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anyone else like mst3k??

Go back to your pumpkin patch!

uhh,... eeep!!!!:o:o

Yes.

I mostly watched during the Sci-Fi era, but lately I've been watching some of the Comedy Central episodes.

I grew up watching it on Comedy Central, and lived about 30 minutes from the studio. Never got over there, though...

When I worked at Toys R Us in high school, Jim Mallon once came through my register line.

did anyone know mike nelson does movie reviews in cracked?

We will we will Rowsdower

Did you know who he was at the time, and if so, did you ask him to do Gypsy? :lol:

Did you know that he is back with Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett as The Film Crew making fun of even more bad movies?

yes,wild woemen of wongo is SO funny!!!:D

Best. Episode. Ever. That one never ceases to make me cry laughing.

Oh yes, I very much knew. All I said to him was that I really enjoy the show, right as he was leaving. He thanked me and was nice all around. He was with his two sons.. I think they bought a football or something. The woman behind him in line then asked me who he was, as she had no clue.

That TRU was actually good for celebrity spotting. I saw a handful of local TV/radio celebrities and Kevin Garnett was a regular customer. Being a bit short, helping him was... interesting. ^_^ One of my co-workers was even shorter than me.. watching her help him was just kind of funny.

Oh, and semi-MST3K related... a few years later I was working at a Borders in the same neighborhood. While working the info desk I thought I spotted a guy who looked like Jack Perkins. Then I looked around a bit and found one of the local TV sports anchors. This was significant because one of the local sports anchors is the son of Jack Perkins. So it was no look alike, it was the real Jack Perkins! Didn't get to help either of them, though... Oh, and I did spot Kevin Garnett in there once, although I didn't help him.

Hate to necropost, but I felt better to ressurect the thread, than to make a new one.

I hadn't seen much MST3K, in fact all I've seen are some of the Gamera flicks, Manos, and the movie (as well as Mitchell and Hamlet just yeaterday).

I figured I'd start with the KTMA series, but they seem rather light on the riffing. Should I go ahead and trudge through them, or just wait until they reappear in future episodes, as many of them do?

When they're funny, they're extremely funny, but that's sadly not very often. IIRC the KTMA-season riffs were improvised whereas all later season were written, so you know.. There is a noticeable difference in both quantity and quality.

I'm on the second (that is second episode that can be found the 1st 3 are missing), Gamera, which is Joel sans bots....so I'm sure this will be sparce. But hey, it's Gamera!

Well, if you want Gamera, they re-did all the Gamera movies after the show went to cable. :tsmile:

PAAATE was pretty much spot on - the KTMA episodes were done on the fly, so there can be looong stretches of silence in between weak riffs. I wouldn't recommend them to a relative MST3K newbie. Likewise, it's probably best to skip the first season for now as well. The show gained its classic look and feel with season 2. Also, there's no real need to watch the shows chronologically if you feel like skipping around. The only "big" story episodes are the ones that feature cast changes. The Sci-Fi episodes got a little more serialized, but obviously the whole point of the show is the movie riffing.

Yeah...most of the KTMAs were eventually re-done, weren't they? I figure I'll just watch them in order. I don't mind...especially since the KTMAs are just background noise ATM.

Watching Gamera vs Guiron, which I once reviewed, though my copy was called Attack of the Monsters. This dub is far more painfull. Especially...the...broken...dialogue.

what is it?

Mystery Science Theater 3000, a series where a man trapped in a space station is sent cheesy movies to find a man's breaking point. To help keep him sane, he has several (only 2 watch with him) robot companions.

Now on Superdome...

I always dug the film version, where they watch This Island Earth.

Yep, one of the 1st MST3K's I saw. It and Manos. :D

Big fan of MST3K since i saw it at age 12 on Comedy Central and became a fan, i even saw the movie in theaters and collected the tapes since i was 15 and now replaced them with the DVD sets.

have never seen it

I'd recomend it. It's fun. Like being withh a group of friends and ripping on a bad movie. Manos: The Hands of Fate is one of the better known episodes, and was the first I saw.

Love that show. How I wish I could get hands on the DVDs.

ZOMG! Unintentional username pun!

Working on season 1. Really enjoy the Commander Cody shorts....:D

I don't get this show at all. The bits between the movie stuff is nothing short of horrendous and the main portion of the show isn't much better.

I've watched at least 8 full episodes and about half of a dozen more, pretty much everything on Netflix, and I have no idea what people could possibly find funny about it. I tried my hardest to find SOMETHING that would allow me to at least understand why people may enjoy it, but I just couldn't.

It's unfunny and boring as f*ck. I'd much rather watch some trash with my friends and listen to Stryker make bad puns.

I'm on the "Mike Era" of MST3K...I'll let ya know if I prefer Mike or Joel after a few more Mike episodes.

"I Accuse My Parents" is a personal favorite.

Well look who it is.... KROOOOOOOW!!

I think they all have their moments. Right now I'm on Teenage Crime Wave.

All I can say is....

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DULL SURPRISE!

My older brother and his friend used to watch this show all the time; his friend would bring over new episodes he'd recorded on tape (which he also later did with Cartoon Planet when that aired, and man I wish that show could be on DVD). Thought it was great. :) Never had a serious desire to go back to it, though, but have been thinking of watching some episodes that are on Netflix.

Watched Soultaker last week with a pal. That was pretty good. "His face is like a giant catcher's mitt." http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/smi...on_biggrin.gif I enjoyed seeing Joel and Frank; as a kid I always liked Joel episodes more than Mike's. I'm told Mike was almost always the head writer, so you'd think it would be just as funny, but for whatever reason I just never liked Mike's deliveries as much.

That and UNNNGGHHHHH! it always feels good to see something represent my home state and the Midwest. MST3K will always have a place in my heart for the laughs it gave me as a kid and for its importance (well, I'd say it's a staple!) to late 20th century Minnesotan culture. :p

My father used to watch it but I was never interested in "black and white" old movies.

Then I met KROW and he reintroduced me to MST3K. The first ever episode we watched together was Mitchel. I loved it.





I can admit that I do find some of them boring. Some of them reference things I'm to young to remember. I happened to like Mikes presentation of things better. Joel just seemed so....i dunno emotionless.

I'm watching last of the Wild Horses....which has Mirror Universe versions of the entire cast. Heck, you get to see Frank and Forrester riff...:D

On to Ed Wood's Sinister Urge. The jokes in this and the last episode (The Starfighter) ring more blue than some of the other episodes, especially the Joel stuff.

I loved the "No, Frank I'm not going to carry you in..." bit. It was classic.

I just bought The Film Crew: Hollywood after Dark and The Film Crew: Wild Women of Wongo for KROW

Can't wait! Got both of them for super cheap too!