It’s Just A Show: Recent Episodes
Adam, Beth, and Chris on MST3K @ Megaphonic.fm
A conversation with Mystery Science Theater 3000, in which Adam, Beth, and Chris rewatch episodes of MST3K and then talk about things that come up in each episode: Weird Hollywood, curious history, half-forgotten music, and lots of Donald Pleasence.
Happy Dodecalabour Day! Uh, a little belated. Turns out Hercules couldn’t make it, and so we’ve got Colossus and the Headhunters rushing after Chris and Charlotte as they talk about Nummymuffincoocolbutter, Maciste, Hercules’s son, Pound Puppies, and good kitties.
SHOW NOTES.
Colossus and the Headhunters (Maciste contro i cacciatori di teste): MST3K Wiki. IMDb.
499 (Rodrigo Reyes, 2020).
Porkchop sandwiches.
Gretch the Slinky is from The Sidehackers.
Our episodes on Hercules against the Moon Men and Hercules.
Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules (Maciste contro i monstri) (Guido Malatesta, 1961). (The fun bit happens around the 9:30 mark.)
Hercules, Samson, and Ulysses (Ercole sfida Sansone) (Pietro Francisci, 1962).
Maciste, Avenger of the Mayans (Maciste il vindicatore dei Maya) (Guido Malatesta, 1965).
The Miami Herald and The Atlantic remember the Cuban Raft Crisis of 1994.
A Place To Stand, A Place To Grow: Just the song or the whole film it’s from.
Pound Puppies.
We talk about Charlotte’s creepy doll in our episode on Devil Doll.
My Buddy and Kid Sister.
Frank’s post about Millie.
Frank’s books at Dumb Industries. (They’re also at that other site, but not autographed.)
Edward Albee: The American Dream.
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The Batwoman (La mujer murciélago) swims towards the good ship It’s Just A Show, where Chris and Charlotte are talking about Mexican resorts, Mexican cosmopolitanism, Mexican movies, Mexican luchadoras, and menstrual products.
Show Notes.
The Batwoman: MST3K Wiki. IMDb. Trailer.
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Jaime Loftus: Raw Dog.
You can listen to us on YouTube. You can also watch the drawing of the SoL float by, if that soothes you.
The Elvis Comeback Special did not feature Sonny West.
Our episode on The Wild Wild World of Batwoman and our report on MST3Kon.
Acapulco in its heyday.
The graphic design of Mexico ’68.
Spectacle Every Day: The Many Seasons of Mexican Popular Cinema on MUBI. The companion book of essays.
The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales (El esquelito de la señora Morales) (Rogelio A. González, 1960).
Streetwalker (Trotacalles) (Matilde Landeta, 1951).
The Witch’s Mirror (El espejo de la bruja) (Chano Urueta, 1962).
Our episodes on Santo and the Treasure of Dracula and Santa Claus.
Against the Ropes (Contra las cuerdas).
An article about luchadoras.
La dama enmascarada.
“Transgressive femininity”.
Doctor of Doom (Las luchadoras contra el médico asesino) (René Cardona, 1963).
Our episodes on The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy, The Leech Woman, and Revenge of the Creature.
Chris talks about various Frankenstein films in a bonus episode of The Spouter-Inn.
Esther Williams in Million Dollar Mermaid.
Splash!
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The Hellcats play tug-of-war with Chris and Charlotte as they try to discuss women bikers, gay bikers, (sorta) helpful bikers, speed chess, and cheesecake.
[Content warning: There’s a mention of homophobic violence in a movie. We warn you when it’s coming, and we don’t go into graphic details. If you want to skip it, use the chapter markers or skip ahead to 28:20 when we mention it.]
SHOW NOTES.
The Hellcats: MST3K Wiki. IMDb. Trailer.
Our episodes on the other biker movies: The Sidehackers. Wild Rebels.
Jeeter (not a sponsor).
Kief.
The Traveling Wilburys: Tweeter and the Monkey Man.
Our episode on Catalina Caper.
She Devils on Wheels.
The Mini-Skirt Mob.
Bury Me an Angel. (Additional content warning: incest.)
The Black Angels.
Werewolves on Wheels.
The Pink Angels.
Chris and Charlotte and friends report on seeing Barbie.
Then Came Bronson.
Change of Habit.
Bigfoot.
No Substitute for Victory.
The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant.
The Thing with Two Heads.
International Sign Language.
Davy Jones and the Dolphins: Hellcats.
David John and the Comstock Cowboys.
Mae West: Way Out West.
Dice chess.
Our episodes on The Crawling Hand and Rocketship X-M.
A taxonomy of clip shows.
Keychain photo viewers.
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Chris and Charlotte went to Blobfest and MST3Kon! And so now they’re going to tell you all about meeting Joel, meeting Jonah, meeting Emily, meeting the Blob, and meeting oppressive amounts of humidity.
SHOW NOTES.
MST3Kon.
The Blob (1958) and The Blob (1988).
The Colonial Theatre.
We met Joel and Jonah and Emily!
Our episodes on The Wild Wild World of Batwoman, Santa Claus, Beyond Atlantis, and Demon Squad.
On AI and the SAG-AFTRA strike.
More on AI and the SAG-AFTRA strike.
Danny Gonzalez on Ratatoing.
We didn’t mention it, but the other big announcement from the event is that MST3K is now on TikTok, if that’s your thing.
And there’s a mailing list for MSTies who live near Philadelphia.
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Wild Rebels are crunchy and punchy, but Chris and Charlotte are in to talk about symbols that were popular in Germany in the late 30s/early 40s, Florida film scenes, sad boy singers, pretty boy bikers, and driving around Florida for kicks.
SHOW NOTES.
Wild Rebels: MST3K Wiki. IMDb. Trailer.
See you at MST3Kon!
Welcome, Waystar Corncob!
The critic Chris mentions is Peter Stanfield in his book Hoodlum Movies: Seriality and the Outlaw Biker Film Cycle, 1966-1972, which was useful reading for these episodes.
Wikipedia has pretty informative articles about the history of the swastika and using it for shock value, and about one-percenters.
An article on bikers and this kind of iconography, and another on why punks used it.
The Santa Claus scene.
She-Man.
The Naked Zoo.
A recent interview with director William Grefé.
Steve Alaimo: Every Day I Have To Cry.
The Wham! documentary.
Joan Didion on bike movies.
The Wild One.
The late Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising.
Why the Hell’s Angels Make Out with Fellow Male Bikers.
The Wild Angels.
Easy Rider.
Obligatory link to Todd in the Shadows on Toni Basil.
An interview with Channel J’s Tracey.
Genesis: Abacab.
The Birdwatchers: I’m Gonna Love You Anyway.
Shane Fenton & the Fentones: Cindy’s Birthday.
Alvin Stardust: My Coo Ca Choo.
The Spahn Ranch and its filmography.
New Christy Minstrels: Green, Green.
Up with People at the Superbowl.
Museo della Merda.
Scenic A1A.
The interactive map.
The Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse (is not our lighthouse).
The Cape Florida Light in Key Biscayne (is our lighthouse). An older photo.
Follow Chris on Bluesky.
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The Sidehackers (or is it The Side Hackers?) revs its engines real loud and makes it hard for Chris and Charlotte to talk about sexual violence, friendly bikers, unfriendly bikers, sidehacking, and Rommel’s book.
cw: This is a heavy episode, and we talk about sexual violence (including a discussion about the notorious scene that was edited out of the movie) as well as other histories of violence.
SHOW NOTES.
The Sidehackers: MST3K Wiki. IMDb.
MST3Kon is July 16, as part of Blobfest!
Our episode on Cave Dwellers.
The Hollister Riot.
Women at the Hollister Riot.
Other female bikers!
Frank Rooney: Cyclists’ Raid. [Subscription required to get it from the official source.]
The Wild One.
The Quebec Biker War.
A Timeline of the Hells Angels (as of 2013).
On bikers and other counterculture groups.
Veterans and bikers.
The Altamont Speedway Free Concert.
Then Came Bronson.
The Southern California Side Hack Association.
A 1972 article about sidehacking.
Why are sidecars called “hacks”?
Sidecar Racers Association (of Canada).
The Rommel thing in Europe.
Watch it on YouTube.
The New Life Sings The Sidehackers. [cw: At least one song title is, uh, problematic.]
The Mini-Skirt Mob.
A supercut of all the scenes you care about from a 1975 Ross Hagen film with a fun name.
Budd Friedman.
Smallpox vaccination scars.
Erwin Rommel: Infantry Attacks and Tank Attacks.
Patton.
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The Deadly Bees are swarming around Chris and Charlotte, distracting them as they try to talk about timelines, mysteries, nuisances, knees, and spices.
SHOW NOTES.
The Deadly Bees: MST3K Wiki. IMDb. Trailer.
We don’t mention it on the show, but we’ve got a limited edition Pride t-shirt featuring our network’s mascot, Curtis the Dinoplant, showing some colours. We first mentioned Curtis way back in episode 4 on Future War.
Our episode on The She-Creature.
And our episodes on The Projected Man and The Killer Shrews.
Blind Melon: No Rain.
We talk about Amicus in our episode on At The Earth’s Core.
And of course, our episode on Gamera vs. Jiger.
H.F. Heard: A Taste for Honey.
A website devoted to H.F. Heard.
H.F. Heard: The Five Ages of Man is now published as The Five Ages of Humanity, which, fair enough.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s novel.
Chris talks about Moby-Dick elsewhere…
Bees are coming!
Pacifica’s Fogfest.
Son of Dracula.
The Straight Story.
Paradise, Hawaiian Style.
Shaft in Africa.
Ronnie Wood on The Birds and The Byrds.
Hee Haw vs Gunsmoke.
Anthony Newley: Goldfinger.
Manfred Mann: The Mighty Quinn.
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band: Blinded by the Light.
Jewel: The National Anthem.
Lulu: Boom Bang a Bang.
Bees, in fact, have knees.
Isaac Watts: How doth the little busy bee…
Mae Murray.
The Buzzfeed quiz in question.
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The Killer Shrews are gnawing at Chris and Charlotte to talk about shrews, rats, dogs, cows, and college kids.
Also features the short, Junior Rodeo Daredevils!
SHOW NOTES
The Killer Shrews: MST3K Wiki. IMDb. Trailer
Junior Rodeo Daredevils: IMDb.
Kate DeMillo: The Tale of Despereaux.
Brian Jacques: Redwall.
A venemous shrew.
National Geographic presents Psycho Shrew vs. Scorpion.
Bonus BBC shrew fights.
The Green Berets.
Moonrunners.
LBJ and his dogs.
Frau Blucher.
The USS Merrimack.
Dharma Farms. Berkeley Farms. Bar None Ranches.
The Pacifica Historical Society newsletter with an article on the local rodeo.
Pacifica Fog Fest.
What to do during a hurricane.
Hurricanes Andrew, Gloria, and (I believe) Bob are the hurricanes Chris has been in.
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Robot Wars avoids war with any other robots by peacefully transporting Chris and Charlotte as they talk about Barbara Crampton, Lisa Rinna, Barb, Star, and a punching bag.
SHOW NOTES.
Robot Wars: MST3K Wiki. IMDb. Trailer.
The video from our live show, as well as video for all the live shows recorded that day, is now available!
Bonus bits cut from each episode for time are available for people who support us on Patreon.
Barbara Crampton on Barbara Crampton.
Re-animator. Castle Freak. Chopping Mall. Jakob’s Wife.
Our episode on Alien from L.A.
DMP vs. James Staley.
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man.
An Illinois Bell commercial from the late 70s.
The Lisa Rinna Rinnaissance.
Danny Kamekona and Yuji Okumoto, together again.
Pritchard is played by Sam Scarber, whose name we should have mentioned.
Passages from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.
Our episode on The Day Time Ended.
David Arkenstone: Music Inspired by Middle Earth [sic]. And a review.
Battlepug, and Battlepug: The Compugdium.
They Might Be Giants: Spider.
(Patreon supporters have access to the original Pie Palindrome Pie episode that we recorded as a technical test run before our first It’s Just A Show.)
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar.
Sing along with Chong and the Nomads, from Avatar: The Last Airbender.
The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional Usage.
Shout out to a legend, TV’s Spatch.
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Chris and Charlotte were live in Portland, Oregon, to look at two recently riffed shorts on a topic that is dear to all Portlanders’ hearts: bicycle safety! The Bicycle Driver and Bicycling Visual Skills both want to teach us about how to share the road with cars safely. [And yes, Chris gets the name of one of the shorts wrong the first time.]
SHOW NOTES.
Bicycling Visual Skills: Not on IMDb?! Not yet on the MST3K Wiki, even, though it should end up here. But, update: It’s from 1983!
The Bicycle Driver: Also not on IMDb?! MST3K Wiki. UnMSTed.
Passages Bookshop was a gracious host, and is well worth a visit if you’re in Portland.
A/V Geeks have lots of educational shorts to enjoy.
A/V Geeks’ upcoming event in Portland, in tribute to the late great Dennis Nyback of the Clinton Street Theatre.
Janelle Showalter?
P.J. O’Rourke’s notorious essay on bicycling.
A guide to Portland’s green zones.
Toronto cycling map vs. Portland cycling map.
Kintsugi.
Florence Lawrence.
The Good Roads Movement and the League of American Wheelmen.
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The Projected Man beams itself into Chris and Charlotte’s life, and so they talk about 4D Man, Lee Meriwether, Ralph Carmichael, Bert from Sesame Street, and Andrei Tarkovsky.
SHOW NOTES.
The Projected Man: MST3K Wiki. IMDb. Trailer.
RIP, Mark Russell.
We talked more about Mark Russell in our episode on Gamera vs. Guiron.
Our live event will be on Saturday, April 22nd! Join us.
Our fine range of t-shirts.
Island of Terror.
4D Man.
Ralph Carmichael: 4D Man main theme.
An overview of Ralph Carmichael’s work with Nat King Cole.
The Blob.
My Mother The Car.
Ralph Carmichael’s religious music.
A documentary about The Falklands Play.
Our episode on Cosmic Princess.
That photo of Tori Amos.
Petula Clark: Downtown. [UPDATE: Which is from 1964, not 1963. Sorry, Petulaheads!]
Plastic Ono Band: Give Peace a Chance. [Keep an eye out for the woman with the beauty mark at 4:30]
Calvin Trillin, Deadline Poet. [Musk Takes Over Twitter.]
Calvin Trillin: Messages from My Father.
Lionel Trilling: The Liberal Imagination.
Rose Mary Woods.
How Eyebrows Became Everything.
Eyebrow through history.
Vogue on eyebrows.
Korean Straight Eyebrows.
100 Years of Brows.
Stalker.
Janus Films.
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Humanoid Woman plays a curious tone and compels Chris and Charlotte to discuss Humanoid Woman, Through the Thorns to the Stars, Per Aspera Ad Astra, To The Stars by Hard Ways, and Через тернии к звёздам.
SHOW NOTES.
Humanoid Woman: MST3K Wiki. IMDb.
Come see us live in Portland!
Our episode on Robot Monster.
[UPDATE: Looks like they were peeking at the movie beforehand at this point, but probably not watching it all the way through.]
Some Russian sources: A thirtieth anniversary article. A fashion-forward look back. An official site [if it looks weird, try it in Chrome].
A comparison of some of the edits.
The full movie, unMSTed, uploaded [I believe] by the copyright holders. Watch this one, is my advice.
A channel hosting a few versions of the 2001 edit with new effects [but possibly with the original sountrack and actors’ voices?].
An interview with Vladimir Federov.
Ruslan and Ludmilla.
Vadim Ledogorov in New Zealand.
The Man Who Fell to Earth.
Kir Bulychev.
Gumby: Rain Spirits.
Katsina dolls.
The Cat from Outer Space.
Jay Levy: Heiveinu Shalom Aleichem.
All You Need Is Cash.
The Rutles: Cheese and Onions.
Hūsker Dū for sale.
The New Zoo Revue: School.
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Space Mutiny throws Chris Hardcheese and Charlotte Manmuscle over a railing while they talk about Battlestar Galactica, Captain America, Jane Fonda, Annie Sprinkle, and body positivity.
SHOW NOTES.
Space Mutiny: MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Trailer.
Season 13 on Pluto! (But not in Canada, it seems.)
And the announcement for Season 13 on Pluto.
The nicknames for Dave “Blast Thickneck” Ryder.
David Winters’ obituary.
Our episodes on Kitten with a Whip and Starcrash.
The Last Horror Film.
Thrashin’.
The Bad Movie Bible on Space Mutiny. There are even more great details in this video we didn’t include in the episode.
Sledgehammer.
Captain America.
Yor, The Hunter from the Future.
Uncommon Valor.
Barbarella.
Skidoo.
Polyphonic on the Yamaha DX7.
“Ancient Chinese secret”? Calgon, take me away!
Annie Sprinkle.
Wikipedia.
Chambers’ Cyclopædia on chess.
Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie on chess (échecs).
Jane Fonda’s Workout (1982).
An article from Vogue about Jane Fonda’s Workout.
Jazzercise and aerobics.
Jane Fonda is still at it!
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Mr. B Natural pops into Chris and Charlotte’s bedrooms to talk with them about musical education, predicting the future, kids learning science, many years of solitude, and guacamole errors.
Also featuring the feature, War of the Colossal Beast.
SHOW NOTES.
War of the Colossal Beast: MST3K Wiki. IMDB.
Mr. B Natural: IMDB. UnMSTed.
Our episode on Manos.
That Bones episode.
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.
And its glorious poster.
Sarah Jeffery’s YouTube channel about recorders.
Some of Criswell’s predictions (spoilers!).
Criswell’s 1970 album.
Criswell with Jack Paar and with Johnny Carson.
Edwin Lee Canfield: Fact, Fictions, and the Forbidden Predictions of the Amazing Criswell.
Buzz on Watch Mr. Wizard.
Christian on Mr. Wizard’s World.
Obituaries for Buzz Podewell and Lester Podewell.
Our episode on It Conquered the World.
The Cyclops.
Chimichanga vs. Chonga.
Honey West.
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The Amazing Colossal Man towers over Chris and Charlotte, as they pepper him with facts about big birthdays, tall tales, huge attractions, hearty meals, and profound mathematics.
SHOW NOTES.
The Amazing Colossal Man: IMDb. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
The Incredible Shrinking Man.
Our episodes on Village of the Giants and This Island Earth.
Homer Eon Flint’s The Nth Man was published the Spring 1928 issue of Amazing Stories Quarterly.
Images from The Nth Man: one, two, three.
The casinos in this film: Dunes (with the sultan). Riviera. Royal Nevada (with the crown). Silver Slipper (with the shoe). Tropicana. Sands. Pioneer Club (with Vegas Vic).
The Far Eastern Republic.
Anna and the King.
Midnight Oil: Beds are Burning.
And the One-Hit Wonderland about Beds are Burning.
Annie and politics.
House Peters Jr.
Understanding Diner Lingo.
Chris and Charlotte have a bit of history with Adam and Eve on a Raft…
J.B.S. Haldane: On Being the Right Size.
Kurzgesagt’s videos on the The Size of Life: one, two, three.
The square-cube law.
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Invasion of the Neptune Men finds Chris and Charlotte talking about Prince of Space, traditional Japanese theatre, Braille, pickles, and crackers.
SHOW NOTES.
Invasion of the Neptune Men: IMDb. MST3K Wiki. Watch at the Gizmoplex!
Pick up a copy of The Mads’ A Night of Shorts X if you missed it.
Our episodes on Prince of Space and Agent for H.A.R.M. (with the Bobo courtroom sketch).
Some videos to introduce you to noh and kabuki. (The noh video also does the Abbott and Costello joke, but doesn’t stretch it out as long.)
Sing, Dance, Act: Kabuki featuring Toma Ikuta.
The performance of Harogomo that Chris watched.
And the kabuki highlights that Chris mentions.
Also check out A History of Japanese Theatre, an excellent overview.
Prokofiev: Dance of the Knights.
The Battle on the Ice from Alexander Nevsky.
Rachel Carson: Silent Spring.
Our episode on The Deadly Mantis.
The history of Braille.
How to read or write Braille.
Accessible Canadian money.
A video featuring some Braille writing/typing tools, new and old, and another video on the device Charlotte was describing.
Chris learned pickling from Linda Ziedrich: The Joy of Pickling.
Australian In A Biskit.
More Australian In A Biskit.
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Happy Gamuary! This time, it’s Gamera vs. Jiger in the battle to win the hearts of Chris and Charlotte, as they think about parasites, pregnancies, world’s fairs, accents, and choosing your own adventures!
Show Notes.
Gamera vs. Jiger: IMDb. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
We talked about Katamari Damacy in our episode on the first few Season 13 shorts.
Our episode on the best Gamera episode, Season 3’s Gamera vs. Guiron.
Expo 86.
Bureau Internationale des Expositions.
The Great Exhibition of 1851 (Chris said the name wrong, whoops).
Palace of Fine Arts and Treasure Island in San Francisco.
The Space Needle.
National Cash Register Building.
Game Show 1939!
An article about Expo 70, the official Expo 70 site, and an informative lecture.
Stockhausen and Beethoven in the German pavilion.
Yes, turns out Gamera was at Expo 70.
Expo 2025!
Kon Omura in 赤い霊柩車 (Red Dead Wagon, or Red Hearse; he’s in the opening scenes).
And in the kids show 頓馬天狗 (Tonma Tengu).
Edo Porn (Hokusai Manga).
Starland Vocal Band: Afternoon Delight.
The Starland Vocal Band Show.
Our episodes on Beyond Atlantis and Hercules and the Captive Women.
The relevant entry from the diary of Samuel Pepys (the chant is in French).
Donald Sutherland’s (not that one) translation of Aristophanes’s Lysistrata gives the Spartans Southern accents.
An article on translating accents in literature.
Richard Burton’s (not that one) translation of The Arabian Nights.
The official Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book website.
Some CYOA books: Return to Atlantis. The Cave of Time (with the sand-turned-to-glass scene Charlotte describes). The Lost Jewels of Nabooti. Inside UFO 54-40.
On the gimmick of Inside UFO 54-40.
Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography.
Ryan North: To Be or Not to Be.
“Don’t fake the funk on a nasty dunk.”
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The Magic Voyage of Sinbad finds not the Bird of Happiness but the Chris and Charlotte of Chatting, as they discuss Sinbad, Sadko, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakoff, novelty chess, and instant coffee.
SHOW NOTES.
The Magic Voyage of Sinbad: IMDb. MST3K Wiki.
Megaphonic’s twitch channel. Maybe keep an eye out on New Year’s Day, starting around noon eastern?
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Our episode on The Day the Earth Froze.
Были́на.
A translation of the Sadko story.
The gusli. Accept no substitutes.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko, the tone poem, and Sadko, the opera.
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad.
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad.
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger.
Our episodes on Starcrash and Angels Revenge.
Kitty Kelley: His Way.
Liz Smith on meeting Sinatra.
Earl Wilson: Sinatra: The Unauthorized Biography.
Judith Exner: My Story.
Super Mario Chess.
In retrospect, Chris was probably looking at the wrong set. Shrug.
All about instant coffee.
James Hoffmann on caffeine quantities.
The LA Times on the Tasters Choice ads.
Watch some of the ads!
We mention Anthony and Murray in our episode on Terror from the Year 5000.
Beyond Black, Take Back The Night, and the Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Resource Center all do good work, mostly near Charlotte, which you can support—but consider looking at what’s going on near you!
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City Limits drives circles around Chris and Charlotte as they talk about Kim Cattrall, James Earl Jones, Rae Dawn Chong, Robbie Benson, and Morrissey.
