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.

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.

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The Space Children telepathically command Chris and Charlotte to discuss peep shows, touch tones, Professors, Uncles Fester, and a former child actor.

With the short: Century 21 Calling.

The Space Children (Jack Arnold, 1958): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Trailer.

Century 21 Calling (Robert W. Larsen, 1962): IMDB. UnMSTed.

Morton Thi.

Forklift wheelie.

The Great Betrayal (1974) is on The Scare Archives Volume 2: Danger Stories.

Staplerfahrer Klaus – Der erste Arbeitstag (Forklift Driver Klaus – The First Day on the Job) (Stefan Prehn and Jörg Wagner, 2000) (with English subtitles). Read more about it. (Warning: comedy gore.)

Frank Conniff: Twenty-Five Mystery Science Theatre 3000 Films That Changed My Life In No Way Whatsoever, the audiobook.

The Mads Are Back riffed Century 21 Calling in their A Night of Springtime Shorts show, which we discussed in our episode on Last of the Wild Horses.

A history of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, Century 21 Exposition.

The adult zone of Seattle World’s Fair.

We discuss the 1970 Osaka World’s Fair in our episode on Gamera vs. Jiger.

Expo 2025 is happening right now in Osaka!

The Bellboy.

DTMF signaling, aka Touch-Tone dialing.

Technology Connections.

All the star codes.

Home automation in the 1970s (and today).

Our episodes on Revenge of the Creature, This Island Earth and The Brute Man (with the short, The Chicken of Tomorrow).

A scene from The Kid (Charlie Chaplin, 1921).

The California Child Actors Bill and Coogan Accounts.

We discuss both Won Ton Ton: The Dog that Saved Hollywood and The Greatest Story Ever Told with other Megaphonic hosts in our Patreon-exclusive holiday specials.

Uncle Fester.

The Beverly Hillbillies: Jed Gets the Misery.

Nancy Kulp.

Them! (Gordon Douglas, 1954).

Our episode on Village of the Giants.

Macbeth (Orson Welles, 1948).

Farciot Eduoart.

Dr. Cyclops (Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1940).

Michel Ray de Caravalho. And an interview with him.

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Whoops! Chris and Charlotte accidentally watch the Poopie! and Poopie! II compilations, and talk about bloopers, mishaps, flubs, gaffes, and boo-boos.

Watch Poopie! and Poopie! II on YouTube.

The Poopie Parade of Values is not yet on the official MST3K YouTube channel, but you can probably find it if you search.

Our episode on Turkey Day 1995, aka the MST3K Anthology, which includes the Poopie Parade of Values.

Kermit Schafer’s albums of Bloopers are also available on YouTube if you search hard enough. As are episodes of TV’s Bloopers and Practical Jokes.

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Fugitive Alien is back for season 3, so Chris and Charlotte finally get to talk about forklifts, forklifts, forklifts, forklifts, and tongue twisters.

Fugitive Alien (スターウルフ) (Minoru Kanaya & Kiyosumi Kuzakawa, 1978 / 1986): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Watch on YouTube.

Our previous episode on the KTMA version has more behind-the-scenes details about this “movie”.

The National Hat Museum in Portland.

Chris was in Liminal’s production of Far Away by Caryl Churchill. (Chris’s hat isn't in the publicity shot of hats.)

That top 100 episodes list.

Trix. Deadlift. Guido.

Forklift racing.

Competitive forklift driving.

The Stapler Cup.

Jack Perkins: Finding Moosewood, Finding God.

Syd Field: Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting.

Some articulation exercises.

UPDATE: It has been found! Thanks, listeners. Morton Thiokol was the contractor that manufactured the O-rings that failed and led to the Challenger explosion. (I haven’t found evidence of anyone else abbreviating the name like Tom does, but that has to be the reference.)

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The KTMA version of Fugitive Alien is not as excited about that forklift as it could be, but it will listen to Chris and Charlotte talk about pulp sci fi, adaptations of adaptations, Phantom of the Paradise, misfit media, and Winnipeg.

Fugitive Alien (スターウルフ) (Minoru Kanaya & Kiyosumi Kuzakawa, 1978 / 1986): MST3K Wiki. IMDB.

Puttin’ on the Hits.

Edmond Hamilton: The Weapon from Beyond. (And the Starwolf series in general. And much of his early work can be found on Project Gutenberg.)

