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About time they re-visited something from the earlier seasons.
Is this the entire serial or just the three they did before?
Maybe we can finally figure out just WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON. Sheesh, these were garbled mess of spiders, ugly robots, and Necco wafers…
It’s the edit feature version.
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Of all the things RiffTrax thinks it can do on an Amazon Prime public-domain title, it can NEVER hope to do the Bela Lugosi imitations that Joel and Trace-Crow did in Season 2:
“They think I’m dead, ohh, the IRRR-ony!”
(We also have a writing staff too young to ever know why Yul Brynner once said “I’m dead, please don’t smoke”.)
Absolutely: If chauffeurs ruled the world, it’s what I’d like to see.
Good thing, I had my fill of that on the MST episodes.
Eric J.:
As soon as I read that Rifftrax had done “The Phantom Creeps,” I knew you were going to write something about how it wasn’t going to compare to the Joel version.
You’ve become lame and predictable.
Also, the other writers may have heard of Yul Brynner’s PSA.
I’m youngish and I have.
Hmmmm, I think I’d be willing to put some serious money on:
[CREDITS ROLL]
VIEWER: Nope . . . still NO IDEA . . .
You folks know that there are BOOKS for that sort of thing, right?
“How fortunate! This will simplify everything!”
“A scientist, Dr. Zorka and his ex-convict aide Monk work in his secret lab where they specialize in creating tools of warfare and peddling them to the highest foreign bidder. Learning about his operation, U.S. Military Intelligence moves in and Zorka moves out. Sadly, his wife is killed in the process and Zorka vows to avenge her death by using his arsenal to conquer the world. Zorka destroys trains, blows up dirigibles, causes avalanches, and works other mayhem before the army finds his new laboratory and bombs it to rubble. Deciding that if he can’t have the world no one will, the fiend tries to escape via airplane and tosses the unstable meteorite [from which he distilled the element that allowed him do most of the things above] overboard. Though the space rock causes an earthquake, our planet holds; the same cannot be said for Zorka’s plane, the villain perishing in the cataclysm [yeah, right…].”
— The Encyclopedia of Super Villains, by Jeff Rovin, 1987
That said, there are PLENTY more serials out there, and I’m sure at least a few of the ones that MST3K never got around to are also public domain. I just don’t “get” the appeal of repeats. Oh well.
Touches:
You can post on Rifftrax’s board or email them with serials suggestions.
As for repeats, have you checked out Rifftrax’s take on “Mr. B. Natural,” “A Case of Spring Fever,” “Time Chasers,” “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians,” and “Manos”?
All are quite funny. :-)
Oh this will be interesting. It was quite a mess, but if they can make it comprehensible it might be pretty good. I thought it was quirky though at the same time had a classic serial charm.
Well, that’s what I thought too, but I went looking for them on Amazon Prime–which is where RT is alerted to most of their public-domain possibilities, every time David DeCoteau does a new direct-video kiddy-fantasy–and didn’t find that many except for the feature-edited Flash Gordons, the usual Westerns (let’s not go back there after “Last of the Wild Horses”), the “Undersea Kingdom” that really wasn’t that interesting the first time around, and a Buck Rogers.
And no, I’m not suggesting they do that one for the Twiki jokes, we had danged enough of those in the CC era.
As for “Repeats”, it’s the same reason Sony remakes “Ghostbusters”:
The best way to create a “cult” is to make money off of something people know already–They wouldn’t buy it if they didn’t, you know.
I still don’t know if “creeps” is being used as a plural noun or a verb.
What was he before he was lame and predictable? That must have been before my time…
Verb. The film industry was a bit more informal back then but not informal enough to use slang (“what a bunch of creeps”) in the title of a relatively serious drama. I would think.
eh, I wouldn’t mind if they did more “Undersea Kingdom” riffs
HURRY, DIANA!!!
There’s the fact that none of these serials were completed on MST, so there are new “episodes” available for Commander Cody, Phantom Creeps, and Underwater Menace. Add to that the fact that the early seasons’ riffing wasn’t as strong as later, so more experienced riffing could do a lot for these stories.
Your mileage may vary
Creeper, creeper, creeper. YOU GIVE ME THE CREEPS!
Well, it’s October, so everybody FEST!
:-)
The only real phantom creep around here is The Original EricJ.