SHOW NOTES.
City Limits: IMDb. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
Fiasco Family Movie Night.
Our patreon has some new features!
The Greatest Story Ever Told. (And yes, Charlotte did join us!)
Kim Cattrall and Pierre Trudeau.
Mannequin.
Big Trouble in Little China.
Today’s Special.
This is CNN.
Beastmaster or Conan the Barbarian?
Commando.
John Stockwell and Andy Warhol.
John Stockwell and Bianca Jagger (taken by Andy Warhol).
Breast Men.
Beauty and the Beast.
Gaston’s song.
Grim Fandango.
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.
The Smiths: Shiela Take a Bow.
Austin City Limits.
Khruangbin on Austin City Limits.
Guns by state.
Our episode on Pod People.
Gerry Rafferty: Baker’s Street.
Hūsker Dū.
Paul Revere and the Raiders: Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian).
Billy Preston: Nothing from Nothing.
Roger Ramjet and his PEP Pills.
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Happy Turkey Day! Chris and Charlotte are having dinner with a Devil Doll, and they’re having awkward conversation about creepy dolls, rowdy dorms, endless puppets, ice cream, and Magic: The Gathering.
[cw: The movie has scenes of sexual assault. We discuss that fact, but outside of the plot summary, we don’t go into detail.]
SHOW NOTES.
Devil Doll: IMDb. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
Watch the Surgically Enchanced Turkey Day at the Gizmoplex for free! Oh, you already are?
Cat-Women of the Moon on Rifftrax.
The Carol Burnett Show: The Rehearsal.
Fiasco Family Movie Night.
Our episode on Girls Town.
The ode to pants is from Hercules Against the Moon Men.
Our episode on The Undead.
Charlotte’s doll. And a close up.
Frozen Charlotte.
That episode of Lore.
An article about the Island of Dolls.
The website for the Island of Dolls.
Our episode on Riding with Death.
Paul Winchell with Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff.
Topo Gigio on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy.
Peggy Lee: Is That All There Is?
John Parish and Polly Jean Harvey: Is That All There Is?
The Gilroy Garlic Festival.
Salt & Straw.
Polly Ann Ice Cream.
Murphy’s Ice Cream in Ireland.
Magic: The Gathering.
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Swamp Diamonds drags Chris and Charlotte into the bayou to ask them about Mike “Touch” Connors, Beverly Garland, Fred Mertz, tuna wiggle, and racist fire drills.
With the short: What to Do on a Date.
SHOW NOTES.
Swamp Diamonds: IMDb. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
What to Do on a Date: IMDb. UnMSTed.
Watch the Turkey Day marathon!
Our episodes on The Starfighters, Warrior of the Lost World, and Catalina Caper. Oh, and The Horror of Party Beach.
And our episodes on Santo and the Treasure of Dracula, Beyond Atlantis, and Sleep for Health.
Is Henry Kissinger Dead Yet?
More on Touch’s name.
The Day the World Ended.
MST3K: The Home Game was actually played twice, with different riffs: 4pm and 11pm.
[Slight erratum: The first Turkey Day Marathon actually happened at the beginning of Season 3.]
Turkey Day ’91 hymn. [By the way: The original hymn, sung by Perry Como.]
Turkey Day ’94 bumper introducing Swamp Diamonds.
Cat-Women of the Moon.
The Fast and the Furious.
Little Shop of Horrors.
David Stern on IMDb.
Francis [the Talking Mule].
The Musée Camille Claudel in Paris.
Which twin had the Toni?
So You Want a Model Railroad with Jane Frazee and George O’Hanlon (as Joe McDoakes).
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City.
The 519 in Toronto.
And a site that lists LGBT+ community centres in various places.
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Happy Halloween! The Horror of Party Beach emerges from the beach to interrupt Chris and Charlotte as they discuss beach parties, Broadway shows, ballads, body hair, and BOO!
[Did we scare you?]
SHOW NOTES.
The Horror of Party Beach: IMDb. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. UnMSTed.
Adam talks about The Mask on A Part Of Our Scare-itage. Check it out!
The poster for The Horror of Party Beach.
Our episodes on Catalina Caper and Village of the Giants.
Trailer for I Drink Your Blood/I Eat Your Skin. [Kinda gross, be warned!]
The Del-Aires: Zombie Stomp [or stream it].
Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music.
Zeitkratzer: Metal Machine Music.
Waiting for Godot with Robin Williams and Steve Martin.
The Anthology of American Folk Music [including Harry Smith’s amazing liner notes].
More about Harry Smith.
Buell Kazee: The Wagoner’s Lad.
Joen Baez: The Wagoner’s Lad.
The Kossoy Sisters: The Wagoner’s Lad.
Some of the origins of the concept of “folk music”.
Nair for short shorts.
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Happy (you guessed it) Donald Pleasence Day! Oh no, the dastardly Prince of Space has invaded, hoping to steal our precious reserves of Donald Pleasence! Luckily his weapons are useless against Chris and Charlotte, who instead talk about wormholes, stargates, portals, haiku, and Lutherans.
SHOW NOTES.
Prince of Space: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. UnMSTed.
Donkeylips and Zeke the Plumber, remembered.
Happy Donald Pleasence Day! Our Donald Pleasence Day episodes.
Catch Chris and other Megaphonians streaming most Friday nights at twitch.tv/MegaphonicFM
Our episodes on the Coleman Francis movies.
The results of that poll.
Wormholes.
A little bit about haiku.
Steve McCaffery: The Basho Variations.
Gary Barwin and Derek Bealieu: Frogments from the Frag Pool: Haiku after Basho.
R.H. Blyth: Haiku.
Ezra Pound: In a Station of the Metro.
Haiku generator.
Dennis Franz looks back.
Fabian: Tiger.
Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs also stars Vincent Price. We should have mentioned that.
Junior Samples samples from Hee-Haw.
Hardrock, Coco, and Joe: The Three Little Dwarfs.
Phyllis Diller.
Some Wario (and Waluigi) history.
Modernist Lutheran churches and Hallgrímskirkja.
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Chris and Charlotte enjoy the first few shorts from Season 13’s Short of the Month Club! Up on deck: Pipeline to the Clouds (in which GE will solve our water supply issues); Let’s Make a Meal in 20 Minutes (thank heavens for canned food); Court Case (balls! tennis balls!); and Sleep for Health (good luck with that).
SHOW NOTES.
Pipeline to the Clouds: IMDb. MST3K Wiki. UnMSTed.
Let’s Make a Meal in 20 Minutes: IMDb. MST3K Wiki.
Court Case: MST3K Wiki. UnMSTed.
Sleep for Health: IMDb. MST3K Wiki. UnMSTed.
Salute Your Shorts.
A playlist of shorts riffed by The Mads.
More Power to America, the comic book.
John Oliver recent episode on water issues is an interesting comparison.
Our episode on Progress Island, U.S.A.
We talked about C&H sugar in our last episode, but it was cut and put into the bonus bit.
Let’s Make a Sandwich.
Some Alaska Airlines ads from the 80s.
Our episode on Cheating.
Sesame Street: Making Crayons.
We talked about the Battle of the Sexes in our episode on Teen-Age Crime Wave.
Katamari Damacy.
The It’s Just A Show T-Shirt.
We stream games and such most Fridays on Twitch. Join us!
Support us on Patreon to hear all the bonus bits and such.
Happy Labour Day! That famous dodecalabourer, Hercules, asks Chris and Charlotte to talk about mythmashes, golden fleece, Hercules failing to perform, old ads, and patooties.
SHOW NOTES.
Hercules: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch it on YouTube.
Our other Hercules episodes: Hercules Against the Moon Men. Hercules Unchained. The Loves of Hercules. Hercules and the Captive Women.
Hercules with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
The Labours of Hercules and the Argonauts.
Medea.
Apollonius of Rhodes: Argonautica.
Oscar Meyer ads and the story behind the theme.
Dodge Ram ads.
Jenny Craig.
SuperAmerica.
Milkbone.
Pace Picante ads. New Jersey?
Bearwiches.
Dave Clark Five: I Like It Like That. (But Chris Kenner had a hit with it first.)
Taste it all.
Hercules in the Haunted World.
Omen III: The Final Conflict.
Jim Dine.
Joan Embery on the Tonight Show.
Dennis Day: An Irishman Will Steal Your Heart Away.
Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds: Don’t Pull Your Love Out and Fallin’ in Love.
All about hotdish.
Watch The Match Game on YouTube.
The Real Match Game Story: Behind the Blank.
A particular episode of Match Game 75.
Elvis Presley: Kentucky Rain.
Eddie Rabbit: I Love a Rainy Night and Two Dollars in the Jukebox.
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Ring of Terror dares Chris and Charlotte to gather at the morgue and discuss bad prints, old actors, irrational fears, medical school, and invisible creeps.
Featuring the short: The Phantom Creeps, episode 3!
cw: Discussions of animal harm, fat shaming, and sexual assault.
Show Notes.
Ring of Terror: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
Our episode on The Pumaman.
George Mather obituary.
Norman Ollestad: Inside the FBI.
Chris forgot to mention that Pamela Raymond played Alice Lund.
June Smaney.
Tiger sharks. No, wait: Leopard sharks! That’s what Charlotte was talking about.
Our episode on The Time Travelers.
A poem by Henry Gibson.
Betty White’s The Pet Set.
A review of Karen Findlay’s yams.
The Hollies: Bus Stop.
Louis Sullivan.
Our episode on Riding with Death.
The history of Betty Crocker.
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San Francisco International pats down Chris and Charlotte to see if they’re holding any information on Pernell Roberts, Lorne Green, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, or the Ponderosa Ranch.
SHOW NOTES.
San Francisco International: IMDB. MST3K wiki.
MST3K’s Gamera vs. Jiger trailer.
Chris talked about Airport in our episode on Avalanche.
Pernell Roberts.
Radar was played by Gary Burghoff.
Pernell in Montgomery, Alabama.
Gentle Ben’s opening credits.
The Mighty Casey.
Our episode on Master Ninja II.
Remembering Clu Gulager.
Van Johnson as The Minstrel.
Our episode on Girl in Gold Boots.
Tab Hunter Confidential.
Did You Hear the One about the Traveling Saleslady?
The Feminist and the Fuzz.
Our episode on Rocketship X-M.
Dr. Seuss: The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins.
“My doctor said Mylanta.”
We discuss Joe Orton more in our episode on Parts: The Clonus Horror.
“I ate all the Frusen Glädjé.”
Fred Garvin…
Pablo Casals: Bach Cello Suites.
The Ponderosa Ranch.
Get your own Ponderosa Ranch tin cup.
Susan Raye: L.A. International Airport.
Some of Chris’s postcards of airports.
Denver’s baggage handling system.
They Fight Crime!
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Demon Squad applies some prosthetics to Chris and Charlotte’s faces as they talk about film noir, fancy hats, Hummel figurines, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Mobile, Alabama.
SHOW NOTES.
Demon Squad: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
The Demon Squad folk had an “ask me anything” thread on the MST3K forums (which clarifies a few things we wonder about in this episode).
Demon Squad’s poster is… not entirely based on the movie.
Constantine.
The Frankendemon’s head has also appeared in Star Raiders.
The Maltese Falcon.
Other films by the makers of Demon Squad.
Walter “Zaney” Blaney.
Zaney Blaney on the Tonight Show.
Trilby vs. Fedora.
Selena Gomez and the Scene: Hit the Lights.
The exorcism rite is on page 486 of this pdf of the Rituale Romanum of 1614.
Hummel figurines.
Our episode on Master Ninja II.
A freeze frame of the brochure.
And one of Nick Moon’s office.
The Crichton Leprechaun.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. offers Chris and Charlotte a comfy cardigan to keep them warm as they discuss spies, panties, Prince, palindromes, and pies.
SHOW NOTES.
Agent for H.A.R.M.: IMDB. MST3K Wiki.
The Polka King.
If you support us on Patreon with us and chat during the premiere of Demon Squad!
Our episodes on Operation Double 007 and Danger!! Death Ray.
In Like Flynt.
Our episodes on Girl in Gold Boots and Catalina Caper.
The Fiasco Family on The Astro-Zombies.
Our episode on Moon Zero Two.
Megaphonic podcast This Is Your Mixtape, which has featured Adam, Beth, and Chris.
E.E. Cummings.
Our episodes on Angels Revenge and Eegah!
The relevant scene from Anatomy of a Murder.
Harry Caray.
Jan and Dean: Dead Man’s Curve.
Our episode on Jack Frost.
Prince and friends: While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
Prince’s Superbowl halftime show.
An oral history of the Superbowl show, and another one.
Ed’s Redeeming Qualities: Bob.
Chris talks about James Joyce’s Ulysses over on The Spouter-Inn.
Nick Montfort and William Gillespie: 2002: A Palindrome Story.
Georges Perec’s palindrome in French.
Demitri Martin’s palindrome.
‘Weird Al’ Yankovic: Bob.
They Might Be Giants: I Palindrome I.
Black bottom pie.
Shoofly pie.
Chestnut and mushroom pie.
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Attack of the the Eye Creatures just doesn’t care as Chris and Charlotte as they discuss Larry Buchanan, Tommy Kirk, Ethan Allan, Lucille Ball, and Lawrence Welk.
SHOW NOTES.
Attack of the the Eye Creatures: IMDB. MST3K Wiki.
A very special movie trailer. [The movie it’s for.]
Munchie [MST3K trailer].
Larry Buchanan: It Came From Hunger!: Tales of a Cinema Schlockmeister.
Café des Artistes is now The Leopard at des Artistes. [NSFW.]
What Buchanan refers to as Homer Goes Hygienic seems to actually be called Personal Hygiene No. 1, but we still can’t find it online.
Apache Gold/Grubstake.
Zontar, the Thing from Venus.
Mars Needs Women [trailer].
It’s Alive!
Our episodes on It Conquered the World and Overdrawn at the Memory Bank.
Take Off.
Susan Faludi: Backlash.
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff [trailer].
Jo Ann Castle: Maid in France.
Our episode on Robot Monster.
Bobby Burgess and Cissy King: The English Quickstep.
Joe Feeney: Too Ra Loo Ra.
Arthur Duncan: I Got Rhythm.
Arthur Duncan on an earlier show.
Richard Rolle.
The first one?
Duckroll.
The Oregon Legislature goes bipartisan.
Charlie Chaplin Film Music Anthology.
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Beyond Atlantis welcomes a new host — or two? In addition to greeting Emily on the Simulator of Love, it listens in while Chris and new cohost Charlotte discuss the Philippines, Atlantis, Donovan, Middle-Earth, and Alison Bechdel.
SHOW NOTES.
Beyond Atlantis: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
Our episodes on Manos and Alien from L.A.
The Mads will soon be riffing Cosmos: War of the Planets. Be there!
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
An overview of the history of Philippine cinema.
(And an overview of the Nigerian film industry.)
Bumbo.
Bombas (and romance novels) in the Philippines.
Terror Is a Man.
Our friends The Fiasco Family covered Terror Is a Man as part of last year’s Hubrisween!
The Twilight People.
Daniel Padilla and Kathryn Bernardo in Crazy Beautiful You.
Plato: Timeaus and Critias.
Crantor!
Ignatius Donnelly: Atlantis: The Antediluvian World.
Donovan: Atlantis.
Crete, where the Minoan civilization flourished, still stands.
Someday we will hear from our friends at By-The-Bywater about Númenor and Atlantis.
It’s a Bikini World.
Our episodes on Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II, Robot Monster, and The Million Eyes of Sumuru.
The French Atlantic Affair.
Alison Bechdel: Dykes to Watch Out For.
The comic that inspired the Bechdel-Wallace Test.
A Bechdel Test database.
The Sexy Lamp Test.
The Mako Mori Test.
The Vito Russo Test.
The DuVernay Test.
The Aila Test.
The Bechdel Cast.
The Baldest Woman in Charge.
The Furiosa Test.
Our Final Factoid, about creepy 70s massages, had to be cut for time, but it is available to people who support us on Patreon! (Thanks!)
A new season of MST3K emerges, offering Santo in the Treasure of Dracula, which asks Beth and Chris if it may enter to talk with them about lurid colours, luchadors, vampires, cognac, and cemeteries.
(Obviously this episode is based on the preview version for Kickstarter supporters, and the final version will come out in a few days. Obviously, this contains spoilers if you haven’t seen the episode yet! If you’re on the fence about paying to watch Season 13, all we can say is that we’ve been enjoying it so far!)
SHOW NOTES.
Santo in the Treasure of Dracula: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer [eh, sort of].
The Gizmoplex opens to the public on May 6!
Look, we recorded this episode a while ago, so yes, we can confirm that 1303 does have Emily as the host.
Those who support us on Patreon can chat with us during MST3K (and The Mads) debuts!
White Dot.
Our episode on Riding with Death.
Are we going to link to a 1997-style webpage called Santo and Friends to offer you more info about him? Sure!
Santo contra los Zombies [trailer].
Bram Stoker: Dracula.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula [trailer].
Our episodes on The Wild Wild World of Batwoman and Santa Claus.
Slate on cognac.
Our time travel cluster began with our episode on The Day Time Ended.
Irwin Allen’s The Time Tunnel (it’s not quite a swirl).
The cats of Père Lachaise and Reykjavík.
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Riding With Death has Chris and Beth trapped in the back of a tractor trailer, as they talk about white dots, invisible men, unexpected charisma, tasty knishes, and flying dreams. (Also there’s some important news about the show!)
SHOW NOTES.
Riding With Death: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
The Gizmoplex has softly launched!
White Dot.
Our big episode on Manos.
Our episode on Jack Frost.
Baking soda or vinegar.
H.G. Wells: The Invisible Man.
The Invisible Man (1933) [trailer].
H.G. Wells: Apropos of Dolores. The Time Machine. The Island of Doctor Moreau.
Our episode on Village of the Giants.
Gemini Man and The Invisible Man.
Jim Stafford: Swamp Witch. Spiders and Snakes. Cow Patti. A Hunting Man.
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Riding With Death.
Alan Oppenheimer.
Our episodes on Night of the Blood Beast and The Painted Hills.
Deuterium.
A knish guide.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
Kelly Flinn.
This American Life on Superpowers.
It’s hard to find a clean copy of the theme song, but you can here it at the beginning of this video.
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Gamuary continues as Adam and Chris watch the best Gamera episode, season 3’s take on Gamera vs. Guiron! They get to talk about the Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, The Wooster Group, Mark Russell, and Michael Feinstein.
SHOW NOTES.
Gamera vs. Guiron: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
Adam was trying to recall reading Samaris twenty years ago, and may have gotten some details wrong.
Adam’s other podcast, A Part Of Our Scare-itage.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? [trailer].
Chris talked about Boys in the Band on another podcast.
1984 [trailer].
Cleopatra [trailer].
Exorcist II: The Heretic [trailer].
The Exorcist II has a small role for Dana Plato, who is best known for being one of the Diff’rent Strokes kids, but was in an episode of The Facts of Life, because those shows are in the same universe.
Our episode on Rocketship X-M.
Arnold’s Gourmet Kitchen presents: Woks.
John Lennon: Rock ‘N’ Roll.
The Wooster Group.
That Geraldo episode.
That scene from UHF.
Death Wish IV: The Crackdown [trailer].
Mark Russell’s final show.
A 2021 concert from Michael Feinstein.
The General Cinemas trailer we referenced in our episode on Teenagers from Outer Space.
BONUS.
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Gamera vs. Guiron: The match you’ve all been waiting for! But wait! What’s this? We’re being told that this is just a warm-up for the match you’ve all been waiting for! While we wait, Adam and Chris will provide colour commentary about business casual racism, Space Gaos, weird dubs, Gamera fanfic, and memorable movie trailers.
SHOW NOTES.
Gamera vs. Guiron: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
Adam was so close.
Just keep track of the Mads on twitter, OK? You’ll be glad you did.
More Kickstarter updates.
The Beatles: Rocky Raccoon (Anthology 3 Version).
Our episode on The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?
2015 Gamera proof-of-concept trailer.
Archive Of Our Own and FanFiction.net.
Some relevant clips from Comedy Bang! Bang!
AI Dungeon.
Fuzzy Wuzzy Circus Bath Soap.
Oh hey, let’s just link to an old Straight Dope about speed reading.
And let Snopes talk about the Allan Funt story.
Last House on the Left trailer.
The Crying Game trailer.
A notable review of The Crying Game.
Update: It was Stephen Rea in The Crying Game. And it was Jaye Davidson in Stargate. Whoops.
We discuss The Tingler [trailer] in our episode on Terror from the Year 5000.
Mr. Sardonicus trailer.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
I Drink Your Blood & I Eat Your Skin double trailer.
Nightmare On Elm Street trailer.
Re-Animator trailer.
The Howling trailer.
This blogpost about William Castle features the picture with Alfred Hitchcock.
Homicidal trailer.
King Features Entertainment.
BONUS.
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Jack Frost chills Chris and Adam to the holiday bone, and they try to keep warm by discussing Russian folk tales, a pumpkin Christmas tale, evil stepmothers, scary old women, and Yakov Smirnoff’s love advice.
SHOW NOTES.
Jack Frost: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
As always, The Mads. You can now buy some of their episodes on their own.
Update: Rifftrax released another riff of Jack Frost right after we recorded this.
Andrew Lang’s translation of The Story of King Frost.
Drew Gooden on recent Christmas movies.
TV Tropes on the Wicked Stepmother trope.
God Told Me To.
Wicked Stepmother.
This Be Kind Rewind video includes context for Bette Davis in horror films.
TV Tropes on Baba Yaga.
A translation of Vasilisa the Beautiful.
Our episode on Parts: The Clonus Horror.
Holly Hobbie looking like Nastenka.
LongPlay of Fairy Tale about Father Frost, Ivan, and Nastya.
A somewhat recent interview with Yakov Smirnoff.
BONUS.
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Ator, The Fighting Eagle absolutely refuses to admit to the existence of prehistoric hang-gliders, leaving Adam and Chris with nothing to talk about except Cave Dwellers, Joe D’Amato, prurient films, Rodney Dangerfield, and D&D.
[cw: This one got weirdly blue, and also there’s some brief mentions of potentially upsetting interactions between adults and children. Just FYI.]
SHOW NOTES.
Ator, The Fighting Eagle: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch on Netflix.
Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland.
Ant-Man.
An overview of the Season 13 films.
Our episode on The Million Eyes of Sumuru.
Dr. Mordrid.
Charles Band’s son’s song.
Our discussion of The Batwoman.
H.G. Wells’ The Shape of Things to Come.
Munchie.
We talk about Gamera vs. Jiger in our episode on the KTMA Gamera vs. Zigra.
Adam talks about The Mask on his other podcast.
Santo in The Treasure of Dracula.
Our episode on Cave Dwellers.
The Legend of Zelda timeline.
Joe D’Amato.
Joe D’Amato interview. [NSFW!]
A picture of Joe.
Anthropophagous trailer [gross, NSFW]
Stage Fright.
Warrior Queen.
Best Worst Movie.
Terminator II [a.k.a. Shocking Dark]
Simone Pirone: Runn.
Our episode on Warrior of the Lost World.
Whatever happened to the “Don’t Tase Me Bro” guy?
Skull and Bones.
Grant Bociocco’s Instagram.
Ladybugs.
Rover Dangerfield.
My 5 Wives.
BONUS.
Support us on Patreon and you can hang out with us in a little Slack and you can listen to a bonus bit about the guy who plays Griba.
Happy Turkey Day! Cave Dwellers hang-glides right into Adam and Chris’s hearts, as they talk about early MST3K experiences, vast tracts of Keeffe, Alan Hale Jr (for some reason), Danny Elfman (again!), and Dave Foley.
