Hi, while watching “The Rebel Set” last night I realized that the question “who is Merritt Stone?” was not really answered (Tom’s Poirotesque effort notwithstanding – is Poirotesque a word?). It made me wonder about other unresolved questions/plot points that were left hanging in other episodes, like Lt. Lamont in Space Mutiny – was she actually dead or just mostly dead?
I’m going to use matty’s suggestion as a jumping off point and expand this a bit: What questions do you have that a MSTed movie should have answered, but never did?
Mine is: Was Peter Graves’ character in “The Beginning of the End” ever prosecuted by the authorities, or sued by the city of Chicago? His sloppy experiment DIRECTLY CAUSED the invasion. I want him frogmarched (or grasshoppermarched) out of his laboratory!
What’s your question?
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(Oh and, for those of you who don’t know: Dark, slender and gaunt MERRITT STONE played the spider-eaten dad Pete Flynn in 313-EARTH VS. THE SPIDER; a clergyman in 414-TORMENTED; a consoling cop (uncredited) near the end of 319-WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST; and the “King Grady” in 411-THE MAGIC SWORD. Note that he does NOT appear in 419-THE REBEL SET!)
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Mr B Natural, Male or Female?
In Horror Of Party Beach, why was Eileen Gavin’s voice dubbed?
I wish that The Brain that Wouldn’t Die would have told us what happened to the model who was almost murdered, and then carried off by the creature at the end. Did the creature set her down safely somewhere so that she’d be found by a passerby? Did the two of them, disillusioned with humanity, get married and live off the grid? Or maybe the creature went back and rescued Jan in the Pan, and the three of them went into business together…?
So where was Big McLargeHuge going at the end of Space Mutiny?
At the end of Invasion U.S.A., it turns out the whole invasion was just a hypnotic trance. Does that mean that the window washer at the tractor factory wasn’t really an enemy agent doing a bad Peter Lorre impersonation? Will the factory owner call the FBI and say “I think my window washer is a cigar-stealing commie, because I saw a vision in a brandy glass”?
I could ask a million questions here but I’ll keep it short.
Did Torgo die in “Manos”? I mean he did run off after his hand was broiled.
Whatever happened to the fat man in OATMB? Did Fingal really put him in an anteater for a month?
Did he come out a changed man?
Who the hell was the guy in the Cadillac in “Laserblast”? All we got was a name.
In Squirm, what happened to mama? They never show us her fate. All we see is Mick and Geri in th tree and
“Flag on the moon… How’d it get there?”
At the end of Zombie Nightmare, what happened to Batman in Hell? Did he get to
be a minion of the Dark One? And what would have happened if the teenage detective
had shot him instead of freezing? Seems like he wouldn’t have fared too well in
a Last Judgement up above.
Oh, and does every graveyard have an entrance to Hell? And if so, is there also an
entrance (maybe in a tree?) to Heaven?
And did the Zombie Lady ever get elocution lessons? I mean, she spemds her whole life in some country north of the U.S. and still has a rather strong accent, eh!
Did poodle-hair and rubber lips stay together in Soultaker?
How did the marriage go with Michelle and Critter in Girl in Gold Boots? Did Critter actually go to war? Or did he stay a draft-dodger?
Did the astronaut-captain keep the rock in his junk drawer and go to a nice federal prison in Phantom Planet?
Did Roxie and the Arch-Hall character stay together after Eegah was killed? Or did she decide later that Eegah would have been the better choice?
SO MANY QUESTIONS! AArrgghh!
To HuggyBear: I’ve actually seen Squirm all the way through without Mike and the bots. The worms eat Momma close to the end of the movie. They took that part out for the MSTed version. So one of your questions has an answer!
1) What was the fall-out following the public revelation of the clone farm at the end of Parts: The Clonus Horror?
2) Did Langer and Vaaaaaaance ever follow-up on their tepid “romance” after defeating the titular creatures of The Giant Spider Invasion?
As usual, I think about “The Final Sacrifice” too much. Who was the woman in the photo on Rowsdower’s dashboard? Girlfriend, wife, ex?
Also, what happened to Troy’s mother? We know his father was killed by the evil cult. WAIT A MINUTE! Could the woman in the photo and Troy’s mother be one and the same? The mind boggles.
