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muscles like this! posted:If you want obscure they talk about Bishop's Buffet a couple of times (two I believe) and that's a small Midwestern chain. I remember one episode, there was a scene of people getting into a car. IIRC, Servo started doing a "where should we go for dinner" bit, and he mentioned Barnaby's, which is a pizza chain that is mostly just in Illinois and Indiana nowadays (though it did have restaurants in Wisconsin, and even as far south as Virginia and Florida). I've eaten at one of the Indiana based ones many times over the years, so it was a pleasant little moment to hear it referenced in MST3K. 
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Zazz Razzamatazz posted:I always loved how they were never shy to make a reference that they had to know 85-90% of viewers wouldn't get. I lived in Minnesota at the time so we had Menards, but I've never seen the store in any other state though. I wonder how widespread they are.
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Best skit is either Tom Servo's Death Ray or A Joke By Ingmar Bergman
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Zazz Razzamatazz posted:I always loved how they were never shy to make a reference that they had to know 85-90% of viewers wouldn't get. I lived in Minnesota at the time so we had Menards, but I've never seen the store in any other state though. I wonder how widespread they are. There's at least one in the Cleveland area.
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Sash! posted:There's at least one in the Cleveland area. Columbus too.
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There were plenty of Menards stores in east Nebraska when I lived there for three years one winter.
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There are a lot of Menard's stores in Iowa. I can still sing the jingle. Recent episode I watched (I think it was Tormented!), Joel is speculating about going on vacation to Davenport or the Quad Cities, which I didn't recall at all. The best Iowa reference is—of course—the short about Home Economics. At Iowa State, the high school after high school!
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The best Iowa reference is that one gal Bob Dornan pursues in Starfighters. IOWA!! 
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I think I know the McDonald’s where Mike wet ‘em after his walkathon.
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John Murdoch posted:It's a Giant Spider Invasion of savings down at Menards! we didn't have Menards stores in my city until recently and when they started appearing, i would drop that riff non-stop. still do, when i drive by one.
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There was one episode where Crow referenced the commercials for Raceway Park, a drag race track here in the Jersey suburbs. A common reference for the NY metro area but completely foreign to most people outside of it.
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The medieval Tom Servo quartet sing "Sweet Delta Lady" is one of my favorites, also the Behind the Music: The band that sang California Lady
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If we're doing songs then I also appreciate Mike's 'I Am Sad' while the Bots deal with a catastrophic engineering failure.
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One of my favorite skits is "Crow hires Ortega to cater the movie break", and one of my favorite songs is the "Hike Up Your Pants" song Joel and the Bots did during "Daddy-O".
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In the new seasons the cameos get a little goofy but it was nice to see Joel and J Elvis doing the show proper. the new riffs took a little getting used to and Felicia Day is the weak link but i like it overall. Sad it's not getting season 3 tho
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Felicia Day owns and has the intensely uncomfortable energy that Trace had. When she hams it up during the theme song was when I was onboard with the revival.
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my only complaint about the new season after finally watching all of it is that there won't be more
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Joel has made it sound like there's a plan to continue the show in some fashion. I remember hearing the Marvel shows have a two year contract before they could be theoretically restarted somewhere else. I wouldn't be surprised to see Joel run another Kickstarter after whatever MST3k contract with Netflix expires.
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Heck considering MST3K is one of Shout Factory's core brands and one they own a direct stake in if I remember properly they have even more reason to push for more of the show once they're free of Netflix, and they'll probably have no problems finding a new home for it
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I meant more that it'd be vanishingly unlikely that they'd be able to keep that cast, not that they wouldn't be able to make more MST3K
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flatluigi posted:I meant more that it'd be vanishingly unlikely that they'd be able to keep that cast, not that they wouldn't be able to make more MST3K Probably for the best anyways
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Bicyclops posted:Felicia Day owns and has the intensely uncomfortable energy that Trace had. When she hams it up during the theme song was when I was onboard with the revival. Agreed. She felt to me like the Pearl Forrester character but just starting out. Confident but shaky, evil but ridiculous. The great shame of the cancellation is that Patton and Felicia are likely gone as the Mads and I liked what they brought to the show. I don’t doubt that Mst3k will be coming back, but I feel like the Netflix show was finally coming into its own when it got cancelled.