SHOW NOTES.
Cave Dwellers: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch on ShoutFactoryTV!
Where to watch Turkey Day 2021.
The Mads will riff Manos.
Our mega-episode on Manos.
Mary Jo Pehl’s Twitch channel.
Our previous episode, on The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy.
And our recent episodes on The Touch of Satan and Teen-Age Crime Wave, the one we actually called “Pinteresque”.
An interview with Miles O’Keeffe from the year before this episode was released.
Tarzan The Ape Man (1981).
The poster for Tarzan The Ape Man.
Waxwork.
Iron Warrior.
Quest for the Mighty Sword.
Surviving Gilligan’s Island.
Clawed: The Legend of Sasquatch.
Charles Durning in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
Danny Elfman: Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure Soundtrack.
The Alan Parsons Project: The Eye in the Sky and Sirius.
Our very first episode, on Rocketship X-M.
Chuck Woolery, these days.
Grateful Dead: Sugar Magnolia.
Our episode on Master Ninja I.
Taur the Mighty. (Credits are from around the 9 minute mark.)
Troll 2.
Mike Douglas: The Men in My Little Girl’s Life.
John and Yoko on The Mike Douglas Show.
Devo: I Desire.
Rolling Stone on the royalty situation.
BONUS.
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The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy are too busy fighting to notice Chris and Adam talking about early experiments, serial movies, mummification, mummy movies, and mummy cats.
With the Commando Cody short, Radar Men from the Moon, part 1.
SHOW NOTES.
The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch on ShoutFactoryTV!
Radar Men from the Moon: IMDB.
Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women.
By the way, you really won’t want to miss the next Mads outing…
“Weird Al” Yankovic: Mr. Popeil.
15 weird owl facts.
The It’s Just A Show tshirt is just a dog bone.
Flash Gordon.
Flesh Gordon.
The version of the Transformers theme Adam is talking about.
Judex.
Louis Feuillade.
Support us on Patreon and hang out on our friendly Slack.
How to make a mummy.
Mummy’s voice recreated.
Tweet from @MST3K.
Battle Bones ad.
This Movie Sucks!
Our episode on The Wild, Wild World of Batwoman.
Zamfir!
Bubba Ho-Tep.
Mummies Alive!
Mummy brown.
BONUS.
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The Touch of Satan compels Adam and Chris to mull over spooky movies, harpsichord music, eighteenth-century bad boys, curious products, and… Gorgo?
Show Notes.
The Touch of Satan: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch on ShoutFactoryTV!
Elliot Brood’s cover of Matt Maxwell’s C’est l’Halloween.
The Shaggs: It’s Halloween.
The Mads: Halloween Safety.
Adam’s other podcast, A Part Of Our Scare-itage.
HubrisWeen!
Chris’s new podcast, Game Show 1939!
Our episode on Girls Town, way back when.
Robert O. Ragland.
The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra.
Abby.
Q: The Winged Serpent.
The Thing With Two Heads.
Jaguar Lives!
Our episode on The Beast of Yucca Flats.
Mr. Rogers plays the glass armonica.
The Notorious Concubines. (James McCarty presumably wrote the English translation?)
Our episodes on Parts: The Clonus Horror and The Giant Spider Invasion.
Herbert von Karajan looking a little like the dude in today’s movie.
Some Ronco ads.
The Refutation of All Heresies.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon.
Teen-age Crime Wave gets Chris and Adam to talk about strong perfume, claustrophobic films, Tommy Cook trivia, bad kids, and (you guessed it) Donald Pleasence.
Show Notes.
Teen-age Crime Wave: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
The end credits from the NES Castlevania game.
The Megaphonic hosts played The Donald Pleasence Game.
Our previous Donald Pleasence Day episodes.
1984 (not 1984) vs. 1984.
Kliph Nesteroff, comedy historian.
Our episodes on Kitten with a Whip, Girls Town, and Manos.
We discuss Ed Wood’s Jail Bait in our episode on The Violent Years.
Our episode on Revenge of the Creature.
The Brain from Planet Arous
Tommy Cook.
Tommy Cook interviewed in an upcoming RetroFan magazine.
Selena Roberts: A Necessary Spectacle: Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs, and the Tennis Match that Leveled the Game.
We talk about Leslie Nielsen in our episode on City on Fire.
The Great Escape.
The Great Escape II.
The Great Escape: The Video Game.
The Donald Pleasence war story occurs in our episode on The Pumaman.
Bonus.
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The Brute Man creeps after Adam and Chris, who discuss Manos reactions, Rondo Hatton, early travelogue movies, early chickens, and egg facts.
Features the short: The Chicken of Tomorrow.
Show Notes.
The Brute Man: IMDB. MST3K Wiki.
The Chicken of Tomorrow: IMDB. Watch unMSTed.
December Bride.
Origin of Oskee Wawa?
Adam on Norm Macdonald.
Norm Macdonald: Based on a True Story.
Rondo Hatton.
Acromegaly.
Pearl of Death.
We talk about Richard Kiel in our episode on Eegah!
Rondo and Bob.
The Rondo Hatton mask.
The Rondo Hatton collector’s figure.
The Rondo Awards.
Pillow of Death.
Lowell Thomas and T.E. Lawrence.
Mummenschanz on Letterman.
Oscar O’Shea.
Another short about The Chicken of Tomorrow.
An excellent National Geographic article on the Chicken of Tomorrow.
Bonus.
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In our very special one-hundredth episode, Manos: The Hands of Fate keeps our heroes talking for a long, long time about notorious movies, controversial jazz, weird zeitgeists, stale comics, and exactly what MST3K does that makes us love it so.
Features the short, Hired, part 2!
(If this is your first episode of It’s Just A Show, welcome! This one is a little different.)
Show Notes.
Manos: The Hands of Fate: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Watch it on ShoutFactoryTV!
Hired!: IMDB. UnMSTed. [Part 1 was covered in our episode on Bride of the Monster.]
Our episode on Squirm.
Our TV Tropes page.
Halloween II action figures.
The Pumaman action figures, as discussed on our episode on The Pumaman.
[A binky is, of course, a pacifier.]
Jackey Neyman Jones’s memoir, Growing Up Manos, is an terrific must-read for any fans of the movie or the episode. (She played Debbie, the little girl, in the movie.)
Our look at the Coleman Francis trilogy: Skydivers; The Beast of Yucca Flats; Red Zone Cuba.
Proposition Deep 13: Our guide to thirteen episodes from the thirteen seasons of MST3K (so far)!
Our episodes on The Wild Wild World of Batwoman and Pod People.
The restoration of Manos.
Harold P. Warren: Computerized Salesmanship: The New Last Frontier.
A review of the stage adaptation of Manos that Chris saw.
The video game adaptation of Manos on Steam.
Manos: The Hands of Felt.
Manos Returns and Manos: The Rise of Torgo.
Our episode on Monster A Go-Go.
Nathan Rabin at the AV Club.
Hired! in the Prelinger Archive.
The (SFW) Playboy interview, scanned.
Our episodes on Village of the Giants and Master Ninja II.
Lysistrata.
Calvin and Hobbes (and terrible captions) on Twitter.
Nancy on Twitter.
The first Garfield comic.
Garfield and the pipe.
On Cathy.
Charles Schulz: The Complete Peanuts starts here.
Non-binary Krazy Kat and Popeye.
We talked more about Archie comics in our episode on Eegah!
That Far Side comic.
Others have played that car game.
Bonus.
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Bride of the Monster traps Adam and Chris in the swamp and gets them to monologue about Edward D. Wood Jr., Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, octopuses, and door-to-door sales.
Features the short: Hired! Part 1.
Show Notes.
Bride of the Monster: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch on ShoutFactoryTV!
Hired!: IMDB. UnMSTed.
Look, just follow The Mads Are Back on Twitter, ok? And get ready for The Brain Eaters [trailer] on September 14th!
Leonard Nimoy’s “Australian” accent.
MST3K’s Mindless Summer.
The Moon Zero Two Riff-a-Long and our episode on Moon Zero Two.
The Mary Jo Pehl Show will be Tuesday August 24th (so, today) at 8pm Eastern at Dumb Industries’ Twitch channel.
Mary Jo Pehl and Trace Beaulieu’s RenFest project.
Mary Jo’s YouTube series, Ruth Larson Lives! A Lifestyle Vlog!
We talked about Edward D. Wood Jr. in our episode on The Violent Years. We also discuss Jail Bait in our episode on Hercules Unchained and Glen or Glenda in our episode on The Thing That Couldn’t Die.
Tim Burton’s biopic Ed Wood [trailer].
The Creep Behind the Camera [trailer].
Orson Welles in The Critic.
Turns out Dolores Fuller has written her autobiography.
Rudolph Grey: Nightmare of Ecstasy is the Ed Wood oral history book.
Night of the Ghouls [trailer].
Ed Wood: Hollywood Rat Race is his book of reflections on the industry.
Ed Wood: Killer in Drag, one of his novels.
Peter Godfrey-Smith: Other Minds: The Octopus, The Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness is an intriguing-looking book that I didn’t have time to actually read before recording.
The octopus and the crab trap.
Paul the Octopus didn’t correctly predict the World Cup every time, but he was pretty close.
Faith Popcorn.
A history of microwave popcorn. Turns out there was an Act I!
Our episodes on The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent and Squirm.
Bob Woodward: Wired! The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi.
Wired! [trailer].
Faron Young: Hello, Walls.
Willie Nelson: Hello, Walls.
Gore Vidal: Myra Breckenridge.
Myra Breckenridge [trailer].
Bunny Breckenridge.
William Demarest.
Our episode on Teenagers from Outer Space.
Polygon on the Red Cross in video games.
Alone in the Dark [trailer].
Wake of the Red Witch [trailer].
Our episode on The Deadly Mantis mentions Gig Young.
Bonus.
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The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? may not be all that Adam and Chris have to contend with this time!!? They talk about Ray Dennis Steckler, Renée Richards, Wendy Carlos, Peter Falk, and the alleged Mrs. Peter Falk.
[Content warning: Discussions of transphobia (and a bit of homophobia and racism).]
Show Notes.
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch on ShoutFactoryTV.
Our Facebook page.
Listener Marty runs a lovely Facebook group about MST3K: The Comedy Central Years, which you might ask to join if you do the Facebook thing.
An oral history of Porky’s, because why not.
The Hollywood Knights.
The Mads will be taking on The Beach Girls and the Monster soon. Get your tickets!
The delightful poster for The Beach Girls and the Monster.
Adam’s other podcast, A Part Of Our Scare-itage, looks at Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight. Check it out!
Our episode on The Leech Woman, which is indeed the one with that “Transgender Society” riff.
We discuss Joe Bob Briggs in our episode on Parts: The Clonus Horror.
Ray Dennis Steckler.
We discuss Donald Glut in our episode on I Was a Teenage Werewolf.
Our episodes on Eegah! and The Beast of Yucca Flats.
Wild Guitar.
Lester Bangs’s essay is in Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung.
Rat Pfink a Boo Boo.
Baty y Roby contra el Crimen poster.
Our episode on The Saga of the Viking Women and their Voyage to the Great Sea Serpent.
Vilmos Zsigmond.
László Kovács.
Joseph V. Mascelli: The Five Cs of Cinematography.
Mother Maybelle’s Carter Scratch.
Our episode on Hamlet.
Jaco Pastorius: A Portrait of Tracy.
Joni Mitchell: Hejira.
You’re Wrong About did an episode on Shannon Faulkner.
Dennis James.
Renée Richards profiled in Sports Illustrated.
Wendy Carlos: Switched-On Bach.
“Weird Al” Yankovic and Wendy Carlos: Peter and the Wolf.
Wendy Carlos’s delightful website.
Momus and the fallout of a poor decision.
Mrs. Columbo.
Special episodes of Columbo and Mrs. Columbo.
Bonus.
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City On Fire traps Chris and Adam, who are quickly running out of oxygen as they talk about Ava Gardner, Susan Clark, Shelley Winters, Leslie Nielsen, and Max Headroom.
Show Notes.
City On Fire: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
Never Let Me Go. [And the trailer for the movie.]
Obligatory link to The Mads.
MST3K will be touring this fall/winter!
Making Contact.
Eyepiece prank on TV Tropes.
Frank Sinatra covering Something.
Earthquake.
12 Angry Men vs the remake.
Our episode on Space Travelers.
I Passed for White.
Vanishing Point.
Petrocelli intro.
Webster intro.
Night of the Hunter.
The Poseidon Adventure.
Ninja 3: The Domination.
Leslie Nielsen on Conan O’Brien.
Leslie Nielsen’s tombstone.
Liocracy.
Leslie and Erik Nielsen chat.
Creepshow.
Cec Linder.
Hilary [Labow] Farr.
Kenneth Heeley-Ray.
Claude Héroux.
Adam’s other podcast on Scanner Cop and Videodrome.
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.
Max Headroom in Pixels (sigh).
Max Headroom: Merry Christmas Santa Claus.
The Art of Noise: Paranoimia.
Max Headroom in an old folks’ home.
Bonus.
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Parts: The Clonus Horror keeps Adam and Chris in a secluded area to get them to talk about clones, clones, clones, clones, and clones.
Show Notes.
Parts: The Clonus Horror: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch on ShoutFactoryTV!
The update to the Kickstarter we talk about (there’s been a new one since then).
Black-and-white films released in the US in 1961, per IMDB.
Our episodes on The Starfighters and Carnival Magic.
The Mads will have another Night of Shorts on July 13th.
Our episode on The She-Creature.
Hans Spemann.
The Life of Dolly.
Obituary for CC.
Article on Little Nicky.
Barbra Streisand’s pets.
De-extinction.
The Spider-Clone Saga.
The Boys from Brazil.
“Weird Al” Yankovic: I Think I’m A Clone Now.
The Island.
Our episodes on It Conquered the World and Avalanche.
Shields and Yarnell on Sonny and Cher’s show and having breakfast.
Firefall: You Are The Woman.
Don Martin’s sound effects.
Salaam Bombay!
Super Dave Osborne and the CN Tower.
Joe Bob Briggs: Monstervision and Halloween 2.
[The Kids in the Hall sketch is from season 5, episode 9, by the way.]
Longtime Companion.
Jeffrey.
We talk about Wings in our episode on The She-Creature (see above).
Prick Up Your Ears.
Boys in the Band (and the remake).
Chris talks about Boys in the Band in an episode of The Spouter-Inn.
And the Children Shall Lead.
Bonus.
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Avalanche finds Chris and Adam drinking cocoa in the ski lodge, talking about disastrous movies, disastrous weather, disastrous managers, disastrous marriages, and disastrous vacations.
Show Notes.
Avalanche: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
We’re way behind, but turns out the next show by The Mads will feature more shorts!
Jason’s first letter was read in our episode on The She-Creature.
Airport and Airport ’77.
We discussed Barbara Hale in our last episode on The Giant Spider Invasion.
The Poseidon Adventure.
Roger Corman: How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime.
An article about the filming of Avalanche.
The Ambassador.
On Rock Hudson’s sexuality and death.
Shadows and Fog.
Better Late Than Never.
Adam’s other podcast, A Part Of Our Scare-itage on Scanner Cop 2.
Our episode on The Time Travelers.
X Brands.
Corey Allen.
Margaret Keane paintings.
Big Eyes.
Wavy Gravy.
Bonus.
Support us on Patreon and listen to a bonus bit about 70s desserts.
The Giant Spider Invasion invite Adam and Chris to come inside, but they roll down a hill and talk about spider puppets, mothers’ friends, gross directors, body snatchers, and baby ducks.
Show Notes.
The Giant Spider Invasion: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch free on ShoutFactoryTV.
The big Kickstarter wrap-up post.
Robot Wars and Robot Jox.
Our episode on The Day Time Ended.
Demon Squad.
Gamera vs. Jiger.
Our episode on KTMA’s Gamera vs. Zigra [with Adam’s description of Gamera vs. Jiger].
The Mads do The Lost Missile on June 8th.
The Lost Missile [trailer].
R.I.P. Neil Connery.
Our episode on Operation Double 007.
The Giant Spider Invasion poster can be yours.
Our episodes on Squirm and The Incredible Melting Man.
Bill Rebane and our episode on Monster A Go-Go.
Blood Harvest.
Twister’s Revenge.
Warning! Spiders!: Goliath birdeater and dancing peacock spiders and Patu digua.
Our episodes on The Crawling Hand and Angels Revenge.
Robert Easton.
Our episodes on The Wild Wild World of Batwoman and Wizards of the Lost Kingdom.
SchleFaZ takes on Angriff der Riesenspinne.
And our episode on MST3K: The Movie.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers [1956].
Invasion of the Body Snatchers [1978].
Body Snatchers [1993].
The Invasion [2007].
We talked about Invasion of the Body Snatchers and communism in our episode on It Conquered the World.
Our recent Cryptkeeper… Or Not bonus bit.
Tom T. Hall: I Love.
The Shaggs: I Love.
The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World and Shaggs’ Own Thing.
Bonus.
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Moon Zero Two will strand Adam and Chris on an asteroid if they don’t find something to say about Roy Ward Baker, Hammer films, Don Ellis, space suits, and Power Gloves.
Show Notes.
Moon Zero Two: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch. Watch with an extra layer of riffs. (Thanks as always, ShoutFactoryTV!)
That Kickstarter you might have heard of.
MST3K’s YouTube channel has archives of all the live events.
Adam and Chris and other Megaphonic friends stream Jackbox games (or similar) every Friday night at 8pm Eastern, 5 Pacific, 9:30 Newfoundland on the Megaphonic Twitch channel.
Our episodes on Zombie Nightmare and Starcrash.
Roy Ward Baker.
Roy Ward Baker’s memoir, Director's Cut: A Memoir of 60 Years in Film and Television.
A Night to Remember [trailer].
Quatermass and the Pit [trailer].
We talked about Amicus in our episode on At the Earth’s Core.
The Monster Club [trailer].
Paul Beeson [IMDB].
Kate Bush: Hammer Horror.
Hammer Films.
A History of Horrors: The Rise and Fall of the House of Hammer.
Curse of Frankenstein [trailer].
We talked about Christopher Lee in our episode on The Castle of Fu Manchu.
James Bernard.
Don Ellis: Theme from The French Connection. Pussy Wiggle Stomp. Open Beauty. Star Wars.
Don Ellis interviewing George Harrison.
We talk about Gil Mellé in our episode on The Last Chase.
Michael Collins’s photo.
Michael Collins: Carrying the Fire.
Reviewed by our own Michael Collins on Dear Reader.
John Burke: Moon Zero Two.
That scene from The Wizard.
Gaming Historian: The Story of the Power Glove.
Dance Aerobics.
Eero Aarnio’s Ball chair.
Bonus.
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I Was A Teenage Werewolf stalks Adam and Chris in the gym, overhearing them talk about teen movies, wolfmen, Michael Landon, Bernard Hermann, and Magic Voice.
Show Notes.
I Was A Teenage Werewolf: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
The Mads riff on Sonny Bono in Marijuana.
The Mads will return with T-Bird Gang.
The MST3K fundraiser still has a few days to go!
Our episode on the KTMA Gamera.
We talked about Rebel without a Cause in our episode on The Crawling Hand.
My Teenage Daughter.
Teenagers Battle the Thing, directed by Dave Flocker.
Our episodes on Teenagers from Outer Space and The Wild Wild World of Batwoman.
Donald Glut.
We talked about Forrest J. Ackerman in our episode on The Time Travelers.
Lon Chaney Jr.
Paul Naschy.
La Marca del Hombre Loco [trailer].
All the teenage werewolf scenes in I Was A Teenage Werewolf.
We talked about the Psycho shower scene in our episode on Phase IV.
Bernard Hermann’s original Twilight Zone opening.
Our episode on Squirm.
Bonus.
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The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent gets all tuckered out trying to say its name, and curls up to listen to Chris and Adam talk about waffles, Roger Corman, Albert Glasser, Troma, and Kate Bush.
With the short, The Home Economics Story!
Show Notes.
The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. UnMSTed.
The Home Economics Story: IMDB. UnMSTed.
MakeMoreMST3K
The Mads’ third evening of shorts is… tonight!
Our article, Proposition Deep 13, offers a tour through all thirteen seasons so far of MST3K, to get you even more excited for whatever comes next.
Chris recently talked about actual Viking women on his other podcast.
Our episode on Night of the Blood Beast had our stuffing/potatoes debate.
The Dawn of the Dead poster.
Roger Corman: How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime.
The Albert Glasser bleatography.
Our episodes on The Million Eyes of Sumuru, Rocketship X-M, and Squirm.
Heathers [trailer].
My Dead Gay Son from Heathers: The Musical.
Ghetto Freaks.
Carol Bly: Changing the Bully Who Rules the World.
Robert Bly: Iron John.
Over the Top [trailer].
The Reluctant Astronaut [trailer].
Tromeo and Juliet [trailer].
The Toxic Avenger [trailer].
Toxic Crusaders intro.
Lloyd Kaufman: Make Your Own Damn Movie!
Kate Bush: Sat in Your Lap, Heads We’re Dancing (the one with the O. Henry twist), The Sensual World, Deeper Understanding [and the revised version], Snowflake (from the “wintery” album), Pi, The Man with the Child in His Eyes, Hammer Horror.
Bonus.
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The She-Creature lurches unpleasantly towards Chris and Adam, but instead they talk about Alibi, Wings, Manimal, Howard the Duck, and Dorf on Golf.
Show Notes.
The She-Creature: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch unMSTed at ShoutFactoryTV (or don’t).
Look over our episode guide for all the episodes we list.
The Mads will be doing more shorts on April 13.
The Masters of the Universe Power Tour.
Chester Morris of Alibi [full movie].
Tom Conway and his IMDB bio.
Cathy Downs.
Lance Fuller, and our episode on This Island Earth.
El Brendel and Wings [trailer].
No, really, go watch Wings!
Flo Bert.
Our episode on It Conquered the World.
More on the unpleasant story of the Powder director.
Creature of Destruction.
Peter Mansbridge on Tickle-Me-Elmo.
Cabbage Patch riots.
Alphie the Electronic Robot.
Manimal opening credits.
Howard the Duck [trailer].
The rancor.
Tim Conway as Dorf.
The official Ghostbusters YouTube channel.
Chris recently talked about an Icelandic Saga on another podcast.
Bonus.
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Monster A Go-Go calls up Adam and Chris [rrring rrring!] and asks them about bad twists, anti-endings, cheap solutions, ice treats, and He-Man.
With the short, Circus on Ice!
Show Notes.
Monster A Go-Go: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch on ShoutFactoryTV!
Circus on Ice: IMDB.
Thanks to Ned over at Tolkien podcast By-The-Bywater.
John “Bud” Cardos, who we talked about in our episodes on Outlaw and The Day Time Ended, has passed.
Kingdom of the Spiders [trailer] [note: lots of spiders].
Bea Arthur asks you to shop at Shoppers Drug Mart.
Local Hero [trailer].
Bill Rebane.
H.G. Lewis.
Beautiful Half Day, Illinois.
Living Venus [IMDB].
Boin-n-g! [IMDB].
Blood Feast [trailer].
Blast-Off Girls [trailer].
Herschel Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore [trailer].
Our episode on the live show of Circus of Horrors.
Torontoist on the Toronto Skating Club’s carnivals.
Update: We’ll get into this in detail next episode, but Chris saw the Masters of the Universe Power Tour, which was not on ice. Sigh. [You can still write in!]
