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Posted by Sampo, on June 4th, 2011 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!)
(Reminder: Get out that copy of “Death Rat” and re-read it before the end of the month!)
Posted by Sampo, on June 2nd, 2011 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).
* Saturday, Oct. 15, 8 p.m. at the Visual and Performing Arts Center at Elgin Community College in Elgin, Ill. (Tickets not available yet).
* Thursday, Oct. 27, 8 p.m. at the Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University in Washington, DC (Tickets not available yet).
* Thursday, Nov. 3, 8 p.m. at Nightingale Concert Hall at the University of Nevada in Reno, Nev. (Tickets not available yet).
* Friday, Nov. 4, 8 p.m. at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of the U.C. Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, Calif. Get tickets here.
* Satuday, Nov. 5, 8 p.m. at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa, Calif. Get tickets here.
* Sunday, Nov. 6, 8 p.m. at the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara, Calif. (Tickets not available yet.)
* Saturday, Nov. 12, 8 p.m. at the Meyer Theatre, 117 South Washington St. in Green Bay, Wis. (Tickets not available yet).
* Friday, Dec. 30, 8 p.m. at the Keswick Theater, 291 North Keswick Ave. in Glenside (suburban Philadelphia), Pa. (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.
Posted by Sampo, on June 2nd, 2011 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.
Posted by Sampo, on June 2nd, 2011
Posted by Sampo, on June 2nd, 2011 
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif.–Actress Lillian Adams, best known for her work in commercials during a career that spanned more than 52 years, died May 25 at the Motion Picture & Television Fund home here, due to cardiac failure. She was 89. MSTies will remember her as Mrs. Ellis in the movie in episode 414- TORMENTED.
Read her Variety obit here.
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