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Posted by Sampo, on January 12th, 2013 This one came to me following the “merging onto the information superhighway” sketch in “The Starfighters,” which we did for our episode guide entry this week.
Tell us about your first computer — or the first one that you went online with — and what was that experience like?
I was working as an electronics retailing journalist at the time and my first computer was a laoner low-end Acer “386” machine running Windows 3.1 with a dial-up modem (Acer never asked for it back). No idea about RAM. And of course it had a 3.5 floppy drive.
When I figured out how to use the modem, I initially joined some bulletin boards and actually got into my first internet argument with somebody.
I think I got a Prodigy install disk sent to me at work, and I gave it try. It was a lot of fun, especially when I discovered their “TV L-Z” discussion area that included a section on MST3K.
What about you?
Posted by Sampo, on January 10th, 2013 “An Evening with Joel Hodgson” aka “How to Have a Job Like Mine” aka “Riffing Myself”…:
* … comes to the Mayne Stage in Chicago, Saturday, Jan. 12, at 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. “MartinJon” at gapersblock.com previews the show and has some quotes from Joel.
* …comes to the Alamo Draft House in Austin, TX Friday, Jan. 18 at 7 p.m.
* … comes to Dallas’ Texas Theater on Saturday, Jan. 19 at 5 p.m..
* … comes to the Trocadero in Philadelphia Sunday, Jan. 27 at 4 p.m.
More dates when we get them.
Posted by Sampo, on January 10th, 2013 It has been almost two years since I’ve done this, and it’s time. I really don’t remember doing “brushes with greatness,” “favorite credit sequences” and “favorite costume worn by a bot” twice…
…but that’s what happens when you don’t keep up. I will try to do better.
As always, if you think of a good one, email me.
“Death Rat”
“Graduate-Level” Episodes
“Psychic Lawn Darts”
A Better Final Movie?
A Plea to Fellow MSTies (re: torrents)
A True Turkey Day Marathon for the Sci-Fi Channel Era
Action Figures
Actors/Directors You Became a Fan of Via MST3K
All Things Gamera
Alternate Actors in MSTed Movies?
Alternate Stingers
Best and Worst Cops in MSTed Movies
Best and Worst of Season 1
Best Episodes for Kids
Best Pearl Moments
Best Performance by a Cast Member
Best RiffTrax of 2008
Best Spy/Secret Agent Movies
Best WRITTEN MSTed movie
Best/Worst Bands in MSTed Movies
Best/Worst KTMA Episode
Blurting Out MST3Kisms
Brushes with (semi-) Greatness
Brushes with Greatness
Catchphrase T-Shirts Update
Christmas Movies that SHOULD Be Riffed
Christmas Movies/Specials That Should Be Riffed (round 2)
Continuity Errors in MSTed Movies
Costumes!
Deleted Scenes
Disagreeing with the Brains
Disturbing Things about MSTed Movies
Do You Need to Be Able to Follow the Movie?
Double/Triple Features
Drab and Dreary Movies
Dream Guest Riffer
Dumbest Comment You’ve Ever Heard about the Show
Episode Viewing Patterns
Episode Watching Memories
Episodes That Cheer You Up
Episodes That Grew on You
Episodes You Just Can’t Sit Through
Fave Season 2 Host Segments
Fave Season 8 Host Segments
Fave Season Four Host Segments
Fave Season Six Host Segments
Favorite Actor/Actress in a MSTed Movie Who Also Did Good Work
Favorite Bill Corbett Moments
Favorite Callback
Favorite Costume Worn by a Bot
Favorite Costume Worn by a Bot
Favorite Credit Sequences
Favorite Credit Sequences
Favorite Decade for MSTed Movies
Favorite DVD Set
Favorite Farewells
Favorite Frank Moments
Favorite Gypsy Moments
Favorite Host Segments–KTMA and Season 1
Favorite In-Theater Sound Effect
Favorite Inventions
Favorite Joel Moments
Favorite Josh “J. Elvis” Weinstein Moments
Favorite Kevin Moments
Favorite Letters
Favorite Mary Jo Pehl Moments
Favorite Movie Sidekicks
Favorite MST3K-Related Web Sites
Favorite MSTed Movie Genre
Favorite MSTed Movie Scores/Soundtracks
Favorite Naughty Riffs
Favorite Paul Chaplin Moments
Favorite Season 10 Host Segments
Favorite Season 9 Host Segments
Favorite Season Seven Segments
Favorite Songs
Favorite Trace Moments
Favorite Vehicle/Favorite Chase
Fill In the Missing Stingers
Funny All By Itself Movie Moments
Gay Riffs
Good Characters, Bad Decisions
Good Host Segments/Not So Good Riffing (or vice versa)
GOOD Performances by Actors in MSTed Movies
GOOD Performances by Actresses in MSTed Movies
Goofiest Monster in a MSTed Movie
Great Scenery-Chewers in MSTed Movies
Guilty Pleasures
Hall of Fame Inductees
Has MST3K Helped You Through a Difficult Time?
