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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August 07, 2019 53c. Muddy and Filthy. [2nd Annual Summer Blockbuster Review.]
Our Summer of Technical Difficulties hopefully comes to an end with the final
movie speical, the 2nd Annual Summer Blockbuster Review! Do the summer
hits of 1998 hold up twenty-one years later? Only Beth and Adam are allowed to
decide.
Show Notes.
The 2nd Annual Summer Blockbuster
Review on
the MST3K Wiki.
The X-Files: Fight the Future
[trailer].
Ever After [trailer].
Halloween H20 [trailer].
The Truman Show [trailer].
Truman
Syndrome.
Pi [trailer].
That scene from Requiem for a
Dream.
Saving Private Ryan [trailer].
Small Soldiers [trailer].
Godzilla [trailer].
A while back we watched the original
Godzilla.
Deep Impact [trailer].
Armageddon [trailer].
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join us on our members-only Slack!
...more
42min
July 22, 2019 53b. Cockroaches and Spiders. [Academy of Robots’ Choice Awards Special.]
Our Summer of Technical Difficulties continues with a look at the Academy of
Robots’ Choice Awards Special! Mike and the Bots once again preview the
Oscars. Do their hot takes hold up? Do the Academy’s? Beth and Adam make the
final judgment about the prestige pieces of 1997.
Show Notes.
Academy of Robots’ Choice
Awards
on the MST3K Wiki.
Our look at the MST3K Little Gold Statue Preview
Special from a few years earlier.
Mrs. Brown [trailer].
The Wings of a Dove [trailer].
The Favourite [trailer].
Titanic [trailer].
Good Will Hunting [trailer].
Boogie Nights [trailer].
Amistad [trailer].
Starship Troopers [trailer].
Starship Troopers: One of the Most Misunderstood Movies
Ever.
The Full Monty [trailer].
Anastasia [trailer].
Face/Off [trailer].
Darkman [trailer].
We discussed speedboat chases in our episode on Time
Chasers
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life
[trailer].
Con Air [trailer].
Gattaca [trailer].
Jackie Brown [trailer].
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28min
July 01, 2019 53. The Snaggletoothed Frodo. [MST3K 910. The Final Sacrifice.]
Happy Canada Day! The Final Sacrifice is on the hunt for Beth and Adam, so
they explore the Great White North talking about Jon Mikl Thor, The Red Green
Show, Ed the Sock, Mike Myers, and other milestones in Canadian culture.
Show Notes.
The Final Sacrifice: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Before you write in, Canada Day
celebrates the Constitution Act of 1867 which joined a few colonies into
Canada.
The Heritage Minute on the name
Canada.
A Part of Our Scare-itage on The
Mask.
Jon Mikl Thor, star of Zombie
Nightmare, also made Rock ’n‘ Roll
Nightmare.
Due South.
The Red Green Show.
We discuss Cyril Sneer in our
episode about Mac and Me.
Burton Cummings’s band The Guess Who: These
Eyes.
Stompin’ Tom Connors: Canada Day Up Canada
Way.
A short history of the mullet.
Ed the Sock.
Ed the Sock’s website, and his more promising
Twitter.
MuchMusic.
Sass Jordan: So Hard.
We discuss Warren Grog on our
episode about Gamera vs. Barugon
[302].
Ed’s Night Party.
Ed the Sock on Jian Ghomeshi.
Freddy Got Fingered [trailer].
Ben Mulroney.
VHS box art for The Final
Sacrifice.
Hanna [trailer].
Larry Csonka.
The Mod Squad.
Stevie Nicks and Chris Isaak: Red River
Valley.
Johnny Cash: Please Don’t Play Red River
Valley.
Mary Jo Pehl on The Final
Sacrifice.
Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island.
H. Rider Haggard: King Solomon’s Mines and
She.
Some smart phones.
Bonus.
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57min
June 20, 2019 52b. Death and Longing. [The 1st Annual Summer Blockbuster Review.]
Our Summer of Technical Difficulties continues with a look at The 1st Annual
Summer Blockbuster Review! Mike and the Bots had their turn talking about
the biggest movies of 1997, so why not Adam and Beth? They reminisce about The
Fifth Element, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Men in Black, Contact, Batman &
Robin, and more!
Show Notes.
The 1st Annual Summer Blockbuster
Review on
the MST3K Wiki.
Our look at the MST3K Little Gold Statue Preview
Special.
The Fifth Element [trailer].
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
[trailer].
Jurassic Park stop motion
tests.
Men in Black [trailer].
Wild Wild West [trailer].
Contact [trailer].
Batman & Robin [trailer].
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37min
June 12, 2019 52. Amoral Philosophy. [MST3K 519. Outlaw.]
