Indestructible Man gets revenge on Chris and Charlotte, who double crossed him by talking about Max Showalter, Lon Chaney, Lon Chaney, Mr. Bulky's, and the Mountain Goats.

With the short: Undersea Kingdom, chapter 2!

Show Notes.

Indestructible Man (Jack Pollexfen, 1956): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Trailer. Watch on YouTube.

Undersea Kingdom, ch. 2 (B. Reeves Eason & Joseph Kane, 1936): IMDB.

KTMA episode 3 has been found! You can find it on YouTube or archive.org.

Demon Squad: Tooth and Claw (Thomas Smith, 2026). Our episode on Demon Squad.

We talk about Crash Corrigan in our episode on Attack of the Giant Leeches.

Our episode on Catalina Caper.

Sixteen Candles (John Hughes, 1984).

Niagara (Henry Hathaway, 1953).

A review of Undersea Kingdom which will help you identify Lon.

The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian, 1925).

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Wallace Worsley, 1923).

The Wolf Man (George Waggner, 1941).

The Mountain Goats: Rotten Stinking Mouthpiece. (Some of the lore about the movie presented here is not accurate, but that’s OK.)

I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats.

Mr. Bulky’s. (See also Grandpa Joe’s.)

R.E.M.: Cuyahoga.

We tried the candy in our episode on The Green Slime.

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Atlantic Rim lurks in the depths, waiting to see if Chris and Charlotte are drift-compatable enough to nagivate Kickstarters, notorious movies, mockbusters, Guillermo del Toro, and garage bands.

Show Notes.

Atlantic Rim (Jared Cohn, 2013): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Trailer. Hopefully on YouTube in a few weeks.

The Kickstarter, in the unlikely event that this is the first you’re hearing about it.

A reminder about some of the things Mike has said in the past, and Mike’s apology.

Demon Squad: Tooth and Claw (Thomas Smith, 2026).

Listen to Charlotte on Fiasco Family Movie Night talking about rom-coms!

Dances with Wolves (Kevin Costner, 1990).

The Twilight Saga: New Moon (Chris Weitz, 2009).

North (Rob Reiner, 1994).

Love by Design (Jared Cohn, 2023).

Naughty by Nature: Hip Hop Hooray and O.P.P.

A profile of The Asylum.

The Asylum have put a bunch of their films on YouTube, because why not.

Pacific Rim (Guillermo del Toro, 2013).

Pacific Rim: The Black.

Ellen McClain’s casting is intentional.

Bruce McCullough remembers a sketch. Or, I guess technically, multiple sketches, but the first one is the best.

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MST3K: The Web Series (a.k.a “The ’Bots Are Back”) hit our web browers in 2007, about halfway between the end of MST3K’s original run and the beginning of the Netflix seasons. MST3K: The Comic hit comic book stores right before season 12 dropped. Both experiment with MST3K in new formats, but one is significantly more successful than the other. Chris and Charlotte investigate.

Show Notes.

MST3K: The Web Series was quickly taken offline, but you can find it on YouTube.

MST3K: The Comic was published by Portland’s own Dark Horse Comics. It ran for six issues, and was collected in a trade paperback.

Homestar Runner began in 2000. When the MST3K web series came out, they were up to sbemail 183.

MST3K: The Comic mostly riffs on:

• Johnny Jason, Teen Reporter 2 (1962)
• Black Cat 2 (1946)
• Black Cat 3 (1946)
• Black Cat 5 (1947)
• Horrific 1 (1952)
• Horrific 2 (1952)
• Horrific 3 (1953)

Henry Nilsson: A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night.

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Attack of the Giant Leeches feeds off Chris and Charlotte as they discuss creature features, leeches, surgeon’s sutures, Crash (as Crash), and Crash’s ranch.

With the short: Undersea Kingdom, chapter 1.

Show Notes.

Attack of the Giant Leeches (Bernard L. Kowalski, 1959): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Trailer. Watch on YouTube.

Undersea Kingdom, ch. 1 (B. Reeves Eason & Joseph Kane, 1936): IMDB.

King Kong vs. Gozilla (キングコング対ゴジラ) (Ishirō Honda, 1962) is but the first.

King Kong on Wikizilla.

MST3K has been sold.

MST3K: The RiffTrax Experiments on Kickstarter.

An article in Variety about the upcoming episodes.

We talked about Atlantis in our episodes on Beyond Atlantis and Hercules and the Captive Women.

We’ve mentioned Hee-Haw in a few episodes, including Prince of Space and The Deadly Bees.

And we talked about Hummel figurines in our episode on Demon Squad.

Our episodes on The Killer Shrews and The Leech Woman.

This Podcast Will Kill You: Leeches.

