I don't recognize them, who are the silhouettes?
100To 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.
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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.
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Getting roasted by the mst3k cast? That would be fantastic.
50Yeah. I'm revising my funeral plans now...
If I can get one of those touching slideshows, but with three good friends MST3K-ing the whole thing, I'll consider my life well lived.
4With my luck, they'd treat me like they did Rick Sloane or Joe Don Baker.
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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.
34Would it change your mind if you found out that it was also directed by Coleman Francis?
13I mean, that's just on brand...
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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?”
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I’m intrigued and mortified at the idea.
17I feel like I could probably join in on the roast and have fun.
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And I thought Birdemic was bad
15Oh man......my episode would be depressing.......
14If you want more recent MST3K style riffing, the Mads are Back at dumb industries, and Rifftrax are great!!
11May I have mine directed by Roger Corman? It would have only one location and consist mostly of padding.
8The same hallway for 75% of the shots.
6Best I can do is Robert B.Weide...
4And have a good chance of Dick Miller making an appearance at some point.
Everyone likes Dick Miller!
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TIL the Satellite of Love is Heaven
8This is basically what a DMT trip can be like I've heard. With infinite forgetting and noticing the being viewed conceit again.
4More of this topic!
3I'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.
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