It’s Just A Show

By Chris Piuma and Charlotte Wells (and Adam Clarke and Beth Martin)

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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.
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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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August 24, 2021 99. I Have Enough Friends. [MST3K 423. Bride of the Monster.]
Bride of the Monster traps Adam and Chris in the swamp and gets them to
monologue about Edward D. Wood Jr., Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, octopuses, and
door-to-door sales.
Features the short: Hired! Part 1.
Show Notes.
Bride of the Monster: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer. Watch on
ShoutFactoryTV!
Hired!: IMDB.
UnMSTed.
Look, just follow The Mads Are Back on
Twitter, ok? And get ready for The Brain
Eaters
[trailer] on September 14th!
Leonard Nimoy’s “Australian”
accent.
MST3K’s Mindless Summer.
The Moon Zero Two Riff-a-Long
and our episode on Moon Zero Two.
The Mary Jo Pehl Show will be Tuesday August 24th (so, today) at 8pm Eastern
at Dumb Industries’ Twitch channel.
Mary Jo Pehl and Trace Beaulieu’s
RenFest project.
Mary Jo’s YouTube series, Ruth Larson Lives! A Lifestyle
Vlog!
We talked about Edward D. Wood Jr. in our episode on The Violent
Years. We also discuss Jail Bait in
our episode on Hercules Unchained
and Glen or Glenda in our episode on The Thing That Couldn’t
Die.
Tim Burton’s biopic Ed Wood
[trailer].
The Creep Behind the Camera
[trailer].
Orson Welles in The Critic.
Turns out Dolores Fuller has written her
autobiography.
Rudolph Grey: Nightmare of Ecstasy is the Ed Wood
oral history book.
Night of the Ghouls [trailer].
Ed Wood: Hollywood Rat Race is his book of
reflections on the industry.
Ed Wood: Killer in Drag, one of his novels.
Peter Godfrey-Smith: Other Minds: The Octopus, The Sea, and the Deep Origins
of Consciousness is an intriguing-looking book that
I didn’t have time to actually read before recording.
The octopus and the crab trap.
Paul the Octopus didn’t
correctly predict the World Cup every time, but he was pretty close.
Faith Popcorn.
A history of microwave popcorn. Turns out there was an Act I!
Our episodes on The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters
of the Great Sea Serpent and
Squirm.
Bob Woodward: Wired! The Short Life and Fast Times of John
Belushi.
Wired! [trailer].
Faron Young: Hello, Walls.
Willie Nelson: Hello, Walls.
Gore Vidal: Myra Breckenridge.
Myra Breckenridge [trailer].
Bunny Breckenridge.
William Demarest.
Our episode on Teenagers from Outer
Space.
Polygon on the Red Cross in video
games.
Alone in the Dark [trailer].
Wake of the Red Witch
[trailer].
Our episode on The Deadly Mantis
mentions Gig Young.
Bonus.
Support us on Patreon and you can hear all
our superfan bonus bits (and help us make the next hundred episodes)!
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59min
August 03, 2021 98. Two Terrible Tastes That Somehow Taste Great Together. [MST3K 812. The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?]
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up
Zombies!!? may not be all that Adam and Chris have to contend with this
time!!? They talk about Ray Dennis Steckler, Renée Richards, Wendy Carlos,
Peter Falk, and the alleged Mrs. Peter Falk.
[ Content warning: Discussions of transphobia (and a bit of homophobia and
racism). ]
Show Notes.
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up
Zombies!!?: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki. Trailer. Watch on
ShoutFactoryTV.
Our Facebook page.
Listener Marty runs a lovely Facebook group about MST3K: The Comedy Central
Years, which you might ask
to join if you do the Facebook thing.
An oral history of Porky’s, because why not.
The Hollywood Knights.
The Mads will be taking on The Beach Girls and the
Monster soon. Get your
tickets!
The delightful poster for The Beach Girls and the
Monster.
Adam’s other podcast, A Part Of Our Scare-itage, looks at Tales from the Crypt:
Demon Knight. Check it out!
Our episode on The Leech Woman,
which is indeed the one with that “Transgender Society” riff.
We discuss Joe Bob Briggs in our episode on Parts: The Clonus
Horror.
Ray Dennis
Steckler.
We discuss Donald Glut in our episode on I Was a Teenage
Werewolf.
Our episodes on Eegah! and The
Beast of Yucca Flats.
Wild Guitar.
Lester Bangs’s essay is in Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor
Dung.
Rat Pfink a Boo Boo.
Baty y Roby contra el Crimen
poster.
Our episode on The Saga of the Viking Women and their Voyage to the Great Sea
Serpent.
Vilmos Zsigmond.
László Kovács.
Joseph V. Mascelli: The Five Cs of Cinematography.
Mother Maybelle’s Carter
Scratch.
Our episode on Hamlet.
Jaco Pastorius: A Portrait of
Tracy.
Joni Mitchell: Hejira.
You’re Wrong About did an episode on Shannon
Faulkner.
Dennis James.
