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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March 25, 2023 130. We Could Have Cleaned This Up. [MST3K K11. Humanoid Woman.]
Humanoid Woman plays a curious tone and compels Chris and Charlotte to
discuss Humanoid Woman, Through the Thorns to the Stars, Per Aspera Ad Astra,
To The Stars by Hard Ways, and Через тернии к звёздам.
Show Notes.
Humanoid Woman: MST3K
Wiki.
IMDb.
(EDIT: There used to be a link to our live event in Portland here, but that was long ago.)
Our episode on Robot Monster.
[UPDATE: Looks like they were peeking at the movie
beforehand at this point,
but probably not watching it all the way through.]
Some Russian sources: A thirtieth anniversary
article. A fashion-forward look
back. An
official
site
[if it looks weird, try it in Chrome].
A comparison of some of the
edits.
The full movie, unMSTed,
uploaded [I believe] by the copyright holders. Watch this one, is my advice.
A channel hosting a few versions of the 2001 edit with new
effects [but possibly
with the original sountrack and actors’ voices?].
An interview with Vladimir
Federov.
Ruslan and Ludmilla.
Vadim Ledogorov in New Zealand.
The Man Who Fell to Earth.
Kir Bulychev.
Gumby: Rain Spirits.
Katsina dolls.
The Cat from Outer Space.
Jay Levy: Heiveinu Shalom
Aleichem.
All You Need Is Cash.
The Rutles: Cheese and Onions.
Hūsker Dū for sale.
The New Zoo Revue: School.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and
hear some more from this episode that we cut for time.
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March 21, 2023 129. Encyclopedia Mouthfeel. [MST3K 820. Space Mutiny.]
Space Mutiny throws Chris Hardcheese and Charlotte Manmuscle over a
railing while they talk about Battlestar Galactica, Captain America, Jane
Fonda, Annie Sprinkle, and body positivity.
Show Notes.
Space Mutiny: MST3K
Wiki.
IMDB.
Trailer.
Season 13 on Pluto! (But not in Canada, it
seems.)
And the announcement for Season 13 on
Pluto.
The nicknames for Dave “Blast Thickneck”
Ryder.
David Winters’ obituary.
Our episodes on Kitten with a Whip
and Starcrash.
The Last Horror Film.
Thrashin’.
The Bad Movie Bible on Space
Mutiny. There are even more
great details in this video we didn’t include in the episode.
Sledgehammer.
Captain America.
Yor, The Hunter from the
Future.
Uncommon Valor.
Barbarella.
Skidoo.
Polyphonic on the Yamaha DX7.
“Ancient Chinese secret”?
Calgon, take me away!
Annie Sprinkle.
Wikipedia.
Chambers’ Cyclopædia on chess.
Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie on chess
(échecs).
Jane Fonda’s Workout (1982).
An article from Vogue about Jane Fonda’s
Workout.
Jazzercise and aerobics.
Jane Fonda is still at
it!
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and
hang out with us in our Discord. Thanks!
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March 01, 2023 128. Hot Cross Buns. [MST3K 319. War of the Colossal Beast.]
Mr. B Natural pops into Chris and Charlotte’s bedrooms to talk with them
about musical education, predicting the future, kids learning science, many
years of solitude, and guacamole errors.
Also featuring the feature, War of the Colossal Beast.
Show Notes.
War of the Colossal Beast: MST3K
Wiki.
IMDB.
Mr. B Natural: IMDB.
UnMSTed.
[UPDATE (March 8, 2023): RIP Mr.
BIG. You
made all our lives more colossal.]
Our episode on Manos.
That Bones episode.
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.
And its glorious
poster.
Sarah Jeffery’s YouTube channel about
recorders.
Some of Criswell’s predictions (spoilers!).
Criswell’s 1970 album.
Criswell with Jack Paar and
with Johnny Carson.
Edwin Lee Canfield: Fact, Fictions, and the Forbidden Predictions of the
Amazing Criswell.
