It Lives By Night gains bat powers and tries to hunt down Chris and Charlotte, who just want to talk about Lou, Murray, Ted, Sue Ann, and Mary.

Show Notes.

It Lives By Night [a.k.a. The Bat People] (Jerry Jameson, 1974): IMDb. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.

Our recent bonus episode on The Making of MST3K.

It Lives By Night, Diabolik, and Swamp Diamonds rough cuts.

(This got cut for time, but for the curious, this movie has a Bonanza count of 5, and a Murder, She Wrote count of 4.)

Our episodes on Final Justice and The Beast of Hollow Mountain (where we talked about cows).

Bats flying in formation.

Male bats who feed their kids.

Nursery roosts.

Hunting with baby bats.

More about how baby bats latch on.

Li’l bats.

ERRATUM: The Mary Tyler Moore Show actually had 168 episodes.

We talk about Geronimo in our Final Justice episode.

Russell Means and the American Indian Movement.

The occupation of Alcatraz.

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The Mad Monster (with the short, Radar Men from the Moon, ep. 2) causes Chris and Charlotte to howl about the moon, the Wolf Man, Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, and the Big Rock Candy Mountains.

Show Notes.

The Mad Monster (Sam Newfield, 1942): MST3K Wiki. IMDb. Trailer.

Radar Men from the Moon (Fred C. Bannon, 1951): IMDb. UnMSTed.

Marc Evanier on Olsen and Johnson. (Thanks, Greg!)

Our episode on Humanoid Woman.

A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune) (Georges Méliès, 1902).

A fluffy moon?

Lunar module feet pics.

The House of Frankenstein (Erle C. Kenton, 1944).

Our episode on The Beast of Hollow Mountain.

Dangers of the Canadian Mounted (Fred C. Bannon, 1948).

Nut cups.

Some more on the origin of charivari.

Harry McClintock: The Big Rock Candy Mountain. (Or sometimes “Mountains”.)

Pete Seeger: The Big Rock Candy Mountain.

Burl Ives: The Big Rock Candy Mountain.

The Big Rock Candy Mountain in Colorado.

Charley the Unicorn goes to Candy Mountain.

An Invitation to Lubberland.

Herman Pleij: Dreaming of Cockaigne: Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life.

Walla.

Rhubarb Rhubarb (Eric Sykes, 1980) is the remake of Rhubarb (Eric Sykes, 1970).

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It’s our 150th episode, our seventh anniversary, and someone’s birthday! Charlotte and Beth rewatch one of their favourite episodes, The Rebel Set, with the short, Johnny at the Fair. They reminisce about visiting Chicago, Toronto, Winnipeg, the Canadian National Exhibition, and Hellzapoppin’.

Show Notes.

The Rebel Set (Gene Fowler Jr, 1959): MST3K Wiki. IMDb. Trailer.

Johnny at the Fair (Jack Olsen, 1947): IMDb.

Edward Platt might look familiar. (And of course, the other actor is Don Adams.)

The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.

Crow’s itinerary (without Evanston). If he left off the ballpark, he could almost make it.

The Art Institute of Chicago is worth spending well more than four hours in.

Gurnee vs. Gurney.

The Ren Faire in Kenosha.

New baseball rules.

The CNE is the Canadian National Exhibition, which is usually called The Ex.

David Foster: Flight of the Snowbirds.

Weirdly, we haven’t done Earth vs. the Spider, Tormented, or Attack of the Giant Leeches, so stay tuned for our Summer of Gene Roth!

You can hear Charlotte and Chris and friends talk about The Greatest Story Ever Told if you support us on Patreon.

Carey Loftin, stunt driver.

Charles Pachter, artist.

The Journals of Susanna Moodie.

The secret life of William Lyon Mackenzie King.

(Beth’s plot summary of Hellzapoppin’ is slightly inaccurate, but not in any imporant way.)

Duck Amuck.

The Lindy Hop scene from Hellzapoppin’. Heck, if you search YouTube hard enough, you might find even more…

Martha Raye for Polident.

Our episode on I Was A Teenage Werewolf.

Portland Exposé (Harold D. Schuster, 1957).

Phil Stanford: Portland Confidential.

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Nearly a hundred and fifty episodes — and seven years — into this podcast, Chris and Charlotte decide to watch a few “documentaries” to find out what this MST3K show is all about. This Is MST3K (from season 4) and The Making of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (from season 8) get them talking about M, S, T, 3, and K.

Show Notes.

This Is MST3K: MST3K Wiki.

The Making of Mystery Science Theater 3000: MST3K Wiki.

Our episode on Avalanche.

And that’s all this time! If you support us, you can hear some bonus bits and join us on a discord. We have fun.

