High School Big Shot is a bleak movie, but at least the attached short, an allegory about selling bread called Out of This World, is ridiculous. Together they tempt Chris and Charlotte into talking about Roger Corman, Mother Nature, specialty breads, Abe Lincoln, and Tom’s Diner.

[Content warning: Depressing movie; occasionally sad episode. The movie includes a suicide, which we don’t talk about.]

High School Big Shot (Joel Rapp, 1959): IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.

Out of This World (Unknown [Jam Handy Organization], 1954): IMDB. UnMSTed.

Once again, thank you to Ned from By-The-Bywater!

We mentioned Art Garfunkel walking across America in our episode on Colossus and the Headhunters.

R.I.P., Roger Corman, who we’ve discussed before in our episodes on It Conquered the World, Lords of the Deep, The Undead, The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent, Avalanche, and probably elsewhere.

The Intruder (Roger Corman, 1962).

Roger Corman with Jim Jerome: How I Made a Hundred Movies and Never Lost a Dime.

Roger Corman: The Pope of Pop Cinema (Bertrand Tessier, 2021).

Chris Nashawaty: Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses: Roger Corman: King of the B Movie.

The Little Shop of Horrors (Roger Corman, 1960).

The Trip (Roger Corman, 1967).

Our episode on I Was a Teenage Werewolf.

Battle of Blood Island (Joel Rapp, 1960).

Joel Rapp: Radio, TV, Mother Earth & Me: Memories of a Hollywood Life. (Check out the shirt he’s wearing on the cover!)

R.I.P., Tom Pittman.

New Zealand fig and almond bread from The Bread Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum, an excellent book for anyone who wants to learn breadmaking.

Sourdough apple bread from The Village Baker by Joe Ortiz, which is also pretty great.

We the Future posters.

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Mighty Jack once again rises out of the water and makes a bank turn to rescue Chris and Charlotte, as they talk about dedicated scientists, hot ice, Kurt Vonnegut, Herman Melville, and Betty White.

Mighty Jack [マイティジャック] (Kazuo Mitsuta, 1968): IMDB. MST3K Wiki.

More Mighty Jack links in our previous episode.

Our episode on Ring of Terror.

Charlotte talks about The House of Frankenstein in our episode on The Mad Monster.

The hot ice bar in Las Vegas.

How to make hot ice.

Kurt Vonnegut: Cat’s Cradle.

D.J. Manly: Melting Ice 9.

Chris's book podcast, The Spouter-Inn, should be coming back soon with new episodes!

Herman Melville: The Berg (A Dream).

Chris's other other podcast, Game Show 1939!

Betty White and game shows.

Betty lists and Betty guesses. Jamie Farr is good too.

We talked about Benjamin Franklin in our episode on The Beast of Yucca Flats, but not Ben Franklin.

One of the last Ben Franklins.

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Mighty Jack is coming to rescue Chris and Charlotte from sick jail, but while they wait, they talk about fan clubs, fan newsletters, math equations, Japanese special effects, and bowling.

Mighty Jack [マイティジャック] (Kazuo Mitsuta, 1968): IMDB. MST3K Wiki.

R.I.P., Roger Corman.

Make your own Roger Corman festival with our episodes on: It Conquered the World, The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent, Swamp Diamonds, Night of the Blood Beast, Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell, The Undead, Avalanche, Starcrash, Wizards of the Lost Kingdom and its sequel, and Lords of the Deep. (The full list.)

The archive of MST3K Satellite News fan newsletters!

Our episodes on Time of the Apes, both KTMA and season 3.

Tokusatsu (特撮).

Eiji Tsuburaya (円谷 英二).

Our episode on Gamera vs. Jiger.

The Small House of Uncle Thomas.

Kooky Kountry as discussed in our episode on Hangar 18

Southern Folklore Quarterly, 25.2 (1961).

A bowling alley in Greenwich Village. (Though I guess not technically in the West Village.)

(By the way, Chris and Charlotte once put out a song about going bowling with their friends.)

The secret bowling alley at the alma mater.

Candlepin bowling. And yes, it's on YouTube.

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Chris and Charlotte are sick. They’re getting better, but you’ll hear how lovely their voices sound right now, as they introduce five bonus bits — the parts of the show cut for time that we release for our Patreon supporters. Enjoy, and see you in a few weeks, hopefully!

Our episodes on City Limits, Colossus and the Headhunters, The Batwoman, The Sword and the Dragon, and The Deadly Bees.

The name change to artistic swimming.

Annette Kellerman.

Million Dollar Mermaid (again).

Neptune’s Daughter (1914).

Neptune’s Daughter (1949).

The Great Muppet Caper swimming scene.

Hail, Caesar! swimming scene.

Men in artistic swimming in the Olympics.

Svetlana Romashina and Svetlana Kolesnichenko winning gold at Tokyo 2020.

Turning Red (Domee Shi, 2022).

El Greco: View of Toledo

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It Lives By Night gains bat powers and tries to hunt down Chris and Charlotte, who just want to talk about Lou, Murray, Ted, Sue Ann, and Mary.

It Lives By Night [a.k.a. The Bat People] (Jerry Jameson, 1974): IMDb. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.

Our recent bonus episode on The Making of MST3K.

It Lives By Night, Diabolik, and Swamp Diamonds rough cuts.

(This got cut for time, but for the curious, this movie has a Bonanza count of 5, and a Murder, She Wrote count of 4.)

Our episodes on Final Justice and The Beast of Hollow Mountain (where we talked about cows).

Bats flying in formation.

Male bats who feed their kids.

Nursery roosts.

Hunting with baby bats.

More about how baby bats latch on.

Li’l bats.

ERRATUM: The Mary Tyler Moore Show actually had 168 episodes.

