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From: eam3@po.CWRU.Edu (Eric A. Meyer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: Don't Let The Cult Pass You By....VOTE FOR TIMMY!
Date: 22 Dec 92 18:24:54 GMT
Reply-To: eam3@po.CWRU.Edu (Eric A. Meyer)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, bxp1628@hertz.njit.edu (Brian Perler) says:

>Timmy is the Anti-Crow.  More specifically, he's an evil spectre that
>Crow let on the ship.  Later, they found out Timmy was actually evil,
>after he tried to kill Servo, Crow, and Joel.  All this was in "Fire
>Maidens of Outer Space," complete with one of the funniest skits I've
>ever seen on MST3K (the "Aliens"one).  Timmy looked exactly like Crow,
>only painted black instead of gold.

   The reason that Timmy looked exactly like Crow is because it's one of
the original models.  Yes!  The model used for Timmy is the very same one
which is seen in the Mystery Science Theater.  I thought it was great that
they found a use for it out in the lighted world...

		-EMeyer

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 In mental and environmental change          | Library Information Technologies
 Atmospheric disturbance--the feverish flux  |    Computer Systems Specialist
 Of human interface and interchange-"  -N.P. | "What do you think, sirs?" -Joel
Organization: Rohm and Haas Company
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 22:24:09 EST
From: <MAH76X@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com>
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Childhood Misting...

Stuff from my childhood that I think should be on MST3K.

1. Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
2. The Brady Bunch
3. Dennis the Menace
4. Planet of the Apes (the series)
5. (this series I remember from when I was a kid.  It did not last long
   on TV though.  It featured Roddy McDowell and I believe two others who
   were time travelers.  Does anybody remember this show?  I don't think it
   made it long in the ratings.)
6. Zoom
7. LET'S MAKE A DEAL!
8. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang  (Could you imagine the Bots going crazy while
   we hear "toot sweet"?) ;-)
9. Ultra Man
10. You Asked for It
11. The Apple Dumpling Gang
12. Welcome Back Kotter
13. The Incredible Henry Limpet
14. The Flintstones
15. Danger Island on the Bananna Splits.  Uh-Oh Chongo ;-)

Joe Doheny
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: dmb@world.std.com (Deborah M Brown)
Subject: Re: Let's send a letter (last updated list-of-names)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:48:56 GMT

In article <C057GB.FFC@news.cso.uiuc.edu> cmaddox@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Chuck Maddox) writes:
>sclary@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Scott T Clary) writes:

>>Put me in the letter too!!  This is too good to miss.

>Ditto.  I vote that we put in a reference to Penn Jillette.  Like 'How can
>we keep the really loud, really obnoxious fat person from talking over the
>broadcasts, especally at the end?'...

I don't know, I really like Penn Jillette (try reading his column in PC
Computing magazine, he's a scream), so I'm not too wild about this 
particular suggestion.  Maybe referencing the special, saying that Joel 
and the bots are better MSTers than Penn.  But then, they would have to 
know that. ;-)

Although, I *DO* wish they wouldn't have him talking over the end 
credits...


-- 
*********** "Oh shut up, Frank!"  Dr. Clayton Forrester, MST3K *********
Disclaimer: "Disclaim THIS, pal!" (Crow bit me - it IS fun!)
Internet:   dmb@world.std.com   -or-   dmb7229@ultb.isc.rit.edu 
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From: mcgrew@dropout.rutgers.edu (Charles Mcgrew)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: Usenet Rhubarb
Date: 31 Dec 92 03:36:02 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


	lurch@eskimo.com (Erik Kloeppel) writes:
	the established background vocal noise is supposed to arise
	from the actors/extras saying Rubarb and "nebbish"

... one I took included "mississippi".  During one scene, *everyone*
started saying it; the amalgamated sound was so silly, that the word
was banned - everytime anyone would say it, nobody could keep a
straight face.

