Special Event: Turkey Day 2024
November 28, 2024 9:16 AM - Subscribe
Once again, we at MST Club, that tiny subset of the site that gathers to watch riffing and other things on Thursday nights (and still other things on Sunday and Tuesday) are piping in the official Mystery Science Theater 3000 Turkey Day stream off of Youtube to watch in our video share room throughout Thanksgiving Day. Or, if you want to watch it on their page instead, it should be available here , although I'll say their chat scroll rate will be much worse. More info inside--
MST Club has been around for like 11 years now. We can't promise it'll always be here, but as long as it's around you're always welcome to join us.
All of these times are US Eastern. For Pacific, subtract three hours; for GMT, add five. Although episodes are around an hour and a half long, original broadcasts were two hours with commercials, and the Turkey Day stream adds intersitials and breaks to pad each episode out to two hours, giving people time to use the bathroom and get snacks.
Here are the announced episodes, their times and some notes on each.
5am: 407 THE KILLER SHREWS (1959) introduced by Emily Marsh
From the Comedy Central era. Joel Hodgson hosts.
Some people are stranded on an island with deadly venomous giant shrews (who are obviously dogs in bad costumes). Stars James Best, Cooter from The Dukes of Hazzard, who was good natured enough to return in 2012 for a sequel, three years before he passed away. Well what do you know, James really was best. Has the "Killer Shrew" cocktail instructions in a host segment!
7am: 822 OVERDRAWN AT THE MEMORY BANK (1984), introduced by Kumail Nanjiani
From the Sci-Fi Channel era. Mike Nelson hosts.
With Raul Julia! Based, very loosely, on a 1976 sci-fi story by John Varley. A sort of cyberpunk story about a guy, who loves "scrolling up cinemas" like Casablanca, who's mind gets uploaded into a computer, where he causes havoc and is menaced by a corporation. Sounds familar. Shoutout to Mefite computech-appoloniajames, whose username refers to a character from this episode!
9am: 904 WEREWOLF (1997), introduced by Bryan Fuller
From the Sci-Fi Channel era. Mike Nelson hosts.
Contains Joe Estevez, one of the more frequently-seen MST actors. A guy contracts werewolfism from a skeleton. Notable for telling us that Native Americans had werwolf legends, where the afflicted would pick up unusual body habits, like "sleeping nose to anus." Has the "TUSK!" song riffs over the closing credits.
11am: 323 THE CASTLE OF FU MANCHU (1969), introduced by Matthew Lillard
From the Comedy Central era. Joel Hodgson hosts.
I personally consider this one of the most challenging episodes to get through, because the movie's just so DULL, and Fu Manchu creator Sax Rohmer's racism doesn't help it any. Stars Christopher Lee as the villain and title character.
1pm: 820 SPACE MUTINY (1988), introduced by Mary Jo Pehl
From the Sci-Fi Channer era. Mike Nelson hosts.
A fan favorite, it lifts special effects from the original Battlestar Galactica and its title sequence from an Apple II monitor. Features the famous "many names of David Ryder " throughout the movie.
3pm: 907 HOBGOBLINS (1988), introduced by Mike Flanagan
From the Sci-Fi Channel era. Mike Nelson hosts.
Another movie that got a sequel much later. Teens are menaced by mind-reading, fantasy-producing critters (represented in the movie by plush toys). The movie has a pretty poor opinion of its characters, who are mostly broad stereotypes.
5pm: 624 SAMSON VS THE VAMPIRE WOMEN (1962), introduced by David Dastmalchian
From the Comedy Central era. Mike Nelson hosts.
A sad episode as the last episode (save for a cameo later on) of the legendary "TV's" Frank Conniff, former lion of Twitter, current lion of Bluesky. In the movie, famous Mexican wrestler El Santo fights the undead.
7pm: 1307 GAMERA VS JIGER (1970), introduced by Mark Hamill (!)
From the Gizmoplex era. Jonah Ray hosts.
Rights issues make it difficult to officially show the five other Gamera movies the show riffed, but this sixth episode, done for Season 13, is clear! Features a similar style as Gamera vs Guiron and vs Zigra. Unlike the previous Gamera movies, and practically every other movie MST3K has ever done, their deal to riff this movie demanded that they show it unedited, making it the longest episode in the show's history. Expect few bathroom breaks in this one.
9pm: 910 THE FINAL SACRIFICE (1990), introduced by Joel Hodgson
From the Sci-Fi Channel era. Mike Nelson hosts.
