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Re #45: “Huzzah!” was most extensively used in ‘Pod People’. The deceased in question was the bearded guy with the crossbow who had “…renaissance festival written all over him”
#303 was my favorite when I first discovered the show in high school, so another reference to it found its way into a drawing in my senior year art class: We had to base a “Benday-dots” drawing off 2 different comics, and mine was mostly from the ‘Transformers Generation 2’ Halloween special. As Bludgeon kicks Jimmy from ‘The Family Circus’ off a cliff, I had him inform the tyke, “It’s called EVIL, kid!”
Annnnd…that’s the closest thing to a MST3K project I’ve ever done. Which makes me feel like the least productive person on this thread. I’ve been told I do great voice impressions for riffing, but I’m not even tech-savvy enough to do the simplest recording or music video (btw, #42, if yours doesn’t count, I don’t know what does!). Oh well, at least Aspies rarely know boredom.
I just recently mentioned the “…another dimension” (Ep 513 The Brain That Wouldn’t Die) whenever a coworker would get up and be absent for an extended period of time.
It caught on like wildfire and ended up being used on me this past Thursday, April 30. I spent most of the afternoon messing around with my car, trying to figure out a problem. I walked back in around 4 o’clock to finish assignments for the day, and someone turned and remarked, “Oh, he’s back from another dimension.”
I just laughed a little and said, “Oh, it’s being used on me now too.”
My high school had a tradition of having the “commercial art” class students all design a yearbook cover as a project and then the yearbook comity would vote for which one they wanted to use as the actual cover. My good friend and I both worked Tom Servo into our covers, and together used all our connections to get as many year book comity people to vote for either of our covers. Mine didn’t make the cut, but my friends did, and so together we managed to get Tom Servo on our yearbook cover that year (amongst other crazy-ass things since both of our covers featured massive crowds of people as their theme). The next year we both actually joined the yearbook comity in order to try and bring it down from the inside, or something like that, and we both worked in as many goofy references as we could, many of which were from MST3000. I remember one I was especially proud of was with a picture I was given of someone giving that finger and thumb “okay” sign. In the caption I just wrote “*so and so* says ‘it stinks!'” I think I also had a nice Kenny and Gamera reference. The key was to make them seem as normal as possible so that the clueless teacher running the class wouldn’t notice, but they would still be instantly recognizable to the right people.
I’ve done a lot of other drawings and paintings over the years, and right now I’m working on a super secret MST fan-art project that I think is pretty unique, and unlike anything anyone else has ever done, and I hope it will be well received once I get it out there amongst those internet crowds of cool kids and crazy chicks.
@ Brandon #36
What made you think Billy West would be at all interested in seeing your Space Jam riffs? That just seems weird to show him that as if he would praise you for your brilliance or something. And I can kind of understand his point of view. He’s a pretty talented guy who is incredibly good at what he does, and has worked his ass off to get where he is in his career, so it doesn’t surprise me that he wasn’t very enthusiastic about someone he doesn’t know from Adam coming up to him and saying “hey look at these videos I made to make fun of something you worked on”. The “Ray Dennis Steckler mode” as you put it doesn’t apply very well to MST because that show was such a brilliant and original idea that they actually were making something better than any of the movies they used. Yes they used someone elses work as a basis for it, but they were still being incredibly creative themselves. But all you did is use someone else’s original creative work (Space Jam) to imitate another persons or group of peoples orginal creative work (MST/Rifftrax/CT). Where was your original creative input? If you showed Billy West some kind of animated short you had made he probably would have been really impressed, even if it was only at the creativity and hard work that went into it. Sure there is nothing wrong with people making fan riffs on terrible movies just for fun (and Space Jam is a really terrible movie), but I wouldn’t expect anyone involved with the movie you are riffing to have any respect for what you are doing. And you shouldn’t think of it as some kind of great creative achievement on your part. Anyone can try to imitate an original idea as brilliant as MST3K, but the really creative people are the ones who try to come up with the next great original idea that no one has seen yet. That’s why The Simpsons is absolutely brilliant while Family Guy is nothing but a poor man’s cheap knock off. It doesn’t matter whether you think Family Guy is funny or not (I personally think it’s pathetically unfunny) there is no way getting around the fact that it is a complete rip off from the Simpsons, and totally lifted it’s style of humor from one that was developed from the ground up over many years on The Simpsons (and Family Guy really sucks at doing it as well). And the next two shows that those unoriginal hacks developed after Family Guy are themselves just a cheap knocks off of their original cheap knock off of the truly creative The Simpsons. But what did a bunch of the guys from The Simpsons go on to do when they decided to make a new show? They created the absolutely brilliant and highly original Futurama, which maintained the same high level of quality as The Simpsons, but also developed it’s own distinct and highly original sensibilities and style of humor, again from the ground up.