Buzz on Watch Mr. Wizard.
Christian on Mr. Wizard’s
World.
Obituaries for Buzz
Podewell and Lester
Podewell.
Our episode on It Conquered the World.
The Cyclops.
Chimichanga vs.
Chonga.
Honey
West.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon. Thank
you!
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February 16, 2023 127. It’s A Little Bit Bigger Now. [MST3K 309. The Amazing Colossal Man.]
The Amazing Colossal Man towers over Chris and Charlotte, as they pepper
him with facts about big birthdays, tall tales, huge attractions, hearty
meals, and profound mathematics.
Show Notes.
The Amazing Colossal Man: IMDb.
MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
The Incredible Shrinking Man.
Our episodes on Village of the
Giants and This Island
Earth.
Homer Eon Flint’s The Nth Man
was published the Spring 1928 issue of Amazing Stories
Quarterly.
Images from The Nth Man: one,
two,
three.
The casinos in this film:
Dunes (with the
sultan).
Riviera. Royal
Nevada (with the crown). Silver
Slipper (with the shoe).
Tropicana.
Sands. Pioneer
Club (with Vegas
Vic).
The Far Eastern
Republic.
Anna and the King.
Midnight Oil: Beds are Burning.
And the One-Hit Wonderland about Beds are
Burning.
Annie and politics.
House Peters Jr.
Understanding Diner
Lingo.
Chris and Charlotte have a bit of history with Adam and Eve on a
Raft…
J.B.S. Haldane: On Being the Right
Size.
Kurzgesagt’s videos on the The Size of Life:
one, two,
three.
The square-cube law.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and we
will give you an amazing colossal thank you.
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February 01, 2023 126. Down with the Pickle. [MST3K 819. Invasion of the Neptune Men.]
Invasion of the Neptune Men finds Chris and Charlotte talking about Prince
of Space, traditional Japanese theatre, Braille, pickles, and crackers.
Show Notes.
Invasion of the Neptune Men: IMDb.
MST3K
Wiki.
Watch at the
Gizmoplex!
Pick up a copy of The Mads’ A Night of Shorts X if you missed it.
Our episodes on Prince of Space
and Agent for H.A.R.M. (with the
Bobo courtroom sketch).
Some videos to introduce you to
noh and
kabuki. (The noh video also
does the Abbott and Costello joke, but doesn’t stretch it out as long.)
Sing, Dance, Act: Kabuki featuring Toma
Ikuta.
The performance of Harogomo that Chris
watched.
And the kabuki highlights that Chris
mentions.
Also check out A History of Japanese Theatre, an
excellent overview.
Prokofiev: Dance of the
Knights.
The Battle on the Ice from
Alexander Nevsky.
Rachel Carson: Silent Spring.
Our episode on The Deadly Mantis.
The history of Braille.
How to read or write Braille.
Accessible Canadian money.
A video featuring some Braille writing/typing tools, new and
old, and another video on the
device Charlotte was describing.
Chris learned pickling from Linda Ziedrich: The Joy of
Pickling.
Australian In A Biskit.
More Australian In A Biskit.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon, it's
what all the cool kids are doing.
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January 17, 2023 125. Whether It Is Nasty or Not... [MST3K 1307. Gamera vs. Jiger.]
Happy Gamuary! This time, it’s Gamera vs. Jiger in the battle to win the
hearts of Chris and Charlotte, as they think about parasites, pregnancies,
world’s fairs, accents, and choosing your own adventures!
Show Notes.
Gamera vs. Jiger: IMDb. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
We talked about Katamari Damacy in our episode on the first few Season 13
shorts.
Our episode on the best Gamera episode, Season 3’s Gamera vs.
Guiron.
Expo 86.
Bureau Internationale des Expositions.
The Great Exhibition of 1851 (Chris said the name wrong, whoops).
