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From: lightnin@oconnor.WPI.EDU (Paraaaaaaaaade of Shoooooooooes)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: MST 3K
Date: 28 Sep 92 16:55:50 GMT
Organization: DeityCo: Major and Minor Deities Placement Agency
NNTP-Posting-Host: oconnor.wpi.edu
In-reply-to: dmb@world.std.com's message of 27 Sep 92 21:03:12 GMT

>>>>> On 27 Sep 92 21:03:12 GMT, dmb@world.std.com (Deborah M Brown) said:

dmb> In article <1992Sep27.192150.24813@scott.skidmore.edu> acaffrey@scott.skidmore.edu (alanna caffrey) writes:
>Hey is there any one out there that watches Mystery Science Theater
>on the comedy channel??  I cant seem to find any articles on it any
>where. Anyway I am up at school and our cable system doesnt carry it
>i am dying talk to people who understand the withdrawal I am
>experiencing and could maybe fill me in on the crazy exploits of
>Joel,
>Crow and (my favorite) Tom Servo.  Thanks.

dmb> Oh yeah!  We're out here all right.  If you are one of the
dmb> fortunates who gets the alt groups, you might look up
dmb> alt.tv.mst3k.

dmb> If you aren't that fortunate, start something here.  We love to
dmb> talk about it anywhere, even on rec.arts.tv. :-)

Or in addition, you can subscribe to the Satellite of Love News.  A 
mailing list dedicated to Mystery Science Theater 3000.  The man to
write to, and the moderator of the group is Rich Kulawiec, whose address
is:  rsk@gynko.circ.upenn.edu

Send mail with the words Mystery Science Theater 3000 in the Subject: header
and ask him to subscribe you.  The mail comes intermittently, but it comes
in digest format, with a lot of articles posted at once.

There is an FTP site where past SOLN's are archived, but I'm not sure where
it is.

-lightnin

Derek G Bacon        | "But his bosses didn't like him, so they shot him into 
lightnin@wpi.wpi.edu |  space."     - MST3K Love Theme
Gadaiyio Takeimienei |=========================================================
Writer of USFP       | "Oh Fluffy, I never knew." -Earth Girls Are Easy
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.tv.soaps
From: ckile@andy.bgsu.edu (crystal kile)
Subject: SciFi Channel:sked???
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: help
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 03:57:15 GMT

	OK, so now we have the SciFi Channel & its lotsa fun and all, but
how can one tell what is gonna be on when???
	No listings in TVG.  No listings in the local paper.
	I think that someone posted a sked here a coupla weeks ago.  If
so, could said poster repost or email a copy to ckile@andy.bgsu.edu ?
	Did I say PLEASE??? 
	God, this is awful.  More addictive than the Comedy Channel...
almost as addictive as MTV.  I mean, I watched the pilot of _The Powers
of Matthew Star_ (or something like that) this morning.  And then I was
going to go to the library, but _The Incredible Hulk_ came on.
	Please, help save me from my childhood memories!  Help me PLAN
my SFTV viewing.
							Aieee...
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: mhr@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Mike Reaser)
Subject: Re: Schoolhouse Rock
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:47:47 GMT
Organization: a stone mountain of Kudzu

In <1992Sep29.230050.4892@gallant.apple.com> unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu (Matt Ackeret) writes:




>On a similar topic, I read that they're (no I don't recall who "they" is)
>going to make
>shorts for TV on healthy eating.. They'll use Claymation in the shorts.

>Immediately it made me think of the old cartoons with the guy who makes
>'sandwiches'
>out of cheese and crackers. (There are a few others too)

OMIGAWD!  I thought I was the only person who had ever paid attention to
the "Time out for Timer" spots.

In addition to the 'sandwich' cartoon, wasnt' there one about the
importance of personal hygiene (brush your teeth, make a game of it,
etc.)?


