The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Thread

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Correction: Rodgers and Hammerstein. Rodgers sure got around on collabs.

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Fellow Unbelievers:

In this Host Segment from Jungle Goddess, Joel and the Bots take on both Racism and Imperialism. From Europe’s Molasses, Rum, and Slaves to the U.S.A’s “Manifest Destiny,” to Red China’s “Belt and Road Initiative,” to Islam’s Global Jihad, not enough has changed for the better about our species. Nevertheless, Joel doesn’t give up the fight for Sapience in Man and Machine alike:

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Fellow Unbelievers:

I couldn’t find the video of Crow saying “Booger,” but at Mike’s trial for being a Destroyer of Worlds, Crow gives a video deposition where he says far more explicit things:

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Fellow Unbelievers:

Mike and the Bots underscore long and strong why the Appeal to Arbitrary Authority is a Fallacy, especially when it comes to what constitutes a good movie. Sometimes “I know what I like” is a valid answer, especially when you can talk back to the movie and make it likeable:

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Fellow Unbelievers:

When you can’t throw a dead cat without hitting a Cryptid, it kind of takes the Cryptic part out of Cryptozoology and makes the field as real as Cryptocurrency:

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Fellow Unbelievers:

A line from The Phantom Planet that I wish I could always practice with what can be a Phantom Planet 93,000,000 miles from the Sun.

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Fellow Unbelievers:

This particular episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 has a short about an event that Trump has at the White House every day–The Circus!

The main event movie The Day the Earth Froze has a quest for a dream of Zohran Mandani and the Commie Democratic Socialists of America: The Sampo, a alchemical device that produces Gold, Silver, Jewels, wheat, salt, anything you could want, by sheer magic! Plot Spoiler: It’s just as out of reach in the movie as it is in reality!

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Fellow Unbelievers:

Mike and the Bots show decidedly how not to defend Israel or Enlightenment Ideals in general:

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Fellow Unbelievers:

And we can’t forget that Mike’s real-life wife Bridget did the impersonation of Lisa Loeb, and that this is from Lisa Loeb’s official YouTube, so the parody was mutually appreciated.

To any Gen-Zers: In the Nineties West, outside Academia, we did not fear words. 😁

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Fellow Unbelievers:

Village of the Giants combines a caracature of Lamarckianism with a Animal Farm-esque switcheroo of power, stars a young Ron Howard and Toni Basil, with much thoughtful and ribald commentary from Mike and the Bots:

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Fellow Unbelievers:

Joel and the Bots demonstrate the dangers of allowing the Supernatural (or the Preternatural as Tom Servo called it) into your head and life:

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Fellow Unbelievers:

One thing I hope we all can agree on is that reality is a long way from epigenetic real-time cross-species metamorphosis communicated by casual contact. In other words, there is no such thing as a “Wur-wilf” -er- Werewolf:

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Fellow Unbelievers:

If only the Nazis had followed the ways of Dr. Leopold Z. They would either be sleepin’ wit’ da fishies Luca Brasi-style (or just Darwinian L.U.C.A.-style,) or just on a possibility, the Nazis would turn into giant Lox Nova Salmon or Gefilte:

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Fellow Unbelievers:

Here, Mike and the Bots channel Bertrand Russell and let their thoughts look into the pit of Hell not only unafraid, but with back-to-back snarky quips. Crow and Mike even demonstrate one of the actual methods of execution used in the Witch Mania of Salem, MA:

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Fellow Unbelievers:

A pirate satellite broadcaster needs to aim his satellite antennas at the entire Islamic world and broadcast in Arabic, Syriac, Parsi, and Indonesian the MST3K riff of The Brain That Wouldn’t Die!

The very idea of a female brain without a body and a amorphouus monster with stunted intellect joining forces to torment and destroy the ones who condemned them to a dissected existence, should scare every head-cutting Jihadi; and every brainwashing Imam and Mullah to death! It is also a cautionary tale for Physicians everywhere to “First, do no harm…”

Warning: Best to watch this one by day and possibly on an empty stomach. The Brain That Wouldn’t Die! was an early pioneering work of Gore Horror, although the non-stop quips from Mike and the Bots do help make the experience easier:

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