Hey, It’s THAT Guy (or Gal)!
Host Segments You Just Didn’t Get
Hotties/Hunks from MSTed Movies
Ideas for Future Shout Factory Sets
Identifying Fellow Underground MSTies
If You Could Ask One Question…
Inexplicable Survival and Undeserving Death in MSTed Movies
Instructional Shorts that Were Actually Informative
Introductory Movies
Joel Answers Your Questions
Joel/Mike Double Features
Lame Science
Lamest Heroes in a MSTed Movie
Least Memorable Episodes
Least-Convincing Teenagers in a Movie or Short
Memorable ‘Bot Alterations
Memorable Dance Numbers
Menus for a “Dinner and a MST3K Episode” Night
Mike’s Bacon “Stupidity”
Mixed Double Features
Monster vs. Monster
Most Annoying Movie Character
Most Disgusting Movie Moments
Most Evil Invention
Most Laughable Props in a MSTed Movie
Most Memorable Cinematic Titanic Moments So Far
Most Memorable Crow Moments
Most Memorable Movie Theme Songs
Most Memorable or Painful Deaths
Most Memorable Pesky Kid
Most Ridiculous Scene
Most Underrated Episode
Most Watchable MSTed Movies
Most-Used Catchphrases
Movie Posters
Movies They SHOULD Have Riffed
MST3K Earworms
MST3K Monopoly? And more?
MST3K The Movie 2?–What Movie Would You Choose?
MST3K Viewing Habits
MST3K-Inspired Creative Projects
MST3K-Related Christmas Traditions
MST3K/RiffTrax/CT-related Things You’ve Made/Discovered
MSTed Movie Character Blind Dates
MSTed Movie Characters in the Olympics
MSTed Movie Characters You Would/Wouldn’t Want to be Trapped with in an Elevator
MSTed Movie to Broadway?
MSTed Movies that Could Be Remade into GOOD Movies
MSTed Movies that Should Be Re-Riffed
MSTed Movies That Would Have Worked Better on ‘LOST’
MSTed Movies You’d Like to See Redone
Musical Covers
Oldest ‘Teenager’ in a Movie or Short
Overrated/Underrated Episodes
Pair Up Characters from Different MSTed Movies
Personal Riffs
Prime Vacation Spots
Questions for Joel
Questions for Jordan Fields of Shout! Factory
Quotes that Stuck with You
Refusing to “Just Relax”
Remakes and Recastings
Remembrances of the KTMA Days
Required Movies
Required Music
Required Musicals
Required TV
Rewriting the Ends of MSTed Movies
Riffable Holiday Specials
Riffback!
Riffing When You Shouldn’t
Riffs that Got Run Into the Ground
Riffs You Use in Daily Conversation
Roger Corman, bane or boon?
Romance and MST3K
Season THREE Host Segments
Sell Tape Scenes
Shorts That Should Be Riffed
Sleeping Pill Episodes
Stock Footage
Stranded with a MSTed Movie Character
Stupidest Character in a MSTed Movie
Ten Essential MST3K Episodes
The Amazing Colossal Episode Guide
The Episodes for the 20th Anniversary Collection Are…
The Grand Convergence
The Movies as Pilots
The Party in a MSTed Movie You’d Most Like to Be Invited to
The Prop Auction–What Did You Get? What Did You Want?
