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.
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'."
[unfortunate aerial noise]
Servo: "Well, at least excuse yourself!"
He was saying what we were all thinking.
It feels wrong to admit that this theme music is kinda catchy.
Servo: "Did they ever consider that this WASN'T riveting?"
No. No, they did not ever.
This movie wasn't so much edited as it was put together by a series of blunt chops and strikes.
Mike, flatly and mechanically: "Ah, yes, that provided much needed comic relief from all the gripping drama."
Hahahahaha, PERFECT
[during a bland makeout session in a car]
Crow: "Anybody up for Travel Yahtzee?"
I will always be in awe of how good this writing is.
Mike: "Remember the world before this film? Before refueling?"
"The cutting room floor was remarkably clean."
Ain't that the truth?
The Surgically Enhanced print of the phone REALLY makes the red of the phone come through.
The United Servo Academy Men's Chorus Hymn will always be an A++ host segment.
Kevin Murphy and those golden pipes. [chef's kiss]
Guy: "What was the number of the downed plane?"
Mike: "Uh, four."
This show. This freaking show.
@nifta If I remember correctly, I think they chose that movie out of a sense of sheer desperation.
It shows.
BUT THAT SOUNDTRACK
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