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For a change we're doing a "Just The Jokes" riff. The way these work, you use your audio player of choice to play the MP3 of Mike, Kevin and Bill along with the movie of your choice. Follow Mike's directions on when to start the file, then listen for "Disembaudio," their distinctive synthesized voice, to speak a line of dialog at the same time as a character in the movie. If Disembaudio speaks slightly early, pause the audio file for just a moment, and if the movie's early, pause it momentarily instead. Or alternatively, you can use the free Rifftrax app to do the syncing for you on your smartphone. Rifftrax got their start doing Just The Jokes riffs like these 18 years ago as an end run around releasing commentary on movies they didn't have rights to, and while these days they tend to focus on movies that they can legally mix their riffs directly into, they still release new ones from time to time. As for the movie, Ready Player One is a big ol' pandering mess that they managed to get Steven Spielberg to direct. Much of it is set in a virtual world where every 80s and 90s media property owned or licensed by Warner Bros can all interact, making it a special kind of crossover hell. I realize that sounds like Space Jam: A New Legacy, but that was actually three years after this movie. The riff was released October 18, 2018.
posted by JHarris on Aug 15, 2024 - 1 comment

The plucky young crew, formerly of the Protostar, undertakes their most daring and challenging mission yet, maybe the most bizarre and dangerous mission in the history of Starfleet: boldly going from Paramount+ to Netflix! [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Jul 3, 2024 - 22 comments

"Decades since their successful television series was canceled, Chip has succumbed to a life of suburban domesticity as an insurance salesman. Dale, meanwhile, has had CGI surgery and works the nostalgia convention circuit, desperate to relive his glory days. When a former cast mate mysteriously disappears, Chip and Dale must repair their broken friendship and take on their Rescue Rangers detective personas once again to save their friend's life." [more inside]
posted by Pronoiac on May 20, 2022 - 19 comments

A space anomaly appears to kill Captain James T. Kirk. But 78 years later, he emerges from the anomaly alongside Captain Jean-Luc Picard—onto his last battlefield. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Aug 26, 2020 - 32 comments

Worlds lived, worlds died. Nothing will ever be the same.
posted by oh yeah! on Jan 14, 2020 - 23 comments

Stuck in the Vanishing Point, the Paragons search for a way to escape; Oliver reveals that he has become something else; the origin stories for The Monitor and Anti-Monitor are revealed.
posted by oh yeah! on Jan 14, 2020 - 12 comments

The final season of Marvel's Runaways. The Runaways frantically search for their captured friends Chase Stein, Gert Yorkes, and Karolina Dean. The kids go head to head with an unstoppable enemy who has targeted Leslie — or more accurately, the child she's carrying. Nico Minoru draws them all into a dark realm where its ruler Morgan le Fay is much more nefarious than anyone the kids have yet to face.
posted by numaner on Dec 26, 2019 - 7 comments

Pariah enlists Black Lightning to help stop the Anti-Monitor after Flash-90 shares what he learned from his battle in 'Elseworlds.' With the help of Black Lightning, Barry, Cisco and Killer Frost come up with a plan that could save them all. Meanwhile, Iris has a heart-to-heart with Ryan Choi, while Diggle, Constantine, and Mia return to an old familiar stomping ground. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Dec 10, 2019 - 19 comments

The group uses Ray's invention to track new recruits to help save the universe. Meanwhile, the Monitor sends Iris, Clark, and Lois in search of a mysterious Kryptonian, while Kate and Kara head out to find Bruce Wayne. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Dec 9, 2019 - 11 comments

The Monitor sends Harbinger to gather the worlds' greatest heroes - Supergirl, The Flash, Green Arrow, Batwoman, White Canary, The Atom and Superman - in preparation for the impending Crisis. With their worlds in imminent danger, the superheroes suit up for battle while J'onn and Alex recruit Lena to help them find a way to save the people of Earth-38. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Dec 8, 2019 - 12 comments

Supergirl, the Flash, Green Arrow, and Superman engage in the battle of their lives. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Dec 11, 2018 - 17 comments

With Oliver and Barry still stuck in each other's bodies, the two get a lead on John Deegan and head to Gotham City with Supergirl to figure out why their reality has changed. While there, they meet the mysterious Kate Kane, who provides them with information that leads the group to Arkham Asylum. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Dec 10, 2018 - 26 comments

