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Weekend Discussion Thread: MSTed Movie SpinoffsAlert reader G.C. asks:
I see a weekly action series starring Ator, the lovely Lisa and wacky sidekick Thong. He’s searching for, I don’t know, the portal to his own dimension so he can go home, something like that. Meanwhile he travels from town to town righting wrongs and battling his evil enemy Zor. What’s your pick? 79 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: MSTed Movie Spinoffs”Commenting at Satellite News
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Done well as a sitcom? No. But I was always curious as what other places the Warrior of the Lost World would visit and what other women’s faces he would try to swallow. However, Einstein would have to get a voice change.
Space Mutiny is also a good (bad?) candidate. Afterall, Calgan isn’t really dead and perhaps Bob Johnson’s offspring would see the Southern Sun colonize a new world in the final episode of the series.
Time of the Apes!! lol oh yeah, it actually was.. and I’d sure like to see it.
humm…..
I’ll be back.
I like that Space Mutiny sequel. It’s already set up with the
shocking surprise ending where (spoiler alert) Calgan opens his
eyes and implies he’ll take you away!
But then there’s Overdrawn at the Memory Bank. The weight challenged
Chairman returns from rehab and he’s pissed! Being a Maltese Falcon fan,
he lures our hero and his flavo chip loving main squeeze into that world
(as Sam Spade and his secretary) and the fun ensues. How does the Chairman
take command of the computer that controls access? Easy. He just reverses
the access code—so simple it never occurs to Fingal.
Girl in Gold Boots as an AMC retro series. While Critter is overseas learning to kill like a man oughta, Michelle is running a home for wayward burlesque dancers. Wackiness ensues.
I’m impressed–a DANGEROUSLY provocative topic.
All we need is that opening shot, and you’ve got the whole show, right there–
/Joe Esteves and Robert Z’Dar in black leather dusters, striding into YOUR town in slow motion…/
/Christian Malcom and Bruce Mitchell, rolling down the highway in a medium tele shot, coming to YOUR town (assuming you live somehwere in southern Alberta) looking for adventure and lost cities buried under the wheatfields, and just before we cut to commercial an ominous figure in a black leather duster watching them from a hill in the woods…/
Note to Sampo–this may be the first topic you’ve ever posted that hits 300 responses…
I think “The Adventures of Mr B Natural and Buzz” would be a sit-com I would follow on a regular basis. here’s a couple of story lines;
The school bully attempts to sabotage Buzz’s locker and gets a very shrill surprise.
Buzz discovers what Mr B meant by “Knew your father, I did!”.
“Angel’s Revenge:” must see TV as “the 7” wreak havoc weekly on washed-up TV stars in humiliating roles. Have your Shame-o-meter ready to test the level of dignity loss for each week’s guest villain. Rumor has it that in the pilot, the 7 make the streets safe after a gang war erupts for control of drug territories between the Cosby kids and the girls from Full House.
There’s only one obvious candidate. While certainly it deserved a one-hour drama series, I would also have welcomed a sitcom about the fantastic Rowsdower! It could have been like the old “Run, Buddy, Run,” with Rowsdower and Troy, pursued by vengeance-seeking minions of the cult, roaming the Canadian wilderness and hitting every cheap bar along the way. What a missed opportunity!
“VALLEY LODGE”
Join the weekly adventures as “B” level celebrities come to the lodge looking for fun; and maybe a little romance! The series will be most known for Torgo’s yelling “The Car! Master, The Car!” as each guest pulls up to the Lodge.
Coming this fall (hit funky 70’s jazz beat) come on down to south central Finlandia with Illya and his son little Falcon.
“But father, i do not wish to be a junk dealer, i desire in all my bursting heart to be an artist!’
‘Thou big dummy!go find your mother, then load that washing machine in the cart as i commanded! and get a haircut!’
dun-dun-dunna dun-dun-dunna-dunna-dun..
How about Episode 810 – The Giant Spider Invasion: everyone in movie was entertaining in their own way. Of course, they are mostly all dead by the end of the episode/movie. So I see a prelude sitcom, building up to the powerful final movie.
Well, The Dead Talk Back has some potential, if we follow the lives of the folks living in the boarding house. Only this time, there really are ghosts in the house, and everybody seems to know it except Krasker, who is desperately trying to prove they exist scientifically.
You could also re-do Bloodwaters of Dr Z a la Harry and the Hendersons.
