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Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: MISTing suggestions.....
From: jenkins@local.host (Lisa Jenkins)
Date: 15 Dec 92 15:38:14 -0600
Reply-To: jenkins@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu
Organization: Organization, City, State, etc.

In article <1gl9emINNjf3@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, bm560@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas D. Salyers) writes:
>
>    I, for one, would like to see Joel and the 'bots MST the 
>entire mid-70s disaster film cycle--"Earthquake", "Airport", 
>"Meteor", "The Poseidon Adventure", and so on.....

Would you believe MST3K did _SST DeathFlight_?  Yes, they did!  Back in
1989 when they were still on KTMA, MST3K did the ultimate *BAD* disaster
film!  Everybody who was nobody was in it!  It included John DeLancie (Q
from ST:TNG), Berges Merideth (okay, I can't spell; sue me), and of
course oodles of jokes about "a man named Brady"!!!

Then can you imagine what they said about the plane itself?  It was a
gigantic mosito!  (Again with the spelling.)  The last location shot
(or was it the *only* location shot?!) in the film prompted Joel to start
humming the M*A*S*H theme--yes, it was the same back lot seen in every
episode.

Unfortunately it was a made-for-TV-movie, which means they probably won't
be able to get the rights to ever do it again.


Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: ljz57640@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (l.j.z. )
Subject: MST3k Fan Club: is this a FAQ?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 07:48:28 GMT

Can someone give me the address to the MST3k Fan Club (Information Club)?
Seeing as how I don't get Comedy Central at school, I have no way of  
finding out the address from there.  


Thanx Lots!

--L.


-- 
laura j zurawski         juniper@uiuc.edu        
"Sometimes you can't explain your actions...
	sometimes you can't explain yourself"   
"PUSH THE BUTTON, FRANK!"
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k,alt.fan.lemurs,rec.pets
From: bassler@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (bassler ryan p)
Subject: Re: Joey the Lemur (transcript, kinda long)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:30:27 GMT

bm560@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas D. Salyers) writes:

>     I can't believe you quoted that entire article in order to
>add one little follow- up paragraph.  Eesh...

Yeah.....

(sorry had to be done, although I do agree.  People, please I beg of you
limit your quotes...or I'll send you a Bannergram.)
dcpIII

Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Re: MST3K-able Anne of Avonlea
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 19:43:57 GMT

In article <jpc.724783288@avdms8.msfc.nasa.gov> jpc@avdms8.msfc.nasa.gov (J. Porter Clark) writes:
>I wish the MST3K crew would work on one of those "Anne of Avonlea"
>things on Disney.  I don't know if these are movies or they just seem
>two hours long.  The other night they had two prissy old women in an
>argument sparked while one of them was preparing one of the girls her
>nightly cup of chamomile tea.  The horror!

I promise I'll send those guys at Best Brains a $100 check the moment
I saw them MiST "Room With A View." It's not science, of course, but 
it sure as heck is a mystery to me what people saw in it.
-- 
John Switzer               | "What we have here is a failure to 
                           | masticate."
Compuserve: 74076,1250     | -- Dr. Clayton "Firebrand" Forrester, after
Internet: jrs@netcom.com   | TV's Frank is unable to eat his 13th turkey.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: jordan@castor (Jet Jaguar)
Subject: Musical references
Keywords: There's a world going on underground...
Organization: University of Georgia
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 09:01:43 GMT

Somebody earlier (I don't remember who) asked about references to music,
songs, and such and I didn't think much of it (at FIRST) because I thought
there'd be a deluge of replies but then I haven't seen any replies!  So,
these are my favorite references and I've got free time: (some of these
are paraphrased, and badly I might add.  Deal with it!)

