Posted on 09/06/2015 9:45:02 AM PDT by Morgana
The arrival of Labor Day weekend means that another summer is in the history books. And it’s not just regular folks who are taking three days off; based on the paucity of new movies and TV shows available from now through Monday, Hollywood has effectively shut down as well. And what little fresh media exists out there — like The Transporter Refueled and Hand of God — sounds mostly bad. Given that, your finest entertainment option this weekend is one that elevates badness into an art form. We’re talking, of course, about Mystery Science Theater 3000, the legendary comedy series that celebrated legendarily awful movies in the best way possible: by ripping them to shreds.
During its decade-long run, which commenced in 1988 on a local Minneapolis TV station before moving to the fledgling Comedy Channel (later Comedy Central) and the Sci Fi Channel, MST3K subjected its human and robotic stars to hundreds of terrible movies. The humans were creator Joel Hodgson and his eventual replacement, Mike Nelson, while the robots included Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot. They all lived alongside each other on the Satellite of Love, an orbiting spacecraft/prison where each week brought a new cinematic atrocity, boasting such titles as Eegah, The Wild World of Batwoman, and Hercules Against the Moon Men.
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Rowsdower!!!!
I can do it, but not until my next days off -starting Thursday. I’ll make up a pic of the show and everything.
If you want, please PM me what list you have and I can get ‘er done.
No rush, though. I can’t do it until I’m off.
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