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Update: RiffTrax Live Shows Available on DVD. Blu-Ray Coming!

UPDATE: The two most recent RiffTrax live shows, “Reefer Madness” and “House on Haunted Hill,” are now available on DVD. We’d appreciate it you click here to order.

Reefer Madness DVD

House on Haunted Hill DVD

They will be out on the Blu-ray July 19. If you preorder, we would appreciate it if you click here:

Reefer Madness Blu-ray

House on Haunted Hill Blu-ray

Thanks.

Ross Hagen, RIP


Editors note: Those of you who have been following my Twitter feed know that I have been trying nail this one down practically since the night it happened, with no luck. Seems his close friends found out, and told other close friends, and news of his death leaked out and appeared on a few movie blogs. But there was nothing official. Nothing in the L.A. Times. No death notice that I can find. We have standards at Satellite News, especially when it comes to reporting that somebody is dead, and though the sources I had who were telling me he had died were completely reliable, we don’t go with an obit unless we have an “official” source.
But today, the IMDB added a death date to his page, and that’s good enough for us.

LOS ANGELES — Ross Hagen, actor, voice actor and producer died of cancer at a hospital here May 7. He was 72.
MSTies will of course remember him as Rommel in the movie in episode 202- THE SIDEHACKERS and Sgt. Monte Chapman in the movie in episode 209- THE HELLCATS.

Here’s a great interview with him.

MST3K Reference on The Cleveland Show

Check about 7:25 minutes in.

Reference in a Video Game?

Alert reader Bill Groves writes:

I don’t know if you still care about MST references in pop culture, but I found one in the “Game Portal 2.”

A bunch of robots were streaming down a conveyor belt when one says “I’m different.”

Heh.

Bill made a rough video for us.

Okay that video wasn’t working right, even for me, so here’s a youtube embed, which I should have done in the first place I guess.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Hey, It’s THAT Guy (or Gal)!

Alert regular Tim Servo writes:

I am constantly seeing familiar faces in real, actual movies of actors that appear in movies I see on MST3K.? Today I watched the 1956 serious movie “Julius Caeser” and one of the Roman senator-type guys was the sort of German scientist from “LOST CONTINENT.”

Oh, yeah, this is happening all the time. It even happens on the show. On several occasions we got riffs like “Oh goody! This guy!” or “Hey, it’s THAT guy!”
According to Daddy-O, there are more than 7,000 credited performances in 200 or so MST3K movies, so you’re bound to run across some of them doing other stuff.
Recently I was watching “The Baroness and the Butler” on TCM and a very familiar face came on the screen.

It was actor Maurice Cass (I learned after looking him up) better known to us as Professor Newton on the “Rocky Jones” episodes.
So, Tim Servo wanted to get into a whole “seven degrees of connection” thing, but I think that’d be too complicated.
But I DID want to get into the “that guy” phenomenon. Have you had a “that guy” (or gal) moment with somebody in an MSTed movie? Who’s your favorite “that guy”?
Me, I’d have to go with George Cisar:
who was in the movie in episode 406- ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES and is best remembered as “the doughy guy” in the movie in episode 522- TEEN-AGE CRIME WAVE.
What about you?