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Weekend Discussion Thread: Required Music

I hadn’t foreseen this, but alert reader Patricia is right…

I’m going to second the suggestion made by “I’m Not a Medium I’m a Petite” in today’s discussion: “but of course it’s not just movies and TV… there is a musical canon as well.. for instance Frank Zappa and Talking Heads / David […]

Weekend Discussion Thread: Required Movies

Alert reader Bob Davey writes:

What movies are “canon” as suggested by repeated reference by the Brains? Three that come to mind might be “Road House,” “Mannequin” and “The Goonies.” How important is it to see these movies and why (I have seen some of “Mannequin” but not the others)?

So in other […]

Weekend Discussion Thread: “Psychic Lawn Darts”

In the documentary “This is MST3K,” Kevin Murphy says: “The obscure jokes are so much fun because there’s a very small percentage of people who get those, but the ones who do say ‘My God they’re inside my head. They know me. They know too much about me.’” He has called these jokes […]

Weekend Discussion Thread: Gay Riffs

We did “Cave Dwellers” in the episode guide, and somebody in the comments said that one time he watched it he counted 30 gay jokes, and another person said it may have had the most blatant gay subtext of any MSTed movie.

That reminded me of a suggestion I got a few weeks […]

Upcoming Discussion Thread Reading Assignment

For those of you who take part in our weekly discussion threads, I wanted to give you a little advance notice. Our topic for the July 4 weekend will be Michael J. Nelson’s novel “Death Rat.” I wanted to give you a few weeks’ heads up so you can dig out your copy […]