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…things that they missed. The one that comes to mind for me is from Warrior of the Lost World, where the repeatedly referred to Robert Ginty as the “Paper Chase guy,” without ever noting his role in Baa Baa Black Sheep (or doing it so subtly that I missed it). It stands out to me because the show is one of the formative programs of my youth.
Along the same lines, alert reader Glenn chimes in with a suggestion that he says…
…definitely falls into the category of “Monday morning quarterbacking” and in no way is meant as a slight to the quick comic minds that have brought us all such pleasure over the years. But, as Horace reminds us, even the worthy Homer nods (thanks, Wikiquotes!). You might call this “Missed riffs:” Where do you think there is an obvious place for a riff in a MSTed film or short that were left without one, and what riff would you suggest?
What made me think of this is the short “Are You Ready for Marriage?,” which I show every year to students in my first-year seminar. When Larry and his buddy Phil walk into the malt shop after Larry and Sue have decided to get married, Phil says, “Engaged? What are you going to use for money?” Every time I see that scene, I hear in my mind a squeaky adolescent male voice saying, “Bottle caps!” Does this happen to anyone else, or do I have a more deeply-rooted problem?
Well, Glenn, I think I speak for all of us here when I say that the answer to both questions is yes. :-)
So, everybody remembers that nobody mentioned “Battlestar Galactica” in “Space Mutiny” or “Beverly Hillbillies” in “Space Children,” but are there any other riffs or references you think they ought to have done? Let’s hear ’em.
OSAKA — Sakyo Komatsu, one of Japan’s most popular science fiction writers, died in a hospital here Tuesday, July 26, from pneumonia. He was 80.
MSTies will recognize him as one of the writers of the movie shown in episode 306- TIME OF THE APES. His most famous work, however, was “Nippon Chinbotsu” (“Japan Sinks”), a novel about the seismic destruction of the Japanese archipelago, published in 1973. His other stories, many of which have been turned into films, include “ESPY,” “Virus,” “Sayonara, Jupiter” and “Tokyo Blackout”. See a full obituary here.
Shout! Factory has re-released episodes 320- THE UNEARTHLY (with shorts: POSTURE PALS and APPRECIATING OUR PARENTS) and episode 619- RED ZONE CUBA (with short: SPEECH: PLATFORM POSTURE AND APPEARANCE”) as single DVDs. You can order them now from the Shout! web store, priced at $14.99 each. They’ll be mailed out for the official street date of Tuesday, Aug. 16.
Shout! Factory has announced the August 16 release of Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Unearthly and Mystery Science Theater 3000: Red Zone Cuba. Customers who purchase both titles from Shout! Factory will receive a MST3K Stress Ball. Both DVDs will be priced at $14.99 each, as are all the previously released MST3K single-disc DVDs from Shout! Factory.
In Mystery Science Theater 3000: Red Zone Cuba, Director Coleman Francis cements his status as unofficial MST3K muse with this 1966 film about escaped convicts who volunteer to fight in the Bay of Pigs. Needless to say, the movie was about as successful as the invasion. On the bright side, the riffs do destroy their target — although, as Crow T. Robot says, “I want to hurt this movie but I can never hurt it the way it hurt me.” Includes the 1949 short film “Speech: Platform Posture and Appearance.”
In Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Unearthly, MSTie favorite actor Tor Johnson costars as MSTie favorite character Lobo in this 1957 horror flick about a mad scientist (John Carradine) whose experiments with immortality accidentally produce mutants. As Dr. Forrester says: “It’s hard to keep down.” But Joel, Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot prove once again that laughter is the best anti-nausea medicine. Includes the shorts “Posture Pals” and “Appreciating Our Parents.”
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