Philip Morton and Lois Brooks on the IMDB.
Our episode on The Last Chase.
The Fuzztones: Monster A-Go-Go.
Our recent bonus bit compilation episode.
Watch Rock ’n’ Roll High School on ShoutFactoryTV!
Incredible Crash Dummies ads.
The Third Man [trailer].
Todd in the Shadows on The Buoys’ Timothy.
The Buoys: Timothy.
Bonus.
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Night of the Blood Beast impregnates Chris and Beth with thoughts of new phones, old interiors, friendly aliens, male pregnancy, and Turkey Day marathons.
Also features the short Once Upon a Honeymoon!
Show Notes.
Night of the Blood Beast: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
Once Upon a Honeymoon: IMDB. UnMSTed.
Um, we’re on Twitter, Beth.
The Mads are on YouTube!
The Choppers [trailer].
Our episode on Eegah!
The Mads’ next show: Phantom from Space [trailer].
You Must Remember This.
An article from 1989 about the Infiniti ads.
A pink fridge.
The Model 500 and the Princess phones.
1950s ads for colour phones.
A History channel article.
George Adamski.
Alien impregnation and male pregnancy on TVTropes.com.
Turnabout.
Junior [trailer].
Once upon a Honeymoon [trailer].
Our episode on The Crawling Hand.
The Apollo 1 disaster.
Robert H. Lawrence Jr.
Our episode on The Starfighters.
And our episode on The Skydivers, with its link to Margaret Bourke-White.
Edward Wilson Very of the Very Pistol.
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters.
Our episode on The Undead.
Bonus.
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We’re only gonna get one real episode out this month, for Reasons. So to tide you over until then, here are a few of our superfan bonus bits—the things we normally just let our most devoted listeners hear. Enjoy, and see. you soon with a proper episode!
Show Notes.
Our episodes on Starcrash, Gamera vs. Barugon [KTMA], The Pumaman, and Phase IV.
More about Carol Channing.
Thoroughly Modern Millie.
Alone in the Dark.
Support us on Patreon and you can hear even more superfan bonus bits!
Gamera vs. Zigra is back for round two, and Chris and Adam bring in reinforcements like robot reboots, space monsters, peppy marches, living legends, and school projects.
Show Notes.
Gamera vs. Zigra: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer [in Japanese].
Our other Gamuary episodes.
A Three Stooges cartoon.
Gamera: Super Monster [trailer].
That Jackbox game…
Shunsuke Kikuchi.
Persistent Pursuit.
Niisan Takahashi.
Wikizilla on Gamera vs. Zigra.
Gojipedia on Gamera vs. Zigra.
Dolly Parton: 9 to 5.
Dolly Parton’s Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love [trailer].
Dolly Parton: Just Because I’m a Woman.
Dolly Parton: Here I Am [documentary].
9 to 5 [trailer].
Polly Darton.
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.
How mummies talked.
Bonus.
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Happy Gamuary! Gamera vs. Zigra takes its first swing at Adam and Chris, who muse about our noisy ocean, some missing Gamera films, Persona 5, encore performances, and New Years Eve.
Show Notes.
Gamera vs. Zigra: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer [in Japanese].
The Mads are Back will do The Choppers on February 9th.
Our other Gamuary episodes.
National Geographic on marine pollution.
The UN Conference on the Environment with the Declaration on the Human Environment.
Adam misspoke, and was thinking of Creepshow 2.
A guide to plastic in the oceans.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
A very sciencey article about noise and whales.
The pandemic has, at least, made things a little quieter for the whales.
Gamera vs. Viras [trailer].
Gamera vs. Jiger [trailer].
Jiger on Wikizilla.
Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster [trailer].
Kei’ichi Noda.
Godzilla vs. Gigan [trailer].
Bruce Springsteen: Blinded by the Light.
Manfred Mann Earth Band: Blinded by the Light.
Chris has talked about parties on another podcast.
We talked about Project Popcorn in our episode on season 3’s Gamera vs. Barugon.
Bonus.
Support us on Patreon and listen to our superfan bonus bits, including a bit more about reruns.
The Day the Earth Froze offers a Sampo to the team — if they first talk about the Kalevala, Finlandization, Jean Sibelius, Emmett Kelly, and family photos.
Also features a short: Here Comes the Circus!
Show Notes.
The Day the Earth Froze: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. [Finnish trailer.] Watch on ShoutFactoryTV!
Here Comes the Circus!: IMDB. UnMSTed.
The Mads will be doing another shorts night!
Our episode on Santa Claus.
Sample of the remastered movie.
Joel and the circus? Our episode on the Great Cheesy Movie Circus Tour.
Chris talking about the Mahabharata on his other podcast.
Elias Lönrott.
The Kalevala translation that Chris read.
The Winter War.
Simo Häyhä.
Finlandization.
John Richardson: Wacousta.
Aleksandr Ptushko: The New Gulliver.
Jean Sibelius: Lemminkäinen Suite.
More about Andris Ošiņš.
Eve Kivi.
The Mark VII Limited logo.
The TriStar Pictures logo.
Emmett Kelly on What’s My Line?
H. Ross Perot.
Bonus.
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Kitten with a Whip meows pitifully at Adam and Chris until they talk about horrifying teens, Ann-Margrock, Elvis Presley, John Forsythe, Doodles Weaver, and Looney Tunes.
Show Notes.
Kitten with a Whip: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Watch on YouTube.
VillageOfTheGiants.net!
Zappa [trailer].
Eat That Question [trailer].
Touch of Evil [trailer].
Bye Bye Birdie [trailer].
Viva Las Vegas [trailer].
Our episode on Space Travelers.
Spike Jones: William Tell Overture.
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood [trailer, Wiki].
Wade Miller/Whit Masterson.
Wade Miller: Kitten with a Whip.
Our episode on Revenge of the Creature.
Mallory O’Meara: The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick.
Barbary Coast.
Kinda racist ad for Pearl Cream with Nancy Kwan.
Some Jerry Dunphy.
All’s Faire in Love [trailer].
How [Carl Stalling] influenced a generation of composers.
The Raymond Scott Quintette: Powerhouse.
Raymond Scott: Soothing Sounds for Baby, vol. 1.
The Carl Stalling Project, vols. 1 and 2.
Bonus.
Support us on Patreon and you can find out what the final factoid was (it got cut for time, but it's a fun discussion).
Village of the Giants towers over Adam and Chris, demanding they talk about Jim Begg, Andy Griffith, Warwick Davis, Bert I. Gordon, and Frank Zappa.
Show Notes.
Village of the Giants: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch on ShoutFactoryTV or YouTube.
The 2020 MST3K Turkey Day stream.
The Brain from Planet Arous [trailer].
Our episodes on Revenge of the Creature, The Mole People, and Santa Claus.
Get your tickets for The Mads riffing Santa Claus vs. The Devil on December 15th!
Our episode on Catalina Caper.
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken.
The Kid with the 200 IQ.
Willow playthrough.
Eat My Dust.
Beau Brummel.
The Beau Brummels: Laugh, Laugh.
Toni Basil: Mickey.
Todd in the Shadows: One Hit Wonderland: Mickey.
Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime and Crosseyed and Painless.
Slaughterhouse Rock.
Our episodes on King Dinosaur and Starcrash.
The Food of the Gods.
Secrets of a Psychopath.
Orson Welles and H.G. Wells.
H.G. Wells: The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth.
Our episode on Terror from the Year 5000.
Aunt Joy’s Cakes and a little documentary.
Crash Test Dummies compilation.
About the Crash Test Dummies.
Million Dollar Duck.
Osgood-Schlatter Disease.
Coneheads.
Frank Zappa: Conehead.
Frank Zappa: Ride like the Wind.
The Real Frank Zappa Book.
The AV Club: Can you be a fan of Zappa but not his music?
Jack Nitzsche.
Jack Nitzsche: Last Race.
The T.A.M.I. Show.
The Ramones: Needles and Pins.
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Up Where We Belong.
All the Scarlatti harpsichord sonatas at the same time.
Bonus.
If you support us on Patreon you can help us make the show and hear a little bonus bit about a cat.
The Million Eyes of Sumuru keep Adam and Chris in their sights while they discuss bad prints, bad movies, bad novels, bad episodes, and best fiends.
Show Notes.
The Million Eyes of Sumuru: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. [Restored] Trailer.
The Mads did The Brain from Planet Arous.
The Mads: Halloween Safety.
Joel, Josh, and Bill’s new shorts come at the end of Hodgson’s Second Annual Puppet Camp!
Our episode on The Castle of Fu Manchu.
And our episode on the KTMA Time of the Apes.
And two [somewhat] recent KTMA episodes, The Last Chase and Phase IV.
The Rifftrax version of The Million Eyes of Sumuru. [It’s also on Amazon Prime.]
We talk about Beach Blanket Bingo and the like in our episode on Catalina Caper.
We’ve mentioned Skidoo in our episodes on Angels’ Revenge and Time Chasers and probably others.
Our episode on Robot Monster.
George Nader: Chrome.
Crawlspace DVD extra Please Kill Mr. Kinski.
My Best Fiend.
Our episode on Outlaw [of Gor].
The Seven Secrets of Sumuru / The Girl from Rio.
A Genius, Two Partners, and a Dupe.
Some notes from Joel on the “lost episodes”.
The Sumuru books.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and hear all sorts of superfan bonus bits!
The Unearthly keeps Adam and Chris in the basement, where they can barely talk about shorts, John Carradine, shorts, Tor Johnson, and shorts.
Also features the shorts Posture Pals and Appreciating Our Parents!
Show Notes.
The Unearthly: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
Posture Pals: IMDB.
Appreciating Our Parents: IMDB. UnMSTed.
The Mads: A Night of Shorts.
Update: The Mads: Halloween Safety, a short from the Night of Shorts, has been released to YouTube!
The next Mads event will be The Brain from Planet Arous.
Chris reading the list of Jesús Franco names is available to our Patron supports.
Chimes at Midnight.
A Part Of Our Scare-itage covers a Donald Pleasence movie?!
Fiasco Family Movie Night presents HubrisWeen!
And HubrisWeen tackled The Unearthly!
The other short that we covered was Platform Posture.
Joel, Josh, and Bill’s new shorts come at the end of Hodgson’s Second Annual Puppet Camp!
…which was a fundraiser for MIGIZI, which looks totally worth giving some money to.
Our episode on Red Zone Cuba.
House of Dracula.
We discussed Billy Barty in our episode on The Undead.
And we discussed The Tingler in our episode on Terror from the Year 5000.
And we discussed David Carradine in our episode on Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II.
There’s more Tor in our episode on The Beast of Yucca Flats.
The filmography of Tor Johnson includes a pic of Tor with hair.
[Tor’s hair may have been naturally dark, not blond? Sources disagree, and photos are rare.]
Tor Johnson masks.
Star Trek: The Next Generation Episodes? Take Your Pick!
More! Our episodes on The Leech Woman and The Incredible Melting Man.
TV Tropes on Dracula’s cape flourish.
Bonus.
If you are enjoying It’s Just A Show, please consider supporting us on Patreon! Supporters get to listen to a segment about Flintstone chewable vitamins that was cut for time.
The Castle of Fu Manchu forces Chris and Adam to tell them the formula to Chistopher Lee, Jesús Franco, Sax Rohmer, Gandhi II, and, heart transplants.
Show Notes.
The Castle of Fu Manchu: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch on ShoutFactoryTV!
An article from 2012 about Joel’s Riff Camps.
Our Donald Pleasence shirt!
Our episodes on Master Ninja I and II.
Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf.
Raw Meat.
The Royal Canadian Air Farce.
Christopher Lee: Jingle Hell.
Count Dracula.
Blood Sucking N*zi Zombies [a.k.a. The Treasure of the Living Dead].
The Demons.
Jesús Franco filmography.
Vampire Sound Inc.: The Lions and the Cucumber.
Sax Rohmer: The Insidious Doctor Fu Manchu.
Gaddabout Gaddis.
Babe Winkelman.
A Night to Remember.
Campbell’s Kingdom.
Gandhi II.
An in-depth article about the history of heart transplants.
Or, you know, a pretty and interactive timeline, if that’s more your speed.
Our episode on The Brain that Wouldn’t Die.
Kirlian photography [and the photos we describe].
Bonus.
If you support us on Patreon you can help us make the show and hear a superfan bonus bit!
Pod People, you can do magic things! Including sending Chris and Adam flying around the room, talking about Juan Piquer Simón, Music from Some Guys in Space, Roger Roger, Pee-Wee Herman, and Andy Travis.
Show Notes.
Pod People: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Watch on ShoutFactoryTV.
Our episode on Robot Monster.
Summer Camp Nightmare.
The Mads are at it again, with a night of shorts and cartoons on October 20th.
Hapy Donald Pleasence Day (in advance). Our previous DP celebrations: Warrior of the Lost World, The Pumaman, Alien from L.A., and Circus of Horrors (not Circus of Fear, whoospie!).
Juan Piquer Simón.
Cthulhu Mansion.
Slugs.
Our episode on Squirm.
Mystery on Monster Island.
Pieces.
We talk about Film Ventures International in our episode on Master Ninja I.
Librado Pastor work (in Spanish).
Jurassic 5 ft. Nelly Furtado: Thin Line.
John Tesh on Roundball Rock.
A reconsideration of new-age music.
Interview with Stephen Hill of Music from the Hearts of Space.
The wiki page on new-age music.
Some Music from the Hearts of Space on YouTube.
We talked about Pure Moods in our episode on Werewolf.
Galaxy Invader. [The Rifftrax version seems to no longer be available.]
Beatriz starring Óscar Martín.
The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway with Emilio Linder.
Louis Delacour, Roger Roger, and Georges Teperino: Musique pour rire.
Roger Roger and Georges Teperino: TVMusic.
WHOOPSIE: Mommie Dearest is, of course, about Joan Crawford. [Sorry, we’re tired.]
Anthony Newley: Goldfinger.
Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday.
Shout Factory has some WKRP in Cincinnati for you.
We talk about the restoration of the music of WKRP for DVDs in our episode on Cosmic Princess.
Leslie Nielsen.
And, of course, our episode on Mac and Me.
Bonus.
If you can, please support us on Patreon and listen to a bonus segment on karaoke.
Happy Labour Day! Hercules and the Captive Women takes the blood of Uranus and… shipwreck… shapeshifter… other stuff… anyway, it all causes Chris and Adam to think about Atlantis, Proteus, Mario Bava, Mario Mario, and Nastassja Kinski.
Show Notes.
Hercules and the Captive Women: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch on ShoutFactoryTV.
You can watch Chris solve crosswords every morning at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific on the Megaphonic Twitch channel.
Our other Labour Day episodes: Hercules Against the Moon Men, Hercules Unchained, The Loves of Hercules.
We talked about Captain Newfoundland in our episode on Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.
Plato: Timaeus and Critias.
Ignatius Donnelly: Atlantis: The Antediluvian World [and Ragnarok: Age of Fire and Gravel].
Hercules in the Haunted World [trailer].
Adam’s pics of Hercules in the Haunted World.
Richard Strauss: Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
György Ligeti: Lux Aeterna.
Friedrich Nietzsche: Also sprach Zarathustra.
Our episode on Time of the Apes.
TV Tropes article on the “damsel in distress”.
Super Mario Bros 2 is less not Mario than you think.
Cat People [trailer].
On the snake photo.
Bonus.
If you can afford to, please support us on Patreon. You’ll get to hear some bonus bits that didn’t quite make the episode, and hang out with us in a friendly members-only Slack!
Terror from the Year 5000 can’t decide whether to steal Chris’s or Adam’s face. Meanwhile, they talk about The Tingler, American International Pictures, intergalactic vacations, KITT, and chiggers.
Show Notes.
Terror from the Year 5000: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
The Tingler [trailer].
The Mads will be riffing Walk the Dark Street.
Our episode on Robot Monster.
American International Pictures.
The antitrust ruling about movie studios not owning theaters.
We talk about beach movies in our episode on Catalina Caper.
The poster for Terror from the Year 5000.
Adam talked about Gamera dubs in our episode on KTMA Gamera.
A Gamuary marathon on September 1!
Carbon dating 101.
Salome Jens.
Dede Allen.
Thelma Schoonmaker.
One Night in Bangkok.
Arnold Stang.
Henry Slesar.
Knight Rider theme [and a recent cover].
The chigger text adventure was Adventureland by Scott Adams [not the Dilbert guy].
Cooking Shows? Take Your Pick!
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and hear some bonus bits that had to be cut from the episode.
The Undead follows Chris and Adam back in time, where they talk about The Tingler, Roger Corman, Billy Barty, The Thomas Crown Affair, and (you guessed it) the Cryptkeeper.
Show Notes.
The Undead: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch unriffed on ShoutFactoryTV, or riffed on YouTube!
Our last episode, on The Thing That Couldn’t Die.
Watch The Tingler with Trace and Frank riffing, August 18th! [Tomorrow!]
Fiasco Family Movie Night, now on Megaphonic! [Adam’s on the recent bonus episode!]
Horror Monsters? Take Your Pick!
Mummy trailer.
Creature Commandos.
Other Roger Corman episodes we’ve covered: It Conquered the World, Wizards of the Lost Kingdom, Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II, and Lords of the Deep. Also he seems to have come up in our episode on The Incredible Melting Man for some reason?
Mask of the Red Death [trailer].
That Guy Dick Miller.
Demon Knight [trailer].
Billy Barty (as Liberace) on Spike Jones.
Billy Barty in Bride of Frankenstein.
Little People of America.
Allison Hayes in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.
We talk about Bruno VeSota in our episode on The Wild Wild World of Batwoman.
Mel Welles was in Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II.
The Alpine Valley Music Theatre.
Ricky’s Embers.
An article on beefalo.
A sexual harrassment PSA.
Ray Nitschke.
Terence.
A Place to Stand.
The Thomas Crown Affair [trailer].
Theme Squad has some nice albums on their Bandcamp page.
Beth was on 19th Century Novels? Take Your Pick!
Our episode on The Skydivers.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and hear a bonus bit about hypnotism!
The Thing That Couldn’t Die, using plenty of lip and tongue action, psychically commands Chris and Adam to discuss heterosexuality, horror movies, Emperor Hadrian, the Wild West, and Sir Francis Drake’s cakes.
Show Notes.
The Thing That Couldn’t Die: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
Glen or Glenda.
The Mads will riff The Tingler on August 18.
Our episodes on the Season 8 arc start with Revenge of the Creature.
Bud Westmore.
The Lady from the Black Lagoon, and the book about her.
Dracula (1958).
Our episode on The Brain That Wouldn’t Die.
Dinosaurus!
The Big Beat.
Let’s Scare Jessica to Death.
Terror Train will be on the next A Part Of Our Scare-itage.
Hadrian’s poem.
Horror Incorporated.
The Gamesters of Triskelion.
Shore Leave.
Spectre of the Gun.
N. de Morena.
Thomas Doughty.
Maps with California as an island.
A Jackie Collins book.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and hear a bonus bit about other movies with bodiless heads.
Red Zone Cuba lures Adam and Chris to an endless montage of Coleman Francis, Cuban history, Night Train, bad posture, and old jalopies.
With the short: Speech: Platform Posture and Appearance!
Show Notes.
Red Zone Cuba: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Watch on ShoutFactoryTV.
Speech: Platform Posture and Appearance: IMDB. UnMSTed.
The Mads live! riffing Glen or Glenda, Thursday, June 21st!
Write to info@itsjustashow.com with the special message to be entered for free tickets!
Take Your Pick on video game soundtracks, with Chris and Adam and lots of cool people.
John Carradine: Night Train to Mundo Fine.
Tom Weaver interviews Anthony Cardoza.
Fulgencio Batista.
The Bay of Pigs invasion.
Brigade 2506.
Fidel Castro and Red Zone Cuba (at the bottom of the page).
Night Train.
Be all that you can be.
Pitchblende.
Our bonus bit about Carol Channing, for those who support us on Patreon.
You’re Not Funny, Chris and Adam’s old podcast.
Twenty Thousand Hertz on Mel Blanc.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon to hear all sorts of bonus bits, including a little bit more about on-stage posture.
The Beast of Yucca Flats. How did it get there? Chris and Adam. Two podcasters. Boys from the city. Not yet caught by the whirlwind of progress. Trained to look for topics and talk about them. Benjamin Franklin. Puerto Rico. Coleman Francis. Tony Cardoza. And endless narration, caught in the wheels of justice.
With the shorts: Money Talks! and Progress Island, U.S.A.
Show Notes.
The Beast of Yucca Flats: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
Money Talks!: IMDB.
Progress Island, U.S.A.: IMDB.
Adam’s other podcast, A Part Of Our Scare-itage.
Things [trailer, NSFW].
…Where’s Rodney? That’s what it was.
William Lyon Mackenzie King.
Benjamin Franklin’s inventions.
Mr. Rogers plays the glass armonica.
An essay on, uh, wind.
Last Week Tonight on Puerto Rico.
Fiesta Island.
Tom Weaver interviews Anthony Cardoza.
Misfit Patrol.
Yucca Flat.
Gene Kauer.
The Water Buffalo Incident.
Aspen Extreme.
We talked about Things Go Better with Coke in our episode on the KTMA Gamera.
Ray Mercer.
Blue.
Yves Klein Blue.
Harrison Ford, actor?
Tor Johnson masks.
Bonus.
A little bonus bit about Coleman Francis, dad of the year, is available for people who support us on Patreon.
The Skydivers pours hot coffee onto Chris and Adam’s parachutes, but as they plunge to their deaths, they talk about Coleman Francis, Tony Cardoza, the joys of woodworking, fine cups of coffee, and the latest fashions of Hobbiton.
With the short: Why Study Industrial Arts.
Show Notes.
The Skydivers: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Watch free on ShoutFactoryTV.
Why Study Industrial Arts: IMDB. UnMSTed.
We play Jackbox live on Friday nights on YouTube and Twitch.
A Coleman Francis overview.
Coleman Francis previously appeared in (our episode on) This Island Earth.
Night of the Ghouls.
The sequence of spectacularly bad editing that we describe starts around 21:30 into the episode. (Chris slightly misremembered it.)
Our episode on Racket Girls.
Margaret Bourke-White.
Fox De Luxe.
Megaphonic and It’s Just A Show mugs!
Aeropress.
Adam’s Instagram and his Robocop costume.
Woodworking videos!
Guitarmaking videos!
Specialeffectsmaking videos!
Beth’s dinosaur planter, Curtis, the mascot of Megaphonic FM, was revealed in our episode on Future War.
HBO Feature Presentation…
…and a making-of documentary.
By-The-Bywater, a terrific podcast about everything Tolkien.
Weta Digital Effects.
Christo [and Jean-Claude].
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show and hear some bonus bits!
Phase IV coats Chris and Adam in yellow and demands that they sing the praises of ants, Saul Bass, advertising, pizza, and pasta.
Show Notes.
Phase IV: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
We’re livestreaming over at YouTube on Fridays and Saturdays!
Watch Phase IV unriffed on The Criterion Channel.
The poster for Phase IV.
Tinto Brass.
Saul Bass.
An example of a YouTube minidoc on Bass.
Saul Bass logos.
Girl Guides/Girl Scouts logo redesign.
Saul Bass Poster Archive.
The rejected Schindler’s List poster.
Why Man Creates.
Gyorgy Kepes: Language of Vision.
Prophecies of Nostradamus.
Ken Middleham.
Kurzgesagt on ants and the Great Ant War.
Phase IV, the other one.
Barry (not Brian) N. Malzberg’s novelization of Phase IV.
Our episode on Hercules Unchained.
