I've started watching this show again. Not gonna touch the reboot because it looks pretty AIDS, but I never watched the old series all the way through.
Do you guys enjoy it? I figure actual TV/movie buffs might really enjoy it. The amount of references these guys make is dizzying, and I sometimes wonder how the show became so popular back in a time where the references weren't so easy to look up. But then again I guess there was more of a shared culture back then in mainstream entertainment.
Trace Beaulieu is my favorite.
Alien from LA is one of the better adaptations they’ve done.
My personal favorite as well.
We didn't get it over here, but I watched it all out of order on youtube and liked it quite a lot. Wish I'd found it sooner.
/watch?v=-sHNDfUw7p8
This year I've begun an inorder rewatch of the VHS/DVDrips and it's cool seeing the show come together.
It's one of my favorite shows ever. The reboot is absolute fricking AIDS.
>Start playing the 24 hour stream at night to fall asleep to
>Joel and Mike episodes, Rifftrax, and Cinematic Titanic I get a good restful sleep during
>Whenever an episode of the reboot comes on I jolt awake and have to mute it
>watch the Munchie episode
>it’s funny
Anti-reboot posters are gays
Just the Mads suck.
Enjoy your Gypsy renamed to GPC3 so as not to offend SJWs, black Servo, unfunny female lead, cucked Joel, and unfunny woke riffs bro. I'll stick to the original 10 seasons and vastly superior Rifftrax, thanks.
>it’s not funny because …it just isn’t okay
I laughed at the riffs so it’s good.
Anti rebooters are pathetic .
It's not funny, and you're pathetic. You can lick hobo shit off the street if you want, but I'll stick to what I like instead. Thanks.
>SAAAAVVVEEEW ME RIFFTRAXKS
hahah holy shit. Stop trying so hard to fit in here.
homosexual take your own advice. The fact you are making excuses for the farce that is nu-MST3K proves you are probably a troony and definitely mentally ill.
>me so…le angry
Oh yeah…you fit in bro. Hahaha
>I laughed at the riffs so it’s good.
Actually the riffs are bad and you're a homosexual.
Dilate then have a nice day.
I have never seen this. Why would I want to watch a movie with a third of the screen blocked by shadows and constant cartoon voices talking over it? Sell me on it.
it's funny and comfy. they're not watching good movies, they're watching crap that's fun to make fun of. Though, that being said, sometimes I do have to rewind to hear what the characters are saying because I find myself getting invested in the plot from time to time lol
Good movies can be good riffed though. We have Master Pancake here in Austin and one of the first ones I saw was Predator (1988) which I thought no way was it gonna work. I'd never seen a movie riffed before that was even a quarter that good. But it was hysterical I couldn't believe it. Trace, Frank, and Mary Jo have all joined them numerous times as guest members.
That makes sense. You certainly wouldn't want to see the movie the first time that way, but if you love a movie I can see an appeal in watching it getting riffed on.
Well I don't know, you tell me. Two big ones I saw for my first time was when they were riffed by them and they were VVitch as I recall it was named with Anya Taylor or whatever and The Quiet Place. And so yeah I thought both movies were just atrociously awful. Was I misled because of Master Pancake?
Otherwise Predator is such a masterpiece there may have been a good chance I still liked it. That'd be interesting to talk to someone like that because they ask people to raise their hands at the beginning if they've never seen it. Gladiator by Ridley Scott was another one I thought no fricking way but I just absolutely died laughing the entire time. No Country for Old Men was another big one and I recall it being a decent show. I really kinda only remember that I thought the drinking game was especially funny. They have us play one everytime. So that's one of the things that's so great about them is thats there's usually enough dynamics that like if the riffing is a litle average then something else might pick up the slack.
Some of the best Rifftrax are when they do good movies. The LotR movies, Jurassic Park with Weird Al, Star Wars, etc.
The thing about so-bad-its-good B movies is that about usually 40% or so is absolute gold and the rest drags, they fill in the gaps
>But then again I guess there was more of a shared culture back then in mainstream entertainment.
You just answered your own question. Until the Internet went mainstream and cable/satellite expanded, the general public watched most of the same shows and understood (even passingly) most of the same references. A non-Trekkie would have seen at least a few episodes of the original Star Trek and have known who Kirk and Spock were. A fan of action would have memorized when Hercules or Renegade was on and alternated between both via reruns. Everyone read at least a few books and most watched Saturday morning cartoons, so Sherlock Holmes and Bugs Bunny would have been in the zeitgeist. Furthermore, the writers of many shows then were nerds. That's how you got many highbrow references in everything from MST3K to even kid shows. It was a different time and only goes to show Idiocracy was a prophecy.