Barry Allen and Oliver Queen wake up one morning to find they've swapped lives with each other. When Team Flash doesn't believe them, they travel to Smallville on Earth-38 where they end up meeting Kara's cousin, Clark Kent, and intrepid reporter Lois Lane. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Dec 9, 2018 - 16 comments

After noticing something is bothering Nia, Kara and Brainy helps her figure out a dream she's had. Meanwhile, Manchester Black pays Ben Lockwood a menacing visit. [more inside]
posted by numaner on Dec 3, 2018 - 7 comments

A supposedly curse TV sucks Sam and Dean into the cartoon world of Scooby-Doo. [more inside]
posted by numaner on Mar 30, 2018 - 22 comments

Barry and Iris' wedding brings the gang together, but things go awry when villains from Earth-X attack the ceremony. (Conclusion) [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Nov 28, 2017 - 23 comments

Barry and Iris' wedding brings the gang together, but things go awry when villains from Earth-X attack the ceremony. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Nov 28, 2017 - 6 comments

Barry and Iris' wedding brings the gang together, but things go awry when villains from Earth-X attack the ceremony. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Nov 28, 2017 - 12 comments

Barry and Iris' wedding brings the gang together, but things go awry when villains from Earth-X attack the ceremony. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Nov 28, 2017 - 10 comments

Our heroes encounter gaseous anomalies. Tuvok experiences some more mental distress. The legendary Klingon commander Kang returns to menace Starfleet. A little girl falls to her death about a dozen times. And Janeway meets Sulu! (Sort of.) [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jun 1, 2017 - 8 comments

"Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?" - Aeschylus, The Oresteia [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Apr 27, 2017 - 15 comments

Barry and his team are surprised when Mon-El and Hank Henshaw arrive on their Earth carrying a comatose Supergirl who was whammied by the Music Meister... [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Mar 21, 2017 - 18 comments

The crossover event concludes with the Legends, the Flash, Supergirl, and Green Arrow working together to defeat the alien Dominators once and for all. Meanwhile, Stein figures out how the team can terminate the Dominators, but he's distracted by the abberation he realizes he created in 1987. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Dec 1, 2016 - 12 comments

The crossover continues with Oliver waking up to a life where he never got on the Queen's Gambit, Robert and Moira Queen are alive and well, and his wedding to Laurel is imminent. Meanwhile, Felicity and the recruits take on a new threat with help from the Flash, Supergirl, and Cisco. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Nov 30, 2016 - 11 comments

The crossover event continues with aliens attacking Central City and Barry asking the Green Arrow for help to stop them. But they soon realize the battle is bigger than they thought, so they track down the Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl to help. Once all of the super friends are assembled, they come up with a plan to attack but a shocking secret related to Flashpoint is revealed and suddenly no one is sure who they can trust. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Nov 30, 2016 - 16 comments

Eliza comes to town for Thanksgiving, which seems like the perfect opportunity for Alex to come out to her mother. Meanwhile, Winn and James consider telling Kara the truth about the Guardian; and Kara wants to team up with Lena Luthor to combat a deadly virus unleashed by CADMUS. Finally, the Flash and Cisco arrive to ask Supergirl to come to their Earth to start the big 4-show crossover event.
posted by oh yeah! on Nov 28, 2016 - 20 comments

It's doctor versus doctor versus holo-doctor in an epic smug-off, as Voyager's Dr. Lewis Zimmerman (Robert Picardo) drops by DS9. But soon he's causing trouble for Dr. Bashir's career...and Rom's love life. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on May 28, 2016 - 7 comments

The Flash comes from an alternate universe and aids Kara in her battle against Silver Banshee and Livewire in exchange for her help getting home.
posted by oh yeah! on Mar 28, 2016 - 42 comments

The conclusion of the 2nd Annual Flash/Arrow crossover. The two teams work to defeat Vandal Savage and protect their new Hawk-Friends and lovers. [more inside]
posted by kittensofthenight on Dec 3, 2015 - 22 comments

In the first episode of a two-part crossover that will conclude in the next episode of Arrow, Vandal Savage arrives in Central City and sets his sights on Kendra Saunders. [more inside]
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich on Dec 2, 2015 - 32 comments