Outlaw [of Gor] shows a lot of flesh in the hopes that Beth and Adam will
visit its planet with tales of dubious philosophers, stunt directors, call-girl rackets, one-handed push-ups, and disgusting worms!
Show Notes.
Outlaw: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Watch.
Heinz: Just Like Eddie.
The Tornados: Telstar.
The Ska-Dows: Telstar.
Support us on Patreon and hang out with us
in the Megaphonic Slack.
Robbie Rist.
Gor links [reader discretion advised]:
Something Awful: I Swear to Gor.
Gor’s publication history.
An interview with John Norman.
John Norman: Outlaw of Gor. [Maybe don’t buy this.]
Houseplants of Gor. [Do
read this.]
Gor [the original movie].
John “Bud” Cardos.
Our episode on The Day Time Ended.
Kingdom of the Spiders
[trailer].
Deadwood ’76 [trailer].
Our episode on Eegah!.
Hells Angels on Wheels
[trailer].
The Female Bunch [trailer].
The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon
Films [trailer].
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon
Films [trailer].
Harry Alan Towers.
Urbano Barberini et cetera et cetera…
Mike Hammer.
The Dingaling Sisters.
The Firesign Theatre: Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the
Pliers.
Jack Palance’s Oscar speech.
Tango and Cash [trailer].
Shane [trailer].
Alone in the Dark [trailer].
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and you
can join us in our members-only Slack and also hear a bonus bit about Fabio!
...more
56min
May 28, 2019 51b. Sentimentality and Familiarity. [MST3K Little Gold Statue Preview Special.]
Beth and Adam are experiencing a Summer of Technical Difficulties, so they’ve
lined up some Very Special Special Specials! First up is the MST3K Little
Gold Statue Preview Special , a rundown of all the great Academy
Award–nominated films of 1994—including gems like Small
Soldiers and
Junior!
Show Notes.
MST3K Little Gold Statue Preview Special: MST3K
Wiki.
A sample of curiously digitized Betamax
footage.
We spoke about VHS vs. Beta in the members-only bonus
bit for our episode
on The Day Time Ended.
So many trailers:
The Shawshank Redemption.
Forrest Gump.
Pulp Fiction.
The Lion King.
Four Weddings and a Funeral.
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the
Desert.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Hoop Dreams.
On Hoop Dreams: Celebrating the anniversary of an Oscar
snub.
Little Women.
Blue Sky.
Nell.
Ed Wood.
Martin Landau PSA.
Heavenly Creatures.
Queen Margot.
Tom and Viv.
Elton John: Can You Feel the Love
Tonight?
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29min
May 13, 2019 51. Wet-behind-the-ears-ness. [MST3K 112. Untamed Youth.]
Untamed Youth finds Beth and Adam guilty of loitering with Mamie van
Doren, Eddie Cochran, Lurene Tuttle, Les Baxter, and Greg Brady.
Show Notes.
Untamed Youth: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer. Watch on
ShoutFactoryTV.
It’s Just A Show finally has some merch! Buy
it, buy it all!
Curtis the Dinoplant was first mentioned in our episode on Future
War.
Mamie Van Doren on Twitter.
There’s a great interview with MVD on the ShoutFactory
DVD of this episode.
We also raved about Mamie’s appearance in Girls
Town.
A sampler of the interview with
Joel on the DVD release.
Some links about
prison and
migrant
labour in the
United
States.
Weird-ass
tractors.
Nothing But Trouble [trailer].
The New York Times review of Untamed
Youth.
Eddie Cochran: Summertime Blues
and Somethin’ Else.
Bong apparently didn’t mean bong yet
when this movie was made.
Eddie Cochran: Three Stars,
about Richie Valens, Buddy Holly, and the Big Bopper.
[Cochran didn’t write that song, though; Tommy
Dee did.]
Gorezone.
Howard W. Koch receives an
award.
Frankenstein 1970 [trailer].
Border Incident [trailer].
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
[trailer].
Nominate someone for the Nobel Peace
Prize.
Du Quoin, Illinois.
Sulky races.
The Italian Cut.
Les Baxter: Busy Port, from
Ritual of the Savage.
Les Baxter: Clair de Lune, from
Moog Rock.
Yma Sumac: Xtabay (Lure of the Unknown
Love).
TVTropes on Cousin
Oliver.
On The Brady Bunch Hour.
Car phones.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon
and you can hear a bonus bit about zines.
...more
58min
April 29, 2019 50. Horror, Punishment, Redemption. [MST3K 610. The Violent Years.]
The Violent Years celebrates our fiftieth (!) episode by treating Beth and
Adam to some Ed Wood, old-timey titillation, new country, squishy electronics,
and uncanny dummies.
