Let’s leave aside the gripes about “stunt casting,” and instead ask: what major (or minor) celebrity do you think would work well popping up on MST3K 2.0?
Me, I’m going to say just one word: Shatner.
Who would you like to see?
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Weekend Discussion Thread: Guest Stars?One of the biggest bombshells Joel dropped in the build-up to the end of the Kickstarter campaign was that A-listers — including Jack Black, Joel McHale, Bill Hader, Neil Patrick Harris, Jerry Seinfeld and Mark Hamill — have expressed an interest in doing a guest spot on the show.
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Adam West and Burt Ward.
@ready4sumfootball #39 Yeah, I didn’t get the feeling that EricJ meant it quite that way (and in fact, he’s already weighed in). But we have to remember that the goal line is constantly moving. More than a generation’s worth of years has passed since this all started, so it only makes sense in the new series that the the cultural references will cover a wider range. Something for everyone . . .
I’m a huge fan of Robot Chicken, but I’m a little too old to have any personal ties to most of the kids shows which they’re skewering (He-Man, Strawberry Shortcake, et al). But it doesn’t stop me from picking up the joke out of the context. It’ll be the same with the New MST3K, but then, it was ALWAYS that way. And we loved it . . .
Some great suggestions here . . . I would love to see Nathan Fillion stop by, and of course Adam West has already proven he can play on this field. Mostly, I’d just love to see actors or personalities featured who really want to be there . . . it’s been such a pleasure during this Kickstarter month hearing the stories of the celebs who loved this show, want to see it come back and maybe even take part. I’m STILL trying to get my head around Patton Oswalt being in the cast; I can’t imagine a better “get.”
Joe Don Baker?
What makes this even more of an intriguing concept is a textual factoid that Comedy Central displayed during a 1995 broadcast of MST3K.
It read: “Famous Fan Feedback: Nathan Fillion who plays Joey Buchanan on ABC’s One Life To Live says there is but one one show to watch – MST3K.”
I’m sure that producing/acting on Castle is enough to keep Fillion busy, but if he ever got the chance to guest star, it doesn’t seem too farfetched to think he would jump at the chance! His interest in the show hasn’t died; Nathan Fillion’s Twitter activity shows that he donated to the Kickstarter and retweeted Felicia Day’s Bring Back MST3K tweet!
I agree with the goalposts constantly changing. Today you can make references to such things as Firefly and Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man which you couldn’t have done in the 90s. But I think it just means there’s more stuff you can talk about. If you bring up Larry, Darryl and Darryl, some people will have seen Newhart and be able to link it back, and others won’t know what you’re talking about. For the ones that do get it it’s a funny joke. For the ones that don’t, it’s something someone can explain to you and you will expand your knowledge. It works the same way if you’re older and may not get, say, an Adventure Time joke right away. To me, the chance of one not completely getting a joke is worth it in the long run. (And I’m 30, so to me being a MSTie has come with a lot of brushing up already.) :)
Adam Weat should appear as the King of Fromage.
Mel Brooks –
The man practically invented riffing, for god sakes! I would give ten dollars out of my pocket to see Mel on the show. You hear that, Mel?! Well, actually five dollars, plus my undying admiration. Ah, never mind. Why haggle? Make it ten, Mel. You’re worth it!
I’m fine with getting any big names they want as guest stars, as long as they don a whole bunch of silly makeup and costuming to appear as in-movie characters on the hexfield view screen. That said, I’d love to see Jack Black put on some elevator boots and a bald cap and sing us a song… as Tor Johnson.
What I really want them to do is change the Mad’s line in the opening theme song to:
I’ll send him cheesy movies,
The worst I can rent. (la-la-la).
I’ll make him sit and watch them all,
Then log the experiment. (la-la-la).
Then have the video for that sequence rotate out with a clip of Kinga being handed a slime-dripping VHS tape by an ever-changing lineup of spooky video store clerks played by a different late-night horror host every episode. (or if they can’t find 14 of them, at least a different one every season) It’d be so great to see the likes of John Stanley, Svengoolie, Count Gore de Vol, Dr. Gangrene, Joe Bob Briggs, Mr. Lobo, Karlos Borlof, Elvira, Joe Flaherty, or anybody else still alive and involved with the cult movie scene make an appearance.
