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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February 01, 2022 109. The Many Reasons It’s Bizarre. [MST3K 312. Gamera vs. Guiron.]
Gamuary continues as Adam and Chris watch the best Gamera episode, season 3’s
take on Gamera vs. Guiron! They get to talk about the Richard Burton,
Elizabeth Taylor, The Wooster Group, Mark Russell, and Michael Feinstein.
Show Notes.
Gamera vs. Guiron: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
Adam was trying to recall reading Samaris twenty
years ago, and may have gotten some details wrong.
Adam’s other podcast, A Part Of Our Scare-itage.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
[trailer].
Chris talked about Boys in the Band on
another podcast.
1984 [trailer].
Cleopatra [trailer].
Exorcist II: The Heretic
[trailer].
The Exorcist II has a small role for Dana
Plato, who is best known for being one
of the Diff’rent Strokes kids, but was in an episode of The Facts of Life,
because those shows are in the same universe.
Our episode on Rocketship X-M.
Arnold’s Gourmet Kitchen
presents: Woks.
John Lennon: Rock ‘N’
Roll.
The Wooster Group.
That Geraldo episode.
That scene from UHF.
Death Wish IV: The Crackdown
[trailer].
Mark Russell’s final show.
A 2021 concert from Michael
Feinstein.
The General Cinemas trailer we
referenced in our episode on Teenagers from Outer
Space.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon to
hear the super-fan bonus bits that don’t quite make the show.
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January 30, 2022 108. It’s Just A Movie. [MST3K K08. Gamera vs. Guiron.]
Gamera vs. Guiron : The match you’ve all been waiting for! But wait!
What’s this? We’re being told that this is just a warm-up for the match you’ve
all been waiting for! While we wait, Adam and Chris will provide colour
commentary about business casual racism, Space Gaos, weird dubs, Gamera
fanfic, and memorable movie trailers.
Show Notes.
Gamera vs. Guiron: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
Adam was so close.
Just keep track of the Mads on twitter,
OK? You’ll be glad you did.
More Kickstarter
updates.
The Beatles: Rocky Raccoon (Anthology 3
Version).
Our episode on The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became
Mixed-Up Zombies!!?
2015 Gamera proof-of-concept
trailer.
Archive Of Our Own and
FanFiction.net.
Some relevant clips from Comedy Bang!
Bang!
AI Dungeon.
Fuzzy Wuzzy Circus Bath
Soap.
Oh hey, let’s just link to an old Straight Dope about speed
reading.
And let Snopes talk about the Allan Funt story.
Last House on the Left trailer.
The Crying Game trailer.
A notable review of The Crying
Game.
Update: It was Stephen Rea in The Crying Game. And it was Jaye Davidson in
Stargate. Whoops.
We discuss The Tingler
[trailer] in our episode on Terror from the Year
5000.
Mr. Sardonicus trailer.
The Mystery of Edwin
Drood.
I Drink Your Blood & I Eat Your
Skin double trailer.
Nightmare On Elm Street
trailer.
Re-Animator trailer.
The Howling trailer.
This blogpost about William
Castle features the picture with Alfred Hitchcock.
Homicidal trailer.
King Features
Entertainment.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and
listen to a bonus bit about a horror movie trailer Adam made!
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57min
December 28, 2021 107. The Root of All Relationship Problems. [MST3K 813. Jack Frost.]
Jack Frost chills Chris and Adam to the holiday bone, and they try to keep
warm by discussing Russian folk tales, a pumpkin Christmas tale, evil
stepmothers, scary old women, and Yakov Smirnoff’s love advice.
Show Notes.
Jack Frost: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
As always, The Mads. You can now buy some
of their episodes on their own.
Update: Rifftrax released another riff of Jack
Frost right after we recorded this.
Andrew Lang’s translation of The Story of King
Frost.
Drew Gooden on recent Christmas
movies.
