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Post by mummifiedstalin on Jun 28, 2004 3:43:43 GMT -5
This may have been done before (I'm new to these forums), but I was curious what pre-mst3k riffings are out there. I'm a big fan of It Came From Hollywood where Dan Akroyd, Cheech and Chong, John Candy, and others riff on bad old movies (even a few overlaps with mst3k like Amazing Colossal Man).
But I can't recall any other ones off the top of my head.
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Post by yousonuva on Jun 28, 2004 4:05:31 GMT -5
Woody Allen's What's Up Tiger Lilly? Though I haven't seen it. Welcome to the board though  |
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Post by AtlasKing on Jun 28, 2004 4:51:19 GMT -5
Mad Movies was a syndicated show that redubbed movies (codensed to 30min) a la What's Up Tigerlilly. It ran in the late '80s and featured stuff like The Little Princess with Shirley Temple and Night of the Living Dead. There's also J-Men Forever, a feature film strung together by old '30s serials and redubbed. I loved It Came From Hollywood when I was kid, too, and I feel that Tommy Chong's riff in Amazing Collossal Man is better than Joel's.
Man: I don't want to grow anymore!
Chong: Except maybe some hair.
Joel: I'm a Toys R Us kid!
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Post by yousonuva on Jun 28, 2004 4:55:26 GMT -5
I found Cheech and Chong hilarious in that movie. They really just fit right into place, riffin on movies.
The rest was meh for me.
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Jun 28, 2004 5:02:56 GMT -5
The movie with Al Jolson in it (Wonder Bar, I think?) is one of the most mst3k-worthy things I've ever seen, tho. Nothing like black-face angels for a summit of bad taste and stereotyping.
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Post by doctorz on Jun 28, 2004 5:13:25 GMT -5
In the late 80's Larraine Newman,from the original cast of SNL, had a syndicated show where awful movies were shown in a small town movie house. The premise of the show was Larraine and her mom were desparately trying to keep this theater alive. Larraine's character took the whole thing a little too seriously, wearing a 40's style usher outfit and having assigned seating, but the only people that ever attended the movies were the reviewer for the local paper and his girl friend. Maybe one or two others I can't recall. You never heard or saw the mother who was sort of like cambot and ran the projector. It had host segments that riffed the movie, but the movies ran without riffing. Anybody remember the name of this show?
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Post by doctorz on Jun 28, 2004 10:01:26 GMT -5
......And......I think The Firesign Theater tried replacing the dialogue with two episodes of a wierd serial about the Alaska-Canadian Border using their own brand of humor. Pretty funny. I think I still have it somewhere in the back of my old video collection.
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Post by mightyjack on Jun 28, 2004 10:07:07 GMT -5
In the late 80's Larraine Newman,from the original cast of SNL, had a syndicated show where awful movies were shown in a small town movie house. Anybody remember the name of this show? Canned Film Festival There were about a dozen episodes filmed. |
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Post by otrfan on Jun 28, 2004 10:27:10 GMT -5
Back when I was a kid living in Chicago, I used to watch a program called "Son of Svengoolie". They used to show cheesy monster movies and then poke fun at them during the host segments. I recently found out that the show, now simply called "Svengoolie", is still on to this day (although there was about a ten-year hiatus in the late 80's).   |
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Post by Revenant100 on Jun 28, 2004 11:43:21 GMT -5
Occasionally during the movies on Svengoolie they add sound effects and short sound bits called SvenSurround. They recently showed The Killer Shrews and the entire movie was shown with SvenSurround. I watched thr MST3K version of The Killer Shrews afterwards and many of the riffs were similar!
Last week Svengoolie had The Screaming Skull on, but the whole movie wasn't done in SvenSurround, and I have to admit it made it a lot harder to sit through (Although twice during the movie a Three Stooges clip came up when someone in the movie got slapped). The little segments in between focused on SvenGoolie's 25th Anniversary.
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Post by MonsterX on Jun 28, 2004 16:26:13 GMT -5
I used to watch Son of Svengoolie when I was a kid too. From what I understand, most every town has it’s own late night horror host.
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Jun 29, 2004 5:52:45 GMT -5
Thanks for the great leads. I've got some stuff I'm going to have to try to hunt down now.
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Jun 29, 2004 10:06:16 GMT -5
When I first started watching my first reaction was "Oh, just another way to re-use old movies." But that quickly changed. MST really is unique. There is a big difference between dubbing new sound over a movie and riffing on the real thing. They may seem similar in concept but I think they are two different worlds.
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Post by jixbyphillips on Jul 1, 2004 0:29:46 GMT -5
I can think of a couple of MST3K precursors: Goofy MoviesThese were a series of one-reelers shown in the 1930s. They took old newsreels and clips from silent films, and a narrator (Pete Smith) did humorous commentary over them. I've seen a few on Turner. Jay Ward's Fractured Flickers From what I understand it's kind of the same thing, re-editing and perhaps dubbing over silent films to make fun of them? I have never seen it myself, but this show was done by many of the same writers and performers that did the Bullwinkle Show. The entire series comes out on DVD August 31. |
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Post by Detective Mitchell on Jul 1, 2004 6:38:44 GMT -5
One that we all should know: Elvira. ;D
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