It’s Just A Show

By Chris Piuma and Charlotte Wells (and Adam Clarke and Beth Martin)

A friendly conversation about the cult tv show Mystery Science Theater 3000, and about its weird movies and diverse cultural references.... more

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April 13, 2021 91. No Limousines, No Craft Services. [MST3K 317. The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent.]
The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea
Serpent gets all tuckered out trying to say its name, and curls up to listen
to Chris and Adam talk about waffles, Roger Corman, Albert Glasser, Troma, and
Kate Bush.
With the short, The Home Economics Story!
Show Notes.
The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea
Serpent: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
UnMSTed.
The Home Economics Story: IMDB.
UnMSTed.
#MakeMoreMST3K
The Mads’ third evening of shorts is…
tonight!
Our article, Proposition Deep
13, offers
a tour through all thirteen seasons so far of MST3K, to get you even more
excited for whatever comes next.
Chris recently talked about actual Viking women on his other
podcast.
Our episode on Night of the Blood
Beast had our stuffing/potatoes
debate.
The Dawn of the Dead
poster.
Roger Corman: How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a
Dime.
The Albert Glasser bleatography.
Our episodes on The Million Eyes of
Sumuru, Rocketship
X-M, and
Squirm.
Heathers [trailer].
My Dead Gay Son from Heathers:
The Musical.
Ghetto Freaks.
Carol Bly: Changing the Bully Who Rules the World.
Robert Bly: Iron John.
Over the Top [trailer].
The Reluctant Astronaut
[trailer].
Tromeo and Juliet [trailer].
The Toxic Avenger [trailer].
Toxic Crusaders intro.
Lloyd Kaufman: Make Your Own Damn Movie!
Kate Bush: Sat in Your Lap,
Heads We’re Dancing (the one
with the O. Henry twist), The Sensual
World, Deeper
Understanding [and the revised
version],
Snowflake (from the “wintery”
album), Pi, The Man with the
Child in His Eyes, Hammer
Horror.
Bonus.
Support us on Patreon and listen to all
sorts of super-fan bonus bits.
...more
59min
March 30, 2021 90. The Darkest of Pasts. [MST3K 808. The She-Creature.]
The She-Creature lurches unpleasantly towards Chris and Adam, but instead
they talk about Alibi, Wings, Manimal, Howard the Duck, and Dorf on Golf.
Show Notes.
The She-Creature: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer. Watch unMSTed at
ShoutFactoryTV (or don’t).
Look over our episode guide for all the episodes we
list.
The Mads will be doing more shorts on April
13.
The Masters of the Universe Power Tour.
Chester Morris of
Alibi [full movie].
Tom Conway and his IMDB
bio.
Cathy Downs.
Lance Fuller, and our episode on This
Island Earth.
El Brendel and
Wings [trailer].
No, really, go watch
Wings!
Flo Bert.
Our episode on It Conquered the
World.
More on the unpleasant story of the Powder
director.
Creature of Destruction.
Peter Mansbridge on Tickle-Me-Elmo.
Cabbage Patch riots.
Alphie the Electronic Robot.
Manimal opening credits.
Howard the Duck [trailer].
The rancor.
Tim Conway as
Dorf.
The official Ghostbusters YouTube
channel.
Chris recently talked about an Icelandic Saga on another
podcast.
Bonus.
Support us on Patreon and listen to some
superfan bonus bits! (Thanks!)
...more
59min
March 21, 2021 89. Fleeting Scenes. [MST3K 421. Monster A Go-Go.]
Monster A Go-Go calls up Adam and Chris [ rrring rrring! ] and asks them
about bad twists, anti-endings, cheap solutions, ice treats, and He-Man.
With the short, Circus on Ice!
Show Notes.
Monster A Go-Go: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer. Watch on
ShoutFactoryTV!
Circus on Ice: IMDB.
Thanks to Ned over at Tolkien podcast By-The-Bywater.
John “Bud” Cardos, who we talked about in our episodes on
Outlaw and The Day Time
Ended, has
passed.
Kingdom of the Spiders
[trailer] [note: lots of spiders].
Bea Arthur asks you to shop at Shoppers Drug
Mart.
Local Hero [trailer].
Bill Rebane.
H.G. Lewis.
Beautiful Half Day,
Illinois.
Living Venus [IMDB].
Boin-n-g! [IMDB].
Blood Feast [trailer].
Blast-Off Girls [trailer].
Herschel Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of
Gore [trailer].
Our episode on the live show of Circus of
Horrors.
Torontoist on the Toronto Skating Club’s
carnivals.
Update: We’ll get into this in detail next episode, but Chris saw the Masters
of the Universe Power Tour,
which was not on ice. Sigh. [You can still write in!]
Philip Morton and Lois
Brooks on the IMDB.
Our episode on The Last Chase.
The Fuzztones: Monster A-Go-Go.
Our recent bonus bit compilation
episode.
