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It’s that time again! No not time to shave your back*, it’s time for more MST3K clips! Here’s just some random clips from the show that I had laying around and decided to upload to YouTube (which has the best video upload tool known to man).

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It’s that time again! No not time to shave your back*, it’s time for more MST3K clips! Here’s just some random clips from the show that I had laying around and decided to upload to YouTube (which has the best video upload tool known to man).

The Sinister Urge is an Ed Wood film about the pornography racquet and the teenage gangs that will KILL for porn!

The sketches during the show can sometimes be really corny and ridiculous, but I think they come off as charming, genuine, original, and downright hilarious at times. For instance, the “invention exchange” that opened the show for the first 4 1/2 seasons. Here, in Women of the Prehistoric Planet, the mad scientists have come up with a new kind of restaurant. And Joel and the bots…well…not really sure their invention has any practical value.

What exactly is happening in this next scene in Wild Rebels? I’ve never seen this episode, except for the clip below. Carrier mole seems like a sound communication concept, though.

I really do think Zapruder was the camera man for the awful footage in The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-up Zombies. Every scene looks like someone’s last known photograph. Oh, and that dancer, she’s got to be a man.

*Apologies to Bob Saget.

Season 3 of Lost starts tonight. What is your theory about what is going on?

This theory from lost-theories.com seems to sum up what I think:

• The “numbers” is a solution to the Valenzetti equation that tells how long humankind has until extinction/destruction/whatever. Time will soon be up.
• The Dharma Project was started to influence and change these numbers to postpone the destruction: the Earth’s magnetic field is one factor, population is another.
• The Swan was influencing the magnetic field somehow. Hence “saving the world”.
• The Virus is some sort of bioweapon made to reduce the earth’s population, and maybe is triggered by something (hence we haven’t seen any deaths yet from the virus).
• The Swan’s failsafe was triggered, meaning that the magnetic field factor can no longer be influenced/controlled.
• Fail-safing The Swan was Fake Henry Gale’s goal. Remember he is the one who nurtured Locke’s doubts.
• So maybe: Fake Henry Gale’s motive is to stop the Hanso Foundation from stopping humanity’s destruction (he’s the leader of some hippy eco-terrorist group, know to use as “The Others”), hence calling themselves “The Good Guys”.
• Or maybe: Hanso Foundation really is bad because they are choosing to kill lots of people instead of paying the high cost of influencing other factors of the equation.

None of this explains Walt or Alexandra being “taken”, so this theory is partially incomplete. Also, 4-toed foot, what’s that about?

If this is the kind of stuff that’s normally on Lazytown, I may need to start DVRing it…

On the same token, the pink-haired girl (Stephanie?) creeps me out for some reason. Maybe it’s because she gets the weird techno version and has a terrible choreographer.

SciFi has put together a 1-hour recap special of Battlestar Galactica seasons 1 and 2 called: The Story so Far. There’s a lot to sum up and I doubt everything could be put into an hour. I even thought about summing up the key plot points of the story so far, but there are so many that I gave up about 10 points in.

I actually feel like watching all the episodes over again before season 3.

It is YouTube/Google Video week here at MD Groves (apparently)!

Today I have a rarish treat for MST3K fans. The cast did a short promotional video for Playstation Underground back in 97 or 98 I guess, making fun of some of Sony’s commercials and promotional video. It is SciFi-era MST3K at its best, for sure.

UPDATE: I’ve been looking for some clips of these episodes on YouTube/Google Video/etc, but to no avail. However, I did stumble across this site, and I’ve ripped 4 clips to ASF files for your convenience. Enjoy!

MST3K Volume 9 DVD is now available for pre-ordering from Rhino Records.

Volume 9 features:

• Women of the Prehistoric Planet – featuring the origin of the “hi-keeba” catchphrase
• Wild Rebels
• The Sinister Urge – hilarious Ed Wood anti-porn film
• The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies – featuring the famous Ray Dennis Steckler (a.k.a. Cash Flagg)

As a follow-up to the (somewhat) popular blog I did on MST3K Shorts on Google Video, I thought I would pick out some of the best MST3K video found on YouTube.

Keeping Clean and Neat – Use pumice on your tender nipple buds.

Eegah!, Part 1 and Part 2. A MST3K favorite, starring Richard Kiel! Watch out for snakes.

Hired! Probably my favorite short–an instructional film for car salesmen. I can just picture a bunch of sweaty, beefy, white guys in a grungy room in some oily dealership being forced to watch this.

Catching Trouble – This is kinda like Crocodile Hunter, except the narrator does the annoying voice.

Using Your Voice – Use plenty of “lip and tongue action.”

Prince of Space, Part 1 and Part 2. My favorite MST3K episode. A really bad Japanese movie about a really ineffective superhero and an equally ineffective supervillain.

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Here’s some MST3K “shorts” on Google video. “Shorts” are usually instructional/advertising films from the 50s or 60s that were sometimes shown before the normal bad movie. Google video has a few of the really good ones:

Body Care and Grooming – “Look at that hair, that skin, that mouth…those…nose.” “It was the cleanest of times, it was the dirtiest of times.” Watch for the Jethro Tull reference.

A Date With Your Family – The compelling story of Mother, Daughter, Brother, Junior, and Father. “WELL THIS CERTAINLY IS PLEASANT.”

What to do on a Date – Chicks dig scavenger sales. Weenie roasts? NOOOO!

A Case of Spring Fever – Springs, springs, springs. You will learn to appreciate them. Or else.

Mr. B Natural – I saved the best for last. This is widely considered to be the worst short ever made.