Charles
From: uphrrmk@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: What? no TORTURE?!?!?
Date: 27 Dec 92 03:38:23 GMT
Reply-To: uphrrmk@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Organization: Montana State University


     I've noticed that my vocabulary has been twisted beyond recognition
because of MST3K...for example, ever since seeing Teenagers From Outer Space
(cortesy of the Old School, Bien sur!) I've been chasing my SO around the house 
with his new Bug Gun (It shoots spiders, frogs, and crickets at your targets)
screaming, "YOU WILL BE TAKEN BACK FOR TOR-TURE!!  TOR-TURE!!!"  I've also been 
using a lot of colored duct tape lately.
...Here's an interesting question: Who wants to help make a movie starring
octogenarians as teenagers?   Those middle-aged teen hoodlums in Ring of Terror 
were very popular, and think of all the senior citizens we'd be employing!
(of course, Health insurance would be a bitch.)  I bet I could get my
legally-blind great-grandfather who can barely speak english  the starring role
as Cool Carl, the most popular cataract-patient in school! And my Great-Aunt
Ida as the shy, sweet girl whose cabbage-rolls are the best in town!
or perhaps Uncle Ray, who is the life of the party when he plays with his false
teeth and shows everybody his colostomy bag!   The possibilities are unlimited!

                                La Mort.

P.S.  No matter how bad a film is...
remember that someone WROTE THAT DOWN ON A PIECE OF PAPER!!!!
Several times!  There was probably a first draft!
We got the VERY BEST VERSION  there could possibly BE of that film!!!!
--Paula Poundstone, about the "pokin' at ya, pokin' at ya" snickers commercial.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
Subject: Re: My Saturday Fix
Summary: Marathons... 
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 00:34:59 GMT

In article <19930102123059ECZ5BXW@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU> ecz5bxw@mvs.oac.ucla.edu writes:
>Not only did CC preempt MST3K this weekend with a boring stand-up
>marathon, they had the nerve to put a Howey Mandel special on at

Yeah - is it me, or does Comedy Central holding a standup marathon sound a
bit like Robin Leach doing a special on rich, famous people?

Doesn't explain why I'm sitting here WATCHING it... well, in one eye out the
other.  I got four monitors in front of me - one with Usenet text on it, one
screenblanker, one blank and one with CC.  I spend more time watching the
screenblanker; it's just habit to have CC on at 5:30 on a Saturday.

.                            <<<<Infinite K>>>>

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From: hunt@shy.umd.edu (Brian Hunt)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: friday night time change (was Re: January Schedule)
Date: 30 Dec 92 20:41:49 GMT

In a previous article I typed in a schedule and said that the Friday
night episodes were at the same time as before; looks like I'd better
correct myself.

I wrote:
>Just got my newsletter from Comedy Central, here's the schedule.  As
>usual, all Friday night shows are at 12:30 a.m. and Saturday shows are
>at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m.  The Friday shows are all from the 3rd season,
>shows 306-309 or something like that; the Saturday episodes are new.

As someone has pointed out, the time of the Friday night show has, in
all likelihood, changed from 12:30 a.m. to midnight.  The newsletter
still says 12:30 above the schedule I typed in, but in their chart of
weekly programming, MST3000 shows up from 12-2 Friday night.  My
January cable guide magazine agrees that the time has moved to
midnight on Friday nights, so I'm assuming this is the case.

I should also have mentioned that all times are EST.

Brian Hunt
hunt@ipst.umd.edu
From: revpk@cellar.org (Brian 'Rev P-K' Siano)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Delimited ASCII list and questions
Date: 24 Dec 92 02:51:16 GMT
Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system


	Okay, no sooner did I upload that delimited ASCII list from work
than I got home and cleaned it up. I also added appropriate data for three
shows that, while broadcast, weren't described before (Clash of the Moons,
Attack of the Eye Creatures, and The Rebel Set).

	Since I'm keeping it as a merge file, I can easily update the
listings and add commentary of nearly any length. So, I'd like to include
other ancillary bits'o info-- a particular obscure reference explained,
perhaps. And it'd be nice to include USENET evaluations of the shows as
well.

