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The sad reality is that most documentaries since the inception of the film industry are more about entertaining their audience than conveying the truth. The only reason people think that lemmings will spontaneously throw themselves off of cliffs is due to a particularly inept group of documentary film makers who just wanted footage of lemmings running. It was the documentarians themselves who chased the creatures off a cliff, then made up the story about the lemmings doing it on their own.

I am so happy that Donald "Duck" Dunn got so much love in this episode!

I loved the Brian Mulroney reference because it’s one of those jokes 0.1% of the audience gets, at least in the US where most people would have had trouble naming a Canadian PM who was well out of office at the time the episode aired.

I wound up watching Time Walker on the big screen back in 2018 at the Alamo Drafthouse Dismember The Alamo Halloween film festival. It was their entry for the Mummy genre. I wish I could say that the silver screen improved the experience, but it really didn't. It also wasn't the only movie riffed by MST3K I saw that day, as they screened Werewolf for the Wolfman genre and Zaat! (aka: Blood Waters of Dr. Z) for Creature from the Black Lagoon genre. The non-MST3K film of the day was Frankenhooker for the Frankenstein genre.

I'm surprised there was no mention of the writing team behind The Green Slime. William "Bill" Finger, co-creator of Batman was a writer on this movie. Bill's name appears alongside that of Bob Kane in the credits of every Batman movie made since 2015, now that his work has finally been acknowledged. Most comic book industry insiders insist that Bill actually deserves most of the credit for Batman. As for why someone so awesome wound up as a writer on The Green Slime, that's a sad, depressing story I won't go into. In addition to writing on The Green Slime, Bill also wrote for S10 E07 Track of the Moon Beast, which was released after his death in 1974.

Joel sure was determined to make sure that the audience was well aware that everything we're seeing is of his "own design" in this, as well as the early KTMA episodes. The way Joel kept harping on about it, I expected something to eventually come of it. Never did go anywhere, though.

There's always a brave one posting a digital link to watch Sacrifice get The Treatment. Never once since Graidanus banned it being digitally played have I not found a good link.

There was also a "raw" production version The Magic Voyage Of Sinbad which has disappeared from TH-cam.

A thing I only realized recently (thanks in part to Big Action Bill's history videos) is that *this particular* Godzilla movie is unusually high-profile in the US because of a massive publicity blitz for a theatrical release here in 1976, three years after it flopped in Japan. It even got a prime-time network airing with wacky host segments, starring John Belushi wearing a Godzilla costume! I can only guess at the reason, but based on the posters, I think that the distributor was trying to ride the coattails of Dino De Laurentiis's "King Kong" remake and this was just the first kaiju movie he could get his hands on. So "Godzilla vs. Megalon" has an outsize influence on what Americans think a Godzilla movie is like. It explains a bunch of dim and confused childhood memories I had.

In the early scripts, this was a Jet Jaguar vs Megalon movie, and Godzilla wasn't going to appear. The studio ultimately felt that the movie needed the star power of Godzilla if they were ever going to make a profit, so they wrote Godzilla into the final fight. Gigan appears in the movie because the suit was fairly new, and still in good enough shape to be reused. The movie also needed a second evil monster, since Godzilla was now included for the finale. If memory serves, the Godzilla costume used is also a leftover from Godzilla vs Gigan (1972).

Charlotte said this in passing but it really tickled me: "They made choices." So perfect.

This is one of the few MST3K movies that I actually saw in the theater when it came out. I was super-into Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind and talked my grandma into taking me to see this when I was 9. I remember thinking it seemed a lot more like a TV movie than an "actual" movie, lol.

Hey, y'know... if you simply *must* make a tasteless joke about *Schindler's List* consider the possibility of not chortling about it for half an hour afterwards next time. Snipping out all but the first ten seconds of that would've made it a little easier to take. I had some other things to say about the episode, but honestly right now I'm too irritated to focus on them. Looking forward to the next show being an improvement over this overlong "moment." Thanks.

The therapy for autism involving tightly holding someone for extended periods is a real thing even today. It's not for all forms of autism, and it only helps regarding the symptom of not being able to stand being touched. Those afflicted with this particular form of autism can't stand to be casually touched the way most people do, but being held tightly helps to calm them down and eventually become adjusted to being casually touched after a great deal of this sort of therapy. Rather than actually having another person hold them for hours, these days they're usually bound tightly in a blanket. Bronson certainly couldn't pull it off over the course of one episode, or The King of Rock & Roll in a two hour movie. Constantly repeating "I love you" to them won't help in the slightest, either.

