It’s Just A Show

Nov 27 2024 180 ep. 57 mins 102
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A friendly conversation about the cult tv show Mystery Science Theater 3000, and about its weird movies and diverse cultural references.

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164b. The Adam Westness of It All. [MST3K Turkey Day Marathons, 1994–1997.]

Nov 27 2024 28 mins  
Happy Turkey Day! Chris and Charlotte celebrate with another batch of bumpers and commercials from Turkey Days gone by. This time they get to talk about Adam West, Beverly Garland, Mamie Van Doren, Jack Perkins, and Michael Feinstein.

164. The Need to Be Fancy. [MST3K 613. The Sinister Urge.]

Nov 17 2024 59 mins  
Ed Wood’s The Sinister Urge leads Chris and Charlotte down a dark path towards smut, dirty pictures, deathly orgies, love feasts, and taking it out in trade. Thank goodness this experiment also features an educational short about Keeping Clean and Neat!

163. You Can Never Really Tell How Dirty It Is. [MST3K 606. The Creeping Terror.]

Nov 03 2024 59 mins  
Happy (belated) Halloween! The Creeping Terror slowly approaches Chris and Charlotte and overhears them discussing carpet samples, Vic Savage, Ed Wood, avant-garde composers, and Love, American Style!

162. Famous People Doing Weird Things. [MST3K K13. SST: Death Flight.]

Oct 14 2024 59 mins  
SST: Death Flight, chock full of celebrities, is flying as fast as it can to hear Chris and Charlotte talk about Lorne Greene, John de Lancie, Billy Crystal, Misty Rowe, and, you guessed it, Donald Pleasence.

161. Nothing Horrid. [MST3K 108. The Slime People.]

Sep 25 2024 59 mins  
The Slime People obscures Chris and Charlotte, who keep talking about volcanoes, fog, mist, domes, and slaughterhouses. (With another Radar Men from the Moon short.)

160. Fast Car Go Vroom. [MST3K 524. 12 to the Moon.]

Sep 15 2024 59 mins  
12 to the Moon saves two seats for Chris and Charlotte, who pretend to be experts in concept cars, driving anxiety, space politics, one-woman shows, and Wall Drug. With the musical short, Design for Dreaming!

159. Richard Kiel’s Cow. [MST3K 902. The Phantom Planet.]

Aug 31 2024 59 mins  
The Phantom Planet brings Chris and Charlotte down to its own size, while they discuss serving man, making a killing, nutty confections, Andy Rooney, and women in space.

158. A Curse and a Plague. [MST3K 405. Being from Another Planet.]

Aug 19 2024 54 mins  
Being from Another Planet shuffles towards Chris and Charlotte, hoping to collect their thoughts about Egyptian mummies, musical daddies, Jack Palance, Herb Edelman, and other things grandmas love.

157. Not My Fluid Dynamics! [MST3K 105. The Corpse Vanishes.]

Jul 31 2024 56 mins  
The Corpse Vanishes offers Chris and Charlotte a corsage, which induces them to talk about orchids, Tiger Beat, Teen Beat, Wham-O, and tag. With the short, Radar Men from the Moon, part 3.

156. We’ve Got the Mouthfeel Now. [MST3K K00. The Green Slime.]

Jul 11 2024 53 mins  
The proof-of-concept pilot for MST3K tackles The Green Slime, which leads to Chris and Charlotte talking about beginnings, Beeper, Charles Fox, Armageddon, and Minneapolis.