GODZILLA VS THE SEA MONSTER
	"You may find yourself living in a shogun shack."
		(Talking Heads, Once in a Lifetime)
	"It was a rooooock lobster!"
		(The B-52's, Rock Lobster)

FUGITIVE ALIEN II
	"There's a world... going on... underground"
		(Tom Waits, Underground)

HERCULES UNCHAINED
	"This is not my beautiful house.  This is not my beautiful wife.
	 How did I get here?"
		(Talking Heads, Once in a Lifetime)
	"Jesse... now Jerome"
		(Something or other from Morris Day & the Time)

CATALINA CAPER
	"...with the Greek guy, Eno Lekopolis."
	"Do the worm on necropolis"
	"Slam dance cosmopolis"
		(The Clash, Ghetto Defendant during Host segment)

FIRE MAIDENS FROM OUTER SPACE 
	"It can change your life.  It can change you into a 9-year-old
	Hindu boy."
		(Tom Waits, Step Right Up during Host Segment)

???
	"If not for the limitations of space, wouldn't we all be riding
	towards the mansions of glory on our suicide machines on a last-
	chance power drive."
		(Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run or something?) 

plus hundreds more from TORMENTED!

Hey, teen gang, add your own favorite musical references!  Think about it,
won't you?
USENET's Chuck
-- 
                  Chuck Jordan | jordan@castor.cs.uga.edu
		"Don't just do something!  Stand there!"
		    -- Mystery Science Theater 3000
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Re: SCCTM on TNT tonight
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 22:58:48 GMT

In article <schmata.724133814@camelot> schmata@camelot.bradley.edu (Peter Stein) writes:
>The pain, the pain... As the header states, TNT is showing Santa Claus Conquers
>the Martians. DEEEEEEP HURRRTING... DEEEEEEEP HURRRRRRTING!! To make matters 
>worse, no sign of Joel or the 'Bots, and this turd of a movie has given me such
>a migraine that I can't remember any of the clever sayings from the MST treat-
>ment! Wah-ha-ha-haaaaa... =(

You fool! Don't you know how dangerous it is to watch a MiSTed movie without 
having memorized all of the bon mots that Joel and the 'bots came up with? 
Luckily, I discovered TNT showing this movie right near the end, just in time
to say a couple of "head butts."
-- 
John Switzer               | "What we have here is a failure to 
                           | masticate."
Compuserve: 74076,1250     | -- Dr. Clayton "Firebrand" Forrester, after
Internet: jrs@netcom.com   | TV's Frank is unable to eat his 13th turkey.
From: ez008208@hamlet.ucdavis.edu (Julian Burger)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: Just a reminder
Date: 13 Dec 92 18:58:38 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Computing Services, UC Davis

In article <1992Dec8.002955.15739@macc.wisc.edu> schumann@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Chris Schumann) writes:
>about net ettiquette (sp?).
>
>And please edit articles you include to keep
>your messages small.  Now that we're up to such
>high traffic levels, especially.  I know I like
>messages that fit on one screen.

And while we're on the subject of being picky, DON'T WASTE ALL THAT VALUABLE
SCREEN SPACE.  Most of us have a full, luxurious 80 column display.

Reminds me of the
Commodore Vic-20
which only had 22
columns.

JB @ UCD
From: loki@orthanc.freeside.com (Biggles)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: A short, shameful confession (was Re: SCCTM on TNT tonight)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 17:37:47 CDT
Distribution: world               
Organization: Society for Balrog and Nazgul Understanding and Recognition

George.Harris@launchpad.unc.edu (George Harris) writes:
>
> In article <cuHRVB1w165w@seanews.akita.com> scot@seanews.akita.com (Scot Kelly) writes:
> >> Has anybody else on the net met someone famous?  And what DOES James T
> >> Kirk's middle inital stand for, anyway?
> >
> >James Tiberius Kirk
> 
>       Except, of course, that Kirk's middle initial was 'R' (as seen in the
> pilot in which he first appeared, "Where no man has gone before"). 
> 
Yeah, but let us not forget that the Kirk in the first epsiode was not
William Shatner.  It was some other person who's name escapes me, but he
was quickly replaced by Shatner.


