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
To the distant past of the first season we go with Untamed Youth. Sisters Jane and Penny Lowe are arrested for swimming in their underwear and are sentenced to thirty days on a cotton farm, run by the whiter-than-white Tropp who gets his laborers from some squicky relations with the old lady judge. Despite all the hard labor, the youths find time to strip and dance until somebody gets killed. In the end, Shinmaru a mysterious Mexican shows up and leads to Tropp's demise.
A few things are different about the first season from the rest of the series - noticeably a different Servo and a different sidekick scientist (played by the same guy, surprise!) and a way different set. There's also a more relaxed feel to the riffing, so rather than observing, feel free to throw yourself into the front row with Joel, Crow, and Servo.
Host Segment Highlights
Crow's a bit disturbed at the finding of a magnetic tapeworm in Servo, but it's not as disturbing as the invention from the mads...Later, we enter Biography (!) mode with a presentation on Greg Brady, but when that gets boring, we delve into the mind of Gypsy to see what she's really all about. Soon it's a game to see what things Gypsy can regurgitate at the orders of the 'bots, and it's all capped off by a hat party.
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.
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APRIL MOVIE SIGN finishes strong with...
4/26 - Episode 1012 - Squirm (w/short "A Case of Spring Fever")
...and heads on into MAY MOVIE SIGN with...
5/3 - Episode 210 - King Dinosaur (w/short "X Marks the Spot")
5/10 - Episode 611 - Last of the Wild Horses (Kat seyz, "Squee~!")
5/17 - Episode 314 - Mighty Jack
5/24 - Episode 807 - Terror from the Year 5000
5/31 - Episode 405 - Being From Another Planet
