Reader Andrew Colunga has recreated the SOL and several scenes from MST3K using Lego blocks. Check them out.

Great job, Andrew!

Last week it was “Good Health Practices.” This week it’s…

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The Oklahoman newspaper wrote about RiffTrax and Cinematic Titanic on Oct. 28.

Following up on this piece, writer Brandy Amber McDonnell has posted an extensive interview with Joel on her blog.

Also, Joe Williams of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch sat down with Joel as well, in advance of this weekend’s show.

In a podcast last week, Trace said the movie they would be riffing in St. Louis Saturday night would be “an unnamed Christmas movie.” He also said that the Titans were considering the notion of re-riffing movies that had been MSTed on MST3K. But who would have guessed he was talking about the same movie?

Turns out he was: Joel announced today that the movie to be riffed in the St. Louis show will be non other than “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians,” riffed by Joel and the team in season 3! Sez Joel:

This edition has completely different riffs from our MST3K version and also features several bonus minutes of the original movie that weren’t featured in the MST version. We thought it would be a cool experiment to see what revisiting a movie after all these years would produce. Not to brag, but it’s likely to be the riff-jam of the year!

A DVD version of this new take on SCCTM will be released Thursday, Nov. 20. They’ll also be selling holiday e-cards.

Meanwhile, the Telegraph in Illinois previews the upcoming Cinematic Titanic show.

First shown: 12/11/93
Opening: M&TB are roughhousing
Invention exchange: Really real time machine, Fabio kit
Host segment 1: Memories of Mike’s acting career
Host segment 2: Song: “Tubular Boobular Joy”
Host segment 3: M&TB read relevant passages from “Palance on Palance”
End: Buffalo shots!, the Mads dance through the years
Stinger: “Get out of here, you disGUSting WOORRRRRM!”
(88 votes, average: 4.56 out of 5)
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• I love-love-LOVE this episode. Great riffing, great segments, seriously wacky but very watchable movie. It also a great gateway episode for newbies. For a while it was my all-time favorite Mike episode.
• It’s hard to imagine Joel “roughhousing” with the bots the way Mike does here. Maybe that’s the point.
• Remember when Fabio mattered? Neither do I. Best line: “Even Janis Ian kneels at his altar.”
• Gypsy singing “I sing whenever I sing…” is the first of a boatload of callbacks in this episode. Others include: o/` “
Harry Alan Towerrrrrs!” o/` (Fu Manchu), “Mah-mah-mah-mah-Mitchell (Mitchell), “They’re on the Moon Zero Two set!”, “Watch out for snakes!” (Eegah), a reference to the Warrior of the Lost World set and “Want some?” “Thanks Daddy O.”
• Note that when Dr. F is in his caveman outfit, his Deep 13 patch is attached to his skin.
• Servo says, in a stupid voice, “Can we listen to Z-Rock?” I assume this is a local Minneapolis reference?
• Anybody ever play that Cabot drinking game? Did you live through it?
• I’ve eaten at the Perkins on 494.
• Non-spaghetti-ball bumpers: pan to beaker, pan to notebook, close up on film canister, focus on blackboard as what looks like beach ball goes by.
• Instead of an “annoying commercials” item, this one gets a special “annoying Comedy Central-created bumpers” item: I have a copy of the debut showing of this episode, which took place during one of those theme weekends Comedy Central used to have. This one was called “Radio Active TV” and radio DJs from around the country to did little bumper bits. For this episode, the DJs were Dave Rickards and Cookie “Chainsaw” Randolph from KGB in San Diego. Astonishingly for an industry where a run of a year or two on any one station is amazing, those two are STILL doing the morning show there 15 years later. For some reason, also present in the bits is Marc Price, Skippy from the ’80s sitcom “Family Ties.” And, for some reason, the pair seemed to have jumped to the conclusion that the movie being watched was actually the Howard Hughes classic of the same name. It makes them seem even dumber than they otherwise would seem.
• Segment 1 is probably the least funny, but even that one is very clever. Mike does look good in a sailor suit.
• First Firesign Theatre reference in a while: “Don’t crush that dwarf! Hand me the pliers!” Maybe Joel was more of a Firesign guy?
• Everybody gets to do their Palance impressions to death. Hope their throats were okay at the end of the day.
• Not annoying commercial: My tape has a ice clean copy of the darkly funny “You’re gonna win!” promo CC did. I liked it.
• Segment 2 was an instant classic, also sung on the live show. The phrase “hung like a horsical” made me spit out me beer the first time I heard it.
• What are Crow and Tom singing during the scene where the slavers are chasing the slaves around? They don’t seem to know the words…
• I’m not sure that’s Italy at the end. From what I can gather, a lot of this was shot in Africa. That could be Johannesburg.
• The USA Network movie sketch, hard on the heels of the womany movie sketch a couple of episodes ago, means another great credit sequence.
• Third mention of Chris Lemmon in three episodes! Somebody really didn’t like him!
• Terrific editing of the buffalo shot compendium. Cambot gets the credit but I assume it was really Brad Keeley.
• Did somebody choreograph the dance number at the end? Great stuff.
• Fave riff: “You see … P-P-PLEASURE???!!!” Honorable mentions: “I brought the wrong bowl.” Also: “Please invent the battery!”

The TV Blog of Ugo.com interviews Joel Hodgson.

Cinematic Titanic LIVE! will be performing at the Family Arena in St. Charles, MO (a suburb of St. Louis) on November 1. Tickets are still available. 

Note: Daddy-O and I will be attending this performance. If you see us, stop by and say hi.

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Ain’t It Cool News interviews Joel and gives the 20th Anniversary set a mostly positive review.

…this time in the Philadelphia Inquirer, and featuring a couple of quotes from yours truly.

Then there’s The Washington Post…

And the always reliable Wired (featuring a big ol’ Werewolf trailer embedded).

And there’s McClatchy Newspapers…