#mst3k netflix

[ragingbullmode]

what the hell is this damn movie lmfaooooo

[cornsword]

This is the year TV’s Frank would have gotten his $20, here’s hoping that Max imherited this treasured heirloom and that cashing fourth party savings bonds is uh at all legal.

[raygirlramblings]

Oh no I’ll have to rewatch my collection of Joel/Mike era MST3K episodes. WHAT A SHAME.

[worldshardestfinder]

[fleetn-crab85]

Even More MST3K Textposts as I start watching the Netflix series and continually wish I could work at the Gizmonic Institute

[pandavalkyrie]

No nuance, no hosts from the Netflix run, just a regular 90s MST3K forum beef. Mike or Joel, pick one.

[jaz-it-up]

wip folder game! in a new post, list the names of all the files in your wip folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! then, tag as many people as you have wips.

mst3k:

stop threatening jonah's oxygen, kinga, he already has nightmares

joel gets a phone call (understatement) [posted!]

mike nelson and the world's worst road trip

cambot vs divine purpose

gizmonics 2: jonah's netflix boogaloo

cohesive fucking timeline

gpc tells the truth

giant spider invasion night

mike dies v2

mike in his feels in a sylvan glen

does it count as fan mail if you created the series

mcyt:

war of the fish

isn't it lovely (when we all fall asleep ch3)

you should see me in a crown (when we all fall asleep ch4)

copycat (when we all fall asleep ch5)

the ballad of mona lisa (high hopes ch1)

victorious (high hopes ch2)

this is gospel (high hopes ch3)

epilogue (high hopes ch4)

good lord that's 19 ppl. okay. sorry if anyone has just done it but 19 ppl is a lot

tags: @personalzombie-tv @leopardmask-ao3 @varteeny1234 @rose-tries-to-write @im-illegal @th3-dark-abyss @thatapolloguy @the-spaced-out-ace @arcadecarpetgay @un-common-dreams @thefrostedmain @severevoiddragon @harley-the-pancake uhhhhh that's. all the people i can think of

[emilysidhe]

I have a ton of knitting to do if I’m going to finish my friend’s afghan in time for her wedding next weekend, so I’m watching the top 100 MST3K episodes as voted by fans back in 2016 for a kickstarter, going from bottom to top https://mst3k.fandom.com/wiki/Top_100_Episodes_of_MST3K

I expect to finish my current project by movie 90, or at least the high 80s, but there is always more knitting, so we’ll see how far the project gets.

Tag to block (or follow) is #mst3knitathon

There’ve been over 200 episode of MST3K, so every episode on this list has been voted into the top half, even the stuff at the bottom.

100. Episode 207 Wild Rebels

Summary: A stock car racer dramatically quits the sport after losing everything he’s invested when the car he’s bought to race is destroyed in a flameout. He is almost immediately recruited by a biker gang, who want an expert in cars to be their getaway driver for robberies. He initially turns them down, but is then recruited successfully by the police, who want him to work with the gang as an undercover operative to bring them down.

MST3K lore or notable moments: In the sketches of this episode, we learn that GPC is not, in fact the stupid one of the robots. Instead, it’s that she’s in charge of running the “higher functions of the ship” and that takes up enough of her CPU that it’s difficult for her to talk with what’s leftover. Joel puts the other bots in charge of some of the more vital functions of the ship and holds his breath in order to chat with GPC’s unfettered personality, but it’s not long before she has to resume control so that life support kicks back in and Joel can breathe again. Also, the Mads introduce the hobby-hog as their invention exchange, and that was included in the promotional material for years.

What do I think about it’s place on the list? This was a more fun episode than I remembered! I *love* getting our first look at GPC’s more articulate personality (that she has in the Netflix era and onward), and the movie is one of those ones that’s *instructively* bad because of all the ways that it’s almost good. Sure, it’s still an MST3K flick - the protagonist is a total nothingburger without personality or motivation; the gang leader with pretensions to counter-cultural intellectualism and the hair-triggered violent one are both forgettable stereotypes; and every scene goes on at least twice as long as it needs to. But the final shootout in the lighthouse has some cool shots and good use of space, Linda’s speech about “living for kicks” and her role as the gang’s caser who uses her ability to blend in with square society to gather information make her an interesting female lead, and even the silent fourth gang member has a backstory that a more competent movie could have done something with: he used to be a champion surfer until he suffered a traumatic brain injury when his board hit his head during a wipeout, and now he can no longer speak. But he can still process language, and he participates in a lot of the gangs plans by calling the leader’s attention to information in newspapers or maps and using nonverbal communication to indicate what he means. There’s a lot of cool ideas and fun moments spoiled by bad execution.

