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John Phillip Law, RIP

JPL

LOS ANGELES–Actor John Phillip Law, perhaps best remembered as the blind angel opposite Jane Fonda in 1968’s “Barbarella” died at his home here May 13. He was 70. MSTies will remember him as Commander Elijah Kalgan in the movie in episode 820- Space Mutiny and the title character in the episode 1013- Diabolik.

Read his Los Angeles Times obituary here.

Now Available from Rifftrax Presents…

Kevin and Bill take the point, so to speak, for another “Rifftrax Presents” title…

Saw

Available now.

Here’s a sample.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Favorite Season 9 Host Segments

Sorry this is a little late, but it’s my birthday and I slept in. So there.

I got my list down to seven, so that’s the guideline:

• 902- THE PHANTOM PLANET–Crow and Tom challenge Mike to an Andy Rooney-off: One of those “little” sketches that comes out of nowhere and cracks you up. You can see they must have been doing this around the office for days.
• 904- WEREWOLF–Mike thinks he’s James Lipton: Mike deconstructs the fawning celebrity acolyte wonderfully. Amusing side note: At a Sci-Fi Channel event in New York to promote the premiere of Season 9, somebody decided to invite Lipton, but I don’t think they told the Brains about it ahead of time. During the press conference Lipton attempted to ask Mike one of his famous questions he asks every guest on his show: “What is your favorite curse word?” Mike (and I suspect he may have been having one of his killer headaches that night) replied, in a somewhat pained voice, “That would be: ‘Go to hell, Mr. Lipton.’ ” Some people gasped. Erhardt and I (and a few others) laughed.
• 904- WEREWOLF–M&TB sing “Where, o, werewolf”: Can’t leave out this great song.
• 905- THE DEADLY BEES–Previously on the Satellite of Love…: The Brains wrap up the sorry state of network TV in about 45 seconds.
• 907- HOBGOBLINS–Unintentional on-turning: Another observant, funny little throw-away sketch.
• 908- THE TOUCH OF SATAN–Crow sells his soul to Stan; storytime with Steffi: The marvelous (and deadly) Beez shows us how it’s done.
• 910- THE FINAL SACRIFICE–Servo’s song–a tribute to Canada–goes horribly wrong: One of the all-time funniest songs of the series.
• 912- THE SCREAMING SKULL–Crow, disguised as a screaming skull, freaks Mike out: Classic Looney Toons-style MST3K mayhem. Hilarious.

Worst: from 906- The Space Children: Mike’s the kid from the short! Bonk!–Just kinda lays there.

Let’s hear yours!

New from Rifftrax: Rifftrax Presents

Rifftrax has created another product line, called “Rifftrax Presents.” Essentially, it’s Rifftrax minus Mike.

Two titles have been released today: One features an episode from the “Star Trek: Phase II (aka Star Trek: New Voyages)” series, “World Enough and Time”, riffted by Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett. This one is similar to the shorts: the riffing already included (and is DRM-free). You can also choose to download the unriffed movie and the RiffTrax commentary separately, if you prefer to sync them up yourself.) Here’s a sample. Get it here.

The other title being released today is a regular Rifftrax commentary track for the 2005 movie “Dark Water” riffed by British writer and performer Matthew Elliott. Here’s a sample. Get it here.

Another Star Trek: Phase II episode and another riff from Elliott are due out next week.

Media Mention

This story out of Tucson refers to the show as “wildly successful.”

Thanks to John for the heads up.