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Weekend Discussion Thread: MSTed Movie Characters in TV ShowsAs several of you have written to tell me, in this week’s episode of the CBS drama “Elementary,” a witness/suspect tried to throw investigators off the trail by giving a description of the killer he claimed to have seen that basically was a description of Torgo in “Manos: The Hands of Fate.” The guy turns out to be a B-movie fan. They actually mentioned the name of the movie and John Reynolds.
So, a thought experiment: What character from a MSTed movie would you insert into TV show? Me, I like the idea of a special episode of “Breaking Bad” in which an L.A. detective named Mitchell flies into town on the trail of blue meth. Walter leaves a honey-baked ham in his hotel room and he’s no further problem. What’s your pick? Keep those discussion thread ideas coming! 97 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: MSTed Movie Characters in TV Shows”Commenting at Satellite News
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I could see an episode of the Addams Family where ‘thing’ gets a visit from his astronaut cousin, “The Crawling Hand.”
My next pick would be the crazy trophy hunter from “Bloodlust!” dropping by Survivor and spicing that show up a bit. For once, the winner would really live up to the show’s title….
Someone should have put Ator on Murder, She Wrote. Or Dave Ryder on Miami Vice. Hmm.
There should have been a Space Mutiny/Galactica 80 crossover. The Cylons and Kalgan team up to take on Dave Ryder, Sting, Santa Claus, and Lorne Green.
Easy. The Teletubbies learn about paleontology, and end up unearthing and reviving their ancient ancestor: Trumpy!
Jessica from The Thing That Couldn’t Die, McCreedy (the elderly security guard from Hobgoblins), and old timer Billy Slater from the Killer Shrews short should show up on Law and Order. Jessica would use her psychic powers to find the criminal, Bill Slater would lasso him, and McCreedy would lock him a vault (though of course, he would end up escaping).
Chuck and Froggy from “Laserblast” show up in an episode of “The Big Bang Theory”, and bully Leonard and Sheldon.
The big crickets from “Beginning of the End”, “The Deadly Mantis” and the super smart ants from “Phase IV” could show up on an episode of “Dirty Jobs” and Mike Rowe has to exterminate these big and little critters!
2nd idea! Tony Washington from “Zombie Nightmare” could show up in a ‘special episode’ of “The Walking Dead.” Michonne would recognize it’s Voodoo origins and Eugene would reveal he does know what’s causing the Zombie Apocalypse. It’s the Voodoo that He Do So Well!!!!!
Duh Duh Duh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Toblerone would make a terrific host of Chopped. I’d be sure to watch. Imagine that booming laugh as he announced what the ingredients were for each episode: “Peanut butter, mushrooms and gruyere cheese…Hahahahahahah!”
On an very special episode of “Doctor Who”, The Master from “Manos” meets the Delgado Master, the Pratt/Beevers Master, the Ainley Master, the Roberts Master, the Simm Master and the Missy Master. They spend the entire story trying to out-ham and out-villain each other, proudly revealing their respective fiendish plans to do whatever fiendish things they want to do.
Meanwhile, the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane foil their plans and leave without any of the Masters even knowing they were there.
Wait a minute, I think you’ve got something here:
The Mstie Family (in no particular order):
Thing: The Crawling Hand
Cousin Itt: Trumpy
Gomez: Aram Fingal (Okay, more movie Gomez than TV show Gomez …)
Lurch: Eegah
Pugsley: Tom Nelson (Arch Hall Jr in Eegah)
Morticia: Livia (the sexy witch from The Undead)
Fester: Hank Johnson (Jackie Coogan in Space Children — you can’t beat the original)
Grandmama Addams: Louhi (the witch in The Day the Earth Froze)
And in a dark role reminiscent of the source movie, the part of Wednesday Addams will be played by Debbie from Manos: The Hands of Fate.
I’d put Eegah into an episode of Forever. Henry and his creepy stalker Adam must temporarily work together to find a home in the modern world for the oldest immortal of them all.
Dave Ryder and Grandma-daughter on ‘Dancing with the Stars.’
Gloria Henderson on ‘The Voice.’
And stew-master Johnny Longbone blows Guy Fieri’s mind on ‘Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.’
Remember how it seemed Bob Evel had the airplane fall on him at the end of Time Chasers. Turns out the John Saxon Doctor Who Master decided, since being Prime Minister really didn’t work out too well, he’d ally with GenCorp to become president. Fortunately Rose Tyler, once again popping back from her alternate timeline, alerts Mickey and the Doctor and Martha and the search is on to find The Key to Time. I mean the six floppy disks holding the key to Terran Time Travel (turns out Nicks airplane is bigger on the inside than the outside).
