Now that Satellite News has revamped the Umbilicus links page, we readers could suggest and discuss websites that enhance our MST experience. I have my favorites, and I’m sure you do too (needless to say, Satellite News is tops on my list).
As a relatively new MSTie, the internet has been essential to deepening my appreciation of the show. The web abounds with largely fan-made sites featuring episode reviews, show histories, cast interviews, screencaps, video clips, and annotated reference guides.
There are a lot fewer sites than there used to be, but there are still some very good ones out there.
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Tom’s Temple of MST3K Stuff (mst3ktemple.com) has great history info and posters images, etc.
And, of course, the Digital Archive Project (dapcentral.org) for access to all of the non-commercially available episodes. ;)
Mighty Jack’s MST3K Reviews (mightyjackmst.com) – as far as reviews of the episodes are concerned, it’s a pretty good site.
His Top 50 MST3K Episodes page is worth a read by itself.
I daily check out mst3k.com for my quick dose of Science Theater.
Mst3k Review (www.mst3kreview.com)- Reviews movies/segments/shorts.
I actually have mst3kinfo.com set as my homepage, mostly for This Date in MSTory. The only other MST3k sites I regularly check are mst3k.com and (technically) RiffTrax.com. But I will say that the Internet Movie Database (imdb.com) and Wikipedia are great resources for looking up obscure references in the show, one of my favorite MST-related pass-times. The Prelinger Archives (www.archive.org/details/prelinger) is a database of instructional films dating from the 30s to the present day. Rick Prelinger, the archivist, supplied Best Brains with the vast majority of the shorts used in the show, not to mention those used by the RiffTrax crew.
MST3K.org is a favorite of mine because not only does he have nearly every episode,but also has convention footage/appearances,movies that MST3K should have done and other movies,too.Plus,www.imdb.com is a good one as well,since I can look up a movie that MST3K did and find more info about it.
eegah #2 – A-men to DAPCENTRAL!!!!!!!!!
Of course, Sat. News. I wouldn’t be writing this if it wasn’t!
Mighty Jack’s MST3K Reviews. Host segs, reviews, riffs, and trivia, for every single episode. And while it inspired my site, I have to give the edge to mine. :mrgreen:
Let me add my voice to the chants of DAPCENTRAL! DAPCENTRAL!
DAP and the Satellite News, what more do we need !?!?
You can’t leave out You Tube and Google videos (or whatever they call the site, I’m not sure). Whether you like it or not, there are plenty of MST3K episodes on these sites, as well as unmisted versions and clips. You also can listen to lots of the music from the show, or related to it.
I even get to hear the Italian version of the “Deep Deep Down”, the theme song from Diabolik. It’s catchy, even though I don’t quite understand the lyrics. She sings something about an OB-GYN (weird, I know).
Plus lots of Rifftrax clips by fans who have done the work of synching the audio, which I will never have time to do in my lifetime. And Cinematic Titanic clips too.
I have this site in my drop down address bar for daily viewing. My favorites list has mst3k.com, dapcentral, castleforrester.com, mst3k.wikia.com, mst3kfanguide.blogspot.com, and the agonybooth.com I like imdb and wikipedia too sometimes to see how if mst3k will be mentioned in an actor’s bio like Dean Fredericks. His bio says that Phantom Planet is popular to this day but doesn’t give the main reason why.
Duffy Dyer?! Who next? Phil Roof? J C Martin? Chris Cannizzaro? John Felske?
I think everyone knows http://www.annotatedmst.com but it hasn’t been mentioned yet.
http://www.mst3kguy.com
Bob, the guy who runs this site, makes some great quality non-commercially available episodes. Always very nice, responsive, and gets you your episodes fast.
Highly recommended.
Already been mentioned, but agonybooth.com has some really amusing reviews of films that were riffed on the show.
And since DAP has been brought up, utternerd.org is a convenient spot to grab some episodes.
This site has some of the movies that MST3K riffed on. It’s similar to agonybooth.
http://www.badmovies.org/
The Bot Cave:
http://www.joecrow.com/botzmain.htm
Best directions for building your own bot.