Palace of Fine Arts and Treasure
Island in San
Francisco.
The Space Needle.
National Cash Register
Building.
Game Show 1939!
An article about Expo
70, the official Expo 70 site, and an informative
lecture.
Stockhausen and Beethoven in the German
pavilion.
Yes, turns out Gamera was at Expo
70.
Expo 2025!
Kon Omura in 赤い霊柩車 (Red Dead
Wagon, or Red Hearse; he’s in the opening scenes).
And in the kids show 頓馬天狗
(Tonma Tengu).
Edo Porn (Hokusai Manga).
Starland Vocal Band: Afternoon
Delight.
The Starland Vocal Band Show.
Our episodes on Beyond Atlantis
and Hercules and the Captive
Women.
The relevant entry from the diary of Samuel
Pepys (the chant is in French).
Donald Sutherland’s (not that one) translation of Aristophanes’s
Lysistrata gives the Spartans Southern accents.
An article on translating accents in
literature.
Richard Burton’s (not that one) translation of The Arabian
Nights.
The official Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book website.
Some CYOA books: Return to Atlantis. The Cave of
Time (with the sand-turned-to-glass scene Charlotte
describes). The Lost Jewels of Nabooti. Inside UFO
54-40.
On the gimmick of Inside UFO 54-40.
Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography.
Ryan North: To Be or Not to Be.
“Don’t fake the funk on a nasty
dunk.”
Support us on Patreon and get all sorts of
Megaphonic goodies.
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December 29, 2022 124. Thank You, Heads! [MST3K 505. The Magic Voyage of Sinbad.]
The Magic Voyage of Sinbad finds not the Bird of Happiness but the Chris
and Charlotte of Chatting, as they discuss Sinbad, Sadko, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakoff, novelty chess, and instant coffee.
Show Notes.
The Magic Voyage of Sinbad: IMDb.
MST3K
Wiki.
Megaphonic’s twitch channel. Maybe keep
an eye out on New Year’s Day, starting around noon eastern?
Subscribe to our Patreon to hear us talk
about The Greatest Story Ever Told!
Our episode on The Day the Earth
Froze.
Были́на.
A translation of the Sadko
story.
The gusli. Accept no substitutes.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko,
the tone poem, and Sadko, the
opera.
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad.
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad.
Sinbad and the Eye of the
Tiger.
Our episodes on Starcrash and
Angels Revenge.
Kitty Kelley: His Way.
Liz Smith on meeting
Sinatra.
Earl Wilson: Sinatra: The Unauthorized Biography.
Judith Exner: My Story.
Super Mario Chess.
In retrospect, Chris was probably looking at the wrong set. Shrug.
All about instant coffee.
James Hoffmann on caffeine
quantities.
The LA Times on the Tasters Choice ads.
Watch some of the ads!
We mention Anthony and Murray in our episode on Terror from the Year
5000.
Beyond Black, Take Back The
Night, and the Sexual and Gender Minority
Youth Resource Center all do good work, mostly
near Charlotte, which you can support—but consider looking at what’s going on
near you!
Support us on Patreon and you can hear our
bonus bits and our episode on the Donald Pleasence vehicle The Greatest Story
Ever Told. Whoo!
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December 21, 2022 123. It All Comes Back to Beastmaster. [MST3K 403. City Limits.]
City Limits drives circles around Chris and Charlotte as they talk about
Kim Cattrall, James Earl Jones, Rae Dawn Chong, Robbie Benson, and Morrissey.
Show Notes.
City Limits: IMDb. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
Fiasco Family Movie Night.
Our patreon has some new features!
The Greatest Story Ever Told.
(And yes, Charlotte did join us!)
Kim Cattrall and Pierre Trudeau.
Mannequin.
Big Trouble in Little China.
Today’s Special.
This is CNN.
Beastmaster or Conan the
Barbarian?
Commando.
John Stockwell and Andy Warhol.