Wow, I must be boring. The only thing I remember doing was drawing the theater profiles on an etch-a-sketch. I sing Nummy Muffin Coocol Butter everyday because a friend of mine has a dog named cocoa butter. She has no idea where I got it from. I think I quote the show at least once everyday, then people look at me funny. People are just like that….
Once upon a time in high school, I took a creative writing class where we had to have a set number of ‘freewriting’ pages by the end of the term. Being the slacker that I am, I waited until the night before to write the majority of those pages. I ended up writing a stream-of-consciousness type story where Torgo and Eegah met so they could take revenge on The Master and beat Arch Hall, Jr. with his own guitar (think Ultimate Showdown, but with B-movie characters).
After being a hardcore Mstie for years (I was at the final Best Brains studio tour!) I sneak a MST-themed poster in the background or on the screen of the tv in my comic strip as often as I can:
This one’s from 2003!
http://www.moorecomics.com/crew/090303.html
Katana #14: I know who you are! Mwahahahahaaa! Your mom made you an MST3K hat based upon mine which was in turn based upon someone else’s brilliant idea and design. Hello!
Not a project, but I have worked ‘ConHugeCo’ into numerous reports and training documentation at several jobs
This only sorta counts, but I was converting my old “Rocket Attack USA” tape to DVD and I was looking to put some clips onto menu (it’s what I do, don’t ask).
I had always wondered if you could frame-match Joel & the Bots’ descriptions with action from the film. I liked what I did enough to throw it up on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp5mU7eesHM
OK this doesnt really count as a project, but amongst all the sports posters I have on my garage wall is a poster of crow, people who have seen the show get a laugh out of it and the ones who havent say “what the heck is that?”
In school,we have to do Current events.And the theme was pick your own,so I decided to be a Uber nerd,and get the mst3k movie review and do the project on that.Well I get the paper back and the teacher wrote”I <3 MST3K”
So after squealing and fainting,I found someone who liked the show.
I also drew a picture of the gang…but it kinda sucked a lot.and Huzzah and Criminy are part of my writing voaculary if it calls for it
I’ll frequently will quote riffs or lines from favorite episodes, but I’ve yet to entertain anyone except myself by making those references. I did have a position a while back doing warehouse duties, and decorated the rear of my forklift with “Watch out for snakes!” That one actually got some chuckles, though no one knew the source.
Great topic, love all the posts!
Every friday night we perform a live, improvised version of MST3K in Atlanta called Cineprov!
We just won 2008 Best Live Comedy in Atlanta at My Fox Atlanta City Voter.
We take on Hollywood’s biggest and worst movies.
If you’re in atlanta come see us every friday night at 8:30. Mention Satellite News and get half off your ticket price!
I’ve written scripts for a few Riff Raff Theater iRiffs, Die Hard, The Day After Tomorrow, Aliens vs. Predator, Minority Report and Armageddon.
The only thing I’ve done was name my Fantasy Football team ‘Satellite of Love’. No one knew what it was (except my boyfriend). I took first place!
In high school I built the entire Satellite of Love and a set of puppets in my garage and riffed an episode of “Doctor Who”. Too bad the jokes weren’t as good as the props.
http://www.angelfire.com/film/ranisite/picgal/solpics.html#zoo
Well, I’m working on a ridiculously detailed episode guide over at thelogbook.com:
http://www.thelogbook.com/logbook/mst3k/
I’m helping out with the MST3K reference list for the Muppet Wiki:
http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000
But the biggest MST-related project I ever did was providing the information track on the Legend Films release of ‘Plan 9 From Outer Space’ (the one with Mike’s solo riff on it).
Our production company does Films, TV, Radio, Animation and Comics and as one of the Head Writers, I do admit inserting MST3K references in a number of scripts and only a rare few catch them.
One of the more obvious ones, to me, is from a slapstick TV series we write/produce where in one episode the 3 main knuckleheads are Hollywood screenwriters and write a new series pilot. In casting, three very big, muscular, adonis-like actors come in to audition and each introduces themselves.
(I think the reference is self evident to everyone in this community, but here’s the script segment (Excuse the script reformat in posting this):
DIRECTOR
Send in the auditionees!
Three extremely handsome ACTORS and a
bubbly ACTRESS enters the room. The
Director orders them around.
DIRECTOR
Read Colby, Dingo and Duck
and you read Ma. Slate your
names and we’ll get this done.
