What moments from MSTed movies have you randomly seen, totally out of their original context? I don’t mean watching a MSTed film on an old horror movie program, unriffed. I’m talking about seeing moments from movies/shorts totally divorced from the movies that feature them.
As an example, the former PBS station in Los Angeles, during pledge drives, runs a pair of specials called Things That Aren’t Here Anymore, highlighted things and places that have disappeared from Los Angeles in the last few decades. In one of the specials, while highlighting old drive-ins that have gone away, they featured a three-second clip from the short What About Juvenlie Delinquency?, when the kids in the gang come into the diner.
It makes me wonder if anyone else out there has seen moments like this. Thanks for your attention.
Shorts are, I think, the most common MSTed movies you’ll see pop up randomly, because many of them are in public domain. The one I remember seeing is a snippet from “Design for Dreaming,” when talking about views of the future.
What have you seen?
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The opening of the movie Elvira, Mistress of the Dark features the final scene of It Conquered The World
Back to music videos, Invasion of the Neptune Men was used in Rage Against the Machine’s video to Testify.
Oh, here’s one I almost forgot… a couple years ago around Christmas time my wife and I were eating at El Pollo Loco. The background music was mostly in Spanish, including one tune that seemed very familiar to me. Suddenly I realized why… it was the song the kids sang as they loaded Santa’s sled in the Mexican “Santa Claus” movie that was on MST3K. Except this was in the original Spanish, and not dubbed as it was in the movie.
I saw a local commercial that featured the scene A Case of Spring Fever, where the guys are riding in the car after playing golf.
Oh… the banner for “Movie Sign with the Mads” features the exposed-brain bug-creature from “This Island Earth”, from Mystery Science Theater the Movie.
… but maybe that doesn’t count… ? :wilt:
A good chunk of “A Young Man’s Fancy” was used in the Yes live concert video “9012 Live” which was shown on cable back in the 80s. I used to have a copy of it on a Beta tape (remember those) and when MST3k did it some memories were conjured up again. A pretty good chunk of the film is left out of the MST3k treatment and some of those sections were ones featured in the Yes video, but there is no doubt when you see it that it is the same bad Jam Handy film.
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9012 Live is a great video if you like Yes and it’s available on DVD. It’s directed by Steven Soderbergh! Judy’s square gesture gets a lot of screen time IIRC.
Since I haven’t seen it mentioned yet, I know that I was surprised to see clips from Design for Dreaming in Peter Gabriel’s In Your Eyes video! Something about that Nuveena that captivates the music video world I guess…
Ernest Scared Stupid has clips from both Killer Shrews and Screaming Skull in the opening credits.
Our old pal Krankor was used in a local Southern California car dealership commercial several years before MST did Prince of Space. One UHF station in my area was owned by Pia Zadora’s husband for a few years, and Santa Claus Conquers The Martians would air over the holidays. (This same station got the MST Hour for the brief time it was in syndication.)
A scene from Magic Voyage Of Sinbad played on a video loop in the stage set of the 1997 MTV Movie Awards.
The short lived Galactica 1980 series had an episode where the characters were in a movie theater watching (and commenting on) This Island Earth. TIE also figures prominently in the movie watching habits of a character in the 1985 Joe Dante fantasy film “Explorers”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9CD4_3wChM
Somehow I’ve never seen that before. How does that happen?
Nice.
WB produced a documentary on Mel Blanc some years ago (to coincide with his 100th anniversary), and for the part where they discussed his automobile accident, they showed clips from “The Brain That Wouldn’t Die” (the car crash scene).
It looked wildly inappropriate IMO.
I saw Progress Island in middle school Spanish before it was on MST.
In the 90s queue for Space Mountain they had tvs with Neptune Men off the top of my head,probably some other stuff too
off topic but:
we have a new MSTie fan in the world!!!
http://people.com/babies/felicia-day-welcomes-daughter-calliope-maeve/
maybe her daughter will show up in season 12 (if there is one).
You can also see flashes of “The Home Economics Story” in there (the “look, look, look at my crotch” scene pans by near the beginning).
I just watched a video of U2’s Zoo TV Tour in Australia. In the opening they showed quick clips on huge television monitors and I distinctly saw clips from The Sinister Urge and also “Design for Dreaming”.