How's your Valentine's Day outlook? Good? Bad? Rather not talk about it? No matter what the case, Movie Sign is ready and willing to give your sense of humor some loving, so long as you're willing to commit. You won't be sorry.
What is Movie Sign?
Every week, 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. We use episodes available on Google Video so that we can all watch simultaneously.
What's MST3K?
It's a comedy show about a man and his robots, stranded in space and forced to watch some of the worst movies ever made as part of a mad scientist's bid for world domination. To keep their (and our) sanity, Joel Robinson or Mike Nelson, along with 'bots Tom Servo and Crow, talk back to the films and riff on them. You can read up on the show over at the SoL.
Next Episode
Prepare for blast-off when we board 12 to the Moon. The best and brightest of humanity have been assembled for Earth's first international expedition to the Moon... Wait, did I say best and brightest? These are the last people you'd want to send to the moon. Besides mistrustful of each other due to international prejudices, they're also dumber than a bag of hammers, as illustrated when one of the "scientists" puts his hands into a strange liquid gushing from a moon rock... only to discover that it's acid (Tom: "Well, fools rush in Herb."). You also get a couple exploring a cave who decide to sneak off for a little make-out session (isn't this supposed to be the 50s?). If that wasn't enough, the moon happens to be inhabited, and the moon people aren't too keen on this intrusion into their territory by upstart, primitive humans.
The film is preceded by the musical short Design for Dreaming, in which a woman dreams of brand new cars and a space-age kitchen. It features the voice of Thurl Ravenscroft, famous for the song "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" and as the voice of Tony the Tiger.
Host Segment Highlights
It all starts off normal - Mike and the 'bots are playing space cadets when suddenly Nuveena, woman of the future (from the short), appears! Although only able to communicate (and be communicated to) through song and dance, our hapless host quickly falls for her. But with Crow and Tom hanging around, can the romance really last?
You know the date, so why not give it a go? Join us on Sunday and see what all the fuss is about! Movie starts at 8PM EST, room opens at 7:30.
The password for the room is: motorama. Get a jumpstart on loading time and find the video here.
FEBRUARY MOVIE SIGN concludes tearfully with:
2/22: Episode 512 - Mitchell
...but rolls into MARCH MOVIE SIGN MADNESS with:
3/1 - Episode 513 - The Brain That Wouldn't Die
3/8 - Episode 302 - Gamera
3/15 - Episode 905 - The Deadly Bees
3/22 - Episode 416 - Fire Maidens From Outer Space
3/29 - Episode 609 - The Skydivers (w/short "Why Study Industrial Arts?")