Ooo! What about Wild Rebels? Sort of like Sons of Anarchy Lite…
12 TO THE MOON done as a reality show:
Every week someone is voted out the air-lock.
And the french guy gets way too friendly with the monkeys.
How about THE SPACE CHILDREN as super heroes?:
Kickball during the day, toppling world governments in the evening and home in time for milk & cookies and then bed.
ROCKET ATTACK USA!:
The wacky adventures of three bumbling agents behind the Iron Curtain.
He’s clumsy American who spends too much time in the closet. He’s a British guy who’s too polite to kill. And she’s a cabinet member’s mistress.
Tune in each week as they figure out which city will be nuked next. . .just a bit too late, though.
“He’s an aspiring musician. He’s a 7 foot tall caveman. Can they survive as roommates in the big city?”
#10 (REDSOXMG)
May I take your idea in a slightly different direction?
The series is set at a small hotel in the middle of nowhere. The place is run by the Master, a manic, sarcastic guy with a bunch of tart-toungued wives (especially Margaret). He’s “helped” by his inept bellman/waiter Torgo and Torgo’s near-catatonic assistant Michael. The only one of the staff who seems competent is little Debbie, who has grown up, gotten smart and only stays to keep the others out of trouble.
And when things get really awful, the Master will shake his fist at the heavens and shout, “Thank you, Manos! Thank you so bloody much!”
The first episode is when two female vacationers show up and the Master is convinced one of them is a hotel inspector. Hilarity ensues.
#17
I think we could just stop here,reboot, and as this weekend’s topic reimagine F.T. episodes. The Master as Basil, Torgo as Manuel…OMG
“Nick of time”-starring Nick and his action washed female realtor companion. Thrill as these two travel through time, saving the earth, and populating the past with spare Nick’s
“What’s the buzz?” on Seagull Island? Each week, viewers are stung with a new story as rival beekeepers host various pop stars in need of rest.
“Always crashing in the same car” with Joe Doakes. Each week we meet, by accident, a fresh victim of the brutality of motor vehicles as Guardian Angel Joe Doakes defends against God’s wrath.
“Happy Chef”- each week, Happy chef hires troubled youth and solves their problems with a hamburger sandwich and French fried potatoes.
“Drifters”- with Big Stupid and Danny. Fighting pool hall thugs and murderers in nothing for this train hopping pair. With Danny’s endless wallet, and, Big Stupid able to transform into pure energy- this crime fighting team cleans up small town America.
This is cheating a bit, but how about a new Odd Couple with Mike Pipper and Jan in the Pan? “He’s a grizzled prospector-type with a wire brush stuck in his throat. She’s a grumpy head in a pan with trust issues. Can they share an apartment without driving each other crazy?”
Fade in: Int. Eve. A drab, gray apartment.
Pipper: Dad-gum-it, Jan, who ates all muh Ritz-Bits? Was it you or that pesky MacGregor boy across the hall.
Jan: Let me die.
(audience laughs)
Pipper: Oooh, maybe they’s another box in this here closet. (Opens door and is attacked by Boog Powell) Aaaahg! Consarn-it I always forgets!
Jan: (laughs maniacally)
(audience laughs)
Master Ninja!! Lee and Tim and Henry travel the country in their van, looking for Lee’s daughter that he’s never met!
Come on, somebody had to say it. :)
I see a sitcom called “Who’s For Rice?”, about a man named Mike and his two robot pals, Crow and Tom Servo. They have been stranded in space for many years, forced to watch the worst movies ever made, but finally, due to a combination of bad decisions and malfunctioning equipment, have escaped their evil captors and returned to Earth. They live in a garden level apartment, with a half bath and on the bus line, somewhere in Wisconsin. They have wacky, slapstick interactions with themselves, their landlord, friends, and neighbors, and like to hang out at a local watering hole called “Cowtown Canteen”. Interspersed with the comedic situations, the three pals deliberately watch terrible TV shows and movies, making hilarious comments and observations about Robert Corman produced movies on the SyFy channel, so-called “reality” shows, etc. I think it could be fun!
# 17 – OMG! Can you imagine Torgo saying ‘It’s difficult’???
“Riding with Death” — why, the movie almost looked like two TV pilot episodes stuck together! Oh, wait…..
“Mitchell” — lovable slob cop Mitchell shows us how to laugh at love, again, as he bumbles through crime scenes and hooks up with a new call girl each week. Sponsored by PBR and Schlitz and Johnson’s Baby Oil.