Marking a return of this episode to circulation, we're not sure how they got the rights to show this again (rumor has it the owner hates MST3K), but it's back, and its glorious. Drifter-with-a-dark-past Zap Rowsdower and young hanger-on Troy fight an evil cult in Canada. Getting this back is really great, as even the "Rowsdower Saves Us" fan song got taken down from Youtube because it used movie clips. I'm sure money was involved.
11pm: 424 MANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE (1966), introduced by Felicia Day
From the Comedy Central era. Joel Hodgson hosts.
Manos needs no introduction, as MST3K put it on the map, and now there is a universe of ironic appreciation of Hal Warren's infamous flop, and even some unironic appreciation! Here goes anyway: a family on vacation stops to rest at Valley Lodge, run by the enigmatic Torgo (and his theme music), and the undead cult that exists in the desert nearby. If you somehow haven't heard of it, while it may not be the worst movie ever made, no one's saying it isn't, either.
1am: 1311 THE MASK (1961), introduced by Jonah Ray
From the Gizmoplex era. Jonah Ray hosts.
A guy is driven crazy by a mask that makes him hallucinate weird 3D special effects. A remarkably trippy film.
MST Club has been around for like 11 years now. We can't promise it'll always be here, but as long as it's around you're always welcome to join us.
All of these times are US Eastern. For Pacific, subtract three hours; for GMT, add five. Although episodes are around an hour and a half long, original broadcasts were two hours with commercials, and the Turkey Day stream adds intersitials and breaks to pad each episode out to two hours, giving people time to use the bathroom and get snacks.
Here are the announced episodes, their times and some notes on each.
5am: 407 THE KILLER SHREWS (1959) introduced by Emily Marsh
From the Comedy Central era. Joel Hodgson hosts.
Some people are stranded on an island with deadly venomous giant shrews (who are obviously dogs in bad costumes). Stars James Best, Cooter from The Dukes of Hazzard, who was good natured enough to return in 2012 for a sequel, three years before he passed away. Well what do you know, James really was best. Has the "Killer Shrew" cocktail instructions in a host segment!
7am: 822 OVERDRAWN AT THE MEMORY BANK (1984), introduced by Kumail Nanjiani
From the Sci-Fi Channel era. Mike Nelson hosts.
With Raul Julia! Based, very loosely, on a 1976 sci-fi story by John Varley. A sort of cyberpunk story about a guy, who loves "scrolling up cinemas" like Casablanca, who's mind gets uploaded into a computer, where he causes havoc and is menaced by a corporation. Sounds familar. Shoutout to Mefite computech-appoloniajames, whose username refers to a character from this episode!
9am: 904 WEREWOLF (1997), introduced by Bryan Fuller
From the Sci-Fi Channel era. Mike Nelson hosts.
Contains Joe Estevez, one of the more frequently-seen MST actors. A guy contracts werewolfism from a skeleton. Notable for telling us that Native Americans had werwolf legends, where the afflicted would pick up unusual body habits, like "sleeping nose to anus." Has the "TUSK!" song riffs over the closing credits.
11am: 323 THE CASTLE OF FU MANCHU (1969), introduced by Matthew Lillard
From the Comedy Central era. Joel Hodgson hosts.
I personally consider this one of the most challenging episodes to get through, because the movie's just so DULL, and Fu Manchu creator Sax Rohmer's racism doesn't help it any. Stars Christopher Lee as the villain and title character.
1pm: 820 SPACE MUTINY (1988), introduced by Mary Jo Pehl
From the Sci-Fi Channer era. Mike Nelson hosts.
A fan favorite, it lifts special effects from the original Battlestar Galactica and its title sequence from an Apple II monitor. Features the famous "many names of David Ryder " throughout the movie.
3pm: 907 HOBGOBLINS (1988), introduced by Mike Flanagan
From the Sci-Fi Channel era. Mike Nelson hosts.
Another movie that got a sequel much later. Teens are menaced by mind-reading, fantasy-producing critters (represented in the movie by plush toys). The movie has a pretty poor opinion of its characters, who are mostly broad stereotypes.
5pm: 624 SAMSON VS THE VAMPIRE WOMEN (1962), introduced by David Dastmalchian
From the Comedy Central era. Mike Nelson hosts.
A sad episode as the last episode (save for a cameo later on) of the legendary "TV's" Frank Conniff, former lion of Twitter, current lion of Bluesky. In the movie, famous Mexican wrestler El Santo fights the undead.
7pm: 1307 GAMERA VS JIGER (1970), introduced by Mark Hamill (!)
From the Gizmoplex era. Jonah Ray hosts.
