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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January 29, 2024 147. A Terrible Word for Love-Making. [MST3K 415. The Beatniks.]
The Beatniks avoids anything too far out, but Chris and Charlotte have a
gas talking about Paul Frees, pocket pool, dippy slang, store-bought cake, and
controversial troll dolls.
Also features another General Hospital short!
Show Notes.
The Beatniks (Paul Frees, 1960): MST3K
Wiki.
IMDb.
Trailer.
How to replace a DVD.
Big Action Bill: The History of Godzilla vs. Megalon
(1973).
Belushi vs.
Megalon.
Pocket billiards and pocket
pool.
A supercut of the thousand voices of Paul
Frees.
Our discussion of Scrooge (Ronald Neame, 1970) where Chris brings up the
Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol is available to people who support us on
Patreon.
Haunted Mansion (walkthrough).
The Haunted Mansion record Charlotte is (probably) thinking
of.
Peter Renaday.
Paul Frees: The Skin Diver.
Spike Jones: My Old Flame. (And
with a special guest.)
Paul Frees and the Poster
People.
Ben Ohmart: Welcome, Foolish Mortals!
BearManor Media.
We discuss Million Dollar Mermaid in our episode on The
Batwoman.
Peter Breck.
Mumbley-peg.
The Mosconi Story (Dave
O’Brien, 1952).
Tom Waits: Diamonds on My
Windshield.
Toots Shor’s Restaurant.
Tea and Sympathy (Vincente
Minelli, 1956).
Paul McCartney and Wings: Helen
Wheels.
Helen Wheels: Tattoo Vampire.
KARR.
Kliph Nesteroff: We Had a Little Real Estate
Problem.
The Boatniks (Norman Tokar,
1970).
This Beatnik Glossary is from the press kit for The Beatniks.
Guy Diamond.
A history of troll dolls.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and
hear a bonus bit where Chris tells a joke too dirty for the regular episode.
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January 16, 2024 146. They’re Huge! [MST3K 212. Godzilla vs. Megalon.]
Happy Gamuary! This year, Chris and Charlotte broaden their scope a little, as
Godzilla vs. Megalon finds them roaring about Godzilla, Jet Jaguar,
Megalon, Gigan, and Squawkzilla.
Show Notes.
Godzilla vs. Megalon (Jun Fukuda, 1973): MST3K
Wiki.
IMDb.
Trailer.
Our episodes on Crash of Moons and
The Sword and the Dragon.
Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder, 1953).
Gregory Younging: Elements of Indigenous
Style.
Some more
articles on the
topic.
Adam and Beth and Chris watch Godzilla
on The Scene Of The Scene.
Godzilla (Ishirō Honda, 1954).
Godzilla Minus One (Takashi
Yamazaki, 2023).
Godzilla vs. Megalon (Takuya
Uenishi, 2023).
Which is a sequel to Godzilla vs. Gigan
Rex (Takuya Uenishi, 2022).
Wikizilla pages for Godzilla, Jet
Jaguar,
Megalon, and
Gigan.
Ultraman.
Chris missed some subtleties in beetle
taxonomy.
M Space Hunter Nebula
Aliens.
K00: The Green Slime.
Robert Dunham.
Our episodes on Time of the Apes, KTMA
and Season 3 style.
The Chitlin’ Circuit.
Moms Mabley.
Another Mother for Peace.
Yusef Lateef: Love Theme from
Spartacus.
Robert Frost: Acquainted with the
Night.
Langston Hughes: The
Underground.
Catching up with Gary
Redenbacher.
Meet
Squawkzilla.
Against Bridezilla.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and
you can hear a very, very long bonus bit where Chris and Charlotte talk all
about Godzilla Minus One.
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December 23, 2023 145. A Cold Place. [MST3K 617. The Sword and the Dragon.]
Happy Holidays! Let’s gather round to hear the tale of The Sword and the
Dragon , or at least let’s hear Chris and Charlotte talking about Ilya
Muromets, Ingmar Bergman, August Strindberg, Sven, and Ole.
Show Notes.