Heh, I thought it would be fun to have Craig as
host. Especially if he brought along his own robot pal, Geoff Peterson. Geoff and Crow could pass for brothers. (Their head/eyes/mouth armatures and arm armatures move eerily alike, and they have similar attitudes.)I’d like to see them get someone from the new batch of riffed movies for a movie-related gag. Think how they managed to snag Leonard Maltin for his rating of Gorgo. Bonus if the actor is a recognizable celeb. Say, like how Clint Eastwood was a lab intern in Revenge of the Creature. Or, much more likely, they could have tried to get Adam West for something for the riff of Zombie Holocaust. Or Joe Estevez for Werewolf or Soultaker. Actually, any of the acting Estevez clan would work there.
Actually, that was just a bit of olive-branch damage control, after the more hardcore Mike-ites were starting to take the self-conscious credits-filler “Leonard Maltin gave Laserblast two and a half stars” routine a little too seriously, and beating the Joe Don Baker-esque “Anyone Mike mentions by name deserves to be pelted with ridicule, bricks and rotten garbage as proof of our devotion!” fan mentality a bit too far out of context. (It was just a time-filler sketch, guys, you should really just relax.)
Weaver, Sigourney
Rockwell, Sam
Long, Justin
Lockwood, Gary
Would guess Chris Hardwick will show up some time or season.
Elvira (Cassandra Peterson)
Well, as long as we’re dreaming, let’s dream big. How ’bout John Travolta, Forrest Whitaker & any other members of the cast of BATTLEFIELD EARTH who might care to tag along. I’m sure they’d have lots of good memories about the experience & no bitterness at all.
If Summer Glau turned up, I would love her that much more.
Jesus christ – I love how you pick on anything that has to do with Mike and you preach everything you say as if you were there in the room and know every ****ing thing there is to know. Where is your proof that people were picking on Leonard Maltin because of the end of Laser Blast?
Please don’t feed the troll.
I think Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer of Broad City would be pretty good, especially if they were some sort of associates of Kinga.
Timothy Van Patten to help introduce a viewing of Master Ninja III!
I don’t mind the list of actors who will stop by the show. Love’em or not, lets give them, give MST a chance. I second the vote for Shatner.
they do exist
I’m somewhat amazed that we’ve gone two pages now without anyone mentioning Eddie Deezen! Not only was he one of the stars of “Laserblast,” he is also (like Mark Hamill) an accomplished voice and character actor, and I’m sure he could make an effective cameo appearance.
To follow that thread a bit further: I think the most effective guest stars for MST3K would not necessarily be the people with the biggest names, but people who have been in movies that MST3K has riffed in the past (and who have a sense of humor about it). Miles O’Keeffe would be an obvious choice, and Kim Cattrall. If they need a guest Mad, I bet the actress who played Daphne in “Hobgoblins” would fit the part (I can totally see her in a green Forrester lab coat and a huge Bride of Frankenstein hairdo).
I’d like to see Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, James Earl Jones (who was in City Limits), Buzz Aldrin, Harry Shearer, Idris Elba, anyone from the cast of Red Dwarf, anyone from Monty Python, anyone from SCTV, anyone from Kids In The Hall, anyone from The Mighty Boosh, Peter Serafinowicz and Spacom.
Eddie Deezen is also a fan of MST3K, and I *think* he helped donate, but I have no idea if he did or not (I know he linked the URL to my Facebook page, even though i was already aware of it).
Rowsdower or possibly Ortega, assuming either of them are not too busy with other projects
Riff “Silent Running” and have Bruce Dern over. And maybe Huey, Dewey and Louie too.
Odds are not very likely, but I think Rowan Atkinson would be just fantastic!I just imagine him as Mr. Bean and stumbling over the theater seats for a solid five minutes as comic gold.
As many here will mention, a healthy amount of time on RATMM–
Where, as each holy utterance of St. Mike was venerated, especially while the high observance was still a weekly ritual, hints of Maltin’s personal unfitness to live on this earth (just for giving bad movies two and a half stars in his book, whose collected reviews he probably didn’t write anyway) were treated with the same reverence as judgments against Michael Feinstein and Morrissey, just for M&tB mentioning their names in an “Overexposed people who bug me” sketch.
