Post by Mike Flugennock on Jul 9, 2012 22:55:03 GMT -5
Interesting, somehow, that I got the news of Borgnine's passing via the Club MST3K Forum. I've just come from over there, and I noticed that there's at least a dozen people watching Experiment 1003, Merlin's Shop Of Mystical Wonders, in his honor. That episode got a fairly high "laugh rating" at Club MST3K, so I guess this'll be as good an excuse as ever to check it out.
Still, even inasmuch as we're lovers of really bad movies, we can't really properly honor Borgnine's memory without also watching a really good movie he was in, such as Marty or Ice Station Zebra.
Oh, and cueing up a few episodes of McHale's Navy wouldn't hurt, either. I used to watch that a lot when I was a young kid in the '60s, and Borgnine was pretty damn' good in that, too. The fact that it also co-stars Joe Flynn -- who played the scientist's assistant in The Indestructible Man -- gives it an even stronger MST3K connection.
Still, even inasmuch as we're lovers of really bad movies, we can't really properly honor Borgnine's memory without also watching a really good movie he was in, such as Marty or Ice Station Zebra.
Oh, and cueing up a few episodes of McHale's Navy wouldn't hurt, either. I used to watch that a lot when I was a young kid in the '60s, and Borgnine was pretty damn' good in that, too. The fact that it also co-stars Joe Flynn -- who played the scientist's assistant in The Indestructible Man -- gives it an even stronger MST3K connection.
