As you may have guessed, I never make it a point to miss MST3K Turkey Day. But that was outta my hands when my modem died on Thursday.
So, since I still have the weekend off and nothing else to do, I was going to do what I intended to do on Thursday: live-watch the MST3K Turkey Day Marathon and share that series love with y'all here.
I love this celebration of MST3K, I love MST3K *period* (as you could've figured from my username), so... let's rock!
And we're back in with The Sword and the Dragon!
Crow: "Is my face as weird as it looks?"
Mike: "Kiss your Aunt Bernice!"
Y'ALL SAVAGES
If Team MST3K wants to sell Surgically Enhanced version of The Sword and the Dragon, I'm buying, because this film looks AMAZING.
All the Russo-Finnish movies on this show did, but... hot damn.
Woman: "The Tugars stand at our gate!"
Mike: "Just two guys?"
That's an impossibly stupid joke, but I *heart* it.
One good thing about doing the Turkey Day Marathon this way: pauses for breaks and the like. I *do* appreciate not getting to miss anything this time.
Flashbacks to those "SEGA!" ads.
This show could have a real time capsule feel to it, and bless it forever for that.
Kevin Murphy as Ilya Murometz is absolutely KILLING it.
"That is a substitution, you spawn of the devil! No one, not even a Tugar shall order off the menu!"
:D
Love it.
Curiously accented bad guy: "This is not enough!"
Crow as bad guy: "I want Moose and Squirrel!"
ALWAYS a sucker for a good Rocky and Bullwinkle reference.
[laughs hard enough to scare the neighbors]
That "cattle call for The Sound of Music" riff with all the overlapping cries of "THE HILLS ARE ALIVE"?
Amazing. This is why I'm all in on this show.
[over a shot of many Tugars on a hill]
Crow: "It's a Tugar pileup!"
Riff of the episode, ladies and gentlemen.
Servo: "If you don't want to ride those horses, you can take the FJORD!"
Oh, Servo, no.
"Crow T. Robot rounds out the cast."
"Well... hey, you really did round out the cast!"
"I did?!"
Their comedic chemistry is just the *tops.*
And that's a wrap on The Sword and the Dragon!
Next up is The Starfighters. It has a reputation for being one of the most punishing nothings of a movie that they ever showed on MST3K, and its reputation is... well earned, to say the least!
These Turkey Day Marathon bumpers with Synthia explaining the lore of the Surgically Enhanced movie process?
Love it. This is the stuff that helps to put the Marathons above and beyond.
AND THERE'S KINGA :D
Not at all sure that I'm ready for Surgically Enhanced Starfighters.
This is going to be one greasy looking movie... as it is already.
I have a greater appreciation for the opening host segment of Crow having difficulties getting onto the Information Superhighway after my modem up and died Thanksgiving morning.
The irony did not go unnoticed.
@quasirealSmiths I *SO* do Crow's phone dance while waiting on phone lines.
Not gonna lie there!
Dr. Forrester getting antsy over Cowboy Mike's Original Red-Hot Ricocheeeeeeeeeeet BBQ Sauce not being bold is SO Dr. Forrester.
My new current favorite bit of closed captioning is now " (cowboy cheering and laughter) "
Title: "THE STARFIGHTERS"
Crow: "The Sean Penn Story!"
As someone who *cannot* stand Sean Penn, that riff is... therapeutic.
Even for gratuitous refueling sequences, this seems rather gratuitous.
Servo: "Geez, we should have Donna Summer singing for this scene."
Mike: "IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII love to fuel ya, baby..."
This show, for real. Y'all.
Crow: "It was really awkward 'cause he yelled out Cordite Four, but he was with Cordite FIVE!"
Servo: "Oh, no, no, stay, I'll cook breakfast, over."
Mike: "Cordite Four, promise you'll call?"
[scream-laughing]
This movie has a much better, groovier, jazzier soundtrack than it deserves.
The Starfighters is squaresville, man.
I have no idea who The Starfighters was for.
Who among us HAVEN'T sauntered away from the phone while being put on hold, only for the operative to pick up while you're still away?
This cuts deep, is what I'm saying.
SERVO AND MIKE DANCING IN THE THEATER TO THE GENTLE EASYGOING FLIGHT MUSIC 😍
Say whatever you will about Monster a-Go-Go, but at least THAT had dancing at that Shakey's.
And the monster that wasn't a monster but... well, you know.
Seriously, the music supervision for this movie was... a choice.
Huge slam on Blossom outta nowhere!
That Frankenhooker reference is unnecessarily savage. Also, hilarious.
[quick lunch break time]
Time to go back in! :D
Crow: "Is that the one guy?"
Servo: "Which guy is this guy?"
Mike: "That one other guy."
Crow: "Which guy?"
Mike: "I dunno!"
Accurate.
Character: "Vegas is a swingin' town!"
There is not one (1) character in this movie who should be using the term "swingin'."
@intransitivelie When The Starfighters gets its long-delayed sequel, you KNOW they're gonna try to capture that Top Gun dollar.
Kenny Loggins isn't doing anything right now, after all.
@optiMSTie the soundtrack is the reason I'll put on the Starfighters when it's time for bed.
@perrylloyd It really is something relaxing!
I love how these movie have inappropriate soundtracks that don't fit them at all, like Danger!! Death Ray having an awesome soundtrack that has nothing to do with the onscreen action.
@perrylloyd NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE :D
There's so much going on there, from Bart Fargo Bart Fargo Bart Fargo Bart Fargo to the special effects by Billy to that ill-fitting soundtrack to Abe Lincoln: TimeCop and super-secret Jerry Reed and SO MUCH
@funnybunnylarue Oh, thank you very, very much! I hope to do that very thing! :D
I love MST3K Turkey Day, and I make it a point to have perfect attendance for that jazz, but unfortunately, due to things out of my hands, it was not in the cards. So, I'm going for the next best thing.
And all the best out that-a-ways! I hope the holiday's been awesome for you and yours as well, and thanks for the follow!
@funnybunnylarue Mmhmm. So very much!
I was only able to catch one marathon when it was on TV, and that was Sci-Fi Channel running not so much an MST3K Turkey Day Marathon, but a Thanksgiving viewing marathon of sorts that happened to have MST3K.
But Joel and the internet age bringing the Turkey Day Marathon back? Love love love it. Couldn't be happier for that to be a thing for fans like yourself! :D
@ElectricDoorknob "NOT AN ACTOR."
Such a great episode from such a nothing of a movie.
Glad to hear that you're a fan, too! And thanks for the follow!
@ElectricDoorknob It's the best!
Greatest fanbase in the universe, and I'm really help to get to talk with such fellow MSTies as yourself!
And you worked with some of the folks from the show? That's all sorts of awesome, more power and maddest respect to ya!
@nifta LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
Heh, nice! :D
But man, that episode has a treasure trove of riffs like that.
I always loved "Wacky prop comic Lutefisk Top!"
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