ACTOR #1 (COLBY)
Hi, Bolt Vanderhuge
ACTOR #2 (DINGO)
I’m Butch Deadlift.
ACTOR #3 (DUCK)
Bob Johnson.
I Couldn’t help myself.
MST3K 4 life yo.
I can’t believe anyone would have the audacity to make fun of Space Jam! It’s the Casablanca of it’s day, for heaven’s sake!
In 6th grade, I had to give a report on Madagascar. My memory is hazy, but I know I made a puppet and essentially performed the Joey the Lemur bit in front of my classmates. I think it went over about as well as could be expected.
I took a ceramics class in college for a few extra credits. I made a terra cotta bowling-pin lamp like the one in “Mitchell” but it broke during firing.
I made some Youtube shorts to choose stingers for the episodes without stingers. (look up ‘MST stingers’ and they should show up) I plan to do more of those. I also sent in clips to my favorite morning show, Kevin and Bean on 106.7 KROQ, and they were played on the air! They always start the Friday show with the song ‘Don’t Bogart That Joint’, and add sound clips from movies and TV shows as it plays. I sent in the clips of Mike saying ‘I am so baked’ from 706 – Laserblast, and of TVs Frank saying ‘You are so stoned, you wake and bake every day. You are so high.’ and Dr. Forrester saying ‘Wake and Bake!’ from 609 – Skydivers. You can listen to how they added this to the start of the show here:
http://www.kjbleu.com/mstclips.htm
Cubby (#60), that was damn near perfect. Very MST Hour-esque. In high school I did a video project for my Spanish class that somehow involved Taco Bell and these cut-rate bots that I made in a couple of hours. I can’t imagine what anyone must have thought of this, and luckily it was never mentioned again so no harm no foul. I think I used a toilet roll and a couple of spoons for Servo’s head. So bootleg…
(Second try on this post)
First, I created (and continue to add to) a ridiculously detailed episode guide for thelogbook.com:
http://www.thelogbook.com/logbook/mst3k/
I’ve been working lately helping fill out the MST3K reference page on the Muppet Wiki:
http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000
But my biggest MST-related project was working on the Legend Films DVD release of Plan 9 From Outer Space which featured Mike Nelson’s commentary. I wrote the subtitle “trivia track” and it took a *lot* of work, let me tell you.
Edwin #73 – I keep meaning to tell you how much I enjoy your stinger selections. In fact, even the episodes that did have stingers usually had several good options other than what was chosen. Maybe you could put a few of those through the sifter?
GizmonicTemp # 76 – Thanks for the compliment. I like your idea! There were times I was sure one clip would be the stinger, but they went with another one. I will put that on my ‘To Do’ list. (along with finishing the other episodes without stingers)
My and two friends have began writing a rifftrax for a movie that was so bad we riffed it live the day it came out. Going through the process really makes me wonder how the brains were able to watch sheer horror many times over to make it funny.
Shameless plug
When IRiffs started up, I started work on a solo riff of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. I only got about a half-hour in, though. And someday, if I could find like-minded girls in my area, I’d love to try again and put together an all-girl gang of riffers, if simply because as far as I know, no one’s done anything like it yet.
IMPORTANT RESPONSE TO MR THOMAS #8 & 17:
Mystery Fandom Theater is NOT DEAD!! We want to live, LIIIVE!! My husband and I are working on it RIGHT NOW! We are working on 2 episodes concurrently (#4 and 5) and the Original Mike is still on cast. We actually had a meeting today to flesh out the last of the host segments. Unfortunately, we need more people. Actors mainly, but crew hands always work, too. There are a few more tidbits on the website news. Go here: http://www.mft3k.com to see new news and old pics. We’re doing a movie episode and an all shorts episode.
We’ve been working on the shorts only ep for a long while now, and I’m only afraid that Rifftrax will overtake us and do some we had already planned on doing.
Use the website contacts if anyone is interested in helping out!
I am going to be making two trips to Minnesota in the next few months and my “project” is going to be to meet Joel or to find someone that happens to have the lost 3 episodes. I suppose that could be considered a project. :wink:
Sorry the link didn’t work. The site is http://www.mft3k.com, but the link I made there didn’t work. My apologies.
Hey! I see my wife posted about the work we’re doing with the Mystery Fandom Theater Group. (#80 & 82) But, the MFT site is still being worked on. If you live in or near the SF Bay Area, and want to act, write, or help us with crew, email me: drewjfisher AT gmail dot com.
