Mystery Science Theater 3000: HOBGOBLINS Rewatch

July 11, 2019 4:54 AM - Season 9, Episode 7

Rewatch! Plush toys with the ability to make people's fantasies a reality encounter some teenagers with severe issues, and the result is supposed to be a comedy. You knew it was coming. Any list of the best MST episodes invariably covers most of the worst movies, meaning we're back here again, at the extremely 80s, extraordinarily tawdry film (in the sense of being an oily coating) known to those unfortunate enough to have experienced it as HOBGOBLINS. To watch it is to feel like your brain is floating in a tub of slime: enjoy! Previously
posted by JHarris (5 comments total)

7 PM Eastern tonight (that's 4 PM Pacific and 11 PM GMT, I think?) begins MST Club, our weekly group episode viewing along with other weird things. The episode itself begins at 9 PM Eastern, and the show happens at https://cytu.be/r/Metafilter_MST3KClub. It's a great episode, and a particularly bad movie this time out, so I hope you can make it!
posted by JHarris at 5:21 AM on July 11, 2019 [1 favorite]

I managed to watch Hobgoblins 2 a bit ago. It did not really add much to the original.
posted by ckape at 4:41 PM on July 11, 2019 [1 favorite]

There is a purple car regularly parked on my street and every time I walk past it I hear Crow's voice in my head saying "paint my muscle car PRUNE color, please!"
posted by Kosh at 5:41 AM on July 12, 2019 [3 favorites]

I didn't realize that this would be part of MST Club and just recently watched this for the first time as it is now on Netflix. I've been on a bit of a MST3K kick lately having been exposed to it through videotapes my sister and her boyfriend had some time in the early 90s. This was a surprisingly fun episode as the movie itself truly is awful. The lame music video shoehorned in at the climax really makes you wonder what Director/Writer/Producer Rick Sloane thought he was doing. But, the gang does a good job of riffing on it and coming up with some good zingers. A funny coincidence is that my nine year old wants to watch horror movies, so we rented Gremlins a week ago and I had that to comparison this movie to.
posted by Slothrop at 7:14 AM on July 16, 2019 [1 favorite]

Watch out you little doodad!
posted by Slothrop at 7:15 AM on July 16, 2019 [1 favorite]