A not-so-eerie look back at a time before everybody just typed everything.
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In the documentary “This is MST3K,” Kevin Murphy says: “The obscure jokes are so much fun because there’s a very small percentage of people who get those, but the ones who do say ‘My God they’re inside my head. They know me. They know too much about me.'” He has called these jokes “psychic lawn darts.”
So let’s share our favorite “psychic lawn darts.” Mine came with episode 201; “ROCKET SHIP XM” when Tom said: “Dreezle drazzle drozzle drome, time for zis one to come home” (from the ancient and [mostly] forgotten “Tooter the Turtle” cartoons). I hear that riff and suddenly I’m seven years old, it’s Saturday morning, and I can taste the soggy Froot Loops. What’s yours? (Keep sending those discussion thread ideas to msampo at a-o-l dot com!) They’ve added a few dates to the lineup of Cinematic Titanic shows. It now includes:
* Saturday, Sept. 24, 8 p.m. at the Best Buy Theater in New York City (Tickets not available yet). If you know of a great venue for a Cinematic Titanic performance, tell the people at the venue to contact CT’s booking agent. The contact information to give them is here. Our pals at tvshowsondvd.com have the news that Shout will re-release episodes 511- GUNSLINGER and 1009- HAMLET as single titles, as a pair, or as a four-pack with episode 517- THE BEGINNING OF THE END and episode 812- THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED UP ZOMIBIES, which were released in February. The street date is June 21. They will be $19.99 each, $39.98 for the pair and $69.96 for all four. More info here.
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