I liked badmovies.org They showed the part of “Squirm” that was cut from the MSTied version, when Roger was attacked. Very interesting site.
FYI: The 2/26/10 Brewster Rockitt: Space Guy! features an entourage of classic sci fi robots, including, in the foreground, Crow and Tom. Check it out here:
http://www.gocomics.com/brewsterrockit/2010/02/26
Randy
Totally off topic, but about Mike and the bots
fetish on pronouncing puma “pooma”,
1) Just rewatched Cave Dwellers and I believe
both Crow and Tom Servo say “pyuma” in rifts
(I believe around the time the frightening
Invisible People :shock: attack Ator and Thong).
2) If puma is pronounced “pooma” why isn’t
pure “poor” music “moosik” etc? Hmm? ;-)
Of course you could also ask if the British pronounce
zee “zed” then why not bee “bed”, cee “ced”, etc.?
(agonybooth.com) They’ve reviewed MST3K movies, and their Worst of Trek section (while in dire need of of new additions) is hilarious.
Mighty Jacks MST3K Review (mightyjackmst.com)
Colorful layout, thoughtful grading system, entertaining reviews complete with host segment breakdowns, bits of trivia, and list of favorite riffs. Each episode has it’s own forum page where readers discuss it. Plus MJ keeps up with Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic projects.
MST3K Reviews by Greg Eichelberger (svamcentral.org/mst/reviews)
If you ever thought you disliked an episode, give these reviews a read. He is one of the harshest critics I’ve yet found online, but he grades episodes pretty fairly overall. Piss-poor layout, filled with typos, and oddly incomplete, but still worth a look.
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Both Skenderberg and Gizmonic Temp post here frequently and their respective sites are excellent:
War of the Colossal MST3K Fan Guide (mst3kfanguide.blogspot.com)
Written in a blog-style format and updated almost daily. In addition to reviews and plot synopsis of every MST episode, he covers the RT & CT projects, including every RT short. Very thorough.
Andrew’s Mst3k Review Site (magicmarkerweb.com/mst3kreview/main.htm)
Famous for his RPM (riffs-per-minute) ranking of every episode. He’s also got letter grades for every show and brief reviews of most of them. He is a ruthless judge however: this week’s Space Children ranks a D-, and end of Season 9’s Delta Knights gets an F. Ouch! (BTW, Andrew, give your homepage a proper HTML title. It’s a little tough to find on Google)
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MST3K Review (mst3kreview.com)
Old school frame-style layout, requiring clicking through three pages to get to the episode you want. But the reviews are solid, often with one each from Don and Forrest, sometimes a third guy. Good bunch of ranked lists from each author buried under About This Site/Personal Favorites/Author (ugh!), including favorite host segments and invention exchanges. Plus they are co-sponsors of…
MST3K: The Discussion Board (forrestcrow.proboards.com)
Just registered there myself. Pretty intimidating number of threads and users there, many whom I’m sure are regulars here. The “Esoteric References VI” thread is great: every MySTie should familiarize themselves with it. You needn’t be a member to check out a lot of the board, so try it out.
I’ve a few more to sites to mention but I’ll save them for another post.
Well, they’re not technically websites, but i can recommend a couple of things:
‘Cult of UHF’ on iTunes has a number of downloadable video podcasts of public domain movies, including a few un-MST’ed original versions;
and
imTOO (www.imtoo.com) DVD audio ripper-someone on these boards recommended their program that converts audio files from DVDs to mp3s. Thanks to them i have many MST3K eps loaded on my iPod for walking around or listening to while falling asleep at home!
#19 ck – Totally off topic, but about Mike and the bots fetish on pronouncing puma “pooma”…
The “pyuma” pronunciation in Cave Dwellers is a callback to Ep. 206 – Ring of Terror. That’s how the groundskeeper says it when he’s searching for his cat in the beginning of the film. It’s sheer coincidence that years later they’d riff a film called Puma Man featuring an actor who says it the same way.
bmonsters.com has some pretty interesting articles about many of the movies and stars that are now part of MST3K lore. It does not seem to have been updated. If anyone else has any other info on this site please provide, thanks.