John Stockwell and Bianca Jagger (taken by Andy Warhol).
Breast Men.
Beauty and the Beast.
Gaston’s song.
Grim Fandango.
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.
The Smiths: Shiela Take a Bow.
Austin City Limits.
Khruangbin on Austin City
Limits.
Guns by state.
Our episode on Pod People.
Gerry Rafferty: Baker’s Street.
Hūsker Dū.
Paul Revere and the Raiders: Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee
Reservation Indian).
Billy Preston: Nothing from
Nothing.
Roger Ramjet and his PEP Pills.
Support us on Patreon and you can hear us talk about The Greatest Story Ever
Told!
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November 24, 2022 122. My Own Personal Creepy Doll. [MST3K 818. Devil Doll.]
Happy Turkey Day! Chris and Charlotte are having dinner with a Devil Doll
, and they’re having awkward conversation about creepy dolls, rowdy dorms,
endless puppets, ice cream, and Magic: The Gathering.
[cw: The movie has scenes of sexual assault. We discuss that fact, but
outside of the plot summary, we don’t go into detail. ]
Show Notes.
Devil Doll: IMDb. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
Watch the Surgically Enchanced Turkey Day at the
Gizmoplex for free! Oh, you already are?
Cat-Women of the Moon on
Rifftrax.
The Carol Burnett Show: The
Rehearsal.
Fiasco Family Movie Night.
Our episode on Girls Town.
The ode to pants is from Hercules Against the Moon
Men.
Our episode on The Undead.
Charlotte’s doll. And a
close up.
Frozen Charlotte.
That episode of Lore.
An article about the Island of
Dolls.
The website for the Island of Dolls.
Our episode on Riding with Death.
Paul Winchell with Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead
Smiff.
Topo Gigio on the Ed Sullivan
Show.
Edgar Bergen and Charlie
McCarthy.
Peggy Lee: Is That All There Is?
John Parish and Polly Jean Harvey: Is That All There
Is?
The Gilroy Garlic
Festival.
Salt & Straw.
Polly Ann Ice Cream.
Murphy’s Ice Cream in Ireland.
Magic: The Gathering.
Support It’s Just A Show and listen to our
superfan bonus bits. And if you do: Thank you!
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November 15, 2022 121. Weenie Roast! [MST3K 503. Swamp Diamonds.]
Swamp Diamonds drags Chris and Charlotte into the bayou to ask them about
Mike “Touch” Connors, Beverly Garland, Fred Mertz, tuna wiggle, and racist
fire drills.
With the short: What to Do on a Date.
Show Notes.
Swamp Diamonds: IMDb. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
What to Do on a Date: IMDb.
UnMSTed.
Watch the Turkey Day marathon!
Our episodes on The Starfighters,
Warrior of the Lost World, and
Catalina Caper. Oh, and The Horror
of Party Beach.
And our episodes on Santo and the Treasure of
Dracula, Beyond
Atlantis, and Sleep for
Health.
Is Henry Kissinger Dead Yet?
More on Touch’s name.
The Day the World Ended.
MST3K: The Home Game was actually played twice, with different riffs:
4pm and
11pm.
[Slight erratum: The first Turkey Day Marathon actually happened at the
beginning of Season 3.]
Turkey Day ’91 hymn. [By the
way: The original hymn, sung by Perry
Como.]
Turkey Day ’94 bumper introducing Swamp
Diamonds.
Cat-Women of the Moon.
The Fast and the Furious.
Little Shop of Horrors.
David Stern on IMDb.
Francis [the Talking Mule].
The Musée Camille Claudel in Paris.
Which twin had the Toni?
So You Want a Model Railroad
with Jane Frazee and George O’Hanlon (as Joe McDoakes).
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community
Center in New York City.
The 519 in Toronto.
And a site that lists LGBT+ community centres in various
places.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and
you can hear bonus bits, including a whole segment on Viewmasters that was cut
from this episode for time.
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