I don’t think this ought to be a top-50 episode, but I would rank it higher than the bottom, especially since there are other biker movies that I don’t think were as good higher up on the list.

Content warning: to show that the gang are bad guys, there are swastikas everywhere, which is shocking in a film that doesn’t comment on them at all.

[always-just-down-the-street]

A Random Thought About MST3K

(We will resume your regularly scheduled Inanimate Insanity angst soon after our breaking news.)

So I'm watching Season 13 of MST3K, or at least the part of it currently showing on the MST3K Forever-a-thon, and I finally realized something that always made the reboot seasons feel off in comparison to the originals- and it's not the hosts, Jonah and Emily and Joel all do great, it's not less funny, it's not the Mads, it's not the multiple versions of the bots or the fact that it's on the moon.

It's the host segments...but not the part you think.

A thing with MST3K is that the host segments all kinda tend to follow different patterns, at least what from what I've seen watching a ton of it. Now, each Host Tenure? Hosts Tenure for the latest, but each division lets say tends to have a higher focus on a certain type- not saying the other types don't exist, but each section tends to focus on one more.

Joel's tenure as host includes a lot of guest characters- characters that'll appear in that little window up in the Satellite of Love, generally from the movie they're riffing but there are exceptions depending on the circumstance.

Mike's tenure instead utilizes a lot of unique plots, especially once we get to the Sci-Fi era- these can be one-off like Crow biting Mike in Werewolf, the time travel plot in Time Chasers, the mirror universe from Last of the Wild Horses, or they can be larger overall plots- the Ancient Greece Arc, Deep Ape, the Observers, or the space children for a smaller example.

Jonah/Emily's* tenure has a lot of songs- famously there's Every Country Has a Monster, but there's also Concepts, Sing a Song for Jiger, Monster RSVP, a host segment entirely dedicated to some song that some or all characters on the SoL sing.

(*I didn't include Joel because I wanted to focus on the hosts exclusive to the reboot.)

Now, again, I'm not saying these are mutually exclusive- The Gauntlet is practically a season-long arc for Jonah, Mike encounters plenty of guest characters, and who could forgot that classic Joel-era song Idiot Control Now? But looking over the general vibe of the reboot-era host segments, I realized something that lead to a bigger realization.

Guest characters are now no longer shown through the Satellite of Love, instead being shown through transmissions, they're in other spacecraft- befitting of the more sci-fi elements of the reboot literally being on the moon, but...

...you ever notice that the reboot-era host segments have a less physical feeling than the classic episodes? It doesn't really feel like anyone's on a set anymore, like actual physical locations. Sure, there can still be depth but...it's hard to put into exact words but the locations shown in host segments now feel 2.5D instead of 3D. Most action happens in a straight line, all camera angles are straightforward. It feels less like a location and more like a big, long table with a background. Hell, it's something I noticed occurring more and more- up until Season 13 Moon 13 was a 3D location, but in the Gizmoplex era...now they're also on a 2D plane.

Now let's not get it twisted- I'm not saying they're bad, they're still funny and by all means that's the main requirement, I like the return of the invention exchanges that vanished early-ish into the Mike era, hell I like that S11 actually made a small arc that you have to pay attention to out of them to know it's even there- if you haven't watched it yet, I'm not gonna spoil it, it's free if you have Netflix. But it's just a small thing I noticed in the reboot era that I felt like I had to get down somewhere.

Anyway, back to Experiment 1310- H.G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come.

[captainsparklefingers]

people I want to get to know better 💌

I got tagged by @mareastrorum, and I'm never good at remembering to do these, but this time I got it.

LAST SONG? Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat.

FAVORITE COLOR? Yellow and purple, with pink close behind. I like pastels :)

CURRENTLY WATCHING? Dimension 20 Misfits and Magic, so I know what's going on in the new season. Also, Kaos on Netflix.

LAST MOVIE? I don't know if it counts since it was in an MST3K episode, but Gamera vs Guiron. The NEXT movie is gonna be Beetlejuice Beetlejuice though.

SWEET/SPICY/SAVORY? Hard to say. Probably sweet, then savory, then spicy. But salty should be in there somewhere too, I think.

RELATIONSHIP STATUS? Single! Mostly happy with that, though sometimes I think it'd be nice to have somebody to snuggle and smooch and do nothing else with. Ah, being ace without being aro. It's not a struggle, but it is something.

CURRENT OBSESSIONS? Ignoring fandom stuff for the moment, I'd say outlining and taking notes/researching for Unhappy Families. Aka, avoiding actual writing because I keep hitting walls and don't have a person to talk through them with, so I'm trying to force myself through them, and it's tricky. XD sorry, I'm talking too much again. I've been talking a lot for every question, actually, sorry. Next question.