Petey the Plane, as a new Muppet on Sesame Street.
Mr. B Natural as Flo’s mom in the Progressive Insurance commercials.
The killer shrews as subjects of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild kingdom. Imagine Marlin Perkins sticking Jim Fowler with *those* creatures while Marlin’s safe in the studio!
Alternately, the shrews could be animals that Jungle Jack Hannah brings on the Letterman show.
Nice to see a couple Doctor Who idea already posted! Mine would be another long-distance sequel to a Second Doctor story from the original show.
First, a short recap of “The Mind Robber”: a TARDIS malfunction whisks the Doctor and his companions away to the Land of Fiction, where various characters from myth and literature have become real (including Medusa, Rapunzel and Gulliver, who interestingly speaks only in lines from Gullver’s Travels). All of this apparently takes place due to the Land of Fiction somehow capturing an old pulp fiction writer from Earth, using him as a source of creativity.
So… now we fast-forward to the current Doctor Who series. This time, the Land of Fiction has somehow captured a fan of really, really bad movies. Only at first, the Doctor and Clara don’t yet realize they’re in the Land of Fiction. Only after they start encountering giant grasshoppers, praying mantises, and gila monsters in quick succession, the Doctor starts to think that something might be up.
This is confirmed when they’re suddenly caught up trying to help a bunch of thinly-sketched, poorly acted kids escape some very puppet-looking alien creatures – Hobgoblins. Yes, yes, I know, people are heading for the exits already, but wait! You won’t want to miss the rake duel between the Doctor and one of the annoying kids, punctuated with Casio keyboard hits and snarky comments from the Doctor!
And then Martians show up wanting to kidnap Santa Claus.
I can’t decide if this would be awesome, bad, or just awesomely bad. Still, if the new series can parody shows like Big Brother while not being horrible, I’m sure they could pull this off too. (Particularly if there’s an actual, serious threat lurking behind all the apparent silliness…)
I have been noticing that many of the films take place in Florida, so what if the various monstrous creatures happened to run into burnt spy Michael Weston on Burn Notice? How will Michael handle Dr. Z, the Blood Beast, the Gill Man (Revenge of the Creature) and the unstoppable Devil Fish?
Heh – just watching What to do on a Date. Let’s mash that up with those dumb dating shows like 5th Wheel. What happens when Eddie Haskell shows up at the scavenger sale and starts making moves on Kay? Will Nick fight for her affection, or will he find emotional solace with the Batgirls?
Mr. T from The Rebel Set, as Chief’s ne’er do well twin brother on Get Smart. He did have the kind of brain that CONTROL needed on their team, but, alas, he was more suited to the CHAOS organization.
The Incredible Melting Man would’ve been a shoo-in for a character on Ren & Stimpy. Probably the Adult Cartoon Party version.
Three words: Charlie’s Angels’ Revenge.
And a dream come true: Rowsdower hosting Saturday Night Live.
Why not include the Jonathan Pryce Master from The Curse of Fatal Death, too?
Tonight on a very special X-Files, Mulder and Scully investigate a series of bizarre murders in backwoods Canada and come face to face with…TRUMPY.
Off topic: I corrected a typo on my website URL, so the link on my username should work now.
On topic: The ultimate in meta: ALL characters from MSTed movies…. on MST3K!!! (yeah, I know…)
Let’s not forget who else is in Florida: Dexter. I think he might have something to say to Dr. Z or that troublesome Devil Fish.
I’d like to see TV’s Sherlock battle wits with his new nemesis, the Great Vorelli. Meanwhile, on a very special Doctor Who, the Doctor is pitted against his old enemy Weng Chiang’ s new homunculus, Hugo. Rounding out an exciting night on BBC America, the cop from The Leech Woman gets all the suspects to spill their guts on Law and Order: UK.
Great WDT idea! I’d recast “Gilligan’s Island” entirely with:
Mr. & Mrs. Howell — the smarmy, wealthy yacht-owning couple from “Catalina Caper,” Mr. & Mrs. Duval
Ginger — Penny Lowe from “Untamed Youth”
Mary Ann — the lovely and unpretentious Margaret from “Manos”
Professor — Professor Lockhart from “Boggy Creek II: and the Legend Continues.” He seems handy with radios and such.
Skipper — Commander Alex Jansen from “Space Mutiny.” Santa robes optional.
Gilligan — Troy from “The Final Sacrifice.” He’s got the right build and looks good in red.
Wacky hijinks ensue.
The Soultaker visits Grey’s Anatomy.
There are no survivors.
