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March 27
Special Event: Red Letter Media's commentary on ROBOCOP
MST Club presents! It's not as much a riff as a commentary, but it is on Robocop, which is highly riffable whether you think it's a satire or not (it is). Red Letter Media released it July 2018.
Special Event: MLB Opening Day 2025
Per downdetector.com, the MLB app is down right now (for the continental U.S. at least, I assume), "right now" being about ten minutes after most of today's games started. What an auspicious opening to the season!
March 20
Special Event: Rifftrax Live: BIRDEMIC
MST Club presents! DirtyOldTown has already posted the unriffed version. This is the version with extra added fun in the form of joshes and japes from professional comedy professionals. A guy works at a company selling software. He meets a woman. They hit it off. There's a TV report about something environmental going on. He gets a big bonus from work. He goes on a date with the woman. They get a hotel room. It is about halfway through the movie now. They have sex. As if that were a secret signal, the next morning, BIRDS TRY TO KILL EVERYONE. Not just those two, EVERYONE. Riff originates from 2012. Good luck folks.
March 16
Special Event: March Madness! NCAA basketball tournaments 2025!
March, March, how is it March again? UConn is the defending 2024 Men's Champion, and South Carolina is the defending 2024 Women's Champion. [more inside]
March 13
Special Event: Weekly Planet's riff of STAR WARS
That's the original Star Wars, and the theatrical cut I believe. The Weekly Planet is a pop culture discussion podcast, and your culture doesn't get much more pop than "A New Hope." A doofus moisture (a.k.a. "sweat") farmer leaves his hick planet to navigate a universe of robots, monsters, cabarets, wizards, smugglers, princesses and villains. Somehow he saves the universe. Here's their link to the audio of their riff ($1), released August 2015.
March 6
Special Event: Ryan K. Johnson's Riff of STAR TREK V
Long ago, before MST3K Seasons 11-13, before The Mads Are Back, before Cinematic Titanic, and Rifftrax... before Master Pancake, Mister Sinus, Mystery Fandom Theater 3000 and FilmRoasters... before, yet, the Sci-Fi Channel era, even before Mike Nelson became host of the original show... possibly the first MST3K fanwork was Ryan K. Johnson's riff of Star Trek V, from 1992. 33 years old now! Made for friends, never distributed and hard to find. We arranged for a special showing and can vouch, Ryan and his friends have got the chops.
March 5
Special Event: 2nd annual NHL trade deadline post
Here be sadness and woe! [more inside]
March 2
Special Event: The Oscars
February 20
Special Event: Late Seating: THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL
MST Club presents! Word wound its way around to us that the podcast Late Seating has done riffs of a number of Christmas movies, and one of them is the dreaded (yet strangely entertaining) Star Wars Holiday Special. CHTucker mixed the video of the SWHS with Late Seating's audio, and tonight that's what we're watching! Do I have to describe the indescribable? The Star Wars Holiday Special is from a strange mixture of multiple pop culture phenomena: the height of Star Wars mania, the era of the TV variety show, and the careers of Harvey Korman, Art Carney and Bea Arthur. The results include a lengthy segments of Chewbacca's family talking to each other entirely in Wookese without subtitles, Carney playing a space trader, Korman doing three comedy segments, Arthur running a cantina on Tatooine, and a disturbing VR performance by Diahann Carroll for Chewie's pater. Riff dates to around 2020; the SWHS hails from 1978. Previously on Fanfare, far too many previousies on Metafilter to recount here.
February 9
Special Event: Super Bowl LIX
Patrick Mahomes' Chiefs, architecting what could be the NFL's next great dynasty, face an Eagles team that's spent two years building back to Super Bowl contention after falling short against Kansas City in 2023 (apologies to any Last Man stragglers). Now Jalen Hurts (roll tide) leads Philadelphia's redemption tour against a rival that's grown from upstart to powerhouse. The NFL's second Vegas Super Bowl streams free on Tubi this Sunday at 6:30 PM ET (though not necessarily with the same commercials). This year's halftime show: Kendrick Lamar.
February 6
Special Event: The Mads Are Back: THE BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS
MST Club presents! An alien brain sets up shop in the body of an Earth scientist, and it's only vulnerable at those times when it temporarily leave it to absorb oxygen. Another brain, a good one, comes to apprehend el cerebro diablo, although for some reason it's stuck in the body of a dog. Contains the phrase "fissure of Rolando." Riff first released November 2020.
February 2
Special Event: 2025 Grammy Awards
Special Event: FireAid LA Benefit Concert
FireAid took place at the Kia Forum and the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, CA, on January 30 to raise money for those impacted by the Los Angeles wildfires. Complete setlist, on Hulu for a limited time.
January 30
Special Event: RiffTrax: LANCELOT GUARDIAN OF TIME
MST Club presents! A "gnarly" and "radical" movie where Lancelot is in the former-present-day and young Arthur is a 90s kid. It's "totally awesome," so "cowabunga dude." Released quite recently, in September 2024.
January 20
Special Event: Trump Inauguration #2: Inside Freezing Crowd-o-Matic Boogaloo
January 16
Special Event: Rifftrax Live: THE RETURN OF SWAMP THING
MST Club presents! Features a blooming relationship been a lady and a plant monster. It's a sequel to the Wes Craven cult classic, but it isn't itself directed by Wes Craven, so beware! Movie released in 1989, riff released November 2022.
January 11
Special Event: Winter 2025 Anime Season / Fall 2024 Wrap-Up
Many winter 2025 shows have at least had their premiere episode, which makes it as good a time as any for the quarterly update post!
Initial impressions, reviews, and [more inside]
January 2
Special Event: Rifftrax: WONDER WOMEN
MSTClub presents! A villain is harvesting the organs of jai alai players, and only the original sidehacker himself, Ross Hagan, can stop them. Has absolutely nothing to do with DC Comics or Warner Bros. Riff released January 2015.
December 28, 2024
Special Event: Beyoncé Bowl
Beyoncé performed material from Cowboy Carter for the first time live at halftime on NFL Christmas Gameday from Houston, Texas (review, review). Now streaming on Netflix.
December 22, 2024
Special Event: MST Club Christmas Video Marathon #11
Well, we're doing it again. Starting early morning on Dec 23 and going through to the end of Dec 25, in our video share room, MST Club presents our 11th annual Christmas Marathon. Look inside for details! [more inside]