What is the Watercooler?
It's a haven in the middle of a harsh, 9-to-5 world. A place where you can gather with your fellow human beings and bond over a paper cup full of cool refreshment.
All sorts of randomness is welcome here. Post pictures, videos, special Chat information, or just discuss news and current events.
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What is Movie Sign?
Every Sunday night, we nestle down in Chat and watch an episode of the cult TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K for short) while spamming up the Chat box. Don't worry - we use episodes available on streaming sites so that we can all watch simultaneously.
What's MST3K?
A comedy show that ran from 1988-1999, it's like watching a movie with running commentary. Joel Robinson or Mike Nelson, along with 'bots Tom Servo and Crow, are forced to watch terrible films as part of a mad scientist's bid for world domination. To keep their (and our) sanity, they talk back to the movies and riff on them. A more detailed explanation can be found up at the SoL.
Next Episode
We're going way, way back, all the way to the beginning of MST's run on national TV - and so, the beginning of your nightmares. It's a nightmarish time for the town of Tollenberg, where someone or something is killing off mountain climbers. Turns out it's a 'thing' - tentacled, one-eyed beasts from outer space, hiding in a radioactive cloud. And because this is what it is, it's going to take American scientist Alan Brooks to save the day!
Host Segment Highlights
With this being the first episode, Joel's got some explaining to do. The 'bots don't understand why it's a bad thing for humans to lose their heads, nor does Gypsy get why it's bad for her to uncoil...Is Forrest Tucker really that much scarier than a crawling eye? And - RAM CHIPS!
Whether a seasoned vet or new meat, we invite you all to come on down! Movie starts at 8pm EST/5pm PST, room opens at the :30 beforehand.
The password for the room is ftroop. Take away the hurt of a season one episode and get the whole video here.
October continues the scarin' with...
10/17 - Episode 912 - The Screaming Skull (w/short "Robot Rumpus")
10/24 - Episode 320 - The Unearthly (w/shorts "Posture Pals" and "Appreciating Our Parents")
10/31 - Episode 604 - Zombie Nightmare
Today, the great John Lennon would have turned 70 years old. As a tribute to the legendary Beatle, here are two cover versions of Lennon's famous composition "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds".
Here's one by Elton John, which is really good:
And here's one by William Shatner, which is amusingly silly (not to mention the video animation that adds some psychedelic silliness):
File this under "random crap I get from following random people on Twitter".
One gigabyte today versus one gigabyte twenty years ago.
Which thusly means that this clip serves all the better as a visual/audio reference.
Every once in a while, you come across a song that is pretty WTF-inducing, yet is amazing in its own right.
This is one of those songs.
Now tell me that's not awesome.
