The Official and Very Rifftastic Mystery Science Theater 3000 Thread

[cooleddie74]

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Here you go.

Apparently Joel said at one point that if MST3K were ever brought back that the new guy would wear a yellow jumpsuit. This appears to be the new host of the series even if the guys running Crow and Servo are temporary stand-ins.

 

[Redfern]

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As I'm not a member of FaceBook, the page won't display for me, but still, thanks for the effort.

Sincerely,

Bill

 

[cooleddie74]

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[Dr. Forrester] Oh, Poopie. [/Dr. Forrester]

 

[Trekker4747]

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It's hard for me to accept anyone else but Kevin Murphy as Servo. Murphy's wit, singing, voice and penchant for making "higher-brow" or esoteric references and jokes just made the character so much for me.

I've contributed to the KS but, as I said, it's not something I "need." I get my movie-riffing fix from Rifftrax and don't need the bots or host segments for it all to work.

Next week, Rifftrax releases of a VOD of the Fred Savage Nintendo Commercial vehicle, "The Wizard."

 

[cooleddie74]

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Kevin Murphy was and remains Tom Servo. He was the one voice actor who became his character during the run of the series, even moreso than Trace or Bill with Crow.

I respect and even like what Josh Weinstein did with Servo during the KTMA episodes and Season 1 on the Comedy Channel, but it just wasn't as good nor as witty and funny as what Kevin brought to the role over the next nine years.

 

[Trekker4747]

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Kevin Murphy was and remains Tom Servo. He was the one voice actor who became his character during the run of the series, even moreso than Trace or Bill with Crow.

I respect and even like what Josh Weinstein did with Servo during the KTMA episodes and Season 1 on the Comedy Channel, but it just wasn't as good nor as witty and funny as what Kevin brought to the role over the next nine years.

Indeed. It's hard for me to watch any S1 episode because Servo just isn't Servo. He needs to be singing, making those obscure references and seeming emotionally unstable!

 

[cooleddie74]

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For me, the primary draw of Season 1 episodes is watching Dr. Forrester and Dr. Erhart as the Mads. Josh left the series so early that the "Dr. Erhart Episodes" became almost legendary because so few people had seen them by the time MST3K took off and became successful on the Comedy Channel and Comedy Central. He was in just 13 of the nationally-televised episodes and that's less than ten percent of the entire output of the series.

 

[Redfern]

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Someone once suggested an interesting "spin" for the final episode from 1999. After the credits have rolled and we hear the final guitar "twang", a video feed is re-established to reveal Erhart in an otherwise empty room that was "Deep 13". He seems out of breath and is about to explain why he "disappeared" only to have the feed cut out again in mid sentence.

I think I read that at the "Satellite Newsfeed" site, the discussion being "alternative endings". It certainly would have adhered to Joel's philosophy, "The right people will get it."

Sincerely,

Bill

 

[cooleddie74]

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That would have been fun to see. After "Rocketship X-M" and the very first appearance of Frank his predecessor was never mentioned again, unless there's a random throwaway line of dialogue from an episode that I'm completely forgetting about.

 

[Redfern]

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In "Earth vs. the Spider", 13th episode of the 3rd (Comedy Central) season, the gang note one of the victims looks a lot like Erhart. I think they observed, "So that's what happened!"

Sincerely,

Bill

 

[cooleddie74]

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That's right! They did say that, indeed.

 

[Redfern]

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Odd how I remember that given I've only seen that episode once. the only episodes I've seen multiple times have been from the SciFi CHannel era (due to reruns) and "Mitchell", "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" and "MST3K the Movie" (because I have purchased VHS copies of those segments). The rest I've seen on various streaming services within the last few years.

Sincerely,

Bill

 

[cooleddie74]

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Almost every episode of the series is posted on YouTube, although picture and sound quality sometimes leave a lot to be desired. There are some that get yanked or blocked because they're Godzilla movies and Toho has expressed major copyright issues with MST3K having riffed (and sold) them or the studios and distributors that own the films don't want them being viewed for free in this country.

You can find almost all of them online, though, including all but perhaps two or three of the original KTMA episodes aired on Minnesota television.

 

[Redfern]

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To make it even easier, here's a "portal" linking all the episodes currently hosted at various streaming services.

http://www.club-mst3k.com/

This is how I "caught up" a couple of years ago, as I had never seen the Comedy Central era save for a few random episodes.

As Cool Eddie noted, some videos occasionally get pulled, but someone usually comes along with an alternative link.

Enjoy, everyone!

Sincerely,

Bill

 

[cooleddie74]

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Nobody bothered to pull nor seemed to even care about The Castle of Fu Manchu until after Christopher Lee died, then the episode that had been posted on YouTube for a couple of years or even longer was yanked and the replacement posted by somebody else was blocked from viewing inside the U.S.

 

[Gepard]

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It's official: the next host will be Jonah Ray, playing "Jonah Heston."

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mst3k/bringbackmst3k/posts/1415162

Joel is also adding three Classic MST episodes as part of the Kickstarter rewards if we can break 2 million in the next 24 hours. I've pledged, so should you. Won't you?

 

[galleywest]

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I have very mixed emotions about this. I don't know how I'll feel about it not being Joel or Mike and the Bots, without Dr. Forrester, TV's Frank, Pearl, Bobo, or Brain Guy. It took me a long time to warm up to Pearl and her companions in later seasons. I almost feel as though the magic of the show was it's era--that just-before moment: just before the internet exploded, just before everyone had a cell-phone/smart phone, just before the age of bloggers and YouTubers. I don't know if it can be recaptured, especially after it has been transitioned so well into RiffTrax and Cinematic Titanic.

Having said that, my loyalty to MST3K and the chance to introduce it to a new generation compel my support of the project.

 

[Redfern]

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Well, it appears the KickStarter campaign has already reached its initial goal of 2,000,000.00 dollars. Yay!

Sincerely,

Bill

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

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I don't really see the point without Joel hosting. It's not like movie riffing has gone away or lay dormant in the years since the show went off the air. In many ways, Rifftrax is sharper & funnier than MST3K ever was. The only reason to bring back MST3K specifically would be to bring back the host segments, and I don't quite see the point in doing that if none of the original performers will be on screen. After all, IMO, Mike was always the better movie riffer. Joel's strength was the personal charm he brought to the host segments. The oddly paternal relationship that he had with the 'Bots was a huge part of the show's appeal for me.

BTW, I was re-reading the "Amazing Colossal Episode Guide" and Mike Nelson said that this was his favorite host segment. From "Godzilla vs. Megalon," he describes it as "Odd, overwritten, and surprisingly mean."

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4eR-uZTJZ8[/yt]

 

[Trekker4747]

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Joel said somewhere, probably in one of his KS updates, that his "intent" for the show was to be something like Saturday Night Live where the cast would occasionally be swapped out with a new one since, logically, there was no reason the show should ever end given it was cheap to produce and there was no shortage of bad movies.

Think about it, by the end of the series no one in the main cast, not the host, not the bots or the Mads were part of the original cast.

It just turned out that the Sci-Fi Channel did not see it fit to continue making the show.

So that's the logic Joel is operating under, that the show could work with anyone in front of the camera so long as they were talented enough to be entertaining to an audience.