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The Official and Very Rifftastic Mystery Science Theater 3000 Thread

I finally found a Season 13 playlist on YouTube so I don't have to keep searching for them individually.

I've been working my way through Munchie, but it's a slog, as I can only handle so much in one sitting.
 
That reminds me.
The opening animation for Rifftrax is done by Harry Partridge, son of Andy Partridge of XTC.
If you've seen Andy's work, you know where Harry gets his style from.
 
I finally made it through Munchie, which amazingly got even dumber in the final act. The episode reveals at the end that Kinga and Max can't hear rhymes. Which makes me wonder, how can they sing the theme song? I know, I know, I should really just relax...

Looking ahead, the next movie, Doctor Mordrid, has a really impressive cast -- Jeffrey Combs, Brian Thompson, and Yvette Nipar, one of the most gorgeous and talented actresses of '90s TV. How bad could it be?
 
Christopher said:
Looking ahead, the next movie, Doctor Mordrid, has a really impressive cast -- Jeffrey Combs, Brian Thompson, and Yvette Nipar, one of the most gorgeous and talented actresses of '90s TV. How bad could it be?
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Some argue that "Mordred" isn't really "bad" enough to be truly riffed. Some have endearingly said it's pretty much a frugally budgeted 'Dr. Strange" with the serial numbers filed off. Certainly Coombs puts his "all" into the role.
 
Redfern said:
Some argue that "Mordred" isn't really "bad" enough to be truly riffed. Some have endearingly said it's pretty much a frugally budgeted 'Dr. Strange" with the serial numbers filed off. Certainly Coombs puts his "all" into the role.
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I'm pretty sure that's exactly what it was. They lost the rights to the Strange character so they filed off the serial numbers and made the film anyway,
 
Nerys Myk said:
I'm pretty sure that's exactly what it was. They lost the rights to the Strange character so they filed off the serial numbers and made the film anyway,
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Christopher said:
Wikipedia agrees with that, but the MST wiki says the producers have denied it.
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Here's the story behind Dr. Mordrid

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DarrenTR1970 said:
Here's the story behind Dr. Mordrid
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Interesting video. So it wasn't based on Doctor Strange in terms of actually having the rights, but just in terms of Jack Kirby doing a knockoff of Lee & Ditko's character. Someone should edit the film's Wikipedia article, then. The article does mention it as an alternate theory, with a notation saying better sources are needed, but the opening paragraph asserts it did start as a Strange movie.

But I'm stunned to realize (and I checked this with another video where she confirmed it herself) that I've been mispronouncing Yvette Nipar's name for three-plus decades. I've been assuming it had a French-style pronunciation, rhyming with "guitar," but it actually rhymes with "viper."
 
They've added plastic credit-card style individually numbered Info Club cards for the $125 and up tier (or it's a $20 add-on.) That plus the pins was enough to get me to bump up my pledge.
 
Well, I found that Doctor Mordrid was streaming various places including Roku Channel, so I thought I'd watch it in the clear before watching the MST3K version (admittedly partly so I could see it with the nude scene left in). It's not brilliant; I found the climax kind of weak and Mordrid a bit too passive, and Jay Acovone's character was too much of a caricature. But it's entertaining and interesting and pretty well-made for a direct-to-video B-movie, and the core cast is excellent. It's definitely too good to deserve MST-ing, probably the least bad movie they've riffed since This Island Earth. It's a shame the sequels fell through.
 
Kevin Murphy just uploaded a video showing every Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo puppet that Shout! Factory was able to locate from the Comedy Central and Sci-Fi Channel era that have been shipped to the studio in Minnesota and are being restored by the original prop makers.
 
Watching Mordrid again in the MST episode, and I confirmed something. The scene in Mordrid's apartment where he summons Monitor and goes into the starscape/astral plane/whatever was apparently done largely as a lighting effect, by turning out all the lights and plunging the whole set into blackness except for one spot on Mordrid and his summoning orb thing, then matting the starscape and Monitor's eyes into the black parts. It's so simple, but it works. A great example of using a low budget effectively and creatively.
 
DarrenTR1970 said:
That reminds me.
The opening animation for Rifftrax is done by Harry Partridge, son of Andy Partridge of XTC.
If you've seen Andy's work, you know where Harry gets his style from.
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He did Saturday Morning Watchmen too.
 
Question for the fans who are really know their "behind the scenes" trivia. In seasons 2 through 7 of the Comedy Central era, we see a thick black, ribbed "hose" emerge from the hexagonal panel opposite to that of the iris opening "Hex-Field".

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Is that supposed to be part of Gypsy's "neck", or merely random set decor. Yes, I should keep in mind the show's mantra, but I just wondered if anybody, maybe Trace since he designed it, ever stated what was that element "in story".
 
Redfern said:
Question for the fans who are really know their "behind the scenes" trivia. In seasons 2 through 7 of the Comedy Central era, we see a thick black, ribbed "hose" emerge from the hexagonal panel opposite to that of the iris opening "Hex-Field".

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Is that supposed to be part of Gypsy's "neck", or merely random set decor. Yes, I should keep in mind the show's mantra, but I just wondered if anybody, maybe Trace since he designed it, ever stated what was that element "in story".
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I just wondered why the SoL needed tiki torches by door 5
 
My favorite riff in Doctor Mordrid was "Harryhausen and the Philosopher's Stone." The "wizard landlord" sketch was fairly good too.

But man, I bet Emily took a lot of heat for arguing that Die Hard isn't a Christmas movie...
 
I've watched MST3K for nearly 35 years and I didn't make the wall hose/pipe and Gypsy connections until just now. Damn.

Maybe? Makes as much sense as anything else on that set.
 
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