It’s Just A Show

187. The Most Holiday Movie We’ve Ever Done. [MST3K 1304. Munchie.]

Happy holidays! Look, we got you a Munchie! Put it in a box and everything. And we also got you an episode of Chris and Charlotte talking about Munchies, Munchie Strikes Back, Dom DeLuise, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and the late great Loni Anderson. Show Notes. Munchie (Jim Wynorski, 1992): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Trailer. Support us on Patreon and listen to our holiday special, all about the Edvard Grieg musical biopic Song of Norway (Andrew L. Stone, 1970). (You probably don’t want to watch the movie itself.) Grieg is the composer behind In the Hall of the Mountain King — and much more! Get ready for Fiascomas! A new little daily podcast about holiday movies, running between Christmas and New Year’s, by the friends who bring you Hubrisween!. Our episodes on MST3Kon and Cry Wilderness. Munchies (Tina Hirsch, 1987). Munchie Strikes Back (Jim Wynorski, 1994). Love Hewitt: Heart of Glass. We talk about The Bastard (Lee H. Katzin, 1978) in our episode on SST: Death Flight. A Prince for Christmas (Fred Olen Ray, 2015). Phantasm (Don Coscarelli, 1979). The Classic Erich Wolfgang Korngold. (Yes, he used a different pseudonym for this.) Kevin Kutchaver. Little Miss Millions (Jim Wynorski, 1993). Judy Tenuta in 1990, uh, being weirdly topical for today. Support us on Patreon and you can listen a special bonus bit that was cut for time from this episode — and our holiday special!

186. A Crackpot Theory That I Have No Evidence For. [MST3K 603. The Dead Talk Back.]

The Dead Talk Back, but maybe you’d rather hear Chris and Charlotte talk about true believers, ice cream sales, safety plans, public service announcements, and The Grateful Dead. With the short: The Selling Wizard. Show Notes. The Dead Talk Back (Merle S. Gould, 1957/1993): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Watch on YouTube. The Selling Wizard (Unknown, 1954): IMDB. UnMSTed. MST3K has just uploaded The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t, which we covered last year, for the holidays. The Body Is a Shell (Merle S. Gould, 1956). Peter Ballbusch: The Body Is a Shell. Edgar Cayce. We talk about H.R. Pufnstuf or whatever in our episode on Crash of Moons. The New York Times on The Body Is a Shell. Clips of Dickory Doc. An article about ice cream getting popular. The relevant fountain pen by Ensso is no longer in production, but here’s a review. (Chris has the black one.) OK, but what if everyone jumped at the same time? International ShakeOut Day. Gas mask drills in World War 2. 1950s civil defense drills. An example of a tsunami drill. MST3K PSAs: riffing a news reel and pretending there’s an emergency on the SoL. Stuff You Missed in History Class on The Sisters Fox. If you missed the news about the talk to your dead grandma through AI thing... The Grateful Dead (with John Oswald): Greyfolded. Support us on Patreon and you can listen a special bonus bit that was cut for time from this episode.

185. Everything Is Beautiful. [MST3K K01. Invaders from the Deep.]

Happy Turkey Day! Let’s celebrate with the very first episode of MST3K, which premiered on Thanksgiving 1988! Invaders from the Deep (which is to say, four episodes of Stingray spliced together into a movie) dives after Chris and Charlotte while they flap their lips about Turkey Day, Supermarionation, brief introductions, earnest ecologists, and beer nuts. Show Notes. Invaders from the Deep (David Lane, 1981 (based on Stingray (1964))): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Details about this year’s Turkey Day, which is happening when this podcast goes live. You can see a print ad for the debut of MST3K on the KTMA era page of The Epicurean History of MST3K. Our episode on Humanoid Woman. Phones and Marina over on the Gerry (and presumably Sylvia) Anderson wiki. Filmed in Supermarionatin (Stephen La Rivière, 2014) is the documentary Chris watched, now available on YouTube. Our episodes on the test pilot, the first Comedy Channel episode, the first Mike episode, the first Sci-Fi episode, the first Jonah episode, and the first Emily episode. Silent Running (Douglas Trumbull, 1972). Beer Nuts. Support us on Patreon and you can listen a special bonus bit that was cut for time from this episode.

184b. It’s Just A Town. [Assignment: Venezuela, from the MST3K CD-ROM.]

Assignment: Venezuela sends Chris and Charlotte off to discuss economic colonialism, oil extraction, Latin American history, lying husbands, and CD-ROMs. Show Notes. Assignment: Venezuela (Jack Tobin, 1956): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. UnMSTed. Our episode on The Beast of Yucca Flats, with the short: Progress Island, U.S.A. The surprisingly robust Wikipedia article on Assignment: Venezuela, with lots of MST3K content. Eduardo Galeano: The Memory of Fire trilogy: Genesis, Faces and Masks, and Century of the Wind — as well as The Book of Embraces. A history of Levittown, NY. Some documents about the integration of Levittown, PA. The Wikipedia article on Robert Moses has a subsection on racism which details the recent arguments that have been made about the Jones Beach story. Don’t Worry Darling (Olivia Wilde, 2022). (Charlotte notes that the movie gets pretty dark.) The Mystery Science Theater 3000 CD-ROM. The Voyager Company, and a list of the CD-ROMs they released (or planned to release). Laurie Anderson recently had a chance to revisit The Puppet Motel. Someone uploaded a playthrough (if you want to call it that) of The Puppet Motel. Support us on Patreon and hang out with us in a friendly Discord.

184. Fish Flopping. [MST3K 1005. Blood Waters of Dr. Z.]

Blood Waters of Dr. Z (a.k.a. Zaat) gets in its tank while Chris and Charlotte blurble on about fish supremacy, fish people, fish fingers, fish controversies, and smokeless tobacco. Show Notes. Blood Waters of Dr Z (Don Barton (and Arnold Stevens), 1971): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Watch on YouTube. HubrisWeen! on Zaat. Our episodes on Revenge of the Creature and The Batwoman. Gill-Man from the Creature from the Black Lagoon films, Kraken from Clash of the Titans, and the Gill Monster from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Faith No More: Epic. An article about the video. Remembering Marine World Africa USA. Update: Marineland was sold! Mouth tobacco. The story of Big League Chew. And candy cigarettes... Pride and Prejudice (Simon Langton, 1995). Featuring a particular scene. Visit beautiful Switzerland! Support us on Patreon and you can listen a special bonus bit that was cut for time from this episode.