In addition to Cardoza, Hellcats also featured Tom Hanson (Chastain in Red Zone Cuba) as the guy who tries to retrieve the bike from the police impound lot. Bonus fact: The actor playing Snake was Sonny West, who was the bodyguard for Elvis Presley for over 15 years. And thanks for the info on dice chess, I had no idea that was a real thing!

United Parcel Service might be striking in August! 😬 I remain glad that my only remaining reward is the T-Shirt (I think).

Ugh. Speaking of Nazis... Bluesky. Jack Dorsey's stomping ground. He was making Twitter a terrible place way before Rocket Boy bought it from him. Let me know when you find your way to Mastodon or another part of the Fediverse, though.

J.C. was also in It Lives By Night (s10 e10) as the evil sheriff. 🦇 Also, super-cool theme version at the end this time, digging the analog synth/surf music vibe.

[waves] It's still Pride Month, so let's make note of Dykes On Bikes, too! 🏳‍🌈

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is actually a very well-respected author and historian. Google it; you'll be glad you did.

Damn AI. Didn't even bring up the shrew who was a supporting cast member of *Cricket* magazine back in the day. His insect friends bought him eyeglasses to help with his bad eyesight. But when he wore them, he had to remember that he was supposed to treat his friends as food! So he threw them away. (R.I.P. - Trina Schart Hyman)

I like the episode and much of the riffing in it, but you both aptly pointed out the anti-Japanese sentiments in it, which mar it considerably. Also, while "Prince Of Space" itself is rather boring, it is no-where nearly as boring as "Invasion Of The Neptune Men", which I see you've covered but have yet to hear your take on it, would turn out to be.

"Sweater puppys"

🥳 - This visit with you inspired me to venture into the garage to look over my wonderful old red Schwinn. It has seen better days. But perhaps by the time I get it tuned up, the rainy season will finally be over. Regards.

Kablammo! Long time listener, dunno if I've commented before. The matter of eyesight was mentioned, and I lost nearly all visual acuity one day in class around age 4 or 5, meaning I've had glasses for nearly 3 decades. Let's see, I have a Spherical Distance O.D. of -11.50, O.S. -12.00, Cylindrical O.D. -1.75 O.S. -1.00, Axis of 020 & 120, and an "Add" of +1.25, on both. In lay terms, I'm [implied explicative] blind! As some might measure in other systems, that's 200+/20, astigmatic, severe myopia. So I'm very used to the idea of having my education faltered due to fuzzy sight.

Sandy Duncan was also in a 1970s made-for-tv version of Pinocchio. It's here on TH-cam. She has a lovely ballad in it, ("If I Could Start Again") when the title character is feeling bad about his life choices. Also noteworthy: Danny Kaye is Geppetto and it's retroactively quite creepy to see him constantly patting his "son" on the butt. Flip Wilson is fun as one of the villains, and the set colors and costumes are astoundingly eye-bleeding, even for the 1970s. I remember seeing it in its first airing. o_0

I think the "Death Car" business spun off of a joke or a reference to Bonnie and Clyde, but I can't remember when that first was. 🤔

Great job as always, guys! Can you do 913 (Quest Of The Delta Knights) next?

I love it when this particular experiment appears on the MST3K Twitch channel rotation, since everyone watching can riff along there. It's about 50/50 people repeating Mike and the Bots riffs, and coming up with their own. I prefer to come up with my own names for Reb Brown, such as - Cormick McHardcastle! Nick Maxxpress! Brawl Manwich! Pipes Broadside! Klench Dumpsterfire! or Jet Gruntbeef!

If it helps any, I knew all along what the piano and the flute were supposed to sound like when I took lessons... but it didn't aid my playing in the slightest. :o P.S. - Never commented on the whole Pickle Controversy, because I was in a prolonged snit that no one at any point said, "We can pickle that!" Please forgive me.

New Age like the Windham Hill or John Tesh stuff isn't the same as the ambient music pioneered by Brian Eno that they featured on Music from the Heart of Space. I first heard "Thursday Afternoon" in an episode.

I think they did a good thing by depicting the junkie as a white kid. Drug laws affect minority groups disproportionately, and featuring a black kid as the junkie would have played into the stereotype that conservatives were trying to perpetuate.

