The Official and Very Rifftastic Mystery Science Theater 3000 Thread

[cooleddie74]

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The Rifftrax guys (Mike, Kevin, Bill) do it all the time, but they don't superimpose their silhouettes on the screen when they do it, thus not altering the appearance of the film and avoiding having to pay huge fees for riffing the movies.

 

[Trekker4747]

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The Rifftrax guys (Mike, Kevin, Bill) do it all the time, but they don't superimpose their silhouettes on the screen when they do it, thus not altering the appearance of the film and avoiding having to pay huge fees for riffing the movies.

They don't do it nearly as much as they used to and for them you download the commentary and play it along with your own copy of the movie. More how they get around the fees, they're not selling the movie they're selling their own commentary.

 

[cooleddie74]

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Yeah, they definitely found a way to get around paying the major Hollywood studios big bucks to make fun of their movies. It's actually very clever. We record the audio riffs. You play them in sync with your DVD or Blu ray. Presto: riffed movie without most of the work that MST3K required.

 

[Trekker4747]

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"Audiences won't soon forget when the thing we didn't now what it was; was put in the helicopter by the guy we didn't know."

 

[cooleddie74]

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No explanation required.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrkhSc28ql8[/yt]

 

[Trekker4747]

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Girls Town: (A great movie with a very nicely figured, curvy, Mae Mae Van Doren in it.

"What's that?"
"It's Holy Water, it's just like regular water with the hell burned out of it."
Mike: "And only half the calories!"

Two girls enter the dorm room, both of them stern-faced and one of them with a familiar haircut to some of us.

Mike: "Uh-oh, Romulans!"

 

[cooleddie74]

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Tom Servo teaches us all lessons about life and love.

Again.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFN7WmmBc8k[/yt]

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv0S2gzcEeU[/yt]

 

[Trekker4747]

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Poor Tibby was probably getting really nauseous spinning on the turntable like that. But, yeah, Tom has a heart bigger than most of us.

In a somewhat similar vain:

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xvhn122ygc[/yt]

And who can forget the time Mike dressed as Captain Janeway?

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZLcIpbOHIU[/yt]

 

[Redfern]

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Segueing into a Tina Turna stage routine, no less!

Sincerely,

Bill

 

[cooleddie74]

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I always laugh whenever I think of unemployed TV's Frank on the couch in his underwear in "Village of the Giants."

We should all look so good watching Acapulco H.E.A.T.

 

[Redfern]

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TV's Frank is an interesting case. He rather defies the expected cliche of the hunchbacked toady assisting the mad scientist. He's certainly not depicted as being "ugly". His black slacks and jacket kinda's resembles that of a limousine driver. And his hairdo is quite dapper. (Was it meant to be an homage to Marlon Brando as Jor-El, or did it pay tribute to the Metalunians of "This Island Earth"?

Basically, what prompted his creation rather than the traditional "Igor" when Josh "elvis" Weinstein left the series?

Sincerely,

Bill

 

[cooleddie74]

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Based on the stories the cast members tell, Frank was hired to replace Josh Weinstein when he left the series at the end of the first season on The Comedy Channel. Frank was already a writer for the show and was designed to be the new assistant and underling to Dr. Forrester but he sort of developed organically and evolved, becoming a much more complex and interesting (and funnier) character than Josh's ill-fated Dr. Larry Erhart.

As far as I'm aware, Frank's spit curl is definitely an homage to Marlon Brando's Jor-El, especially in Seasons 5 and 6 after Mike replaced Joel as host and the relationship between the Satellite of Love crew and the scientists changed a little, reflected in slight alterations to the makeup and sets along with the "Umbilicus" device used by the Mads to send items to the ship.

 

[cooleddie74]

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I think we can safely debunk some conspiracy theories with this clip, don't you?

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIQLvQ4i6Ec[/yt]

 

[Trekker4747]

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Touch of Satan. Our "hero" -a dim guy name Jody- is staying with a girl (Melissa) he ran into at a pond, who happens to be a witch.

Melissa has convinced Jody to stay the night with her and her family -if she manages to get him to lover her and have sex with her, it'll break the hold Satan has on her releasing the family from his wrath.

Jody is investigating the guest room he's been given where he's greeted by Melissa's "grandmother" (actually a severely burned, and aged, sister of Melissa's. While Melissa has not aged, her sister has and was severely burned while being burned as a presumed witch) the elderly woman surprises Jody, he goes to question Melissa on who she is.

Jody: "Who is she?"
Melissa: "She's my great-grandmother."
Mike (as Jody): "She's not that great."

There's some back and forth between Jody and Melissa on the "great grandmother."

Jody: "She wasn't afraid to go in my room without knocking."
Melissa: "She's an old-lady, Jody."
Mike: "They don't know what they're doing half the time."
Crow: "I tell-ya what, I'll go flip her left-turn signal on and she'll go right back to sleep!"
Melissa: "I'm sorry, go back to sleep."
Tom (as Jody): "Uh, could you make your grandma wear a bell?"

A funny, movie, this one. Lots of great moments especially as Crow struggles with the numerous, past-due, pregnant pauses between lines in the dialogue.

 

[cooleddie74]

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I haven't seen that one in a very long time. There are a few of the SyFy Channel episodes I need to go back and rewatch because they didn't necessarily impress me that much when they were brand new. A great episode from the last couple of seasons is "The Deadly Bees." I recently rewatched that one and had forgotten just how funny it is.

 

[Trekker4747]

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Deadly Bees is good, but i'd really put Touch of Satan over it. For the scenes with "Stephie" the babysitter in Castle Forrester watching over Bobo, Brain Guy and the SoL gang.

 

[cooleddie74]

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Was that another appearance by Bridget Jones Nelson as a supporting character? She's always great to watch or listen to and such a cute, funny and talented woman. No wonder Mike married her.

 

[Trekker4747]

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Was that another appearance by Bridget Jones Nelson as a supporting character? She's always great to watch or listen to and such a cute, funny and talented woman. No wonder Mike married her.

No, Prop-Master Beez McKeever played "Stephie" the babysitter. And she was pretty awesome at it and maybe slightly more terrifying than Pearl.

 

[Redfern]

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Yeah, like pulling a spritz bottle on Prof. Bobo for getting on the couch!

Apropos of nothing, but watching "Penny Dreadful" on ShowTime, every time I see Victor Frankenstein's "monster", I can't help comapring him to Bill Corbett's "Observer" (aka "Brain Guy")! Rather than going for an "over the top" Jack Pierce type make-up with the flattened cranium baseball stitches and neck mounted electrodes, they went with something more "subtle", whitened skin, blackened lips and a region of deep scars (no stitches) along his right temple. Actually, I rather like the actor and he plays the character very close to Shelley's original concept of an amazingly intelligent and articulate creation. But each time he appears, I expect him to reveal a dish containing a gelation "brain"! The fact he speaks with arather quiet cultured accent just adds to the expectation.

Sincerely,

Bill

 

[Trekker4747]

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The spritz bottle and rolled up newspaper on Bobo was great. And treating Brain Guy/Observer or, "Brian" to her, like a child was great. "Well, it says you get your fruit snack now."