This all makes sense to me. Being a nerd back then seemed to take a level of dedication whereas now anyone will just slap on some horn rimmed glasses and play videogames and call themselves a nerd. I like that there is so much and such different content to consume these days in terms of choice, but I definitely think that the lack of a shared culture has likely contributed to a fracturing of our society. Though having said that, society has always been fractured in some ways, it's just even more apparent now.
the fractures are just bigger now
>I sometimes wonder how the show became so popular back in a time
Keep in mind the show was dirt cheap to make, filled a large time slot and still floated network to network. I still love it though
>look up a mst3k joke I didn't understand
>"this is a reference to an advert that played on TV in parts of the midwest between september 1969 and december 1969"
If I hear one more fricking time about the "ducks" at the "Dells"...
Space Mutiny and Manos the Hands of Fate were pretty funny ep
Joel > Mike
Tom > Crow
Joel has a unique delivery that kills me his riffs are always stated as if he's confused
The Joel ones always felt like it was all done in one take since he would he mess up a line and just keep on going.
As a kid I always preferred Crow, but Tom is the thinking man's robot.
crow is objectively the cuter robot
He's adorbs and I think his zany style is more appealing to kids. When I got to middle age, I really understood Tom.
If you’re under 35 you’re not going to understand it
Don’t waste your time
>tfw exactly 35 and it's my favorite show
I'm just over 35 and never found it all that funny, but then again I also dont watch streamers or anything of the sort, MST3K always felt like it was geared towards people who dont like to watch stuff alone but have no friends.
Nah. It’s nothing like that
Yeah, it's not a friendship simulator or whatever zoomies call yt channels, it's a clever funny show that's endearingly low-budget.
I'd joke they were trapped in the satellite and I was trapped in my basement but that's about it.
*blocks your path*
I grew up in St. Paul and used to watch this on channel 23 before they got on cable.
So to rank the seasons do we need to disqualify 7 because it's so short or do we just base it all on percentage?
Who else has the hots for Beez McKeever?
Myself and every other Red-Blooded American Man.
Based Beezbros
This is the old school version of movie reactions on Youtube.
Not really
I love MST3K. When I was 11 a friend lent me The Brain that Didn't Die on VHS and it was love at first sight. I've been preoccupied with terrible movies ever since. For me, MST3k is the perfect comfort watch.
Agreed. First saw this show when I was 10 at my grandparents' house when it was on Comedy Central. It's not just my favorite show but one of my favorite things in life. It has brought so much comfort to me, especially in hard times. Once the theme song starts and I see Mike/Joel and the bots, I know I'm gonna have a good few hours of rest and entertainment. The 24-hr stream has started thia year right.
I know how you feel anon.
>didn't understand by the planet testicle logo what he was getting into.
It’s hilarious to me to this day, but I’m from Wisconsin. A lot of the humor is somewhat focused on the upper Midwest.
Devil fish is amazing.
Watch the unedited version of it.
Mmmmm oh I know
The new school version of the very first Woody Allen movie What's Up Tiger Lilly. I assume most people don't know that his first movie is basically just a mst3k episode. He even has a little host intro thing or whatever and then we just literally watch some japanese James Bond type movie with the dialogue completely replaced. So anytime in mst3k when they speak for a character, that is 100% exactly what the first Woody Allen movie is. Except no silhouettes sitting in the chairs with literal characters watching the movie and replacing the lines etc.
moron. Tiger Lily is a dub-over, like Kung Pow or that one game they used to do on Whose Line. So it’s not the same thing as MST3K.
moron? What does overdub make a difference? How is mst3k not an overdub? Anytime in mst3k that a riff is meant to replace what a character is saying, that is the same basic thing. About as close as it gets to exact. Mst3k they completely talk over the lines they intend to be interpretated as replacing what the character in the movie is saying. And in Tiger Lilly they do 100% the exact same thing except they erased the original dialogue. What is the big difference moron? Especially if there are instances in Tiger Lilly where you can't see the characters mouths to even see if they're saying anything in the first oakce. And actually there is just off the top of my head. When they're all wearing the gas masks. That is literally 100% the exact same thing that mst3k does. Because you have no frickingbidea if there's even anything to overdub.
>Mst3k they completely talk over the lines they intend to be interpretated as replacing what the character in the movie is saying
Sometimes they do this but a lot of the time they just happen to be riffing while the character is talking I think. Jokes where they are replacing a character's dialogue aren't constant I'd say. Decently common though
And that was 100% very clearly not what I was talking about.
but it's clearly against your point that "Mst3k is an overdub". It's definitely not. Only a few riffs actually do that, so yes there is a difference.
Mst3k is a type of overdub. If you take a recording and then make additional recordings on top of it, that is a type of overdub.
