy arrived recently, but I haven't watched it yet.
TheSonicRetard said:
Plus, every single song sung during an intermission is fucking gold. Fun fact: they were all written by Mike Nelson. He has some unique musical talent.
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The lyrics weren't always him, but the music almost always. Speaking of lyrics, I love how the Sodium song from Horror of Party Beach had in the end credits: "Lyric by Bill Corbett".

GDGF said:
Future War is on right now if anyone is interested.
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Recently watched this one with my brother for the first time in years. I love it. Cyborgs played by actors with Zs in their name, faux-Van Damme, awful forced perspective dinosaurs, cardboard cameras, fighting in a factory of empty boxes, and what seriously must be cinema's greatest nun vow scene.
 
"Living on a farm makes you hungry, and Aunt Hellen is certainly a good cook"
[Given her limitations.]
[Jerry lee louis joins the family for visitation]
[Ah yes, now comes Uncle Jim's fundamentalist dogma]

God I love MST3K.

JoshuaJSlone said:
Recently watched this one with my brother for the first time in years. I love it. Cyborgs played by actors with Zs in their name, faux-Van Damme, awful forced perspective dinosaurs, cardboard cameras, fighting in a factory of empty boxes, and what seriously must be cinema's greatest nun vow scene.
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More like John Claude Gosh Darn.
 
The Dead Talk Back.

I had gotten so use to associating Mike with the Sci Fi channel that I had almost forgotten there was a time towards the end of the Comedy Central run that had TV's Frank, Dr. Forrester and Mike.

This channel is my new addiction, btw. It's like a Turkey Day marathon, but forever!
 
GDGF said:
The Dead Talk Back.
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heh, what a coincidence, I just watched that one last Friday. Great episode. I'm usually not a fan of Trace's Crow, but he was really on that point in that episode.

And also in this one:

TheSonicRetard said:
The Starfighters: "A really bad movie about Air Force pilots. There is no plot."
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Which I also saw recently too. The innuendo during the (many) midair refueling scenes had me dying. :lol
 
I've spent more money than is healthy on RiffTrax. Hell, a couple of them I haven't even watched yet.

These dudes are geniuses.
 
Stoney Mason said:
For what it's worth I much prefer Rifftrax to Cinematic Titanic although neither really approaches the genuis of the mst3k years for me.
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CT is actually pretty fun live if you get the chance to catch a show. If you get the chance to chat with the cast, do so! They're super friendly and even signed a couple of my MST3K dvd sets. :D
 
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