(Guys, they were just trying to fill two minutes of dead credit space, like the “Wussy chick-movies” routine from Alien From LA wasn’t necessarily an Islamic death-order against Golan & Globus.)
Does Eric J type what he actually feels or what the voices tell him to?
I’d watch if they buried a hatchet in Penn Jillette…
**rimshot** But seriously, folks, I’d love to see Wil Wheaton. Specifically, I think he should appear a la Winky from ‘Manhunt In Space’, wearing one of those dorky Season One sweaters and insisting he’s there as captain of his very own starship to rescue them all. I’d laugh, I admit it.
I’m begging you, please don’t watch or comment on Mike episodes. They make you unhappy and unhinged.
Now, given that this is a MST3K fan site and Mike was the host for half its run, don’t be surprised when you consistently piss people off with your inane, obsessive, unfounded, poorly articulated criticisms.
Lots of great suggestions! I’d add Tom and Debbie Neyman, even though they’re only celebrities among us MSTies.
So you had some bad times on Rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc. That was A LONG TIME AGO, get over it! Think of all the people in the world with real problems and quit your bellyaching.
Pretty lame to have PTSD over people enjoying some Michael J. Nelson-based fun.
After seeing that she was on the telethon, I’d love to see Kate Micucci on the show, possibly with her Garfunkel and Oates partner Riki Lindhome.
Norm MacDonald
Henry Rollins
Tom Waits
George Takei
Lewis Black
Jon Stewart
John Waters
and any of the old MST3K cast
Doesn’t look like anyone else has mentioned it, so I’ll just go ahead:
The obvious crossover with guest stars is: with the cast of OTHER SPACE.
Think about it?
Sounds good, right?
Weird Al
Paul Reubens
Liam Lynch (Creator of Sifl and Olly)
Bjork
Kristen Schaal
Dana Carvey
Robert Smigel
They Might Be Giants
Sarah Vowell
Julie Klausner
Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer
Dan Aykroyd
Bryan Cranston (that guy will say yes to ANYTHING)
Prince
I think it would be fun to see Minnesota Vikings running back Robert Smith again.
And the Higgins Boys and Gruber would be great.
A drop in from the Tardis would be welcome. And George Takei.
And it sounds like EricJ has gone off his meds again. Sad really. He can positively contribute to a meaningful conversation when he’s not off his meds. Seriously, we know how you feel about Mike, and it scares us. Please stop. For all our sakes.
I’ve got really mixed feelings about these cameos… they’ll probably be fine, but it’s hard not to notice things like that. If we had one or two in a single season I don’t think I’d have the same reservations; as it is, this one season will have, I think, more guest stars than the entire previous run of the show.
That’s admittedly not a bad thing by technical definitions, but it still feels like a departure. Change can be good, but it still makes me leery.
Maybe the bots could catch up via the hexfield screen with their old pal (and the nicest guy in showbiz), Megaweapon.
I have to confess that nearly all of the new cast were unknown to me, as they don’t have much of a profile in the UK. So I did some Googling and found out that Baron Vaughn, the new Tom Servo actually works with Leonard Maltin.
So there’s a possible guest who’s been on MST3K before and there’s a potential in-joke if he’s consulted by Kinga on which film would make Tom suffer the most in particular.
If they could get him, Jim Parsons could definitely play an Observer/Brain Guy.
Nobody mentioned Frank and/or Trace, so I will!
Too great? Nope. Just great enough.
But really, McCoy, Davison, Baker (Colin), McGann, Hurt, Eccleston, Tennant, Smith, or Capaldi. Or do I mean “and”?
Penn Gillette
Peter Travers
Al Yankovic
Elvira
Paul Westerberg
Jim Rash
Kristen Schaal
Will Forte
Neil Patrick Harris would have been my choice to host the new show. Glad to see he’s interesting in doing a guest spot.
While I heartily concur with the idea, what specific BTS backstory am I missing?
I know The Crankmaster voiced the CC documentary, what other contentiousness has he had with the Brains?
I saw ‘Hell Baby’, which featured a LOT of Riki Lindhome. Only disappointing if you’re a freak for anything below the knees…
Geddy Lee
Rutherford B. Hayes.
The exhumed, skeletal remains of Alaska Senator Ted Stevens.
A Dalek.
Tom Waits… yeah, I like that idea.
It might a a tricky tie-in, but John Waters could be very right.