“Wahrwilf,” I mean “Werewolf” — zany couple Natalie and Paul are ebzolutely fessinating as a lycanthropic pair who terrorize Flagstaff, Arizona, every full moon. The zany plot twist? It’s ALWAYS the full moon! Don’t miss the hilarious antics of their sidekick, Sam the Keeper, as he shoots first and asks questions later. Sponsored by Yuri’s Hair Products for Men.
This one is cheating a bit but how about a weekly drama based on “Earth vs. Soup.” Most of the episodes will involve Sweet Marie screaming, “No No No No” to convey the terror of Soup slithering on all fours(?).
We need brutal gritty drama courtesy of “Gamera vs. Guiron’s” Cornjob! We see the haunted truth behind this lonely man and his burden of making sure kids don’t ride two to a bike. No one knows he’s really Ninja Assassin training for his ultimate duty of killing Gamera for the cruel Yakuza who just hate happy endings with roly poly little kids and big Turtles (no one knows why) Poor Cornjob.
How about a survivalist “Man vs. Wild” show with Roxie’s Father from “Eegah!” There he will be every week getting lost in the desert with black socks and corrective shoes, and his credit cards in a drawer. His sign off line every week will be “Watch out for snakes!”
Finally, we need a weekly sitcom based on “Colossus and the Headhunters” where My Cheese Steak and Amoa are now married. Still on that same raft and floating from one kooky adventure to the other. Between adventures Amoa nags My Cheese Steak about never getting a job and they still living on that lousy raft, while My Cheese Steak tells Amoa he should have left her to those headhunters. It’s laugh a minute adventure every week!
Catalina Capers. Each week, swimsuit-clad teens get into hijinks and, of course, the highlight of each show would be an appearance by a once-popular singer on the downside of his/her career. “Hey gang, let’s go watch Justin Bieber really tear it up!”
The Skydivers could be one of those edgy sitcoms that would play on HBO, or even Netflix these days. It could be like a darker version of the sitcom Wings.
The Martian family from “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” would be good candidates for a sitcom. See Dropo drive Kimar mad at the office for his laziness. See the Martian kids have to deal with the toy machine each time it malfunctions. See the chaos at the dinner table when Momar accidentally gives the children a jalapeno pill to the kids for desert instead of a chocolate ice cream pill!
..”My White Goddess”? :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-puOIkzYXU
Funny that some of the ideas from different posters in this thread are similar to those from way back in the day.
https://www.mst3kinfo.com/?p=12811
The buddy cop premise Servo brought up at the end of Robot Holocaust.
“He’s a robot. He’s a human. They’re detectives.”
Since I’m watching it now, for the first time, how about not a sequel but
a remake of Rocket Attack U.S.A.? The spy is played by by Matt Damon, the Russian
woman helping, for no especial reason, the U.S. played by Jamie Lee Curtis,
and the Russian peeg by Kevin Kline (who’s Russian accent Curtis finds
irresistable). In a major twist the British spy has an Oxford accent and the
Russians Russian accents. But the show stopper is the 3-d cgi effects. The
subtitles when those pesky Russkies are chatting make for riveting drama, especially
when the Soviet President takes off his shirt to show off his pecs as he rides a horse
over fences to the missile site and kisses children on the stomach (it’s a Russian thing, or so they say).
‘The Beatniks’ as a sitcom. Eddie is a struggling singer, Helen is his love interest, Iris is his weird ex-girlfriend, and Mooney is his wacky next door neighbor. The catch phrase “I’ll MOON you man!” becomes this generations “Sit on it, Potsie!”
“The Magic Sword” – Every week Gary Lockwood peeps on some girl using the ocean. And then the girl gets kidnapped and Gary goes on a big adventure to save them. However, his bumbling mother is always being wacky. Hilarity ensues.
A sitcom spinoff of Manhunt in Space about Winky’s love life.
#33
I loved that series. The biggest question on everyone’s mind at the time was “Who killed that fat barkeep?” I remember the reveal shocked the entire country.
I agree. Space Mutiny would be a great sitcom. Mitchell might also be funny as a sitcom
COmrade Zykov, I’m going to steal your phrase; “She’s using the ocean.” Rolls off the tongue.
How ’bout a Track of the Moon Beast sitcom, with Professor Johnny Longbone and staff going around and pranking the former students of his that are still alive. At some point each week, he declares they aren’t really themselves, anymore, after all, if you think about it, and shoots them with a radioactive arrow. Epilogue for the show includes a how-to recipe for some delicious southwest indigenous cooking. Cancelled after the first season when fans can’t endure the interruptions each week of a local band appearing somewhere on campus to perform a full-length song.
