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 20, 2020 62. Pappy’s Tired. [MST3K K06. Gamera vs. Gaos.]
Happy Gamuary! Sorry if we’re a little late to the party—it’s just that the
KTMA episode of Gamera vs. Gaos really threw us for a loop. Adam and Chris
try to recombobulate themselves by reminiscing about the joys of Christmas
past, beautiful film prints, fountains of blood, robot puberty, and second-rate Gamera songs.
Show Notes.
Gamera vs. Gaos: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
Previous Gamuary instalments: Gamera vs. Barugon:
CC,
KTMA; Gamera:
KTMA,
CC.
Scud: The Disposable Assassin.
Lou Harry: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians: The
Novel.
Alfred Chicken Phone Message.
Night after Night with Allan
Havey.
Some Tugboat.
You can get a sense of the way the movie is supposed to look by watching the
trailer.
High-pressure
Blood on TV
Tropes.
We discussed Evil Dead II in our episode on The Crawling
Hand.
Björk: Bachelorette.
Aretha Franklin: There is a Fountain Filled with
Blood.
Spirograph.
The peppy ending song.
Oh hey: Our house band Theme Squad has a new collection of instrumentals
out! Check
it out.
Bonus.
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December 24, 2019 61. We Never Got to Play. [MST3K 321. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.]
Let’s have a Patrick Swayze Christmas, as Santa Claus Conquers the
Martians gathers Chris and Adam round to sing carols about Pia Zadora, Vince
Guaraldi, Donald Pleasence, Milton Delugg, and, you guessed it, Patrick
Swayze. Happy holidays, whatever you do or don’t celebrate!
Content warning: Contains sensitive information about Santa which you may not
want your young children to overhear.
Show Notes.
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians:
IMDb. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer. Watch on
ShoutFactoryTV!
Oh, we forgot to mention it, but Chris was on a special holiday party episode
of This Is Your Mixtape! Check it out,
it’s sweet.
Our previous holiday episodes on Santa
Claus and
Gamera.
Santa Claus: The Movie.
Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic also did this movie.
Rifftrax indeed did Santa and the Ice Cream
Bunny.
Pia Zadora defends her controversial
win.
Meshulam Riklis
obituary.
Butterfly.
The Lonely Lady.
Black Christmas.
The Happy Tree awakens…
Captain Newfoundland. [And an
update.]
A mashup.
Darlene Love: Christmas (Baby Please Come
Home).
The Cryptkeeper: Have Yourself a Scary Little
Christmas.
Our episode on The Starfighters.
Road House.
Rifftrax does Road House
[twice].
Kevin Smith does Road House.
Jeff Healey: Angel Eyes.
Rip Taylor obituary.
Kids in the Hall: Chalet 2000.
Rip Torn obituary.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon to make
our spirits bright. (And to hear a bonus bit from this episode!)
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December 13, 2019 60. Going On and Going Nowhere. [MST3K 515. The Wild Wild World of Batwoman.]
What’s this?! The Wild Wild World of Batwoman has forced our heroes, Chris
and Adam, to dance the Batusi? Can our heroes find enough topics to distract
it so they can make an escape? Tune in as they discuss the real Batman,
another Batwoman, disappointing Draculas, a not-quite Hercules, and ho-hum
Days.
With the short: Cheating.
Show Notes.
The Wild Wild World of Batwoman:
IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
Cheating: IMDB.
UnMSTed.
Our episode on The Crawling Hand, but on
YouTube.
Kedi, that documentary about
cats in Istanbul.
La Mujer Murciélago [1968].
Batman: The Movie [1966].
Katherine Victor.
Andy Warhol
filmography.
Dracula.
John Giorno obituary.
Creepshow.
Batman Dracula [1964].
Jerry Warren.
Frankenhooker.
That Jerry Warren DVD collection.
Frankenstein Island.
Our episode on The Mole People.
Bruno VeSota.
Herk Harvey.
Carnival of Souls.
Chris’s long and boring story,
in one link.
Dennis Day.
If you want to try out The Jack Benny
Program, the podcast This Day in
Jack Benny republishes some of the best episodes,
and provides context and annotations.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and
your stockings will be filled with bonus bits!
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November 28, 2019 59. I Am Thinking: Oh No. [MST3K 508. Operation Double 007.]
Operation Double 007 , a.k.a. Operation Kid Brother, reads Chris and
Adam’s lips as they discuss James Bond, Moneypenny, M, Ennio Morricone, and
Jessye Norman. Happy Turkey Day!
Show Notes.
Operation Double 007: IMDb. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
Our episode on The Last Chase.
Yes, there will be a Turkey Day Marathon this
year.
And yes, Netflix has decided not to host another season of
MST3K.
The Bond villain who is thought to be a “latent homosexual” because of his
inability to whistle is Francisco
Scaramanga in The Man
with the Golden Gun.
Chris’s other podcast, The Spouter-Inn, just released on episode on Roald
Dahl’s book Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory.
Uncle John’s Absolutely Absorbing Bathroom Reader, 12th
edition.
Mad Mission 3: Our Man from Bond Street
[trailer].
Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
[trailer].
