since moving back home i've had the added luxury of cable. i always kinda knew about the show, but never had the chance to see it. now every sat. i usually wake up around 9 and get to watch the last half of the show. i love it. i hate that i missed it all these years.
wwhat station did it originally air on?
it's a very funny show....i think it originally aired on Comedy Central quite a few years back, probably like '95 or '96
It was a public access show from some Minnesota students...I think University of Minnesota. It became popular and got picked up...by either comedy central or sci fi channel.
Comedy Central makes more sense.
I remember it being on the Sci-fi channel for awhile because I remember being pissed when I moved and could no longer see the show due to my new cable provider.
Comedy Central picked it up first, then Sci Fi did, i believe after the original guy (Joel) left and was replaced by Mike Nelson...
I've loved the show since i first saw it (back about 94-95 i believe) and the "movie" is hillarious!
i was always aware of the show, but our cable company doesn't service Comedy Central.
so there was a movie? i was thinking there was. did it actually go into theaters?
the last one i saw was about these killer worms. they weren't huge or anything. just regular worms that were mutated.
That show sucked after Joel left....that was a sad day for me indeed.... :(
it was sad that he left but there are a LOT of mike nelson episodes that are way funnier than a lot of Joel episodes...
specially the movie!
nah. mike never gets stoned...
"Pull up Tinkerbell! Pull up!"
God that movie is great. And everyone always said Joel was better, but I thought Mike was just as good. Mike's episodes were more inconsistent, but sometimes really shined.
I've got the Moo-tant from "This Island Earth" sitting on top of my monitor. Found it in a pack of those Black and White Mosters things. I like to hit its head on things.
Joel was way better. Everyone knows that.
http://rhino.com/mst3k/vol7.lasso
Looks like you might be able to get a freebie.
Has anyone tried this yet?
EDIT: Ok, I'm thinking about trying this.
EDIT: Ok, I just tried this.
same here..think it'll work..
Holy shit!! it worked!! 1 free disk entitled "The Killer Shrews" and a free rhino records sticker!!!
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FOR FREE!!!!!!
so you just now got it?
did you actually purchase Vol 7?
nope :yabbse-grin:
Yeah, it worked for me too. I feel awful about it, so I'm sending it back. Rhino is a good company.
I tried it. No dvd yet :(
i forgot i even made this thread.
for some reason recently i thought about this show again and started to buy the dvd's.
unfortunately i missed some sets/single dvd's that already went OOP.
anyone got an extra Vol 9 or original 10 sitting around? :yabbse-grin:
new set comes out tomorrow.
Just got back from the Rifftrax Live event showing of "Manos: The Hands of Fate". Watching this stuff with a big audience is an amazing experience. Except for the 10-year-old kid behind me who clearly only got one tenth of the jokes, but laughed REALLY LOUD the rest of the time to compensate. Fuck that kid. But other than that, great. They're doing "Birdemic" in October; I might have to go to that one, too.
Quote from: polkablues on August 17, 2012, 12:58:24 AM
They're doing "Birdemic" in October; I might have to go to that one, too.
I didn't know what it was, so I looked it up.... Looks uh... pretty interesting, man.
HAHA sure to put Hitchcock's "The birds" to shame.
I went, too, and had a (laser)blast.
A couple years ago they did a similar thing to Plan 9 and I went. A lot more people turned up for Manos. I was surprised, because I'm unaware of any type of advertisement in the paper. While I was walking around the theater I did hear an ad for it over their radio, so maybe a lot of people found out that way.
I saw a story on Birdemic. The guy showed up at Sundance a couple years ago with a mini-van covered with hand drawn signs for the movie trying to promote it.
MST3K just put out Volume XXIV.
has anyone seen the almost full MST3K cast shows that Cinematic Titanic is doing?
I saw Birdemic a few years ago at the Alamo Drafthouse. It was something like the second time the director had shown the movie with an audience and he assumed we were just laughing at the special effects.
Yes, I saw them do Tiki Island in Dallas a couple years ago.
The sound was horrible. I don't know if it was because we sat up front or what, but we weren't able to understand most of the comments/riffs by the CT crew. I felt bad, because the 2 people I convinced to go seemed pissed at me like it was my fault.
Quote from: tpfkabi on August 18, 2012, 01:38:51 AM
I felt bad, because the 2 people I convinced to go seemed pissed at me like it was my fault.
Haha, this is so bizarrely candid.
You know, I was going to give you "death" karma just out of principle, but this little anecdote has swayed me the opposite direction completely. Keep up the socially awkward paranoid parrot weirdness, you're alright. :yabbse-thumbup:
The new iteration is up on Netflix as of today. And it's good! I'm 33 min into the first episode. As a casual fan, I would say it's just as good as it ever was.
Only major difference is that there are more jokes and a bit less breathing room. (Perhaps it has just changed with the times in that respect.) I might even call it super dense. You really have to pay attention to get some of the jokes and a few deep pulls from pop culture.
This serves as a pretty representative sample:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkOMAQAcBKE
The pace reminds me more of MST3K: The Movie than any of the old show episodes (probably not even as fast and dense as that). Jonah Ray is a bit of a charisma vacuum, but all in all it feels like the show it's supposed to be. I'm on board.