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.
Want to be a guest poster? PM TimeChaser.
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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
Our second movie about a giant atomic turtle is up, and this time around Gamera is dealing with a beast named Barugon (figures, right?) Spacelunkers come across what they think is a giant opal, but it's really the egg containing Barugon. The beast grows and grows and then goes on a destruction streak, leading to a plan to lure the monster into the ocean. Will Gamera be able to defeat the tongue-lashing creature? Well, the sequels say...
Host Segment Highlights
Mac versus PC? It's so old school that there were puppet robots who did it before you would've ever thought. The boys pull out their toys with the 5,000-piece Fighting Men and Monster Set, but when dinner time is called, the 'bots go to TGI Tokyo to fill their stomachs. The crew enjoys a day at the beach and a lesson in Gamera movie stars before presenting their summaries of the atomic turtle movies.
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 kittenreview. Be ready to go and find the playlist here.
Movie Sign's early for once with...
5/2 - Episode 522 - Teen-Age Crime Wave
5/9 - Episode 204 - Catalina Caper
5/16 - Episode 812 - The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
5/23 - Episode 406 - Attack of the Giant Leeches (w/short "Undersea Kingdom", Part 1)
5/30 - Episode 1006 - Boggy Creek II: And The Legend Continues
What is it?
Remember the good old days of cartoons? The kind you used to wake up early for on Saturday mornings with the biggest bowl of cereal your parents would let you have and your favorite action figure? Well, the Super Nostalgia Power Hour was created to celebrate those heydays of animation, because they were awesome, and dammit, we want them back.
When is it?
Every Friday starting at 9:15 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
THIS WEEK
Digimon Adventure: Season 1
Tai, Sora, Matt, Izzy, Mimi, Joe and T.K. are seven normal kids enjoying summer camp, until they are suddenly transported to another world full of monsters: Digital Monsters! Now it’s up to them to save the Digital World (and their own) from a slew of evil bad guys bent on world destruction.
In Episode 33, Out on the Town, Matt is shepherding T.K. home when T.K. And Patamon get in a fight. Patamon runs off and the others go searching for him only to find some of Myotismon's flunkies instead. When Myotismon himself shows up looking for the Eighth Child, will the motley crew be able to get out of their encounter alive?
Then, in Episode 37, Wizardmon's Gift, Kari has handed herself over to Myotismon after he finds out that she's the Eighth Child. Wizardmon tells the other DigiDestined that the only way to defeat Myotismon is to get Kari's Digivice and Crest back to her, but with Kari already in enemy territory, is the information too little too late?
Also, learn how to scream better as we learn about interjections with Schoolhouse Rock.
You can find the episodes here and here. You can find the compilation here.
The password for this week is hahamartyrs.
We’re starting a Digivolution with our April schedule:
April 30 . . . . Enter the Dark Masters & Piedmon’s Last Jest
May 7 . . . . Now Apocalymon & The Fate of Two Worlds
Everyone remember those crazy awesome Dead Fantasy videos taking Final Fantasy and Dead or Alive girls and making them fight each other in amazing CG?
Welllllllll, they stopped fighting for a bit. And learned Korean.
I'm still just floored right now. Jaw still picking up off the floor at just . . . I dunno, the audacity of it all? I'm gonna go with audacity.
"All of Time and Space, everywhere and anywhere, every star that ever was... Where do you wanna start?"
What is it?
A weekly chat to watch and enjoy the new season of Doctor Who.
What is Doctor Who?
A long-running British scifi TV series about a mysterious man called the Doctor, the last of the Time Lords, who travels through time and space in his TARDIS, a ship disguised as an old fashioned Police Box. The Doctor and his various companions explore the universe and battle evil wherever they encounter it.
This Week
It's Amy's first trip in the TARDIS, and the Doctor brings her to Starship UK, an island in space over a thousand years in the future, home to the British people as they travel the stars in search of a new home. But lurking beneath the surface is a conspiracy. How can the ship be flying if it has no engines? Why does everyone chose 'Forget' when they vote every five years? And what is the real purpose of the sinister Smilers? The Doctor and Amy must unravel the mystery deep in the heart of the vessel. But when they learn the truth, they find themselves faced with a terrible choice...
When and Where?
BBC America every Saturday at 9 PM ET / 6 PM PT. Repeats at 12 AM ET / 9 PM PT.
Chat room opens at 8:30/5:30.
The password for the room is smiler.
Coming Soon
May 1 - Victory of the Daleks
May 8 - The Time of Angels (Part 1 of 2)
May 15 - Flesh and Stone (Part 2 of 2)
From Wikipedia (link):
Michael Learns to Rock (also known as MLTR) is a Danish soft rock band that performs songs in English. It was formed in 1988 and has sold over 10 million records worldwide, mainly in Asia. It has produced seven studio albums as well as several live and greatest hits albums. The band has attributed its success in Asia to a clean-living image and singing in English as a second language, and the fact that their lyrics are relatively easy to learn and sing.
So this band isn't that popular in the US? Well, let's try to fix that. 
Here's MLTR with one of their classic songs 25 Minutes. The song is about a guy who realizes how much he loves this girl, and decides to find her. Though the guy did find the girl and confessed to her, he was 25 minutes too late because she had just been married to another man.
