Final Episode of MST3K to Air Today 119
Masem writes "The last produced episode of MST3K, which will
wrap up all 10 years of it's run, and tell
us the fates of Mike and the bots, will
be airing Sunday at 11pm EDT on SciFi.
The episode itself is called "Danger: Diobolik!",
a German spy-non-triller. (There's a episode
that's been held back until Sept from this season,
but it's not the final final episode). "
they weren't cancelled!!! (Score:1)
Re:Thank You (Score:1)
Thanks for the flaimbait, sparky. You truly missed out on the humor of MST3K if you think it was simply about watching "a bunch of other idiots watching idiotic movies." MST3K provided a humorous take on material that just begged to be laughed at. If you didn't understand the humor, it was probably mostly over your head. So you can go watch Friends or reruns of Seinfeld and continue to dilute yourself that they're actually funny shows or offer any originality when they don't. MST3K was something different in the barren landscapes of television and movies. Very refreshing. Look at what we get from Hollywood these days. I can easily draw a parallel between stock MUDs and the films Hollywood has been putting out: where executives think they'll make the best movie ever by just throwing together hackneyed concepts from old movies. Godzilla was utterly blatant. The subplot with the snotty reporter that kept undercutting the hard working woman is taken almost directly from Die Hard; the scene in the stadium with the mini-zillas was direct from Jurassic Park. Television shows are similarly afflicted with this odd self-aggrandizing, self-referential need to remake what was popular. Ally McBeal, Felicity, 90210, Party of Five, Friends, Seinfeld, etc., all are or were stupid, stupid shows that got an audience from idiots like you.
Your comments, any way you look at them, are completely tasteless. Even if one is to accept that MST3K sucked (it didn't), you have just thanked a network for putting hard-working people out of work. You're just another one of those people who doesn't understand that just because they're on TV, doesn't mean they don't have real lives and that doesn't mean it's not a job. Yeah, so thank you for being an inconsiderate asshole.
Re:Sci-Fi Channel needs a clue (Score:1)
MST3K may be saved yet... (Score:1)
Hello Rick,
Thank you for your comments. Yes we are considering to possibly do something
with MST3K. Please sign up on our mailing list to get the breaking news when
it happens.
Have a good day
Dennis
I suggest we fans send them a lot of mail requesting them to pick up the show and promising to subscribe to their channel if they do!
Rick
More info (Score:1)
MST3K kicked so much ass (Score:1)
My favorite part in any MST3K episode is actually fairly recent, it's this story about these cult ninja's and this guy is looking for his dad, and they come accross a Ted Kazinski(sp?) looking guy, and the kid's like "Did you know my dad?" and Tom Servo jumps in with "Know him?! He was delicious!!!". I couldn't stop laughing for like 5 minutes.....
Re:MST3K? (Score:1)
Re:really? (Score:1)
What if we want movies that are no better than Laserblast?
Well, I saw the last episode... (Score:1)
I almost lost it when Diabolik and the main bad guy jumped out of the plane and they were falling and having a conversation at the same time. Pretty funny stuff. And it's even funnier to think the people that made this thought it was good!
Re:Ah, Memories (Score:1)
No, no, a thousand times no. Go boil an egg.
Joel's last show (and one of my favorite episodes) was Mitchell, starring (if one can call it that) Joe Don Baker as a lumpy cop who chases after some lumpy villains while spilling beer all over the place.
"Why would anyone *do* this with Mitchell, Joel?"
"Baby oil? NOOOOOOOO!"
Farewell SOL... (Score:1)
"It stinks!"
Thank goodness I have episodes 101-512 (Joel eps) and 40% of the KTMA episodes on tape. It might be awhile till we see the first 5 seasons on TV, and maybe never if there are licensing problems reshowing the movies they Mist'd.
I really wish DVD-RAM and a good hw mpeg capture card had good linux support, I want to move all 140+ tapes to DVD...
Push the button frank...
Hamdingers (Score:1)
What the heck is a hamdinger, anyway? I've yet to figure this out, yet it at least used to play a major role in MST3k...