The Bot Cave
I can dream, can’t I? I know I could never afford the live-in puppeteers…
Jean’s Mystery Science Theater 3000 Fanfic Site
Don’t let the word “fanfic” drive you away. Just check out the sweet art gallery full of MST parodies of famous paintings.
Kafka Was Right #14 – Ooooo!! I didn’t know about UtterNerd. Firing up uTorrent now!
Finnias #21 – Thanks! It’s a labor of love, and in constant motion! Pardon my ignorance, and I ask this in all seriousness, but what do you mean by proper HTML title? Yeah, I know I’m a bit hard to Google, but it’s something I’d like to remedy. Thanks for your help.
Finnias #21 – I forgot to mention “Delta Knights”. It just never grabbed my interest. David Warner = cool = “Tron” or “Christmas Carol”, period. I can’t watch “Delta” without longing for “Cave Dwellers” or “Deathstalker”. Also, an “F” doesn’t mean I hate the episode, it just means that it’s not a part of my usual rotation.
Josh Way’s MST covers (mst3k.joshway.com) are astonishing things of beauty.
GizmonicTemp #26 & 27: Andrew (if I may call you Andrew) what I meant by “proper HTML title” is that when the homepage appears, the name of the page in the top of the browser reads:
…magicmarkerweb.com/mst3kreview/main.htm
and when I bookmark the page, I get the same thing. If you go into the actual HTML of the page you should be able to enter “Andrew’s Mst3k Review Site” between the “title” and “/title” tags. This is what search engines will use as the official name of your site.
And re. “Delta Knights” – yeah, I’m not a big fan either. I mainly mentioned it to demonstrate your willingness to “call ’em as you see ’em.” It provided a weak ending to an already mixed season that nonetheless included a few MaSTerpieces. And I’ll raise your love of David Warner with Time Bandits, Time After Time, and The Company of Wolves.
Agree about the Forrest Crow boards, also Joe Crow. When I hit the lottery, I’m building me a fleet of Toms, Crows, and Gypsies. ;-)
FILM HOUND:
blog.seattlepi.com/filmhound
a variety of stuff, run by a MSTie
MST TEMPLE FTW!!!!
msties.com was pretty good too. Pity it closed down.
JoeCrow’s Bot building website is neat: joecrow.com/botzmain.htm
Also gotta love the Surfer’s MST3K page http://mst3kguy.com/
and, the Magic MST3K set: http://www.broucek.net/mtg_mst3k/
i didn’t realize just how much was out there. Thaks for the info:
One site I found very cool (especially pre-video sites like youtube, dailymotion, hulu et. al) was malusman.tripod.com/mst3k.html. It was sound clips and was great for those times you had a quick jones for some of the sci-fi mst3k eps. It’s still around, btw.
I definitely support and recommend http://www.cheesyflix.com for all non-commercial mst episodes and MANY extras. Full menus and excellent quality with super-fast shipping! Not only that, but they offer a couple thousand old cheesy movies and a gazillion old-time radio shows.
Finnias Jones #29 – Ahh, I see. Thanks! I will definitely do that next time I’m on. I know just enough HTML and CSS to get me in trouble. :oops:
MIGHTY JACK RULES! :grin:
I don’t always agree with his assessments–but that’s part of the fun. It’s a nice-looking site, and endlessly entertaining.
Thanks, Mighty Jack!
Doh!
I love THIS site, too. I look at it each and every day. :grin:
Thanks to all involved! Seriously, when I’m having a bad day this site cheers me up every time.
My favorites, Part 2:
MST3K Booyaka (mst3k.booyaka.com)
A great resource, essentially a Yellow Pages for MST links. Found many of my favorite sites via this single page. Today I looked for it…and it’s gone! Object not found!/Error 404. Hopefully this is just temporary, but I doubt it.
