From: revpk@cellar.org (Brian 'Rev P-K' Siano)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.mst3k,alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: "Making MST3K" transcript
Date: 1 Jan 93 22:04:58 GMT
Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system


	While assembling materials for the All-Inclusive MST Guide/Resource,
I remembered that this year's Turkey Day sisn't include either the
behind-the-scenes segments that made last year's so much fun, nor did it
include the Fiendish Plot of Dr. Forrester segments either.

	So, I began transcribing one or two. here's the first-- the
"Making of MST" segment. Enjoy!

Title: Making Mystery Science Theater 3000
 
Kevin Murphy:
     The whole process starts in the writing room, where a team of
     writers get together and look at a film.
 
(We see the Writing Room-- the writers are watching 'Santa Claus
Conquers the Martians.' Kevin Murphy says, "Oh, God, he's _peeing_
himself!_ and the others laugh.)
 
     We look at it, and we've got somebody sitting at a computer--
     quite a good typist, because she has to keep up with us as we
     shoot these jokes out.
 
(We see a close-up of the Macintosh the secretary is using: each
one-liner is matched to a numeric code that, I guess, correspond to
a timecode on the film. Yep, I actually transcribed what's on the
screen, and here it is:
 
IS THIS AN INGMAR BERGMAN PLAY?
WHAT'S VIETNAM?
PHOOEY, NUTS TO YOU
WHAT A KOINKYDINK (CURLY) I'M A VICTIM OF COICUMSTANCE!
HOW IRONIC. THE THING WAS INCREDIBLE. THEY'RE ON THE SET OF THE
TROUBLE WITH HARRY.
HELLO, HELLO, HELLO, HELLO!
WE RUN ON L.F. GAS-- HE'S GOT A WHAMMO AIR--
BOY ARE YOU STUPID!
 
I think this matches the scene in "Santa Claus Conquers the
Martians" when the Martians first kidnap the Earth children.)
 
Joel Hodgson:
     And then the second day we write the host segments, which are
     kind of based on things in the movies that we can elaborate
     on.
 
(Set of the pre-movie host segment of "Santa Claus."
 
Crow:     I wanna decide who lives and who dies!
 
Joel:     Uh, I don't think so. . . )
 
Jim Mallon:
     The third day we go back at the movie with the home writers
     scripts, and we revise it.
 
(We see Mallon on the set looking over the script with Michael J.
Nelson and an unidentified woman.)
 
Joel Hodgson:
     Fourth day is prop day, fifth day is rehearsal,
 
(We see Frank getting fitted with a microphone)
     sixth day is Host Segment day,
 
(The "Patrick Swayze Christmas" song being taped-- Crow sings,
"I'll have to smash your kneecaps if you bastards touch my car!")
 
     seventh day is movie day,
 
(we see the silhouette being taped in front of a massive blue
screen)
 
     eighth say is review, and then we start over again.
 
(End.)



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Brian "Rev. P-K" Siano                                  revpk@cellar.org
Servo: "Dianetics, by L. Ron Hubbard."
Joel:  "Why is my life messed up? Page 74."
Servo: "When will this movie end? Page 155."
Crow:  "How much money can we get out of Tom Cruise? Page 85."
                                       "Mystery Science Theater 3000,"
                                       during a volcano scene in
                                       "Hercules and the Moon Men."
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