LAST THING YOU GOOGLED? Priapus. It came up in a YouTube video I was watching and I got curious, so.

Uhm...I guess I'll tag @grayintogreen, @thehobbitwithstickyuppyhair, and @dent-de-leon? If you wanna? I'm never good at these things, especially this part.

[rinayeas]

Must watch list for every single christmas by me:

The 31 minutos christmas special (this one is full on youtube with subtitles i beg you go watch it it has bodoque singing jesus christ superstar)

Nightmare before christmas (ive been doing this since i was 8)

A muppet christmas carol (a recent addition but nevertheless a good one)

Any weird romantic christmas movie on netflix with mom so we can riff it like mst3k(this year we watched the christmas prince trilogy)

Ive been notified of the existence of muppets its a wonderful life and now i need to watch it. Will update.

[fishmech]

you could never get a netflix subscription that was better than cable. the selection has always been bad and haphazard and i guess people forget that now but theres a reason there were so many people who just wrote guides to "here whats good and currently available on netflix streaming this week/month" back in the late 00s/early 2010s! it was kind of a whole cutural thing to find what the gems were in the chunks of media they licensed, and also what bad movies and tv were still good in an mst3k kinda way!

you could however pirate way better than cable with 15 minutes of effort to start for free. and you could work the netflix dvd system pretty well when you got a disc ripping routine set up if you had an atavistic need to obey the fucking copyright gods.

hey remember when pop-ups and banner ads were associated with malware? when youtube didn't have any ads at all? when you could get a cheap netflix subscription that was better than cable TV? digital marketing experts estimate that most americans see 5-10k ads every day. what the hell is going on

[elliot-amy]

fucked up that netflix has a 4k version of mac and me and it’s trapped in an mst3k episode

[littlewalken]

aug 8

Definitely not talking about The Umbrella Academy because my $1 a day internet does not include streaming. And Netflix is so fucked up I wouldn't pay for that shit anyway. My cheap ass made by Samsung but not a Samsung TV gives me free MST3K and Rifftrax if I need all night noise to block out other peoples' noise.

The last time I watched local TV news that didn't involve a car chase or road closing was in the hotel for that week while we waited for the contract to get settled for this place. Before that it was the same hotel while we looked for a place to live that became the shit shack.

While I had to keep the TV or something else going constantly at the shit shack so I could have a noise I controlled it only got free WiFi channels and I got tired of how long it took the shitty remote to respond to things like wanting the local affiliate not the one next ot it on the channel listings that's across the country.

So now if the TV stays on one of two neighboring free channels and I go to change it in the middle of the night when I'm half asleep there's no chance of hitting something that wants me to log in, give it money, and find out it doesn't have anything I want to watch.

I don't know if it's the depression or what but the 30th anniversary of the brain injury is approaching and some times it feels the 'I can't brain today' times are getting longer and longer.

Today's mental goal is to sort out the collage and similar crafting stuff. If the tiny heart shaped brads don't turn up in there, so I can make jointed paper Husbands, then they are gone with the rest of that themed stationary set and I know exactly when and where. So I'll have to order new ones on line because regular paper fasteners are too big and I don't need several hundred.

Saw some of the not mine Barbie stuff that now is mine so I'll have to sort it eventually and wow, so many things that actually were mine to begin with. I fucking told you all those years ago that while I was at school and the Life Ruiner wasn't, she was "homeschooled" because of her pwecious immune system narcissism, she'd go in my room and steal things.

~insert story about how I never got my bottom front teeth fixed because the crooked tooth is all that stood between me and the Life Ruiner's attempts as saying I bit her when she would bite herself but the tooth marks never matched~

[starbeambully]

A  PEAK  AT  WHAT’S  INSIDE  THEIR  .    .    .

02.     bag   /   purse.

09.     “junk” drawer.

30.     netflix watch history. 

Dolph always keeps a journal, a handful of pens, his wallet, and a spare pair of socks in his bag.

His junk drawer is full of take out menus, envelops, weird little trinkets given to him, an unnecessary amount of loose change and three address books.

He's not too interested in watching shows and movies, if he does put something on it's usually for friends or something he doesn't need to pay attention to, but his netflix watch history is MST3K and like... comedy specials

[cglenwilliams]

“People didn’t binge your last season, so we’re ordering fewer episodes.”

“…Each episode of our series is centered on around 90 minutes of the cheesiest movies we can find. They aren’t meant to—“

“BINGE WATCH OR GTFO!”

— What actually happened to MST3k between their two Netflix seasons