Captain Future. A sample of the anime.

Women in refrigerators.

“The Lem story” refers to Stanisław Lem’s novel Solaris, which we discussed in our previous episode.

We discussed Eiji Tsuburaya in our episodes on Mighty Jack and Time of the Apes.

Branded to Kill (殺しの烙印) (Seijun Suzuki, 1967). (cw: eye stuff!)

Major Matt Mason and friends.

Tennessee Ernie Ford: Sixteen Tons.

Pannekoeken news.

That scene from Taxi! (Roy Del Ruth, 1932).

Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma, 1974).

Paul Williams on The Muppet Show.

Phantom of Winnipeg (Malcolm Ingram & Sean Stanley, 2019).

If you want to watch Phantom of Winnipeg, your best bet is to buy it directly from the producers.

My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, 2007).

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First Spaceship on Venus (a.k.a. The Silent Star) won’t respond to Chris and Charlotte’s messages about rampant sarcasm, post-war cinema, Stanisław Lem, Britney Spears, and My Demon Lover.

First Spaceship on Venus (a.k.a. The Silent Star / Der schweigende Stern / Milcząca Gwiazda) (Kurt Maetzig, 1960): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Trailer. Watch on YouTube.

Our episode on 12 to the Moon, which is not the same movie as First Spaceship on Venus.

Our episode on Johnny at the Fair.

Charles Pachter: Invocation. (He goes by Charles, not sure why Chris thought it was “Charlie”!)

Abe Vigoda, remembered.

Matt Baume on Barney Miller.

Kids in the Hall: Sarcastic Guy.

James Lileks: The Gallery of Regrettable Food.

The Silent Star, uncut.

Stanisław Lem wrote The Astronauts, Solaris (look for Bill Johnston’s translation), Tales of Pirx the Pilot, The Cyberiad, Summa Technologiae (so maybe it has been translated in full?), A Perfect Vacuum, Imaginary Magnitude, and much more...

Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972) vs. Solaris (Steven Soderbergh, 2002).

Ehe im Schatten (Marriage in the Shadow) (Kurt Maetzig, 1947).

Bambi.

The Wind Cannot Read (Ralph Thomas, 1958).

The Bitter and the Sweet (also called The Sweet and the Bitter) (James Clavell, 1967).

The (Super) Mars Snooper.

Lester Flat and Earl Scruggs: The Ballad of Jed Clampett. (Paul Henning is the composer.)

Alexander Calder.

Crossroads (Tamra Davis, 2002)

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Stephan Elliott, 1994).

My Demon Lover (Charlie Loventhal, 1987).

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Last of the Wild Horses needs to give Chris and Charlotte a year of rest so they can come up with more fun facts about Robert Lippert, mirror universes, unexpected riffers, John Wayne, and Louis L’Amour.

Last of the Wild Horses (Robert L. Lippert, 1948): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Watch on YouTube.

De Quervain’s tenosynovitis.

Our episodes on Rocketship X-M and King Dinosaur. I guess we haven’t done Lost Continent or Radar Secret Service yet?

The tragedy of the commons.

Mirror, Mirror.

Unexpected riffers! Our episodes on Hercules and the Captive Women (not Hercules, like Chris says), Quest of the Delta Knights, Time Chasers, and The Bicycle Driver.

The Mads Are Back: A Night of Springtime Shorts.

Outkast: Roses.

Frith Films by Emily Benton Frith.

The Clangers.

An article on Jacksonville in AAA’s magazine, Via, from Sept/Oct of 2024.

The Pendleton Round-Up.

An article about Des Moines from Travel + Leisure.

John Wayne Birthplace and Museum.

Bucking Broadway (John Ford, 1917). (The moment Chris points Charlotte to.)

Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939).

We talk about Geronimo in our episode on Final Justice. (Also, RIP Joe Don Baker.)

Louis L’Amour: Hondo. (This is a novelization of the movie (John Farrow, 1953), which is based on a Louis L’Amour story called The Gift of Cochise. Complicated.)

Louis L‘Amour: The Louis L’Amour Collection (the audiobook).

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Gunslinger comes moseying into town, taking potshots at Chris and Charlotte as they discuss Beverly Garland, Allison Hayes, Roger Corman, the Pony Express, and sex workers of the Old West.

cw: This episode doesn’t get as spicy as the last one, but you saw that last discussion item, right?

