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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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
November 23, 2020 82. A Spicy Meatball. [MST3K K18. The Million Eyes of Sumuru.]
The Million Eyes of Sumuru keep Adam and Chris in their sights while they
discuss bad prints, bad movies, bad novels, bad episodes, and best fiends.
Show Notes.
The Million Eyes of Sumuru: IMDB.
MST3K
Wiki.
[Restored] Trailer.
The Mads did The Brain from Planet
Arous.
The Mads: Halloween Safety.
Joel, Josh, and Bill’s new shorts come at the end of Hodgson’s Second Annual
Puppet Camp!
Our episode on The Castle of Fu
Manchu.
And our episode on the KTMA Time of the
Apes.
And two [somewhat] recent KTMA episodes, The Last
Chase and Phase
IV.
The Rifftrax version of The Million Eyes of
Sumuru. [It’s also on Amazon
Prime.]
We talk about Beach Blanket Bingo and the like in our episode on Catalina
Caper.
We’ve mentioned Skidoo in our
episodes on Angels’ Revenge and Time
Chasers and probably others.
Our episode on Robot Monster.
George Nader: Chrome.
Crawlspace DVD extra Please Kill Mr.
Kinski.
My Best Fiend.
Our episode on Outlaw [of Gor].
The Seven Secrets of Sumuru / The Girl from
Rio.
A Genius, Two Partners, and a Dupe.
Some notes from Joel on the “lost
episodes”.
The Sumuru books.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and hear
all sorts of superfan bonus bits!
...more
1h
October 31, 2020 81. Fear and Silliness. [MST3K 320. The Unearthly.]
The Unearthly keeps Adam and Chris in the basement, where they can barely
talk about shorts, John Carradine, shorts, Tor Johnson, and shorts.
Also features the shorts Posture Pals and Appreciating Our Parents!
Show Notes.
The Unearthly: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
Posture Pals: IMDB.
Appreciating Our Parents: IMDB.
UnMSTed.
The Mads: A Night of Shorts.
Update: The Mads: Halloween
Safety, a short from the Night
of Shorts, has been released to YouTube!
The next Mads event will be The Brain from Planet
Arous.
Chris reading the list of Jesús Franco names is available to our Patreon
supports.
Chimes at Midnight.
A Part Of Our Scare-itage covers a Donald Pleasence
movie?!
Fiasco Family Movie Night presents
HubrisWeen!
And HubrisWeen tackled The
Unearthly!
The other short that we covered was Platform
Posture.
Joel, Josh, and Bill’s new shorts come at the end of Hodgson’s Second Annual
Puppet Camp!
...which was a fundraiser for MIGIZI, which looks
totally worth giving some money to.
Our episode on Red Zone Cuba.
House of Dracula.
We discussed Billy Barty in our episode on The
Undead.
And we discussed The Tingler in our episode on Terror from the Year
5000.
And we discussed David Carradine in our episode on Wizards of the Lost
Kingdom II.
There’s more Tor in our episode on The Beast of Yucca
Flats.
The filmography of Tor Johnson includes a pic of Tor with
hair.
[Tor’s hair may have been naturally dark, not blond? Sources disagree, and
photos are rare.]
Tor Johnson masks.
Star Trek: The Next Generation Episodes? Take Your
Pick!
More! Our episodes on The Leech
Woman and The Incredible Melting
Man.
TV Tropes on Dracula’s cape
flourish.
Bonus.
If you are enjoying It’s Just A Show, please consider supporting us on
Patreon! Supporters get to listen to a
segment about Flintstone chewable vitamins that was cut for time.
...more
57min
October 21, 2020 80. Friends, Don’t. [MST3K 323. The Castle of Fu Manchu.]
The Castle of Fu Manchu forces Chris and Adam to tell them the formula to
Chistopher Lee, Jesús Franco, Sax Rohmer, Gandhi II, and, heart transplants.
Show Notes.
The Castle of Fu Manchu: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer. Watch on
ShoutFactoryTV!
An article from 2012 about Joel’s Riff
Camps.
Our Donald Pleasence
shirt!
Our episodes on Master Ninja I and
II.
Howling II: Your Sister Is a
Werewolf.
Raw Meat.
The Royal Canadian Air
Farce.
Christopher Lee: Jingle Hell.
Count Dracula.
Blood Sucking N*zi Zombies
[a.k.a. The Treasure of the Living
Dead].
The Demons.
Jesús Franco
filmography.
Vampire Sound Inc.: The Lions and the
Cucumber.
Sax Rohmer: The Insidious Doctor Fu
Manchu.
Gaddabout Gaddis.
Babe Winkelman.
A Night to Remember.
Campbell’s Kingdom.
Gandhi II.
An in-depth article about the history of heart
transplants.
Or, you know, a pretty and interactive timeline, if that’s more your
speed.
Our episode on The Brain that Wouldn’t
Die.
Kirlian photography [and
the photos we describe].
Bonus.
If you support us on Patreon you can help
us make the show and hear a superfan bonus bit!
