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Powered Descent posted:But seriously, best wishes to your brainmeats. Concussions suck; I got a big one a few years ago in a bike crash. Thanks. It's been a rough week. I find myself frequently paraphrasing Tom's riff from Sidehackers: "Remember when [I] used to be smart?" muscles like this! posted:If she's up on her aviation history The Starfighters might be fun. I showed The Starfighters to an Air Force vet friend of mine and she about died laughing. It's always been one of my favorites.
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There's a small plane in Laserblast, as well. [Feeling your pain on that concussion - took me a week to regain the ability to finish sentences. Hope you feel better soon!]
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:I have no memory of this segment. Please tell me it was a Robert Z'Dar movie. sort of. forrest ackerman is also in it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsnzlIests4&t=1291s then skip ahead to 25:00 boner confessor fucked around with this message at 21:13 on May 21, 2018 |
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Davros1 posted:Kate Micucci would be good, and she's already written for the show Do we know who else did behind the scenes writing on the latest season?
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InfiniteZero posted:Do we know who else did behind the scenes writing on the latest season? Here's who made the wikipedia entry: quote:Dan Harmon and Joel McHale also wrote for the show, along with the on-screen cast members.[52][61] Hodgson also brought in guest writers for certain episodes that included Justin Roiland, Dan Harmon, Rob Schrab, Nell Scovell, Ernie Cline, Pat Rothfuss, and Dana Gould. Additionally, Paul & Storm and Robert Lopez composed original songs for the new episodes.
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InfiniteZero posted:Do we know who else did behind the scenes writing on the latest season? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6782014/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
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Dan Harmon is actually a good choice for MST3K, I think, because a good head writer is going to keep him from tyrannically wrestling the overall tone over to a dark, meta-humor well and tossing them into it (which is fine for his shows but not for MST3K), but his genuine love and obsession with film and all of its tropes makes him a great source for a few belly-laugh one-liners.
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PostNouveau posted:Here's who made the wikipedia entry: Ernie Cline as in Ernest Cline, the loving hack who wrote Ready Player One?!?
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Ernie Cline as in Ernest Cline, the loving hack who wrote Ready Player One?!?  I mean, I hope so because Mike did like 30 hours of podcasts devoted to making GBS threads on his work.
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From the original Kickstarter revival page:Joel Hodgson posted:4. OUR GUEST WRITERS
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That owns I hope Cline's there the day Mike Nelson comes in for a cameo.
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I guess we can any assume any jokes about 1980’s movie tie-in cereals were his then
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I actually enjoyed reading Ready Player One. In hindsight it's perfectly obvious that most of what I was enjoying was recognizing 80s stuff  , because all the parts that dealt with references I don't know (like the big battle with the giant Japanese robots) left me completely cold. But still, overall reaction? Good silly fun. That's higher praise than I give to most.At some point I should probably look up Mike's thing about it. And also see the movie, even though it's hard to imagine a way it might not suck.
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I can't help it, I'm just weirdly uncomfortable with the voice of Gex writing for MST3K.
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Rollersnake posted:I can't help it, I'm just weirdly uncomfortable with the voice of Gex writing for MST3K. Um you know he's a famous and celebrated comedian and writer and has been in the business for decades, right?
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Right, but sometimes you have to shorten a celebrity's resume to just their most important work for brevity's sake.
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PostNouveau posted:That owns I hope Cline's there the day Mike Nelson comes in for a cameo. My understanding of the situation is that the guest writers just got a list of the movies and sent in their own riffs. They weren't showing up to the regular writing room.
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There was a joke somewhere in the season that I swear was borrowed from an old tweet by Matt Oswalt, but that's entirely unsurprising considering Patton was part of the show anyway. I can't recall the particular joke but if I catch it on a rewatch I'll post it. I'm also surprised that Brian Posehn wasn't part of the guest writing crew considering his pop culture knowledge and friendship with Oswalt. Having written a run of Deadpool comics should probably instantly qualify you as a guest writer.
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InfiniteZero posted:There was a joke somewhere in the season that I swear was borrowed from an old tweet by Matt Oswalt, but that's entirely unsurprising considering Patton was part of the show anyway. Matt Oswalt wrote for the season too.
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Bicyclops posted:Dan Harmon is actually a good choice for MST3K, I think, because a good head writer is going to keep him from tyrannically wrestling the overall tone over to a dark, meta-humor well and tossing them into it (which is fine for his shows but not for MST3K), but his genuine love and obsession with film and all of its tropes makes him a great source for a few belly-laugh one-liners. I'm just imagining Elliott Kalan dealing the Harmon. Kalan being a tiny man and Harmon being an unshaved bigfoot. And my biggest problem with RP1 is not that people enjoyed it, as Judge John Hodgemen says "people like what they like". Its fine if you enjoyed it while being on the beach or on an airplane or whatever, but the problem is that so many respected publications and such have said "BEST NERD BOOK EVER!". The number of times I heard "Holy Grail of Pop Culture" used to describe it was uncountable.