1. did big stupid and danny live happily ever after? or did big stupid kill danny’s dad for coming home drunk?
sidebar: they REALLY couldn’t have carrie ‘she’s so very’…i don’t know LIVE MAYBE?
2. why did both the giant eyes and the the eye creatures come to earth in the first place?
3. so if valeria from ‘robot holocaust’ was actually a robo android construct working with and for robots, why (aside from the obvious titillation) did she appear as a human?
4. finally, what happened to the bikini girl that got mugged by zigra? just askin’… she might need a hand and i kinda have some free time….just sayin’.
To be fair, some movies did answer a lot more questions but the scene got cut out by MST3K or the TV version they were using. Like the question in Mitchell of “Wasn’t John Saxon in this movie.” The answer was “Yes. He was working with the same crime organization as all the other villains, tried to run over Mitchell with a dune buggy and died when it didn’t go so well.”
I don’t know whether it was answer in the original version, but in Pod People/Los Extraterrestrials “Why was Trumpy’s mother putting stars on the forehead of everyone she killed?” I’ve figured out that this is the same constellation that Trumpy points out on the star chart, but I don’t see the point of leaving it on your victims.
Did they fish out Eegah from the pool and who went to his ancestors to tell them of Eegah’s death. After the autopsy, did they bury Eegah or stuff him and put him in a museum? So many unanswered questions that my head hurts.
Well, no, I wasn’t guessing that Rowsdower is Troy’s father. Dad was the Larry Csonka-lookalike killed by the cult. But did his mom run off with Rowsdower and then leave him too? So many questions….
Whatever became of Trumpy?
What was the deal with Pod People? I mean- did anyone actually figure out the lyrics to that song from the beginning? Why was Trumpy the lone non-maniac of Team Visit Earth and Murder People? Did they have an actual mission and/or visit Earth under their own agency? (I kind of want to think they were exiled or escaped criminals or something, but that was done better in The Alien Factor, although come to think of it those were zoo creatures.)
I’d also like to understand some of the Seatopian dialogue/backstory/mythology from Godzilla vs. Megalon. Joel and the Bots talk over a bunch of it, and it seems like that’s one movie that makes more sense unriffed (and probably even more with a better translation, which is pretty common for Toho movies of that era). I mean, I think I have some stuff figured out- Roxa is the younger brother of one of the other two guys, who are inventor-types; Seatopia is kinda sorta acting in retaliation to the (accidental) destruction of their territories by atom bomb testing and they’ve got some relationship with the aliens from Godzilla vs. Gigan (and thus get to borrow Gigan), but a lot of the details elude me. I really need to pick up an unriffed copy of that someday.
In Space Mutiny:
1) Did the Shopping News Daily collapse when Lisa left it for the movie’s hero to run the supermarket and design custom made plaid couture?
2) What exactly was Bob Evel doing that was changing the future and why was he so unconcerned about the “12 Monkeys” future
he was creating?
3) Considering how Terminator II was caused by studying remnants of the Terminator, why wasn’t the future changed
by 1776ers studying the airplane crash remnants and Bob Evel’s double body around the tree? For one, Ben Franklin and Thomas
Jefferson would have been curious.
I’ve always wondered what the hell happened to Joe Estevez’s character in Werewolf.
What about the serial shorts they never finished:
What happened to the Rubix Cube in The Phantom Creeps? Did Zorka ever get caught or he still invisible, and living under our beds?
Did our intrepid explorers ever overthrow Unga Kahn UNGA KAHN, MAD TYRANT OF ATLANTIS!!!! ?
Did Cynthia break off her engagement with Ken and groove on Skullface Phil? AND WHAT ABOUT THE HIATUS HERNIA!?!?!?!?
Did Lisa in “Time Chasers” ever get her groceries in the fridge?
Who are the Arkansas Razorbacks playing at the big homecoming game in “Boggy Creek 2”, and what was the outcome of the game?
Who patched Nick up in “Hobgoblins” after the grenade blast set him on fire?