Todd in the Shadows on One Tin Soldier.
Brian Gascoigne. Desmond Briscoe, David Vorhaus.
Asimov’s Robot Detective books.
Dick Spanner, P.I.
The infamous ant pun episode of You’re Not Funny.
Bonus.
Those of you who support us on Patreon will be getting a bonus Cryptkeeper or Not!
There’s a chimp on the loose as Carnival Magic kidnaps Chris and Adam to ask them about that magic moment between the 70s and the 80s, the mysteries of Al Adamson, lost pornography, unnamed directors, and chimps ahoy!
Show Notes.
Carnival Magic: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch on Netflix.
The Fiasco Brothers Watch a Movie has had Adam on as a guest a few times.
Kindred: The Embraced.
Cal Worthington ads: 1, 2, 3. [Thanks, Pat!]
Family Auto Mart ads.
John Holmes.
MST3K LIVE Social Distancing Riff-Along Special.
Our special episode about The Great Cheesy Movie Circus Tour.
Patton Oswalt on Matt Oswalt’s reaction to this movie.
On the rediscovery of Carnival Magic.
Carnival Magic on Blu-Ray/DVD.
Chris’s literary podcast, The Spouter-Inn, tackles Great Expectations.
Our episode on Girl in Gold Boots.
A news article about Al Adamson’s death.
Adam’s CanCon horror movie podcast covered Scanners, Scanner Cop, Scanners II, and Scanners III.
Doctor Who fans saving the day.
Shada.
Catch My Soul.
Lon Cheney in London After Midnight.
List of Lost Films.
Him.
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn.
George Spelvin.
Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes. [Directorial crediting still confusing.]
Our episode on Time of the Apes with the segment about the ape movies.
Link.
Shakma.
I Created Lancelot Link.
Bonus.
Support us on Patreon and hear a bonus bit with more Smithee history.
Even though Angels Revenge is out to stop Chris and Adam from pushing their wares, they manage to talk about all the great stars: Jack Palance, Pat Buttrum, Jim Backus, Johnny Wadd, and Stanley Kubrick!
Show Notes.
Angels Revenge: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch on ShoutFactoryTV.
Claude Akins stars as Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film.
Stay tuned to our Twitter or subscribe to the Megaphonic YouTube account to watch us stream Jackbox!
ST:TMP:THM.
Chris’s old band The Minor Thirds had a song called The Angel’s Revenge, named after this episode.
Without Warning.
Joysticks.
The Uninvited.
Skidoo.
We talked about Jack Palance in our episode on Outlaw.
Gene Autry and Pat Buttram: Sam’s Song.
We didn’t talk much about Alan Hale Jr. in our episode on The Crawling Hand.
Arthur Godfrey and Julius LaRosa.
Arthur Godfrey: What Is a Boy? and What Is a Girl?
Tweets from Kliph Nesteroff, showbiz historian.
Aaron Spelling’s house.
RetroReport has a good short history of the War on Drugs.
The interview with Nixon aide John Ehrlichman; the tl;dr.
Kidney disease entitlements: short and long versions.
Johnny Wadd.
Dean Cundy.
My Life as a Nielsen Family, from 1997, and another from 2015.
You’ll Never Make Love in This Town Again.
Robin Greer and Sarah Reinhardt: The Hollywood Handbook.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and hear a bonus bit about another Aaron Spelling show of note.
Adam and Chris, marooned inside their homes as they wait out a pandemic, imagine they are Space Travelers. It doesn’t go so well, and so they close their eyes and think of the vastness of space, Gene Hackman, Bruce Willis, some shady producers, and some shady comedians.
Show Notes.
Space Travelers [a.k.a Marooned]: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
“Weird Paul” Petroskey.
We talk about Rocketship X-M on our very first episode! We were so young.
For All Mankind. [Not For All Mankind.]
Charlie Brooker segment on Bruce Willis.
Robie Robinson. Not Robie Robinson.
Our episode on The Deadly Mantis.
The Finder of Lost Loves opening credits.
Dionne Warwick and Luther Vandross: Finder of Lost Loves.
We talk about Film Ventures International when we discussed Master Ninja I.
Edward L. Montoro.
Juan Piquer Simón.
Pieces. [trailer, NSFW, and pretty gory!]
Great White. [trailer]
Grizzly. [trailer]
Nick Bakay.
We talk about Night After Night with Allan Havey in our episode on the KTMA Gamera vs. Gaos.
J. Elvis Weinstein on Comedy on Vinyl.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and hang out with us on the Megaphonic member Slack!
Squirm seems to have already eaten Adam, so Beth rushes in to help Chris escape through worms, egg creams, Georgia, antiques, and a surprising lack of springs.
For this episode also features a short: A Case of Spring Fever. No springs!
[Also, we don’t mention it, but today’s our third birthday.]
Show Notes.
Squirm: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
A Case of Spring Fever: IMDB. UnMSTed.
Subscribe to It’s Just A Show on YouTube?
Bill Conti: Gonna Fly Now.
Our episode on Catalina Caper.
A nasty worm.
The worms of Waitomo cave, New Zealand.
A history of the egg cream.
Fox’s U-Bet.
Vicki Lawrence: The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia.
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia [trailer].
Tanya Tucker: The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia.
Our episode on Hamlet.
Lottery! [opening credits]
New York City?!
Fly River, New York.
Jean Beaudrillard on antiquing.
That New York Times article on 70s antiquing.
“Weird Paul” Petroskey: Website, YouTube, Bandcamp.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon to hear the complete hamster story.
Master Ninja II appears from the shadows to attack Chris and Adam once again as they consider ninjas, Lee van Cleef, It’s a Living, Sapphire & Steel, Milton Berle, and Tales from the Crypt.
Show Notes.
Master Ninja II: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Watch via ShoutFactoryTV.
Adam and Chris discussed improv on their old podcast, You’re Not Funny.
Conveyor belt sushi.
RetroReport on Biosphere 2.
Frank Frazetta.
We talk about the music to Patton in our episode on Alien from L.A.
3 Ninjas [trailer].
Godfrey Ho.
Ninja Terminator [trailer].
Ninja III: The Domination [trailer].
Our episode on Zombie Nightmare.
Bouncer vs. Tapper.
Gung Ho [trailer].
Robocop 3 [trailer].
Our episode on It Conquered the World.
The Commander [trailer].
Lee van Cleef [obituary].
Our episode on Teenagers from Outer Space.
The Man from Hong Kong [trailer].
The Second Hundred Years.
The Band on the Run cover.
Raw Meat [trailer].
Our episodes on King Dinosaur and Starcrash.
Adam and Chris talked about the Cryptkeeper a few times on You’re Not Funny, starting with the episode on puns.
Tales of the River Bank.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and you can hear a bonus bit from this episode about other, better action-oriented tv shows from the 80s.
Master Ninja I, a “movie” that is just two episodes of failed 1984 Timothy Van Patten and Lee Van Cleef ninja-’em-up tv show The Master, leaps at Chris and Adam this Leap Day to overhear them talking about karate kids, film ventures, middling families, swamped things, and wheelchair dancing.
Show Notes.
Master Ninja I: IMDB. MST3K Wiki.
The Jet Benny Show.
The Lathe of Heaven.
The Master DVD box set.
From Grizzly to Great White: The Death of Film Ventures International.
Dick van Patten, his sister Joyce, his wife Patricia, their kids, Vincent, Nels, and James, and then there’s Timothy.
Hell Night indeed features Linda Blair.
Swamp Thing has a fan wiki, of course.
We talked about Swamp Thing in our episode on Cosmic Princess.
Swamp Thing cares about littering.
Stephen J. Cannell’s vanity card.
We talked about Casablanca in our episode on Overdrawn at the Memory Bank.
Contraceptive Comeback: The Maligned IUD Gets a Second Chance.
How to Make a Ninja Impact Smoke Bomb.
An example of wheelchair dancing.
Return to Horror High.
Bloody Birthday.
The freeware photo-editing software with the terrible name.
Bill Conti.
The Master theme song.
Karl Michael Demer.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and hear a bonus bit with a weird Eight Is Enough factoid.
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank dopples into the network to ask Adam and Chris to interface with Raul Julia, Doctor Who, Casablanca, tote bags, and anteaters. And remember, podcasts like this wouldn’t be possible without listeners like you.
Show Notes.
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
We discussed writing into shows on our episode on the KTMA Gamera vs. Gaos.
Apparently people are still posting on alt.tv.mst3k?
Please give generously to our Patreon. We thank you.
[Update: It is Apollonia James, after all.]
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Lathe of Heaven.
John Varley: The Persistence of Vision contains the original Overdrawn at the Memory Bank.
Kate Bush: Deeper Understanding.
László Kovács is not Victor Laszlo.
Caboblanco. [trailer]
Hitler’s Canadians. [IMDB]
The complicated history of Fraggle Rock’s production. [Edited by Nate Begle, who performs Crow on the tour, whaaaat?]
Linda Griffiths: Maggie and Pierre.
The Mystery Science Theater Hour [on the MST3K Wiki].
Hey, have you considered helping us make the show? That would be sweet of you.
The PBS weird face logo.
The Spouter-Inn tote bag.
There’s also an It’s Just A Show tote bag.
Or hey, look at our other merch!
“Fun” facts about anteaters.
Bonus.
Thank you for indulging us—and supporting us! In addition to helping us make the show, you can hear a bonus bit about animal documentaries.
Gamuary continues as Gamera vs. Gaos causes Chris and Adam to reflect on all the Gamera villains that might have been: the octopus one, the snake one, the ice one, the other ice one, and the one covered in question marks.
Show Notes.
Gamera vs. Gaos: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
The Jet Benny Show. [IMDB]
Gilligan’s Planet. [title sequence]
Laverne and Shirley in the Army. [title sequence]
The WikiTravel guide to Corner Brook, Newfoundland.
Song of Gamera. [I couldn’t find a translation video.]
Maguma.
Gamera vs. Garasharp.
Manda.
We discuss Barugon vs Baragon in this episode on Gamera vs. Barugon.
Gamera vs. the Ice Men.
Allen and Rossi. [clip]
Top Secret! [trailer]
Adam and Chris on puns.
Lou Bega.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and hear a superfan bonus bit where we reveal our plans for saving the world from Gaos.
Happy Gamuary! Sorry if we’re a little late to the party—it’s just that the KTMA episode of Gamera vs. Gaos really threw us for a loop. Adam and Chris try to recombobulate themselves by reminiscing about the joys of Christmas past, beautiful film prints, fountains of blood, robot puberty, and second-rate Gamera songs.
Show Notes.
Gamera vs. Gaos: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
Previous Gamuary instalments: Gamera vs. Barugon: CC, KTMA; Gamera: KTMA, CC.
Scud: The Disposable Assassin.
Lou Harry: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians: The Novel.
Alfred Chicken Phone Message.
Night after Night with Allan Havey.
Some Tugboat.
You can get a sense of the way the movie is supposed to look by watching the trailer.
High-pressure Blood on TV Tropes.
We discussed Evil Dead II in our episode on The Crawling Hand.
Björk: Bachelorette.
Aretha Franklin: There is a Fountain Filled with Blood.
Spirograph.
The peppy ending song.
Oh hey: Our house band Theme Squad has a new collection of instrumentals out! Check it out.
Bonus.
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Let’s have a Patrick Swayze Christmas, as Santa Claus Conquers the Martians gathers Chris and Adam round to sing carols about Pia Zadora, Vince Guaraldi, Donald Pleasence, Milton Delugg, and, you guessed it, Patrick Swayze. Happy holidays, whatever you do or don’t celebrate!
Content warning: Contains sensitive information about Santa which you may not want your young children to overhear.
Show Notes.
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians: IMDb. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch on ShoutFactoryTV!
Oh, we forgot to mention it, but Chris was on a special holiday party episode of This Is Your Mixtape! Check it out, it’s sweet.
Our previous holiday episodes on Santa Claus and Gamera.
Santa Claus: The Movie.
Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic also did this movie.
Rifftrax indeed did Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny.
Pia Zadora defends her controversial win.
Meshulam Riklis obituary.
Butterfly.
The Lonely Lady.
Black Christmas.
The Happy Tree awakens…
Captain Newfoundland. [And an update.]
A mashup.
Darlene Love: Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).
The Cryptkeeper: Have Yourself a Scary Little Christmas.
Our episode on The Starfighters.
Road House.
Rifftrax does Road House [twice].
Kevin Smith does Road House.
Jeff Healey: Angel Eyes.
Rip Taylor obituary.
Kids in the Hall: Chalet 2000.
Rip Torn obituary.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon to make our spirits bright. (And to hear a bonus bit from this episode!)
What’s this?! The Wild Wild World of Batwoman has forced our heroes, Chris and Adam, to dance the Batusi? Can our heroes find enough topics to distract it so they can make an escape? Tune in as they discuss the real Batman, another Batwoman, disappointing Draculas, a not-quite Hercules, and ho-hum Days.
With the short: Cheating.
Show Notes.
The Wild Wild World of Batwoman: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
Cheating: IMDB. UnMSTed.
Our episode on The Crawling Hand, but on YouTube.
Kedi, that documentary about cats in Istanbul.
La Mujer Murciélago [1968].
Batman: The Movie [1966].
Katherine Victor.
Andy Warhol filmography.
Dracula.
John Giorno obituary.
Creepshow.
Batman Dracula [1964].
Jerry Warren.
Frankenhooker.
That Jerry Warren DVD collection.
Frankenstein Island.
Our episode on The Mole People.
Bruno VeSota.
Herk Harvey.
Carnival of Souls.
Chris’s long and boring story, in one link.
Dennis Day.
If you want to try out The Jack Benny Program, the podcast This Day in Jack Benny republishes some of the best episodes, and provides context and annotations.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and your stockings will be filled with bonus bits!
Operation Double 007, a.k.a. Operation Kid Brother, reads Chris and Adam’s lips as they discuss James Bond, Moneypenny, M, Ennio Morricone, and Jessye Norman. Happy Turkey Day!
Show Notes.
Operation Double 007: IMDb. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
Our episode on The Last Chase.
Yes, there will be a Turkey Day Marathon this year.
And yes, Netflix has decided not to host another season of MST3K.
The Bond villain who is thought to be a “latent homosexual” because of his inability to whistle is Francisco Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun.
Chris’s other podcast, The Spouter-Inn, just released on episode on Roald Dahl’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Uncle John’s Absolutely Absorbing Bathroom Reader, 12th edition.
Mad Mission 3: Our Man from Bond Street [trailer].
Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming [trailer].
Our episodes on Gamera: KTMA and Season 3.
Our episode on The Pumaman.
Christy’s The Man for Me in English and Italian.
We discussed John Barry in our episode on Starcrash.
Jessye Norman: obituary.
Jessye Norman sings “When I am Laid in Earth”.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and listen to some bonus bits that didn't quite make this episode!
In this very special episode, Chris tells Adam all about going to see MST3K Live! The Great Cheesy Movie Circus Tour. Spoilers abound, so if you are hoping to see the live shows (which you should!) you might want to save this one for later? But you’ll still get to hear them talk about Circus of Horrors (in which some Pleasence is better than none) and everyone’s favourite movie about a kid who’s good at karate, No Retreat, No Surrender!
Show Notes.
MST3K Live! The tour continues until March. March!
Circus of Horrors: IMDb. Trailer.
No Retreat, No Surrender: IMDb. Trailer. Rifftrax.
Chris mentioned seeing the tour in our episode on Alien from L.A.
Thanks as always to our Patreon supporters.
The Freakmaker: IMDb. Trailer.
Those Netflix puppeteers are Grant Baciocco and Russ Walko.
Miami Connection: IMDb. Trailer. Rifftrax.
Over the Top: IMDb. Trailer. Rifftrax.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon if you want to and if you can. Thanks.
The Crawling Hand creeps up on all fours towards Adam and Chris as they discuss dead astronauts, dismembered hands, emotional actors, verbal birds, and painful cereals.
Show Notes.
The Crawling Hand: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
Rifftrax did The Apple, but it’s unavailable.
Just watch The Apple unriffed.
Jim Vorel’s ranking of all the episodes (now with the Netflix episodes).
Our episode on Hamlet.
List of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents.
The Quatermass Xperiment.
We discussed Quatermass in our episode on Rocketship X-M [which is also about astronauts dying].
Brian Donlevy.
IMDB’s Most Popular Disembodied Hand Movies and TV Shows.
Evil Dead 2.
The Hand.
Rod Lauren is not James Dean.
Rod Lauren: If I Had a Girl.
The Crawling Hand’s poster.
The Rivingtons: The Bird’s the Word.
The Rivingtons: Papa-Oom-Wow-Wow.
The Trashmen: Surfing Bird.
Clarendon.
MST3K Wiki on Dale.
An ad about Dale and Grape-Nuts.
On Grape-Nuts ice cream.
Our previous Halloween episodes on Zombie Nightmare and The Incredible Melting Man.
Adam’s podcast about Canadian horror films, A Part Of Our Scare-itage.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and hear a bonus bit about Adam’s Halloween costume.
Alien from L.A. tries to sell big-boned surface-dwellers Beth and Adam as they talk about Donald “It’s my birthday!” Pleasence, Kathy “Three syllables???" Ireland, Angela “I’d give anything to see my dad again” Pleasence, Menahem “I once worked with Donald Pleasence” Golan, and Yoram “I also worked with Donald Pleasence” Globus.
Show Notes.
Alien from L.A.: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch on YouTube!
Helicopter meets car.
Donald Henry Pleasence, b. 5 October 1919.
Previous Donald Pleasence Day episodes: Warrior of the Lost World and The Pumaman.
MST3K Live with the Great Cheesy Movie Circus Tour!
Trailers for No Retreat, No Surrender and Circus of Horrors.
Kathy Ireland on Phil Donohue talking in her normal voice, the same year as Alien from L.A.
Kathy Ireland gave a talk to Google about her entrepreneurial success.
This American Life on vocal fry.
Jules Verne: Journey to the Center of the Earth. [Doesn’t seem to explain “big-boned”.]
We discussed Cannon on our episode of Outlaw.
Some documentaries about the Go-Go Boys:
The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films.
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films.
Death Wish II and Death Wish 3.
The Apple.
Lambada vs. The Forbidden Dance.
Hanna’s War.
Journey to the Center of the Earth.
Deep Roy [IMDB.]
Jerry Goldsmith: Patton theme.
Where’s the Beef?
Producer Chris talks about The Tempest on his literary podcast, The Spouter-Inn.
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn.
Home Alone 3.
Some bands and songs mentioned in this episode: Ian Anderson/Jethro Tull. Dion [Abraham, Martin and John]. Devo. Ray Stevens. Tom Waits. Debbie Harry/Blondie. Wendy & Lisa/Prince. The Beatles [A Day in the Life]. Exene Cervenka/X. Vanity. Nelson. Edgar Winter. Boy George. Murray Head [One Night in Bangkok]. Billy Ray Cyrus [Achy Breaky Heart]. Tina Turner. Lipps, Inc. [Funkytown]. Pink Floyd. The Who. Rush. Pete Townsend. Paul Westerberg/The Replacements. Bette Midler [Wind Beneath My Wings]. King Creole. Boots Randolph [Yakity Sax]. Spinal Tap. Michael Sembello [Maniac].
Namu Myoho Renge Kyo.
Tina Turner chants.
Yoko Ono: Namyohorengekyo.
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Bonus.
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Beth is missing—so Adam and Chris are on The Last Chase, dodging public transit, six-million-dollar men, evil penguins, the music of Mars, and twenty-year-old cans of Coke.
Show Notes.
The Last Chase: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
Our episodes on Wizards of the Lost Kingdom and its sequel, as well as Warrior of the Lost World.
Riffing Myself.
Joan Rivers’s catalogue.
Legionnaires’ disease.
The first article about what would later be known as AIDS.
Ho-ho-hold the payments with Harvey Atkin!
Mama Luigi reanimated.
The Six Million Dollar Man’s pilot.
Burgess Meredith’s dolphin story is on his IMDB page.
Black Christmas trailers: 1974. 2006. 2019.
The Clown Murders [IMDB].
The origin of the Cheap Trick logo [PDF].
A history of cold fusion.
Peach Blow Fizz.
Gil Mellé: Mars.
We talk about John Berry on our Starcrash episode.
A different Gil: Whitey on the Moon.
Gil Mellé’s Percussotron.
Kolchak: The Night Stalker opening credits.
Gil Mellé: Mindscape.
The Cola Wars.
Listen to the sounds of the car.
Bonus.
Support It's Just A Show on Patreon and you can hear a bonus bit about old sodas.
Happy Labour Day! Adam and Beth celebrate the original dodecalabourer by exploring The Loves of Hercules—including Jayne Mansfield, Loni Anderson, old smurfs, marble columns, and Eddie Vedder.
Show Notes.
The Loves of Hercules: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
Join Producer Chris at the MST3K Live shows in Brooklyn on Sept. 19 and 20.
A Part Of Our Scare-itage has been tackling the Prom Night movies.
The leaked list of season 11 episodes.
Manos HD.
You Must Remember This on Jayne Mansfield.
Paul McCartney said his unkind remarks about Jayne Mansfield in a Playboy Interview.
The Jayne Mansfield–Sophia Loren photo has its own Wikipedia entry.
It was a journalist who was “friends with the Beatles” who reported the story of the cocktail.
Jayne Mansfield and the Church of Satan.
Mansfield 66/67 [trailer].
The Eyes of Tammy Faye [trailer].
The Jayne Mansfield Story [original broadcast].
Our episodes on Hercules against the Moon Men and Hercules Unchained.
Plutarch’s Erotikos [a.k.a. Amatorius/Dialogue on Love].
Totò.
Moira Orfei.
Achiloo.
Hercules Goes Bananas [a.k.a. Hercules in New York] [trailer].
The Devil within Her [trailer].
Hercules vs. the Hydra.
The image Beth shares.
The New Yorker article on white statues.
A theoretically painted Parthenon.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and hear a bonus bit that gets a bit existential.
Lords of the Deep sinks Adam and Beth’s hopes at completely overcoming their Summer of Technical Difficulties. On this episode, we encounter undersea aliens, Roger Constantius Corman, Three’s Company, Fantastic Voyages, and kombucha cocktails.
Show Notes.
Lords of the Deep: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. On Netflix.
The Abyss [trailer].
DeepStar Six [trailer].
Leviathan [trailer].
That scene from The Abyss.
Radiohead: No Surprises.
The Undersea Movies of the Late 1980s.
The Evil Below.
The Rift [a.k.a. Endless Descent] [trailer].
Chris on The Spouter-Inn talking about the water/ocean in literature.
A nice listicle about Roger Jeroboam Corman.
Roger Corman filmography.
Our episode on It Conquered the World.
Mary Ann Fisher.
Our episode on Starcrash.
Robert and Dennis Skotak.
Priscilla Barnes.
Daryl Haney.
Innerspace [trailer].
Isaac Asimov: Fantastic Voyage and Fantastic Voyage II.
Doctor Who credits: Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker.
Magic Johnson’s top 60 TV shows.
If you want to know more about PAL, NTSC, and friends, you probably already know about this YouTuber.
The Abominable Dr. Phibes [trailer].
The Cremaster Cycle [trailer].
On Björk’s Vulnicura.
Make kombucha with Brad.
An excellent bar in Austin, Texas.
Placenta recipes on The Katering Show!
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and hear a bonus bit about jazz!
Our Summer of Technical Difficulties hopefully comes to an end with the final movie speical, the 2nd Annual Summer Blockbuster Review! Do the summer hits of 1998 hold up twenty-one years later? Only Beth and Adam are allowed to decide.
