Thanks to Sean for coming up with a fun interview of 3 MST3K legends: Trace Beaulieu, Joel Hodgson, and
“J. Elvis” Weinstein. There out there promo’ing their live show Cinematic Titanic, so if you’re lucky enough to see it I’d love to hear about it.
Here’s the interview…sorry if you have to sit through an irritating 30 second commercial at the start, not my fault.
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I have been waiting to buy all the Cinematic Titanic releases, but have been putting it off. I have kept up pretty well with Rifftrax though…
I liked the RiffTrax a lot, but, and not to be an old curmudgeon, I thought it lacked a little of the spontaneaty of good, old, MST3K. Yes, I know that even on that show, the riffs where timestamped and scripted, but it just felt more natural. Ok, no more curmudgeonary. 🙂
The Rifftrax are pretty good, and you are right, nothing will ever top MST3K. I watch at least one episode per week. Faves are the movie, Pumaman, Mitchell, Prince of Space, Final Sacrifice, and of course, the shorts.
Muh…muh…muh…my Mitchell!
Shudder!!! That song is 10 times worse than the “Pumaman” theme, as I keep seeing the bottle of baby oil in my nightmares…
I like Rifftrax too, but I enjoyed The Film Crew more because we got to meet the goofy snarks who cracked the jokes. It’s too bad that some standard corporate nonsense put an end to it. But most of all I miss Crow and Tom. (Sob!)
I haven’t seen a Cinematic Titanic show yet, but I like Rifftrax. However, I enjoyed The Film Crew somewhat more because we got to meet the goofy wage-slave snarks who cracked all the jokes. (And their weirdly enthusiastic boss.) Mostly though I miss Crow and Tom (sob!)
I sure do as well. I think the time I laughed hardest in my life was when Pumaman put on his magic belt and his uniform magically appeared, and Crow laughed out loud at him and then ( somewhat disingenuously ) said “No,no, you look great”.
My favorite Crow moment is his table top go-go dance from Girl in Gold Boots. And his admonition to Mike that he be accepted as a “sexual being!”
Chuckle! That was… different! Remember when Tom Servo had ” Short Man’s Disease ” and had to use a baby aspirin to get over it? Classic!