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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July 11, 2018 31. Beverly Hills 9021Wizard. [MST3K 1110. Wizards of the Lost Kingdom.]
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom seeks out Beth and Adam for recycled clips,
recycled music, creepy seductions, kept crypts, and ambiguous colours.
Show Notes.
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom: IMDB.
MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer. Watch on
Netflix.
Adam, Beth, and Producer Chris discuss the original Godzilla on The Scene Of
The Scene.
Robert Forster.
Carnosaur.
Update: Though Deathstalker III is a New Classic production, WOTLK is from
Trinity Productions
[not New Horizons]. Still a Roger Corman company, though.
Sorceress. [WOTLK footage and the
James Horner score can be found in this NSFW
trailer.]
Christopher Young’s likes include Bela Lugosi and The
Beatles.
James Horner, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and
more.
The Blaster Beam.
Craig Huxley plays with his Blaster
Beam.
Adam Sandler and Susan Sarandon.
Labyrinth.
“Just fear me. Love me. Do as I say and I will be your
slave.”
MORTAL KOMBAT.
On the creation and legacy of Dragon’s Lair.
The Tales From The Crypt animated
series.
Secrets of the Crypt Keeper’s Haunted
House.
The Visit. Its
credits.
Disney’s Tiki
Room.
The failed Crypt reboot.
An article and a
whole book on mauve.
99 Percent Invisible on the Toronto
Raptors.
Infinite Jest.
You’re Not Funny often features Adam’s
Cryptkeeper love.
Bonus.
Some bonus bits, with more wizards, is available as a thank you to our
Patreon supporters.
...more
1h
June 27, 2018 30. Let’s Make It Work. [MST3K 703. Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell.]
Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell deathstalks Adam and Bethstalker
as they deathtalk about fonts, swords, sorcery, batches, and Ren Faires.
Huzzah!
Show Notes.
Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell:
IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
Season 12
news!
MST3K on tour! [Help Adam
go.]
The Brain.
Deathstalker.
A Men without Hats video.
Deathstalker II and Deathstalker IV:
Match of Titans.
Wikipedia’s list of sword and sorcery
films.
Satanic Pandemonium on sword and sorcery
films.
Conan Exiles and its
silders.
Batrachomyomachia.
Alien Nation.
Miguel Ángel Fuentes.
Gary Sandy’s batch played Andy Travis’s batch in WKRP in
Cincinnati.
The 1920’s college kids in their crazy
fashion.
The Raven.
Milburn Stone.
Battle Beyond the Stars.
The ambassador to Denmark.
Vintage Capital Group.
More on the
ambassador.
The Society for Creative
Anachronism.
Kevin Murphy on Ren Faires.
Emu legs at Disneyland?
A little French history.
Deathstalkers.
Bonus.
A bonus bit, with more about the Deathstalker movies, is available as a thank
you to our Patreon supporters.
...more
1h
June 12, 2018 29. The Matlock Defense. [MST3K K17. Time of the Apes.]
Time of the Apes jumps forward in time to hear Beth and Adam discuss
alternate edits, timelines without Joel, circus music, freezer burns, and
Barry ZeVan [the weatherman].
Show Notes.
Time of the Apes: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
See also IJAS 28 on MST3K 306 Time of the
Apes.
Will Penny.
[Trailer.]
Paganini Horror.
[Trailer.]
Fatal Frames.
[Trailer, in Italian.]
Our discussion of other types of hosts was in IJAS 10 on MST3K 1101
Reptilicus.
The mighty breadfruit.
Eiji Tsubaraya.
Colossus: The Forbin Project.
[Trailer.]
Avoid the Noid and Yo!
Noid.
The Colonel Bogey March.
Pierre Boulle: Planet of the Apes and Bridge over
the River Kwai.
Joanie Summers: Johnny Get
Angry.
k.d. lang & the Reclines: Johnny Get
Angry.
Toshiaki Tsushima.