TV Tropes on the Wicked Stepmother
trope.
God Told Me To.
Wicked Stepmother.
This Be Kind Rewind video
includes context for Bette Davis in horror films.
TV Tropes on Baba
Yaga.
A translation of Vasilisa the
Beautiful.
Our episode on Parts: The Clonus
Horror.
Holly Hobbie looking like Nastenka.
LongPlay of Fairy Tale about Father Frost, Ivan, and
Nastya.
A somewhat recent interview with Yakov
Smirnoff.
Bonus.
Support us on Patreon and unlock some
benefits (and help us make the show). Thanks!
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1h
December 15, 2021 106. Not a Sausage. [MST3K 1206. Ator, The Fighting Eagle.]
Ator, The Fighting Eagle absolutely refuses to admit to the existence of
prehistoric hang-gliders, leaving Adam and Chris with nothing to talk about
except Cave Dwellers, Joe D’Amato, prurient films, Rodney Dangerfield, and
D&D.
[ cw: This one got weirdly blue, and also there’s some brief mentions of
potentially upsetting interactions between adults and children. Just FYI. ]
Show Notes.
Ator, The Fighting Eagle: IMDB.
MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer. Watch on
Netflix.
Tim Burton’s Alice in
Wonderland.
Ant-Man.
An overview of the Season 13 films.
Our episode on The Million Eyes of
Sumuru.
Dr. Mordrid.
Charles Band’s son’s song.
Our discussion of The Batwoman.
H.G. Wells’ The Shape of Things to
Come.
Munchie.
We talk about Gamera vs. Jiger in our episode on the KTMA Gamera vs.
Zigra.
Adam talks about The Mask on his other
podcast.
Santo in The Treasure of
Dracula.
Our episode on Cave Dwellers.
The Legend of Zelda timeline.
Joe D’Amato.
Joe D’Amato
interview.
[NSFW!]
A picture of Joe.
Anthropophagous trailer [gross,
NSFW]
Stage Fright.
Warrior Queen.
Best Worst Movie.
Terminator II [a.k.a. Shocking
Dark]
Simone Pirone: Runn.
Our episode on Warrior of the Lost
World.
Whatever happened to the “Don’t Tase Me Bro”
guy?
Skull and Bones.
Grant Bociocco’s Instagram.
Ladybugs.
Rover Dangerfield.
My 5 Wives.
Bonus.
Support us on Patreon and you can hang out
with us in a little Slack and you can listen to a bonus bit about the guy who
plays Griba.
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1h
November 25, 2021 105. It’s Thong. [MST3K 301. Cave Dwellers.]
Happy Turkey Day! Cave Dwellers hang-glides right into Adam and Chris’s
hearts, as they talk about early MST3K experiences, vast tracts of Keeffe,
Alan Hale Jr (for some reason), Danny Elfman (again!), and Dave Foley.
Show Notes.
Cave Dwellers: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer. Watch on
ShoutFactoryTV!
Where to watch Turkey Day 2021.
The Mads will riff Manos.
Our mega-episode on Manos.
Mary Jo Pehl’s Twitch channel.
Our previous episode, on The Robot vs. the Aztec
Mummy.
And our recent episodes on The Touch of
Satan and Teen-Age Crime
Wave, the one we actually called
“Pinteresque”.
An interview with Miles O’Keeffe from the year before this episode was
released.
Tarzan The Ape Man (1981).
The poster for Tarzan The Ape
Man.
Waxwork.
Iron Warrior.
Quest for the Mighty Sword.
Surviving Gilligan’s Island.
Clawed: The Legend of Sasquatch.
Charles Durning in The Best Little Whorehouse in
Texas.
Danny Elfman: Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
Soundtrack.
The Alan Parsons Project: The Eye in the
Sky and
Sirius.
Our very first episode, on Rocketship
X-M.
Chuck Woolery, these days.
Grateful Dead: Sugar Magnolia.