MST3K
Wiki.
IMDb. Trailer (for the restorated
version).
Support us on Patreon to hear the
interview with Chris and to hear Chris, Charlotte, and Beth (!!!) talk about
the 1970 musical Scrooge with a
bunch of other Megaphonic hosts.
Our episodes on the other “holiday” experiments: The Day the Earth
Froze, Jack
Frost, and The Magic Voyage of
Sinbad.
The sketch.
Ilya Muromets on the Myths and Legends
podcast.
One telling of the legend of Ilya Muromets and the “wind
demon”.
Kyivan Rus’ and
Varangians.
A review of the restored version of the film.
You can buy the restored version from Deaf
Crocodile, or if you’re willing to deal with
YouTube’s compression, MosFilm is sharing it
there (with the same subtitles).
Baba Yaga.
The New Gulliver (Aleksandr
Ptushko, 1935).
Haley’s M-O commercial.
Cal Smith: Country Bumpkin.
A few years ago, the Criterion Channel did a thing involving The Seventh
Seal’s most famous scene.
Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966).
August Strindberg: A Dream Play
(Ingmar Bergman, 1963).
Strindberg and Helium. (More about
the project.) (UPDATE:
It’s over 20 years old.)
More about August Strindberg and Henryk
Ibsen.
Edvard Grieg: In the Hall of the Mountain
King.
Garrison Keillor and a segment of Sven and Ole (or Ole and Lena) jokes from A
Prairie Home Companion.
Schlitz commercial from 1967.
And again, support us on Patreon if you
want to give us a gift for the holidays, and we’ll give you some gifts in
return! But whether you do or not, have a happy holiday.
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December 16, 2023 144. Swoon Tune. [MST3K 417. Crash of Moons.]
Rocky and Winky are back for Crash of Moons (or Crash of the Moons, if you
like). But as Chris and Charlotte try to escape their trajectory, they talk
about old news, rogue planets, happy leaders, bizarre tv shows, and broken
guitars.
Featuring another General Hospital short!
Show Notes.
MST3K Wiki.
IMDb.
UnMSTed.
Turkey Day 2023 host segments,
if you missed it.
The fundraising campaign didn’t make
it.
Support us on Patreon if you want to hear
a long off-topic interview with Chris (and one a few months ago with
Charlotte).
Rogue planets.
Update: Paired rogue planets are totally a
thing.
Changing
the moon’s
trajectory.
Kurzgesagt also did a video about
this.
Update: Dr. Spock’s approach to dealing with crying babies was complicated
and changed over time.
John Banner and Hollingsworth
Morse.
H.R. Pufnstuf.
Marty Krofft obituary. RIP.
Vladimir Horowitz.
Horowitz in
Moscow.
Grit.
Anne Sexton.
Dan Hill: Sometimes When We
Touch.
Naomi Wolf: The Beauty Myth.
Naomi Klien: Doppelganger.
Pigs in Space. Fan
compilations are probably available at your local YouTube.
Support us on Patreon and you can hear
bonus bits and hang out with us in a friendly little Discord.
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November 22, 2023 143b. A Little Meaningful. [MST3K Turkey Day Marathons, 1991–1993.]
Happy Turkey Day! Chris and Charlotte celebrate by rewatching the bumpers and
commercials for the first few Turkey Day Marathons! Reminisce with them
about Thanksgiving traditions, Thanksgiving television, Thanksgiving hymns,
Thanksgiving foods, and so many turkeys.
Show Notes.
Turkey Day Marathon 2023!
Turkey Day 1991, including the
classic Turkey Day Hymn.
We talk about yams in our episode on Ring of
Terror.
Turkey Day 1992.
Turkey Day 1993. (Mislabelled
as Turkey Day 1995.)
As always, you can support us on Patreon.
We’re thankful for all our listeners as well as all our patrons.
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November 19, 2023 143. You Need to Have High Drama. [MST3K 413. Manhunt in Space.]
