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"How to Kill that Spark of Life... Chapter One: Joy, Who Needs It?"
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"Like a little kid watching Mystery Science Theater. 'I don't know who Carol Channing is but I like the cadence.'" Branson Reese
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Mar 30, 2024 00:21
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Empty Sandwich posted:"Like a little kid watching Mystery Science Theater. 'I don't know who Carol Channing is but I like the cadence.'" I firmly believe MST3K is an excellent show to watch to internalize the rhythms of comedy. There's just so many iconic joke deliveries that absolutely nail it.
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Mar 30, 2024 00:27
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Sardonik posted:I firmly believe MST3K is an excellent show to watch to internalize the rhythms of comedy. There's just so many iconic joke deliveries that absolutely nail it. good Simpsons is similar. I didn't know who Dick Cavett was when I saw this joke, but it was still funny
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Mar 30, 2024 00:29
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RIP Lou Gossett Jr. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuuTS_WNw5w&t=58s
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Mar 30, 2024 02:42
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He was great in The Punisher (1989) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umYvv7K4Z_I
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Mar 30, 2024 04:00
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:No, Grandpa Borgnine, leave light and hope for me! Please! Sometimes a joke like that will just absolutely flatten me. How did they decide which riffer delivered which joke? It does seem like there's specific character in them, like Tom says different kinds of things to Crow, Mike says different things to Joel.
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Mar 30, 2024 04:20
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hellcats is utterly incomprehensible. i dare anyone to explain the plot of this film
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Mar 30, 2024 04:48
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Joel, what are these films trying to teach us about life? Well, I guess they're trying to say that we're born, and then we die, and there's lots of padding in between.
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Mar 30, 2024 04:52
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mycophobia posted:hellcats is utterly incomprehensible. i dare anyone to explain the plot of this film Biker gangs were a popular subculture and Tony Cardoza had enough money to make a film.
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Mar 30, 2024 05:22
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mycophobia posted:hellcats is utterly incomprehensible. i dare anyone to explain the plot of this film Crime boss uses biker gang to smuggle drugs into the US from Mexico. Leader of biker gang is a police informant, crime boss finds out, kills him. Crime boss then kills the cop the biker gang leader reported to. The dead cop's brother and fiancee pose as bikers to infiltrate the gang, find out who killed the dead cop and why, and then take down the crime boss. Plus a bunch of wacky outlaw biker hijinks. "No no no-no no!" "YES!"
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Mar 30, 2024 05:22
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HopperUK posted:How did they decide which riffer delivered which joke? It does seem like there's specific character in them, like Tom says different kinds of things to Crow, Mike says different things to Joel. I believe that one of Mike’s job as head writer was assigning riffs. That said, I have to think there were times when riffs came out in the writer’s room and it was obvious when a joke should go to a particular character.
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Mar 30, 2024 13:42
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I enjoy the little puppeteering quirk where Tom will often glance over at the other two after he tells a joke he's particularly proud of to see if they noticed. He's a much more active puppet than he really needs to be considering how hard it'd be to notice on an old-school TV.
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Mar 30, 2024 14:13
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It's always fun to see Crow get destroyed. There was that one time where ended up being just eyes and a burnt frame.
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Mar 30, 2024 14:17
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Mister Kingdom posted:It's always fun to see Crow get destroyed. There was that one time where ended up being just eyes and a burnt frame. rah 
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Mar 30, 2024 14:29
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Mister Kingdom posted:It's always fun to see Crow get destroyed. There was that one time where ended up being just eyes and a burnt frame. Remember, the death ray is for peaceful purposes only. Crow getting crushed into a cube is one of my favorite bits as well. I think Tom was going to sell him?
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Mar 30, 2024 14:55
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I know people haven't liked the host segments in the revival, but every one of these East Eddie bits in Beyond Atlantis are fantastic.
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Mar 30, 2024 17:38
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Lumbermouth posted:I know people haven't liked the host segments in the revival, but every one of these East Eddie bits in Beyond Atlantis are fantastic. might be my favorite episode of the revival. definitely my favorite of that season
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Mar 30, 2024 18:12
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Jet Jaguar posted:Remember, the death ray is for peaceful purposes only. Also: Thighmaster/Thawmaster
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Mar 30, 2024 18:53
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Lumbermouth posted:I know people haven't liked the host segments in the revival, but every one of these East Eddie bits in Beyond Atlantis are fantastic. i find the host segments to be very hit and miss in the whole show. hell i usually skip the opening one altogether
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Mar 30, 2024 19:30
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Cowboy Mike's Bold Ricochet BBQ Sauce might be the funniest thing ever written
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Mar 31, 2024 02:16
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zoux posted:Cowboy Mike's Bold Ricochet BBQ Sauce might be the funniest thing ever written WELL HELL YES IT'S BOLD
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Mar 31, 2024 03:22
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NOW AVAILABLE IN EXTRY-BOLD
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Mar 31, 2024 03:36
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That skit has forever warped how my MSTie friend uses the word 'bold'. He'll always cowboy drawl it out.