Tonight, on Man V Monster, Richard Terry hunts the elusive beer-sucking Canadian beast, known only as ROWSDOWER!
Speaking to people who had their refrigerators ransacked, using night-vision cameras while going through beat up old trucks, & getting clues from evil-sounding cult leaders that are harassed by this elusive monster.
On the next episode of “Grimm”, meet the newest Wesen: the Yetiglanchi!
‘the Bachelor’- Torgo as the titular bachelor “the MASter WANTS you but HE can’t HAVE you” and backstage the creepy doctor from ‘the brain that wouldn’t die’ and leech woman loppin off heads and stealing pineal juice.
‘American Idol’ capt. Joe- when the singing is rough he’d just drink it away and when he likes the act he could say “HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA…You’re stuck here!!’ besides he looks so much better in a deco orange pleather jumpsuit than Niki Manaj EVER could hope to.
‘Dancing with the stars’ i thought of the giants from ‘village of…’ but breast dancing girl might make it too blue for prime time so i decided on… Mitchell! Torgo and Tor/ Lobo.
and referencing Big Bang.. after their unfortunate cast loss, i was really hoping for Dr. Z’s invisible cracker mom to fill in.
Ooh, how about Mulder and Scully in “Monster-a-Go-Go”? “Scully, these people were killed by something not natural.” “Mulder, I keep telling you: *there was no monster*!”
Or, we see the remains of some poor guy who was killed by the Gill Man. Upon hearing what killed him, Horatio Caine says:
“That is what I call (sunglasses on) a fish out of water.”
YEEEEEEEAAAAAAH!!!!!
Why not, indeed? I hadn’t thought of that. Good idea!
Oh, and Torgo stows away on the TARDIS, but he’s not discovered until after Sarah Jane has departed. Thus, he tries to get too familiar with Leela, and brutally learns that he really shouldn’t do such a thing.
The still young-looking Melissa Strickland and Jody are on a road trip and stay at the Bates Motel. In town, Jody and Melissa go to the grocery store. They both get weird vibe from the people there. Feeling the people have no right to be judging them, Jody gives them a “Za!” This time, however, thanks to his Satanic powers, he accidentally sets everyone on fire.
Then the Tenth Doctor begs the Simm Master to to be evil, followed by him sending Nick to Hell for daring to alter a Fixed Point.
Come to think of it, the doctor and Leech Woman would make a great couple. He could find her a young body and she wouldn’t have any objection to it.
How about Pumaman hoping to help Arrow or The Flash fight crime? Naturally, it wouldn’t work, because Samson, aka El Santo, is more useful.
Or on Agents of SHIELD, Adam Chance tries to join and quickly makes the moves on Agent May. In the next scene, he’s in intensive care, nest to Secret Agent Super Dragon.
At least Adam Chance’s cardigan will add some color to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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I would love to see Trumpy in an ep of The X Files.
Survivor: Spider Island
The Wild Rebels gang on Sons of Anarchy.
Mitchell in a two-part episode of the Rockford Files. Lt. Becker is on a fishing trip, so Jim has to work with Mitchell. Being the neat fellow that he is, Rockford is digested when he sees Mitchell’s place.
Hey, let’s take the Creature from Revenge of the Creature and stick him in The Munsters… oh, wait…
Mike from “Manos”, versus Droppo, versus Jimmy from “I Accuse My Parents” in a game of Jeopardy.
How about a very special Catalina Caper episode of Glee?
I would like to see John Agar, from ANY role in the MST universe, guest star on “Frasier”. I consider John the OG of smarm. I would love to see him just bury Dr. Frasier Crane and his brother Niles under an avalanche of smarm.
This week on CSI, Deputy Sheriff Geronimo takes his brand of Justice to Las Vegas.
also what about MST3K Idol
also ABC Movie of the Week:
A Date with Your Family, the Woody Allen Story
and
Chicken of Tomorrow, the Bill Clinton Story.
Buzz calls Odd Squad to get rid of the shrill hermaphrodite who keeps appearing in his room. Then they go deal with Coily The Spring Sprite…
The crew of the Starship Enterprise find themselves on a strange planet inhabited by small, singing child toymakers, a deranged wizard, and Santa Claus…
Tom Stewart summons the only people who can save him from the ghost of his vengeful ex-girlfriend Vi: Forrest Tucker, Larry Storch, and a guy in a gorilla suit…
Batman visits Batwoman and has a little discussion about copyright infringement, hampered somewhat by Batman’s embarrassed refusal to look directly at her bat-tattoo…
Lupita, Santa and Mr. Hankey (South Park) team up take on Pitch and his impish holiday pranks.