Our episode on Master Ninja I.
Taur the Mighty. (Credits are
from around the 9 minute mark.)
Troll 2.
Mike Douglas: The Men in My Little Girl’s
Life.
John and Yoko on The Mike Douglas
Show.
Devo: I Desire.
Rolling Stone on the royalty
situation.
BONUS.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and
help us research and record the show, listen to some bonus bits, and hang out
with us in a friendly little Slack.
...more
1h
November 18, 2021 104. Oh No! [MST3K 102. The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy.]
The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy are too busy fighting to notice Chris and
Adam talking about early experiments, serial movies, mummification, mummy
movies, and mummy cats.
With the Commando Cody short, Radar Men from the Moon , part 1.
Show Notes.
The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy: IMDB.
MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer. Watch on
ShoutFactoryTV!
Radar Men from the Moon: IMDB.
Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric
Women.
By the way, you really won’t want to miss the next Mads
outing…
“Weird Al” Yankovic: Mr.
Popeil.
15 weird owl facts.
The It’s Just A Show tshirt is just a dog bone.
Flash
Gordon.
Flesh Gordon.
The version of the Transformers theme Adam is talking
about.
Judex.
Louis Feuillade.
Support us on Patreon and hang out on our friendly
Slack.
How to make a mummy.
Mummy’s voice recreated.
Tweet from @MST3K.
Battle Bones ad.
This Movie Sucks!
Our episode on The Wild, Wild World of
Batwoman.
Zamfir!
Bubba Ho-Tep.
Mummies Alive!
Mummy brown.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and hear
a bonus segment about miniature golf courses.
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1h
October 31, 2021 103. She’s So Flexible. [MST3K 908. The Touch of Satan.]
The Touch of Satan compels Adam and Chris to mull over spooky movies,
harpsichord music, eighteenth-century bad boys, curious products, and… Gorgo?
Show Notes.
The Touch of Satan: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer. Watch on
ShoutFactoryTV!
Elliot Brood’s cover of Matt Maxwell’s C’est
l’Halloween.
The Shaggs: It’s Halloween.
The Mads: Halloween Safety.
Adam’s other podcast, A Part Of Our Scare-itage.
HubrisWeen!
Chris’s new podcast, Game Show 1939!
Our episode on Girls Town, way back
when.
Robert O. Ragland.
The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra.
Abby.
Q: The Winged Serpent.
The Thing With Two Heads.
Jaguar Lives!
Our episode on The Beast of Yucca
Flats.
Mr. Rogers plays the glass
armonica.
The Notorious Concubines. (James
McCarty presumably wrote the English translation?)
Our episodes on Parts: The Clonus
Horror and The Giant Spider
Invasion.
Herbert von Karajan looking a little like the dude in today’s
movie.
Some Ronco ads.
The Refutation of All
Heresies.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon.
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54min
October 05, 2021 102. Pinteresque. [MST3K 522. Teen-age Crime Wave.]
Teen-age Crime Wave gets Chris and Adam to talk about strong perfume,
claustrophobic films, Tommy Cook trivia, bad kids, and (you guessed it) Donald
Pleasence.
Show Notes.
Teen-age Crime Wave: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
The end credits from the NES Castlevania game.
The Megaphonic hosts played The Donald Pleasence
Game.
Our previous Donald Pleasence Day
episodes: Warrior of the Lost World, The Pumaman, Alien from L.A..
1984 (not
1984) vs.
1984.
Kliph Nesteroff, comedy
historian.
Our episodes on Kitten with a Whip,
Girls Town, and
Manos.
We discuss Ed Wood’s Jail Bait in our episode on The Violent
Years.
Our episode on Revenge of the
Creature.
The Brain from Planet Arous
Tommy Cook.
Tommy Cook interviewed in an upcoming RetroFan
magazine.
Selena Roberts: A Necessary Spectacle: Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs, and the
Tennis Match that Leveled the Game.