Renée Richards profiled in Sports
Illustrated.
Wendy Carlos: Switched-On
Bach.
“Weird Al” Yankovic and Wendy Carlos: Peter and the
Wolf.
Wendy Carlos’s delightful website.
Momus and the fallout of a poor
decision.
Mrs. Columbo.
Special episodes of Columbo and Mrs.
Columbo.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and
hang out with us in a friendly little members-only Slack!
...more
56min
July 20, 2021 97. Stuntman On Fire. [MST3K K16. City On Fire.]
City On Fire traps Chris and Adam, who are quickly running out of oxygen
as they talk about Ava Gardner, Susan Clark, Shelley Winters, Leslie Nielsen,
and Max Headroom.
Show Notes.
City On Fire: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
Never Let Me Go. [And the
trailer for the movie.]
Obligatory link to The Mads.
MST3K will be touring this fall/winter!
Making Contact.
Eyepiece prank on TV
Tropes.
Frank Sinatra covering
Something.
Earthquake.
12 Angry Men vs the
remake.
Our episode on Space Travelers.
I Passed for White.
Vanishing Point.
Petrocelli intro.
Webster intro.
Night of the Hunter.
The Poseidon Adventure.
Ninja 3: The Domination.
Leslie Nielsen on Conan
O’Brien.
Leslie Nielsen’s tombstone.
Liocracy.
Leslie and Erik Nielsen chat.
Creepshow.
Cec Linder.
Hilary [Labow] Farr.
Kenneth Heeley-Ray.
Claude Héroux.
Adam’s other podcast on Scanner Cop and
Videodrome.
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in
Paris.
Max Headroom in Pixels (sigh).
Max Headroom: Merry Christmas Santa
Claus.
The Art of Noise: Paranoimia.
Max Headroom in an old folks’
home.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and
help get Adam a sandwich. Thanks!
...more
57min
July 01, 2021 96. Down The Freak Flag. [MST3K 811. Parts: The Clonus Horror.]
Parts: The Clonus Horror keeps Adam and Chris in a secluded area to get
them to talk about clones, clones, clones, clones, and clones.
Show Notes.
Parts: The Clonus Horror: IMDB.
MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer. Watch on
ShoutFactoryTV!
The update to the Kickstarter we talk about
(there’s
been a new one since then).
Black-and-white films released in the US in 1961, per
IMDB.
Our episodes on The Starfighters
and Carnival Magic.
The Mads will have another Night of Shorts on July
13th.
Our episode on The She-Creature.
Hans
Spemann.
The Life of Dolly.
Obituary for CC.
Article on Little
Nicky.
Barbra Streisand’s pets.
De-extinction.
The Spider-Clone Saga.
The Boys from Brazil.
“Weird Al” Yankovic: I Think I’m A Clone
Now.
The Island.
Our episodes on It Conquered the
World and
Avalanche.
Shields and Yarnell on Sonny and Cher’s
show and having
breakfast.
Firefall: You Are The Woman.
Don Martin’s sound effects.
Salaam Bombay!
Super Dave Osborne and the CN
Tower.
Joe Bob Briggs: Monstervision and Halloween
2.
[The Kids in the Hall sketch is from season 5, episode 9, by the way.]
Longtime Companion.
Jeffrey.
We talk about Wings in our episode on The She-Creature (see above).
Prick Up Your Ears.
Boys in the Band (and the
remake).
Chris talks about Boys in the Band in an episode of The Spouter-Inn.
And the Children Shall Lead.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and
you can hear all our superfan bonus bits (and help Adam get a sammich).
...more
58min
June 14, 2021 95. More Brown’s a-Comin’. [MST3K 1104. Avalanche.]
Avalanche finds Chris and Adam drinking cocoa in the ski lodge, talking
about disastrous movies, disastrous weather, disastrous managers, disastrous
marriages, and disastrous vacations.
Show Notes.
Avalanche: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
We’re way behind, but turns out the next show by The
Mads will feature more shorts!
Jason’s first letter was read in our episode on The She-Creature.
Airport and Airport
’77.
We discussed Barbara Hale in our last episode on The Giant Spider
Invasion.
The Poseidon Adventure.
Roger Corman: How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a
Dime.
An article about the filming of
Avalanche.
The Ambassador.
On Rock Hudson’s sexuality and death.
Shadows and Fog.
Better Late Than Never.
Adam’s other podcast, A Part Of Our Scare-itage on Scanner Cop
2.
Our episode on The Time Travelers.
X Brands.
Corey Allen.
Margaret Keane paintings.
Big Eyes.
Wavy Gravy.
Bonus.
Support us on Patreon and listen to a
bonus bit about 70s desserts.
...more
58min
May 31, 2021 94. A Hate Letter to Wisconsin. [MST3K 810. The Giant Spider Invasion.]
The Giant Spider Invasion invite Adam and Chris to come inside, but they
roll down a hill and talk about spider puppets, mothers’ friends, gross
directors, body snatchers, and baby ducks.
Show Notes.
