Mystery Science Theater 3000: OUTLAW Rewatch

October 31, 2018 11:25 PM - Season 5, Episode 19

Rewatch! There's a "counter-Earth" that's on the opposite side of the sun as the normal Earth, the same gimmick from Stranded in Space, but this one's not Authoritarian Dystopia (movie premise #218) so much as Burroughsian Otherworld Barbarian-Style Sword-and-Sorcery Made Possible Through MacGuffin (premise #245). Our many-man hero Cabot (Cabot? Cabot!) travels there through magic crackerjack prize, along with his unmanly-man professorial colleague, and must thwart the machinations of a slumming Jack Palance. Previously.
posted by JHarris (3 comments total)

It's a really loose version of John Norman's Gor novels, which were themselves rewrites of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Barsoom novels, but with a lot more squicky S&M stuff. Fortunately, that stuff isn't in the movie.

Jack Palance always has the most fun chewing the scenery.
posted by Chrysostom at 9:24 AM on November 1, 2018 [1 favorite]

That's probably why he craps bigger than us. All that fiber and roughage.
posted by Naberius at 9:44 AM on November 1, 2018 [5 favorites]

Ah, almost forgot! MST Club's show, starting with a preroll movie, begins at 7 PM Eastern tonight (Thursday)! The episode itself is at 9 PM. The show is at https://cytu.be/r/Metafilter_MST3KClub. Whew!
posted by JHarris at 3:33 PM on November 1, 2018