Man, I wish I didn't keep forgetting to watch it, specially now that some of their good later shows (like "Trucking With Death" and "Time Chasers") have been making it into reruns. This last season has kinda sucked, but seasons 8 and 9 were generally pretty good.
Does anyone know where I can get some of the other episodes on tape, though? I know that some of the important ones (such as Mitchell) are carried by Rhino, but I really want to see the last few Comedy Central episodes, particularly the very last one. Also the first Sci-Fi Channel episode, though I'm sure that'll show up in reruns soon enough (unless I missed that already, pfeh).
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
This is very lame (Score:1)
We Slashdotters should make an effort to save this show. There is so much crap on TV. Every year networks pump out show after show after show of the same stupid sitcoms. We don't need that many. But the most original show on TV right now gets cancelled.
Anyway, my feeling is that there's gotta be enough rabid fans out there who love MST3K for it to be worthwhile for some network to pick it up.
On a related note, what the hell is happening to the Comedy Central episodes? Is Comedy gonna show re-runs? Or will they sell them? We can't let them just keep those episodes in a storage room somewhere, they're a national treasure
Re:Fear Not! (Score:1)
AMC has a devotion and a love of movies much like the one's MSt3k rifs. Luckily, they also have a sense of humor --so they can accept Mst3k. Plus, much like CC years ago, they really need to increase their ratings. One way to do this is to take a "quirky" show that can grab huge amounts of people who largely ignore the popular shows.
Re:really? (Score:1)
sells videos (I recomend Laserblast)
Sad to see it go too...but... (Score:1)
Then it really went downhill when Trace and Frank left also. Though the new guy they had doing Crow sounded just like Trace.
I thought the movie was pretty funny though.
Oh well...all good things must end.
Great Farewell Article by Mike Nelson (Score:1)
Let's face it folks - 10 years is an incredible run for any show, especially one that so few people get. I'm just glad that years ago I figured out that this show would probably be the only one in television history not to be perpetually rerun in the future, and got them all on tape...
Damnit (Score:1)
Rerunning Comedy Central-era episodes (Score:1)
Re:Not quite... (Score:1)
The mads even acknoweledged this and hi-fived each other for bumming out Joel and the bots. Heh.
True (Please Read, there's more inside) (Score:1)
There are some problems with re-running the shows though. In order to do that, you need to get permission from the people that made the films.
As of the case on who owns the "original" shows from comedy central, I'd put my money on CC, since Best Brains production did produce them FOR comedy central.
Isn't licensing a bitch sometimes, especially when used in a manner such as this? I just want the Gammera shows on tape, and the final episode of Joel and the Final Final, and I can die happy
(Allready own the movie)
MST3K will return... in code! (Score:1)
It's prime time to start taking the MST3K treatment to all media, not just ones that someone happens to purchase the "rights" to. (Apparently the licensing fees became a significantly larger cost for the MST3K producers.)
For some time now, fanatics have been riffing off the junk scraped from USENet with "mistings [wtower.com]". That's an ok start.
And we're all familiar with that brilliantly-inspired by horribly-design (ie, closed-standard) ThirdVoice annotation system.
We need a better 3rd-party annotation standard for web-based media. This should lead to a nice solution for broadcast-TV & VCR. I mean, when "convergence" comes along, do you really think you'll be watching TV and have the itch to "click on" a ballplayer just to find out what his batting average is with 2 runners on in the seventh during a meteor shower?
Nooo... you'll have your choice of armchair broadcasters all across this great web, spinning their own plot, analysis, and all that in the name of postmodernism!
MIKE!!!MIKE???? what about Joel??? (Score:1)
Re:My heart aches.... (Score:1)
Also one of the few recent episodes where I nearly fell out of the chair laughing at one of the skits.
"Soon you will become wedged in the bulkhead
"The Starfighters" is also a good Mike episode.
"Yes, welcome to minute six of the glorious refueling sequence."