Jerry Goldsmith’s Planet of the Apes
suite.
David Foster’s Flight of the
Snowbirds.
Jerry Goldsmith’s Escape from the Planet of the Apes
suite.
Caroline [Yurika] has a [terrible]
song.
Cryonics is not cryogenics.
Twin paradox.
Disney on Ice.
Adam’s podcast And Thereby Hangs A Tale. 2. Harrison Had a
Headache.
Cold lasers.
Barry ZeVan’s memoir.
Barry ZeVan’s website.
Update: Ryan Snoddon has just
left the building.
Saru no Gundan
merch.
Bonus.
A bonus bit, about cryogenics, vampires, and penguins, is available as a
thank you to our Patreon supporters.
...more
56min
May 30, 2018 28. Apes Is Apes. [MST3K 306. Time of the Apes.]
Time of the Apes dubs over Beth and Adam as they investigate apes, damn
dirty apes, naked apes, humble country apes, and owls.
Show Notes.
Time of the Apes: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki. TV ad
trailer. Watch it on
Netflix or
YouTube.
Basket Case 2 and Basket Case
3.
Planet of the Apes
Wiki.
Saru No Gundan, the TV series that
has been edited into Time Of The Apes.
Exhaustive rundown of Saru No
Gundan
on the Planet of the Apes Wiki. [Thanks!]
It’s Just A Show 25 on The Deadly
Mantis, which features even more
Planet of the Apes talk.
Japanese fandom and Conquest of the Planet of the
Apes.
Prophecies of Nostradamus.
Apes in Godzilla vs Mecha-Godzilla [1973].
Tsuburaya Productions.
It’s Just A Show 21 on KTMA’s Gamera vs.
Barugon goes in-depth on Eiji
Tsuburaya’s connection to Gamera and Japanese special effects.
White supremacists and
Japan.
First Alert With William
Conrad.
Mayor Tommy Shanks from SCTV.
It’s About
Time.
Nick Lowe’s “I Love the Sound of Breaking
Glass”.
Bedtime for Bonzo.
The Ramones’ “Bonzo Goes To
Bitburg”.
David Hedison.
The owls are not what they seem.
White-faced gibbons.
Larry Cohen’s The Invaders.
Faces of Death.
Darren McGavin, character actor
extraordinaire and ultra-dad.
Issey Miyake.
Sandy Frank in the NY Daily News.
Scopes Monkey Trial.
William Jennings
Bryan, who was not even
Southern.
TVTropes on the Simple Country
Lawyer.
A humble country lawyer.
Inherit The Wind.
Dr. Zaius.
Monkey Shines.
Telegraph article on Marcel from
Friends.
What Katie the monkey did after
Friends.
Katie on IMDB.
Garrick Hagon, aka the voice of Godo.
Adam’s other podcast, And Thereby Hangs A
Tale.
Bonus.
A bonus bit, about the Disney Afternoon Collection, is available as a thank
you to our Patreon supporters.
...more
57min
May 11, 2018 27. Emmanuelle in Flight. [MST3K 612. The Starfighters.]
The Starfighters puts fuel back in Beth and Adam so they can discuss
boogers, boozers, fighters, killers, and choristers.
Show Notes.
The Starfighters: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki. Watch on
ShoutFactoryTV!
The Fiasco Bros. Watch a Movie on Matinee and
giant monster movies.
Boogers is a clone of
Ataxx.
Married to the Eiffel Tower.
A breakdown of “B-1 Bob” Dornan as a politician.
That collection of Dornan’s awful quotes.
The Lockheed F-104
Starfighter.
Starfighters lobby
cards.
Canada’s Air Force on Exchange: A Book You Are Guaranteed to Enjoy &
Treasure.
The
Starfighter at Edwards AFB.
An interview with Starfighters director Will
Zens.
Beth quotes Vincent Casaregola’s Theaters of War on
“service films”.
This American Life: Do You Hear What I
Hear?