Did CABOT! CABOT!? CABOOOOTTTTT!!! successfully stay in Gor and marry Telena and become the new king while Watney was sent back to Earth and got arrested by the Italian Actors Playing Gay American Cops?
CABOT CABOT CABOT CABOT CABOT!!!
Also, in X marks the spot, does the judge make out newly deceased anti-hero some other sap’s guardian angel?
In “a date with your family, does son’s boy cleaning service ever make money and expands? Does daughter ever realize her ‘talents’ of flower arranging is unappreciated?
And, in Out of the world, does the devil ever win a bet with Whitey? And will Stuff bread become the number 1 bread company?
Did the new sheriff of Oracle realize he was basically the sheriff of himself?
Once Upon a Honeymoon: Are there gay angels?
WHY DON’T THEY LOOK!?
okay, that’s enough for now
In Laserblast, was anyone actually ready for some football?
In “Indestructible Man” – why was Butcher Benton sentenced to death for an Armored Car robbery?
In “Time Chasers”, did Bob Evil lose his primo office in the Library/Sky Mall?
Who really said “Watch out for SNAKES!”….Was it really SUPER CAR, some off screen character we do not know about, or was it the snakes themselves giving them the heads up.
Whenever I watch Angel’s Revenge and the scene where they are about to smash Stick’s head with the tire of the raised car, they stop and then vote whether to kill him or spare him. They of course vote by either placing an full or empty gun cartridge in the can, full is “death”, empty they give him a “second chance.” The vote turns out to be 6 empty cartridges and 1 full, and to give Sticks a second chance. Now what I’ve always wondered is, WHO actually voted to kill sticks? Right off I exclude Kako because she actually stops the car from smashing his head in, saying maybe they should give him a second chance. And Maria agrees with her. That leaves Michelle, April, Elaine, Trish and Terry. I then exclude April and Elaine because they are a teacher and a cop, and you would expect they would have “civil service” morals about indiscriminate killing. Which then leaves Michelle, Terry and Trish. Ultimately, I side with it being Trish, the high school kid, because she is overly gung ho about being involved in this vigilante group.
Being an Arkansan myself, I actually researched this just now. The movie came out in 1985, and judging by the color of the opposing team’s uniform they were playing the Texas Longhorns, who they would have played in Fayetteville that year so it checks out. If that’s the right game, they lost it. I know you probably didn’t actually care to know that, but there it is anyway. ;)
…Yeah and what about Scarecrow’s brain!?
I was actually going to ask what happened with that whole General Hospital storyline so I searched and came across this wikia link: http://general-hospital.wikia.com/wiki/Phil_Brewer_%28Martin_West%29
“Bludgeoned with a geode”.
I figured it was Michelle because Sticks had recently sold her little brother drugs. Which is kind of harsh – dudes just doing his job.
In no particular order:
What the heck happened to poor Trumpy at the end of “Pod People?” Did he survive? Find some weird way to return to his home planet? Become a forest-dweller? Was he later mistaken for Sasquatch?
What is the origin of Manos (the god, not the movie itself)? Was Manos part of a pantheon? If there’s a “god of primal darkness,” does the film’s canon include gods of other things? Perhaps Manos’ arch-rival, Piernas, god of modern light? What was the Master’s origin, for that matter? How did he wind up in El Paso? What’s up with the Valley Lodge sign leading to his house? A trap, or a mistake?
Why does the movie Monster A Go-Go exist? I mean that question in cosmic sense.
I was wondering how he eats and breathes, and other science facts, but I keep repeating to myself it’s just a show and I should really just relax.
Thinking of the bullet vote in Angel’s Revenge, I thought maybe Maria might have been the one who voted yes, the reasoning being that when they had Sticks hanging upside down so Keiko could “revoke his membership” (as Servo put it), Maria said not to go easy, as he was the guy who got her hooked. That’s just speculation on my part.
Another question, again in regards to Angel’s Revenge: At the end of the movie, as two of the girls are leading Jack Palance’s character into a fenced area, Elaine says “I’ll call Miller, he’ll take care of everything.” We never see this Miller guy in the MSTed version, so the question is, just who is Miller? Was he a detective on the police force that Elaine knew? Was he the Charlie or the Bosley of this Charlie’s Angels ripoff?