The Taxonomy of Riffs
The Un-Sexiest Moment in a MSTed Movie
Things/Riffs They Missed
Those Little Visual Gags
Titles of MSTed Movies
Top 10 Most Memorable Villains
Top 12 “Guest Starring Roles”
Top 12 Season 5 Host Segments
Top 15 Funniest Shorts
Top 5 “Actual Songs from the Actual Movies”
Top 5 Stingers
Toughest Tough Guy/Gal in MSTed Movies
Two-Part Mike Discussion
UnMSTed MST Movies You Own
What Did We Learn from Shorts?
What Do Characters in MSTed Movies Read?
What Do We Do?
What Episodes Should Shout! Re-Release This Year?
What Episodes Will Never Make it to Video?
What Movie Would You Pitch?
What MSTed movie character would you like to invite for dinner?
What Pop Singer Would You Like to See Fall from a Lighthouse?
What SHOULD the Movies Have Been Called?
What Would You Do After the Apocalypse?
What Would You Get a Character in a MSTed Movie for Christmas?
What You’d Like to See on DVD
What’dja Get?
What’dja Get?
What’s Funny to You?
Which Are the Truly Great Bad Movies?
Which Characters Would You Invite for Thanksgiving?
Which Is the Best of the Russo-Finnish Quartet?
Whither Thursdays?
Why MST3K Matters
Worst Attitudes Toward Women in MSTed Movies
Worst Body of Work Among MSTed Producers
Worst Comic Relief in a MSTed Movie
Worst Commercials
Worst Director
Worst Ensemble Cast
Worst Fight Scenes
Worst MSTed Movie
Worst Performance by an Actor
Worst Performances
Worst Special Effects/Make-Up
Worst/Dumbest Plan by a Hero or Villain in a MSTed Movie
You Know You’re a MSTie When…
Your Collection
Your Contacts with the “Casual Fan”
Your Desert Island Episode
Your Favorite Death Scenes in MSTed Movies
Your Favorite DVD Menus
Your Favorite Monty Python References
Your Favorite Movie-Related Host Segment
Your Favorite Multi-Segment Story Line
Your Favorite Obscure Riff
Your Favorite Rhino Extra
Your Favorite Sports-Related Riff or Bit
Your Favorite Then-Current Topical Riffs
Your Favorite Wimp
Your First “MST3K: The Movie” Experience
Your First Time (i.e. the your first episode experience)
Your Holed-Up Playlist
Your MST3K Projects
Your MSTed Movie Characters “Avengers” Team
Your Sci-Fi Channel “They’re Gonna Be Okay” Moment
Your Turkey Day marathon
Your Turkey Day Traditions
Posted by Sampo, on January 9th, 2013  Valley Village, Calif.–Character actor Ned Wertimer, perhaps best known as Ralph the Doorman on the CBS sitcom “The Jeffersons,” died from complications following a fall in his Burbank home in late November, at a nursing home here Jan. 2. He was 89. MSTies will remember him as reporter Andy Henderson in the movie in episode 321 – SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS.
There’s a nice long obit here.
Posted by Sampo, on January 5th, 2013 Alert reader Janelle asks:
What references or assessments made in the show or ACEG do you disagree with? I mean, not everyone hates high energy prop comic Carrot Top or there wouldn’t be anyone going to his shows, right? Maybe there are MSTies that love Gallagher, Carrot Top or Jim Carrey. My personal disagreements with the writers are minor in nature. I may stand alone on this (like Tom and his affection for “Blanksy’s Beauties”) but Jim Varney was not as terrible as they implied. Of course the Ernest character was idiotic but he took it and made a very funny Saturday morning show back in the late ‘80s. It was on the air at about the same time as “Pee Wee’s Playhouse.” It only lasted one season and was silly at times, but also sly and satirical (sound like any other show you know of? Hmmmm?). My other dispute, even more minor, is that in ACEG Michelle from “Girl in Gold Boots” is referred to (I think by Paul Chaplin) as “zaftig’. Whenever I watch that episode, I think to myself ”I should be so zaftig”
I have one I mentioned in the episode guide: I’m a huge Counting Crows fan and, while Adam’s “wounded soldier of love” schtick can wear a little thin after a while, in general I don’t find it, or the band, repellant. The bit was still funny, though.
Is there any riff or observation where you disagree?
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