Ronald Reagan vs. Striking Air Traffic
Controllers.
Ed Gein: The Murders and His Pop-culture
Legacy.
Bill Murray’s blurb appeared on most Frankenhooker
releases.
Frankenhooker’s talking VHS.
In 2002, two American pilots on dexedrine killed four
Canadians.
Stephen Paul’s sparse IMDB
page.
The Association:
Windy.
The breakdown of the United Servo Academy Men’s
Chorus
sketch
Bonus.
A bonus bit, in which we learn of a special airman, is available as a thank
you to our Patreon supporters.
...more
1h
April 25, 2018 26. A More Romantic Alternative. [MST3K 509. The Girl in Lovers Lane.]
The Girl in Lovers Lane drifts into town and asks Beth and Adam about
hoboes, littler hoboes, homosociality, character actors, and promotional
toilet seats.
Show Notes.
The Girl in Lovers Lane: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki. It’s
currently on Netflix.
The Day of the Dolphin.
Day of the Animals.
Rolling Nowhere by Ted Conover.
Don’t Call Them Bums by Lisa Hix.
Citizen Hobo by Todd DePastino.
The Littlest Hobo: An oral
history.
The original Littlest Hobo.
The etymology of “punk”.
Beth quotes Merl Storr describing Eve Kosovsky
Sedgwick’s theory of homosociality.
Avuncular Jack Elam.
Jack Elam’s vintage Letterman
interview.
Bix in Revenge of the Creature.
Keri, you’re so very...
Garrison Keillor was shunned.
Xenon, the pinball game.
Suzanne Ciani on Letterman.
A punchy interview with Lydia
Lunch.
Two Moon Junction.
The egg trick.
Bad themed sports nights!
More bad themed sports
nights!
Interesting piece on MAD following its 60th
anniversary.
Basil Wolverton’s MAD
cover.
More about another Bix.
Bonus.
A bonus bit, with an update on the hoboes, is available as a thank you to our
Patreon supporters.
...more
1h
April 12, 2018 25. Don’t Eat the Good Bug. [MST3K 804. The Deadly Mantis.]
The Deadly Mantis emerges from the ice to ask Beth and Adam about bug-eyed monsters, bug-eyed bugs, bloody-minded militarists, stop-motion brains,
and bomb-loving mutants.
Show Notes.
The Deadly Mantis: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer. Get the
DVD.
And Thereby Hangs A Tale 5. Jessica Is Not
“Spiritual”.
Once again, there are no
accidents [but there are
gruesome Canadian PSAs].
Mantis facts!
On the original BEMs.
House centipedes. [Urgh.]
Kamacuras.
How big can a creature get before there are
problems?
Poisonous spiders in Ontario.
Them! [Trailer.]
You want giant bees? Harryhausen’s got some for
you.
CONAD, the
Pinetree Line, and the DEW
Line.
The DEW Line Story [1958], on
how the DEW Line was constructed.
The DEW Line’s Toxic Legacy [1997], from CBC Radio.
Radar Station [1953], from the NFB,
about the women at the Pinetree Line.
Reminiscences from someone who
worked on the DEW Line.
IJAS 18 on King Dinosaur.
S.O.S. Iceberg.
That scene from Grand
Illusion.
Dymaxion,
Mercator, and other map
projections.
An unexpectedly dark ad for Bon
Ami.
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad.
[Promo.]
The Brain from Planet Arous.
Brain leaves dog.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes bomb
worshippers.
Nedrick Young and Martin
Berkeley.
Bonus.
A bonus bit about Norm MacDonald is available as a thank you to our Patreon
supporters.
...more
1h
March 24, 2018 24b. Our First Anniversary Spectacular!
In this spectacular episode of It’s Just A Show , Producer Chris invites
Beth and Adam to look back over the 24 episodes of MST3K we’ve watched in the
past year. Which movie would they watch unMSTed? Which episode was the best?