	First of all, could someone mail me the Top Five (or top ten, or
whatever) list of MST shows, so I can note in their descriptions that this
is how they voted? Or, would anyone like to conduct another poll-- everyone
pick their top ten or twenty MSTs, in no particular order, and then I'll
tabulate the results? (I'm offering to do this only if such a poll hasn't
been done already.)

	By the way, it is conceivable that all of the transcribed scripts
of the host segments that have been posted here could be included as well.
Granted, this'd make one HUGE list. . . but it could be done. So, I'm open
to have any MST-transcriptions Emailed to me. (Tho, to make my job easier,
could they be formatted in a way so that I can remove the linefeeds easily?)

	I'll try to make some more changes on the Episode Guide once this
weekend is over, and maybe upload a more complete and fexible version. Oh,
and any suggestions on how to make it more importable to various Mail Merge
formats are appreciated.

	I like to think of this as _my_ Invention Exchange.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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."
From: eam3@po.CWRU.Edu (Eric A. Meyer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: Just a thought....(Penn)
Date: 22 Dec 1992 19:08:01 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: eam3@po.CWRU.Edu (Eric A. Meyer)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, tsr@ocf.berkeley.edu (Tracey S. Rosenberg) says:

>2) We send it back up when it contains:
>--the Mads (for being so mean to Joel and the Bots)
>--the BK guy
>--Allan Havey (I can't stand his show)

   Could we also include 

>I'm sure there will be many votes for including Penn
>Jilette in this little gathering, but without him
>Teller wouldn't be able to do his neat getting-out-of-
>the-straitjacket-while-Penn-reads-Casey-at-the-bat
>trick.

   Yeah.  I feel kind of sorry for Penn because everything he does on CC
makes him seem like an obnoxious ass.  The truth is that he's a very funny
obnoxious performer.  I saw "The Refrigerator Tour" and he was quite good.
Really.  Penn isn't that bad on stage or when doing magic.  Make him a New
Year's commentator or channel spokesperson, though, and the rules start
to change...things get wierd...and then DEEP HURTING!!!
   Yes, I like Teller, too, but he really isn't the subject here.

		-EMeyer

-- 
"Unstable condition--a symptom of life       | Eric A. Meyer (eam3@po.CWRU.edu)
 In mental and environmental change          | Library Information Technologies
 Atmospheric disturbance--the feverish flux  |    Computer Systems Specialist
 Of human interface and interchange-"  -N.P. | "What do you think, sirs?" -Joel
From: corleyj@argon.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Jason D Corley )
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: MISTing suggestions.....
Date: 1 Jan 93 03:18:00 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson


Yuma Hall MSTies speak:

Yes, even though we are on break, we never take a vacation, trying
to bring you, yes, you, the one with the chocolate stains on your
shirt from that shameful Christmas party, the very best in MST3K
amateur material.
A few Weeks ago, we happened to have had the misfortune to be trapped
in a house for an evening with no VCR (we had a tape of Sidehackers,
but just sitting there and making fun of the silly-looking black
casing somehow wasn't the same as seeing Ross "Chili Peppers" Hagen
make his butt look like a quarter pound of ground chuck.)  Even 
more unfortunately, he had a laserdisc player and a copy of...gawd
this is painful..."Yor: Hunter From The Future."  With a name like
that, how could we pass it up.  This movie is awful.  It is horrible.
It makes no sense, contains little dialogue that is comphrehensible,
and makes even "Manhunt in Space" look like "Citizen Kane".  Well,
that may not be entirely true.  But Lord, it isn't good.
Yor is a Conan-type hunter with a styrofoam axe.  He's not worried though,
because the monsters he fights are made of rubber and clay, with Welches
Grape Jelly coursing through their veins.  He has long hair, and looks
like he would be more comfortable shooting a wave in Malibu (he
even carries around his own 80's fusion band that plays the "Yor Fight
Song", a la "Master Ninja Theme Song".)  Lets just say that it tries
to combine SF and heroic fantasy and ends up being completely ludicrous.
I have limited net access, so I will finish later.  Just something
for your holiday DEEEERP HURTING.

