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[-] pirating@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

If you want more recent MST3K style riffing, the Mads are Back at dumb industries, and Rifftrax are great!!

[-] EffortlessEffluvium@lemm.ee 7 points 10 hours ago

TIL the Satellite of Love is Heaven

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 41 points 15 hours ago

Getting roasted by the mst3k cast? That would be fantastic.

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 1 points 26 minutes ago

Yeah. I'm revising my funeral plans now...

If I can get one of those touching sideshows, but with three good friends MST3K-ing the whole thing, I'll consider my life well lived.

[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 83 points 17 hours ago

I don't recognize them, who are the silhouettes?

[-] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 53 points 11 hours ago

It's a show called Mystery Science Theater 3000. It's about someone stuck in space by evil scientists and forced to watch bad movies with his robot companions (played by puppets). The show is made up mostly of them watching the movie with only their silhouettes in the bottom of the screen as they make fun of the movie, like in the comic, with occasional segments where they leave the theater and usually do some kind of skit related to the film.

It's kinda corny but it's a fun show. They have a channel on YouTube where they upload some of the episodes and play others live, and an app where you can watch most of them ad-free.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

They're not that bad, often just dated.

[-] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 9 hours ago

Yes but also most of those films were bad at the time too.

[-] pirating@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

The mads are back at dumb industries and rifftrax are the more modern versions of the gem of a show!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 89 points 16 hours ago
[-] jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world 42 points 16 hours ago

To keep his sanity, Joel crafts sentient robot companions, including Tom Servo, Crow T. Robot, and Gypsy, to keep him company and help him humorously comment on each movie as it plays, a process known as riffing. Each two-hour episode would feature a single movie (often edited for time constraints), sometimes preceded by various old shorts and educational films, with Joel, Tom, and Crow watching in silhouette from a row of theater seats at the bottom of the screen.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 28 points 16 hours ago

with Joel, Tom, and Crow

Or Mike, Tom and Crow.

Or Jonah, Tom and Crow.

Or Emily, Tom and Crow.

Or Eddie, Tom and Crow.

Or sometimes various Mads.

And once Gypsy, and sometimes GPC and sometimes GPC2.

[-] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 9 hours ago

This is basically what a DMT trip can be like I've heard. With infinite forgetting and noticing the being viewed conceit again.

[-] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago
[-] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 3 hours ago

I'll give you the story as I can recall it...

The trip was reliving the person's life from top to bottom, and at various points hearing huge applause or boos or an emotional rection of some kind, and turning round and seeing that they were on the set of "This Was Your Life" with a huge studio audience. The presenter would give a prize, joke or something and ask some questions which led back to reliving their life and soon forget about the "show" until the next time the crowd went wild. It is said it felt like a lifetime, I don't know how long the trip lasted in measured time.

[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 30 points 16 hours ago

I don't know. I'm kinda here for it. I've done enough dumb shit in my life that it should make for a decent episode.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

Yeah but what if its not an episode? What if its a 39 year experience?

[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

Then there is gonna be a lot of sad masturbation.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Yeah but its definitely worthy of the title of hell if I have to sit and watch anything for 39 years, with or without commentary.

You're not planning to wank to your childhood self, are you?

[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

I think you misunderstand which side of the screen will have the masturbation.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Thank you for clarification

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I’m not here for it haha.

“Ok, so he seen the girl making out with the inbred dude who screwed his cousin and then he immediately went home and “talked to the dead” through poker cards to see if there was any chance she’d still marry him some day? Bahahahahaa. He’s only 12? Oh my god, where else can this go?”

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago

Would it change your mind if you found out that it was also directed by Coleman Francis?

[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 10 points 15 hours ago

I mean, that's just on brand...

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 12 points 16 hours ago

And I thought Birdemic was bad

[-] randomdeadguy@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

May I have mine directed by Roger Corman? It would have only one location and consist mostly of padding.

[-] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

The same hallway for 75% of the shots.

[-] Shard@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Best I can do is Robert B.Weide...

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 14 points 17 hours ago

I’m intrigued and mortified at the idea.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 12 points 16 hours ago

Oh man......my episode would be depressing.......

this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2024
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