Which monster is the ginchiest? And what did you, the listener at home, think?
Show Notes.
Our episode guide. Collect ’em
all!
T. Rex boat flip.
Toronto Raptors mascot bites
it.
The ending of Rock ’n’ Roll
Nightmare [featuring “We Accept
The Challenge”].
Stella in vampire lingerie, or
figure-skating armour in silver and
black or red and
gold.
Buster Keaton and the goat
scene.
Nuts. A documentary on John Romulus
Brinkley.
Charlie Chaplin on cocaine.
It’s Just A Show. Year One. Our first set of theme song variations.
Patreon supporters get a free download
code—and access to all our bonus bits!
Tony Zarindast’s Hardcase &
Fist and Red
Room. [They’re not
very good.]
Lonely Water.
There are no accidents.
Bonus.
A bonus bit from our episode on Santa
Claus is available as a thank you to our
Patreon supporters.
...more
1h
March 14, 2018 24. Every Framing Device a Painting. [MST3K 803. The Mole People.]
The Mole People gets Beth and Adam to recite an epic of hollow-earth
theories, the Epic of Gilgamesh, celebrity cameos, mushrooms, and astronauts
of note.
Show Notes.
The Mole People is available (with annotations!) on
YouTube! Thanks, Shout Factory.
The Mole People: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare.
IJAS 16 on Zombie Nightmare.
Thor: We Accept the Challenge.
Pod F. Tompkast.
Beth is on This Is Your Mixtape!
(EDIT: There used to be a link to a survey here, but that was long ago.)
(EDIT: And there used to be a link to a party here, but that, too, was long ago.)
Frank C. Baxter!
Atlas Obscura article on Hollow Earth
theories.
Vice article on Hollow Earth
theories.
Edmund Halley’s
article
suggesting that the Earth might be hollow.
Battlestar Galactica’s
religious inspiration.
Rear Adminral Richard E.
Byrd.
The Epic of Gilgamesh.
In Our Time on the Epic of
Gilgamesh.
The sexagesimal system.
Robert Smith.
NYC “mole people” links: An
article. A book. A
rebuttal. A life.
Soccer baseball.
IJAS 10 on Reptilicus and IJAS 15 on
Starcrash, and their celebrity cameos.
In Our Time on fungi.
Matango trailer.
New data on the ant-controlling
fungus!
Mushroom plastics.
Manchurian mushroom?
Shannon Lucid.
Bonus.
A bonus bit, wherein Adam has something on his mind, is available as a thank
you to our Patreon supporters.
...more
1h
February 26, 2018 23. You’ve Got to Kill a Man. [MST3K 802. The Leech Woman.]
The Leech Woman picks Beth and Adam’s brains about lecherous men, older
women, alcoholics, unpleasant co-workers, and anything but leeches.
Show Notes.
The Leech Woman: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
The Jack Arnold story comes from The Creature Chronicles: Exploring the Black
Lagoon Trilogy.
The Creature Walks Among Us [Gill-Man,
part 3].
Rake joke. [See also IJAS
7, on It Conquered the World.]
Adrienne Barbeau is a
delight.
Sextette [trailer].
STDs in nursing homes.
Baba Yaga.
Two
theories on the [unclear]
origin of the phrase “old bag”.
Pineal glands and you!
Wipe Out.
IJAS 12p, our bonus bit on quicksand,
exclusively for our Patreon supporters.
Irene Ryan [NYTimes
obituary].
Daktari Stool, then and now.
Congo [trailer].
Review of a recent production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?, discussing the play, its importance, and how it’s been
overshadowed by the film version.
Liz & Dick.
Foster Brooks’s act as a comical
drunk.
Bill W.
Frank on the Mental Illness Happy Hour, episode
21.
You’re Not Funny 7. Booze and Drugs.
Bonus.
A bonus bit with so, so many Leech Facts™ is available as a thank you to our
Patreon supporters.
...more
58min

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