Our episodes on Gamera: KTMA and
Season 3.
Our episode on The Pumaman.
Christy’s The Man for Me in
English and
Italian.
We discussed John Barry in our episode on
Starcrash.
Jessye Norman:
obituary.
Jessye Norman sings “When I am Laid in
Earth”.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and
listen to some bonus bits that didn't quite make this episode!
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November 11, 2019 58b. He, Too, Has Legs. [MST3K Live! The Great Cheesy Movie Circus Tour, featuring Circus of Horrors and No Retreat, No Surrender.]
In this very special episode, Chris tells Adam all about going to see MST3K
Live ! The Great Cheesy Movie Circus Tour.
Spoilers abound, so if you are hoping to see the live shows (which you
should!) you might want to save this one for later? But you’ll still get to
hear them talk about Circus of Horrors (in which some Pleasence is better
than none) and everyone’s favourite movie about a kid who’s good at karate,
No Retreat, No Surrender!
Show Notes.
MST3K Live! The tour continues until March. March!
Circus of Horrors: IMDb.
Trailer.
No Retreat, No Surrender: IMDb.
Trailer.
Rifftrax.
Chris mentioned seeing the tour in our episode on Alien from
L.A.
Thanks as always to our Patreon
supporters.
The Freakmaker: IMDb.
Trailer.
Those Netflix puppeteers are Grant
Baciocco and Russ
Walko.
Miami Connection: IMDb.
Trailer.
Rifftrax.
Over the Top: IMDb.
Trailer.
Rifftrax.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon if you
want to and if you can. Thanks.
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October 25, 2019 58. Black Licorice and Cloves. [MST3K 106. The Crawling Hand.]
The Crawling Hand creeps up on all fours towards Adam and Chris as they
discuss dead astronauts, dismembered hands, emotional actors, verbal birds,
and painful cereals.
Show Notes.
The Crawling Hand: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
Rifftrax did The Apple, but it’s
unavailable.
Just watch The Apple unriffed.
Jim Vorel’s ranking of all the episodes (now with the Netflix
episodes).
Our episode on Hamlet.
List of spaceflight-related accidents and
incidents.
The Quatermass Xperiment.
We discussed Quatermass in our episode on Rocketship
X-M [which is also about astronauts
dying].
Brian Donlevy.
IMDB’s Most Popular Disembodied Hand Movies and TV
Shows.
Evil Dead 2.
The Hand.
Rod Lauren is not James Dean.
Rod Lauren: If I Had a Girl.
The Crawling Hand’s
poster.
The Rivingtons: The Bird’s the
Word.
The Rivingtons: Papa-Oom-Wow-Wow.
The Trashmen: Surfing Bird.
Clarendon.
MST3K Wiki on Dale.
An ad about Dale and Grape-Nuts.
On Grape-Nuts ice cream.
Our previous Halloween episodes on Zombie
Nightmare and The Incredible
Melting Man.
Adam’s podcast about Canadian horror films, A Part Of Our Scare-itage.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and
hear a bonus bit about Adam’s Halloween costume.
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October 05, 2019 57. You Can Afford Donald Pleasence. [MST3K 516. Alien from L.A.]
Alien from L.A. tries to sell big-boned surface-dwellers Beth and Adam as
they talk about Donald “It’s my birthday!” Pleasence, Kathy “Three
syllables???" Ireland, Angela “I’d give anything to see my dad again”
Pleasence, Menahem “I once worked with Donald Pleasence” Golan, and Yoram “I
also worked with Donald Pleasence” Globus.
Show Notes.
Alien from L.A.: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer. Watch on
YouTube!
Helicopter meets car.
Donald Henry Pleasence, b. 5
October 1919.
Previous Donald Pleasence Day episodes: Warrior of the Lost
World and The
Pumaman.
MST3K Live with the Great Cheesy Movie Circus Tour!
Trailers for No Retreat, No
Surrender and Circus of
Horrors.
Kathy Ireland on Phil Donohue talking in her normal voice, the same year as
Alien from
L.A.
Kathy Ireland gave a talk to Google about her entrepreneurial
success.
This American Life on vocal fry.
Jules Verne: Journey to the Center of the Earth.
[Doesn’t seem to explain “big-boned”.]
We discussed Cannon on our episode
of Outlaw.
Some documentaries about the Go-Go Boys:
The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon
Films.
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon
Films.
Death Wish II and Death Wish
3.
The Apple.
Lambada vs. The Forbidden
Dance.
Hanna’s War.
Journey to the Center of the
Earth.
Deep Roy [IMDB.]
Jerry Goldsmith: Patton theme.
Where’s the Beef?
Producer Chris talks about The Tempest
on his literary podcast, The Spouter-Inn.
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn.
Home Alone 3.
Some bands and songs mentioned in this episode: Ian Anderson/Jethro Tull. Dion
[Abraham, Martin and John]. Devo. Ray Stevens. Tom Waits. Debbie
Harry/Blondie. Wendy & Lisa/Prince. The Beatles [A Day in the Life]. Exene
Cervenka/X. Vanity. Nelson. Edgar Winter. Boy George. Murray Head [One Night
in Bangkok]. Billy Ray Cyrus [Achy Breaky Heart]. Tina Turner. Lipps, Inc.
