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Josh on Podcast

J. Elvis Weinstein is the guest on the latest Pop My Culture podcast with our pal Cole Stratton and Vanessa Ragland.

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 ago from alert reader Christian:

It might be interesting to discuss gay riffs.

As an example, in “Hired! Part II”, the dude says, “I remember one of the first things that Harry drilled into me…” and Crow riffs, “was Harry”.

Or, many times when a male character says something to another male character that can be misconstrued as homoerotic, the riff will be a provocative sounding, “Say!”

As an example of that, I always crack up at the pasty old Mole Men leering at the newcomers and Crow murmuring “Say…hmmm…”

What’s your pick?

One more thing: I expect a spirit of tolerance in this thread. The attitude BBI has is that gay sex — like ALL sex — is hilarious. Which is certainly true. That’s pretty much the tone I expect here. Irreverence is fine, intolerance is not. If you disapprove of gayness, you have a right to your opinion, but please keep it to yourself. We’re not discussing gayness, we’re discussing the jokes BBI has made over the years about it. Thank you.

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 and re-read it, or read it for the first time if you never got around to it (you can get at Amazon for under $5).

New VOD Title from RiffTrax…

This is a video-on-demand (VOD) title, which means that you get the movie and riffing together. You can download a Divx version or a file you can burn to a DVD.

See a sample and buy it here.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Favorite Decade for MSTed Movies

Alert reader “TheGodRowsdower” suggested:

How about “Your favorite decade of movies”? I always liked movies set during the 70?s just for all the hate Mike would inevitably get such as the great episode “Touch of Satan.”

Sorry, I gotta go with the ’50s. Rocketship X-M, Lost Continent, Robot Monster, This Island Earth … It was the golden age of bad movies.

What’s your pick? (If you’re not sure which movie was in which decade, Daddy-O has provided a handy chronological list.)