The Beast of Hollow Mountain shows up much too late to hear Chris and Charlotte talk about killer cats, dinosaurs, cowboys, cows, and Wallace Shawn.

Show Notes.

The Beast of Hollow Mountain (Edward Nassour & Ismael Rodríguez, 1956): MST3K Wiki. IMDb. Trailer.

Our episode on Angels Revenge.

Uninvited (Greydon Clark, 1988).

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (Michael Winner, 1976).

Geronimo (Arnold Laven, 1962).

Las luchadoras contra el robot asesino (René Cardona, 1969).

They Saved Hitler’s Brain (David Bradley, 1968).

Our episode on King Dinosaur.

Dino Ranch.

The Valley of Gwangi (Jim O’Connolly, 1969).

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World.

The eohippus was a thing.

Hole-y cows!

Cow spit.

Friendly cows.

Cows who can’t teach.

Cows who swim.

Cow facts that aren’t true.

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventure of the Priory School.

My Dinner with Andre (Louis Malle, 1981).

Cary Elwes: As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride.

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It’s Final Justice for Chris and Charlotte, who are sentenced to talk about Joe Don Baker, Greydon Clark, Yes, Malta, and Geronimo.

Show Notes.

Final Justice (Greydon Clark, 1985): MST3K Wiki. IMDb. Trailer.

By-The-Bywater is the Megaphonic podcast about all things Tolkien.

Our episode on The Crawling Hand.

R.I.P. Peter Schickele. Chris especially recommends the 1712 Overture, though New Horizons in Music Appreciation is a little more MST3K.

Paul Frees: Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head.

Our episode on Hobgoblins (which Greydon Clark did not produce).

And our episode on Angels Revenge (which Greydon Clark did direct).

Walking Tall (Phil Karlson, 1973).

Walking Tall (Kevin Bray, 2004).

Hell’s Bloody Devils (Al Adamson, 1970), featuring Greydon’s first time directing an actor.

Our episodes on Outlaw (of Gor) and The Day Time Ended, directed by John “Bud” Cardos.

We discussed László Kovács in our episode on The Incredibly Strange Creatures…

Greydon Clark: On the Cheap: My Life in Low Budget Filmmaking.

Wacko (Greydon Clark, 1982).

Joysticks (Greydon Clark, 1983).

Helena (Abelli) Dalli has been keeping busy.

Malta is ranked high for LGBQAI+ rights.

Yes: Owner of a Lonely Heart.

Livingston Taylor: I’ll Come Running.

Bum Phillips.

Mustaccioli and Lazzaroni.

Popeye Village.

Air Malta’s list of film locations in Malta.

Let’s enjoy some acting.

Geronimo and Geronimo.

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The Beatniks avoids anything too far out, but Chris and Charlotte have a gas talking about Paul Frees, pocket pool, dippy slang, store-bought cake, and controversial troll dolls.

Also features another General Hospital short!

Show Notes.

The Beatniks (Paul Frees, 1960): MST3K Wiki. IMDb. Trailer.

How to replace a DVD.

Big Action Bill: The History of Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973).

Belushi vs. Megalon.

Pocket billiards and pocket pool.

A supercut of the thousand voices of Paul Frees.

Our discussion of Scrooge (Ronald Neame, 1970) where Chris brings up the Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol is available to people who support us on Patreon.

Haunted Mansion (walkthrough).

The Haunted Mansion record Charlotte is (probably) thinking of.

Peter Renaday.

Paul Frees: The Skin Diver.

Spike Jones: My Old Flame. (And with a special guest.)

Paul Frees and the Poster People.

Ben Ohmart: Welcome, Foolish Mortals!

BearManor Media.

We discuss Million Dollar Mermaid in our episode on The Batwoman.

Peter Breck.

Mumbley-peg.

The Mosconi Story (Dave O’Brien, 1952).

Tom Waits: Diamonds on My Windshield.

Toots Shor’s Restaurant.

Tea and Sympathy (Vincente Minelli, 1956).

Paul McCartney and Wings: Helen Wheels.

Helen Wheels: Tattoo Vampire.

KARR.

Kliph Nesteroff: We Had a Little Real Estate Problem.

The Boatniks (Norman Tokar, 1970).

This Beatnik Glossary is from the press kit for The Beatniks.

Guy Diamond.

A history of troll dolls.

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Happy Gamuary! This year, Chris and Charlotte broaden their scope a little, as Godzilla vs. Megalon finds them roaring about Godzilla, Jet Jaguar, Megalon, Gigan, and Squawkzilla.

Show Notes.

Godzilla vs. Megalon (Jun Fukuda, 1973): MST3K Wiki. IMDb. Trailer.

Our episodes on Crash of Moons and The Sword and the Dragon.

Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder, 1953).

Gregory Younging: Elements of Indigenous Style.

Some more articles on the topic.

Adam and Beth and Chris watch Godzilla on The Scene Of The Scene.

Godzilla (Ishirō Honda, 1954).

Godzilla Minus One (Takashi Yamazaki, 2023).

Godzilla vs. Megalon (Takuya Uenishi, 2023).

Which is a sequel to Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex (Takuya Uenishi, 2022).

Wikizilla pages for Godzilla, Jet Jaguar, Megalon, and Gigan.

Ultraman.

Chris missed some subtleties in beetle taxonomy.

M Space Hunter Nebula Aliens.

K00: The Green Slime.

Robert Dunham.

Our episodes on Time of the Apes, KTMA and Season 3 style.

The Chitlin’ Circuit.

Moms Mabley.

Another Mother for Peace.

Yusef Lateef: Love Theme from Spartacus.

Robert Frost: Acquainted with the Night.

Langston Hughes: The Underground.

Catching up with Gary Redenbacher.

Meet Squawkzilla.

Against Bridezilla.

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Happy Holidays! Let’s gather round to hear the tale of The Sword and the Dragon , or at least let’s hear Chris and Charlotte talking about Ilya Muromets, Ingmar Bergman, August Strindberg, Sven, and Ole.

Show Notes.

MST3K Wiki. IMDb. Trailer (for the restorated version).

Support us on Patreon to hear the interview with Chris and to hear Chris, Charlotte, and Beth (!!!) talk about the 1970 musical Scrooge with a bunch of other Megaphonic hosts.

Our episodes on the other “holiday” experiments: The Day the Earth Froze, Jack Frost, and The Magic Voyage of Sinbad.

The sketch.

Ilya Muromets on the Myths and Legends podcast.

One telling of the legend of Ilya Muromets and the “wind demon”.

Kyivan Rus’ and Varangians.

A review of the restored version of the film.

You can buy the restored version from Deaf Crocodile, or if you’re willing to deal with YouTube’s compression, MosFilm is sharing it there (with the same subtitles).

Baba Yaga.

The New Gulliver (Aleksandr Ptushko, 1935).

Haley’s M-O commercial.

Cal Smith: Country Bumpkin.

A few years ago, the Criterion Channel did a thing involving The Seventh Seal’s most famous scene.

Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966).

August Strindberg: A Dream Play (Ingmar Bergman, 1963).

Strindberg and Helium. (More about the project.) (UPDATE: It’s over 20 years old.)

More about August Strindberg and Henryk Ibsen.

Edvard Grieg: In the Hall of the Mountain King.

Garrison Keillor and a segment of Sven and Ole (or Ole and Lena) jokes from A Prairie Home Companion.

Schlitz commercial from 1967.

And again, support us on Patreon if you want to give us a gift for the holidays, and we’ll give you some gifts in return! But whether you do or not, have a happy holiday.

Rocky and Winky are back for Crash of Moons (or Crash of the Moons, if you like). But as Chris and Charlotte try to escape their trajectory, they talk about old news, rogue planets, happy leaders, bizarre tv shows, and broken guitars.

Featuring another General Hospital short!

Show Notes.

MST3K Wiki. IMDb. UnMSTed.

Turkey Day 2023 host segments, if you missed it.

The fundraising campaign didn’t make it.

Support us on Patreon if you want to hear a long off-topic interview with Chris (and one a few months ago with Charlotte).

Rogue planets.

Update: Paired rogue planets are totally a thing.

Changing the moon’s trajectory.

Kurzgesagt also did a video about this.

Update: Dr. Spock’s approach to dealing with crying babies was complicated and changed over time.

John Banner and Hollingsworth Morse.

H.R. Pufnstuf.

Marty Krofft obituary. RIP.

Vladimir Horowitz.

Horowitz in Moscow.

Grit.

Anne Sexton.

Dan Hill: Sometimes When We Touch.

Naomi Wolf: The Beauty Myth.

Naomi Klien: Doppelganger.

Pigs in Space. Fan compilations are probably available at your local YouTube.

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Happy Turkey Day! Chris and Charlotte celebrate by rewatching the bumpers and commercials for the first few Turkey Day Marathons! Reminisce with them about Thanksgiving traditions, Thanksgiving television, Thanksgiving hymns, Thanksgiving foods, and so many turkeys.

Show Notes.

Turkey Day Marathon 2023!

Turkey Day 1991, including the classic Turkey Day Hymn.

We talk about yams in our episode on Ring of Terror.

Turkey Day 1992.

Turkey Day 1993. (Mislabelled as Turkey Day 1995.)

As always, you can support us on Patreon. We’re thankful for all our listeners as well as all our patrons.