Manhunt in Space has Rocky Jones, Space Ranger, and his pal Winky chase
after Chris and Charlotte among the stars, as they discuss stethoscopes, soap
operas, space operas, sprucing up, and seeing colours.
With a short: part of an episode of General Hospital!
Show Notes.
MST3K Wiki.
IMDb.
UnMSTed.
Help make MST3K Season 14!
Turkey Day Marathon 2023!
Our Patreon.
Winky was played by Scotty
Beckett.
Days of Our Lives opening.
Chris talks about Harriet the Spy and
Invisible Man on another podcast, The
Spouter-Inn.
Hiatal hernias.
The heartbreak of psoriasis.
Chris didn’t finish explaining this, but: At the time, “video” would have been
understood as an equivalent to “audio” — television trasmitted video the way
radio transmitted audio.
Hence, Captain Video and his Video
Rangers.
Tom Corbett, Space
Cadet.
Space
Patrol.
Captain
Z-Ro.
Sprucin’ Up (Gus Meins, 1935)
is an Our Gang/Little Rascals short with Scotty (Winky) in it, and, like,
content warning.
The Our Gang Curse.
The Little Rascals (Penelope
Spheeris, 1994).
The Ishihara test to check for
colour deficiencies.
Drawfee.
Support us on Patreon and hang out with us
in a friendly little Discord.
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October 29, 2023 142. Get a Broom. [MST3K 907. Hobgoblins.]
Hobgoblins emerge out of their vault to let Chris and Charlotte live out
their fantasy of talking about hobgoblins, gremlins, regular goblins, hobbits,
and other scary things.
Show Notes.
Hobgoblins: MST3K
Wiki.
IMDb.
Trailer.
We discuss Kolchak: The Night Stalker in our episode on The Last
Chase.
Tolkien stuff comes up a lot here, thanks to By-The-Bywater.
Our episodes on Reptilicus and
MST3Kon!
Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984).
Gremlins 2 (Joe Dante, 1990).
Hobgoblins 2 (Rick Sloane,
2009). And yes, RiffTrax has covered
it.
Hobgoblins original cast reunites after 20
years.
The Visitants (Rick Sloan,
1986).
Our episodes on Demon Squad and
MST3K: The Movie.
Joe Dante vs. MST3K.
Vice Academy 1-3 (RIck Sloane,
1988–1991).
A scene from UHF (Jay Levey,
1987).
The Fontanelles: Kiss Kicker
99.
A bar in San Francisco.
Robert Palmer: I Didn’t Mean to Turn You
On.
Cherrelle: I Didn’t Mean to Turn You
On.
Quarterflash: Harden My Heart.
Agnes de Mille on the Oklahoma! Dream
Ballet.
Our episode on Santa Claus Conquers the
Martians.
A Court of Fey and Flowers
(episode 1).
Support us on Patreon and hang out with us
in a friendly little Discord.
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October 11, 2023 141. More Than Just a Psychiatrist. [MST3K K19. Hangar 18.]
Hangar 18 is filled with aliens, so the government must do everything to
stop Chris and Charlotte from talking about Robert Vaughn, Gary Collins,
Stuart Pankin, infomercials, and—you guessed it—Donald Pleasence.
Content warning: We discuss a movie that deals with sexual violence. We
mention when we’re about to discuss in the episode, and have provided chapter
markers to allow you to skip it.
Show Notes.
Hangar 18: MST3K Wiki.
IMDb.
Trailer.
We talk about She-Man in our episode on Wild
Rebels.
Rifftrax Presents presents Tron.
Demon Dogs.
Our episodes on The Last Chase and
Master Ninja II.
Sign up for our Patreon and you can hear
us talk with other Megaphonic folks about The Greatest Story Ever
Told (1965).
River of Death (1989).
Edgar Allan Poe’s Buried Alive
(1989).
Buried Alive (1990).
Our episode on Girls Town.
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979).
Our episodes on Avalanche and Colossus
and the Headhunters.
Soldier Blue (1970).
Our episode on The Amazing Colossal
Man.
Hinterland Who’s Who.
The story behind Dem
Bones (a.k.a. Dry Bones).