A video about leeches from Deep Marine Scenes.

Ancient leech fossils.

A PBS video on medicinal leeches.

An article about a medical leech farm.

Leeches and osteoarthritis.

Leeches and biodiversity research.

An Australian hiker with advice on leeches.

A web tour of Corriganville.

Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (William Beaudine, 1952).

In memoriam Phillip Piuma (1978–2026).

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Happy Gamuary! This year Gorgo roars as Chris and Charlotte discuss Irish kaiju, Irish stereotypes, Irish playwrights, Irish boxers, and walking through London.

Show Notes.

Gorgo (Eugène Lourié, 1961): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Trailer. Watch on YouTube.

We began celebrating Gamuary way back in 2018 with our first episode on Gamera vs. Barugon.

Also, we don’t mention this, but there is an earlier film that is arguably the first UK kaiju movie: The Giant Behemoth (Eugène Lourié, 1959). Same director as Gorgo.

Leonard Maltin: Leonard Maltin’s 1998 Movie & Video Guide.

Leonard Maltin’s homepage. Someone on Letterboxd posts all his reviews, including his review of Gorgo.

Ógra.

Rodan (Ishirō Honda, 1956).

Coliemore Harbour in Dalkey, Ireland.

Get your replica boots. Or the replica slippers.

Chris talked about Samuel Beckett and Waiting for Godot on a recent episode of The Spouter-Inn.

Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot. Endgame. Krapp’s Last Tape. Happy Days. Not I.

See also (or search for) Beckett on Film.

Not I (Anthony Page, 1973) starring Billie Whitelaw.

We discuss John Ford and John Wayne some more in our episode on Last of the Wild Horses.

The Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952).

Cher: If I Could Turn Back Time.

And a related ad.

The Caine Mutiny (Edward Dmytryk, 1954). That one scene.

Gordon Lightfoot: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. And an example of a later live version.

Waiting for Gorgo (Benjamin Craig, 2010).

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Happy holidays! Look, we got you a Munchie! Put it in a box and everything. And we also got you an episode of Chris and Charlotte talking about Munchies, Munchie Strikes Back, Dom DeLuise, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and the late great Loni Anderson.

Show Notes.

Munchie (Jim Wynorski, 1992): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Trailer.

Support us on Patreon and listen to our holiday special, all about the Edvard Grieg musical biopic Song of Norway (Andrew L. Stone, 1970). (You probably don’t want to watch the movie itself.)

Grieg is the composer behind In the Hall of the Mountain King — and much more!

Get ready for Fiascomas! A new little daily podcast about holiday movies, running between Christmas and New Year’s, by the friends who bring you Hubrisween!.

Our episodes on MST3Kon and Cry Wilderness.

Munchies (Tina Hirsch, 1987).

Munchie Strikes Back (Jim Wynorski, 1994).

Love Hewitt: Heart of Glass.

We talk about The Bastard (Lee H. Katzin, 1978) in our episode on SST: Death Flight.

A Prince for Christmas (Fred Olen Ray, 2015).

Phantasm (Don Coscarelli, 1979).

The Classic Erich Wolfgang Korngold. (Yes, he used a different pseudonym for this.)

Kevin Kutchaver.

Little Miss Millions (Jim Wynorski, 1993).

Judy Tenuta in 1990, uh, being weirdly topical for today.

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The Dead Talk Back, but maybe you’d rather hear Chris and Charlotte talk about true believers, ice cream sales, safety plans, public service announcements, and The Grateful Dead.

With the short: The Selling Wizard.

Show Notes.

The Dead Talk Back (Merle S. Gould, 1957/1993): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Watch on YouTube.

The Selling Wizard (Unknown, 1954): IMDB. UnMSTed.

MST3K has just uploaded The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t, which we covered last year, for the holidays.

The Body Is a Shell (Merle S. Gould, 1956).

Peter Ballbusch: The Body Is a Shell.

Edgar Cayce.

We talk about H.R. Pufnstuf or whatever in our episode on Crash of Moons.

The New York Times on The Body Is a Shell.

Clips of Dickory Doc.

An article about ice cream getting popular.

The relevant fountain pen by Ensso is no longer in production, but here’s a review. (Chris has the black one.)

OK, but what if everyone jumped at the same time?

International ShakeOut Day.

Gas mask drills in World War 2.

1950s civil defense drills.

An example of a tsunami drill.

MST3K PSAs: riffing a news reel and pretending there’s an emergency on the SoL.

Stuff You Missed in History Class on The Sisters Fox.

If you missed the news about the talk to your dead grandma through AI thing...

The Grateful Dead (with John Oswald): Greyfolded.