[Funkytown]. Pink Floyd. The Who. Rush. Pete Townsend. Paul Westerberg/The
Replacements. Bette Midler [Wind Beneath My Wings]. King Creole. Boots
Randolph [Yakity Sax]. Spinal Tap. Michael Sembello [Maniac].
Namu Myoho Renge
Kyo.
Tina Turner chants.
Yoko Ono: [Namyohorengekyo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9wldR4G58U "Yoko
Ono - Namyohorengekyo").
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club
Band.
Bonus.
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September 20, 2019 56. Turn Up the Oil. [MST3K K20. The Last Chase.]
Beth is missing—so Adam and Chris are on The Last Chase , dodging public
transit, six-million-dollar men, evil penguins, the music of Mars, and twenty-year-old cans of Coke.
Show Notes.
The Last Chase: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
Our episodes on Wizards of the Lost
Kingdom and its
sequel, as well as Warrior of the
Lost World.
Riffing Myself.
Joan Rivers’s
catalogue.
Legionnaires’ disease.
The first article about what would later be known as
AIDS.
Ho-ho-hold the payments with Harvey
Atkin!
Mama Luigi reanimated.
The Six Million Dollar Man’s pilot.
Burgess Meredith’s dolphin story is on his IMDB
page.
Black Christmas trailers: 1974.
2006.
2019.
The Clown Murders [IMDB].
The origin of the Cheap Trick logo [PDF].
A history of cold fusion.
Peach Blow Fizz.
Gil Mellé: Mars.
We talk about John Berry on our
Starcrash episode.
A different Gil: Whitey on the
Moon.
Gil Mellé’s Percussotron.
Kolchak: The Night Stalker opening
credits.
Gil Mellé: Mindscape.
The Cola Wars.
Listen to the sounds of the car.
Bonus.
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you can hear a bonus bit about old sodas.
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September 02, 2019 55. The Ultimate Boomer. [MST3K 1108. The Loves of Hercules.]
Happy Labour Day! Adam and Beth celebrate the original dodecalabourer by
exploring The Loves of Hercules —including Jayne Mansfield, Loni Anderson,
old smurfs, marble columns, and Eddie Vedder.
Show Notes.
The Loves of Hercules: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
Join Producer Chris at the MST3K Live
shows in Brooklyn on Sept. 19 and 20.
A Part Of Our Scare-itage has been
tackling the Prom Night
movies.
The leaked list of season 11 episodes.
Manos HD.
You Must Remember This on Jayne
Mansfield.
Paul McCartney said his unkind remarks about Jayne Mansfield in a Playboy
Interview.
The Jayne Mansfield–Sophia Loren photo has its own Wikipedia
entry.
It was a journalist who was “friends with the Beatles” who reported the story
of the cocktail.
Jayne Mansfield and the Church of
Satan.
Mansfield 66/67 [trailer].
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
[trailer].
The Jayne Mansfield Story
[original broadcast].
Our episodes on Hercules against the Moon
Men and Hercules
Unchained.
Plutarch’s
Erotikos
[a.k.a. Amatorius/Dialogue on Love].
Totò.
Moira Orfei.
Achiloo.
Hercules Goes Bananas [a.k.a.
Hercules in New York] [trailer].
The Devil within Her [trailer].
Hercules vs. the Hydra.
The image Beth shares.
The New Yorker article on white
statues.
A theoretically painted Parthenon.
Bonus.
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August 24, 2019 54. Thoughts about Stucco. [MST3K 1203. Lords of the Deep.]
Lords of the Deep sinks Adam and Beth’s hopes at completely overcoming
their Summer of Technical Difficulties. On this episode, we encounter undersea
aliens, Roger Constantius Corman, Three’s Company, Fantastic Voyages, and
kombucha cocktails.
Show Notes.
Lords of the Deep: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer. On
Netflix.
The Abyss [trailer].
DeepStar Six [trailer].
Leviathan [trailer].
That scene from The Abyss.
Radiohead: No Surprises.
The Undersea Movies of the Late
1980s.
The Evil Below.
The Rift [a.k.a. Endless
Descent] [trailer].
Chris on The Spouter-Inn talking about the
water/ocean in
literature.
A nice listicle about Roger Jeroboam
Corman.
Roger Corman
filmography.
Our episode on It Conquered the World.
Mary Ann Fisher.
Our episode on Starcrash.
Robert and Dennis Skotak.
Priscilla Barnes.
Daryl Haney.
Innerspace [trailer].
Isaac Asimov: Fantastic Voyage and Fantastic
Voyage II.
Doctor Who credits: Jon Pertwee
and Tom Baker.
Magic Johnson’s top 60 TV
shows.
If you want to know more about PAL, NTSC, and friends, you probably already
know about this YouTuber.
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
[trailer].
The Cremaster Cycle [trailer].
On Björk’s Vulnicura.
Make kombucha with Brad.
An excellent bar in Austin, Texas.
Placenta recipes on The Katering
Show!
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and
hear a bonus bit about jazz!
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