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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February 12, 2019 45. The Rise of Geodesic Domes. [MST3K 1204. The Day Time Ended.]
The Day Time Ended quietly turns on the light for Beth and Adam so they
can talk about 1970s sci-fi, 1970s patriarchs, 1970s Bands, 1970s couches, and
1880s pizza.
Show Notes.
The Day Time Ended: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
Megaphonic on Instagram.
Grant Baciocco on Instagram.
Adam guests on The Fiasco Brothers Watch a Movie 36. The Brother from Another
Planet…
…and on Trash Canon 4. Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond
Cyberspace.
Sofia Coppola’s finest moment.
We discussed Steven Spielberg with Mac and
Me.
Famous Monsters of Filmland
161 interviewed the special effects crew.
The Odyssey of Flight
33.
An overview of Charles Band’s
career.
Dracula’s Dog [trailer].
Trancers [trailer].
The Projection Booth
375
ends with an interview with Bryan Yuzna about suing Band.
The Day Time Ended
soundtrack,
by Richard Band.
Million Monkey Theater on The Day Time
Ended.
“You disgusting worm!”
Love is…
Some
articles on 1970s interior
design.
Grizzly Man [trailer].
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon
and you can hear a bonus bit about Betamax!
...more
1h
January 22, 2019 44. So Much Running and Falling Down. [MST3K K10. Cosmic Princess.]
Cosmic Princess tries to make one host by editing together Beth and Adam,
who report on the thirtieth anniversary of this MST3K episode, the thirtieth
anniversary of Super Bowl XXIII, the twentieth anniversary of Space: 1999, the
twentieth anniversary of Brian Blessed appearing in a Star War, and the zeroth
anniversary of this episode of It’s Just A Show.
Show Notes.
Cosmic Princess: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
The original “Godzilla” noises from episode 302
Gamera.
Diet Pepsi.
Super Bowl XIII.
The other KTMA episodes we’ve watched:
Gamera, Gamera vs.
Barugon, Time of the
Apes.
The first episode of Late Night with Conan
O’Brien.
Watch Space: 1999 on
ShoutFactoryTV.
This “movie” consists of The
Metamorph and Space
Warp [with a few tweaks].
David “Darth Vader” Prowse on Space:
1999.
Elvis Presto and friends.
Space: 1899.
The original Swamp Thing theme.
The revised Swamp Thing theme.
Queen’s Flash Gordon theme.
Indulge yourself: Brian
Blessed! Brian
Blessed! Brian
Blessed! Brian
Blessed!
Derek Wadsworth [series 2] vs.
Barry Gray [series 1].
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon
and you can hear a bonus bit about improv. [And help us make our show!]
...more
1h
January 10, 2019 43. Turtle Frolics. [MST3K 302. Gamera.]
Happy Gamuary! The original Gamera emerges to listen to Beth and Adam
explain all about turtle pets, turtle food, turtle myths, turtle fanciers, and
a quartet of adolescent turtle warriors.
Show Notes.
Gamera: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer [JP].
Producer Chris will be at PodCon 2. Drop us a line
if you’ll be there too!
Last Gamuary, we covered Gamera vs.
Barugon (and the KTMA
version).
Turtles as pets?
Tortoises are better.
QI on the giant tortoise.
On Turtle soup.
More about turtle soup.
Mock turtle soup.
Cudley the Cowlick.
Testudinal creation myths.
Julia Child’s massive lobster.
Lobsters do not actually live forever.
Turtle Island.
Japanese turtle myths.
The novel Beth mentions, with the turtle and the carpet, is Joris-Karl
Huysmans’s Against the Grain.
The Four Leaves: Epitaph.
Enver Altenbay.
Tadashi Yamauchi.
ちび.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon
and you can hear a bonus bit about Jim “Ernest Goes To _____” Varney.
...more
1h
December 22, 2018 42. The Original Rodney Dangerfield. [MST3K K05. Gamera.]
Gamuary in December‽ It’s a Christmas miracle, as Gamera flies in with
presents for Beth and Adam, who get festive with coke ads, rat kings, world
peace, excessive colours, and Christmas trees.
Show Notes.
Gamera: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer [JP].
IJAS on YouTube.
Coca-Cola advertising slogans.
Ridley Scott’s Max Hedroom Coke
ad.
Things Go Better with Coke.
The Who: Coke 2.
Last Gamuary: IJAS on Gamera vs. Barugon, season
3 and
KTMA versions.
Samples from YTV PJs.
Interview with Josh and Joel about the KTMA
era.
Beth, Adam, and Chris talked about the original Godzilla on The Scene Of The
Scene.
Canadian Model United Nations.
Gammera the Invincible
[trailer].
The Moons: Gamera.
Space Monster Gamera.
No Tickee No Washee.
No Tickee No Shirtee.
Punky Brewster.
Roger Ebert on
colorization.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
[clip].
A recent defence of
colorization.
