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Chris and Charlotte (and formerly Adam and Beth) have a friendly conversation about MST3K, and about its weird movies and diverse cultural references.

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Our latest episode looks at #MST3K 1005, BLOOD WATERS OF DR. Z (aka Zaat). It's got more fish in it than you can shake a stick at. Or a fishing pole at. Or something. Insert fish pun here.

Listen on your podcast app or at itsjustashow.com/episode/184
Screenshots from the MST3K episode on Blood Waters of Dr. Z. Here, a sargassum fish hides amongst the sargassum plant. Inspirational! Our man-turned-fish anti-hero looks at his to-do list, which is unexpectedly shaped like a many-layered wheel. On board the Satellite of Love, Crow is getting into dip. Which, yuck. Brain Guy and Bobo do a scene from Glengarry Glen Ross — in the buff. Does it improve things? Sound off in the comments!
November 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Our Donald Pleasence Day episode is spectacularly late (sorry) but here it is! Please enjoy all the familiar faces you'll find in #MST3K K15, Superdome, a made-for-tv movie about bad things happening at the Super Bowl.

Listen at itsjustashow.com/episode/183 or on your podcast app.
Screen shots from the MST3K episode on Superdome. Here, Tom Selleck, chest and moustache fully on display, plays a star quarterback, hanging out in the locker room, getting ready for a pre-game soak in the electric whirlpool. David Janssen plays the general manager of the team. Donna Mills (spoiler alert) is the one doing all the killing. Is she about to kill David Janssen? M. Emmet Walsh as the team physician, who (again, spoilers) Donna Mills does kill.
October 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Happy Donald Pleasence Day, everybody!
Screenshot of Donald Pleasence in an amazing shiny top.
October 6, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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"Why don't they look (at #MST3K 520, Radar Secret Service, with the short Last Clear Chance)???" We finally looked. Our Sam Newfield festival continues — and hey, why don't we also check Newfield's most notorious film, The Terror of Tiny Town?

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Screen shots of MST3K's episode, Radar Secret Service. Here, a distant train is coming at us down the tracks. Danger! Two engineers look at (an offscreen) tragedy caused by their bloodthirsty trains. "Why don't they look?" one of them asks. In a different movie, a metal ball on top of a car from the 40s lets you know that RADAR is on its way! (This Radar Secret Service doesn't seem like much of a secret.) Down in Deep 13, Dr. F and TV's Frank (in a beard) talk about the Hypno Helio Static Statis in today's film that makes it so boring. (All of the walls of Deep 13 seem pretty stable.)
September 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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In our latest episode we revisit MST3K 507, I Accuse My Parents — and the episode of The Mads Are Back where they tackle it, and the chapter of Frank's book (now out in audiobook!) where he talks about it. All of which are very good.

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Screenshots from the MST3K episode on I Accuse My Parents. This is from the short, The Truck Farmer, and shows an endless field of crops getting sprayed with an endless supply of chemicals. OK, probably not endless — it's just one guy in a vehicle spraying things — but it looks like not gonna stop any time soon. From the movie: Young Jimmy measures nightclub singer Kitty's feet for a new pair of shoes. (In a shoe store, not in a night club.) He's going to tell her the wrong size, but for once Jimmy's not lying. He makes an honest mistake! He doesn't know what he's doing yet — but she's his first customer. At the nightclub, Kitty sings a song that will be rattling around my head even in the grave. Joel (with a hastily painted on pencil moustache) enjoys GPC's performance of that song. She look even more glamorous than Kitty!
September 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Let's get stuck in MST3K 1312, The Bubble! They say the movie is worse than Manos — could that be true? Who is this Arch Oboler guy anyway? And what about this movie will make Charlotte say: I object!

Listen to our latest episode and find out! itsjustashow.com/episode/180
Screenshots from the MST3K episode on The Bubble. Here, a man tells the woman who just gave birth to his child that she's already got her sexy figure back. Two men have found the edge of the bubble. "It's a wall made out of glass!" one of them says. ("It's called a window," Tom notes.) The town they're stuck in is absolute mishmash of whatever they could find in a backlot. Old West general store? Stone grotesques? Why not! As long as it's brown. Oh, there's also a little freakout section where disembodied masks of heads float towards you (because this was originally released in 3D). But this is not The Mask.
August 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Our new episode should drop tomorrow. Are you ready to re-enter... The Bubble?
A screenshot of MST3K's episode on The Bubble. A cab drives down a dirt road, with a random assortment of statues, columns, and pipes on either side of the road.
August 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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We celebrate a big birthday by looking at MST3K 203, JUNGLE GODDESS. Hoo boy, that's gonna give us something to talk about. But also there's the first chapter of The Phantom Creeps!