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Crazy Ferret posted:
Yeah.  If felt like they were finally starting to really get better, it sucks they probably won't have another go at it.
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The most hyper-obscure Twin Cities references I can recall offhand are "go to bed old man" (from a routine by a comedian colleague of Joel's), and a reference to a building looking like Normandale Community College (in, I think, Prince of Space). I would regularly pass NCC on the way to my grandparents' house in Bloomington, so it was probably on Kevin's regular commute to/from the studios as well. It really was quite a resemblance IIRC, but you could probably say that of nearly any community college. Bicyclops posted:Yeah. I was really glad they let the jokes breathe more in the second season, and their live tour performance of Eegah! was flat-out as good as any top-tier classic MST3K.
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I found a good obscure reference that while it happened in Minnesota could admittedly have happened anywhere but I had always wondered about: "Stop her, she's got my keyboard!" from Gamera vs. Guiron. This is a reference to a girlfriend of Michael J. Nelson's leaving him without a word of explanation and taking his Roland keyboard with her, which was given to him by his parents.
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The Mads Are Back https://twitter.com/TheMadsAreBack/status/1278354692200898560
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Nice to be actually able to see something from them since the only way previously was actually being at the live show.
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not that I have the money to watch it right now anyway, but I don't know if that's the right film where I'd want to see a riff without anyone vetting the jokes first given the transphobia scattered throughout MST3K (and rifftrax for that matter) always fun to stumble across one of those riffs when watching old episodes. I used to count Incredibly Strange Creatures as one of my favorites until I rewatched it with friends a few years back
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They’ve done that one as part of their live shows before, I saw it when they were in town 4 or so years ago. From what I can remember, they treat it as a really badly made film with a good message that was way ahead of its time, and I don’t recall anything objectionable from the riffing
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ixnay posted:They’ve done that one as part of their live shows before, I saw it when they were in town 4 or so years ago. yeah, I saw them do Glen or Glenda two and half years ago or so. They gave a pretty nice speech about how the movie is about the importance of being your true self, but that unfortunately it was made by a deeply inept filmmaker.
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that's good to hear! hopefully the live riff goes well
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I noticed that Rifftrax took down the Troll 2 riff, probably because lowtax is on it. Yeah. Somebody brought it to their attention. Still showed up on their Twitch after at least once I know of. (The chat didn't seem to either know or care as nobody was commenting on it I could see.)
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flatluigi posted:not that I have the money to watch it right now anyway, but I don't know if that's the right film where I'd want to see a riff without anyone vetting the jokes first given the transphobia scattered throughout MST3K (and rifftrax for that matter) Also, given Frank being Frank, I don't think they would aim for any of that type of humor. For MST3K, it's definitely one of the things that have aged terribly. The Incredibly Strange Creatures was the only time I ever felt like it went from 90s humor into being mean spirited. Maybe it's because they did an extended bit on it, rather than one joke and it's done.
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I rewatched Invasion of the Neptune Men a while back and some of the Japanese jokes made me really uncomfortable.
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Mr. B Natural has more than a few "oh. oh no" riffs in it, looking back.
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Don't remember if it extended to the riffs but I kind of always thought the Canada sketch in Final Sacrifice (I think that was it anyway) was a little much as well. Off the subject, I forget the title or if the movie had anything to do with it but what was the deal with that one Joel episode where every host segment was about pancakes? Larryb fucked around with this message at 22:14 on Jul 2, 2020 |
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Larryb posted:Off the subject, I forget the title or if the movie had anything to do with it but what was the deal with that one Joel episode where every host segment was about pancakes?
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