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From: corleyj@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Jason D Corley )
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: famous people
Date: 16 Dec 92 20:55:19 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson

In article <1992Dec16.153715.2140@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st923288@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>I've met quite a few famous people:
>Richard Gere
>Gene hackman
>Robert Woods(from one life to live)

"Oh, yeah, Hackman's good in anything."-----Joel, _Space_Travelers_

	Jason
	Southern Arizona Gizmonic Institute
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: bassler@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (bassler ryan p)
Subject: Re: CC help, please!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:34:32 GMT

elee@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:

>	My question is, how the hell do you get your cable service to acquire
> Comedy Central

Simply put: you and your daughter are doomed.
Stuck in Champaign...with no CC

Damn you to hell Cable Company!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-H. Simpson
dcpIII

Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
Subject: Lunchbox
Summary: Cheap? 
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 07:20:18 GMT

Yesterday, to my everlasting joy and great relief, I received my MST3k
lunchbox in the mail. 

I've heard other people talking about getting this and having their lives
fulfilled, seeing the skies bluer, and taking their lunch to work in it...

Well, the fulfilled and blue part I can understand, but I'm not sure that
this box is capable of holding food...

I don't get it - everything, up 'til now, that I've ordered from Best Brains
has been top quality.  The T-shirt, poster, mug, cap, all have been
beautiful examples of their particular categories, fine quality items even
without the wonderful inscriptions/imprintings.  But this lunchbox is, let's
face it, pretty cheap.  I had my doubts about the "Play MST for Me" tape
($15 for a generic tape in a white cardboard box, tiny laser-printed label)
but the content made it worthwhile (and now my copy is autographed by the
cast, so its value is immeasureable... I won't even tell you what they
wrote, I'm afraid of someone flying to Denver to steal it!).   This lunchbox
is the first item where I don't feel I've got my money's worth, as far as
the actual merchandise is concerned (rather than the souvenir/memorabilia
value).

I mean, it's solid plastic ("So don't settle for imitations" - sorry...), no
metal in the hinges or latch, no glass in the thermos.  The whole thing
weighs maybe 5 ounces.  It's a cheap snap-close box with a plastic handle, a
cheap plastic thermos inside, and some stickers, stuck on with plenty of air
bubbles under them.  This is $20?

This is not to say I'm not glad I ordered it, or to scare anyone else off
from the purchase.  I took it to where I was working today, and the few
people there who know about the show were very impressed (and to be blunt, 
hey, if I can't impress them with an MST3k lunchbox, I would be a pretty
sorry case). (why the subjunctive?)   If the MST3k lunchbox seems like a
neat idea to you, I'd still recommend it - just don't expect something you
could actually use to carry your lunch in.  Stick it on your desk with the
framed picture of Joel, or toss it in your MST3k-bumper-sticker-adorned
car.  Carry it around while you wear your T-shirt and cap.  But don't rely
on it to convey comestibles.

.                            <<<<Infinite K>>>>

--
|Ben Scott, professional goof-off and consultant at The Raster Image, Denver|
|Internet bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu, or call the Arvada 68K BBS at (303)424-6208.| 
|"Don't tug on that - you never know what ][The Raster Image IS responsible |
|it might be attached to." Buckaroo Banzai][for everything I say! | *Amiga* |
From: peterme@ocf.berkeley.edu (Peter Merholz)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: "Adolf Hitler on vibes": "Rebel Set" reference
Date: 17 Dec 92 19:08:40 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: earthquake.berkeley.edu

In article <1gnu3kINNrbb@agate.berkeley.edu> peterme@ocf.berkeley.edu (Peter Merholz) writes:
>Did anyone else get this EXTREMELY obscure 60's British music reference? The
>person I was watching with said, "Huh?" I, of course, laughed out loud....
>I'd be curious to see if anyone else even knows of the band's existence...
>(I'm bring cagey, 'cause I don't want to give it away... Consider it a quiz)
>
Yes, it IS the Bonzo Dog Band (I don't believe they were the Bonzo Dog Doo
Dah Band on the album)... For the life of me I can't remember the name of
the album. And yes, Neil Innes was a member... Neil Innes, of course, went
one to do a lot of work with the Pythons (he was Sir Robin's lead minstrel
in "Holy Grail.")

And judging by the few responses, I *would* say that the reference was
pretty obscure...


