The MST3K Thread

[Josh]

It's so creepy and inexplicable.

[GoGo Yubari]

Featuring by far the most unsettling version of the already-bad "a man shows interest in a tomboy and she immediately stops being one" trope I've ever seen.

[GoGo Yubari]

Having now, finally, finished season 11, a power ranking of the episodes:

Spoiler

1. Cry Wilderness

2. The Beast of Hollow Mountain

3. Wizards of the Lost Kingdom

4. Yongary

5. Avalanche

6. Carnival Magic

7. Starcrash

8. Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II

9. The Loves of Hercules

10. Reptilicus

11. The Christmas That Almost Wasn't

12. The Time Travelers

13. The Land That Time Forgot

14. At the Earth's Core

At the Earth's Core was the only episode that I thought was outright bad. Just really overstuffed with jokes and it only served to drown out the good riffs.

 

[Josh]

Man, your ranking is very different from mine.

[GoGo Yubari]

I think I like my MST3K movies to either be sincerely fucking weird or just like this absolute ordeal, and that's the top two. Every time they cut to the mountain in The Beast of Hollow Mountain and no monster showed up or showed any sign of showing up it destroyed me.

[Josh]

Oh, I totally get wanting completely weird. On that level, Cry Wilderness is amazing. But I'm looking for a better interplay between movie and riffers, and Cry Wilderness feels so overstuffed and rushed when it comes to that. Conversely, The Time Travelers is weird in a dumb way, but not so insane - yet it's probably my favorite because of what the riffers do with it.

[GoGo Yubari]

Renewed for season 12. Guess they kept stringing us along until Turkey Day.

[Skummy]

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-mads-in-the-uk--3#/

 

A Sci-Fi Festival are doing an Indiegogo to get Trace & Frank over to the UK to riff Glen Or Glenda live, in their only UK show.

[Josh]

Make that happen. You won’t regret it.

[Hobo]

Bruce J Mitchell who played Rowsdower in The Final Sacrifice passed away recently

 

 

[Josh]

That’s too bad. Seemed like such a nice guy.

[GoGo Yubari]

New live tour this fall celebrating the show's 30th anniversary, with Joel reprising Joel Robinson and riffing the movies with Jonah and the bots. The two movies this time are The Brain, a Canadian sci-fi movie, and Deathstalker, a sword-and-sandal joint.

[Josh]

Also, if you haven't heard, Season 12 will be 6 episodes long. Joel has said they've gone to some effort to make them "bingeable."

[Skummy]

Oh, Deathstalker is perfect for MST3k.

[Josh]

They already did one of its sequels back in the Mike years.

[Skummy]

https://www.rifftrax.com/space-mutiny-coasters?utm_source=RiffTrax+Mail&utm_campaign=7b1afe7f93-TheDark&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4a5519af23-7b1afe7f93-37207717&mc_cid=7b1afe7f93&mc_eid=d1705dd533

Limited edition Space Mutiny coasters.

[Skummy]

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mystery-science-theater-3000-comic-book_us_5b50ed01e4b0fd5c73c378b1?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004&guccounter=1 A very weird, Joel-penned MST3K comic book is happening.

[Skummy]

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mystery-science-theater-3000-comic-book_us_5b50ed01e4b0fd5c73c378b1?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004&guccounter=1 A very weird, Joel-penned MST3K comic book is happening.

[Josh]

I’m actually intrigued by the concept.

[Hobo]

Season 12 drops on 22 November