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Happy Turkey Day! Let’s celebrate with the very first episode of MST3K, which premiered on Thanksgiving 1988! Invaders from the Deep (which is to say, four episodes of Stingray spliced together into a movie) dives after Chris and Charlotte while they flap their lips about Turkey Day, Supermarionation, brief introductions, earnest ecologists, and beer nuts.

Show Notes.

Invaders from the Deep (David Lane, 1981 (based on Stingray (1964))): MST3K Wiki. IMDB.

Details about this year’s Turkey Day, which is happening when this podcast goes live.

You can see a print ad for the debut of MST3K on the KTMA era page of The Epicurean History of MST3K.

Our episode on Humanoid Woman.

Phones and Marina over on the Gerry (and presumably Sylvia) Anderson wiki.

Filmed in Supermarionatin (Stephen La Rivière, 2014) is the documentary Chris watched, now available on YouTube.

Our episodes on the test pilot, the first Comedy Channel episode, the first Mike episode, the first Sci-Fi episode, the first Jonah episode, and the first Emily episode.

Silent Running (Douglas Trumbull, 1972).

Beer Nuts.

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Assignment: Venezuela sends Chris and Charlotte off to discuss economic colonialism, oil extraction, Latin American history, lying husbands, and CD-ROMs.

Show Notes.

Assignment: Venezuela (Jack Tobin, 1956): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. UnMSTed.

Our episode on The Beast of Yucca Flats, with the short: Progress Island, U.S.A.

The surprisingly robust Wikipedia article on Assignment: Venezuela, with lots of MST3K content.

Eduardo Galeano: The Memory of Fire trilogy: Genesis, Faces and Masks, and Century of the Wind — as well as The Book of Embraces.

A history of Levittown, NY.

Some documents about the integration of Levittown, PA.

The Wikipedia article on Robert Moses has a subsection on racism which details the recent arguments that have been made about the Jones Beach story.

Don’t Worry Darling (Olivia Wilde, 2022). (Charlotte notes that the movie gets pretty dark.)

The Mystery Science Theater 3000 CD-ROM.

The Voyager Company, and a list of the CD-ROMs they released (or planned to release).

Laurie Anderson recently had a chance to revisit The Puppet Motel.

Someone uploaded a playthrough (if you want to call it that) of The Puppet Motel.

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Blood Waters of Dr. Z (a.k.a. Zaat) gets in its tank while Chris and Charlotte blurble on about fish supremacy, fish people, fish fingers, fish controversies, and smokeless tobacco.

Show Notes.

Blood Waters of Dr Z (Don Barton (and Arnold Stevens), 1971): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Watch on YouTube.

HubrisWeen! on Zaat.

Our episodes on Revenge of the Creature and The Batwoman.

Gill-Man from the Creature from the Black Lagoon films, Kraken from Clash of the Titans, and the Gill Monster from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Faith No More: Epic. An article about the video.

Remembering Marine World Africa USA.

Update: Marineland was sold!

Mouth tobacco.

The story of Big League Chew.

And candy cigarettes...

Pride and Prejudice (Simon Langton, 1995). Featuring a particular scene.

Visit beautiful Switzerland!

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Superdome will give Chris and Charlotte tickets to the big game if they can give the inside scoop on 70s made-for-tv movies, Donald Pleasence, David Janssen, Donna Mills, and surprisingly little about football.

Show Notes.

Superdome (Jerry Jameson, 1978): MST3K Wiki. IMDB.

Previous Donald Pleasence Day episodes: Warrior of the Lost World. The Pumaman. Alien from L.A.. Circus of Horrors. Pod People. Teenage Crime Wave. Prince of Space. Hangar 18. SST: Death Flight.

Columbo: Any Old Port in a Storm. (One of Peter Falk’s favourite episodes.)

Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978).

Dracula (John Badham, 1979).

Our friends over at HubrisWeen! have tackled The Giant Gila Monster and The Killer Shrews this year.

Our episodes on It Lives By Night, The Sidehackers, and Space Travellers.

The Fugitive: With Strings Attached.

Centennial (1978–79).

You will...

Tom Selleck has no regrets.

1776 (Peter H. Hunt, 1972).

Star Trek (TOS): The Day of the Dove, The Trouble with Tribbles, and Journey to Babel (which has Spock’s mother).

The Jackson 5: Never Can Say Goodbye.

Amen.

Blacula (William Crain, 1972).

We discuss Klaus Kinski most recently in our episode on The Million Eyes of Sumuru.

Uptown Saturday Night (Sidney Poitier, 1974).

Miller Lite, recommended to you by Dick Butkus and Bubba Smith.

Donna Mills.

Snack Canyon.

Santa Cruz High School Band.

M. Emmet Walsh.

Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales.

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