...more
1h
October 01, 2020 79. Normal Bands. [MST3K 303. Pod People.]
Pod People , you can do magic things! Including sending Chris and Adam
flying around the room, talking about Juan Piquer Simón, Music from Some Guys
in Space, Roger Roger, Pee-Wee Herman, and Andy Travis.
Show Notes.
Pod People: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki. Watch on
ShoutFactoryTV.
Our episode on Robot Monster.
Summer Camp Nightmare.
The Mads are at it again, with a night of shorts and
cartoons on October 20th.
Hapy Donald Pleasence Day (in advance). Our previous DP celebrations: Warrior
of the Lost World, The
Pumaman, Alien from
L.A., and Circus of
Horrors (not Circus of Fear,
whoospie!).
Juan Piquer Simón.
Cthulhu Mansion.
Slugs.
Our episode on Squirm.
Mystery on Monster Island.
Pieces.
We talk about Film Ventures International in our episode on Master Ninja
I.
Librado Pastor work (in
Spanish).
Jurassic 5 ft. Nelly Furtado: Thin
Line.
John Tesh on Roundball Rock.
A reconsideration of new-age
music.
Interview with Stephen Hill of Music from the Hearts of
Space.
The wiki page on new-age music.
Some Music from the Hearts of
Space on YouTube.
We talked about Pure Moods in our episode on
Werewolf.
Galaxy Invader. [The Rifftrax
version seems to no longer be available.]
Beatriz starring Óscar Martín.
The Legendary Life of Ernest
Hemingway with Emilio
Linder.
Louis Delacour, Roger Roger, and Georges Teperino: Musique pour
rire.
Roger Roger and Georges Teperino:
TVMusic.
WHOOPSIE: Mommie Dearest is, of
course, about Joan Crawford. [Sorry, we’re tired.]
Anthony Newley: Goldfinger.
Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True
Happiness?
Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday.
Shout Factory has some WKRP in
Cincinnati for you.
We talk about the restoration of the music of WKRP for DVDs in our episode on
Cosmic Princess.
Leslie Nielsen.
And, of course, our episode on Mac and
Me.
Bonus.
If you can, please support us on Patreon
and listen to a bonus segment on karaoke.
...more
1h
September 07, 2020 78. Never-Ending Beefcake. [MST3K 412. Hercules and the Captive Women.]
Happy Labour Day! Hercules and the Captive Women takes the blood of Uranus
and… shipwreck… shapeshifter… other stuff… anyway, it all causes Chris and
Adam to think about Atlantis, Proteus, Mario Bava, Mario Mario, and Nastassja
Kinski.
Show Notes.
Hercules and the Captive Women: IMDB.
MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer. Watch on
ShoutFactoryTV.
You can watch Chris solve crosswords every morning at 11am Eastern, 8am
Pacific on the Megaphonic Twitch channel.
Our other Labour Day episodes: Hercules Against the Moon
Men, Hercules
Unchained, The Loves of
Hercules.
We talked about Captain
Newfoundland in our episode on
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.
Plato: Timaeus and
Critias.
Ignatius Donnelly: Atlantis: The Antediluvian
World [and Ragnarok: Age of Fire and
Gravel].
Hercules in the Haunted World
[trailer].
Adam’s pics of Hercules in the Haunted
World.
Richard Strauss: Thus Spoke
Zarathustra.
György Ligeti: Lux Aeterna.
Friedrich Nietzsche: Also sprach
Zarathustra.
Our episode on Time of the Apes.
TV Tropes article on the “damsel in
distress”.
Super Mario Bros 2 is less not Mario than you
think.
Cat People [trailer].
On the snake photo.
Bonus.
If you can afford to, please support us on
Patreon. You’ll get to hear some bonus bits
that didn’t quite make the episode, and hang out with us in a friendly
members-only Slack!
...more
55min
August 31, 2020 77. Hella Jellyfish. [MST3K 807. Terror from the Year 5000.]
Terror from the Year 5000 can’t decide whether to steal Chris’s or Adam’s
face. Meanwhile, they talk about The Tingler, American International Pictures,
intergalactic vacations, KITT, and chiggers.
Show Notes.
Terror from the Year 5000: IMDB.
MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
The Tingler [trailer].
The Mads will be riffing Walk the Dark
Street.
Our episode on Robot Monster.
American International Pictures.
The antitrust ruling about movie studios not owning
theaters.
We talk about beach movies in our episode on Catalina
Caper.
The poster for Terror from the Year 5000.
Adam talked about Gamera dubs in our episode on KTMA
Gamera.
A Gamuary marathon on September
1!
Carbon dating 101.
Salome Jens.
Dede Allen.
Thelma Schoonmaker.
One Night in Bangkok.
Arnold Stang.
Henry Slesar.
Knight Rider theme [and a
recent cover].
The chigger text adventure was
Adventureland
by Scott Adams [not the Dilbert guy].
Cooking Shows? Take Your Pick!
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and
hear some bonus bits that had to be cut from the episode.
...more
56min

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