Shep the Collie should have her own series. She could first live with one boy, then another, then maybe live with a forest ranger, and then she could strike off solo on her own weekly adventures. Maybe she could even have puppies at some point. If that fails she could pair up with Xerxes the cat as an Animal Planet version of “The Odd Couple”.
‘The Dead Talk Back’ – In which Mister Krasker pesters murder suspects by insisting ghosts DO exist and he really is very clever and interesting and important, he is, really he is, WHY DON’T YOU BELIEVE HIM???
‘Santa Claus: The Series’ – Santa and his little pal Pedro have adventures running their little international toy-making sweatshop in the sky, which naughty old Pitch does his best to sabotage. In a Very Special Episode, Pitch teams up with Boldar The Martian.
‘Fresh Prince of Space’ – A Japanese boy with a Brooklyn accent and a penchant for dressing like a migrant worker, with the catchphrase “I like it very much!” A wealthy Japanese boy who wears little suits with short pants. They become unlikely roommates when the rich boy’s father dies of old age and he’s adopted by a single father superhero masquerading as a miserable bookblack.
‘Mister B Natural: The Series’ – A whimsical drag artiste dressed like The Minstrel from BATMAN uses his/her magical powers to help children with their personal problems
“Riding With Death” and “The Master” were already (unintentional) sitcoms.
Me, I want to see a wacky comedy in which Shoeshine Boy of Space and his adoptees are forced to rent out a room and get Phantom Former Dictator of Krankor as a roomie. Then they have to convince the landlord that they’re mortal enemies, not gay.
“Sure, I’ll feed the bird…ya scum!!”
“Kitten With a Whip” could be made into a gender switched “Three’s Company” where David and Grant are the roommates and Jody has the Jack Tripper role.
I would love to see so many of these shows…
Typical sitcoms are all about repetition and making sure each episode ends with nothing having changed for the characters. So, in the “Jungle Goddess” sitcom, perhaps no one ever manages to leave the jungle, which is now like a desert island. The two guys are always romancing Greta to make her choose between them. But Bob always fails hilariously, because he’s such a jerk. Mike gets the upper hand because he treats guileless Greta like a goddess. Meanwhile, boy-crazy Wanama is Greta’s best friend who never gets either of these guys’ attention because she’s not blond. We watch to see if they ever get off the island, but of course they don’t.
A “Village of the Giants” sitcom would be pretty simple. No giants, instead Genius keeps making mayhem with his chemistry set and his big brother must correct it and make amends with his girlfriend, his neighbors, or the cops. Cute dog, plus mysteriously absent parents. (Yeah, we’ve already had a couple Ron Howard sitcoms, but at least this one would be terrible.)
A Leave it to Beaver style show about the main characters from Project Moonbase raising their kids on the moon.
the starfighters would make a good tv show. so would the prince of space.
Oh, I got a couple more…
Touched By A Satan – Jody takes that job at his father’s ad agency and he and Melissa move to the suburbs, where they try to keep their pact with Satan and Melissa’s witchly powers a secret. The wacky killer grandma who falls through doors is, of course, the breakout character.
Red Zone Cuba – Coleman and his pals take an apartment in San Diego, where they continue their crazy get-rich-quick schemes
And now, back to WE MARRIED MANOS…
so would pumaman and future wars.
Lovable Slobs Mitchel and Zap Rowsdowzer get an apartment together. Can two Undivorced but slovenly men share an apartment together without getting it condemned by the health department?
“Parts: The Clonus Horror” might make a good sitcom, when you think about it. It has a relatively interesting story. The writers would obviously have to tweak things a bit, but it could have some potential. Think about it, won’t you?
“The Touch of Satan”. We could see all the grandma’s crazy antics, and if all else fails, “This Is Where the Fish Lives” might work. We could finally learn about where the fish lives, what he does, and why he is so significant! Ha!
@29: Joel makes a pretty girl (kindof)! Haha! Joel is love!
The Touch of Satan could have worked as a sort of serialized drama, where idiots sell their soul to the devil after having sex with witches who suddenly age after having intercourse. Sort of a Quantum Leap meets Sex in the City thing.
And we could have gotten a good run out of the turtle aliens from Laserblast after they somehow crash land in Florida and are forced to live in a retirement community.