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 Internet:  mhr@hpuerca.atl.hp.com
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.sf.tv
From: scottsc@polari.online.com
Subject: Re: QL: Thumbs down on season premiere
Organization: Seattle Online Public Access Unix (206) 328-4944
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 22:09:30 GMT

>In article <19q0s7INNamb@bigboote.WPI.EDU> liz@wpi.WPI.EDU (Mistress Elizabeth) writes:
>>
>>Please keep in mind, here, that they keep saying that Sam will jump into
>>the "last day of Marilyn Monroe's life."  That does *not* mean that he
>>will jump into Marilyn, necessarily.
>

I did not actually see the "season prevue" at the end of the premier. My wife
saw it though and she said that Marylin had an evil green glow in her eyes
that implied that she was being possessed by the Evil Leaper. I may have 
misunderstood, though. I was pretty dismayed by the season opener.

For all those who missed the explanation in the show, the reason that
Sam was jumping around in Oswald's life and assuming his personality was
that he was "biologically similar" to Sam, brain-wise. Al & Sam are able
to communicate because their "neurons & mesons" are compatible. Likewise
for the "simuleap"; Sam and Al exchanged neurons & mesons and thus 
exchanged portions of their personality. Essentially, if Oswald had been
at Project Quantum Leap he could have acted as an observer also. Or, if
Sam had leaped into Marina, Oswald would have seen him for who he was 
instead of seeing Marina's "aura".

Essentially, part of Oswald was left behind when the leap took place 
and this screwed up the leap, causing Sam to start leaping randomly 
around in Oswald's life. This was also the reason for the "photographic
negative" leap effect instead of the normal leap effect. Sam leaped
back into 1963 when Ziggy & Al put Oswald into the accellerator and 
attempted to remove Oswalds mesons from Sam's brain. This lead to a
bleed-over of personality (which Sam yelled at Al about) that resulted
in Oswald completely taking over Sam and almost causing him to shoot
JFK.

This is why Sam went on a series of pointless, confusing leaps to a
trite and predictable conclusion. Having recently seen some old news
footage of the assasination, I knew instantly that Sam had leaped into
the SS agent who jumped on the car after JFK was shot. I had already
figured out the "surprise" ending by the time Oswald took his second
shot.

I had hoped that Don B. would do something besides present us with his
own opinions about the JFK assassination and Oswald's part in it. I had
even entertained the notion that Sam would be put into a position where
his mission as Oswald was to insure that JFK was killed! That would have
had a lot more drama as well as a lot more emotional impact on the 
characters. 

However, I will admit that the interrogation scenes in the waiting room were
pretty good. 


-- 
=========================
scottsc@polari.online.com
=========================
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.sf.tv
From: sallylb@netcom.com (Sally Smith)
Subject: QL: Convention news
Summary: LA CA
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 06:23:31 GMT

Due to budget constraints, time constraints, the recession, and a
multitude of other factors the powers that be at Universal don't tell
peons like me, it appears certain that the February 13-15, 1993
"Quantum Leap" convention will be held at Universal Studios Hollywood,
not Universal Studios Florida, as previously announced.

Sorry for those of you from the East Coast who were planning on
attending, but I thought you'd want to know now before you bought your
tickets. For those of you on the West Coast -- now you have no excuse
for not going!

Sally
net.Leap.info.source
-- 
Sally Smith (510)790-0608  sallylb@netcom.com (I was sally@tardis.tymnet.com)
I'm unemployed--these opinions *must* be mine!
"Don't investigate this too closely." -- Don Bellisario, re: "Quantum Leap"

Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: mgtaylor@eos.ncsu.edu (Mary Molly G Taylor)
Subject: Re: ARRRGGHH! "Sky fits heaven..." GO AWAY!
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 00:52:32 GMT

In article <4316@moscom.com> de@moscom.com (David Esan) writes:
>In article <1992Sep29.202552.12557@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> jackie8@dasher.uucp (Jackie Brady) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep29.194152.16742@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> hfir_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Hoss 'macromolecular' Firooznia) writes:
>>>
>>>Say, has anyone *ever* seen a good jeans ad?
>
>There was an ad during the Olympics for ??? jeans.  A man taking a shower and
>singing opera in a wonderful bass voice.  You watch and listen as he exits
>from the shower still singing, gets dressed still singing.  Puts on his jeans,
>you hear the zzzziippppp of the zipper, and he continues singing, this time
>as a soprano.  They then tout their extra wide jeans.

I *LOVED* that series of ads.  I wish they would continue running them.


