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Weekend Discussion Thread: MSTed Movie to Broadway?

Longtime MSTie Charlie asks:

Which MST movie should be made into a broadway musical?

Hey, if “Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark” can be wrestled into acceptable form, lots of other movies might be adapted. My pick would be “Teenagers from Outer Space.” You got the sensible heroine, the misunderstood hero, the wacky grandpa […]

Weekend Discussion Thread: Favorite Credit Sequences

Alert reader Ken writes:

I’d like to know everyone’s favorite movie credit sequences. For example, Crow and Servo really take Mike to task during the interminable credit sequence at the end of Space Mutiny. (Crow: “You sitting there with your hair all feathered…”) It’s a priceless bit, and I’m sure fans have their […]

Weekend Discussion Thread: What Did We Learn from Shorts?

Oh, is the great and alert reader Brandon Hollingsworth going to suggest a discussion thread topic?

Well, yes, he is.

In the Amazing Colossal Episode Guide, Paul Chaplin says he actually learned something useful from a hygiene short the show riffed (“Keeping Clean and Neat” from episode 613). Of it, he writes, […]

Long Weekend Discussion Thread: “Death Rat”

Our topic this weekend is “Death Rat,” the 2003 novel by Michael J. Nelson. It’s the story of one Pontius Feeb, a down-on-his-luck Minnesotan author of obscure history books who, desperate for cash, writes a ripping man-against-the-wilderness yarn that could sell millions, only to be told he cannot sell it because he […]

Weekend Discussion Thread: Best Performance by a Cast Member

Alert reader Andrew writes:

I was watching “Spider Island” the other day and it suddenly hit me how good of a job Bill did in that episode. Crow’s riff deliveries were lively and sincere, and he was hilarious as flash-dancing Observer what with his animated pounding on the chair (complete with a little […]