Includes a short: Young Man’s Fancy!
Content warning: This episode contains a discussion of the sexual violence
in the movie, especially from about 20:00 to 35:00 (until the Shallow 13). If
your podcast app supports chapters, it’s easy to skip over that segment if
you’re not up for it.
Show Notes.
The Violent Years: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
UnMSTed.
Trailer. New
trailer.
Young Man’s Fancy: IMDB.
UnMSTed.
Check out A Part Of Our Scare-itage, Adam’s
other podcast, about the wild wild world of Canadian horror films!
Ed Wood.
Not the worst filmmaker ever.
Although we haven’t done any MSTed Ed Wood movies before, we did talk about
Jail Bait in our episode on Hercules
Unchained.
Ed Wood [the Tim Burton film]
[trailer].
Orgy of the Dead [trailer].
TV Tropes’ page on female-on-male sexual
assault
lists other examples.
Belle de Jour [trailer].
Michael Terr [IMDB].
Jean Moorehead in Playboy Magazine [reasonably SFW.]
RKO logos.
A Star Is Born [1976]
[trailer].
Jack Benny and Mel Blanc.
O Fortuna.
BOB 100 FM ad.
Nancy Walker: I Hate Men.
Crispin Hellion Glover: These Boots Are Made for
Walking.
Frank FM.
Our episode on Girls Town.
A ton of Jam Handy
shorts
can be watched thanks to the Prelinger
Archives.
A Great New Star.
Jimmy Nelson.
A Nestlé ad.
Update: Farfel did return in more recent
ads.
The demonic origins of
ventriloquism.
The Independent article on
ventriloquism.
The 10 creepiest ventriloquist dummies of all
time.
A Part Of Our Scare-itage on Pin.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon
and you can hear a bonus bit about Ed Wood and porn (but maybe not how you
think).
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59min
April 15, 2019 49. You Get Concussions. [MST3K 616. Racket Girls.]
Racket Girls ogles Adam and Beth as they wrestle over favourite episodes,
stock footage auteurs, foxy boxing, Lisa Loeb, and so many Stooges.
Includes a short: Are You Ready for Marriage?
Show Notes.
Racket Girls: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer. Watch for free on
ShoutFactorytv.com!
Are You Ready for Marriage?: IMDB.
UnMSTed.
Our first anniversary special.
Check out our episode guide for
any episodes you’ve missed!
And thank you for everyone who answered our survey!
George Weiss.
Test Tube Babies.
Update: The early history of “test-tube
babies”.
Weiss’s Umberto Scalli trilogy: The Devil’s
Sleep. Racket
Girls. Dance Hall
Racket.
George Weiss’s filmography.
Some documentation on
Clara
Mortensen—there’s a lot less on Rita Martínez or Peaches Page.
What is foxy boxing?
That 1937 news article about Clara v.
Rita.
Rhonda Rousey.
GLOW.
The Eiger Sanction [trailer].
Estes Kefauver and the Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in
Interstate
Commerce.
Lisa Loeb: Stay.
Lisa Loeb posted the MST3K
clip!
A history of The Three
Stooges.
The final years of Curly.
How to mark cards and load dice.
Bonus.
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and you can hear a bonus bit with more tales of Clara v. Rita!
...more
57min
March 29, 2019 48. The Cleanliness and Tightness. [MST3K 510. The Painted Hills.]
The Painted Hills moderates as Beth and Adam debate about good dogs, messy
dogs, gold logs, backwards gods, and the need for clean.
Includes a short: Body Care and Grooming.
Show Notes.
The Painted Hills: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer. Watch on
YouTube.
Body Care and Grooming: IMDB.
(EDIT: There used to be a link to the survey here, but that was long ago.)
Lassie and
Pal.
We talk about The Littlest Hobo more in our episode on The Girl in Lovers
Lane.
Dog House.
An overview of the California Gold
Rush.
The New Zealand Evangelist on gold
fever.
Harold S. Diehl: A Textbook for Healthful Living.
Human Growth.
Pal’s Gallant Journey.
Paul Kelly, Dorothy McKaye, and Ray
Raymond.
Chief Yowlachie.
Little Brown Jug.
True Boardman.
Wilbur Mills and Fanne Foxe.
Oh! Heavenly Dog [trailer].
A collection of famous backmasked songs.
Mark Mothersbaugh: “We smell
sausage.”
On Disney’s “subliminal messages”.
Backwards Masking: Unmasked.
The Late Shift and its sequel, The War for Late
Night.
John Oliver on Jay Leno.
The Comedians.
The Art of Manliness on vintage educational
films.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon
and you can hear a bonus bit with more tales of gold!
...more
57min

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