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twistedmentat posted:The number of times I heard "Holy Grail of Pop Culture" used to describe it was uncountable. You can only assume the book is "the holy grail of pop culture" if you believe that consumers of pop culture are satisfied so long as you reference pop culture itself, which therefore implies that you're in the camp of "pop culture is just wonderfully disposable formulaic poo poo" which is valid for some people but most often misses the point. It's like assuming that because you're an MST3K fan that you're instantly a fan of the myriad improv groups who rent out theatres and riff movies, often incredibly poorly. It then follows that if one of those unfunny groups riffed four movies a night for 364 days of a year, they would be "the holy grail for MST3K fans" which would be entirely untrue, unless you worked under the assumption that MST3K fans just like anytime somebody says "FART!" at a movie screen.
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I don't remember anybody mentioning this yet but there's gonna be a Rifftrax Live June 14th with rebroadcast June 19th https://youtu.be/om4bmMWJKuA
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Okay, this is a stupid question, but for those of you watching this through Google Home on a Chromecast, what the hell do you tell Google to get it to play the revivial? I can't get it to play anything but the original run of the show and I have to run it through my phone, depriving me of the satisfaction of feeling like I'm a powerful future man, controlling the world with my stentorian voice.
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I'd assume "Play Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return" which is the official title on Netflix. Also I don't think you can say you have a stentorian voice unless you're James Earl Jones, Andre Braugher or Ian McKellan.
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Gaz-L posted:I'd assume "Play Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return" which is the official title on Netflix. Doesn't work.  I tried "The Return," and I think Google only hears so many words before she gets bored with you. I'm no James Earl Jones, but when I talk to the Home I do a pretty decent Kelsey Grammer.
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Does anyone know if Comet has quit running MST3k on Sunday nights now? I just looked at their schedule for tonight and next Sunday and it's not on either week. I mean, I can get my fix elsewhere, but it's disappointing if that's the case. There's just something really nostalgic about watching it on an actual TV channel that I really like.
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On the one hand that’s a bummer. I share your nostalgic sentiment on being able to watch MST with some rabbit ears. On the other hand I swear it’d been non-stop Hercules for the last month or so.
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The Hercules entries and Hamlet were by far the most brutal to set through imo e; oh and Quest of The Delta Knights or whatever that poo poo was. It seemed like SciFi played that all the time
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Yeah I never really got Hamlet. I like the Hercules movies though. "Today is dedicated to Uranus." "Well thank you, I'm flatter- huh?" And who can forget DEEP HURTING? I don't know why I like Quest of the Delta Knights but I totally do. Maybe it's the 90s Johnathan Taylor Thomas vibe. Plus Pearl takes Mike's place in the theater and it's hilarious.
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Quest of the Delta Knights is my favorite sort of bad movie. I would have happily watched it over and over again as a kid with or without the MST3K treatment. There is just something about pre-Peter Jackson fantasy movies in general that shut off the critical part of my brain and turn me into a kid again. remusclaw fucked around with this message at 04:16 on May 28, 2018 |
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The score is easily the best part of that one. It's quite catchy and deserves to be in a better movie.
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:The score is easily the best part of that one. It's quite catchy and deserves to be in a better movie. I think there's a good chance it was, at least if Wizards of the Lost Kingdom and its borrowed James Horner soundtrack is any indication.
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Hamlet is extremely hard to watch all the way through, but I do like that the reason they watch it is Mike uses a bunch of huckster, trickster stuff to trick Pearl into letting him choose the movie, but is then doofy enough to just kind of go "Uh, I dunno, how about Hamlet, by Shakespeare."
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The pee-throwing scene, everybody!
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John Murdoch posted:The pee-throwing scene, everybody! Hey! That's also David Warner!
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Barry Bluejeans posted:Hey! That's also David Warner! David Warner is a delightful man. He once stayed at a hotel I worked at and came to the desk to get some change. I gave him two 20s and two 5s, which he fanned out and mimicked kissing, and said “Bwahahaha money money money.” I’ve rarely been so charmed.
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In an interview with audio company Big Finish's executive producer Nick Briggs, Briggs told the story of the first time they worked with Warner. Briggs said after recording they all went out to dinner, and mid way through, Warner points across the table at Briggs and shout "You! Are you in charge here? I want a word with you!" Briggs said he started to panic, thinking "Oh god, we've pissed off David Warner." They stepped off to the side, at which point Warner began to gush about how wonderful a time he had, and would they please consider bringing him back for more? They've brought him back so much he's considered one of their "rep" actors. Which leads to the anecdote that when Warner saw that Big Finish announced they were doing a project with Sir John Hurt, he called them up to explain that he was old friends with John, but hadn't seen him in years, and would it be all right if he stopped by the recording studio to say hi? They informed him no, because they were already planning to cast David in the project with John.
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TL posted:David Warner is a delightful man. He once stayed at a hotel I worked at and came to the desk to get some change. I gave him two 20s and two 5s, which he fanned out and mimicked kissing, and said “Bwahahaha money money money.” I’ve rarely been so charmed. In an interview with the AV club he talked about working on that movie and said that he wound up playing both roles because the actor playing the villain dropped out. He volunteered to play him so that they could continue production.
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Oh no! https://twitter.com/BillCorbett/status/1001844868463906817 Poor one out for Zap
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