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Posted by Sampo, on July 8th, 2018 As you may or may not be aware, we are coming to the end of season 11 in the weekly Thursday episode guide postings. The question becomes: What next?
If we start over, we are committing to a four-year slog, beginning with 5 months of KTMA. Right now, that feels to us like a pretty big hill to climb, especially since we’d have to stop for a while when Season 12 arrives…and again for season 13…? and…?
So, we’ve decided that, after next week, the Thursday episode guide postings are going on hiatus until season 12 arrives. Then we’ll probably give you about a month to get around to seeing them, and then we’ll start on season 12.
The episode guide itself will still be on the site for your perusal.
Thanks for understanding.
Posted by Sampo, on July 7th, 2018 Alert reader Tim (a different Tim) asks:
Among characters in MSTed movies, who has the most miserable life? In the ACEG, Frank identified the protagonist of “High School Big Shot” as the clear winner of that prize. At the time I agreed, but now I’d go for that poor kid from “The Beast of Hollow Mountain.”
I’m going to go with Jan in the Pan. Even before she was in the accident, her boyfriend was no picnic. And after? Agony.
What’s your pick?
Also, keep those WDT ideas comin’! Send them to msampo at aol dot com.
Posted by Erhardt, on July 6th, 2018 
This is getting a bit meta. Download it here.
Posted by Sampo, on July 5th, 2018 Over on Nerdist, Janet Varney interviews Kevin as part of the “Boys of Summer” series.
Posted by Sampo, on July 5th, 2018 
Movie: (1966) Santa has to get a job — as a department store Santa — to earn money to pay his overdue rent bill.
Opening: Jonah wants to sing a Christmas carol, but picks the one song people don’t know the words to
Invention exchange: Kinga still plans to marry Jonah, but Synthia isn’t helping; J&tB have the Re-Gifter; the Mads have “Humbug FM”
Segment 1: J&tB review classic Santa toys
Segment 2: J&tB try to explain the creepy toys
Segment 3: Santa and Baby Whipple visit
Closing: Christmas slide show
Stinger: Hohohohoho, hey Sam, this is fun! Hohoho!
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• Overall a pretty good episode, and a nice addition to the stable of MST3K/Rifftrax/Cinematic Titanic Christmas movies to choose from every year.
• There’s a brief reference to the upcoming wedding, and a reminder that Synthia is there. Setting things up for the next episode.
• Instead of a medley of tunes from the legacy series, during the breaks the Skeleton Crew plays its version of “Patrick Swayze Christmas.”
• I love a good running gag. I really do. They can be frustrating, at times, to some viewers, but I think it usually works if the underlying joke is funny. That’s the problem, I think, with the “I’m a baby” running gag (of which there were, by my count, 20 mentions). The original joke just doesn’t land for me. I don’t think he looks at all like a baby. Sorry…
• The scene with the kids pouring out of houses to give Santa money must have felt very familiar to Joel.
• At one point, when it looks like something on the screen is going to explode, the riffers run for their lives…they quickly return.
• The line “fightin’s outta style,” had to have come from Firesign Theatre fan Joel.
• Segment two is a cute idea, hampered by the low-res images from the movie that were shown. A little hard to make out.
• Obscure reference: “Omar comin’!” (Fans of “The Wire” got it.)
• Is it me or were there a noticeably large number of “Dune” references in this one, for some reason?
• I love Joel’s completely offhand Santa. He’s not even trying to do a different voice.
• That was Elliot Kalan as Baby Whipple.
• Actor Salvatore Furnari was also in “Hercules & the Captive Women.” and Rosanno Brazzi played Don Lamanna in “Final Justice.”
• Classic riff: “They’ve created their own Thunderdome.” “Jonah, can’t we get beyond Thunderdome?”
• Fave riff: “You can always tell when a building used to be an i-Hop.” Honorable mention: “Wow this tea kicked in fast!” and “You sure you’re not confusing children with spiders?”
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