-- 
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Research Assistant/		*    WHAT   *  extra thick socks."
  Undergraduate F*ck-up		*   HAVE I  *  -Dangermouse, after falling 
UC Berkeley			*   DONE?!  *   off a cliff.
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Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: rjg@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Robert J. Granvin)
Subject: Re: A short, shameful confession (was Re: SCCTM on TNT tonight)
Keywords: Ours is a proper love.
Organization: School of Statistics, University of Minnesota
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:04:20 GMT

|> > Has anybody else on the net met someone famous?  And what DOES James T

Hmmm... of the MST3K cast and crew, "a number of them," including getting
into a very brief "Hey!  Hey!" match with Joel.  :-)  Also a number of
military heroes, bumped into Prince once in the days when he was promoting
himself via high schools and mimeographed flyers, was in a back up group
for Barry Manilow (I only say that because it's supposed to lessen the pain
of such dishonor by speaking of it :-), George Burns, the King of Norway... 

Hmmm... I have a strange list.  :-)

-- 
// Robert J. Granvin                                         rjg@stat.umn.edu
// School of Statistics - University of Minnesota        System Administrator
// ``One of the `right' people.''
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: m14494@mwvm.mitre.org (Mike White)
Subject: I found Tom Servo's head... !
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 21:27:06 GMT

There it was on the shelf in the office of a co-worker: the very 
gumball machine that forms Tom's head!  This one was blue;
must be Tom's evil twin brother Dick.  Here's the details as
imprinted on the bottom of the base:

Carousel, Des Plaines, Il,
for STIG RAVN A/S, Denmark
U.S. Pat. No. 279.643
Taiwan Pat. No. 10423

My friend said he bought it at a local store; it came
filled with M&Ms.


************************
* These are my opinions only.*
************************
From: donnell@tuna.micro.umn.edu (BogusMan)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: A short, shameful confession (was Re: SCCTM on TNT tonight)
Keywords: Ours is a proper love.
Date: 16 Dec 92 05:33:56 GMT
Organization: none

In article <1992Dec14.192109.1439@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com> mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary) writes:
>In article <1992Dec14.174152.357@news2.cis.umn.edu> donnell@morayeel.micro.umn.edu (BogusMan) writes:
>>In article <cuHRVB1w165w@seanews.akita.com> scot@seanews.akita.com (Scot Kelly) writes:
>>>> Has anybody else on the net met someone famous?  And what DOES James T
>>>> Kirk's middle inital stand for, anyway?
>>>
>>>James Tiberius Kirk
>>>
>>>--
>>>[] SEANEWS [] Seattle Public Access Usenet News + Mail [] +1 206 747 NEWS []
>>>scot@seanews.akita.com
>>
>>Define famous? I have met Roger Miller, shari Lewis and Lambchop, Lou Rawls,
>>and some others. are they famous enough?
>>
>
>Well, *I* was in _Bad New Bears in Breaking Training_.  As an extra
>though...Ok, I was sitting in the Astrodome stands while they filmed
>the game sequences.  Hey, I was in third grade and my mother forced
>me to go.  It's not my fault, really!
>
>
>--
>Ed McCreary                                               ,__o
>mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com                       _-\_<,
>"If it were not for laughter, there would be no Tao."  (*)/'(*)

Well, I was in a terrible little Leif Garrett epic in the early 80's,
"Thunder Alley". I even get a close up at the end, <I'm the guy with
the 8" mohawk, standing straight up>. 
big deal
B}
for the curious, I don't know why but an incredible amount of neighborhood
video holes have this film. rent at your own risk. 

Pax
					--Judex--
.
From: pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: bottom 5 experiments?  [Not quite]
Date: 12 Dec 92 06:30:25 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1992Dec11.171339.25249@news2.cis.umn.edu>, donnell@manowar.micro.umn.edu (BogusMan) writes:

   [regarding "First Spaceship on Venus"]
>
>Besides the comments from the gang, I liked this as a movie.
>

Actually, so did I. It has an actual _feel_ to it. One gets the
impression that somebody had a vision and went with it. There's neat
art direction and the scenes on Venus actually feel ... "alien" in a
way that, say, "Fire Maidens" does not.

 -Paul "Monty" Ashley
   (I'm experimenting with two-stage right-justification in all my
posts . . .)
-- 
All just the opinions of pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: MST3K big smash!
From: jenkins@local.host (Lisa Jenkins)
Date: 12 Dec 92 16:04:28 -0600
Reply-To: jenkins@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu
Organization: Organization, City, State, etc.