"Uh oh
Re:More info (Score:1)
I suppose I should have known better, though. Any writer who has the balls to be referred to as "a freelance writer and frequent contributor to Hermenaut: The Digest of Heady Philosophy" has clearly spent a little too much time sipping from the heady waters of the bullshit fountain...
Best Brains Tour Pics (Score:1)
Incredible quote from story (Score:1)
Hatred, paranoid fear - is this a review of a puppet show or of a Leni Riefenstahl film? Somehow I get the feeling that this guy is as much fun at a party as a can of tear gas...
Re:MST3K? (Score:1)
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Have a URL? (Score:1)
Re: One huge gold ingot!! (Score:1)
Damn.... (Score:1)
Someone will have to make MST4K
really? (Score:1)
Goodbye (Score:2)
By the way MST3K merchandise can be found here [mst3kinfo.com]
Re:¿¿Re:Thank God?? (Score:1)
Yeah, the apes are humorous.. but they're not TV's Frank and Dr. Forrester.
Justin
Re:really? (Score:1)
yeah there is MST3k shirts and mugs and stuff, I've actually seen them at Suncoast Video, but I'm sure you can find them elsewhere as well.
MST3K? (Score:1)
Less interesting than... (Score:1)
Is somebody taping this? (Score:1)
eric.harley@autodesk.com
¿¿Re:Thank God?? (Score:1)
Some clarifications (Score:2)
Second, there's an extra showing of the episode
at 9 pm EDT on SciFi tonight. It will also
be on at 11pm, and then next Saturday at
11am EDT. After this, MST3K will only be shown on Saturdays
at that time slot (LOUSY!)
Re:Less interesting than!? (Score:1)
Re:really? (Score:1)
No, the Sci-Fi channel doesn't want them anymore due to low ratings. They Best Brains hasn't made many statements about what they want, but they seem to be open to new networks picking them up.
Re:really? (Score:1)
Justin
Re:MST3K? (Score:1)
Re:MST3K? (Score:1)
Fear Not! (Score:1)
It is on the Sci-Fi channel which all but guarantees year after year of re-runs of the existing episodes.
MST3K (Score:1)
Re:Fear Not! (Score:1)
Gamera is really neat...Gamera is full of meat... (Score:1)
"Why doesn't he just go straight to the flame?" - Crow
"Because the man is a true professional." - Joel
Re:My heart aches.... (Score:1)
My personal favorite (Score:2)
"Sure. Stand up against that wall."
Maybe only 1 gag in 10 made me laugh. When they average 20 gags a minute, that's still a lot of laughs.
Why did Joel leave, anyway?
Re:I want my MST (Score:1)
Odd that this topic came up this weekend, I just rented MST3K:The Movie last night (For the nth time.) Other than that, all I've ever seen are videos from friends in Vancouver lucky enough to get it out there.
Re:Whatever happened to Jole? (Score:1)
Dead? Hardly. (Score:1)
We take comfort in the fact that it isn't dead, however. There are websites that have text 'MiSTings' such as (Website #9 [wtower.com] and SVAM [simplenet.com], and there are rabid MST3K fans everywhere. Some of us circulate amateur MiSTings on video or audio tape as well.
Dead? Hardly. As long as there's drivel, ranting, and shallow pop culture, we'll be there with quips.
Re:¿¿Re:Thank God?? (Score:1)
Re:MST3K? (Score:1)
Re:Some clarifications (Score:1)
coultd it? (shudders)
Mst3k is a show that was born to be on PBS (Score:1)
We have to save MST3K!
Back in the day (Score:1)
Re:Less interesting than... (Score:1)
"Are those actors doing their own parachuting?"
"No, those parachuters are doing their own acting."
It's a show you have to watch over and over to catch all the subtle satire. Best if watched drunk.
yippie! (Score:1)
Re:Hamdingers (Score:1)
Essentially, they were a type of meat that some company made as a sort of "spam"-like product. It ended up being considered so inedible that it eventually became used as bait for tuna fishing boats, or something to that effect.