Rights issues make it difficult to officially show the five other Gamera movies the show riffed, but this sixth episode, done for Season 13, is clear! Features a similar style as Gamera vs Guiron and vs Zigra. Unlike the previous Gamera movies, and practically every other movie MST3K has ever done, their deal to riff this movie demanded that they show it unedited, making it the longest episode in the show's history. Expect few bathroom breaks in this one.
9pm: 910 THE FINAL SACRIFICE (1990), introduced by Joel Hodgson
From the Sci-Fi Channel era. Mike Nelson hosts.
Marking a return of this episode to circulation, we're not sure how they got the rights to show this again (rumor has it the owner hates MST3K), but it's back, and its glorious. Drifter-with-a-dark-past Zap Rowsdower and young hanger-on Troy fight an evil cult in Canada. Getting this back is really great, as even the "Rowsdower Saves Us" fan song got taken down from Youtube because it used movie clips. I'm sure money was involved.
11pm: 424 MANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE (1966), introduced by Felicia Day
From the Comedy Central era. Joel Hodgson hosts.
Manos needs no introduction, as MST3K put it on the map, and now there is a universe of ironic appreciation of Hal Warren's infamous flop, and even some unironic appreciation! Here goes anyway: a family on vacation stops to rest at Valley Lodge, run by the enigmatic Torgo (and his theme music), and the undead cult that exists in the desert nearby. If you somehow haven't heard of it, while it may not be the worst movie ever made, no one's saying it isn't, either.
1am: 1311 THE MASK (1961), introduced by Jonah Ray
From the Gizmoplex era. Jonah Ray hosts.
A guy is driven crazy by a mask that makes him hallucinate weird 3D special effects. A remarkably trippy film.
When I pulled it up it went automatically to the live.
posted by computech_apolloniajames at 9:39 AM on November 28
posted by computech_apolloniajames at 9:39 AM on November 28
🎵 We gather together to watch cheesy movies...
posted by mefireader at 1:16 PM on November 28 [1 favorite]
posted by mefireader at 1:16 PM on November 28 [1 favorite]
Mike Flanagan intro-ng Hobgoblins saying he wanted to name his children after them cracked me up.
posted by miss-lapin at 1:43 PM on November 28 [1 favorite]
posted by miss-lapin at 1:43 PM on November 28 [1 favorite]
I’m with JHarris. Fu Manchu is a very tough to watch episode - I’m shocked it’s someone’s favorite.
posted by wittgenstein at 2:30 PM on November 28 [1 favorite]
posted by wittgenstein at 2:30 PM on November 28 [1 favorite]
It's actually one of my favorites and has been since I first saw it.
posted by miss-lapin at 3:26 PM on November 28 [1 favorite]
posted by miss-lapin at 3:26 PM on November 28 [1 favorite]
Hey everyone! I have learned that the Turkey Day show is going to repeat on the MST3K Youtube for the rest of the weekend! We're going to leave it in the MST Club channel until the show Sunday evening, if you want to dip in and see one of the above movies.
Worthy of note, the stream has been acting funny, sometimes sending a viewer out of sync with the rest of the viewers, many hours earlier in the show. If this happens to you, just reload the page and it should rectify things for you.
posted by JHarris at 8:37 PM on November 28 [3 favorites]
Worthy of note, the stream has been acting funny, sometimes sending a viewer out of sync with the rest of the viewers, many hours earlier in the show. If this happens to you, just reload the page and it should rectify things for you.
posted by JHarris at 8:37 PM on November 28 [3 favorites]
And stick around for our regular (mostly) British TV watch on Sunday 7pm EST.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 10:25 PM on November 28 [1 favorite]
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 10:25 PM on November 28 [1 favorite]
The replays are in a bit of a different order, meaning, if you missed a specific episode, try back the same time Saturday or Sunday and you might catch a different one. I note, specifically, that one of Overdrawn at the Memory Bank's replays begins at 5 PM ET on Sunday.
posted by JHarris at 11:11 AM on November 29 [3 favorites]
posted by JHarris at 11:11 AM on November 29 [3 favorites]
Schedule is here.
They did the 22 hr stream on Thursday and repeated it today (Friday) albeit offset by those two hours. Saturday and Sunday have different shuffled episode orders. A few episodes, including Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, will air three times over the next two days.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 8:58 PM on November 29 [2 favorites]
They did the 22 hr stream on Thursday and repeated it today (Friday) albeit offset by those two hours. Saturday and Sunday have different shuffled episode orders. A few episodes, including Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, will air three times over the next two days.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 8:58 PM on November 29 [2 favorites]
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(Cytube might go to the start of the stream by default right now? Dunno)
posted by Pronoiac at 9:30 AM on November 28 [1 favorite]