Here on my blog, I like to focus on being positive and talking about things I really love and enjoy, and then share them with you. However, this post isn't going to be full of sunshine and rainbows. It's not evil, but dang.
So, I am a huge fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000. If you don't know what that show is, I believe I have talked about it a couple of times in other blog posts, but I will spare you the time it would take to look those up. Mystery Science Theater 3000, or MST3K for short, is a show that aired in the 1990s. It's premise was an evil scientist kidnapped a worker at his laboratory, put him in a spaceship, and then the evil scientist forces the man to watch terrible movies to drive him insane, but the poor guy invents two robots, and the three of them watch the horrible movies together, and they make fun of them the whole time, so that they can keep their sanity in check.
The episodes were two hours long, with commercials, so they are really only about an hour and a half long, but each episode had them watching a different terrible movie. That's the main part of the show is you watching the terrible movie with them, and laugh like crazy at their jokes and commentary. They also do little sketches in the middle of the movie, usually when they were going to a commercial break.
The original run was from 1990 through 1999. It mostly aired on Comedy Central when it was brand new, and then on the Sci-Fi, now SYFY, channel when it was finally canceled after their tenth season. However, Netflix brought it back with new actors playing the man and robots, but it's the same set up and premise. Though Netflix canceled it after two short seasons, despite the fact that it was constantly on the top ten shows and movies list in the Netflix library.
The creator of the show, Joel Hodgeson has created a new streaming service that is all Mystery Science Theater 3000, and the money used from people subscribing to it all goes back into making new episodes, and at the time of this writing, there are new episodes of MST3K to watch at www.thegizmoplex.com
There are free episodes to watch there as well. Even old episodes from the 1990s are on the streaming service. If you love movies, and you love comedy, MST3K is for you.
The three actors who were the man and the two robots when the original run was canceled in 1999, Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbet started a website called Rifftrax, which started where you would buy a three dollar MP3 file of a movie, and then watch a DVD of the movie, and you could sync up the jokes with the movie. Now they usually just sell the movies with their jokes.
Usually two times a year, Fathom Events, which is a company that broadcasts live events to movie theaters, like the New York Met Opera, and you can go to a movie theater by where you live and watch the opera in the theater while it is being performed live. Rifftrax usually does two of those events, and I attend all of them with my mom. We love going.
Anyway, they always make fun of old educational shorts that they used to show in elementary schools between the 1950s and the 1970s. They are hysterical, and they always choose a great short to make fun of. I will share an MST3K short with you in a minute, but at this last Rifftrax live event, they made fun of a short about a kid who runs away so that he doesn't have to go to the dentist. It's about a kid named Danny, and some animals. Did I mention they are marionettes? It is nightmare fuel at it's finest, and I am going to share it here with you!
This was the short they made fun of at the Rifftrax event, and it was hysterical, but oh so scary. My mom and I can watch it and laugh, but the rest of my family is not on board with it. They made a joke about the title, and how is was supposed to be written in toothpaste, but that it looked like Preperation H instead, lol. The marionettes are creepy as all get out, and the organ music that plays just adds to the craziness of the short.
Okay, now that I have scared you, I will share a great MST3K short with you.
Okay, now that you are scared, but hopefully laughing, I have done my job. I really do love both MST3K and Rifftrax, and to be honest, I think that they have taught me how to appreciate filmmaking in general. It's an art form that takes a lot of people to collaborate and make a film, even horrible ones, and you have to appreciate the effort, good or bad. I truly believe that MST3K and Rifftrax have made me love film even more than I did before, and how to appreciate good films, and help me be a better film critic. I have rewatched certain episodes of MST3K so many times that I have them memorized, and every single time I do, I still laugh just as hard at the jokes for the millionth time just like I did the first time.
I hope that this post will inspire you all to search out some Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes, or go to www.rifftrax.com and check them out too.
Well, I am ready to hit the sack, and then go to bed. I hope you are all doing well and are healthy and safe. I have another blog post coming soon. I will tell you what it might be about if you are nice......are you being nice?...... Okay, good!
I recently participated in a curling tournament that was a fundraiser. The Ukrainian Olympic Curling Team are living here in Utah so that they can be safe and practice and participate in Curling championships. The Utah Olympic Committee has been paying for them to stay here since late March, and they were starting to run low on funds, so the Ogden Utah Curling League hosted a tournament where all of the entry fees and raffle ticket sales went straight to the Utah Olympic Committee to keep the team here in Utah and allow them to practice and compete. It was a great honor meeting the team in my regular curling league at the Utah Olympic Oval, but it was awesome to compete against them as well in the tournament. They mopped the ice with our butts! They are crazy talented and athletic, and it was a great experience. I have some cool pictures and stuff I will share later.
Stay safe and happy. I will be back soon!
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