Gunslinger (Roger Corman, 1956): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Trailer. Watch on YouTube.

Ask Any Buddy on Kansas City Trucking Co.

Our episode on Swamp Diamonds.

A Part of our Scare-itage on Scanners.

Our episodes on The Painted Hills and The Beast of Hollow Mountain.

Sonoma’s Valley of the Moon Vintage Festival.

We talk about Have Gun Will Travel (the show with Paladin) in our episode on Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster. (Wait, really?)

We’re not gonna link to every Corman film, just go to the episode guide for your favourites.

Roger Corman: How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime.

Three Hours to Kill (Alfred L. Werker, 1954).

Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954).

Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945).

The National Cowboy Museum on the roles of women in the West.

Mary Ellen Pleasant, who, it turns out, did not like the nickname “Mammy”, so we apologize for that.

Anne Seagraves: Soiled Doves: Prostitution in the Early West.

Julia Bulette.

Chris has always wanted a hurdy-gurdy.

The Pony Express National Historic Trail is something you can still explore.

The stagecoach lines of nineteenth-century Texas.

The Texas Almanac of 1870.

Supai, Arizona.

A postal route map of Texas, 1870.

Sam Bass.

Alan Lomax: Sam Bass.

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MST3K riffed nine chapters of the serial Radar Men from the Moon over the course of season 1. And now that we’ve finally covered all of those episodes, we figured we should probably bring all those plot summaries and most of the relevant segments together in one convenient bonus episode. So enjoy hearing Chris and Charlotte — and old-timers Adam and Beth — talk about the so-called adventures of Commando Cody. Nipple nipple, tweak tweak, fly fly fly!

(Also, this gives Chris a little more time to get over a wrist RSI to edit the Gunslinger episode. Thank you for your patience.)

Radar Men from the Moon (Fred C. Bannon, 1951): IMDb. UnMSTed.

This compilation comes from our episodes on chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5, 6, 7 & 8, and 9.

Flash

Flesh Gordon (Michael Beneviste & Howard Ziehm, 1974).

The version of the Transformers theme Adam is talking

Judex (Louis Feuillade, 1916).

Louis Feuillade.

A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune) (Georges Méliès, 1902).

A fluffy moon?

Lunar module feet pics.

Sky Captain and the World of

Red Letter Media on The

The eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980.

Why we dropped that bomb into that volcano.

Ursula K. Le Guin: Tales from Earthsea.

Avatar: The Last Airbender (season 3, episode 6): The Avatar and the Fire Lord.

Bombing volcanoes in Popular Science.

The USGS on what bombing a volcano would actually do.

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After the Robot Holocaust, Chris and Charlotte are left to talk about women with accents, goofy character design, classic 70s cinema, obscure corners of New York City, and avocado recipes.

With the final chapter (sorta) of Radar Men from the Moon.

cw: This episode deals with some adult subject material. Our conversation doesn’t get as explicit as the material we talk about, but you still might not want to let little ones or work colleagues overhear.

Robot Holocaust (Tim Kincaid, 1987): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Trailer. Watch on YouTube.

Radar Men from the Moon, ep. 9 (Fred C. Bannon, 1951): IMDb. UnMSTed. (Our episodes on episodes 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5, 6, 7 & 8.)

Muddy Waters: Mannish Boy (I’m a Man).

Our episode on Werewolf.

We discuss the 2003 Sumuru film in our episode on Season 13’s take on The Million Eyes of Sumuru.

Tim Kincaid discussed sequel plans in an article for Cinefantastique.

The Wikipedia articles for Kansas City Trucking Co. (Joe Gage, 1976), El Paso Wrecking Corp. (Joe Gage, 1978), and L.A. Tool & Die (Joe Gage, 1979) are reasonably SFW.

This fan page is NSFW. It was very useful in understanding the nitty-gritty details about the various edits of these films.

Our episodes on The Day Time Ended and Robot Wars.

Dr. Buzz from CopyCat Killers.

Eat My Dust! (Charles B. Griffith, 1976.)

Eileen Barton: If I Knew You Were Comin’ I’d’ve Baked a Cake.

Master Carpenter Norm Abram on YouTube.

A history of Roosevelt Island.

Avocado Buddy has some relevant avocado recipes.

Polly Ann Ice Cream in San Francisco.

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