Show Notes.
The 2nd Annual Summer Blockbuster Review on the MST3K Wiki.
The X-Files: Fight the Future [trailer].
Ever After [trailer].
Halloween H20 [trailer].
The Truman Show [trailer].
Truman Syndrome.
Pi [trailer].
That scene from Requiem for a Dream.
Saving Private Ryan [trailer].
Small Soldiers [trailer].
Godzilla [trailer].
A while back we watched the original Godzilla.
Deep Impact [trailer].
Armageddon [trailer].
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and join us on our members-only Slack!
Our Summer of Technical Difficulties continues with a look at the Academy of Robots’ Choice Awards Special! Mike and the Bots once again preview the Oscars. Do their hot takes hold up? Do the Academy’s? Beth and Adam make the final judgment about the prestige pieces of 1997.
Show Notes.
Academy of Robots’ Choice Awards on the MST3K Wiki.
Our look at the MST3K Little Gold Statue Preview Special from a few years earlier.
Mrs. Brown [trailer].
The Wings of a Dove [trailer].
The Favourite [trailer].
Titanic [trailer].
Good Will Hunting [trailer].
Boogie Nights [trailer].
Amistad [trailer].
Starship Troopers [trailer].
Starship Troopers: One of the Most Misunderstood Movies Ever.
The Full Monty [trailer].
Anastasia [trailer].
Face/Off [trailer].
Darkman [trailer].
We discussed speedboat chases in our episode on Time Chasers
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life [trailer].
Con Air [trailer].
Gattaca [trailer].
Jackie Brown [trailer].
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Happy Canada Day! The Final Sacrifice is on the hunt for Beth and Adam, so they explore the Great White North talking about Jon Mikl Thor, The Red Green Show, Ed the Sock, Mike Myers, and other milestones in Canadian culture.
Show Notes.
The Final Sacrifice: IMDB. MST3K Wiki.
Before you write in, Canada Day celebrates the Constitution Act of 1867 which joined a few colonies into Canada.
The Heritage Minute on the name Canada.
A Part of Our Scare-itage on The Mask.
Jon Mikl Thor, star of Zombie Nightmare, also made Rock ’n‘ Roll Nightmare.
Due South.
The Red Green Show.
We discuss Cyril Sneer in our episode about Mac and Me.
Burton Cummings’s band The Guess Who: These Eyes.
Stompin’ Tom Connors: Canada Day Up Canada Way.
A short history of the mullet.
Ed the Sock.
Ed the Sock’s website, and his more promising Twitter.
MuchMusic.
Sass Jordan: So Hard.
We discuss Warren Grog on our episode about Gamera vs. Barugon [302].
Ed’s Night Party.
Ed the Sock on Jian Ghomeshi.
Freddy Got Fingered [trailer].
Ben Mulroney.
VHS box art for The Final Sacrifice.
Hanna [trailer].
Larry Csonka.
The Mod Squad.
Stevie Nicks and Chris Isaak: Red River Valley.
Johnny Cash: Please Don’t Play Red River Valley.
Mary Jo Pehl on The Final Sacrifice.
Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island.
H. Rider Haggard: King Solomon’s Mines and She.
Some smart phones.
Bonus.
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Our Summer of Technical Difficulties continues with a look at The 1st Annual Summer Blockbuster Review! Mike and the Bots had their turn talking about the biggest movies of 1997, so why not Adam and Beth? They reminisce about The Fifth Element, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Men in Black, Contact, Batman & Robin, and more!
Show Notes.
The 1st Annual Summer Blockbuster Review on the MST3K Wiki.
Our look at the MST3K Little Gold Statue Preview Special.
The Fifth Element [trailer].
The Lost World: Jurassic Park [trailer].
Jurassic Park stop motion tests.
Men in Black [trailer].
Wild Wild West [trailer].
Contact [trailer].
Batman & Robin [trailer].
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Outlaw [of Gor] shows a lot of flesh in the hopes that Beth and Adam will visit its planet with tales of dubious philosophers, stunt directors, call-girl rackets, one-handed push-ups, and disgusting worms!
Show Notes.
Outlaw: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Watch.
Heinz: Just Like Eddie.
The Tornados: Telstar.
The Ska-Dows: Telstar.
Support us on Patreon and hang out with us in the Megaphonic Slack.
Robbie Rist.
Gor links [reader discretion advised]:
Something Awful: I Swear to Gor.
Gor’s publication history.
An interview with John Norman.
John Norman: Outlaw of Gor. [Maybe don’t buy this.]
Houseplants of Gor. [Do read this.]
Gor [the original movie].
John “Bud” Cardos.
Our episode on The Day Time Ended.
Kingdom of the Spiders [trailer].
Deadwood ’76 [trailer].
Our episode on Eegah!.
Hells Angels on Wheels [trailer].
The Female Bunch [trailer].
The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films [trailer].
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films [trailer].
Harry Alan Towers.
Urbano Barberini et cetera et cetera…
Mike Hammer.
The Dingaling Sisters.
The Firesign Theatre: Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers.
Jack Palance’s Oscar speech.
Tango and Cash [trailer].
Shane [trailer].
Alone in the Dark [trailer].
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and you can join us in our members-only Slack and also hear a bonus bit about Fabio!
Beth and Adam are experiencing a Summer of Technical Difficulties, so they’ve lined up some Very Special Special Specials! First up is the MST3K Little Gold Statue Preview Special, a rundown of all the great Academy Award–nominated films fo 1994—including gems like Small Soldiers and Junior!
Show Notes.
MST3K Little Gold Statue Preview Special: MST3K Wiki.
A sample of curiously digitized Betamax footage.
We spoke about VHS vs. Beta in the members-only bonus bit for our episode on The Day Time Ended.
So many trailers:
The Shawshank Redemption.
Forrest Gump.
Pulp Fiction.
The Lion King.
Four Weddings and a Funeral.
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Hoop Dreams.
On Hoop Dreams: Celebrating the anniversary of an Oscar snub.
Little Women.
Blue Sky.
Nell.
Ed Wood.
Martin Landau PSA.
Heavenly Creatures.
Queen Margot.
Tom and Viv.
Elton John: Can You Feel the Love Tonight?
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Untamed Youth finds Beth and Adam guilty of loitering with Mamie van Doren, Eddie Cochran, Lurene Tuttle, Les Baxter, and Greg Brady.
Show Notes.
Untamed Youth: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch on ShoutFactoryTV.
It’s Just A Show finally has some merch! Buy it, buy it all!
Curtis the Dinoplant was first mentioned in our episode on Future War.
Mamie Van Doren on Twitter.
There’s a great interview with MVD on the ShoutFactory DVD of this episode.
We also raved about Mamie’s appearance in Girls Town.
A sampler of the interview with Joel on the DVD release.
Some links about prison and migrant labour in the United States.
Weird-ass tractors.
Nothing But Trouble [trailer].
The New York Times review of Untamed Youth.
Eddie Cochran: Summertime Blues and Somethin’ Else.
Bong apparently didn’t mean bong yet when this movie was made.
Eddie Cochran: Three Stars, about Richie Valens, Buddy Holly, and the Big Bopper.
[Cochran didn’t write that song, though; Tommy Dee did.]
Gorezone.
Howard W. Koch receives an award.
Frankenstein 1970 [trailer].
Border Incident [trailer].
Robinson Crusoe on Mars [trailer].
Nominate someone for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Du Quoin, Illinois.
Sulky races.
The Italian Cut.
Les Baxter: Busy Port, from Ritual of the Savage.
Les Baxter: Clair de Lune, from Moog Rock.
Yma Sumac: Xtabay (Lure of the Unknown Love).
TVTropes on Cousin Oliver.
On The Brady Bunch Hour.
Car phones.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and you can hear a bonus bit about zines.
The Violent Years celebrates our fiftieth (!) episode by treating Beth and Adam to some Ed Wood, old-timey titillation, new country, squishy electronics, and uncanny dummies.
Includes a short: Young Man’s Fancy!
Content warning: This episode contains a discussion of the sexual violence in the movie, especially from about 20:00 to 35:00 (until the Shallow 13). If your podcast app supports chapters, it’s easy to skip over that segment if you’re not up for it.
Show Notes.
The Violent Years: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. UnMSTed. Trailer. New trailer.
Young Man’s Fancy: IMDB. UnMSTed.
Check out A Part Of Our Scare-itage, Adam’s other podcast, about the wild wild world of Canadian horror films!
Ed Wood. Not the worst filmmaker ever.
Although we haven’t done any MSTed Ed Wood movies before, we did talk about Jail Bait in our episode on Hercules Unchained.
Ed Wood [the Tim Burton film] [trailer].
Orgy of the Dead [trailer].
TV Tropes’ page on female-on-male sexual assault lists other examples.
Belle de Jour [trailer].
Michael Terr [IMDB].
Jean Moorehead in Playboy Magazine [reasonably SFW.]
RKO logos.
A Star Is Born [1976] [trailer].
Jack Benny and Mel Blanc.
O Fortuna.
BOB 100 FM ad.
Nancy Walker: I Hate Men.
Crispin Hellion Glover: These Boots Are Made for Walking.
Frank FM.
Our episode on Girls Town.
A ton of Jam Handy shorts can be watched thanks to the Prelinger Archives.
A Great New Star.
Jimmy Nelson.
A Nestlé ad.
Update: Farfel did return in more recent ads.
The demonic origins of ventriloquism.
The Independent article on ventriloquism.
The 10 creepiest ventriloquist dummies of all time.
A Part Of Our Scare-itage on Pin.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and you can hear a bonus bit about Ed Wood and porn (but maybe not how you think).
Racket Girls ogles Adam and Beth as they wrestle over favourite episodes, stock footage auteurs, foxy boxing, Lisa Loeb, and so many Stooges.
Includes a short: Are You Ready for Marriage?
Show Notes.
Racket Girls: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch for free on ShoutFactorytv.com!
Are You Ready for Marriage?: IMDB. UnMSTed.
Our first anniversary special.
Check out our episode guide for any episodes you’ve missed!
And thank you for everyone who answered our survey!
George Weiss.
Test Tube Babies.
Update: The early history of “test-tube babies”.
Weiss’s Umberto Scalli trilogy: The Devil’s Sleep. Racket Girls. Dance Hall Racket.
George Weiss’s filmography.
Some documentation on Clara Mortensen—there’s a lot less on Rita Martínez or Peaches Page.
What is foxy boxing?
That 1937 news article about Clara v. Rita.
Rhonda Rousey.
GLOW.
The Eiger Sanction [trailer].
Estes Kefauver and the Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce.
Lisa Loeb: Stay.
Lisa Loeb posted the MST3K clip!
A history of The Three Stooges.
The final years of Curly.
How to mark cards and load dice.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and you can hear a bonus bit with more tales of Clara v. Rita!
The Painted Hills moderates as Beth and Adam debate about good dogs, messy dogs, gold logs, backwards gods, and the need for clean.
Includes a short: Body Care and Grooming.
Show Notes.
The Painted Hills: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch on YouTube.
Body Care and Grooming: IMDB.
Answer our quick birthday survey!
Lassie and Pal.
We talk about The Littlest Hobo more in our episode on The Girl in Lovers Lane.
Dog House.
An overview of the California Gold Rush.
The New Zealand Evangelist on gold fever.
Harold S. Diehl: A Textbook for Healthful Living.
Human Growth.
Pal’s Gallant Journey.
Paul Kelly, Dorothy McKaye, and Ray Raymond.
Chief Yowlachie.
Little Brown Jug.
True Boardman.
Wilbur Mills and Fanne Foxe.
Oh! Heavenly Dog [trailer].
A collection of famous backmasked songs.
Mark Mothersbaugh: “We smell sausage.”
On Disney’s “subliminal messages”.
Backwards Masking: Unmasked.
The Late Shift and its sequel, The War for Late Night.
John Oliver on Jay Leno.
The Comedians.
The Art of Manliness on vintage educational films.
Bonus.
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The Time Travelers walk through a time screen to time Beth and Adam as they talk about cuddle parties, pink androids, not-quite-mutants, mangled endings, and other purgatories.
Show Notes.
The Time Travelers: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch on Netflix.
The American Champion Citabria.
Time Chasers on Rifftrax.
Space: 1999: Dragon’s Domain.
We have previous discussed Reptilicus [and Dirch Passer].
Ib Melchior obituary.
Death Race 2000 [trailer].
About The Volcano Monsters.
Lost in Space [trailer].
Peter Strudwick [IMDB].
His book Come Run with Me.
Being Different [trailer].
Irwin Allen’s Time Travelers [IMDB].
Journey to the Center of Time [IMDB].
Vilmos Zsigmond.
An inscrutable clip of Chatsworth Osbourne Jr on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
Forrest J. Ackerman.
Esquivel!
Zippy the Pinhead.
Dante’s Purgatory [vs. the Christian notion of Purgatory].
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and you can hear a bonus bit with allegedly happy futures.
Time Chasers will follow Beth and Adam anywhere, anywhen, in order to hear them talk about ancient aliens, altered timelines, alternative transportation, altercations on the high seas, and beautiful Vermont.
Show Notes.
Time Chasers: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
Snap Judgment on Heaven’s Gate.
Chariots of the Gods.
In Search of Ancient Astronauts.
We also talk about ancient aliens in our episode on The Pumaman.
The 10 best things to do in Rutland, Vermont.
Traders or Street Legal.
Minute Physics on Time Travel in Fiction.
How Venus and Uranus spin.
Behind the scenes of Time Chasers.
Promo featurette from Edgewood Studios.
Diamond Run [trailer].
Pressure Point [trailer].
Icebreaker [trailer].
Illegal Aliens [trailer].
Addicted to Fame [trailer].
Castleton t-shirt.
WorldFest–Houston International Film Festival.
Bonnie Pritchard [IMDB].
Space lollies!
Puppet on a Chain [trailer].
Commodore 1541.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and you can hear a bonus bit with more about time travel.
The Day Time Ended quietly turns on the light for Beth and Adam so they can talk about 1970s sci-fi, 1970s patriarchs, 1970s Bands, 1970s couches, and 1880s pizza.
Show Notes.
The Day Time Ended: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
Megaphonic on Instagram.
Grant Baciocco on Instagram.
Adam guests on The Fiasco Brothers Watch a Movie 36. The Brother from Another Planet…
…and on Trash Canon 4. Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace.
Sofia Coppola’s finest moment.
We discussed Steven Spielberg with Mac and Me.
Famous Monsters of Filmland 161 interviewed the special effects crew.
The Odyssey of Flight 33.
An overview of Charles Band’s career.
Dracula’s Dog [trailer].
Trancers [trailer].
The Projection Booth 375 ends with an interview with Bryan Yuzna about suing Band.
The Day Time Ended soundtrack, by Richard Band.
Million Monkey Theater on The Day Time Ended.
“You disgusting worm!”
Love is…
Some articles on 1970s interior design.
Grizzly Man [trailer].
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and you can hear a bonus bit about Betamax!
Cosmic Princess tries to make one host by editing together Beth and Adam, who report on the thirtieth anniversary of this MST3K episode, the thirtieth anniversary of Super Bowl XXIII, the twentieth anniversary of Space: 1999, the twentieth anniversary of Brian Blessed appearing in a Star War, and the zeroth anniversary of this episode of It’s Just A Show.
Show Notes.
Cosmic Princess: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
The original “Godzilla” noises from episode 302 Gamera.
Diet Pepsi.
Super Bowl XIII.
The other KTMA episodes we’ve watched: Gamera, Gamera vs. Barugon, Time of the Apes.
The first episode of Late Night with Conan O’Brien.
Watch Space: 1999 on ShoutFactoryTV.
This “movie” consists of The Metamorph and Space Warp [with a few tweaks].
David “Darth Vader” Prowse on Space: 1999.
Elvis Presto and friends.
Space: 1899.
The original Swamp Thing theme.
The revised Swamp Thing theme.
Queen’s Flash Gordon theme.
Indulge yourself: Brian Blessed! Brian Blessed! Brian Blessed! Brian Blessed!
Derek Wadsworth [series 2] vs. Barry Gray [series 1].
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and you can hear a bonus bit about improv. [And help us make our show!]
Happy Gamuary! The original Gamera emerges to listen to Beth and Adam explain all about turtle pets, turtle food, turtle myths, turtle fanciers, and a quartet of adolescent turtle warriors.
Show Notes.
Gamera: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer [JP].
Producer Chris will be at PodCon 2. Drop us a line if you’ll be there too!
Last Gamuary, we covered Gamera vs. Barugon (and the KTMA version).
Turtles as pets?
Tortoises are better.
QI on the giant tortoise.
On Turtle soup.
More about turtle soup.
Mock turtle soup.
Cudley the Cowlick.
Testudinal creation myths.
Julia Child’s massive lobster.
Lobsters do not actually live forever.
Turtle Island.
Japanese turtle myths.
The novel Beth mentions, with the turtle and the carpet, is Joris-Karl Huysmans’s Against the Grain.
The Four Leaves: Epitaph.
Enver Altenbay.
Tadashi Yamauchi.
ちび.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and you can hear a bonus bit about Jim “Ernest Goes To _____” Varney.
Gamuary in December‽ It’s a Christmas miracle, as Gamera flies in with presents for Beth and Adam, who get festive with coke ads, rat kings, world peace, excessive colours, and Christmas trees.
Show Notes.
Gamera: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer [JP].
IJAS on YouTube.
Coca-Cola advertising slogans.
Ridley Scott’s Max Hedroom Coke ad.
Things Go Better with Coke.
The Who: Coke 2.
Last Gamuary: IJAS on Gamera vs. Barugon, season 3 and KTMA versions.
Samples from YTV PJs.
Interview with Josh and Joel about the KTMA era.
Beth, Adam, and Chris talked about the original Godzilla on The Scene Of The Scene.
Canadian Model United Nations.
Gammera the Invincible [trailer].
The Moons: Gamera.
Space Monster Gamera.
No Tickee No Washee.
No Tickee No Shirtee.
Punky Brewster.
Roger Ebert on colorization.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream [clip].
A recent defence of colorization.
The history of the Christmas tree.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and you can hear a bonus bit with some extra bits from this episode, including Adam’s dramatic Gameronologue.
Mac and Me will drill holes into Beth and Adam’s living rooms if they don’t talk about product placement, Coca-Cola™, America™, McDonald’s™, and Steven Spielberg™.
Show Notes.
Mac and Me: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch on Netflix.
TV Tropes on It’s Just A Show.
Tipperary on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Paul Rudd on Conan.
An overview of how Mac and Me got made.
Examples of product placement in movies.
Just after we recorded this episode, Lindsay Ellis put out a very interesting video essay about product placement which touches on MST3K, E.T., and Wayne’s World.
Alan Silvestri.
The soundtrack to Mac and Me.
Includes Jara Lane: You're not a Stranger Anymore and Bobby Caldwell: Take Me I’ll Follow.
Or buy it off Amazon, currently for $679. Maybe Adam should sell his copy?
Earle Hagen: Scoring for Films.
On Mr. Freezes.
Nell [trailer].
Meatballs Part II [clip].
Boots Randolphs: Yakety Sax.
Chet Atkins: Yakety Axe.
Glen Campbell: Yakety Sax.
André Rieu: Yakety Sax.
Breakin’ [trailer].
Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo [trailer].
Rappin’ [trailer].
Cadbury gorilla.
Howie Scream for 12 Hours.
George “Buck” Flower.
The “Eric gets shot” ending.
McDonaldland.
The story of the raccoon stealing Adam’s chocolates was told in our episode on Cry Wilderness.
Cyril Sneer of The Raccoons.
E.T.: The Extraterrestrial [trailer].
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and you can hear a bonus bit with more about Adam and Beth’s adventures in McDonaldland.
At the Earth’s Core drills Beth and Adam about endurance tests, mesmerizing actors, overwrought styles, long-lasting ideologies, and deep-seated commitments.
Show Notes.
At the Earth’s Core: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch on Netflix.
Host segments from the 2018 Turkey Day marathon might show up on the official MST3K YouTube channel.
Netflix’s MST3K: The Gauntlet (season 12) trailer.
Jonathan “Dr.” Katz already had a podkatz.
Cesar Romero’s moustache in Batman.
A good write-up on Peter Cushing.
Cushing as The Doctor.
Cushing in Nineteen Eighty-four.
Amicus Productions.
We describe zoptics in our episode on The Pumaman.
A Part Of Our Scare-itage 1. The Uncanny.
The Monster Club [trailer].
The Lawnmower Man [trailer].
A history of steampunk.
Mervyn Peake.
The Time Machine (1960) [trailer].
Time After Time [trailer].
Friends of the show The Fiasco Brothers discuss Time After Time on Dial T for Fiasco 33.
Clockwork Droids in Doctor Who.
Tarzana v. Tarzan.
Rhamphorhyncus.
Dire Wolves.
Scrooge McDuck.
TaterSalad.com.
H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines.
Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World.
H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine.
Edgar Rice Burroughs’s At The Earth’s Core.
H. Rider Haggard’s She.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and you can hear a bonus bit with more about Beth’s wedding.
This Island Earth rams its ovipositor down Beth and Adam’s throats (but it’s not an alien!) during an awkward dinner party exchange about interocitors, interfering studios, interplanetary strife, interloping cats, and international space research.
Show Notes.
This Island Earth: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
The Shout! Factory MST3K: The Movie Blu-Ray/DVD is great.
Adam’s new Canadian horror movie podcast, A Part Of Our Scare-itage.
Adam on This Is Your Mixtape! [Finally joining Beth and Producer Chris.]
ParaNorman [trailer] [but not the one Adam describes].
The Dana Gould Hour: Phantom of the Halloweenery.
Chris’s original t-shirt looked like this one.
Barb Wire [trailer].
London Has Fallen [trailer].
Siskel & Ebert’s review.
Forbidden Planet [trailer].
Our episodes on the season 8 Universal Monster movies: Revenge of the Creature; The Leech Woman; The Mole People; The Deadly Mantis.
The Comedy of Terrors [trailer].
Rhubarb [clip].
The PATSY Awards.
John McCormack: It’s a Long Way to Tipperary [1914].
Snoopy’s World War One fantasies often include the song.
Vince Guaraldi: It’s a Long Way to Tipperary.
More on It’s a Long Way to Tipperary.
Highlights of the Hubble’s exploration of the universe [NASA].
One astronaut who nearly broke the Hubble.
The Canadarm.
The current Canadian $5 note.
Raymond F. Jones: This Island Earth [the novel].
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and you can hear a bonus bit with more on This Island Earth, the novel.
The Incredible Melting Man keeps an eye out for Adam and Beth as they talk about horror movies, horror comedies, horror effects, horrors in space, and horror stories from Hollywood.
Have a spooky Halloween!
Show Notes.
The Incredible Melting Man: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
Adam’s new podcast about Canadian horror films is A Part Of Our Scare-itage.
Axe Cop, Vol. 1.
Rob Zombie: Meet the Creeper.
Galaxina [trailer].
The Bad Movie Report.
Street Trash [trailer].
The interview with Rick Baker for Japanese release.
Alex “A.J.” Rebar [IMDB].
Microscopic Liquid Subway to Oblivion [opening credits].
The Fantastic Four’s origin story.
Rob Bottin [IMDB].
Streaming Stars [TV Tropes].
A video about how to make the star field effect.
Octaman [clip].
LeRoy Neiman.
Dress up as the Melty Man for Halloween, kids!
Saturn and its rings.
How solar flares could hurt you.
More on solar flares.
Mary Jo Pehl’s thoughts on the episode.
