{"id":25998,"date":"2018-04-21T08:30:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T12:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=25998"},"modified":"2018-04-20T20:34:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T00:34:08","slug":"weekend-discussion-thread-riffing-makes-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=25998","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Discussion Thread: Riffing Makes the Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>Alert reader Perry writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To which MST3K episode does the riffing make the most difference? Not necessarily the best episode, but the one where the whole movie experience is most improved by being MST&#8217;ed. Host segments and in-theater count.<\/p>\n<p>For me it&#8217;s &#8220;The Starfighters&#8221;. I can enjoy &#8220;The Touch of Satan&#8221; by itself, but &#8220;Starfighters&#8221; is a dreadful excuse for a movie made enjoyable all the way from &#8220;Cowboy MIke&#8217;s Own Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbecue Sauce&#8221; down to the last in-air refueling scene where the crew struggles to find a double entendre they haven&#8217;t used yet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to go with &#8216;Hamlet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>Alert reader Perry writes:<\/p>\n<p>To which MST3K episode does the riffing make the most difference? Not necessarily the best episode, but the one where the whole movie experience is most improved by being MST&#8217;ed. Host segments and in-theater count.<\/p>\n<p>For me it&#8217;s &#8220;The Starfighters&#8221;. I can enjoy &#8220;The Touch of Satan&#8221; by itself, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-msties","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25999,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25998\/revisions\/25999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}