Watch Rock ’n’ Roll High School on ShoutFactoryTV!
Incredible Crash Dummies ads.
The Third Man [trailer].
Todd in the Shadows on The Buoys’
Timothy.
The Buoys: Timothy.
Bonus.
Support It's Just A Show on Patreon, help
us make the show, and listen to all our bonus bits that just didn’t fit!
...more
59min
March 01, 2021 88. Shirtless the Whole Time. [MST3K 701. Night of the Blood Beast.]
Night of the Blood Beast impregnates Chris and Beth with thoughts of new
phones, old interiors, friendly aliens, male pregnancy, and Turkey Day
marathons.
Also features the short Once Upon a Honeymoon!
Show Notes.
Night of the Blood Beast: IMDB.
MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
Once Upon a Honeymoon: IMDB.
UnMSTed.
Um, we’re on Twitter, Beth.
The Mads are on
YouTube!
The Choppers
[trailer].
Our episode on Eegah!
The Mads’ next show: Phantom from Space [trailer].
You Must Remember This.
An article from 1989 about the Infiniti
ads.
A pink fridge.
The Model 500 and the
Princess phones.
1950s ads for colour phones.
A History channel article.
George Adamski.
Alien
impregnation and
male
pregnancy
on TVTropes.com.
Turnabout.
Junior [trailer].
Once upon a Honeymoon
[trailer].
Our episode on The Crawling Hand.
The Apollo 1 disaster.
Robert H. Lawrence
Jr.
Our episode on The Starfighters.
And our episode on The Skydivers,
with its link to Margaret Bourke-White.
Edward Wilson Very of the
Very Pistol.
Sigmund and the Sea
Monsters.
Our episode on The Undead.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon
(thanks!) and you can listen to all our superfan bonus bits.
...more
1h
February 22, 2021 87b. Bonus Bits A-Go-Go!
We’re only gonna get one real episode out this month, for Reasons. So to tide
you over until then, here are a few of our superfan bonus bits—the things we
normally just let our most devoted listeners
hear. Enjoy, and see. you soon with a proper episode!
Show Notes.
Our episodes on Starcrash, Gamera
vs. Barugon [KTMA], The
Pumaman, and Phase
IV.
More about Carol Channing.
Thoroughly Modern Millie.
Alone in the Dark.
Support us on Patreon and you can hear even
more superfan bonus bits!
...more
32min
January 31, 2021 87. A Little Dab’ll Do You. [MST3K 316. Gamera vs. Zigra.]
Gamera vs. Zigra is back for round two, and Chris and Adam bring in
reinforcements like robot reboots, space monsters, peppy marches, living
legends, and school projects.
Show Notes.
Gamera vs. Zigra: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer [in Japanese].
Our other Gamuary episodes: Gamera vs. Zigra, Gamera vs. Gaos (and KTMA), Gamera (and KTMA), Gamera vs. Barugon (and KTMA).
A Three Stooges cartoon.
Gamera: Super Monster
[trailer].
That Jackbox game…
Shunsuke Kikuchi.
Persistent Pursuit.
Niisan Takahashi.
Wikizilla on Gamera vs. Zigra.
Gojipedia on Gamera vs.
Zigra.
Dolly Parton: 9 to 5.
Dolly Parton’s Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of
Love [trailer].
Dolly Parton: Just Because I’m a Woman.
Dolly Parton: Here I Am
[documentary].
9 to 5 [trailer].
Polly Darton.
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.
How mummies talked.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and
you can hear a little bit more that was left on the cutting room floor.
...more
59min
January 24, 2021 86. He Protecc, But He Also Attacc... [MST3K K07. Gamera vs. Zigra.]
Happy Gamuary! Gamera vs. Zigra takes its first swing at Adam and Chris,
who muse about our noisy ocean, some missing Gamera films, Persona 5, encore
performances, and New Years Eve.
Show Notes.
Gamera vs. Zigra: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer [in Japanese].
The Mads are Back will do The
Choppers on February
9th.
Our other Gamuary episodes: Gamera vs. Gaos (and KTMA), Gamera (and KTMA), Gamera vs. Barugon (and KTMA).
National Geographic on marine
pollution.
The UN Conference on the
Environment with
the Declaration on the Human Environment.
Adam misspoke, and was thinking of Creepshow
2.
A guide to plastic in the
oceans.
The Great Pacific Garbage
Patch.
A very sciencey article about noise and
whales.
The pandemic has, at least, made things a little quieter for the
whales.
Gamera vs. Viras [trailer].
Gamera vs. Jiger [trailer].
Jiger on Wikizilla.
Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster
[trailer].
Kei’ichi Noda.
Godzilla vs. Gigan [trailer].
Bruce Springsteen: Blinded by the
Light.
Manfred Mann Earth Band: Blinded by the
Light.
Chris has talked about parties on another
podcast.
