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Posted by Sampo, on June 11th, 2011 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 words, what (non-MSTed) movies ought a MSTie be sure to have seen in order to get most of the references? The list is going to be long, my friend.
I’m going to start with “The Wizard of Oz,” riffed on dozens of times over. But I also maintain that this movie is perhaps the last communal experience we as Americans have, so everybody SHOULD have seen it. Two riffs from 303- POD PEOPLE (the most recent episode I saw) come to mind” “I DO believe in spooks! I DO believe in spooks!” and “I can’t come back! I dunno how it works!”
What movies would you put on the list?
Posted by Sampo, on June 8th, 2011 Mary Jo Pehl has started a blog at opensalon.com. Her first post is called “My Tiny Hypocrisy.”
Posted by Sampo, on June 7th, 2011 
A not-so-eerie look back at a time before everybody just typed everything.
See a sample and download the short here.
Posted by Sampo, on June 4th, 2011 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 “psychic lawn darts.”
So let’s share our favorite “psychic lawn darts.”
Mine came with episode 201; “ROCKET SHIP XM” when Tom said: “Dreezle drazzle drozzle drome, time for zis one to come home” (from the ancient and [mostly] forgotten “Tooter the Turtle” cartoons).
I hear that riff and suddenly I’m seven years old, it’s Saturday morning, and I can taste the soggy Froot Loops.
What’s yours?
(Keep sending those discussion thread ideas to msampo at a-o-l dot com!)
(Reminder: Get out that copy of “Death Rat” and re-read it before the end of the month!)
Posted by Sampo, on June 2nd, 2011 They’ve added a few dates to the lineup of Cinematic Titanic shows. It now includes:
* Saturday, Sept. 24, 8 p.m. at the Best Buy Theater in New York City (Tickets not available yet).
* Saturday, Oct. 15, 8 p.m. at the Visual and Performing Arts Center at Elgin Community College in Elgin, Ill. (Tickets not available yet).
* Thursday, Oct. 27, 8 p.m. at the Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University in Washington, DC (Tickets not available yet).
* Thursday, Nov. 3, 8 p.m. at Nightingale Concert Hall at the University of Nevada in Reno, Nev. (Tickets not available yet).
* Friday, Nov. 4, 8 p.m. at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of the U.C. Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, Calif. Get tickets here.
* Satuday, Nov. 5, 8 p.m. at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa, Calif. Get tickets here.
* Sunday, Nov. 6, 8 p.m. at the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara, Calif. (Tickets not available yet.)
* Saturday, Nov. 12, 8 p.m. at the Meyer Theatre, 117 South Washington St. in Green Bay, Wis. (Tickets not available yet).
* Friday, Dec. 30, 8 p.m. at the Keswick Theater, 291 North Keswick Ave. in Glenside (suburban Philadelphia), Pa. (Tickets not available yet).
If you know of a great venue for a Cinematic Titanic performance, tell the people at the venue to contact CT’s booking agent. The contact information to give them is here.
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