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Screenshots from the MST3K episode on Jungle Goddess. Here, George "Superman" Reeves and Robert "Dick Tracy" Byrd stand next to Wanda "Jungle Goddess" McKay, as they try to get out of the jungle. Meanwhile in The Phantom Creeps, Bela Lugosi shows off his adorable giant robot to his assistant. We see Crow and Tom Servo through an "intestine scope" (i.e., a matte stencil of an intestinal track), for some reason. Joel and the bots star in the wacky sitcom My White Goddess! High-larious.
August 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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It's time to watch MST3K 906: The Space Children. With a short: Century 21 Calling.

Lots of familiar faces in this one — and there's so much exciting future tech at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. Like three-way calling! Wow!

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Screen shots from the MST3K episode on The Space Children. Here, Michel Ray (as Bud) and the other Space Children protect a giant space blob that is emerging from a cave. Russell Johnson (aka, the Professor from Gilligan's Island) has had his brain scrambled by the blob, and no one is upset about it. Meanwhile in the short: Two teens enjoy the future of telephony at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. Is your family ready for Touch-Tone dialling? The teens debate whether to see the peep show that was apparently part of the World's Fair. (They will wisely spend their time learning about automatic dialling instead.)
July 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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We can't fix everything in the world, but we can talk for a surprisingly long time about forklifts.

At long last, our episode on MST3K 310, Fugitive Alien!

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Screen shots from MST3K episode 310, Fugitive Alien: A forklift is coming right for you! Ken grabs the forklift by the tongs and pushes back! He's doing it! Ken is pushing the forklift away! Olé! Oh, right, and Jack Perkins (as played by Mike) shows up at Deep 13 for the first time in this episode. Now that is what I call good tv.
June 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Our new episode looks at the KMTA version of Fugitive Alien. The MST3K crew have not yet noticed the forklift. Don't worry, they will soon.

Listen at itsjustashow.com/episode/176 or on your podcast app.
Screenshots from the MST3K episode of Fugitive Alien (from the KTMA version): Ken and his friend in their fancy wig-helmets. Rita (with long blonde hair) and Ken (no longer in a wig-helmet) stand on a pile of, I dunno, rubble or something. A perfect setting for them to work out their romantic difficulties. Captain Joe offers Ken a cigar. On a spaceship. Hey, don't smoke in a spaceship, ok? On the Satellite of Love, GPC and Tom have disassembled Crow for a prank. (GPC is carrying Crow's neck and head in her mouth.) Joel isn't amused, but honestly neither are the bots. Oh well, some pranks are like that.
June 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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New episode! MST3K 211, First Spaceship on Venus, is another movie with an international group of scientists travelling to space and not all of them making it home. But this time we get to talk about Stanisław Lem! And Britney Spears?

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Stills from the MST3K episode First Spaceship on Venus. This shows the titular spaceship on the titular Venus. Four astronauts in beige outfits who are very difficult to distinguish. The strange landscape of Venus — psychedelic clouds and strange, lumpy pillars. Meanwhile Tom is serving up some disgusting food with Klack. This abomination has enormous eyes, false teeth, and I can't tell if those are Barbie legs or hot dogs or what. Just revolting. Behind it, Tom waves hello and has a pleased look on his beak.
May 31, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Our new episode is about MST3K 611, Last of the Wild Horses, and there's something a little different about this one.

If only Frank and Trace riffed together more often. (Oh, wait, right, they do that all the time, and it's great!)

