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Once again I am stealing the excellent synopsis posted on the wikia page (with a few edits).
Synopsis
Introduction: The Satellite of Love crew receives a call from Vice-President (at the time) Al Gore, who asks them to do a special based on theAcademy Awards. Mike is reluctant until the Veep offers him a favor, upon which cheerfully joins the show, singing the elegant “Academy of Robots’ Choice Awards Special Song.”
Act One: Mike and the Bots review scenes from “Mrs. Brown,” “The Wings of the Dove” and “Good Will Hunting.” Mike becomes obsessed with new titles involving puns similar to “Good Will Hunting.” The Bots are become annoyed.
Act Two: Next comes scenes from “As Good as It Gets,” followed by comments about the poor amount of nominations the acclaimed “Amistad” had. Next comes “Titanic,” and like the movie itself, the riffing on the film goes on … and on …
Act Three: The SOL crew is running out of time, and so follows several quick reviews of short clips from “Jackie Brown,” “Boogie Nights” and “Deconstructing Harry,” followed by a lengthier one from “L.A. Confidential” and, finally, the crew’s choice for Best Picture (in spite of its lack of a nomination) … “Starship Troopers.” The Bots then depart to finish cleaning up from the special, leaving Mike alone on the phone with the Vice-President, who attempts to do some riffing of his own on the movies. Mike feigns approval.
• Al Gore: love him, dislike him, feel neutral about him: wherever you stand, we kindly ask you NOT to tell us in the comments. Thanks.
• This arrived just as Season 9 had begun, in the week between the debut of 901- THE PROJECTED MAN and 902- THE PHANTOM PLANET.
• There’s a lot going on here. Not only is it the realization of the promise of 1995’s “Little Gold Statue” special, we’re also seeing the birth of RiffTrax here. Or, rather, the birth of the first germ of the idea that would eventually lead to RiffTrax.
• Classic riff: “I’m gonna sink this bitch.” Ultimately, RiffTrax would do a full riff of “Titanic,” and this riff was recalled. “Starship Troopers” would also later be riffed in its entirety.
• Best riff: “Everybody dance like Mister Greenjeans!”
Having made their “Godzilla” goal in less than 24 hours, RiffTrax has now announced a “stretch” goal (a new term for me): If they get to $250,000, they will do “Anaconda” on Oct. 30.
Back in 2006, cartoonist Scott Bateman was doing a website thing called bateman365, in which he presented a different little bit if entertainment every day. One of those bits was a tone parody of mellow singer-songwriter Iron and Wine, sung by our own Kevin Murphy.
It was thought lost to the ages but Scott found it at archive.org. Both Scott and Kevin gave us permission to go ahead and post it, but it was an old-style .swf file with a long forgotten video codec, and many tried and failed to convert it into something useable. Finally our old pal Freezer agreed to give it a shot, and succeeded. Our eternal gratitude goes out to him. So, saved from obscurity, here it is…. Aluminum & Beer.
Happy Memorial Day weekend everybody! I want to start this post by expressing my gratitude to all the American soldiers who paid the ultimate price for our freedom. But even though the holiday has a solemn basis, there’s still time in this three-day weekend for fun.
With that thought in mind, let’s turn to alert and devoted fan Paul, who has a suggestion:
With Memorial Day weekend upon us, I thought up this discussion thread idea: Favorite armed soldier characters on MST3k.
My favorite would be the army soldiers in “Beginning of the End.”
They not only engage the giant grasshoppers in combat, but they also help Peter Graves capture one for scientific study. A good deal of them die throughout,
I’d have to pick Daphne’s Army boyfriend Nick in “Hobgoblins.” He’s responsible for the great rake fight in film history.
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