-- 
MaryMolly G. Taylor
mgtaylor@eos.ncsu.edu	|	Applied Energy Research Laboratory
(919) 515-5240		|	Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Dept.
Fax:  (919) 515-7968	|	North Carolina State University
From: ahummel@ems.cdc.com (H. Austin Hummel)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Sci-Fi Channel-- Anyone got it yet?
Date: 29 Sep 92 18:12:37 GMT
Reply-To: you@ems.cdc.com
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of CDC

In article <ir50422@pro-amber.cts.com>, rsopicki@pro-amber.cts.com (Randy Sopicki) writes:
|> Its not on in the San Diego, Ca area either.

Yes, in Bloomington MN on Channel 1 with converter, channel 99 w/o
Xref: sparky rec.arts.tv:18652 rec.arts.tv.uk:5627
From: glazer@cs.cornell.edu (Scott Mathew Glazer)
Subject: Re: Reese's Pieces Commercial
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 20:56:33 GMT

In article <slambert.5.718047696@AFIT.AF.MIL> slambert@AFIT.AF.MIL (Steve Lambert) writes:
>In article <ddogan.9.717969157@AFIT.AF.MIL> ddogan@AFIT.AF.MIL (Darryl Dogan) writes:
>
>>  Excuse me, but I'm in a quandary about the Reese's Pieces commercial that 
>>runs with the afternoon and Saturday cartoons ("Hair pieces, eye pieces, 
>>Reese's Pieces").  The nerd from "Parker Lewis Can't Lose" appears in it.
>
>>  The pay-off verse of the jingle says that Reese's Pieces has "the famous 
>>flavor of Reese's Peanut Butter in a (???????) shell."  The words aren't too 
>>clear.  I won't rest until I get to the bottom of this.  Anybody have any 
>>idea what kind of shell encases Reese's famous peanut butter?  Thanks in 
>>advance for the help.
>
>
>I have seen this commercial a couple of times and like you I could not quite 
>make out certain words in the commercial.  I watched for it last night and I'
>m quite certain that it's "...in a fucking shell."  No offense intended!

Ah, "fun candy shell" has always been my guess here...seems somewhat more
logical.

--Scott G

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From: lawrence@ctron.com (Gary St. Lawrence)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: QL: ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 28 Sep 92 20:28:29 GMT
Reply-To: lawrence@olympus.ctron.com (Gary St. Lawrence)
Followup-To: rec.arts.tv
Distribution: na
Organization: Cabletron Systems INc.

Jesus Murphy! Enough with the Quantum Leap season premiere!!!
It's been a week. Get a life will you please?!?!?!?!?
This net has been garbled with so much CRAP about Sam's leap into LHO.
We were all disappointed by the ending. Okay, Fine! LET IT GO!
There's a good season coming up, how about some talk/and/or/speculation
about that for a CHANGE!!!!
Don't worry, they'll re-run it and then all you whiners can get your panties in
a twist all over again!

					Having a sh*tty day!
					Saint
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: EDIAS@deimos.ucc.umass.edu (EMILIANO A DIAS)
Subject: Re: Schoolhouse Rock
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 22:16:20 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20

> 
> >Immediately it made me think of the old cartoons with the guy who makes
> >'sandwiches'
> >out of cheese and crackers. (There are a few others too)
> 
> OMIGAWD!  I thought I was the only person who had ever paid attention to
> the "Time out for Timer" spots.
> 
> In addition to the 'sandwich' cartoon, wasnt' there one about the
> importance of personal hygiene (brush your teeth, make a game of it,
> etc.)?
> 

I rember three "Time for Timer" shorts.

One was for "Wagon Wheels" (a.k.a. Cheese and Crackers)

Another one was about fruit juice popsicles.
"Tell your mom that you've been itchin' to do
somethin' in the kitchen and oh yes,
the mess will be a minimum."

And the last one was about eating well.  
Where timer takes us along for a trip through our digestive system.

   I miss Saturday morning cartoons...		Tony Dias
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: AAron@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (AAron nAAs)
Subject: NEXP - Info found about Toy Cows!!
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 00:18:18 GMT

I found it!!!
Though I didn't find the cure for cancer as some thought I might :(
You may not believe this but...