We talk about Geronimo in our Final Justice episode.

Russell Means and the American Indian Movement.

The occupation of Alcatraz.

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The Mad Monster (with the short, Radar Men from the Moon, ep. 2) causes Chris and Charlotte to howl about the moon, the Wolf Man, Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, and the Big Rock Candy Mountains.

The Mad Monster (Sam Newfield, 1942): MST3K Wiki. IMDb. Trailer.

Radar Men from the Moon (Fred C. Bannon, 1951): IMDb. UnMSTed.

Marc Evanier on Olsen and Johnson. (Thanks, Greg!)

Our episode on Humanoid Woman.

A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune) (Georges Méliès, 1902).

A fluffy moon?

Lunar module feet pics.

The House of Frankenstein (Erle C. Kenton, 1944).

Our episode on The Beast of Hollow Mountain.

Dangers of the Canadian Mounted (Fred C. Bannon, 1948).

Nut cups.

Some more on the origin of charivari.

Harry McClintock: The Big Rock Candy Mountain. (Or sometimes “Mountains”.)

Pete Seeger: The Big Rock Candy Mountain.

Burl Ives: The Big Rock Candy Mountain.

The Big Rock Candy Mountain in Colorado.

Charley the Unicorn goes to Candy Mountain.

An Invitation to Lubberland.

Herman Pleij: Dreaming of Cockaigne: Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life.

Walla.

Rhubarb Rhubarb (Eric Sykes, 1980) is the remake of Rhubarb (Eric Sykes, 1970).

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It’s our 150th episode, our seventh anniversary, and someone’s birthday! Charlotte and Beth rewatch one of their favourite episodes, The Rebel Set, with the short, Johnny at the Fair. They reminisce about visiting Chicago, Toronto, Winnipeg, the Canadian National Exhibition, and Hellzapoppin’.

The Rebel Set (Gene Fowler Jr, 1959): MST3K Wiki. IMDb. Trailer.

Johnny at the Fair (Jack Olsen, 1947): IMDb.

Edward Platt might look familiar. (And of course, the other actor is Don Adams.)

The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.

Crow’s itinerary (without Evanston). If he left off the ballpark, he could almost make it.

The Art Institute of Chicago is worth spending well more than four hours in.

Gurnee vs. Gurney.

The Ren Faire in Kenosha.

New baseball rules.

The CNE is the Canadian National Exhibition, which is usually called The Ex.

David Foster: Flight of the Snowbirds.

Weirdly, we haven’t done Earth vs. the Spider, Tormented, or Attack of the Giant Leeches, so stay tuned for our Summer of Gene Roth!

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Carey Loftin, stunt driver.

Charles Pachter, artist.

The Journals of Susanna Moodie.

The secret life of William Lyon Mackenzie King.

(Beth’s plot summary of Hellzapoppin’ is slightly inaccurate, but not in any imporant way.)

Duck Amuck.

The Lindy Hop scene from Hellzapoppin’. Heck, if you search YouTube hard enough, you might find even more…

Martha Raye for Polident.

Our episode on I Was A Teenage Werewolf.

Portland Exposé (Harold D. Schuster, 1957).

Phil Stanford: Portland Confidential.

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Nearly a hundred and fifty episodes — and seven years — into this podcast, Chris and Charlotte decide to watch a few “documentaries” to find out what this MST3K show is all about. This Is MST3K (from season 4) and The Making of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (from season 8) get them talking about M, S, T, 3, and K.

This Is MST3K: MST3K Wiki.

The Making of Mystery Science Theater 3000: MST3K Wiki.

Our episode on Avalanche.

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The Beast of Hollow Mountain shows up much too late to hear Chris and Charlotte talk about killer cats, dinosaurs, cowboys, cows, and Wallace Shawn.

The Beast of Hollow Mountain (Edward Nassour & Ismael Rodríguez, 1956): MST3K Wiki. IMDb. Trailer.

Our episode on Angels Revenge.

Uninvited (Greydon Clark, 1988).

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (Michael Winner, 1976).

Geronimo (Arnold Laven, 1962).

Las luchadoras contra el robot asesino (René Cardona, 1969).

They Saved Hitler’s Brain (David Bradley, 1968).

Our episode on King Dinosaur.

Dino Ranch.

The Valley of Gwangi (Jim O’Connolly, 1969).

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World.

The eohippus was a thing.

Hole-y cows!

Cow spit.

Friendly cows.

Cows who can’t teach.

Cows who swim.

Cow facts that aren’t true.

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventure of the Priory School.

My Dinner with Andre (Louis Malle, 1981).

Cary Elwes: As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride.

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It’s Final Justice for Chris and Charlotte, who are sentenced to talk

Final Justice (Greydon Clark, 1985): MST3K

By-The-Bywater is the

Our episode on The Crawling Hand.

R.I.P. Peter

Paul Frees: Raindrops Keep Falling on My

Our episode on Hobgoblins (which

And our episode on Angels Revenge

Walking Tall (Phil Karlson,

Walking Tall (Kevin Bray,

Hell’s Bloody Devils (Al

Our episodes on Outlaw (of Gor) and

We discussed László Kovács in our episode on The Incredibly Strange

Greydon Clark: On the Cheap: My Life in Low Budget

Wacko (Greydon Clark, 1982).

Joysticks (Greydon Clark,

Helena (Abelli) Dalli has been keeping

Malta is ranked high for LGBQAI+ rights.

Yes: Owner of a Lonely Heart.

Livingston Taylor: I’ll Come

Bum Phillips.

Mustaccioli and Lazzaroni.

Popeye Village.

Air Malta’s list of film locations in

Let’s enjoy some

Geronimo and

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