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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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.
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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.
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you can hear bonus bits, including a whole segment on Viewmasters that was cut
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November 01, 2022 120. Shaking It and Waiting for the Horrors to Come. [MST3K 817. The Horror of Party Beach.]
Happy Halloween! The Horror of Party Beach emerges from the beach to
interrupt Chris and Charlotte as they discuss beach parties, Broadway shows,
ballads, body hair, and BOO!
[Did we scare you?]
Show Notes.
The Horror of Party Beach: IMDb.
MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
UnMSTed.
Adam talks about The Mask on A Part Of Our Scare-itage. Check it out!
The poster for The Horror of Party
Beach.
Our episodes on Catalina Caper and
Village of the Giants.
Trailer for I Drink Your Blood/I Eat Your
Skin. [Kinda gross, be warned!]
The Del-Aires: Zombie Stomp [or stream
it].
Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music.
Zeitkratzer: Metal Machine
Music.
Waiting for Godot with
Robin Williams and Steve Martin.
The Anthology of American Folk
Music [including Harry
Smith’s amazing liner notes].
More about Harry Smith.
Buell Kazee: The Wagoner’s Lad.
Joen Baez: The Wagoner’s Lad.
The Kossoy Sisters: The Wagoner’s
Lad.
Some of the origins of the concept of “folk
music”.
Nair for short shorts.
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October 20, 2022 119. Justice for Waluigi. [MST3K 816. Prince of Space.]
Happy (you guessed it) Donald Pleasence Day! Oh no, the dastardly Prince of
Space has invaded, hoping to steal our precious reserves of Donald
Pleasence! Luckily his weapons are useless against Chris and Charlotte, who
instead talk about wormholes, stargates, portals, haiku, and Lutherans.
Show Notes.
Prince of Space: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
UnMSTed.
Donkeylips and
Zeke the Plumber, remembered.
Happy Donald Pleasence Day! Our previous Donald Pleasence Day
episodes: Warrior of the Lost World, The Pumaman, Alien from L.A., Pod People, Teen-age Crime Wave.
Catch Chris and other Megaphonians streaming most Friday nights at
twitch.tv/MegaphonicFM
Our episodes on the Coleman
Francis
movies.
The results of that
poll.
Wormholes.
A little bit about
haiku.
Steve McCaffery: The Basho Variations.
Gary Barwin and Derek Bealieu: Frogments from the Frag Pool: Haiku after
Basho.
R.H. Blyth: Haiku.
Ezra Pound: In a Station of the
Metro.
Haiku generator.
Dennis Franz looks back.
Fabian: Tiger.
Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs
also stars Vincent Price. We should have mentioned that.
Junior Samples samples from Hee-Haw.
Hardrock, Coco, and Joe: The Three Little
Dwarfs.
Phyllis Diller.
Some Wario (and Waluigi)
history.
Modernist Lutheran
churches
and Hallgrímskirkja.
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September 30, 2022 118b. Salute Your Shorts. [MST3K Short of the Month Club, part 1.]
Chris and Charlotte enjoy the first few shorts from Season 13’s Short of the
Month Club! Up on deck: Pipeline to the Clouds (in which GE will solve our
water supply issues); Let’s Make a Meal in 20 Minutes (thank heavens for
canned food); Court Case (balls! tennis balls!); and Sleep for Health
(good luck with that).
Show Notes.
Pipeline to the Clouds: IMDb. MST3K
Wiki.
UnMSTed.
Let’s Make a Meal in 20 Minutes:
IMDb. MST3K
Wiki.
Court Case: MST3K
Wiki.
UnMSTed.
Sleep for Health: IMDb. MST3K
Wiki.
UnMSTed.
Salute Your Shorts.
A playlist of shorts riffed by The
Mads.
More Power to America, the comic
book.
John Oliver recent episode on water
issues is an interesting
comparison.
Our episode on Progress Island,
U.S.A.
We talked about C&H sugar in our last episode, but it was cut and put into
the bonus bit.
Let’s Make a Sandwich.
Some Alaska Airlines ads from the
80s.
Our episode on Cheating.
Sesame Street: Making Crayons.
We talked about the Battle of the Sexes in our episode on Teen-Age Crime
Wave.
Katamari Damacy.
The It’s Just A Show T-Shirt.
We stream games and such most Fridays on
Twitch. Join us!
Support us on Patreon to hear all the
bonus bits and such.
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September 05, 2022 118. Heart of a Champion. [MST3K 502. Hercules.]
Happy Labour Day! That famous dodecalabourer, Hercules, asks Chris and
Charlotte to talk about mythmashes, golden fleece, Hercules failing to
perform, old ads, and patooties.
Show Notes.
Hercules: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer. Watch it on
YouTube.
Our other Hercules episodes: Hercules Against the Moon
Men. Hercules
Unchained. The Loves of
Hercules. Hercules and the Captive
Women.
Hercules with Dwayne “The Rock”
Johnson.
The Labours of Hercules
and the Argonauts.
Medea.
Apollonius of Rhodes: Argonautica.
Oscar Meyer ads and the story
behind the theme.
Dodge Ram ads.
Jenny Craig.
SuperAmerica.
Milkbone.
Pace
Picante
ads. New
Jersey?
Bearwiches.
Dave Clark Five: I Like It Like
That. (But Chris
Kenner had a hit with it first.)
Taste it all.
Hercules in the Haunted World.
Omen III: The Final Conflict.
Jim Dine.
Joan Embery on the Tonight
Show.
Dennis Day: An Irishman Will Steal Your Heart
Away.
Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds: Don’t Pull Your Love
Out and Fallin’ in
Love.
All about hotdish.
Watch The Match Game on
YouTube.
The Real Match Game Story: Behind the
Blank.
A particular episode of Match Game 75.
Elvis Presley: Kentucky Rain.
Eddie Rabbit: I Love a Rainy
Night and Two Dollars in the
Jukebox.
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August 23, 2022 117. Flinching and Seething and Whimpering. [MST3K 206. Ring of Terror.]
Ring of Terror dares Chris and Charlotte to gather at the morgue and
discuss bad prints, old actors, irrational fears, medical school, and
invisible creeps.
Featuring the short: The Phantom Creeps, episode 3!
cw: Discussions of animal harm, fat shaming, and sexual assault.
Show Notes.
Ring of Terror: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
Our episode on The Pumaman.
George Mather obituary.
Norman Ollestad: Inside the
FBI.
Chris forgot to mention that Pamela
Raymond played Alice Lund.
June Smaney.
Tiger sharks. No, wait: Leopard
sharks! That’s what Charlotte
was talking about.
Our episode on The Time Travelers.
A poem by Henry Gibson.
Betty White’s The Pet Set.
A review of Karen Finley’s yams.
The Hollies: Bus Stop.
Louis Sullivan.
Our episode on Riding with Death.
The history of Betty Crocker.
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August 13, 2022 116. Completely Unrecognizable. [MST3K 614. San Francisco International.]
San Francisco International pats down Chris and Charlotte to see if
they’re holding any information on Pernell Roberts, Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker,
Michael Landon, or the Ponderosa Ranch.
Show Notes.
San Francisco International: IMDB.
MST3K
wiki.
MST3K’s Gamera vs. Jiger
trailer.
Chris talked about Airport in our episode on
Avalanche.
Pernell Roberts.
Radar was played by Gary
Burghoff.
Pernell in Montgomery,
Alabama.
Gentle Ben’s opening credits.
The Mighty Casey.
UPDATE: Chris misspoke. Clu was in Master Ninja
I.
Remembering
Clu
Gulager.
Van Johnson as The Minstrel.
Our episode on Girl in Gold Boots.
Tab Hunter Confidential.
Did You Hear the One about the Traveling
Saleslady?
The Feminist and the Fuzz.
Our episode on Rocketship X-M.
Dr. Seuss: The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins.
“My doctor said Mylanta.”
We discuss Joe Orton more in our episode on Parts: The Clonus
Horror.
“I ate all the Frusen Glädjé.”
Fred Garvin…
Pablo Casals: Bach Cello
Suites.
The Ponderosa Ranch.
Get your own Ponderosa Ranch tin
cup.
Susan Raye: L.A. International
Airport.
Some of Chris’s postcards of
airports.
Denver’s baggage handling
system.
They Fight Crime!
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July 22, 2022 115. I Love Tom’s Old Voice! [MST3K 1306. Demon Squad.]
Demon Squad applies some prosthetics to Chris and Charlotte’s faces as
they talk about film noir, fancy hats, Hummel figurines, Buffy the Vampire
Slayer, and Mobile, Alabama.
Show Notes.
Demon Squad: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
The Demon Squad folk had an “ask me anything” thread on the MST3K
forums (which
clarifies a few things we wonder about in this episode).
Demon Squad’s
poster is…
not entirely based on the movie.
Constantine.
The Frankendemon’s head has also appeared in Star
Raiders.
The Maltese Falcon.
Other films by the makers of Demon
Squad.
Walter “Zaney” Blaney.
Zaney Blaney on the Tonight
Show.
Trilby vs. Fedora.
Selena Gomez and the Scene: Hit the
Lights.
The exorcism rite is on page 486 of this pdf of the Rituale Romanum of
1614.
Hummel figurines.
Our episode on Master Ninja II.
A freeze frame of the brochure.
And one of Nick Moon’s office.
The Crichton Leprechaun.
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June 24, 2022 114. Pie Palindrome Pie. [MST3K 815. Agent for H.A.R.M.]
Agent for H.A.R.M. offers Chris and Charlotte a comfy cardigan to keep
them warm as they discuss spies, panties, Prince, palindromes, and pies.
Show Notes.
Agent for H.A.R.M.: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
The Polka King.
If you support us on Patreon with us and
chat during the premiere of Demon Squad!
Our episodes on Operation Double
007 and Danger!! Death
Ray.
In Like Flynt.
Our episodes on Girl in Gold Boots
and Catalina Caper.
The Fiasco Family on The Astro-Zombies.
Our episode on Moon Zero Two.
Megaphonic podcast This Is Your Mixtape,
which has featured Adam,
Beth, and
Chris.
E.E. Cummings.
Our episodes on Angels Revenge and
Eegah!
The relevant scene from Anatomy of a
Murder.
Harry Caray.
Jan and Dean: Dead Man’s Curve.
Our episode on Jack Frost.
Prince and friends: While My Guitar Gently
Weeps.
Prince’s Superbowl halftime
show.
An oral history of the Superbowl
show, and another
one.
Ed’s Redeeming Qualities: Bob.
Chris talks about James Joyce’s
Ulysses over on The Spouter-Inn.
Nick Montfort and William Gillespie: 2002: A Palindrome
Story.
Georges Perec’s palindrome in
French.
Demitri Martin’s
palindrome.
‘Weird Al’ Yankovic: Bob.
They Might Be Giants: I Palindrome
I.
Black bottom
pie.
Shoofly pie.
Chestnut and mushroom
pie.
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