The Annotated MST (annotatedmst.com)
Has less than a third of the episodes but they are thorough. Lack of context, timestamp, and who said the line makes it sometimes confusing. Occasionally updated. The next two from our Episode Guide marathon, Hobgoblins and Touch of Satan, are both there.
The Distributed MST3K Annotation Project (www.dapcentral.org/ap/episodes)
This is a very incomplete work-in-progress, with contributions made by fans. Each episode has a page, where people post quotes from the show with a timestamp, and usually try to explain them. A good place to look for your favorite lines and where in the episode they were said.
Too Much Information (highspeedplus.com/~dascott/tmi.htm)
Very incomplete. He only has 11 episodes (including The Movie) annotated, but they are extremely detailed. Each one is broken up by host and theater segment, making it easy to find where the riffs take place.
Thanks to everyone for the great suggestions.
Well, I like the “Mighty Jack” site, and “Satellite News” is great. But my favorite is the Even Deeper Blurting message site (http://members2.boardhost.com/crowtrobot). Things have been quiet there for a while (we had a few troubles a few years back), but it’s still there and I enjoy posting there when I can.
And, if it’ll encourage people to visit, I’m posting my Mom’s recipe for Welsh Cookies tomorrow. Happy St. David’s Day!
Oh, and I also like the Annotated MST site. I just wish it was still being updated.
I’m a big fan of Skenderberg’s review blog – mst3kfanguide.blogspot.com and I’ve bought a few DVDs (Mostly Season 3 Japanese movie episodes) from castleforrester.com
#42–Wow! I like the screenshots from castleforrester showing his DVDs come with a menu screens. Which Shout has still not done on their releases.
Yeah, Joe Crow’s site is the only other one I’ve ever been on besides this one and Jim Mallon’s “official” site. Joe was a huge help in building my bots and trading parts I needed for parts I had extras of. Good guy. Real pal. Man’s man. And he drives a zamboni.
I used to like Website number 9 when was around in the days.
I still like Tom’s Temple of MST3K Stuff
http://www.mst3ktemple.com
You know, honestly, this has been the only MST site for me. I’ve been a MSTie for 15 years and I’ve been coming to this site for something like 12 years. So KUDOS to MST3kinfo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Of course, now I got a laundry list of sites to check out. Hours of fun! Thanks everyone!!
And I posted it in last weeks episode entry of The Space Children, but I think that all MSTies would appreciate TRAILERSFROMHELL.COM, a website devoted to showing movie trailers from days gone by, with commentary by some genre gurus. (You can also watch the trailers without commentary). John Landis, Joe Dante, Mick Garris, Jack Hill, Rick Baker, Larry Cohen, Edgar Wright, Roger Corman, and more all contribute to the site. New trailers every Mon, Wed, and Friday! MST movies with trailers include, Monster a Go-Go, It Conquered the World, Giant Gila Monster, This Island Earth, Beast of Yucca Flats, Phantom Planet, The Green Slime, Tormented, Squirm, Danger Diablok!, and The Space Children, amongst others.
Check it!!
Some great links mentioned here, although I think Mighty Jack (of Mighty Jack’s MST3K Reviews) may not be a “he”….
I’d like to give a shout out to skyroniter and his MST episode “store” http://mst3kvideos.com/ Great service and quality.
Keith Palmer’s MSTing mine:
http://www.keithpalmer.ca/msting-mine/
Funny Mstings of Usenet posts and cheesy fanfiction. As long as you’re there, check out my MSTings, won’t you? They’re under the same username as this post. /end shameless plug.
I agree with #35 that cheesyflix is a good place to go for non-commerically available episodes if you are not an active trader. (I haven’t followed the trading scene since I completed my collection. Good times…) When I decide to upgrade an old tape to VHS, that’s my go-to site.
I also agree with #49 if you are into MSTings. Some of them are brilliantly hilarious. It’s not the late great Web Site Number 9, but it’s a great attempt to reconstruct it.