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Weekend Discussion Thread: Required Musicals

Alert reader “Starviking” suggests:

You have covered required TV shows, movies, and music, but have you done musicals? Because I have noticed the Brains reference “The Music Man” past the breaking point! I’m not even sure if they mention any other musical, at least not the ones I’m most familiar with.

Oh, there are lots. Another one they do all the time is “A Chorus Line,” as in o/` Kiss today goodbye…o/`” and “CASSIE!”

Which musicals should people see to get the most riffs?

New Riff from RiffTrax…

Avengers

See a sample or download it here.

RIP Gerry Anderson

Gerry Anderson With Troy Tempest From '' Stingray'' in 1966 OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND–Gerry Anderson, creator of the Supermarionation process behind such hit TV series as “Fireball XL5,” “Thunderbirds” and “Stingray,” died in his sleep at a nursing home here Wednesday, Dec. 26. He was 83 and had suffered from dementia for several years.
MSTies will recall that the first two full-length MST3k episodes in the KTMA era were “Invaders from the Deep,” a movie edited together from episodes from “Stingray,” and “Revenge of the Mysterions,” a movie version of episodes from another Anderson series, “Captain Scarlet.” (No fan copies of those episodes exist.)
Anderson was also the producer of the TV series “Space: 1999,” two episodes of which were incorporated into K10- COSMIC PRINCESS. And, of course, Best Brains named the two “mole people” who worked for the Mads Gerry and Sylvia, in honor of Anderson and his wife.

There’s a nice appreciation here.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Christmas Movies/Specials That Should Be Riffed (round 2)

Okay, I KNOW we have done this one before, but two different regulars wrote in to say…

Well, we’ll start with alert regular Jenny:

There are TON of Christmas movies on TV and movies that are asking for MST3k treatment. (Oh David Hasslehoff you shall be mocked in that sweater.) Which ones  do you think need to be riffed and which on do you riff your self? I would love the crew do “Jingle all way”, ” 8 crazy nights” and “Jack Frost” (both the killer snowman  one and Michale Kenon one). As for ones I’ve riffed with my friends, well, we used do the Stars War Holiday Special (but then everyone did it). Now its the Power Rangers Christmas and the He-Man Christmas special and Jack Frost (the killer snowman one). What about you?

And alert regular “SittingDuck” adds:

If MST3K had featured more Christmas episodes, what movies do you think would have been worthy of their treatment? My pick would be the 1984 TV movie “The Night They Saved Christmas,” in which Santa’s operation is being endangered by oil drilling (real subtle :P).

I forget what I said last time and I am too lazy to look it up but the ridiculous-but-toe-tapping Bing Crosby-Danny Kaye vehicle “White Christmas” is a yearly favorite and oh so riffable (starting with the way Danny’s shoes always match his suit. Oy).

What are your suggestions?

RiffTrax News: This Year’s Christmas Riff and More

Download it or see a sample here.

And some other news: Next year fathom will show repeats of two “RiffTrax Live” shows in theaters: “‘Manos’ The Hands of Fate” on Thursday, Jan. 24 and “Plan 9 From Outer Space” the following week on the 31st.

More info here.