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Weekend Discussion Thread: Fave Season 2 Host Segments

Sorry this is a bit late this morning: I’m a little under the weather.

Pick your top three host segments of season two, and give us a little explanation as to why.

Mine, in no particular order, are:

From episode 204- CATALINA CAPER: Joel vapor-locks as he remembers the ’60s.
I think it helps to be a certain age to appreciate this one. I’m almost the same age as Joel (a couple of years older) and this is a very funny take on that time period.

From episode 210- KING DINOSAUR: Crow asks “Am I qualified?” Wonderful wonderful writing a Trace just knocks it out of the park.

From episode 213- GODZILLA VS. THE SEA MONSTER: Song: “The Godzilla Genealogy Bop.” There are a lot of songs in season two, but this one is my favorite.

Honorable mention:
From episode 212- GODZILLA VS. MEGALON: Dysfunctional popcorn commercial. This isn’t as funny as it used to be, as the Reddenbacher family have faded from view, but it makes up for that by being incredibly prescient.

Oh and, a new feature: WORST host segment:
From episode 203- JUNGLE GODDESS: The “Bela’s OK Discoveries” infomercial. Infomercials were new then, but had already been parodied to death and there’s really nothing new in this. A total flop.

Those are mine. What are yours?

Rifftrax Mention

The Jackson Citizen-Patriot, in Jackson, Mich., discovers Rifftrax.

Mike on Podcast

The Secret Identity podcast interviews Mike about his work on MST3K and RiffTrax. You can listen to it online or download it to your iPod here.

Report on Mary Jo Appearance

Apparently Mary Jo gave a talk at a book store in Austin last night. Either that or this blogger is having major hallucinations…
Warning: some salty language.

Movie with Voice Work by Trace Nearing Completion

A few months back we got an e-mail from a guy who said he was making a low-budget sci-fi/psychological thriller movie called “Trip to Sane,” and that our own Trace Beaulieu had agreed to provide the voice of an egomanical computer in the movie named SYD.
He said he’d give us more info when the movie was closer to being completed. Well, appparently it’s just about done and they’ve got a cool Web site that now includes an interview with Trace (scroll down a bit).