Larry Clinton ft. Bea Wain: Heart and
Soul.
A child-sized Roman-era chamber
pot.
The political history of potty
training.
Christmas with the King Family.
Turn-On, episode 1.
Highlights.
Mario Andretti ads. And
another.
Robert Vaughn’s Helsinki Formula
Hour.
Erin Gray’s Cellulite Show.
A classic long Ginsu knife ad.
A classic Columbia House Club
ad.
Couldn’t find an ad for Kooky
Kountry, but
here’s Kooky Tunes.
An actual infomercial from Time-Life for a collection of 80s
hits—but the infomercial is from
2006.
Freedom Rock was not K-Tel.
Support us on Patreon and you can hear a
bonus bit that was cut for time.
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September 30, 2023 140. What People Really Did Back Then. [MST3K 913. Quest of the Delta Knights.]
Huzzah! Quest of the Delta Knights finds Chris and Charlotte in the
medieval early ’90s, where they drink mead and discuss things like David
Warner (good), David Warner (evil), David Warner (virtual), David Warner
(narrator), and the Pleasure Faire.
Show Notes.
Quest of the Delta Knights: MST3K
Wiki.
IMDB.
Jerry van Dyke on Inside
Edition.
The 1994 L.A.
earthquake, the
1989 Loma Prieta
earthquake, the
2001 Olympia
earthquake.
Our episode on The Starfighters.
The David Warner Film Festival of
Tron and Time
Bandits and Time After
Time. (Plenty of other great
options available.)
Our friends at Fiasco Family Movie Night
did an episode all about Time After
Time.
The AV Club interview with David Warner about his various
roles.
Olivia Hussey in Romeo and
Juliet and Black
Christmas.
The AV Club’s ranking of scream queens.
We talk about Barbara Crampton in our episode on Robot
Wars.
The Palace of Fine Arts.
Leonardo’s maps.
The Northern California Renaissance Pleasure
Faire.
An old program from that
Faire.
Adam talked about his ren faire experiences in our episode on Deathstalker
and the Warriors from Hell.
A video of 1991 Faire made by
participants.
Why they moved to their new
Hollister Location.
We talked about Hollister riots in our episode on The
Sidehackers.
How to make a haunted house.
Support us on Patreon to listen to a bonus
bit about a few more familiar faces in the film.
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September 09, 2023 139. Born From Stone. [MST3K 605. Colossus and the Headhunters.]
Happy Dodecalabour Day! Uh, a little belated. Turns out Hercules couldn’t make
it, and so we’ve got Colossus and the Headhunters rushing after Chris and
Charlotte as they talk about Nummymuffincoocolbutter, Maciste, Hercules’s son,
Pound Puppies, and good kitties.
Show Notes.
Colossus and the Headhunters (Maciste contro i cacciatori di teste): MST3K
Wiki.
IMDb.
499 (Rodrigo Reyes, 2020).
Porkchop sandwiches.
Gretch the Slinky is from The
Sidehackers.
Our episodes on Hercules against the Moon
Men and
Hercules.
Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules (Maciste contro i monstri) (Guido
Malatesta, 1961).
(The fun bit happens around the 9:30 mark.)
Hercules, Samson, and Ulysses (Ercole sfida Sansone) (Pietro Francisci,
1962).
Maciste, Avenger of the Mayans (Maciste il vindicatore dei Maya) (Guido
Malatesta, 1965).
UPDATE: Alert listener Greg was the first to inform us that Jerry Van Dyke’s
house was damaged in the 1994 L.A.
earthquake.
The Miami Herald and The
Atlantic remember the Cuban Raft Crisis of 1994.
A Place To Stand, A Place To Grow: Just the
song or the whole film it’s
from.
Pound Puppies.
We talk about Charlotte’s creepy doll in our episode on Devil
Doll.
My Buddy and Kid Sister.
Frank’s post about Millie.
Frank’s books at Dumb Industries. (They’re also at that other
site, but not autographed.)
Edward Albee: The American
Dream.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and
hear a whole segment that was cut for time.
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