{"id":4508,"date":"2017-08-31T08:30:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T12:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=4508"},"modified":"2017-08-31T12:37:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T16:37:57","slug":"episode-guide-817-horror-of-party-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=4508","title":{"rendered":"Episode guide: 817- Horror of Party Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Movie:<\/strong> (1964) Teeners in a beach community are oblivious when dumped radioactive waste creates a batch of monsters.<\/p>\n

First shown:<\/strong> 9\/6\/97
\nOpening:<\/strong> Tom harmonizes his overtones with the fundamental
\nIntro:<\/strong> Servo’s “fundamental” turns out to be pre-recorded; meanwhile “Apearlo” and “Brainguyus” settle in with a delighted Callipygeas and suspicious Flavia
\nHost segment 1:<\/strong>The manly beach dance is postponed because Mike’s trunks are a bit small
\nHost segment 2:<\/strong> Apearlo & Brainguyus’ jam becomes a beef commercial
\nHost segment 3:<\/strong>Tom’s a newsy with very up-to-date news
\nEnd:<\/strong> M&TB sing “Sodium;” meanwhile as Callipygeas and Brainguyus bond, Apearlo and Flavia trade…er…pleasantries
\nStinger:<\/strong> A less-than-manly beach dance
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\u2022 I was generally a fan of the “chase through time and space” thing in season eight, and I contend that more host segments worked than didn’t. But when it comes to the “Roman times,” story arc we’re now into, well, for me, not so much. Everybody tries real hard, and I bet it seemed funny in the writing room, but many of the Roman Times host segments just don’t come up to the level I expect from this show. Call it the exception that proves the generally witty and hilarious rule. Fortunately it only lasted a few episodes, and fortunately for this episode, the goofy movie, and the terrific riffing of it, more than make up for any shortcomings elsewhere.
\n\u2022 Paul’s take is here<\/a>.
\n\u2022 This episode was included in Shout\u2019s Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume XXXVII
\n\u2022 References<\/a>.
\n\u2022 Crow is referred to as a \u201cgolden spider duck\u201d\u2014that sounds like something that was in a fan letter, though I don\u2019t think they ever said that.
\n\u2022 One reference the reference guide doesn’t note: Observer mentions “Bitter Dregs,” during segment 2. He’s referring to tune sung in the Star Trek episode “Plato’s Stepchildren<\/a>.” Watch it here<\/a>.
\n\u2022 During that bit, they eventually begin playing Aaron Copeland’s “Rodeo,” and Kevin yells \u201cBeef!\u201d That’s a reference to the now-largely-forgotten “Beef. It’s What’s for Dinner<\/a>” commercial campaign that featured that Copeland piece.
\n\u2022 By the way, the music is actually being played by Lisa Fuglie (of the group Monroe Crossing<\/a>) and Karen Mueller<\/a>.
\n\u2022 Movie comments: Did the makers of this movie really think the monsters would look scary? Really? Also: The voice of our heroine Elaine is dubbed. But I’ve never heard an explanation as to why.
\n\u2022 When this movie was in theaters, movie-goers had to sign a “fright release” before they entered the theater.
\n\u2022 I hadn’t seen this one for a while, and I’d forgotten Eulabelle. Wow. Were these kinds of characters really still acceptable in 1964?
\n\u2022 The movie was filmed in the Stamford, Conn. area, (although it has some very nice shots of 1964-era Manhattan, when our hero makes his Sodium run).
\n\u2022 According to this bio<\/a>, the Del-Aires broke up not long after shooting this movie.
\n\u2022 This movie “was billed as ‘the first horror musical,’ but we MSTies know better. The similarly-hyped 812-THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES was released the year before.”
\n\u2022 The great \u201cSodium\u201d song has one extra joke connected with it\u2014check out the credits where the song\u2019s \u201clyric\u201d is credited.
\n\u2022 No cast and crew roundup: Nobody involved in this movie worked on any other MST3K movie.
\n\u2022 CreditsWatch: Produced by Jim, directed by Kevin. With this episode Patrick is added to the “Set Design” credit and he will be there for the rest of the run of the series. A Jennifer Turner helped Andrea with hair and makeup. Intern Joseph Olson finished up a four-episode stint. This is the last episode that “The authors of the First Amendment” would be thanked at the end of the credits.
\n\u2022 Fave line: “Look Polish, everyone!” Honorable mention: “Do farts have lumps?” \u201cI had a generally positive impression of white people before this movie.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Movie: (1964) Teeners in a beach community are oblivious when dumped radioactive waste creates a batch of monsters.<\/p>\n

First shown: 9\/6\/97 Opening: Tom harmonizes his overtones with the fundamental Intro: Servo’s “fundamental” turns out to be pre-recorded; meanwhile “Apearlo” and “Brainguyus” settle in with a delighted Callipygeas and suspicious Flavia Host segment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-4508","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\/4508","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=4508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24900,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508\/revisions\/24900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}