100% beside the point though. Because in addition to every other instance where you can't see a characters mouth in Tiger Lilly, there is a huge portion of the movie where they're wearing gas masks. And I'm sure they chose this movie. Because it didn't matter if there was even talking at all to overdub in the first place. And in those instances it is literally 100% the exact same thing as mst3k. Or technically we'd have to see the original film to verify but still. There's one point where he just syattsbsibging a song with the gas mask on. So I'm pretty there some moments of silence in the original movie where in Tiger Lilly he was singing.
By the way you used "overdub" earlier I was taking it to mean, "replacing the dialogue of the characters". I was explaining that MST3k does do that as a riff from time to time, but they're largely not replacing character dialogue at all. The silhouettes in MST3k itself adds to the jokes, as well as the seperation of characters delivering the lines. The robots, like Tom Servo, will make jokes about their robot bodies or how they were created by Joel fairly often. Taking the silhouettes and characters out of MST3k and just dubbing over the lines of characters is completely different to what MST3k is.
Yeah a silhouette of a fricking chair how impressive. Thanks Einstein.
The characters literally move around when an actor on the film is reaching out to them as a gag. They make other physical jokes as well. Holy shit you're fricking moronic. They're not just replacing character dialogue, numbnuts. It's not the same thing.
>They're not just replacing character dialogue, numbnuts.
I never even remotely implied they did only do that. You're genuinely fricking stupid.
You absolutely made that argument because you were trying to say this gay woody allen movie is the same thing as MST3k by saying MST3k was doing the same thing (replacing character dialogue).
You are fricking moronic. Frick off.
>moron? What does overdub make a difference? How is mst3k not an overdub? Anytime in mst3k that a riff is meant to replace what a character is saying, that is the same basic thing. About as close as it gets to exact. Mst3k they completely talk over the lines they intend to be interpretated as replacing what the character in the movie is saying. And in Tiger Lilly they do 100% the exact same thing except they erased the original dialogue. What is the big difference moron? Especially if there are instances in Tiger Lilly where you can't see the characters mouths to even see if they're saying anything in the first oakce. And actually there is just off the top of my head. When they're all wearing the gas masks. That is literally 100% the exact same thing that mst3k does. Because you have no frickingbidea if there's even anything to overdub.
After giving it several tries, I've pretty much realized it's not funny at all.
Watched Boggy Creek II with my dad the other day, he almost hurt himself laughing.
>Skidmarks on the ceiling
broke him
>YOUR HALF TIME SHOOOOOOOW
>YOYO MAAAAAAAAA
>AND THE ENTIREEEEEE
>BACH CELLO SUITE
>The crawling eye
>The Beatniks
>Hercules
>Outlaw of Gor
>The Dead Talk Back
>The Violent Years
>The Sinister Urge
>Kitten with a whip
>The Amazing Transparent Man
>The Brute Man (Creeper)
>Escape 2000
>The Giant Spider Invasion
>Parts: The Clonus Horror
>Riding With Death
>Agent For Harm
>Devil Doll
>Space Mutiny
>The Projected Man
>Werewolf
>Girl in Gold Boots
>Merlins Shop of Mystical Wonders
>Final Sacrifice
>Horrors of spider island
>Diabolik
>Boggy Creek II
all kino episodes, some because the movies themselves are just soulful and entertaining to watch usually because of actors chewing the scenery or just goofy stuff, some the riffs are just really good. mst3k really shines in comfiness with all their fun skits.
i gave the rebooted seasons an honest shot, and their movie selection is pretty ripe for riffing, but it just feels like a whole different writing room, it's like a different type of comedy
I saw the crawling eye the other day. For a low budget monster movie it actually wasn't that bad, there were times where I rewound to hear what the characters were saying below the riffing, lol. The cast didn't even seem to have that much to complain about it
yeah quality film... kitten with a whip is likewise not that bad
Also add
>EEGAH!
>Warrior of the Lost World
>The Touch of Satan
Aggressively soulless reddit friend simulator
>scripted "le funny quips"
Holy frick get a life
I wouldn't watch the whole series since there's some serious mid episodes and you're going to start hearing jokes and references repeated. However I will throw a random episode on. I prefer the shorts, typically they're funnier for me.
As I get older I get more of the references, as I see more things that predate MST3k.
It's all AIDS. All of it. I want to beat each and every one of the idiots behind it to death in savage and painful ways.
aw, sounds like someone got their playstation taken away
You'll never be inside a woman with that attitude. Chill out bro.
I recommend you dude weed a bit.
Watched Santa Claus last year. I had not watched MST3K for years but it still had that comfy charm and laughs were had.
Also, there was a gag in which Dr. Forrester gives TV's Frank a savings bond that matured in... 2023. Didn't see that coming. Felt like divine providence.
>obscure riff
>don't get it
>laugh anyway
I do this frequently as well, and sometimes I'll google the reference at the end of my laugh