The history of the Christmas
tree.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon
and you can hear a bonus bit with some extra bits from this episode, including
Adam’s dramatic Gameronologue.
...more
1h
December 03, 2018 41. The Best America Has to Offer. [MST3K 1201. Mac and Me.]
Mac and Me will drill holes into Beth and Adam’s living rooms if they
don’t talk about product placement, Coca-Cola™, America™, McDonald’s™, and
Steven Spielberg™.
Show Notes.
Mac and Me: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer. Watch on
Netflix.
TV Tropes on It’s Just A
Show.
Tipperary on The Mary Tyler Moore
Show.
Paul Rudd on Conan.
An overview of how Mac and Me got
made.
Examples of product placement in
movies.
Just after we recorded this episode, Lindsay Ellis put out a very interesting
video essay about product
placement which touches on
MST3K, E.T., and Wayne’s World.
Alan Silvestri.
The soundtrack to Mac and
Me.
Includes Jara Lane: You're not a Stranger
Anymore and Bobby Caldwell:
Take Me I’ll Follow.
Or buy it off Amazon, currently for $679. Maybe
Adam should sell his copy?
Earle Hagen: Scoring for Films.
On Mr. Freezes.
Nell [trailer].
Meatballs Part II [clip].
Boots Randolphs: Yakety Sax.
Chet Atkins: Yakety Axe.
Glen Campbell: Yakety Sax.
André Rieu: Yakety Sax.
Breakin’ [trailer].
Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo
[trailer].
Rappin’ [trailer].
Cadbury gorilla.
Howie Scream for 12 Hours.
George “Buck” Flower.
The “Eric gets shot” ending.
McDonaldland.
The story of the raccoon stealing Adam’s chocolates was told in our episode
on Cry Wilderness.
Cyril Sneer of The
Raccoons.
E.T.: The Extraterrestrial
[trailer].
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon
and you can hear a bonus bit with more about Adam and Beth’s adventures in
McDonaldland.
...more
1h
November 21, 2018 40. Grandfather Clocks in Drag. [MST3K 1114. At the Earth’s Core.]
At the Earth’s Core drills Beth and Adam about endurance tests,
mesmerizing actors, overwrought styles, long-lasting ideologies, and deep-seated commitments.
Show Notes.
At the Earth’s Core: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer. Watch on
Netflix.
Host segments from the 2018 Turkey Day marathon might show up on the official
MST3K YouTube channel.
Netflix’s MST3K: The Gauntlet (season 12)
trailer.
Jonathan “Dr.” Katz already had a podkatz.
Cesar Romero’s moustache in Batman.
A good write-up on Peter Cushing.
Cushing as The Doctor.
Cushing in Nineteen Eighty-four.
Amicus Productions.
We describe zoptics in our episode on The
Pumaman.
A Part Of Our Scare-itage 1. The Uncanny.
The Monster Club [trailer].
The Lawnmower Man [trailer].
A history of steampunk.
Mervyn Peake.
The Time Machine (1960)
[trailer].
Time After Time [trailer].
Friends of the show The Fiasco Brothers discuss Time After Time on Dial T for
Fiasco 33.
Clockwork Droids in Doctor Who.
Tarzana v. Tarzan.
Rhamphorhyncus.
Dire Wolves.
Scrooge McDuck.
TaterSalad.com.
H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines.
Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World.
H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine.
Edgar Rice Burroughs’s At The Earth’s Core.
H. Rider Haggard’s She.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon
and you can hear a bonus bit with more about Beth’s wedding.
...more
57min
November 12, 2018 39. Go Big or Go Home. [MST3K: The Movie, featuring This Island Earth.]
This Island Earth rams its ovipositor down Beth and Adam’s throats (but
it’s not an alien!) during an awkward dinner party exchange about
interocitors, interfering studios, interplanetary strife, interloping cats,
and international space research.
Show Notes.
This Island Earth: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
The Shout! Factory MST3K: The Movie Blu-Ray/DVD is
great.
Adam’s new Canadian horror movie podcast, A Part Of Our Scare-itage.
Adam on This Is Your Mixtape! [Finally
joining Beth and Producer
Chris.]
ParaNorman [trailer] [but not
the one Adam describes].
The Dana Gould Hour: Phantom of the
Halloweenery.
Chris’s original t-shirt looked like this
one.
Barb Wire [trailer].
London Has Fallen [trailer].
Siskel & Ebert’s review.
Forbidden Planet [trailer].
Our episodes on the season 8 Universal Monster movies: Revenge of the
Creature; The Leech
Woman; The Mole
People; The Deadly
Mantis.
The Comedy of Terrors
[trailer].
Rhubarb [clip].
The PATSY Awards.
John McCormack: It’s a Long Way to
Tipperary [1914].
Snoopy’s World War One fantasies often include the
song.
Vince Guaraldi: It’s a Long Way to
Tipperary.
More on It’s a Long Way to
Tipperary.