Listen on your podcast app or at itsjustashow.com/episode/174
Screenshots of the MST3K experiment Last of the Wild Horses. Here, we see Evil Crow and Evil Mike (with goatee!) looking menacing. Well, they're doing their best. Meanwhile, Frank and Forrester are on the Satellite of Love with a lemur puppet. (There are no lemurs in this movie.) And Evil GPC uses her feminine wiles to get Evil Tom Servo to do what he must do. She WILL be a captain's woman! Oh yeah, and there's a cowboy movie. We see a cowboy on a horse against a cloudy sky. More importantly, Forrester and Frank are in the theater! Forrester's hair makes an impressive silhouette.
May 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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At long last, our episode on #MST3K 511, Gunslinger, is ready to be slung your way! We get to talk about Beverly Garland, Allison Hayes, and other women of the Old West. Hee-YA! (Or, YEE-haw. Either way works.)

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Screen shots from MST3K's episode on Gunslinger. Here, the new marshal (Beverly Garland!) cautiously starts a romance with a man (John Ireland) who dresses all in black, which isn't suspicious at all. Meanwhile, saloon owner Erica (Allison Hayes) and her lackey (Jonathan Haze) hatch evil schemes (in a room with aggressively "old-timey" decor). And down in the saloon, three "dancing girls" show their stuff. Sort of. The men seem to appreciate it, at least. Back in Deep 13, Dr. Forrester shows us his copy of The Scanner Planner, which will allow him to explode people's heads using only his mind! Yikes!
April 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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We check out MST3K 110, ROBOT HOLOCAUST (a slice of 80s cheese with some fun creature design) — and bid farewell to RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON.

And we talk about Robot Holocaust director Tim Kincaid's other, more interesting work. IYKYK.

Listen at itsjustashow.com/episode/172
Screenshots from the MST3K episode of Robot Holocaust. Spoiler: Here we see that the Dark One's henchwoman, Valaria, has been a robot the whole time. Torque is a red robot with Zoidberg face tentacles, for some reason. (No complaints.) Jorg, the scientist, is merged with The Dark One, becoming a creature with the body of an avocado and the head of an exhausted middle-aged man. (Hey, me too!) Another spoiler: The film breaks during the short, and we get a still of Dr. Erhardt going "Oops!" and Dr. Forrester going "Film broke!" Both look abashed at the snafu. Joel's shadow looms large as he heads to Cambot to fix things.
March 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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We look at MST3K 1007, Track of the Moon Beast — and we correct an oversight that we made in our previous episode on The Green Slime. Come for the stew, stay for talk about Bill Finger and his more famous creation.

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Screenshots from the MST3K episode Track of the Moon Beast. In this shot, some people sit around a table eating some homemade stew, and watching a news report on a small tv. "SOL's Legends of Rock presents: The Band That Played California Lady" is written on an image of The Band That Played California Lady playing California Lady. A slide being projected of a lizard man chasing some archers. The lizard man himself, looking bright orange in a solarized shot.
March 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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We're back to talk about MST3K's second stab at The Million Eyes of Sumuru. This time you can see what's going on in the movie! Oh joy.

Charlotte also reports on some other Sumuru films, and Chris finally watches Fitzcarraldo (and Burden of Dreams).

Check it out: itsjustashow.com/episode/170
Screen shots from the MST3K Season 13 episode of The Million Eyes of Sumuru: Sumuru stands with her second-in-command guarding her. They wear well coordinated outfits. George Nader gestures at Frankie Avalon to, I dunno, do something. Klaus Kinski is President Boong in a role you wouldn't advise! He's about to casually spill a lot of champagne on the floor, which is the closest this film comes to taking advantage of having Kinski on set. Our hero (of sorts), his arms tied above his head, is kissed by Sumuru. Neither of them seems very committed to the kiss, but it's in the script, so I guess they're gotta do it.
February 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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We watch MST3K 411, The Magic Sword, for our latest episode! And we join Crow in swooning for Estelle Winwood. Plus a few stray riffs give us an excuse to gush about David Lynch.

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Screenshots from the MST3K episode of The Magic Sword. Here, the swell Estelle Winwood smiles upon an obscured Gary Lockwood in a vaguely medieval (or early modern?) fantasy setting. Basil Rathbone, playing an evil wizard, shows off his cape and his fineries. A two-headed dragon threatens a maiden in chains, but it sort of feels like they're just going through the motions. Meanwhile on the Satellite of Love, Crow sings a song of love to Estelle. Joel supports him; Tom, not so much.
February 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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A lady astronaut? That's one of a handful of twists in MST3K 109, PROJECT MOON BASE. With a script by Robert A. Heinlein and sets that were also used in Cat-Women on the Moon. (And two Radar Men from the Moon episodes. Sigh.)

