TV: the grandeur of white men walking in herds

[sigma7]

Day 01 - A show that should never have been cancelled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show Favorite episode of one of your favorite shows
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death

There were only seven episodes of my favorite show, and only two seasons of Max Headroom, so let's take a look back at my favorite episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, through the glories of YouTube, available (in the first of nine parts) above. The featured film is Danger!! Death Ray, a truly bizarre little Italian film with some of the most hysterically comical miniature effects ("Hot Wheels!"), idiosyncratic sound effects ("...THIS MAN!") and some really questionable choices in cinematography, stunt work, and musical accompaniment at virtually every turn. It's earnest and enthusiastic, but simply terrible, and ripe for some good ol' mockery.

The episode features some of my favorite references of all time: "Buckaroo Banzai goes to the nursing home," "Abe Lincoln: Timecop" and "Open up, lattice in" in particular. Most full-length MST3K outings ebb and flow, but this particular episode is pretty much sustained goodness. Maybe not the best MST3K, but my favorite.

Comments

[jeditigger.livejournal.com]

This was worth reading just for the superb cut text. :)

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Seconded. I LOLed. Because I'm a nerd, just like my old man, and no nerd has ever amounted to anything in the history of Hill Valley!

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

[beagle1971.livejournal.com]

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

[beagle1971.livejournal.com]

Skip to 6:15 (I tried to figure out the code to do it, but I'm too dumb.)

For great justice!

[kansel01.livejournal.com]

This movie gave us Dropo, the laziest man on Mars. Without whom we may never have found out about the terrible secret of space, or that all our base are belong to C.A.T.S.