We talk about Leslie Nielsen in our episode on City on
Fire.
The Great Escape.
The Great Escape II.
The Great Escape: The Video Game.
The Donald Pleasence war story occurs in our episode on The
Pumaman.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and
you can hear a bonus bit about other beloved/annoying ads.
...more
57min
September 27, 2021 101. The Camera Loves Rondo. [MST3K 702. The Brute Man.]
The Brute Man creeps after Adam and Chris, who discuss Manos reactions,
Rondo Hatton, early travelogue movies, early chickens, and egg facts.
Features the short: The Chicken of Tomorrow.
Show Notes.
The Brute Man: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
The Chicken of Tomorrow: IMDB. Watch
unMSTed.
December Bride.
Origin of Oskee Wawa?
Adam on Norm
Macdonald.
Norm Macdonald: Based on a True Story.
Rondo Hatton.
Acromegaly.
Pearl of Death.
We talk about Richard Kiel in our episode on
Eegah!
Rondo and Bob.
The Rondo Hatton mask.
The Rondo Hatton collector’s figure.
The Rondo Awards.
Pillow of Death.
Lowell Thomas and T.E.
Lawrence.
Mummenschanz on Letterman.
Oscar O’Shea.
Another short about The Chicken of
Tomorrow.
An excellent National Geographic article on the Chicken of
Tomorrow.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon to
hear all our bonus bits, including a whole Scorner on Franz Liszt that we cut
for time.
...more
59min
September 10, 2021 100. A Cult Favourite. [MST3K 424. Manos: The Hands of Fate.]
In our very special one-hundredth episode, Manos: The Hands of Fate keeps
our heroes talking for a long, long time about notorious movies, controversial
jazz, weird zeitgeists, stale comics, and exactly what MST3K does that makes
us love it so.
Features the short, Hired, part 2!
(If this is your first episode of It’s Just A Show, welcome! This one is a
little different.)
Show Notes.
Manos: The Hands of Fate: IMDB.
MST3K
Wiki.
Watch it on ShoutFactoryTV!
Hired!: IMDB.
UnMSTed. [Part 1
was covered in our episode on Bride of the
Monster.]
Our episode on Squirm.
Our TV Tropes
page.
Halloween II action
figures.
The Pumaman action figures, as discussed on our episode on The
Pumaman.
[A binky is, of course, a pacifier.]
Jackey Neyman Jones’s memoir, Growing Up Manos, is
an terrific must-read for any fans of the movie or the episode. (She played
Debbie, the little girl, in the movie.)
Our look at the Coleman Francis trilogy:
Skydivers; The Beast of Yucca
Flats; Red Zone
Cuba.
Proposition Deep 13: Our guide to thirteen episodes from the thirteen
seasons of MST3K (so far)!
Our episodes on The Wild Wild World of
Batwoman and Pod
People.
The restoration of Manos.
Harold P. Warren: Computerized Salesmanship: The New Last
Frontier.
A review of the stage adaptation of Manos that Chris
saw.
The video game adaptation of Manos on
Steam.
Manos: The Hands of Felt.
Manos Returns and Manos: The
Rise of Torgo.
Our episode on Monster A Go-Go.
Nathan Rabin at the AV Club.
Hired! in the Prelinger Archive.
The (SFW) Playboy interview,
scanned.
Our episodes on Village of the
Giants and Master Ninja
II.
Lysistrata.
Calvin and Hobbes (and terrible captions) on
Twitter.
Nancy on Twitter.
The first Garfield comic.
Garfield and the pipe.
On Cathy. [Includes the pie comic.]
Charles Schulz: The Complete Peanuts starts here.
Non-binary Krazy Kat and
Popeye.
We talked more about Archie comics in our episode on
Eegah!
That Far Side comic.
Others have played that car
game.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon for bonus bits and
more. (Thanks!)
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