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179. We Know Who’s Blonde. [MST3K 203. Jungle Goddess.]
It’s a big birthday for Chris and Charlotte, and Jungle Goddess surprises them with new songs, old tropes, Superman, Dick Tracy, and tricky family dynamics.
With the short: The Phantom Creeps, chapter one: The Menacing Power.
Show Notes.
Jungle Goddess (Lewis D. Collins, 1948): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Watch on YouTube.
The Phantom Creeps (Ford Beebe, 1939): IMDB. UnMSTed. Regular Wiki.
Twenty Thousand Hertz: Phone Tones: The hidden language of phone number beeps.
The Minor Thirds: The New Songs is available on Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, YouTube, and more. Enjoy!
The Minor Thirds: The New Songs (the music video for the first song on the album).
Avogadro’s Number, if you need a refresher.
Jack Kerouac: Doctor Sax.
The humble gobo and the matte box (into which you can slide mattes, or masks).
Our episode on Catalina Caper, which, being Chris’s favourite episode, also came out in early August...
William Henry Hudson: Green Mansions.
Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan of the Apes.
The Jungle Goddess (James Conway, 1922).
Chris primarily draws upon Rhona J. Bernstein: White Heroines and Hearts of Darkness: Race, Gender and Disguise in 1930s Jungle Films. If you know of exciting and newer scholarship on this topic, please let us know!
Trader Horn (W.S. Van Dyke, 1931).
Stamp Day for Superman (Thomas Carr, 1954) vs. Superman (James Gunn, 2025).
Dick Tracy (Alan James & Ray Taylor, 1937) vs. Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990).
Thunder in the Pines (Robert Gordon, 1948).
Jungle Queen (Ray Taylor & Lewis D. Collins, 1945).
Danger! Women at Work (Sam Newfield, 1943).
Chris discussed the trucker films of Joe Gage for our episode on Robot Holocaust, and The Gay Amigo for our episode on The Corpse Vanishes.
Our episode on The Rebel Set.
Bomba, The Jungle Boy (Ford Beebe, 1949).
We discuss chapter three of The Phantom Creeps in our episode on Ring of Terror.
Milton the Monster. (Probably someone has uploaded some episodes to YouTube, mm?)
An interview with Hal Seeger, creator of Milton the Monster (and Ratfink, which we’ve discussed before).
Smith Brothers.
Support us on Patreon and you can listen a special bonus bit that was cut for time from this episode.
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It’s a big birthday for Chris and Charlotte, and Jungle Goddess surprises them with new songs, old tropes, Superman, Dick Tracy, and tricky family dynamics.
With the short: The Phantom Creeps, chapter one: The Menacing Power.
Show Notes.
Jungle Goddess (Lewis D. Collins, 1948): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Watch on YouTube.
The Phantom Creeps (Ford Beebe, 1939): IMDB. UnMSTed. Regular Wiki.
Twenty Thousand Hertz: Phone Tones: The hidden language of phone number beeps.
The Minor Thirds: The New Songs is available on Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, YouTube, and more. Enjoy!
The Minor Thirds: The New Songs (the music video for the first song on the album).
Avogadro’s Number, if you need a refresher.
Jack Kerouac: Doctor Sax.
The humble gobo and the matte box (into which you can slide mattes, or masks).
Our episode on Catalina Caper, which, being Chris’s favourite episode, also came out in early August...
William Henry Hudson: Green Mansions.
Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan of the Apes.
The Jungle Goddess (James Conway, 1922).
Chris primarily draws upon Rhona J. Bernstein: White Heroines and Hearts of Darkness: Race, Gender and Disguise in 1930s Jungle Films. If you know of exciting and newer scholarship on this topic, please let us know!
Trader Horn (W.S. Van Dyke, 1931).
Stamp Day for Superman (Thomas Carr, 1954) vs. Superman (James Gunn, 2025).
Dick Tracy (Alan James & Ray Taylor, 1937) vs. Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990).
Thunder in the Pines (Robert Gordon, 1948).
Jungle Queen (Ray Taylor & Lewis D. Collins, 1945).
Danger! Women at Work (Sam Newfield, 1943).
Chris discussed the trucker films of Joe Gage for our episode on Robot Holocaust, and The Gay Amigo for our episode on The Corpse Vanishes.
Our episode on The Rebel Set.
Bomba, The Jungle Boy (Ford Beebe, 1949).
We discuss chapter three of The Phantom Creeps in our episode on Ring of Terror.
Milton the Monster. (Probably someone has uploaded some episodes to YouTube, mm?)
An interview with Hal Seeger, creator of Milton the Monster (and Ratfink, which we’ve discussed before).
Smith Brothers.
Support us on Patreon and you can listen a special bonus bit that was cut for time from this episode.
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