I subscribed to the Cle Elum Tribune (Roslyn's local newspaper),
I called Roslyn Town Hall to find the number of a specific person I saw
in the paper,
I called that person who gave me the number of Pipeline Productions,
I called Pipeline Productions who gave me the number of they LA office,
I called their LA office who told me

The name of the song is....
      "Toy Cows In Africa"   Not very helpful since everyone looked
that up and could not find it.

The name of the group is...
      _Chance_

The song...
      Is not on any released album...

They gave me the number of the group and said that I could probably get
the song for a price...
I called that number and left a message on an answering machine, and
have not heard back from them yet.

I will write more when I hear from them.

AAron@sun.soe.clarkson.edu
From: mas@calmasd.Prime.COM (Marisa SorBello)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Mad About You
Date: 5 Oct 92 18:24:38 GMT
Organization: Computervision, San Diego, CA

In article <mushens.718154165@sfu.ca> mushens@fraser.sfu.ca (David Russell Mushens) writes:
>
>Anyone else as disappointed in this thing as I was?      

Probably more so.  I missed the first episode, and looked forward
to the second.  I couldn't even watch the whole thing -- it was
dreadful!  There's wasn't one thing even remotely funny about it;
it was predictable and juvenile; and worst of all, not one thing
that came out of anyone's mouth sounded the least bit believable.
I didn't think it was possible, but it's a bigger dog than
Love & War (whoever told Susan Dey she can do comedy should be
taken out and shot -- OK, so that's a little extreme :-) ).  

-- Marisa
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: kkfg9760@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (kenneth fung )
Subject: NEXP help needed (possible SPOILERS)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 14:00:19 GMT
Keywords: NEXP

Could someone please tell me what happened during the last 15 minutes
of last night's (9/28) season premiere?  I was interrupted by a phone
call.  Basically, i'd like to know how they wrapped the three
storylines up: What did Marilyn say to Chris at the end?  Did Maurice
finish his memoir?  What happened to Maggie at the picnic table with
her dead boyfriends?  Please post or e-mail me (fung@cs.uiuc.edu).
Thanks in advance.

BTW, i was glad to see Elaine Miles' and Peg Philips' names in the
opening credits, if anyone cares.

kenn
(fung@cs.uiuc.edu)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: ratter@b8.b8.ingr.com (Ray Ratte)
Subject: Re: Annoying Broadcasting Practices
Summary: ?
Organization: Intergraph
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 13:12:10 GMT


What is really annoying is that this is added commerical time.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (*Possible Spoiler*)
From: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins)
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:05:43 -0500
Distribution: na
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

In article <1992Sep29.124247.6330@meaddata.com>, sharonc@meaddata.com (Sharon Crichton) writes:




 
> Question with spoiler attached (I hope the Control-L works):















> 
> Is Indy's friend Remy' dead? I know that he was at least seriously injured in
> the last scene at the castle/villa, but considering how close he and Indy were,
> there wasn't much grieving shown on Indy's part. I wonder if they're setting
> this up for a reunion between the two (although I hope it would be a lot
> sooner than the reunion between Indy and the suffragist woman he fell in love
> with).
> Sharon Crichton         *****************   Mead Data Central

     I think he is, he really took a hard hit with that grenade/mortar
shell/whatever it was.

     I unfortunately only got to see the last 15 minutes, but that was
because I didn't know of the new time slot!!

Later....

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From: breid@pyrhard2.eng.pyramid.com (Bill Reid)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?
Date: 29 Sep 92 23:35:26 GMT
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation, Mountain View

In article <1992Sep28.002903.1417@madnix.uucp> zaphod@madnix.uucp (Ron Bean) writes:
> 
>  I am also convinced that there is a difference in sound
>quality. Video seems to have a lot more background noise and
>"room echo". I can only guess that this is due to the film's
>optical soundtrack, which probably has less frequency response
>and dynamic range than magnetic tape. Anyone know for sure?
> 
Actually, the linear sound stripe on a video has less dynamic range than 
the optical soundtrack on a commercial film.  The difference you hear 
is the result of the way the soundtrack was produced rather than the 
format of the medium, though.  If you hear background noise and room 
echo, it means they used a single cheap microphone to record the dialog, 
quite possibly directly onto the sound stripe on the videotape, with no 
post-production sound editing.  There is no way to record sound on film; 
a seperate recorder is used (generally a Nagra), which is slave synced 
to the camera.  They generally record the dialog using good mikes for 
each performer, then add sound effects after the film has been 
edited, and remove any extraneous background noise.  
When the film master is struck, they add the 
completed sound track to the film.   You can record and edit sound the same 
way with video, and it would sound identical to a film sound track.  
However, since most video work is done "on the cheap", most video  
sound tracks are not high-quality, like you describe.   