Ah, Memories (Score:1)
To change the subject, I was wondering if anyone had any info on the long lost Thanksgiving episode which was shown once on Comedy Central never to be seen again. What was it about? What movie? That sort of thing. Please, I need that fill. Even the Unauthorized Guide has nothing on this episode except that it did exist but was never seen again. Thanks.
Bryan R.
Re:True (Please Read, there's more inside) (Score:1)
"Gotta save Joel! JOOOOOEEEELLLL!!!" - Gypsy
Re:Ah, Memories (Score:1)
I just with that Comedy Central would still do the Turkey Day marathon.. was a highlight of the year for me for about 4 years *grin*
btw, to anyone who knows, what was Forresters sidekick's name before Frank? was it Larry?
Justin
"Wanda Cannon, now thats a porn name if I ever saw one!
Re:No Tears Here (Score:1)
Justin
"EEEEGAAAH"
Not quite... (Score:1)
Castle of Fu Manchu
Monster A-Go-Go - "there was no monster..."
Robot vs the Aztec Mummy
By themselves, they were *completely* unwatchable. Even MST'd, they are pretty tough (I feel asleep trying to watch Castle of Fu Manchu several times).
I know there are a lot of folks out there that think the show ended when Joel left, but the truth is, despite how good Joel, Trace, and Frank were, the star of the show has always been the writing. And that's remained consistently good through the show's run.
Re:Sad to see it go too...but... (Score:1)
Justin
"He TRIED to kill me with a forklift.."
Re:¿¿Re:Thank God?? (Score:1)
It's all rather sad, that's about the only show I ever watch on Sci-Fi. I wonder what they'll fill the gap with? Lord knows we haven't seen "Child's Play" enough...
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Master Ninja Theeeeeeme Song! (Score:1)
None of the new shows had anythingthat memorable, for me at least. So, I say, 10 years is a nice long run, let's let it go.
Re:Fear Not! (Score:1)
I'd love to see them rip on some of the classics.
My heart aches.... (Score:1)
Re:No Tears Here (Score:1)
I think you've missed the point completely.. and I'll paraphrase the theme song to make you understand the error (the original song
"They'll send him cheesy movies...
The worst that they can find..
He'll have to sit and watch them all
and they'll monitor his mind.."
now I admit, having an episode with a popular film woulda been funny.. but Dances with Wolves? Come on, if you're going for bad feature film to turn into a MST episode, go for Titanic. You dont get much cheesier, or popular, than that.
Justin
"No wonder we never found the escape pod, its hidden in a box of Hamdingers... nobody likes Hamdingers." - Gypsy
Re:My heart aches.... (Score:1)
I admit, since the move to sci-fi, its lost what made it what it was, but mike has his moments.. but if you want a joel-era quality episode with mike in it, find a copy of Laserblast (the final comedy central episode). Its easily one of the best of the epi's, definitely Mikes best. The movie was pretty good too, but not nearly as.
Justin
"After the age of 12, a man should never say the word 'pa-pow'." - Mike
I want my MST (Score:1)
MST is a redeeming item for the Yanks in my eyes. I have but one line of wisdom of which I think we all can share in it's simple elegance...
MIKE BROKE THE HUBBLE! MIKE BROKE THE HUBBLE!
Re:¿¿Re:Thank God?? (Score:1)
Thats why I believe that if the show were to continue in (somewhat) its old glory it'd have to be picked up by Comedy Central again... fat chance of that happening.
Justin
"No, I'm pure energy.. you're nothing but pure canola oil!" - Crow T Robot
Re:No Tears Here (Score:1)
But come now, havn't you ever gone to a movie with a bunch of friends, sat in the front row and MSTy it? We do it all the time over here!
Re:Fear Not! (Score:1)
I personally believe that the Sci-Fi channel is underestimating the popularity of MST3K, and shooting themselves in the foot.
Anyway, Sci-Fi keeps saying how absolutely positively final their decision is, so it's time to look elsewhere. There are rumors that AMC will pick up the series, which I think is a very strange fit, but I'm not complaining.
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