We talked about Project Popcorn in our episode on season 3’s Gamera vs.
Barugon.
Bonus.
Support us on Patreon and listen to our
superfan bonus bits, including a bit more about reruns.
...more
1h
December 31, 2020 85. Clowns in the Wild. [MST3K 422. The Day the Earth Froze.]
The Day the Earth Froze offers a Sampo to the team — if they first talk
about the Kalevala, Finlandization, Jean Sibelius, Emmett Kelly, and family
photos.
Also features a short: Here Comes the Circus!
Show Notes.
The Day the Earth Froze: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer. [Finnish
trailer.] Watch on
ShoutFactoryTV!
Here Comes the Circus!: IMDB.
UnMSTed.
The Mads will be doing another shorts
night!
Our episode on Santa Claus.
Sample of the remastered movie.
Joel and the circus? Our episode on the Great Cheesy Movie Circus
Tour.
Chris talking about the Mahabharata on
his other podcast.
Elias Lönrott.
The Kalevala translation that Chris read.
The Winter War.
Simo Häyhä.
Finlandization.
John Richardson: Wacousta.
Aleksandr Ptushko: The New
Gulliver.
Jean Sibelius: Lemminkäinen
Suite.
More about Andris Ošiņš.
Eve Kivi.
The Mark VII Limited logo.
The TriStar Pictures logo.
Emmett Kelly on What’s My Line?
H. Ross Perot.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and
listen to all sorts of bonus bits.
...more
55min
December 19, 2020 84. There Was No Way She Was Gonna Win. [MST3K 615. Kitten with a Whip.]
Kitten with a Whip meows pitifully at Adam and Chris until they talk about
horrifying teens, Ann-Margrock, Elvis Presley, John Forsythe, Doodles Weaver,
and Looney Tunes.
Show Notes.
Kitten with a Whip: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki. Watch on
YouTube.
VillageOfTheGiants.net!
Zappa [trailer].
Eat That Question [trailer].
Touch of Evil [trailer].
Bye Bye Birdie [trailer].
Viva Las Vegas [trailer].
Our episode on Space Travelers.
Spike Jones: William Tell
Overture.
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
[trailer,
Wiki].
Wade Miller/Whit Masterson.
Wade Miller: Kitten with a Whip.
Our episode on Revenge of the
Creature.
Mallory O’Meara: The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the
Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick.
Barbary Coast.
Kinda racist ad for Pearl Cream with Nancy
Kwan.
Some Jerry Dunphy.
All’s Faire in Love [trailer].
How [Carl Stalling] influenced a generation of
composers.
The Raymond Scott Quintette:
Powerhouse.
Raymond Scott: Soothing Sounds for Baby, vol.
1.
The Carl Stalling Project, vols. 1 and
2.
Bonus.
Support us on Patreon and you can find out
what the final factoid was (it got cut for time, but it's a fun discussion).
...more
1h
November 30, 2020 83. Mister Big. [MST3K 523. Village of the Giants.]
Village of the Giants towers over Adam and Chris, demanding they talk
about Jim Begg, Andy Griffith, Warwick Davis, Bert I. Gordon, and Frank Zappa.
Show Notes.
Village of the Giants: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer. Watch on
ShoutFactoryTV or
YouTube.
The 2020 MST3K Turkey Day
stream.
The Brain from Planet Arous
[trailer].
Our episodes on Revenge of the
Creature, The Mole
People, and Santa
Claus.
Get your tickets for The Mads riffing Santa Claus vs. The
Devil on December 15th!
Our episode on Catalina Caper.
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken.
The Kid with the 200 IQ.
Willow playthrough.
Eat My Dust.
Beau Brummel.
The Beau Brummels: Laugh,
Laugh.
Toni Basil: Mickey.
Todd in the Shadows: One Hit Wonderland:
Mickey.
Talking Heads: Once in a
Lifetime and Crosseyed and
Painless.
Slaughterhouse Rock.
Our episodes on King Dinosaur and
Starcrash.
The Food of the Gods.
Secrets of a Psychopath.
Orson Welles and H.G.
Wells.
H.G. Wells: The Food of the Gods and How It Came to
Earth.
Our episode on Terror from the Year
5000.
Aunt Joy’s Cakes and a little
documentary.
Crash Test Dummies compilation.
About the Crash Test Dummies.
Million Dollar Duck.
Osgood-Schlatter Disease.
Coneheads.
Frank Zappa: Conehead.
Frank Zappa: Ride like the Wind.
The Real Frank Zappa Book.
The AV Club: Can you be a fan of Zappa but not his
music?
Jack Nitzsche.
Jack Nitzsche: Last Race.
The T.A.M.I. Show.
The Ramones: Needles and Pins.
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Up Where We
Belong.
All the Scarlatti harpsichord sonatas at the same
time.
Bonus.
If you support us on Patreon you can help
us make the show and hear a little bonus bit about a cat.
...more
59min

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