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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The podcast currently has 220 episodes available.

It’s Just A Show episodes:

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.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon
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
March 18, 2019 47. Let’s Start Again and Do It Right This Time. [MST3K 1103. The Time Travelers.]
The Time Travelers walk through a time screen to time Beth and Adam as
they talk about cuddle parties, pink androids, not-quite-mutants, mangled
endings, and other purgatories.
Show Notes.
The Time Travelers: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer. Watch on
Netflix.
The American Champion
Citabria.
Time Chasers on Rifftrax.
Space: 1999: Dragon’s
Domain.
We have previous discussed
Reptilicus [and Dirch Passer].
Ib Melchior obituary.
Death Race 2000 [trailer].
About The Volcano
Monsters.
Lost in Space [trailer].
Peter Strudwick [IMDB].
His book Come Run with Me.
Being Different [trailer].
Irwin Allen’s Time Travelers [IMDB].
Journey to the Center of Time [IMDB].
Vilmos Zsigmond.
An inscrutable clip of Chatsworth Osbourne Jr on The Many Loves of Dobie
Gillis.
Forrest J. Ackerman.
Esquivel!
Zippy the Pinhead.
Dante’s Purgatory [vs. the
Christian notion of Purgatory].
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon
and you can hear a bonus bit with allegedly happy futures.
...more
1h
March 02, 2019 46. Nothing Really Changes. [MST3K 821. Time Chasers.]
Time Chasers will follow Beth and Adam anywhere, anywhen, in order to hear
them talk about ancient aliens, altered timelines, alternative transportation,
altercations on the high seas, and beautiful Vermont.
Show Notes.
Time Chasers: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
Snap Judgment on Heaven’s
Gate.
Chariots of the Gods.
In Search of Ancient Astronauts.
We also talk about ancient aliens in our episode on The
Pumaman.
The 10 best things to do in Rutland,
Vermont.
Traders or Street
Legal.
Minute Physics on Time Travel in
Fiction.
How Venus and Uranus spin.
Behind the scenes of Time
Chasers.
Promo featurette from Edgewood
Studios.
Diamond Run [trailer].
Pressure Point [trailer].
Icebreaker [trailer].
Illegal Aliens [trailer].
Addicted to Fame [trailer].
Castleton
t-shirt.
WorldFest–Houston International Film Festival.
Bonnie Pritchard [IMDB].
Space lollies!
Puppet on a Chain [trailer].
Commodore 1541.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon
and you can hear a bonus bit with more about time travel.
...more
1h
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
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