The Giant Spider Invasion: IMDB.
MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer. Watch free on
ShoutFactoryTV.
The big Kickstarter wrap-up
post.
Robot Wars and Robot
Jox.
Our episode on The Day Time Ended.
Demon Squad.
Gamera vs. Jiger.
Our episode on KTMA’s Gamera vs.
Zigra [with Adam’s description of
Gamera vs. Jiger].
The Mads do The Lost Missile on June
8th.
The Lost Missile [trailer].
R.I.P. Neil Connery.
Our episode on Operation Double
007.
The Giant Spider Invasion poster can be yours.
Our episodes on Squirm and The
Incredible Melting Man.
Bill Rebane and our episode on
Monster A Go-Go.
Blood Harvest.
Twister’s Revenge.
Warning! Spiders!: Goliath
birdeater and dancing
peacock spiders and Patu
digua.
Our episodes on The Crawling Hand
and Angels Revenge.
Robert Easton.
Our episodes on The Wild Wild World of
Batwoman and Wizards of the Lost
Kingdom.
SchleFaZ takes on Angriff der
Riesenspinne.
And our episode on MST3K: The
Movie.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
[1956].
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
[1978].
Body Snatchers [1993].
The Invasion [2007].
We talked about Invasion of the Body Snatchers and communism in our episode on
It Conquered the World.
Our recent Cryptkeeper… Or Not bonus
bit.
Tom T. Hall: I Love.
The Shaggs: I Love.
The Shaggs: Philosophy of the
World
and Shaggs’ Own
Thing.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and
listen to all the superfan bonus bits. Thanks!
...more
58min
May 10, 2021 93. Gangly. [MST3K 111. Moon Zero Two.]
Moon Zero Two will strand Adam and Chris on an asteroid if they don’t find
something to say about Roy Ward Baker, Hammer films, Don Ellis, space suits,
and Power Gloves.
Show Notes.
Moon Zero Two: IMDB. MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
Watch. Watch with an
extra layer of riffs. (Thanks
as always, ShoutFactoryTV!)
That Kickstarter you might have heard
of.
MST3K’s YouTube
channel has
archives of all the live events.
Adam and Chris and other Megaphonic friends stream Jackbox games (or similar)
every Friday night at 8pm Eastern, 5 Pacific, 9:30 Newfoundland on the
Megaphonic Twitch channel.
Our episodes on Zombie Nightmare
and Starcrash.
Roy Ward Baker.
Roy Ward Baker’s memoir, Director's Cut: A Memoir of 60 Years in Film and
Television.
A Night to Remember [trailer].
Quatermass and the Pit
[trailer].
We talked about Amicus in our episode on At the Earth’s
Core.
The Monster Club [trailer].
Paul Beeson [IMDB].
Kate Bush: Hammer Horror.
Hammer Films.
A History of Horrors: The Rise and Fall of the House of
Hammer.
Curse of Frankenstein
[trailer].
We talked about Christopher Lee in our episode on The Castle of Fu
Manchu.
James Bernard.
Don Ellis: Theme from The French
Connection. Pussy Wiggle
Stomp. Open
Beauty. Star
Wars.
Don Ellis interviewing George
Harrison.
We talk about Gil Mellé in our episode on The Last
Chase.
Michael
Collins’s
photo.
Michael Collins: Carrying the Fire.
Reviewed by our own Michael Collins on Dear
Reader.
John Burke: Moon Zero Two.
That scene from The
Wizard.
Gaming Historian: The Story of the Power
Glove.
Dance Aerobics.
Eero Aarnio’s Ball chair.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon.
(Thanks!)
...more
55min
May 01, 2021 92. Were You A Teenage Anything? [MST3K 809. I Was A Teenage Werewolf.]
I Was A Teenage Werewolf stalks Adam and Chris in the gym, overhearing
them talk about teen movies, wolfmen, Michael Landon, Bernard Hermann, and
Magic Voice.
Show Notes.
I Was A Teenage Werewolf: IMDB.
MST3K
Wiki.
Trailer.
The Mads riff on Sonny Bono in
Marijuana.
The Mads will return with T-Bird
Gang.
The MST3K fundraiser still has a few days to go!
Our episode on the KTMA Gamera.
We talked about Rebel without a Cause in our episode on The Crawling
Hand.
My Teenage Daughter.
Teenagers Battle the Thing, directed
by Dave Flocker.
Our episodes on Teenagers from Outer
Space and The Wild Wild World of
Batwoman.
Donald Glut.
We talked about Forrest J. Ackerman in our episode on The Time
Travelers.
Lon Chaney Jr.
Paul Naschy.
La Marca del Hombre Loco
[trailer].
All the teenage werewolf scenes in I Was A Teenage
Werewolf.
We talked about the Psycho shower scene in our episode on Phase
IV.
Bernard Hermann’s original Twilight Zone
opening.
Our episode on Squirm.
Bonus.
Support It’s Just A Show on Patreon and
listen to some bonus bits, including a lycanthropic Cryptkeeper Or Not?!
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