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Strange and Wonderful Interview with Mike
UPDATE: The same author wrote another MST3K-focused piece at the A.V. Club today. 24 Replies to “Strange and Wonderful Interview with Mike”Commenting at Satellite News
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Ok, I wanna see the “transcript” of his altercation with Joel. :P
Jeez, when I saw his picture I thought he died.
Mike’s patronus is a bluejay!
It’s MST3K day at AV Club today, it seems.
You know I was pretty ubiquitous in the MSTie online circles back then and I NEVER even HEARD about this, let alone saw it. I’m curious too…
I thought so too for a moment. It looked like those kind of posts in the feed.
I think my heart stopped for a second when I saw the pic as I was also thinking something bad had happened. Phew, thank goodness that was not the case. I was a proud marching band nerd in high school and college and it’s nothing to be ashamed about. I guess it’s not for everybody though and I’ll forgive Mike for feeling ashamed about it :-) .
“We raised a thief”
LOL
Good interview, fun to read and not the same old boring stock questions.
Even I never heard that–don’t quite believe it either–and if it was the work of the, ahem, more heated Mike vs. Joel sentiments during fan rumors about ugliness during the changeover, even I wouldn’t have sunk that low. (So it wasn’t me that spread it.)
Anyway, it’s good to know that Mike spending his years in band practice with nerd glasses would explain a LOT of things about his particular motif of humor…
That was a great interview! Much more interesting, insightful and entertaining than the usual run of the mill interviews.
I don’t get the whole being in band = uber nerd/geek thing. My high school band (no orchestra, just marching and concert, no strings) had plenty of athletes and honor students participating. There was no mocking or belittling that I can ever remember from any other students – in fact, there was some envy over the trips we got to take (especially the excused absences). The people in band dated and had relationships at the same rate as the rest of the students. And it fulfilled our credit requirement for art/music for graduation. (In my school, it was an all year, graded course that met during a regular class period.) The only bad part was summer band camp but for us we had a month of 3 hour practice sessions, half in the morning, half at night so the students who had jobs could still participate. Is it a geographic thing? It’s not an age thing; I’m only five years younger than Mike.
Still…those uniforms. (“I’m a Q-tip, what are you?”)
Not to mention the general air that anyone who would go out of his afterschool personal-time way to support anything related to the school–at least that didn’t have the violent and/or chick-magnet instant gratification of being on the sports team–made them what the army used to call an “eager beaver”, that is to say, a sucker.
In my early tech-obsessed days, I didn’t know there was anything wrong with the folks in A.V. Club, until that became a particularly Kevin-heavy favorite riff during the early seasons…
Hey MonkeyPretzel,
We called ourselves “band nerds” but just as a joke. We also had athletes, cheerleaders, smart kids, etc.. in band. It was a small school and we only had about 40-45 people in high school band so we were a close bunch and had a lot of fun together. We also had the summer band practice about 4 hours a day all throughout August from 4-8pm. This was in Texas and it was very hot. The last two hours would be outside but it was still hot and sometimes people would pass out. Ah, good times!
Needless to say, I do get a big chuckle at all the band references like selling band candy. Joel makes a reference in one ep (making fun of Crow) saying that he was like the kid who sold the most candy in band. I was usually the top seller so that one hits close to home :-D .
If there had been a picture of Mike walking barefoot over a crosswalk I would have been worried, but everyone knows that weapons are useless against ex band geeks.
Try telling that to Krankor!
I thought it was a RIP too. Phew!
Mike, Kevin, and Bill are alive and well.
In fact, “RiffTrax Live: TIME CHASERS” is now available for download or streaming at rifftrax.com.
Hi, Mike! Howya doin’?
I found it odd that he didn’t know that ungulate actually means “hoofed animal.” I mean, for a smart guy that knows so much random stuff, that surprises me. (I recall the definition of “ungulate” was given in that giant history of the Far Side book everyone seemed to have in the late 80’s. That’s where I learned the term anyway.)
If I could invite a celebrity couple to my wedding, it would be Mike and Bridget. I know they’re not celebrities in the traditional sense of the word, but I like them a lot and they seem like good people.
personally i thought when i saw his pic there, i thought, “wow, david letterman got a ‘lifestyle life’!” ;0 and looks good doing it! :)
Can you imagine Mike with a Letterman beard?
Well, he’s the only RT’er now who doesn’t have one…