Corman’s Fantastic Four.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and you can listen to us learn a few more things while not quite talking about The Incredible Melting Man.
Robot Monster wants to be like the hu-man, to laugh like the hu-man. Will Adam and Beth help? Or will they whisper about childhood dreams, rocket backpacks, commie slander, déjà vu, and bumbling bees.
And some shorts: Radar Men from the Moon episodes 4 & 5!
Show Notes.
Robot Monster: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch on Shout Factory TV.
Radar Men from the Moon: IMDB.
Be cool like devoted listener Chad and write us!
We discussed monsters molesting women in our episode on Revenge of the Creature…
…and this same footage of animal cruelty in King Dinosaur.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow [trailer].
Red Letter Media on The Rocketeer.
Searching for Phil Tucker’s Space Jockey.
A short history of guys in gorilla suits in movies.
Wyott Ordung as BB-Eyes in two episodes of Dick Tracy.
The Navy vs. the Night Monsters [trailer].
George Nader’s novel Chrome [review].
[Clarification: Selena Royle co-founded the Actors Free Dinner Club during the depression, which is different from the Hollywood Canteen, which was started during World War 2.]
A book about women and the blacklist, including Selena Royle.
Red Channels.
Adam’s Elmer Bernstein Sampler Platter.
Our bubbly episode on Teenagers from Outer Space.
The invention of the Whoopee Cushion.
Space Cadet.
Robot Monster special edition wraparound footage.
The Fifty Worst Films of All Time. [The list.] As discussed in our episode on Eegah.
Robot Monster: The Musical.
Bees! How do they bee?
Lawrence Welk with bubbles.
Anders Runestad: I Cannot, Yet I Must.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and you can hear a few more fun tidbits about Robot Monster (and bees).
The Pumaman leaps awkwardly towards Beth and Adam, asking them to reveal the truth about Donald Pleasence, anti-fascists, ancient aliens, dinky synth tunes, and how to fly.
Show Notes.
The Pumaman: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
Beth on Thereby!
Season 12 premieres on Turkey Day!
October 5 is Donald Pleasence Day, which we celebrated last year by watching Warrior of the Lost World.
The Willa Cather House.
Alberto De Martino [obituary].
The Eagle Has Landed [trailer].
To the Edge of the World and Back: Tribute to Donald Pleasence.
Did ancient aliens build the pyramids? [No.]
Baghdad Battery.
Antikythera mechanism.
Sho Kosugi.
Renato Serio.
Bunga bunga parties.
Heavenly Bodies [trailer].
Home-brew Pumaman action figures.
The Dry Look.
Miguel Ángel Fuentes’s Facebook group.
The key scene from The Evil That Men Do. [Careful!]
Frankenstein’s Great Aunt Tillie [trailer].
Zoran Perisic discussing the Zoptic process on Superman: The Movie.
More about the Zoptic process.
Why did people wear powdered wigs?
Smelly Versailles.
ContraPoints.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and you can hear an extended bonus bit about, yes, Donald Pleasence.
Girl in Gold Boots shimmies as Beth and Adam kick about castle dwellers, caged dancers, creepy discotheques, crushed dreams, and child-rearing demonstrations.
Show Notes.
Girl in Gold Boots: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch on Netflix.
The new MST3K comic book. First one’s free!
Robocop vs. The Terminator.
Paul Chaplin on this episode.
Ted V. Mikels [IMDB].
The Corpse Grinders [trailer].
Ted V. Mikels obituary.
The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels [trailer].
Texas Toad Lickers: Slayers.
Preston Epps: Bongo Rock.
An article that opens with an anecdote about Mark Herron’s later days.
Real Celebrity Miracles [IMDB].
Clip of the Bara Byrnes documentary A Bittersweet Tale of a Hollywood Failure.
Bara Byrnes’s memoir.
Some Electric Circus.
The Haunted House. More.
Sonny and Cher visit the Haunted House.
Adam in a haunted house.
The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley [intro].
Tab Hunter Confidential.
Tab & Tony, upcoming biopic.
On Elaine’s dance.
Tikkun.
Jiger.
See IJAS 11 on Eegah for more dune buggy fun.
The Third World: Do You Want to Laugh or Cry?
Jeremy Allison’s blog has many interesting things about Girl in Gold Boots.
The Lonely Lady [trailer].
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Cod’ine.
Buffy nurses Cody.
Buffy Sainte-Marie has a new song with Tanya Tagaq: “You Got to Run (Spirit of the Wind)”
The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
Bonus.
Support our show on Patreon and you can hear an extended bonus bit with more about Ted V. Mikels.
Hercules Unchained forgets all about Adam and Beth as they discuss fierce eyebrows, Greek drama, Hulk colours, creepy kitchens, and the Hellenistic ideal.
Show Notes.
Hercules Unchained: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. UnMSTed. Watch on Shout Factory TV.
Crow’s bits.
The Opposite Of Lonely 8. Having a Baby. [Featuring Beth!]
The Scene Of The Scene 12. The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood. [Featuring Adam, Producer Chris, and Michael from This Is Your Mixtape!]
The Scene Of The Scene 13. Three Identical Strangers. [Featuring Adam, Beth, and Producer Chris!]
20,000 bees.
It’s Just A Show 12 on Hercules Against the Moon Men.
Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus.
Aeschylus: The Seven Against Thebes.
One timeline of Classical Mythology.
James J. Clauss: Hercules Unchained: Contaminatio, Nostos, Katabasis, and the Surreal. [Paywalled.]
Where to begin with Mario Bava.
A review of Black Sabbath, featuring the montage Adam discusses.
A sample shot from Hercules Unchained restored.
Black Sabbath [trailer].
Hercules Unchained: The comic book.
Italian version of “Evening Star”.
The Original Caste: One Tin Soldier.
Mindbender.
Curly Sue [trailer].
Jail Bait.
Beth’s favourite frame of Jail Bait.
It’s Just A Show 20 on Gamera vs. Barugon [K04].
Steve Allen on The Simpsons.
The Way to Eden.
The 5th Dimension: Last Night I Didn’t Get to Sleep at All.
June Valli: Unchained Melody.
Bonus.
Support our show on Patreon and access a superfan bonus bit with more about Steve Reeves and Jail Bait.
Catalina Caper hosts a Tupperware party for Beth and Adam, where they chat about going to the beach, ghosts in their bikinis, grooving with your booty, gay guys in back alleys, and giving it a burp.
Show Notes.
Catalina Caper: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch on Netflix.
Michael of This Is Your Mixtape.
The Wonderful Grand Band: Babylon Mall.
Mopey Mumble-Mouse is now called Mopey. They’ve taken down their early work.
Theme Squad’s new album You Have the Rest of Your Life. (Also on Spotify, Apple Music, etc.)
Premise Beach.
We talked about Archie in episode 11 on Eegah.
Beach Blanket Bingo.
Back to the Beach.
Eddie Deezen on beach movies.
Eddie Deezen on Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast.
Pajama Party.
Ghost in the Invisible Bikini.
A Washington Post article based on a Smithsonian article based on a book about the history of going to the beach.
Mary Wells: Never Steal Anything Wet.
Mary Wells: My Guy.
The lyrics of Never Steal Anything Wet.
The Cascades: There’s a New World Just Opening for Me.
The Cascades: Rhythm of the Rain.
The Kinks: There’s a New World Just Opening for Me.
Carol Connors: The Book of Love.
The Teddy Bears: To Know Him Is to Love Him.
An article on Carol Connors.
Little Richard: Scuba Party.
Little Richard: Tutti Frutti and more.
Little Richard in the Pee-Wee Christmas Special.
Two articles on Little Richard.
Little Richard’s drummer explains the original lyrics to Tutti Frutti.
Little Richard on Nightlife with David Brenner on good booty.
Tom Servo: Creepy Girl.
Clowns in the Sky.
Two articles about Tommy Kirk.
Man’s Genesis.
Fatal Voyage: The Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood.
On fate of the S.S. Catalina.
Allan Sherman: Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (Camp Granada Song).
“Weird Al” Yankovic’s debut album.
Murikami-Wolf/Fred Wolf Films.
Did Tupperware parties change the lives of women?
Data’s skin.
Cherry 2000.
Galaxina.
Twiki.
Tik-Tok.
Robot or Not? passes judgment on clockwork robots and cyborgs [and Crow and Tom Servo!].
R.O.T.O.R.
Never Steal Anything Small.
Bonus.
Support our show on Patreon and access a superfan bonus bit about another young Disney actor.
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II casts a spell on Beth and Adam to reveal all about heroes, horndogs, homosociality, homicides, and hocus pocus.
Show Notes.
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch on Netflix.
The Public Medievalist on Race, Racism and the Middle Ages, and in particular Helen Young’s article “Where Do the ‘White Middle Ages’ Come From?”
The monomyth.
Dan Harmon’s Story Wheel.
The Odyssey.
A bibliographic essay on “Queer Tolkien”.
Charles B. Griffith.
Dinocroc vs. Supergator.
Conspiracy about David Carradine’s death.
Lana Clarkson as Little Richard. [Do not watch.]
Lana Clarkson’s tragic death.
The Ramones and others who Phil Spector [allegedly] held at gunpoint.
Sid Haig in Spider Baby.
Joel’s regrets.
Tremors.
Emo Philips.
An Oingo Boingo playlist.
Forbidden Zone.
Magic words and the abracadabra triangle.
Abraxas vs. Abraxas.
Cædmon.
Bonus.
A bonus bit, with some behind-the-scenes footage, is available as a thank you to our Patreon supporters.
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom seeks out Beth and Adam for recycled clips, recycled music, creepy seductions, kept crypts, and ambiguous colours.
Show Notes.
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Watch on Netflix.
Adam, Beth, and Producer Chris discuss the original Godzilla on The Scene Of The Scene.
Robert Forster.
Carnosaur.
Update: Though Deathstalker III is a New Classic production, WOTLK is from Trinity Productions [not New Horizons]. Still a Roger Corman company, though.
Sorceress. [WOTLK footage and the James Horner score can be found in this NSFW trailer.]
Christopher Young’s likes include Bela Lugosi and The Beatles.
James Horner, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and more.
The Blaster Beam.
Craig Huxley plays with his Blaster Beam.
Adam Sandler and Susan Sarandon.
Labyrinth.
“Just fear me. Love me. Do as I say and I will be your slave.”
MORTAL KOMBAT.
On the creation and legacy of Dragon’s Lair.
The Tales From The Crypt animated series.
Secrets of the Crypt Keeper’s Haunted House.
The Visit. Its credits.
Disney’s Tiki Room.
The failed Crypt reboot.
An article and a whole book on mauve.
99 Percent Invisible on the Toronto Raptors.
Infinite Jest.
You’re Not Funny often features Adam’s Cryptkeeper love.
Bonus.
Some bonus bits, with more wizards, is available as a thank you to our Patreon supporters.
Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell deathstalks Adam and Bethstalker as they deathtalk about fonts, swords, sorcery, batches, and Ren Faires. Huzzah!
Show Notes.
Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
Season 12 news!
MST3K on tour! [Help Adam go.]
The Brain.
Deathstalker.
A Men without Hats video.
Deathstalker II and Deathstalker IV: Match of Titans.
Wikipedia’s list of sword and sorcery films.
Satanic Pandemonium on sword and sorcery films.
Conan Exiles and its silders.
Batrachomyomachia.
Alien Nation.
Miguel Ángel Fuentes.
Gary Sandy’s batch played Andy Travis’s batch in WKRP in Cincinnati.
The 1920’s college kids in their crazy fashion.
The Raven.
Milburn Stone.
Battle Beyond the Stars.
The ambassador to Denmark.
Vintage Capital Group.
More on the ambassador.
The Society for Creative Anachronism.
Kevin Murphy on Ren Faires.
Emu legs at Disneyland?
A little French history.
Deathstalkers.
Bonus.
A bonus bit, with more about the Deathstalker movies, is available as a thank you to our Patreon supporters.
Time of the Apes jumps forward in time to hear Beth and Adam discuss alternate edits, timelines without Joel, circus music, freezer burns, and Barry ZeVan [the weatherman].
Show Notes.
Time of the Apes: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
See also IJAS 28 on MST3K 306 Time of the Apes.
Will Penny. [Trailer.]
Paganini Horror. [Trailer.]
Fatal Frames. [Trailer, in Italian.]
Our discussion of other types of hosts was in IJAS 10 on MST3K 1101 Reptilicus.
The mighty breadfruit.
Eiji Tsubaraya.
Colossus: The Forbin Project. [Trailer.]
Avoid the Noid and Yo! Noid.
The Colonel Bogey March.
Pierre Boulle: Planet of the Apes and Bridge over the River Kwai.
Joanie Summers: Johnny Get Angry.
k.d. lang & the Reclines: Johnny Get Angry.
Toshiaki Tsushima.
Jerry Goldsmith’s Planet of the Apes suite.
David Foster’s Flight of the Snowbirds.
Jerry Goldsmith’s Escape from the Planet of the Apes suite.
Caroline [Yurika] has a [terrible] song.
Cryonics is not cryogenics.
Twin paradox.
Disney on Ice.
Adam’s podcast And Thereby Hangs A Tale. 2. Harrison Had a Headache.
Cold lasers.
Barry ZeVan’s memoir.
Barry ZeVan’s website.
Update: Ryan Snoddon has just left the building.
Saru no Gundan merch.
Bonus.
A bonus bit, about cryogenics, vampires, and penguins, is available as a thank you to our Patreon supporters.
Time of the Apes dubs over Beth and Adam as they investigate apes, damn dirty apes, naked apes, humble country apes, and owls.
Show Notes.
Time of the Apes: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. TV ad trailer. Watch it on Netflix or YouTube.
Basket Case 2 and Basket Case 3.
Planet of the Apes Wiki.
Saru No Gundan, the TV series that has been edited into Time Of The Apes.
Exhaustive rundown of Saru No Gundan on the Planet of the Apes Wiki. [Thanks!]
It’s Just A Show 25 on The Deadly Mantis, which features even more Planet of the Apes talk.
Japanese fandom and Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.
Prophecies of Nostradamus.
Apes in Godzilla vs Mecha-Godzilla [1973].
Tsuburaya Productions.
It’s Just A Show 21 on KTMA’s Gamera vs. Barugon goes in-depth on Eiji Tsuburaya’s connection to Gamera and Japanese special effects.
White supremacists and Japan.
First Alert With William Conrad.
Mayor Tommy Shanks from SCTV.
It’s About Time.
Nick Lowe’s “I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass”.
Bedtime for Bonzo.
The Ramones’ “Bonzo Goes To Bitburg”.
David Hedison.
The owls are not what they seem.
White-faced gibbons.
Larry Cohen’s The Invaders.
Faces of Death.
Darren McGavin, character actor extraordinaire and ultra-dad.
Issey Miyake.
Sandy Frank in the NY Daily News.
Scopes Monkey Trial.
William Jennings Bryan, who was not even Southern.
TVTropes on the Simple Country Lawyer.
A humble country lawyer.
Inherit The Wind.
Dr. Zaius.
Monkey Shines.
Telegraph article on Marcel from Friends.
What Katie the monkey did after Friends.
Katie on IMDB.
Garrick Hagon, aka the voice of Godo.
Adam’s other podcast, And Thereby Hangs A Tale.
Bonus.
A bonus bit, about the Disney Afternoon Collection, is available as a thank you to our Patreon supporters.
The Starfighters puts fuel back in Beth and Adam so they can discuss boogers, boozers, fighters, killers, and choristers.
Show Notes.
The Starfighters: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Watch on ShoutFactoryTV!
The Fiasco Bros. Watch a Movie on Matinee and giant monster movies.
Boogers is a clone of Ataxx.
Married to the Eiffel Tower.
A breakdown of “B-1 Bob” Dornan as a politician.
That collection of Dornan’s awful quotes.
The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter.
Starfighters lobby cards.
Canada’s Air Force on Exchange: A Book You Are Guaranteed to Enjoy & Treasure.
The Starfighter at Edwards AFB.
An interview with Starfighters director Will Zens.
Beth quotes Vincent Casaregola’s Theaters of War on “service films”.
This American Life: Do You Hear What I Hear?
Ronald Reagan vs. Striking Air Traffic Controllers.
Ed Gein: The Murders and His Pop-culture Legacy.
Bill Murray’s blurb appeared on most Frankenhooker releases.
Frankenhooker’s talking VHS.
In 2002, two American pilots on dexedrine killed four Canadians.
Stephen Paul’s sparse IMDB page.
The Association: Windy.
The breakdown of the United Servo Academy Men’s Chorus sketch
Bonus.
A bonus bit, in which we learn of a special airman, is available as a thank you to our Patreon supporters.
The Girl in Lovers Lane drifts into town and asks Beth and Adam about hoboes, littler hoboes, homosociality, character actors, and promotional toilet seats.
Show Notes.
The Girl in Lovers Lane: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. It’s currently on Netflix.
The Day of the Dolphin.
Day of the Animals.
Rolling Nowhere by Ted Conover.
Don’t Call Them Bums by Lisa Hix.
Citizen Hobo by Todd DePastino.
The Littlest Hobo: An oral history.
The original Littlest Hobo.
The etymology of “punk”.
Beth quotes Merl Storr describing Eve Kosovsky Sedgwick’s theory of homosociality.
Avuncular Jack Elam.
Jack Elam’s vintage Letterman interview.
Bix in Revenge of the Creature.
Keri, you’re so very...
Garrison Keillor was shunned.
Xenon, the pinball game.
Suzanne Ciani on Letterman.
A punchy interview with Lydia Lunch.
Two Moon Junction.
The egg trick.
Bad themed sports nights!
More bad themed sports nights!
Interesting piece on MAD following its 60th anniversary.
Basil Wolverton’s MAD cover.
More about another Bix.
Bonus.
A bonus bit, with an update on the hoboes, is available as a thank you to our Patreon supporters.
The Deadly Mantis emerges from the ice to ask Beth and Adam about bug-eyed monsters, bug-eyed bugs, bloody-minded militarists, stop-motion brains, and bomb-loving mutants.
Show Notes.
The Deadly Mantis: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer. Get the DVD.
And Thereby Hangs A Tale 5. Jessica Is Not “Spiritual”.
Once again, there are no accidents [but there are gruesome Canadian PSAs].
Mantis facts!
On the original BEMs.
House centipedes. [Urgh.]
Kamacuras.
How big can a creature get before there are problems?
Poisonous spiders in Ontario.
Them! [Trailer.]
You want giant bees? Harryhausen’s got some for you.
CONAD, the Pinetree Line, and the DEW Line.
The DEW Line Story [1958], on how the DEW Line was constructed.
The DEW Line’s Toxic Legacy [1997], from CBC Radio.
Radar Station [1953], from the NFB, about the women at the Pinetree Line.
Reminiscences from someone who worked on the DEW Line.
IJAS 18 on King Dinosaur.
S.O.S. Iceberg.
That scene from Grand Illusion.
Dymaxion, Mercator, and other map projections.
An unexpectedly dark ad for Bon Ami.
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. [Promo.]
The Brain from Planet Arous.
Brain leaves dog.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes bomb worshippers.
Nedrick Young and Martin Berkeley.
Bonus.
A bonus bit about Norm MacDonald is available as a thank you to our Patreon supporters.
In this spectacular episode of It’s Just A Show, Producer Chris invites Beth and Adam to look back over the 24 episodes of MST3K we’ve watched in the past year. Which movie would they watch unMSTed? Which episode was the best? Which monster is the ginchiest? And what did you, the listener at home, think?
Show Notes.
Our episode guide. Collect ’em all!
T. Rex boat flip.
Toronto Raptors mascot bites it.
The ending of Rock ’n’ Roll Nightmare [featuring “We Accept The Challenge”].
Stella in vampire lingerie, or figure-skating armour in silver and black or red and gold.
Buster Keaton and the goat scene.
Nuts. A documentary on John Romulus Brinkley.
Charlie Chaplin on cocaine.
It’s Just A Show. Year One. Our first set of theme song variations.
Patreon supporters get a free download code—and access to all our bonus bits!
Tony Zarindast’s Hardcase & Fist and Red Room. [They’re not very good.]
Lonely Water.
There are no accidents.
Bonus.
A bonus bit from our episode on Santa Claus is available as a thank you to our Patreon supporters.
The Mole People gets Beth and Adam to recite an epic of hollow-earth theories, the Epic of Gilgamesh, celebrity cameos, mushrooms, and astronauts of note.
Also, please fill out our quick three-question survey for our upcoming anniversary show. And if you’re in Toronto on Saturday, March 24, come to our party! Thanks!
Show Notes.
The Mole People is available (with annotations!) on YouTube! Thanks, Shout Factory.
The Mole People: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare.
IJAS 16 on Zombie Nightmare.
Thor: We Accept the Challenge.
Pod F. Tompkast.
Beth is on This Is Your Mixtape!
Our survey, again.
Megaphonic FM party! Saturday, March 24, in Toronto. Join us!
Frank C. Baxter!
Atlas Obscura article on Hollow Earth theories.
Vice article on Hollow Earth theories.
Edmund Halley’s article suggesting that the Earth might be hollow.
Battlestar Galactica’s religious inspiration.
Rear Adminral Richard E. Byrd.
The Epic of Gilgamesh.
In Our Time on the Epic of Gilgamesh.
The sexagesimal system.
Robert Smith.
NYC “mole people” links: An article. A book. A rebuttal. A life.
Our survey, again.
Soccer baseball.
IJAS 10 on Reptilicus and IJAS 15 on Starcrash, and their celebrity cameos.
In Our Time on fungi.
Matango trailer.
New data on the ant-controlling fungus!
Mushroom plastics.
Manchurian mushroom?
Shannon Lucid.
Our survey, again.
Bonus.
A bonus bit, wherein Adam has something on his mind, is available as a thank you to our Patreon supporters.
The Leech Woman picks Beth and Adam’s brains about lecherous men, older women, alcoholics, unpleasant co-workers, and anything but leeches.
Show Notes.
The Leech Woman: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
The Jack Arnold story comes from The Creature Chronicles: Exploring the Black Lagoon Trilogy.
The Creature Walks Among Us [Gill-Man, part 3].
Rake joke. [See also IJAS 7, on It Conquered the World.]
Adrienne Barbeau is a delight.
Sextette [trailer].
STDs in nursing homes.
Baba Yaga.
Two theories on the [unclear] origin of the phrase “old bag”.
Pineal glands and you!
Wipe Out.
IJAS 12p, our bonus bit on quicksand, exclusively for our Patreon supporters.
Irene Ryan [NYTimes obituary].
Daktari Stool, then and now.
Congo [trailer].
Review of a recent production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, discussing the play, its importance, and how it’s been overshadowed by the film version.
Liz & Dick.
Foster Brooks’s act as a comical drunk.
Bill W.
Frank on the Mental Illness Happy Hour, episode 21.
You’re Not Funny 7. Booze and Drugs.
Bonus.
A bonus bit with so, so many Leech Facts™ is available as a thank you to our Patreon supporters.
Revenge of the Creature tries to steal Beth and Adam's hearts with talk of Gill-Man, Guillermo del Toro–Man, Marineland-Man, Henry Mancini-Man, and a new Crow-Man T. Robot-Man.
Show Notes.
Revenge of the Creature: IMDB. MST3K Wiki.
Behind the scenes of Godzilla vs. Biollante.
The 90s Gamera trilogy.
Adam's Gill-Man t-shirt and poster.
Revenge of the Creature on TV Tropes.
On turn-of-the-century racism.
IJAS 1 on Rocketship X-M.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick on homosocial love triangles.
Dracula’s Daughter and lesbians.
