Mystery Science Theater 3000: I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF

July 27, 2017 1:57 AM - Season 8, Episode 9

"The Most Amazing Picture of Our Time!" A hypnotist gives Michael Landon a substance that turns him into a werewolf. Who gave this guy funding? What, another hypnotist? One of those was the villain last movie! Pearl and company are now on what the show's staff called "camping world." Meanwhile on the SOL, the show gets invaded by an alien. Y'know, again. At least the stingers are back! YouTube (1h32m) - Promo (17s) Premiered April 19, 1997.

Episode 809 I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF
Satellite News - Mighty Jack's Episode Review - War of the Colossal Fan Guide - Annotated MST3K - TVTropes

Amazing Colossal Episode Guide: Mary Jo remembers making the episode. Her reflections, in which she shouts-out to several nice breakfast places:

When visiting the Minneapolis/St. Paul Metro Area, I recommend a couple of marvelous breakfast spots...because breakfast is the most important meal of the day. And, if done correctly, it can be the most cholesterol-y and caloric meal of the day. There's the Day By Day Cafe in St. Paul, and in Minneapolis, there's the Egg & I, a veritable Minneapolis institution, and the Bryant Lake Bowl. Wonderful breakfast places all and really quite reasonable. Or feel free to stop by my place and I'll fix you up you a diet Coke and a cigarette.
This movie is actually not that bad. Its quite competently rendered, although it does have long spells of goofiness. Case in point: the scene of the singing troll with the upsetting pants. I didn't hate this movie which is quite something, indeed!

Movie
Daddy-O's Drive-In Dirt
Rotten Tomatoes (Critics 40%, Viewers 19%) - Wikipedia - TVTropes
IMDB (1957, 4.9 stars)
"A hypnotherapist uses a temperamental teenager as guinea pig for a serum which transforms him into a vicious werewolf."
Directed by Gene Fowler Jr. Written by Herman Cohen and Aben Kandel. Starring Michael Landon, Yvonne Lime and Whit Bissell.

posted by JHarris (7 comments total)

MST Club showing is tonight (Thursday) at 9 PM Eastern/6 PM Pacific time, at https://cytu.be/r/Metafilter_MST3KClub. As usual we'll have fun videos and YouTube Potluck for a while before and after the show, so feel free to drop by early and stick around late!
posted by JHarris at 2:33 AM on July 27, 2017

If you show up an hour early, I'm declaring an hour of Rocky & Bullwinkle episodes in remembrance of June Foray.
posted by JHarris at 6:20 AM on July 27, 2017 [1 favorite]

I'll also have some other June Foray clips to play, maybe for after. Still there has to be a Bullwinkle/MST3K connection... wasn't Frostbite Falls, Minnesota the original location of MST's studio?
posted by oneswellfoop at 6:45 AM on July 27, 2017 [1 favorite]

There's rarely a connection to MST during YouTube Potluck, and that's basically what this is, just with a theme this time. But if you desire one, MST's referred to Rocky & Bullwinkle a few times:

Fugitive Alien:
"Rocky?"
"Again?"
"Rocky!"
"Again?!"
"Rocky!!!"
"Again?!!"

The Day The Earth Froze:
(The smith Ilmarinen forges a boat with a moose's head at the front, coming out of the forge of Louhi the Witch, causing Crow to do Bullwinkle's voice:)
"Could somebody put me out, I seem to be on FIRE!"
posted by JHarris at 9:25 AM on July 27, 2017

Ah, Adam Duritz.
posted by Chrysostom at 10:10 AM on July 27, 2017

Featuring the same depressing dad from High School Big Shot!
posted by wittgenstein at 1:53 PM on July 27, 2017 [1 favorite]

We didn't have a real YouTube Potluck this time, instead showing some videos of June Foray's work and interviews with her. Most of the links came from my MeFi obit post or oneswellfoop's video finds in comments.
posted by JHarris at 6:11 AM on July 29, 2017