“They must've spent tens of dollars on this.”
June 26, 2017 12:23 PM Subscribe
Grab your robot friends. The Mystery Science Theater 3000 marathon starts now! [Twitch] From June 26 through July 2, you’ll be the subject of a 38-episode experiment to see how long it can take for the human spirit to break after suffering the type of DEEP HURTING that only the worst movies on the planet can provide. We’re even going to pile on the pain with an assortment of vintage educational shorts and other bonus content in between each episode. A running order with the full list of episodes can be found here.
The titles alone are calling me away from gainful employment, but I mustn't listen.
When I'm explaining to future interviewers why I'm not working for my current employer, do y'all think "Legend of Boggy Creek II" or "Swamp Diamonds" is the better answer?
posted by asperity at 12:45 PM on June 26, 2017 [4 favorites]
When I'm explaining to future interviewers why I'm not working for my current employer, do y'all think "Legend of Boggy Creek II" or "Swamp Diamonds" is the better answer?
posted by asperity at 12:45 PM on June 26, 2017 [4 favorites]
Not that this is a surprise to anybody but watching this in twitch and reading people's additional "funny" commentary proves just what a triumph in actual humor MST3K is.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 12:47 PM on June 26, 2017 [12 favorites]
posted by MCMikeNamara at 12:47 PM on June 26, 2017 [12 favorites]
but watching this in twitch and reading people's additional "funny" commentary proves just what a triumph in actual humor MST3K is.
But the jokes/commentary on MetaFilter are going to be better, right? Like at least $5 better.
posted by Fizz at 12:49 PM on June 26, 2017 [3 favorites]
But the jokes/commentary on MetaFilter are going to be better, right? Like at least $5 better.
posted by Fizz at 12:49 PM on June 26, 2017 [3 favorites]
I clicked on the link and the first thing I heard was "NO SPRINGS!" What a perfect greeting.
The weekly MST3K Club (a select group of 5-9 MeFites able to chat at rabb.it) has shown that there is some potential for civilian embellishment, but it also taught each of us how it can go embarrassingly wrong. Now we have to decide whether to even bother with our regular Thursday Night meeting.
posted by oneswellfoop at 1:06 PM on June 26, 2017 [5 favorites]
The weekly MST3K Club (a select group of 5-9 MeFites able to chat at rabb.it) has shown that there is some potential for civilian embellishment, but it also taught each of us how it can go embarrassingly wrong. Now we have to decide whether to even bother with our regular Thursday Night meeting.
posted by oneswellfoop at 1:06 PM on June 26, 2017 [5 favorites]
reading people's additional "funny" commentary proves just what a triumph in actual humor MST3K is
The most serious problem with the (very good) 2017 season is that seasons 1-10 changed our culture. Being forced to watch bad movies isn't plausible torture anymore, no more than being forced to eat ice cream would be.
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 1:30 PM on June 26, 2017 [3 favorites]
The most serious problem with the (very good) 2017 season is that seasons 1-10 changed our culture. Being forced to watch bad movies isn't plausible torture anymore, no more than being forced to eat ice cream would be.
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 1:30 PM on June 26, 2017 [3 favorites]
reading people's additional "funny" commentary
I had to close the chat sidebar, the comments were constantly whooshing by too fast to even read and it was a huge distraction.
posted by Greg_Ace at 1:53 PM on June 26, 2017
I had to close the chat sidebar, the comments were constantly whooshing by too fast to even read and it was a huge distraction.
posted by Greg_Ace at 1:53 PM on June 26, 2017
I'm not sure there is enough marijuana in America for this. 25 episodes, maybe. But 38?
posted by Nelson at 2:42 PM on June 26, 2017
posted by Nelson at 2:42 PM on June 26, 2017
You've not been to WA lately.
There's enough marijuana. Trust me.
posted by hippybear at 2:48 PM on June 26, 2017 [1 favorite]
There's enough marijuana. Trust me.
posted by hippybear at 2:48 PM on June 26, 2017 [1 favorite]
Or Oregon. At least in Portland, I swear the number of retail pot stores has surpassed the number of Starbucks stores at this point.
posted by Greg_Ace at 2:59 PM on June 26, 2017
posted by Greg_Ace at 2:59 PM on June 26, 2017
Possibly even the number of strip clubs.
posted by Greg_Ace at 3:23 PM on June 26, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by Greg_Ace at 3:23 PM on June 26, 2017 [2 favorites]
Deep hurting - bah! I feel like doing a bit of deep learning on what makes a great Mark episode / segment / joke may now be possible. It is officially time to feed Watson some bad movies and see what movies it would select and what jokes it would really make about them.
posted by Nanukthedog at 3:31 PM on June 26, 2017
posted by Nanukthedog at 3:31 PM on June 26, 2017
Right now, they're either showing City Limits or the worst high school production of Akira I have ever seen.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 6:05 PM on June 26, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 6:05 PM on June 26, 2017 [2 favorites]
But there was no monster.
posted by vrakatar at 7:01 PM on June 26, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by vrakatar at 7:01 PM on June 26, 2017 [1 favorite]
We've now moved on to Phantom Planet and I'm pretty sure the monsters are the producers who allowed this film to be made.
posted by Fizz at 7:10 PM on June 26, 2017
posted by Fizz at 7:10 PM on June 26, 2017
Some of MST3K's Best/Worst/Most Famous/Infamous episodes are not on the marathon list...