‘Manos: The Hands Of Fate’ brings up a lot of questions:
How long has this cult been there?
What is Torgo’s backstory? Was he always a goatman or did something happen to make him that way?
Who are the Master’s wives? Are they other people who wandered into the Valley Lodge?
Is the Master immortal? He seemed to shake off bullets pretty well.
Are the police just ignorant about the fact that a lot of people go missing in their jurisdiction?
Won’t Mike and his family eventually be reported missing? I’m sure someone will notice they haven’t come back.
Are the police in on it and just let the cult have the occasional wanderer to be sacrificed?
#18 Don’t forget that an Uzi was also left back in the past. If that were found, man could possibly have atomic weapons by 1900.
No really….! Was Cathy Rigby in that damn suit?!
Oh, Space Mutiny. If MacPhearson knew all the countermeasures, why was Kalgan torturing Leah to get the countermeasures? Were the space pirates aware of Kalgan’s plan, or was he just hoping they wouldn’t blast him to astrodust as well? Why did MacPhearson choose a staff meeting to bring up his dissatisfaction with living on the Southern Sun? Was he just trying to out Nerdy McWhimperton? And what about the engineer who had “done well” after they kill McWhimperton? Was his story supposed to go anywhere? Do we even see him again? Why did Billie Jean King’s glasses magically appear back on his face after he was thrown over the railing? Why are there two different actors playing the guy getting softened up? Were the Enforcers not worried about Roddy McDowell spoiling their plans? Was he in on it as well? How did Big McLargeHuge know that Kalgan’s turning of the Enforcers was complete, just by hearing the number the old guy gave out? I’m sure there’s many more.
But finally, and unrelated, but will somebody please explain what the heck a finntoozler (sp) is?
Why do so many shorts posit supernatural entities and extra-dimensional realms obsessed with dull trivia and ordinary, every-day objects? Why would God and Satan be so concerned with the marketing of bread products to feel the need to directly intervene? Why is there a cosmic entity devoted solely to coiled springs? Is EVERY person who’s interested in music visited at some point by a manic hermaphrodite? Do the spirits of the Founding Fathers often appear to young people and explain to them how to budget their money? And who are those mysterious voices who follow children and young teens around commenting on their actions and telling them to straighten up their rooms?
#21 Murdock Hauser
judging from the team colors and that back then they were still doing the southwest conference, i’m saying it was Baylor. probably wrong but that’s my guess.
At the end of The Touch of Satan, Jody sells his soul so that Melissa can become young again. Now, given that we can presume sex ages the person who made the pact af–you know what, no. That movie was horrible. I prefer to think they all died of walnut poisoning.
I simply conclude that Michelle was NOT aware that it was Sticks you beat up her kid brother. There is no mention of her being aware of that fact. Even in the unedited version of the film it’s not mentioned that she became aware of that.
Miller was a character in the film who was completely edited out of the mistie version. He played Elaine’s superior officer on the police force and all the scenes of Elaine reporting to him about the “7” group were cut out. He was played by Neville Brand.
I admit to bring squishy a couple of times in my life. Heck, it’s practically unavoidable. But what exactly is it like having “The Reds?” Is it a cold war communist thing or something?
And why will Jim not release the first three KTMA episodes? C’mon Jim, we know you got ’em! Let us completists be sated!
In “Monster-A-Go-Go”, did they ever ask Frank Douglas what happened when met that alien that looked like Mo Udall?
In “Untamed Youth” whatever happened to the judge who married that Tropp guy? Did she have to leave town because she was sort-of responsible for what he did?
In “Brute Man”, did the piano teacher keep teaching after she got her sight back?
And…did all those “mistakes” in “The Unearthly” really did form the World Wrestling Federation?
Another one about Angel’s Revenge, following up on Crow’s mentioning of this: the ladies are very intent on stealing bullets… um, why? (Other than to pad out the movie, I mean.) Maybe they were trying to pin it back on the militia that they stole them from but that’s never stated. Couldn’t Michelle afford a couple of boxes of bullets?
Master Ninja I and II: How did Lee Van Cleef’s gut completely disappear whenever he wore his ninja outfit? It was almost as if it was a completely different person!