     Assembled by:
	Jason Corley (corleyj@gas.uug.arizona.edu)
	Ryan Franklin (franklir@gas.uug.arizona.edu)
	The Forklift Driver 
	And a guy named Chopper, who's really fun.
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 09:59:49 EST
From: Windsor A. Morgan <NHT@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: I found Tom Servo's head... !
Distribution: na

In article <1992Dec18.212706.16645@linus.mitre.org>, m14494@mwvm.mitre.org (Mike
White) says:
>
>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.

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

I received one for Christmas last night; it was white and filled with
blue and white jelly beans.  Who could mine be?  Tom is so nice already.
Maybe mine is Tom's "angelic" conscience.


'Verily, there be no leader as wise as the Vision!'
                         Windsor Morgan (wmorgan@stsci.edu OR NHT@PSUVM.BITNET)
                         Space Telescope Science Institute
                         Baltimore, MD   21218
From: mcgrew@dropout.rutgers.edu (Charles Mcgrew)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: In Re: Let's send a letter (last updated list-of-names)
Date: 31 Dec 92 03:52:21 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


OK, the list of names for the letter is up to 195.  I'm not going to
post it again.  I figure to mail out the whole shebang Monday-ish.
Is anyone *not* agreed that Steve's version of the letter is the
one to send?  I will put in a little cover letter explaining what
(in general) the email names mean as well.

Is good?

Charles
From: hal@radio.wkar.msu.edu (Hal Prentice)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: Where to (maybe) get the Android Sisters
Date: 29 Dec 92 14:09:02 GMT
Organization: Broadcasting Services, Michigan State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: prentice.wkar.msu.edu

I've received a fair amount of email requesting info on where to get the 
Android Sisters album "Songs of Electronic Despair."  I don't know if it is 
available but you should probably try contacting ZBS directly.  ZBS does 
sell many of their productions on cassette (and maybe by now CD).  The 
address is ZBS Foundation, RR#1 Box 1201, Edwardville, NY 12828-9713 Phone# 
800-662-3345.  ZBS's radio dramas are really extraordinary and of 
the highest audio quality especially the series of Jack Flanders adventures 
(a series of very surreal, frequently funny detective stories.)  I would 
highly recommend them.

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Hal Prentice, FM Program Manager      Michigan State University
WKAR-FM, 283 Communication Arts Bldg  East Lansing, MI 48824-1212 USA
Internet: hal@radio.wkar.msu.edu      Bitnet: hal@radio.wkar.bitnet
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Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k,alt.fan.mst3k
From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Human Duplicators Trivia
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:54:14 GMT

Okay, trivia time - in Human Duplicators, the bots are shown reading an 
issue of "Robot Nation." The question is - what magazine were they really
reading and how can you tell?

 (Spoiler for those who want to hum the Jeopardy Theme first)

It was MAD Magazine - the October, 1992 issue (#314) to be exact. The way
you can tell is because you can clearly see it has the ad for "Dictators of the 
World" set, a Franklin Mint spoof. 

Another public service . . . 
-- 
John Switzer               | "What we have here is a failure to 
                           | masticate."
Compuserve: 74076,1250     | -- MST3K's Dr. Clayton "Firebrand" Forrester, 
Internet: jrs@netcom.com   | after TV's Frank is unable to eat his 13th turkey.
From: eam3@po.CWRU.Edu (Eric A. Meyer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: mystery TV series (was Childhood Misting)
Date: 31 Dec 1992 18:44:55 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: eam3@po.CWRU.Edu (Eric A. Meyer)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, karpen@nrlfs1.nrl.navy.mil (Judy Karpen) says, in part:

>Anyone else
>(besides me) think the Sci-Fi channel is a big waste of time? Most of their
>material is only good for MST3K treatment, & unbearable without it.
>"Mysteries from Beyond the Other Dominion" is a riot, though.

   No, I don't think SFC is a waste of time.  For example...

"The Prisoner"          Sundays at 10pm
   What "Twin Peaks" fans watched before there WAS "Twin Peaks".  Not for
the faint or literal of mind.  Excellent stuff.