MST3K's "Gamera vs. Guiron" was a big impromptu smash hit at Moorhead
State University's Science Fiction and Fantasy's _Star Wars_ film festival
on December 12.  (Hey!  That's today!)

That's right, MST3K was used to substitute "The Battle for Endor" since
no one could find the movie at any of the local video shops.  The response
was astounding!  People laughed!  People cried!  Some of them even wet 'em.

The MSU SF club is now considering an MST3K film festival for next year.
The club's president will be contacting Comedy Central for further 
information.

Until then, everyone's invited to the special showing of "Santa Claus
Conquers the Martians" on December 17 at MSU SF club's Christmas party in
the student union.  (I think it starts at 8:00 PM.  Don't quote me.  Not 
like most of you are able to come anyway....)

Stay tuned for the MST3K Gamera film night this spring!

"Gamera!  Gamera!
 Gamera is really neat!
 He is filled with turtle meat!
 We've been eating Gamera!
 Shells, teeth, eyes, claws, scales, breath, fun!

 Dr. Forrester is really a jerk!
 And Frank is really dumb, too.
 We have to take part in these lame experiments.
 But do we complain?
 No!  No!  Yes!  (Huh?)
 So we hi-keeba all over the place
 And talk of a thousand wonderful days.

 Gamera is really neat!
 He is filled with turtle meat!
 Now we have commercial sign!"


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From: gibbon@acs.bu.edu (Peter Kahn)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Tom Servo's Love song
Date: 17 Dec 92 14:41:36 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: gibbon@acs.bu.edu

Hi all.  I don't know if I can make it through this message.  The subject
makes me all broke up (and I want to go home).  During the Gammera showing
Tom sang a beuatiful and heartfelt love song to "Tippy."  Now I know
that this is probably the only place in the world where I could even get an
answer to my question.  Does anybody have thw worlds to this haunting tune
of an annoying boy's love for his turtle.


-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: eblom@mari.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (Kate E Eblom)
Subject: Re: The masses have spoken!  We love....
Keywords: So...who do you love?
Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 20:18:46 GMT

In article <1gnfhuINNdfp@bigboote.WPI.EDU> norbert@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Timothy James) writes:
>----
>
>What does the T. in Crow T. Robot stand for?
>Or better yet... what SHOULD it stand for!
>And, of course, why?!?
>
>----
>
Crow Robot, being a second 'bot (Tom seems to act more like the older one), must have chosen his own middle name.  This is a natural move for a second 'bot, a way of establishing a definable separation between the two.  Logic would dictate the the decision was not arbitrary, but one that reflects an important individual in Crow's life.  Yet, remembering that Crow is the child in all of us, there must be inherent fantasy in this decision, perhaps a "would be" influence instead of an "actual" one. Let's work




 with these assumptions.
Crow T. Robot
Crow Tiberius Robot.
Both of these are in homage to Shatner's Kirk.  I don't think so.
Crow Tommy Kirk Robot?
Crow Tom (Servo) Robot-
Did he perhaps idolize his big brother 'bot at one time?
Crow Tunnel of Love Robot-
He does quote the Boss a lot...
Crow The Robot
Dumb, Dumb, Dumb
Crow Tibby Robot?
It would explain his dislike of Tom's turtle in "Gamera"

I think the most likely answer would be found if we had footage from the
formative times of Tom and Crow.  Rumor has it that Tom would tease Crow
(when Tom was in his Skateboard Punk phase) by calling him "
Grotty Crowty Robot
When Joel disciplined Crow for punching Tom (remember, retaliation always 
draws the flag), Crow gained his middle name...
Crow Timeout Robot.

TTFN The Woodman
(Thankful to finally use his Developmental Psych Degree)
From: evans@ece.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: TNT
Date: 16 Dec 92 21:24:56 GMT
Reply-To: evans@ece.arizona.edu
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering


Has anyone else noticed that on either Friday or Saturday night
TNT shows really bad Sci Fi movies, they don't talk through
them but there is sort of an MC that wears a green lab coat,
and has a really strange lab.  Sound Familiar?

glen evans
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