Now, if a film is dirty, the sound will be dirty as well due to the optical 
track.  The pops and cracks you hear are distinctly different from 
anything a bad magnetic stripe on a videotape would make.  So there is  
an audible difference there.
From: hfir_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Hoss 'macromolecular' Firooznia)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: ARRRGGHH! "Sky fits heaven..." GO AWAY!
Date: 29 Sep 92 19:41:52 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

In <69349@hydra.gatech.EDU> cegtitd@prism.gatech.EDU (Tim Dodd) writes:

>In article <jpc.717785565@avdms8.msfc.nasa.gov> jpc@avdms8.msfc.nasa.gov (J. Porter Clark) writes:
>>I don't care for this commercial, but every time that Gap Jeans
>>commercial starts up with that guy reading what we used to call beat
>>poetry, I want to throw something hard and heavy at the screen.  That

>I agree with you 100% about this commercial.  It's a sure channel-changer
>or "mute" in my house.  I wonder what goes through the minds of the
>advertising people who come up with these things!

Yeah, every time I see that pretentious bastard I feel like choking him. >:-)
Anyone seen that stupid Levi's ad?  You know, the one where hordes of doofy
looking men are running around on the beach, playing with big bed linens or
some such, while ominous music drones in the background, and such profound
messages as "Everything basic... EVOLVES" flash up on the screen?

Say, has anyone *ever* seen a good jeans ad?

- Hoss
-- 
H. Y. Firooznia
hfir_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
From: rck1@ellis.uchicago.edu (roberta chi-woon kwong)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: QL: "LotS: observations
Date: 30 Sep 92 22:43:17 GMT
Reply-To: rck1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations


*SPOILERS* for "Leaping of the Shrew" below...



























Hmm...well, I see they still haven't changed the theme back yet.
I've gotten fairly used to it now, but I still do prefer the
original theme. But that's a minor point.

On "Leaping of the Shrew": I sang the praises of the season
premiere last week, but "LotS" was, IMHO, bottom of the barrel.
True, I prefer heavy episodes over light ones any day, but I don't
actually have anything against lighter episodes...unless they're
like this one.

The "stranded on tropical island with beautiful woman" and "taming
of the shrew" plots are two of the oldest lines, and while that
isn't in itself a bad thing, I've always admired QL for its ability
to take old story concepts and give them a fresh new twist. I
didn't see *anything* new about this story. The "taming of the
shrew" concept, in particular, has been used more than once in QL
("How the Tess was Won," "A-Hunting We Will Go," just off the top
of my head), and this time, everything seemed almost painfully
predictable. Even the minor story points were predictable, like
that fact that the raft was going to wind up being stabbed by the
comb, or that Vanessa had been the one to empty the hairspray can
on purpose...Even the title shows this lack of imagination--
obviously a play on the Shakespeare's title, but what, exactly,
does it *mean*? Did I miss something? (In all fairness, the working
title was much better; I wish they'd kept it.)

Besides, anyone who tosses my grandmother's silver over the side of
a raft as callously as *that* is not going to win my affections :-)

The one "new" element was the revelation of the fact that Vanessa
was having difficulties with her father and fiancee, but even this
part of the story was run aground (no pun intended) by the way the
episode ended. Okay, Sam got her to face the fact that her father
and her fiancee didn't understand her as a person...So what's the
solution? Why, run away, of course! Lock yourself away on an
uninhabited island, let your family think you're dead, and never
have to deal with them face-to-face until you're picked up several
years and six children later, and by then everything will be all
right. Uh-huh. 

Next week's episode: *Nice* leap-in. I've been waiting to see this
one ever since I first heard about it.

Just my $0.02.


Robin C. Kwong ("er)
				Leapers (don't have to) 
				brake for holograms!