"Probe"                 Weeknights at 10pm
   A show created by Isaac Asimov?  No wonder it didn't last long...the
average American is incapable of keeping up.  I LOVE this show.

"Battlestar Galactica"  Weeknights at 8pm
   Okay, so it's cheesy.  It's still a great nostalgia trip, and some of
the episodes are actually sort of good.  (Okay, so it's just a nostalgia
trip.)

"Alien Nation"          Saturdays at 7pm 
   I say this based on the episodes I watched when the series was originally
shown, and all of those were from the first season.  What I saw, I liked.
Later epsiodes/seasons may not be worth it; I don't know.

"War of the Worlds"    Weeknights at 9pm
   Okay, so most of the episodes are average, and some really stink.  Some
of them are also quite good.  The dialogue is better than any first-season
episode of ST:TNG you care to name, and later seasons took on an interesting
cyberpunk flavor.


   Those are the five I can think of right away.  Granted, the channel offers
a lot of room for improvement--where's Star Trek?  Star Wars?  Alien(s)? and
so on.  However, I attribute these to infancy.  If given time to develop, 
the quality could improve dramatically.  Especially by showing better movies.
   Oh, and you're right--"Mysteries From Beyond the Other Dominion" is
utterly hysterical.  I just have one question:  Is that guy REALLY serious,
or is he sort of a retro-skeptic?  I still haven't figured it out...

		-EMeyer

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"Unstable condition--a symptom of life       | Eric A. Meyer (eam3@po.CWRU.edu)
 In mental and environmental change          | Library Information Technologies
 Atmospheric disturbance--the feverish flux  |   Software Support Technician
 Of human interface and interchange-"  -N.P. | "What do you think, sirs?" -Joel
From: masticol@cadenza.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: Let's send in a letter
Date: 24 Dec 92 18:32:38 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

donnell@tuna.micro.umn.edu (BogusMan) writes:

 It's a nice idea, but I doubt that they are going to read any list of
 names that long, over the air. Hate to be a doomsayer, but it just
 doesn't seem like the kind of thing that they would do.
 Ah well.

You're right, but it would still be cool to see them show and read the
letter. I wrote Version 2 so they could play off it easily for that
reason.

- Steve.
From: carter@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Carter Bennett)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: Let's send in a letter
Date: 28 Dec 92 18:50:25 GMT
Organization: CompuTrac Inc., Richardson TX

Ahoy!

Cast my vote for letter v 2.0 and please add my name.

Cheerio!

Carter R. Bennett, Jr. - Scientist | "Oh my God!  I _AM_ a nerd!!!"
carter@scilab.lonestar.org - home  | - C. Bennett, Sept 25, 1992, after
carter@cmptrc.lonestar.org - work  | realizing he had been talking about
KI5SR          | "market availability of preconfigured Toll-House cookies."

-- 
Carter R. Bennett, Jr. - Scientist | "Oh my God!  I _AM_ a nerd!!!"
carter@scilab.lonestar.org - home  | - C. Bennett, Sept 25, 1992, after
carter@cmptrc.lonestar.org - work  | realizing he had been talking about
KI5SR          | "market availability of preconfigured Toll-House cookies."
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
Subject: Re: Favorite episode dilemma!
Summary: Explain the reference
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 16:25:13 GMT

In article <1h577gINNcpo@uwm.edu> roy@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Roy Alan Radosevich) writes:
>>(could someone explain the Norm Abrams references?  "Sounds like Norm Abrams
>
>I just about had a seizure when they made the Norm Abrams references in 
>"Pod People", as well as with "HUZZAH". By the way, Norm is the master
>carpenter/cabinetmaker on PBS's award-winning(IMHO) saturday afternoon
>woodworking show "The New Yankee Workshop". He is also the host of one of

OK, there's that mystery solved.  Thanks.

Now explain this other reference - whenever Trumpy was shown in a close up,
one of the 'bots would do references to potatos in this strange voice.  Like
with the peanuts - "Ah, little potatos...".  So who's this supposed to be?

"And there... on the handle...  you're not listening."

.                            <<<<Infinite K>>>>

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