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Post by caucasoididiot on May 19, 2012 21:30:40 GMT -5
I've been lurking up here in GenChat a bit recently but somehow have had a hard time responding to any of the threads. So, as usual when I've nothing to say, I shall start one.
The problem, you see, is that I haven't watched an MST3k ep since my mini-marathon last Thanksgiving, and in the interval between that and my '10 mini-marathon only saw two eps (perhaps only one?), those when I guested on the Spanthom and Phackle Show.
Now, the problem this raises is that when--as most threads herein require--trying to call up specific memories of the show in its glorious entirety, I am left groping in a warm but fuzzy haze for "that time they were watching that really bad movie, the one with that guy in it."
Another year at this rate and it will be "Wazzat the show that had the puppets?"
This leads to two ponderings: are there others about in a similar fix, and how much further can this go before my excommunication?
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Post by fathermushroom on May 20, 2012 10:41:02 GMT -5
I've been there, Ijon. You usually come back.
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Post by pablum on May 20, 2012 12:12:39 GMT -5
I really haven't watched any MST3K other than the new Volume XXIII DVDs since the start of the year.
Maybe its burnout? Anyway I intend to watch a lot more soon.
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Post by BJ on May 20, 2012 14:35:17 GMT -5
I've been catching up on tv shows for the past few months, and trying to watch movies I've never seen before, so I'm in the same boat. Since the European football season is over and I'm about to give up on Mad Men, I'm guessing MST will come back into my life. It always seems to find a way.
For the greater glory of Crow
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Post by Mr. Atari on May 20, 2012 15:25:50 GMT -5
I go in phases. I've found that after a break, certain MST titles appeal to me in ways they hadn't before. I haven't had any interest in watching Space Children, for example, since I saw it the first time many years ago. After a few months off, I thought, "That would be a fun way to spend an hour and a half."
And it was.
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Post by spackle on May 20, 2012 23:53:34 GMT -5
I'd like to report that Ijon was forced to watch Blood Waters of Dr. Z today. Spantom and Phackle triumph again!
I'm guilty of slack viewing myself. I used to fall asleep to episodes, which would waft me into a happy dreamland. I used to be able to contribute to Episode Help. But I agree it's cyclical. I'm looking forward to my next phase of MST'dulgence.
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Post by afriendlychicken on May 21, 2012 1:24:43 GMT -5
Wish I could see the Spanthom and Phackle show. Or is it not recommended for the weak of heart? ;D
I'm in the same situation. My last viewing was in December when I watched the first 20 minutes of "Santa Claus" before getting rudely called in to work. Nothing like getting interrupted in the middle of Tom Servo skewering every country in the world. It definitely set up a strange mind set for work.
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Post by caucasoididiot on May 21, 2012 8:00:24 GMT -5
Heh heh, yes, thanks for the shot of Blood Waters, a much overdue inoculation against apostasy. Maybe if I just make a point of catching an ep every time there's an eclipse.
Is it better to watch before or after the sacrifice, do you think?
That was a fun day all around, even including Taiko drums. I think maybe it was The Spanthom and Phackle Summer Special.
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Post by spackle on May 21, 2012 10:40:17 GMT -5
Nay.... Extravaganza.
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Post by caucasoididiot on May 21, 2012 11:01:34 GMT -5
With special guests, The Yappy Dog Brothers!
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Post by CBG on May 21, 2012 18:09:15 GMT -5
No worries, Ijon. It ebbs and flows...but never leaves you...EVAH!
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Post by caucasoididiot on May 21, 2012 18:20:10 GMT -5
Hey, speaking of prodigals, we were just organizing a search party down in Games!
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Post by kalidor2000 on May 22, 2012 8:22:49 GMT -5
As my bio in the introductions thread indicated, I have only been at this for about a year. Less actually...
So, my wife and I have been in turbo-mode.
We have watched ~102 experiments since August 2011. And some of them multiple times (Escape 2000 watched 2 &1/2 times. Pumaman 3 times. A Touch of Satan 2 &1/2 times. Special Agent Super Dragon 2 times. Some others, I am sure I forgot...)
From Christmas '11, however, we have done most of the damage. Over 90 since then, so that's about 21-22 weeks?
That puts us at an average of 4 experiments per week; boom!
Huzzah!
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Post by caucasoididiot on May 22, 2012 9:21:51 GMT -5
It's marvelous when you're still discovering the show, isn't it? The rediscovery after a fuzzily remembered interval like mine is a lot of fun, but like with so many things you never quite recapture the magic of the first time.
*goes all nostalgic for Comedy Central circa 1993*
Good watching, kalidor and wife!
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Post by CBG on Jun 4, 2012 9:06:14 GMT -5
Ah yes, the magic of finding that "new" episode on VHS in the mail...like Christmas in July..
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