Listen to our new episode all about it at itsjustashow.com/episode/168
Screenshots from MST3K 109, Project Moon Base. Here we see a space station. Some people say this is the first space station shown in a film. Is that true? It might be true. On the space station, gravity works oddly, so some people can walk on the floor while others walk on the ceiling. Commando Cody, with his metal helmet and rocket-powered jetpack backpack, takes off into the sky! Tom Servo, pretending to be Commando Cody, with his metal helmet and rocket-powered jetpack backpack, takes off into the sky! (Joel helps by carrying him.)
January 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Happy Gamuary! The month when we celebrate Gamera and all the other great kaiju. This year we're looking at MST3K 213, Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster (a.k.a. Ebirah, Horror of the Deep).

Naturally, this gets us talking about Ancient Greek tragedies.

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It's Godzilla! (In a screenshot from the MST3K episode where they watch Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster.) It's a sea monster! It's Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster! (They are fighting in the water, and Godzilla has one of the Sea Monster's claws in his mouth.) Also, Mothra is there.
January 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Has everyone been having a happy Gamuary? How have you been celebrating?

(In case you haven’t heard the good news, Gamuary is the month-long celebration of Gamera and all the other adorable kaiju.)
A close up on Gamera! Friend to all children!
January 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Happy holidays! We watched MST3K 1113, The Christmas That Almost Wasn't, both to celebrate and to inspire some last-minute gift ideas.

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A cartoon of Santa in his sleigh with some reindeer, from the opening titles of The Christmas That Almost Wasn't. The cartoonish art style looks a little like a Kate Beaton drawing. A little bit? Maybe? Phineas T. Prune talks with his butler, Blossom, in his dusty and fusty home. Santa checks in on the Satellite of Love, and good news! He's played by Joel Hodgson! But he's still being followed by "widdle baby" Sam Whipple (now played Elliott Kalan). Jonah and the bots have festooned the Satellite of Love with all the Christmas trimmings, but they look unimpressed with the rocking horses and nutcrackers that Santa and his elves traditional insist are fun toys.
December 23, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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New episode! We return to season 13 of MST3K to watch H.G. Wells’ The Shape of Things to Come.

We also talk about the novel that it's named after, as well as the much better film from 1936 that has actually read the book.

Listen at itsjustashow.com/episode/165 or on your podcast app.
Jack Palance's giant holographic head rotates in the sky. People with fabulous hair check in with an AI orb who has to approve any governmental or military decisions. (Terrifying.) Sparks the robot stands in a field with some of the few children left on Earth after the Robot Wars, seven years ago. (Awkward.) Emily and the bots celebrate Condiment Tasting Day! Emily decides to stick to ranch — the mayo is too spicy.
December 16, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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Gobble gobble gobble! In anticipation of tomorrow's MST3K Turkey Day marathon, we look back at some of the classic Turkey Day celebrations from the 90s. Turkey Day with Adam West? Or with Dr. F worrying about his mother coming over? Another helping for us, please!

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Beverly Garland joins Adam West to introduce some MST3K episodes in a suitably autumnal setting. Mamie Van Doren also visits, wielding a switchblade. Dr. Forrester is trying to take over the world before his mother arrives. But he's frustrated, because Pitch, Jack Perkins, and Mr. B Natural have all shown up for a Thanksgiving party. (They each brought a Mexican three-layer dip.) Dr. Forrester's mood lightens considerably when Michael Feinstein shows up to tickle the ivories. Dr F. lies on his stomach on the piano, head perched on his hands, lapping up Michael Feinstein's rendition of a classic Cole Porter tune.
November 27, 2024 at 5:18 PM
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Happy birthday, MST3K! The first two episodes were aired on KTMA on November 24, 1988.

(But no, we haven’t covered them yet, oddly enough. I wonder what we’re waiting for…?)
A screenshot from the first episode of MST3K! Crow stares into the middle distance while Joel (with long hair) tries to figure out what’s wrong with a sick GPC, who is foaming at the mouth. Also there’s a vase on the console, so that’s different.
November 24, 2024 at 7:37 PM