(We are also open to people out of the area doing some theater lines writing)
http://www.mft3k.com
itsspideyman #39 – My mom showed Hired II when she was a coding manager at AT&T. They had their weekly meeting and she listed it on the schedule as “Motivational Video”. She asked for thoughts afterwards and one of the other managers unfolded his donut napkin and placed it on his head. True and hilarious!
Love it!
Before I got my hands on the MST3K bridge model in 1999, I built my own MST set using spare model parts and an Apollo lunar landing kit. It has little versions of Crow, Tom, Gypsy, Joel, and Cambot. I made it look like they were having a picnic on the moon. I still have, though its packed away in a box somewhere.
Brainchild # 79 – You are trying to get together an all girl group of misties? Please marry me! :grin:
Cronkite Moonshot: Wow. Way to beat someone’s head into the ground there.
Larry: Cineprov sounds awesome! I’ll drop by some time when I’m in Atlanta, how about? What theatre is it in?
The Rifter #37
It’s in there. :twisted:
Bobbled Dopple #71:
In 6th grade, I had to give a report on Madagascar. My memory is hazy, but I know I made a puppet and essentially performed the Joey the Lemur bit in front of my classmates. I think it went over about as well as could be expected
In other words, you got sent to the school psychiatrist.
:grin:
to John #87
We perform Cineprov! in Relapse Theatre 380 14th street nw atlanta ga 30318
http://www.cineprov.com has all the info and our schedule etc.
cya soon
#80 & #82: Oops! My apologies. I’m very excited now! MFT is tremendous fun. :)
Question: How do we go about suggesting topics for future weekend discussions?
Here’s my suggestion, if that’s okay:
Some MST3K movies were actually part of a series (like Godzilla and Gamera), while others tried, and often failed, to set up a series (Code Name: Diamond Head).
But are there any movies that you wish had gotten a sequel? “Mitchell 2,” maybe? Or maybe just a character you wish had gotten another movie? “Rowsdower and the Fate of Atlantis” has a nice ring to it. What would you have liked to see?
Hope I’m not too late here.
I’m a producer for my local access cable channel (Piscataway Community TV), and I host an interview show where I talk to other volunteers. Once in a while, though, I put together an April Fool’s Day episode, where I play with the format.
One year, the theme was ideas for the show that didn’t pan out. One of those ideas was an MST3K take-off, with my brother Bri riffing for a few moments on his own interview. He was accompanied (in pseudo-Shadowrama) by Miguelito, the puppet for the PCTV show “Espanol en Accion”.
Oh, and I made sure to credit Joel at the end. No need to get sued, here.
For my 2-Dimensional Design and Color Theory Class last Fall (yes, this class is boring, especially for someone who can already draw and paint) our final project was a big color print. Our promt for our original image was “Attack of…,” so I made mine Attack of The Giant Servo. I managed to make a big colorful image of Servo towering over skyscrapers with fire and smoke.
I titled this piece: “I’m Huge.”
So, about a month ago we had this photo collage assignment in my painting class. We brought in images and put them in a box for the class to pull out four slips each and combine the images any way we liked for our painting. By a total coincidence I pulled out my pic of Crow, and created an image showing a giant crow striding over a surreal landscape containg trees, moutain climbers on a snowy slope, and a swimming sea lion ( my other pictures).
I titled this piece: “I’m the god!”
I built the bots. I have my very own Servo, Crow and Gypsy in my living room, flanking my fireplace. No further information is available.
me and a couple of guys in college scripted a MST-like show and the movie we picked was “the invisible Dr. Mabusse”
not sure of the spelling of the doctor’s name… but the movie was bad… so were we i remember.
I once wrote several MST3k fanfics, including my favorites, “I’m Dreaming of a Coruscant Christmas” and the James Cameron Conspiracy Theory trilogy of MiSTings.
I’ve also written one college paper on MST3k looking at the history of the show and the fandom around it. There wasn’t anything special about it. It was one of my early college papers that I’m not overly proud of having written.
In my public speaking class, I did a speech on MST3k. It wasn’t too bad, and included a clip from the movie where Dr. Forrester explains the concept behind show.
Also, throughout my college career, I had a number of MST3k shirts I would wear repeatedly, leading me to discover a number of professors I’ve had who loved the show.
In high school my friends and I worked on an MST fanfic show called “Subterranean Cinema Realm.” We are presently writing an iRiff. I’ve made numerous references in my writing, including naming a disembodied voice “Mary Jo.”
Hey John #87
We perform Cineprov! at Relapse Theatre 380 14th street nw atlanta ga 30318.
Visit http://www.cineprov.com our full schedule and directions and info is there!
cya soon