"Manos: The Hands of Fate", "Eegah!", "I Accuse My Parents", "Space Mutiny" (home of MeFi's Own Blast Hardcheese), "The Sidehackers", "Mitchell"!!!!!, "The Pod People" (starring Trumpy... they tried to warn us), or any of the episodes with Gamera or Santa Claus. Or my personal favorite, Michael Landon in "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" (partly because it was one of the few I'd seen before, on Sinister Seymour's Fright Night with a lower level of welcome riffing)... Not a good sign.
posted by oneswellfoop at 7:53 PM on June 26, 2017
"Manos: The Hands of Fate", "Eegah!", "I Accuse My Parents", "Space Mutiny" (home of MeFi's Own Blast Hardcheese), "The Sidehackers", "Mitchell"!!!!!, "The Pod People" (starring Trumpy... they tried to warn us), or any of the episodes with Gamera or Santa Claus. Or my personal favorite, Michael Landon in "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" (partly because it was one of the few I'd seen before, on Sinister Seymour's Fright Night with a lower level of welcome riffing)... Not a good sign.
posted by oneswellfoop at 7:53 PM on June 26, 2017
Sometimes we do a pretty good job of improving with the movie at MST Club, but I attribute part of that to the extra time needed to type the jokes in.
If there were ever a show that could, itself, maintain a 24-hour channel, it would be Mystery Science Theater. 212 episodes x 90 minutes each = 318 hours, or 13 and a quarter days before it looped. Nearly two weeks, assuming they showed absolutely nothing else!
Anyway, MST Club continues to chug along as it has for years now. In fact, we are now in the club's final year. There are only 44 episodes left, at the rate of one a week that's less than 11 months remaining. We've still not decided what we're going to do afterward.
posted by JHarris at 8:37 PM on June 26, 2017 [2 favorites]
If there were ever a show that could, itself, maintain a 24-hour channel, it would be Mystery Science Theater. 212 episodes x 90 minutes each = 318 hours, or 13 and a quarter days before it looped. Nearly two weeks, assuming they showed absolutely nothing else!
Anyway, MST Club continues to chug along as it has for years now. In fact, we are now in the club's final year. There are only 44 episodes left, at the rate of one a week that's less than 11 months remaining. We've still not decided what we're going to do afterward.
posted by JHarris at 8:37 PM on June 26, 2017 [2 favorites]
(Mind you, that doesn't count the three Season 11 episodes left, but we're doing those as double features so they don't affect finishing time.)
posted by JHarris at 8:40 PM on June 26, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by JHarris at 8:40 PM on June 26, 2017 [1 favorite]
What you're going to do next is loop around and start over.
The answer is in your post.
posted by hippybear at 8:43 PM on June 26, 2017 [2 favorites]
The answer is in your post.
posted by hippybear at 8:43 PM on June 26, 2017 [2 favorites]
improving with the movie
Except none of those movies ever improve...
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:02 PM on June 26, 2017
Except none of those movies ever improve...
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:02 PM on June 26, 2017
We've still not decided what we're going to do afterward.
Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic will buy you some time to figure it out.
posted by Servo5678 at 7:01 AM on June 27, 2017
Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic will buy you some time to figure it out.
posted by Servo5678 at 7:01 AM on June 27, 2017
What you're going to do next is loop around and start over.
YES PLEASE.
posted by The Man from Lardfork at 8:29 AM on June 27, 2017 [1 favorite]
YES PLEASE.
posted by The Man from Lardfork at 8:29 AM on June 27, 2017 [1 favorite]
People's opinions on CT and RT may be...controversial.
posted by Chrysostom at 12:08 PM on June 27, 2017
posted by Chrysostom at 12:08 PM on June 27, 2017
People's opinions on CT and RT may be...controversial.
I've found that MSTies who have angry opinions about CT or RT (or the MST3K reboot) tend to be people with similar angry opinions re: Joel vs. Mike. Which is to say, that the rest of us who are just plain fans will find plenty to like about both.
I will say, however, that watching the entire Rifftrax catalogue is an unending challenge, given the sheer number of releases they do in a given year. I have a pretty respectable collection of a few dozen RT shorts, full-length features, and live shows, and it's barely even a quarter of what they've released in the past 10 years. I'm not a RT completist (since I favor their B-movie VODs more than their riffs-only MP3 commentaries for the bigger Hollywood films) but I still have a backlog of stuff that I bought from them on sale and haven't even watched yet.
Cinematic Titanic is a lot more manageable: Only about a dozen episodes, and the whole series is coming out in a single DVD box set from Shout Factory in a couple of months.
posted by Strange Interlude at 10:37 AM on June 28, 2017
I've found that MSTies who have angry opinions about CT or RT (or the MST3K reboot) tend to be people with similar angry opinions re: Joel vs. Mike. Which is to say, that the rest of us who are just plain fans will find plenty to like about both.
I will say, however, that watching the entire Rifftrax catalogue is an unending challenge, given the sheer number of releases they do in a given year. I have a pretty respectable collection of a few dozen RT shorts, full-length features, and live shows, and it's barely even a quarter of what they've released in the past 10 years. I'm not a RT completist (since I favor their B-movie VODs more than their riffs-only MP3 commentaries for the bigger Hollywood films) but I still have a backlog of stuff that I bought from them on sale and haven't even watched yet.
Cinematic Titanic is a lot more manageable: Only about a dozen episodes, and the whole series is coming out in a single DVD box set from Shout Factory in a couple of months.
posted by Strange Interlude at 10:37 AM on June 28, 2017
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