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Post by Trumpy's Magic Snout on Mar 25, 2008 8:07:25 GMT -5
Just watched last night's How I Met Your Mother (the one with Britney) and in it Ted declares to that blonde bird from Scrubs that he's just watched the worst movie ever. She asks, naively, "Plan 9 From Outer Space?" to which he replies "Manos: The Hands Of Fate". She doesn't believe him but later on shows her the movie in twenty seconds, with ghastly non-mystied footage to boot.
Manos hits the mainstream! Is Dr. Forrester in fact pulling the strings behind the scenes of this bubbly, light little sitcom?
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Post by MonsterX on Mar 25, 2008 10:27:42 GMT -5
I feel pretty confident in saying that if it wasn’t for MST no one other than the most hardcore bad movie fans would know about that little film. Now it’s a part of our pop culture.
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Post by Bix Dugan on Mar 25, 2008 11:45:56 GMT -5
I was channel surfing and ran into this last night. A couple on a date, apparently, standing in front of a small Hi-Def TV shop, watching friggin' Manos! I couldn't tell if they could hear the audio out on the sidewalk, or if the scene was suposed to be a time-elapsed sequence of them watching the whole movie. Even though the video was on a small portion of my crap TV, it looked very sharp. Was there a new release?
Too bad they didn't use the MST version.
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Post by mrsphyllistorgo on Mar 25, 2008 12:29:07 GMT -5
Either of these clips on youtube?
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Post by Trumpy's Magic Snout on Mar 25, 2008 14:11:15 GMT -5
He takes the bird from Scrubs on a two minute date so they watch selected highlights (highlights?) of Manos through the window as a call back to the earlier conversation.
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Post by mjkjets on Mar 25, 2008 14:24:06 GMT -5
I believe Neil Patrick Harris is on that show. If I recall correctly, he was a huge fan of MST3K. Maybe he had something to do with it.
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Post by quinnmartin on Mar 25, 2008 14:37:53 GMT -5
Either of these clips on youtube? You can watch the full episode on cbs.com. The part where they actually watch the bits of Manos is about 18:30 into the show. Love the use of "Thirteen" during their date, too. |
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Post by The Mad Plumber on Mar 25, 2008 15:16:58 GMT -5
Is Dr. Forrester in fact pulling the strings behind the scenes of this bubbly, light little sitcom? It could be; it is quite an evil sitcom. I'm sure it's nice that Manos can get that kind of recognition that affirms the MST3K community. Maybe there is a MySTie in the writing staff. But still, c'mon, it's a sitcom, and a bad one at that. That's the same as Mark Hamill guest starring on a sitcom to appeal to the Star Wars fans; it still doesn't make the sitcom Star Wars. Plus, if Britney Spears was in the episode, I would say they've thrown class out the window. |
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Post by Trumpy's Magic Snout on Mar 25, 2008 16:38:04 GMT -5
Never said Manos being in it made it MST3K (although i don't mind the show it must be said). It just shows as MonsterX said that Manos is now a part of popular culture the way Plan 9 is and that the only reason for it is through MST3K.
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Post by The Mad Plumber on Mar 25, 2008 16:54:36 GMT -5
That is true. Hal Warren has dethroned Ed Wood as the King of Camp.
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Post by Bix Dugan on Mar 25, 2008 17:19:09 GMT -5
Britney as guest = more souls now lost to The Hands of Fate...or was it The Hand of Fate?
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Post by trekker4747 on Mar 25, 2008 19:28:44 GMT -5
I thought he was the king of CRAP. (In more ways than one, infact.)
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Post by Sweet Sweetback on Mar 26, 2008 14:57:33 GMT -5
Bizarre seeing it featured on a CBS sitcom and one that ended up getting big ratings that night. I was impressed by the quality of the print they used.
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Post by Bix Dugan on Mar 26, 2008 15:44:36 GMT -5
A huge ratings increase was reported. I'm sure it was because of Manos, and not Ms.ForgotMyNickersAgain's guest spot.
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Post by kisskicker99 on Mar 26, 2008 16:30:52 GMT -5
If I would have known about the Manos scene, I would have watched, but I was unwilling to watch anything with Britney in it. I refuse to support her as long as the media continues to give her bad press, which has pretty much been since her career's inception in late 1998.
I blame it on the schoolgirl uniforms.
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