At their meanest, MST3K were tame compared to your standard TH-cam monetized critic of today, even if the latter are using more current social jargon.

This is a weird episode but still one of my favorites.

This movie has it all--80s music and fashion, slasher tropes, voodoo, and Lord Adam West. Great stuff.

You guys are a couple of real warwilfs. Love this so much, sorry I'm only finding you now.

Happy Holidays! <3 Several fans have posited that Kinga was conceived and grown in a lab. I'm sure I mentioned it before, but I still think Dr. Erhardt was blowing smoke, and that Kinga's true Mom was TH-cam's own Tinplate Girl. 🍁 (Also, I miss Kinga's fancy-schmancy updo.)

Just stumbled upon this, and I agree so much that this is a genuinely enjoyable movie whether riffed or not. There's a book called "Wildcat!" about the movies that Marjoe Gortner made, which is an interesting read about an interesting guy. He released a pretty decent album called "Bad but not Evil" in 1972. Caroline Munroe currently hosts a late night show called "The Cellar Club" on British TV, which is a triple-bill of the kind of movies that MST3K & RiffTrax fans would find familiar. She also had a singing career, and even recorded a song with Eric Clapton, Steve Howe, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker.

If memory serves, Louis Armstrong disdained Bebop Jazz as "Chinese Music" when it first came along. But his opinion may have softened in later life, as it did for many. Oh, and *Cat Women Of The Moon* is one of the Pehl-Jones Rifftrax movies, and it's a hoot. Pretty sure that when Mavis Danton (Madeline Kahn) in "The Rehearsal" on *The Carol Burnett Show* says she was in *Cat Women On Mars*, it was a nod to that unappreciated classic. ;)

While The Fast and the Furious (2001) didn't rip-off the story of Roger Corman's movie of the same name from 1955, it did rip-off it's story from a different movie. The entire plot is lifted from the Keanu Reeves movie Point Break (1991). Both movies feature a rookie FBI agent attempting to find those responsible for a linked series of crimes. He goes undercover in the world of extreme sports and meets a waitress/love interest who by pure luck is tied to the extreme sport he's trying to infiltrate. The FBI agent befriends the folks linked to his new girlfriend, and then targets the wrong group of criminals for arrest. The agent eats shrimp at a beach restaurant with the leader of the criminals he's looking for. The agent then blows his cover and is forced by his new friends who turn out to be the criminals he's been searching for all along to complete One Last Job, which goes horribly wrong. In the end, the FBI agent lets the leader of the group go for no readily apparent reason.

Season 5! The *Best* season! I've missed it so. 🥳

I can’t tell if the hosts actually like Mst3k?

Yesss! 😂

Happy Labor Day from another Match Game-watcher! Jubitz is *very much* a Pacific Northwest U.S. affair. Their H.Q. is maybe half an hour from me. In retrospect, the central tenet of the Pace ads doesn't really work. Given that *both* New York and New Jersey had sizeable Mexican populations even then. In fact, even before this campaign, our cable service in N.J. had two Spanish-language channels. Finally, there's an Italian sword 'n sandal epic right here on Le Tube called *Aphrodite: Goddess Of Love.* I'd kill to see it on the show, but I don't think it's ever been dubbed into English. :(

[whisper:] Clang_Potroast... I am she and she is me... [/whisper]

Clu Gulager was in the first *Master Ninja* "movie, as the evil real estate tycoon. I think he had a certain White guy chilliness which works better with villains than heroes. (I feel the same way about Peter Graves.) Pablo Cassals is also name-dropped in the museum scene in *Progress Island: USA*. I didn't originally get the Urkel sketches at all. Then someone else explained that they're meant to document how a fad takes hold with the public and becomes inescapable, only to overstay its welcome and get dropped as quickly as it got adopted. Now I think it's brilliant. :D

I think the "Baby Woman" riffs were commentary on either A) she seemed to be portraying a teenager even though Bouchet wasn't one at the time, or B) That definitive mid-to-late 60s makeup styling. It was meant to give women a very youthful, big-eyed, even baby-faced look. (I remember this from the one Fashion-related class I ever took in Art School.) Possibly both.

Great work as always, guys! But, do the first three KTMA episodes! (K00 - K02)

Nice Betty Rubble laugh😊👍

44:00 Well, chocolate is toxic to raccoons, so you probably saved its life. Make of that what you will.