Darla's origin story serves as the flashbackdrop for Angel's attempt to rescue her from Wolfram & Hart, only to find that the rescue she has in mind is to become a vampire again. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Nov 5, 2015 - 1 comment

When a random vamp almost stakes Buffy, she searches for accounts of the deaths of her predecessors, and turns to Spike for information on how he killed two of them. He tells her of his human life as a spineless poet, his siring by Drusilla, and his attraction to the challenge of a Slayer.
posted by yellowbinder on Nov 4, 2015 - 3 comments

When Ichabod's nemesis returns from the dead, he and Abbie turn to Temperance Brennan and Seeley Booth for forensic help unlocking 18th-century secrets (Part 2 of Bones/Sleepy Hollow crossover)
posted by oh yeah! on Oct 29, 2015 - 3 comments

While investigating a case involving a headless corpse, Brennan and Booth encounter Ichabod Crane and Abbie Mills searching for answers of their own; Brennan and Booth come up with Halloween pranks. (Part 1 of Bones/Sleepy Hollow crossover)
posted by oh yeah! on Oct 29, 2015 - 8 comments

Angel protects Faith from Wolfram & Hart, the Watcher's Council, the LAPD, and Buffy, but he can't protect her from herself. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Oct 1, 2015 - 1 comment

Angel turns human after defeating a Mohra demon, but realizes that being able to love is less important than being able to kick ass. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Aug 20, 2015 - 3 comments

Cordelia sees something in Doyle, but then we find out he's still married. Wacky hijinks ensue, in particular that Doyle's estranged wife's fiancee's bachelor party turns into one of those brain-eating kinds of party. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Aug 20, 2015 - 3 comments

The first* crossover episode has Oz arriving at Angel Investigations, Inc.™®©, to deliver the Gem of Amarra. He's followed close behind by Spike, who indulges in a bit of torture before Doyle and Cordelia and Oz save the day. And of course, Broody McBrooderson decides it's better to stay in the shadows, destroying the Gem to prevent it from tempting him to be evilly invulnerable. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Aug 6, 2015 - 4 comments

Buffy's relationship with Parker deepens, then implodes. Anya returns to town with Xander on the mind. Spike is back, having been dumped by Drusilla again and picked up a newly vamped Harmony as a rebound. They're searching for the presumed mythical Gem of Amarra, a stone that makes vampires invulnerable.
posted by yellowbinder on Aug 5, 2015 - 28 comments

Joe and Cisco head to Starling City to continue their investigation of Dr. Wells. While in town, the duo enlists the help of Captain Lance, and Cisco meets the Black Canary, who asks him for a favor. Meanwhile, back in Central City, Barry races to catch a meta-human named Hannibal Bates who can transform himself into every person he touches – which includes Eddie, Iris, Caitlin and even The Flash.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich on Apr 23, 2015 - 21 comments

Barry is surprised when Felicity Smoak arrives from Starling City along with her boyfriend, Ray Palmer, who flies in as the Atom. They've come to visit S.T.A.R. Labs as Ray needs help with his suit. Their timing turns out to be fortuitous because it’s all hands on deck after a meta human named Brie Larvin unleashes hundreds of robotic bees to attack and kill her former co-workers, including Dr. Tina McGee. A group dinner with Barry, Felicity, Ray, Iris and Eddie turns into a disaster.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich on Apr 15, 2015 - 20 comments

Uncle Grandpa comes to Beach City to help Steven master his shield.
posted by Small Dollar on Apr 2, 2015 - 18 comments

Part 2 of the Flash/Arrow crossover. Part 1 is The Flash: Flash vs. Arrow, in which Oliver & the team visited the Flash to ask for S.T.A.R. Labs' assistance in analyzing a boomerang used as a murder weapon. Now, back in Starling City, tracking the boomerang winds up putting Arrow into the middle of an A.R.G.U.S. operation. [more inside]
posted by soundguy99 on Dec 4, 2014 - 22 comments

Central City meets Starling City! The Flash teams up with the Arrow to take on a rage-inducing, bank robbing metahuman.
posted by brundlefly on Dec 2, 2014 - 20 comments

Bender Bending Rodriguez goes back in time to present-day Springfield to kill Homer Simpson, whose DNA has been detected in a species of leporine gremlins ravaging New New York.
posted by Small Dollar on Nov 10, 2014 - 18 comments