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Mar 31, 2024 05:31
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It's also the last time they do the Invention Exchange, I believe (or at least what I was told)zoux posted:Cowboy Mike's Bold Ricochet BBQ Sauce might be the funniest thing ever written Actually it's... decidedly un-bold  RI-CO-CHEEEET! BAR-BE-QUE SAUUUCE!
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Mar 31, 2024 06:00
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You kids ever read The Ox-Bow Incident?
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Mar 31, 2024 06:41
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I have long since made peace with the fact that I'm a Mike guy, but for some reason Joel's comedy outside the context of old MST3K has been actively bugging me recently. I happened to watch a Cinematic Titanic episode on the Foreverathon yesterday (I haven't seen almost any of them for some reason), and while Frank, Trace, Mary Jo and even J. Elvis were dropping solid riffs, Joel's stuff just seemed so meh for the most part. He had a couple of good ones, but for the most part his lines just weren't funny at all to me. In part it's probably that he's drawing from a reference context that I'm not too familiar with, but so does Frank, so that can't be all of it. Maybe it's the delivery? Maybe my sense of humour is just too different from his? Are there any real Joel fans here? I'd honestly like to hear differing opinions on what you like about Joel's comedy. My working theory is that he's mainly a prop comic, but maybe not the guy for punchy riffs and jokes, and I definitely admire his ability to make whimsical and wacky props and sight gags for the show. Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 09:26 on Mar 31, 2024 |
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Mar 31, 2024 09:24
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Always sort of assumed Joel aims the comedy so that kids can enjoy it even though some of the references would be too old for them. Which was needed to get people to watch the show. Then after the core audience was established, it allowed Mike to go for more adult stuff.
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Mar 31, 2024 12:12
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happyhippy posted:Always sort of assumed Joel aims the comedy so that kids can enjoy it even though some of the references would be too old for them. Hmm yeah, you might be onto something here. That's definitely the vibe I got from early episodes, but I always assumed it was done ironically for an adult audience. But maybe not. That's not normally a deal breaker for me either, I definitely like a lot of the simple and whimsical riffs they often bust out. In any case, Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders is on. "The rug feels soft on my back, and yet one can't help wondering if more padding might be called for. "
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Mar 31, 2024 12:20
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I prefer Mike's more acerbic riffing style for sure, but I don't know if that's just because I saw a lot of Mike before I ever saw Joel.
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Mar 31, 2024 12:21
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His "not today" delivery during "The Brain" live deserves framing
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Mar 31, 2024 12:34
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I’m a Mike guy and didn’t actually watch the Joel episodes until later (I first discovered the show during the Sci-Fi era) but the latter grew on me over time and I like some of his work outside of MST3K as well
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Mar 31, 2024 13:25
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This dinosaur was found with a head sticking out of its butt.
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Mar 31, 2024 13:53
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Joel’s delivery was sleepier but more easygoing, Mike’s was snappier but meaner. Both have their time and place. Overall I prefer the Mike years just because that season 8-9 run was so incredible but about just as many of the all-time iconic episodes were Joel’s.
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Mar 31, 2024 17:03
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Having seen the Brains on so many of their own projects over the years has given me a really vivid sense of who on the team wrote each joke. I wish there was an MST3K reference page I could fact check because I feel that Frank and Mary Jo in particular have a very distinctive “oh, that person obviously wrote that” voice.
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Mar 31, 2024 17:10
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exquisite tea posted:Joel’s delivery was sleepier but more easygoing, Mike’s was snappier but meaner. I definitely noticed this when going from MST to rifftrax; rifftrax is more mean-spirited in general but I do think Mike is just funnier. I used to prefer Joel but the Sci-Fi Mike eps are my favorites. I even love the host segments continuity (which somehow feels out of place in the revival for some reason?)
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Mar 31, 2024 17:39
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It's remarkable how little effort went into the costuming for Jack and the Giant Bean Stalk. Or any aspect of it, really.
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Mar 31, 2024 17:43
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🎶 Ice cream bunny That ice cream bunny He's made of ice cream And he's a bunny 🎶
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Mar 31, 2024 17:50
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exquisite tea posted:Having seen the Brains on so many of their own projects over the years has given me a really vivid sense of who on the team wrote each joke. I wish there was an MST3K reference page I could fact check because I feel that Frank and Mary Jo in particular have a very distinctive “oh, that person obviously wrote that” voice. Yeah same. I think I can hear Mike's jokes in other people's mouths too, his style is absurd but specific on the small details.
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:I have long since made peace with the fact that I'm a Mike guy, but for some reason Joel's comedy outside the context of old MST3K has been actively bugging me recently. I really dig Joel's vibe, one of my favorite lines of his is the really resigned "Oh I don't know ..." when WARRIOR OF THE LOST WORLD's overdone title pops up after a dumb text crawl. There's something whimsical but melancholic about his delivery.
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