Highlights of the Hubble’s exploration of the
universe [NASA].
One astronaut who nearly broke the
Hubble.
The Canadarm.
The current Canadian $5 note.
Raymond F. Jones: This Island Earth [the novel].
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon
and you can hear a bonus bit with more on This Island Earth, the novel.
...more
59min
October 29, 2018 38. A Pizza Being Made in Real Time. [MST3K 704. The Incredible Melting Man.]
The Incredible Melting Man keeps an eye out for Adam and Beth as they talk
about horror movies, horror comedies, horror effects, horrors in space, and
horror stories from Hollywood.
Have a spooky Halloween!
Show Notes.
The Incredible Melting Man: IMDB.
MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
Adam’s new podcast about Canadian horror films is A Part Of Our Scare-itage.
Axe Cop, Vol. 1.
Rob Zombie: Meet the Creeper.
Galaxina [trailer].
The Bad Movie Report.
Street Trash [trailer].
The interview with Rick Baker
for Japanese release.
Alex “A.J.” Rebar [IMDB].
Microscopic Liquid Subway to
Oblivion [opening credits].
The Fantastic Four’s origin
story.
Rob Bottin [IMDB].
Streaming Stars
[TV Tropes].
A video about how to make the star field
effect.
Octaman [clip].
LeRoy Neiman.
Dress up as the Melty Man for Halloween,
kids!
Saturn and its rings.
How solar flares could hurt
you.
More on solar
flares.
Mary Jo Pehl’s thoughts on the
episode.
Corman’s Fantastic
Four.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon
and you can listen to us learn a few more things while not quite talking about
The Incredible Melting Man.
...more
1h
October 16, 2018 37. Nothing Gets Away From Physics. [MST3K 107. Robot Monster.]
Robot Monster wants to be like the hu-man, to laugh like the hu-man. Will
Adam and Beth help? Or will they whisper about childhood dreams, rocket
backpacks, commie slander, déjà vu, and bumbling bees.
And some shorts: Radar Men from the Moon episodes 4 & 5!
Show Notes.
Robot Monster: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer. Watch on Shout
Factory TV.
Radar Men from the Moon: IMDB.
Be cool like devoted listener Chad and write us! Info at itsjustashow dot com.
We discussed monsters molesting women in our episode on Revenge of the
Creature…
…and this same footage of animal cruelty in King
Dinosaur.
Sky Captain and the World of
Tomorrow [trailer].
Red Letter Media on The
Rocketeer.
Searching for Phil Tucker’s Space
Jockey.
A short history of guys in gorilla suits in
movies.
Wyott Ordung as BB-Eyes in two episodes of Dick
Tracy.
The Navy vs. the Night Monsters
[trailer].
George Nader’s novel Chrome
[review].
[Clarification: Selena Royle co-founded the Actors Free Dinner Club during the
depression, which is different from the Hollywood Canteen, which was started
during World War 2.]
A book about women and the blacklist, including
Selena Royle.
Red Channels.
Adam’s Elmer Bernstein Sampler
Platter.
Our bubbly episode on Teenagers from Outer
Space.
The invention of the Whoopee
Cushion.
Space Cadet.
Robot Monster special edition wraparound
footage.
The Fifty Worst Films of All
Time. [The
list.] As discussed in our episode on
Eegah.
Robot Monster: The Musical.
Bees! How do they
bee?
Lawrence Welk with bubbles.
Anders Runestad: I Cannot, Yet I Must.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon
and you can hear a few more fun tidbits about Robot Monster (and bees).
...more
1h
October 02, 2018 36. Donald Pleasence is Always Hypnotic. [MST3K 903. The Pumaman.]
The Pumaman leaps awkwardly towards Beth and Adam, asking them to reveal
the truth about Donald Pleasence, anti-fascists, ancient aliens, dinky synth
tunes, and how to fly.
Show Notes.
The Pumaman: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
Beth on Thereby!
Season 12 premieres on Turkey Day!
October 5 is Donald Pleasence Day, which we celebrated last year by watching
Warrior of the Lost World.
The Willa Cather House.
Alberto De
Martino [obituary].
The Eagle Has Landed [trailer].
To the Edge of the World and Back: Tribute to Donald
Pleasence.
Did ancient aliens build the pyramids?
[No.]
Baghdad Battery.
Antikythera mechanism.
Sho Kosugi.
Renato Serio.
Bunga bunga parties.
Heavenly Bodies [trailer].
Home-brew Pumaman action figures.
The Dry Look.
Miguel Ángel Fuentes’s Facebook
group.
The key scene from The Evil That Men
Do. [Careful!]
Frankenstein’s Great Aunt
Tillie [trailer].
Zoran Perisic discussing the Zoptic process on Superman: The
Movie.
More about the Zoptic process.
Why did people wear powdered wigs?
Smelly Versailles.
ContraPoints.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon
and you can hear an extended bonus bit about, yes, Donald Pleasence.
...more
1h

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