{"id":27715,"date":"2019-11-02T08:30:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T12:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=27715"},"modified":"2019-10-31T14:21:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T18:21:12","slug":"weekend-discussion-thread-rough-draft-of-the-season-episode-guide-1202-atlantic-rim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=27715","title":{"rendered":"Episode guide: 1202- Atlantic Rim"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Movie:<\/strong> (2013): When giant monsters crawl out of the Atlantic Ocean and attack the Eastern Seaboard, the U.S. government is forced to trust a trio of mischievous soldiers who specialize in piloting gigantic robots, to defend America.<\/p>\n

Opening: <\/strong>Intruder alert at Gizmonic Institute! Meanwhile, in the invention exchange, Growler helps out as J&tB show off their inflatable air dancer organ. Max demonstrates \u201csupposi-stories.\u201d <\/p>\n

Segment 1:<\/strong> With the bots dressed in mech suits, the Mads demand a new song in the spirit of \u201cEvery Country Has a Monster.\u201d Growler and M. Waverly and Gypsy help with \u201cGet in Your Mech.\u201d<\/p>\n

Segment 2<\/strong>: Dressed like they are at an awards dinner, J&tB explain how they got their medals.<\/p>\n

Close:<\/strong> Jonah wants to do some day drinking, but the bots suggest they pour out a little — actually kind of a lot.<\/p>\n

Stinger:<\/strong> Red tells his tale. Buh-boom!<\/p>\n

The New Normal:<\/strong> Growler and M. Waverly, once considered one-hit wonders, are now fixtures, including making regular appearances in the theater.
\nIn pretty much every episode this season, M. Waverly is brought in in Gypsy\u2019s bucket (which the never-explained \u2018payload\u2019 was in in season 11). Then he gets out in front of the theater seats, gives a riff and leaves. Growler comes in, riffs and leaves. Near the end, Waverly comes back, does a riff, then gets in the bucket and is taken out of the theater by Gypsy.
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Thoughts:<\/strong>
\n\u2022 I cruised through the comments from the “rough draft” and I want to compliment everybody on their observations and opinions. There was some very thoughtful and even insightful commentary and not a lot of cross-talk and personal back and forth. Kudos.
\n\u2022 I know a bit about old bad movies but I don’t really keep close track of the new bad ones, so while I had heard of “Pacific Rim” and that it was bad (some commenters took issue with that view, but I can’t weigh in because I’ve never seen it), I had not heard of Asylum. But apparently others had, because I recall the announcement that one of theirs was going to be riffed filled some MSTies with trepidation.
\n\u2022 In the rough draft I asked what that “intruder alert” was about? A helpful commenter explained that it was Dr. Erhardt liberating Dr F. and Frank\u2019s ashes? Oh. I should have figured that out. Duh.
\n\u2022 A bonehead (Deanna Rooney, Jonah’s wife btw) helps out Max with invention exchange.
\n\u2022 A bit of self-referencing going on in this episode: At movie sign, J&tB are sining \u201cPatrick Swayze Christmas.\u201d Later Max says: \u201cIt stinks! And not in the joke way.\u201d Still later, in the theater, they say a minor character in the movie looks like \u201cJoel Hodgson.\u201d
\n\u2022 The song was another gem from Paul & Storm.
\n\u2022 Callback: \u201cPackers!\u201d (Giant Spider Invasion.)
\n\u2022 Catchphrases: \u201cBull butter!\u201d and \u201cBuh-boom!\u201d
\n\u2022 Cast and crew roundup (very few this time): Writer Thunder Levin was the still photographer on “Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II.” That’s it.
\n\u2022 Fave riff: \u201cThis one\u2019s more of a landscaping issue.\u201d \u201cWhat with the streets clogged with corpses and all\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Movie: (2013): When giant monsters crawl out of the Atlantic Ocean and attack the Eastern Seaboard, the U.S. government is forced to trust a trio of mischievous soldiers who specialize in piloting gigantic robots, to defend America.<\/p>\n

Opening: Intruder alert at Gizmonic Institute! Meanwhile, in the invention exchange, Growler helps out as […]<\/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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episode-guide","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\/27715","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=27715"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28421,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27715\/revisions\/28421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}