The woman who had a chimpanzee for a “pet”.
Marineland.
Caracals.
More on Pavlovian conditioning.
The Creature Chronicles: Exploring the Black Lagoon Trilogy.
Clint Eastwood posters in Back to the Future III.
Blast fishing.
Uncle Gilbert.
The laughing kookaburra.
Devo: New Traditionalists.
Metaluna Mutant scored with the Gill-Man theme.
William Lava.
IJAS on episodes that introduce new stuff: 101, 201, 513, and 1101.
Bonus.
A NSFW bonus bit is available as a thank you to our Patreon supporters.
Gamera vs. Barugon once again drizzles Beth and Adam with destructive rainbows, so they discuss janky robots, imperialism, kid-friendly adult films, tongues, tongues, and banana oil. Happy Gamuary!
Show Notes.
Gamera vs. Barugon: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. UnMSTed [with a different dub].
Our last episode, on MST3K 304. Gamera vs. Barugon.
UHF and Joel.
KTMA-era opening and door sequence.
An overview of the KTMA era.
Terminator 2 Bio-Flesh Regenerator.
Gamera vs. Barugon poster for Japan.
Sandy Frank VHS cover art.
More about Eiji Tsuburaya.
Haruo Nakajima obituary.
Nanako Yamada, dancer.
Takuya Fujioka, voice actor.
Dave Moore.
Moore By 4.
“I’m your boyfriend now, Nancy.”
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors “tongue tied” scene. [NSFW.]
The Grudge tongue scene.
Killer Tongue trailer.
Beetlejuice tongue scene.
Titra/Titan.
Bonus.
A bonus bit about the great Carol Channing (happy 97th birthday!), who Barugon aspires to be, is available as a thank you to our Patreon supporters.
Happy Gamuary! Gamera vs. Barugon fight while Beth and Adam talk about Godzilla, Princess Mononoke, Baragon, Skeletor, and My Little Pony.
Show Notes.
Gamera vs. Barugon: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. UnMSTed [alternate dub].
Project Popcorn [Проект “Попкорн”].
Shin Gojira.
BYTE Magazine.
Snit and Warren Grog.
Yee!
Miyazaki’s depiction of nature in Princess Mononoke: an analysis [of sorts].
That “famous” dam.
1000 Misspent Hours: Gamera vs. Barugon.
BarAgon is not BarUgon.
A New York Times review of You’ll Never Eat Lunch in this Town Again!
”I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.”
Turns out a Bazooka Joe movie nearly happened.
Hot Child in the City by Nick Gilder.
Mac vs. PC: A bonus bit.
Jungle Jim’s.
The rise and fall of TGI Fridays’ “look”.
Egon is afraid.
My Little Pony Paradise Estate vs. Snake Mountain.
Godzilla [The Criterion Collection.]
Bonus.
A bonus bit on Tom vs. Crow’s Mac vs. PC argument is available as a thank you to our Patreon supporters.
Ho ho ho! Santa Claus gathers Beth and Adam by the yule log to discuss all things Christmas, like Citizen Kane, Batman, Pee-wee’s Playhouse, Home Alone, and Hellraiser.
Have a merry happy, everyone, whatever you do or don’t celebrate!
Show Notes.
Santa Claus: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. UnMSTed: English. Español.
99% Invisible: The Nut Behind The Wheel.
Patreon apologized and are not going ahead with their get-rich-quick scheme.
So you can give It’s Just A Show the greatest gift of all: Patronage.
Santa Claus (1985) with Dudley Moore and John Lithgow: Trailer.
Foux Du Fafa a.k.a. Foux Da Fa Fa.
1000 Misspent Hours reviews Santa Claus (1959).
Galactus.
Quetzalcoatl replacing Santa “did not take”.
Q, The Winged Serpent: Trailer.
The Simpsons get a [big, ugly] head in Blood Feud, not Rosebud.
K. Gordon Murray’s IMDB.
René Cardona’s Tom Thumb.
John Carpenter’s They Live: Trailer [featuring Roddy Piper’s famous “all outta bubblegum”].
Nursing 91 IV Drug Handbook.
Roger Ebert vs Ted Danson in blackface.
O. Henry’s Gift Of The Magi.
Hermey and Yukon Cornelius.
Moon shoes commercial.
Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab with natural Uranium [do not ingest].
Alexander Litvinenko profile.
k.d. lang serenades Pee-wee Herman with Jingle Bell Rock on the Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special.
The Home Alone house has been sold!
Roberts Blossom obituary.
Bonus.
A bonus bit with lots of extra Christmas content is available as a thank you to our Patreon supporters.
King Dinosaur roars at Adam and Beth to discuss Elliott Kalan, first timers, bad drivers, lady scientists, and other not-quite-dinosaurs.
Also, there's a short: X Marks the Spot!
Show Notes.
This episode is on YouTube! Thanks, Shout Factory!
King Dinosaur: IMDB. MST3K Wiki.
X Marks the Spot: IMDB. UnMSTed.
Adam’s brother’s band has been THORATED. [See also: Adam’s brother’s band, Thor.]
Adam on Jordan is Genius and The Fiasco Bros. Watch a Movie.
Producer Chris will be wandering around PodCon. Will you?
Happy birthday, Elliott Kalan of MST3K and The Flop House!
Elliott Kalan’s favourite episodes.
The Turkey Day 2014 Lost Continent bumper.
Causes of death in the US in 1944.
Robert L. Lippert. [IMDB.]
Dish night?
Our episode on Rocketship X-M.
Vincent Price is The Last Man on Earth.
Cultural depictions of dinosaurs.
Crystal Palace dinosaurs.
King Kong vs. T. Rex.
The brontosaurus is back.
Gertie the Dinosaur.
Marching Dinosaurs - Animated Size Comparison.
The marmoset who peed on Carson.
An article on the influence of Mondo Cane’s animal cruelty. [Not safe for life.]
Cuphead.
Cuphead and the racist spectre of Fleischer art.
How to wrestle an alligator.
Bonus.
A bonus bit with a little more about The Flop House is available as a thank you to our Patreons.
Hamlet broods while eavesdropping on Adam and Dr. Beth talking about being, not being, suffering, sleeping, and the undiscovered country of Germany.
Show Notes.
Hamlet: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Script [unabridged].
Girlschool! Future Flash & M O R E !
John McWhorter’s Lexicon Valley on Shakespeare.
Robert Munsch’s Paper Bag Princess.
You’re Not Funny: 3. Puns on the Run.
A medieval morality play.
Ben Jonson to Shakespeare: “Thou hadst small Latin and less Greek...”
Why is Germany so obsessed with Hamlet?
Maximilian Schell [IMDB].
Richard Schechner and Heiner Müller.
Rose Marie!
My Little Margie on radio and tv.
Oliver Reed on Letterman.
Stephen Root, Jeffrey Combs, Ed Wynn [IMDB].
Ricardo Montalbán obituary.
More about Montalbán.
Montalbán with a Tattoobot.
taH pagh taHbe‘.
Bonus.
A behind-the-scenes bonus bit is available as a thank you to our Patreons.
Zombie Nightmare rises from the grave to stalk Beth and Adam, who just wanted to talk about Canucksploitation, heavy metal soundtracks, voodoo, Vodou, and Adam West.
Show Notes.
Zombie Nightmare: IMDB. MST3K Wiki.
Megaphonic FM is our new podcast network!
Twist & Crème.
Park Harpell [review].
Draghoula [trailer].
Scanner Cop [trailer].
Canuxploitation - A Primer.
Canuxploitation’s Zombie Nightmare [review].
Black Roses VHS cover.
I Am Thor [trailer].
Rock ’n’ Roll Nightmare: Battle Scene/We Accept The Challenge.
Beth’s Zombie Nightmare playlist.
Vintage People article on Tia Carrere leaving General Hospital.
Shawn Levy’s (ZN’s Jim) IMDB page.
Dean Hagopian as Paul Lynde as Big Cheese in Samurai Pizza Cats.
Frank Dietz (ZN’s Frank) and his co-director accept the Rondo award for their documentary, Beast Wishes.
Yes, QVC is still a thing.
Kids In The Hall Season 1 intro.
M.A.N.T.I.S.
How To Pronounce Newfoundland.
SNL Halloween ’81 with Donald Pleasence & Fear [review].
What’s difference between Vodou and Voodoo?
The Serpent and the Rainbow [book].
The Serpent and the Rainbow [movie].
Another recommended book about Vodou.
Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast. [The Adam West episode is behind a paywall.]
The New Age [trailer].
Scary Eye Town debuted in IJAS episode 8:
Paul has written in before.
Bonus.
Two bonus bits, perfect for Halloween, are available as a thank you to our Patreons.
Starcrash dazzles Beth and Adam as they discuss Christmas lights, space wardrobes, child preachers, drunk Hasselhoff, and inobservant observational comedians.
Show Notes.
Starcrash: IMDB. MST3K Wiki.
The Fiasco Brothers Watch a Movie, featuring Adam on Death Wish 3.
The Centre Pompidou.
Basil Wolverton’s Spacehawk.
Battle Beyond the Stars.
Turkish Star Wars.
The Star Wars novelization.
Return of the Jedi disco.
Barbarella [trailer].
A profile on John Barry.
John Barry’s Beat Girl.
Marjoe.
Wild Bill.
A short history of Cozzilla.
Star Star, and other reduplicated names.
Hooked on a Feeling.
The Lyin' Bitch and the Wardrobe [review].
Joe Spinnell and Caroline Munro in Maniac.
Seinfeld vs. “PC culture”.
Backdoor pilots of little renown.
We made a trailer for this episode featuring Theme Squad’s contribution.
Bonus.
A bonus bit, about Adam meeting Ren and Stimpy creator John K., is available as a thank you to our Patreons.
Join us in celebrating Donald Pleasence Day, as Warrior of the Lost World mumbles at Beth and Adam to discuss Star Trek: The Motion Picture’s Lt. Illia, Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Counselor Troi, Star Trek: The Original Series’ Kirok, Star Trek: The Original Lyricist’s Gene Roddenberry, and The Paper Chase: The TV Series: Season 1’s Robert Ginty.
Show Notes.
Warrior of the Lost World: IMDB. MST3K Wiki.
Happy birthday, Donald Pleasence!
2019: After the Fall of New York.
An overview of Donald Pleasence’s career.
Scouse the Mouse. [Sample track.]
Blofeld’s cat is not happy.
David Worth’s website.
Pride of India. [A review.]
The Paper Chase Guy in White Fire, Mission Kill, and the Exterminator films.
Gerreta Gerreta: IMDB. Twitter.
Ken Nordine and the Video Toaster. [Thanks, Kirok!]
Every article on Valley Girl talk uses the same photo from Clueless.
This American Life on vocal fry.
Bonus.
A bonus bit, about a Donald Pleasance public service announcement, is available as a thank you to our Patreons.
Werewolf hunts Beth and Adam as they discuss poor acting, imported myths, impure werewolves, pure moods, and imposter puppets.
Show Notes.
Werewolf: IMDB. MST3K Wiki.
Episode 11 on Eegah.
Rat Pfink a Booboo trailer.
Archie vs. Predator vs. Archie vs. Punisher.
Episode 12 on Hercules against the Moon Men.
Our Facebook page.
The Spoony Bard's Aural Theatre, featuring Adam!
Episode 4 on Future War.
Episode 4b on the SciFi era.
Tony Zarindast, the Persian Ed Wood.
Golden Cage. [IMDB.]
Hardcase and Fist trailer [NSFW]. [IMDB.]
On skinwalkers.
More on skinwalkers.
SciFi Amazing Colossal Episode Guide on Werewolf.
In the Peanut Gallery with Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Corrina Corrina. [IMDB.]
Ray Liotta: Ask Me Anything.
Enigma: Return to Innocence.
“Return to Innocence”: In Search of Ethnic Identity in the Music of the Amis of Taiwan.
The Pure Moods ad.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, S03E02, “Werewolf”. [IMDB.]
Bonus.
A bonus bit, about some of the other Werewolf actors, is available as a thank you to our Patreons.
Hercules against the Moon Men sandblasts Beth and Adam until they're ready to talk about stables, strongmen, Superman, stock, and sand.
Show Notes.
Hercules against the Moon Men: IMDB. MST3K Wiki.
Episode 5 on Cry Wilderness.
The Gentlemen Hecklers.
The Mighty Hercules.
The Twelve Labours of Hercules.
Cleaning the Augean Stables.
Maciste.
Eastmancolor in Canada.
Eastmancolor in Bollywood.
More on Eastmancolor.
”Oh, look! Rocks!“
Deep Heating.
Trog with Joan Crawford.
Rex Allen narrating for Disney.
Rex Allen with a regrettably named song.
The Crypt Jam.
Woman in the Dunes.
Look closely at sand.
Jodorowsky's Dune.
MST3K weed.
Hercules, Prisoner of Evil.
Bonus.
A bonus bit, about quicksand, is available as a thank you to our Patreons.
Eegah comes out of his cave to hear Beth and Adam discuss Arch Hall Sr, Arch Hall Jr, archconservative film critics, archetypical cavemen, and Archie comics.
[cw: There's another discussion of how the threat of rape functions in the movie. It's not very explicit, and we tell you when it's going to happen, but we thought you should know.]
Show Notes.
Eegah: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. UnMSTed.
Scott’s review of Life Returns.
The live tour (which is over).
Live tour souvenir book.
MSTings archive.
Marissa MSTings.
Mary Sue.
Interview with Arch Hall Jr.
Arch Hall Jr. Collection.
The Sadist. [IMDB.]
It‘s Paul Bellini.
The Corpse Grinders. [IMDB.]
Joel and Arch and pie at Monster Bash 2014.
The Fifty Worst Films of All Time. [The list.]
On Bronson Canyon.
Hollywood Hot Tubs. [IMDB.]
“Lawn Dart” by Ed‘s Redeeming Qualities.
Resources on caveman stereotypes.
Archers vs Archies.
Turns out water in your dune buggy tires is totally a thing.
Christian Archies.
Archie Meets the Punisher.
Jughead‘s hat is a whoopee cap.
Apsara Jet.
Thanks to Jessica Lockhart for joining Theme Squad on this week’s outro.
Bonus.
A bonus bit, about the Hooterville trilogy, is available as a thank you to our Patreons.
Reptilicus seduces Beth and Adam into discussing Jonah Heston, weird cameos, multiple Reptilci, Danish tourism, and trashy novelizations.
Show notes.
Reptilicus: IMDB. MST3K Wiki.
The Dollop: John Romulus Brinkley.
It’s Just Our Patreon.
Frank Nelson.
Spanish Drácula.
The American and Danish posters.
Dirch Passer.
Musical Number: Dirch Passer sings.
Musical Number Two: Tivoli Nights.
Musical Number Two-and-a-half: Tivoli Nights (English version with different Miller).
Reptilicus flies and so do our hearts.
Destination: Moon - Vintage Behind The Scenes Featurette.
Sid Pink.
The Man From O.R.G.Y.
Copenhagen’s Langebro bridge and Dragon Fountain.
House Of Cosbys.
Jon Lovitz’s ACHUM in an adorable new context.
Reptilicus: The Novelization: Colon: The Amazon Review.
The Flop House.
Weber Cooks: Rice-A Roni Edition.
Bonus.
A bonus bit, about smart ant technology, is available as a thank you to our Patreons.
The Brain that Wouldn't Die introduces Beth and Adam to Mike, and begs them to talk about sexpoiltation, gore, Saw, transplants, and two-headed dogs.
Show Notes.
The Brain that Wouldn't Die: Full episode! IMDB. MST3K Wiki.
The smell of LASIK.
Show notes follow-up: "What's the smell of burning human flesh?"
The Hays Code.
The Head.
Les Yeux Sans Visage.
Frankenhooker.
Braindead.
Night of the Lepus.
Little Lord Fauntleroy.
Our Man Flint.
I love this place! [Do not watch.]
The Brain that Wouldn't Die. [Remake.]
Diane Arbus's photographs of Eddie Carmel.
Nude version of the photography scene. [NSFW.]
Stuff You Should Know on head transplants.
John Romulus Brinkley.
Sergei S. Bryukhonenko, Vladimir Demikhov, Robert E. Cornish, and others.
The Crawling Eye, Joel's first* episode, stares at Beth and Adam until they discuss sidekicks, psychics, sci-fi eye flicks, LASIK, and awkward starts.
- Or is it‽
Show Notes.
The Crawling Eye: Full episode! IMDB. MST3K Wiki.
Man... Or Astroman: “Transmissions from Venus”.
Man... Or Astroman: “Mystery Science Theater 3000 Love Theme”.
Confused? You won't be!
MST3K Season 1 commercial compilation.
Joel on WTF with Marc Maron.
Wired’s oral history of MST3K.
Ted Baxter.
KTMA door sequence.
Original pre-squeak Dr. Erhardt, with Forrester in the original Gizmonic/KTMA lair, as featured in a charming pizza ad.
Uri Geller vs. James Randi on Johnny Carson.
CSICOP [not CSI, nor a cop show; formerly the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry].
The Girl with the Silver Eyes.
Jimmy Sangster Guardian obit.
Kolchak - The Night Stalker, “Horror in the Heights”.
The Misfits: “The Crawling Eye”.
TV Tropes on Early Instalment Weirdness.
Black Smithers.
TNG's first season: So bad, it inspired a documentary.
A very special TNG, where parasites take over the Federation and one dude's head totally explodes. [And a promo for that episode.]
Please stay on the line. Adam and Beth will be with you shortly. In the meantime, here is some bonus material trimmed from previous episodes: Adam West, bad movies, Canada (again), the weirdest thing to ever air on PBS, and (occasionally) MST3K. Enjoy, and/or wait until we're back in two weeks with a regular episode!
Show Notes.
Adam West Turkeyfest.
Adam on Adam.
Bat-recommendations.
How to upgrade your DVD.
Daleks in flight, afternoon delight.
Max Headroom from Shout!
Oral history of Max Headroom.
George R.R. Martin talks about his unfilmed Max Headroom scripts on his LiveJournal.
About the Headroom Incident.
The Headroom Incident itself, remastered. [NSFW.]
On the Super Mario movie [and Max Headroom].
Super Mario Bros.: The Movie trailer.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III trailer.
Little Mermaid transformation.
The Wizard trailer.
Problem Child trailer.
Problem Child 2 trailer.
Grey Gardens. [Trailer.]
Rufus Wainwright: "Grey Gardens". [Album.]
Flight of the Navigator trailer.
D.A.R.Y.L. trailer.
It Conquered the World learned almost too late that Adam and Beth are feeling creatures, and because of it, they discuss more kick-ass 50s ladies, team sports, cults, Roger Corman, and learning almost too late that man is a feeling creature.
Includes a short: Snow Thrills!
Show Notes.
It Conquered the Earth: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
Snow Thrills: IMDB. UnMSTed.
When Ephron met B'more.
Jay Wolf Schlossberg-Cohen's art.
Mamie Van Doren's sweet tweet.
Burke and Hare.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Novel. Movie.
The Rick and Morty episode.
The Midwich Cuckoos. [Village of the Damned.]
The Borks who come from the square planet.
Hale-Bopp and Heaven's Gate.
Zontar, the Thing from Venus. [IMDB.]
Corman's World.
Corman on MST3K.
Joel Hodgson [and Jonah Ray] on WTF with Marc Maron.
Frank Zappa: "Cheepnis". [More about it.]
The SCTV episode.
The Family Guy bit.
The Duckman bit.
Girls Town lifts and separates Beth and Adam as they discuss Mamie Van Doren, Paul Anka, Mel Tormé, Mamie Van Doren (again), and Canada.
[cw: A section of this episode discusses sexual violence, which is a major plot element in this movie. The section is well marked, and does not go into graphic detail.]
Show Notes.
Girls Town: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
Adam's article on MST3K and its Satellite News thread.
The trailer for Grandma's House, featuring the kid from Cry Wilderness.
You Must Remember This on dead blondes.
Mamie Van Doren's nightclub act.
Mamie Van Doren's twitter is worth following.
Mel Tormé in Naked Gun 2½ and Night Court.
The trailer for Death Wish 2.
Snopes on White Wilderness.
Play Lemmings!
Eek! the Cat.
Who's Your Daddy? [Steam.]
Don't S—t Your Pants. [Flash.]
Hidden My Game By Mom: iOS. Android.
Cry Wilderness howls at Beth and Adam to discuss ice cream college, Mac and Me, Bigfoot, raccoons, and the puberty giggles.
Show Notes.
Cry Wilderness: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. UnMSTed.
Church Leaders ask, "Why do Christian movies suck?"
Deviant Joike Art.
The Flop House.
Cinematic Titanic: The Complete Collection.
Animated MST3K. [Do not watch.]
Bill Corbett would prefer not to.
Shadi Petosky spills the beans.
Patton Oswalt on Tom Carvel.
Just search for Carvel ads!
Carvel responds.
Hudson's Bay Company.
Mac and Me.
Things Go Better with Coke.
The Patterson Footage.
Not Snap Judgment, but an interview with that Bigfoot expert.
Pseudobulbar affect.
The Manitou: Ebook. IMDB. DVD.
The Critic.
A bonus episode! Adam and Beth, fresh from rewatching Future War, have thoughts on MST3K's years on the Sci-Fi Channel. Listener discretion advised.
Show Notes.
MST3K meets a critic.
Zubaz!
Future War kicks off Beth and Adam’s discussion of revivals, rad 90s dinosaurs, dad movies, secret Christians, and other strange animals.
Show Notes.
Future War: IMDB. MST3K Wiki.
Larry King!
General Cinemas trailer referenced in episode 3. Thanks, Tim!
Tom Servo PSA.
Cold clocked Danzig.
Jim Vorel rates every episode.
“Better than almost all its peers”?
Curtis the Planter, our new mascot.
Toronto Raptor fail.
Mike Schank from American Movie.
An interview with Robert Z’Dar.
Adam: Experimental Film. Capricorn One.
Beth: Strange Animal. Army of Me.
Teenagers from Outer Space compels Beth and Adam to discuss boss rockets, boy movies, sex shooters, sex robots, and small-town paranoia.
Show Notes.
Teenagers from Outer Space: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. UnMSTed. iTunes.
Listener mail can bowl you over.
Levittown.
I'm a sex shooter...
Totally boss rocket.
L’inconnu de la Seine.
Laerdal, Annie-facturers.
My Sex Robot: Review. Preview.
Cambot, the creepy (KTMA) days. [More.]
Updates.
Listener Tim found the General Cinema movie bumper! Thanks, Tim.
Danger!! Death Ray coaxes Beth and Adam into discussing satellite dishes, glamour shots, beefy spies, André the Giant, and Herbie Hancock.
Show Notes.
Danger!! Death Ray: Shout Factory. IMDB. MST3K Wiki.
A watch, a car, and a lamp. Let us know if you recognize them.
Wiki page for glamour shots. (NSFW?)
Adam’s glamour shot. (NSFW!)
“Friend of the show Michael Collins...”
André the Giant by Shepard Fairey.
OBEY manifesto.
Harry Clarke also has a posse.
Watermelon Man.
Hindewhu. Hindewhu? Hindewhu. Hindewhu.
Updates.
Listener Andrew found the car: It's an Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Speciale.
Rocketship X-M inspires Beth and Adam to talk about chins, Matt Damon, robot puberty, intrepid reporters, and female astronauts.
Show Notes.
Rocketship X-M: IMDB. MST3K Wiki.
The Aunt Vivian switch.
Ingrid Bergman, neck nuzzler.
Women in space.
Dalton Trumbo.
The Quatermass Experiment.
The Fly (1958).