Did you miss my ComfyCon panel? Did you miss all of ComfyCon? Did you not know that ComfyCon was a free, online convention where many of your favorite online comics artists did live panels in their pajamas? Well, you can catch my panel, #PanelRoulette, archived here and check out the rest of the watchable goodies here.
Do you live in or around Austin, TX? Come see me and Dave from Cyanide & Happiness and Randy from Something*Positive at Wizard World Austin this weekend (Saturday and Sunday only). We’ll be at the Dragon’s Lair booth selling merch and doing sketches.
Are you somewhere between the age of 30 and 50? Then perhaps you remember the annual MST3K Turkey Day marathon. Well, guess what? I’ll tell you if you calm down! Are you calm? OK NOW FREAK OUT! It’s coming back this year! Joel Hodgson will be curating fan-favorite episodes suggested by you via his Twitter, online this thanksgiving RIGHT HERE. Now you have something to do besides stare silently across the meat-laden table at your horrible family!
If I was picking the episodes, and I was not limited to 6, I would say (in no particular order): Mitchell, Pod People, Touch Of Satan, Overdrawn At The Memory Bank, Alien From L.A., Time Chasers, Soul Taker, Space Mutiny, double feature of Invasion Of The Neptune Men (Space Chief) and Prince Of Space, Future War and Wild Rebels. I’m leaving out Manos: The Hands Of Fate because I only watch it every 5-10 years or so to preserve my will to live. Oh shit, also Jack Frost, Hobgoblins, and, perhaps most importantly, Final Sacrifice (Rowsdower saves us and he saves all the world. ROWSDOWER!).
COMMENTERS: First off, go ahead and add to my list of essential MST3K viewing or scrap it and create your own (less accurate) list.
Secondly, what piece of personal favorite geekery are you most enthusiastic about passing down to future generations?
Comments (61)
Kirby · 82 weeks ago
Nostalgia glasses are non-transferable… such a shame.
@GeeksComicStrip · 82 weeks ago
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Other Joel · 82 weeks ago
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Mitch H. · 82 weeks ago
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King Zilch· 82 weeks ago
No, as long as Space Mutiny is on the list we’re good to go. Buff Drinklots! Butch Deadlift! Slab Squatthrust! Big McLargeHuge!
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FuryOfFirestorm· 82 weeks ago
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Chris · 82 weeks ago
SmolderingMuffin · 82 weeks ago
Fist Rockgroin!
“How DARE you insult my knowledge of ancient dentistry?!”
Wack’d · 82 weeks ago
Lessee…”The Day the Earth Froze”, “I Accuse My Parents”, “Pumaman”, “Monster A-Go-Go”, “The Brain that Wouldn’t Die”…beyond that I think you covered it.
As for what I’m gonna pass down to my kids, definitely this, “Doctor Who”, and “The Adventures of Pete and Pete”.
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hijinksensue· 82 weeks ago
manbeardman · 82 weeks ago
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@Hermetic · 82 weeks ago
Pumaman
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies (“Oh, and by the way SLEEEEEEEEEEP”)
RandalFlagg · 82 weeks ago
@kellyskritters · 82 weeks ago
@jujyfruit0 · 82 weeks ago
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furrbear· 82 weeks ago
http://freebabylon5.com/ – right there.
BoldlyGettingThere · 82 weeks ago
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@AlyredTheEvil · 82 weeks ago
Girl in Gold Boots (http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/Girl_in_Gold_Boots , Choice quote: “I spent 20 years making this map of their base” *unfolds 8.5×11 paper with 4 boxes drawn on it*)
Master Ninja (Starring Lee Van Cleef; first one is the best)
Santa Claus conquers the Martians
Hercules (where in one scene, you can see a nuclear power plant in the background, tire tracks from an ATV, and all the ancient greek ruins are… well, already ruins)
Also, anything by Robert Lippert (producer, Lost Continent, King Dinosaur) makes the long walking scenes in the Hobbit look like a short jaunt to the corner store.
There was also this nordic viking travesty… er, film, that was really hilarious. Forget the title of that one though.
Was really much more of a fan when Joel Hodgson and Trace Beaulieu were still fully in creative control; Mike was ok, but the series lost me once the entire cast was turned over and they tried to write a back story with the flying Winnebago and brain guy, etc.
Steve · 82 weeks ago
FuryOfFirestorm· 82 weeks ago
Granted, since I’m a guy totally into the D, having kids isn’t very likely, but I can always adopt or do it the old-fashioned way *shudder*
Steve · 82 weeks ago
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Bruceski · 82 weeks ago
MrPlow99 · 82 weeks ago
I never watched MST3K regularly, but I recall Overdrawn at the Memory Bank and Puma Man.
Blake · 82 weeks ago
“Ohhh neat, she’s making gunpower out of her own filth. Ugh!”
or
“It is everything…and nothing.” “Uhh, could you be a little more vague please?”
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Blake · 82 weeks ago
Steve · 82 weeks ago
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Larry · 82 weeks ago
“This is the song, written for the train chase,
This is the chase, Rocky and Ken,
He tried to kill me with a forklift!”
Mark · 82 weeks ago
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Runcibletune · 82 weeks ago
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Genera Zollinger · 82 weeks ago
As for geekery we are passing down to our children, so far it’s a love of the Muppet Show, LOTR, Legos and Star Wars. And Indiana Jones. My oldest boy at 6 is intrigued by Doctor Who – all he really understands so far is, as he said, “The Doctor wins by thinking.”
And Batman. Ye Gods Batman. My eldest is often seen in a Batman cape running everywhere. We had a wonderful moment last summer when we were walking through the park and passed a kid in a Superman t shirt and cape.
“Hey Batman.”
“Hey Superman.”
And they just kept walking. Adorable.
~G. Zollinger
maggie · 82 weeks ago
Evan · 82 weeks ago
I would add Werewolf and Merlin’s Mystical Shop, though…
groklife · 82 weeks ago
Best line from “Werewolf”: “And you’re welcome to my Flagstaff, too, if you know what I mean…” Or is it, “Paul! You is a waerwelf!” Tough to call. Hilariously bad.
Parts, the movie that sued “The Island.”
Oh, and “Gamera…” Gamera is fun to eat, he is filled with turtle meat, we all love you Gameraaaaaa!”
“The pew-ma-man, flies like a moron!” Gut-buster, for sure!
Thanks for reminding me of all these funnies, Joel (and other commetors!)
deleted819876· 82 weeks ago
Best line from “Werewolf”: “And you’re welcome to my Flagstaff, too, if you know what I mean…” Or is it, “Paul! You is a waerwelf!” Tough to call. Hilariously bad.
Parts, the movie that sued “The Island.”
Oh, and “Gamera…” Gamera is fun to eat, he is filled with turtle meat, we all love you Gameraaaaaa!”
“The pew-ma-man, flies like a moron!” Gut-buster, for sure!
Thanks for reminding me of all these funnies, Joel (and other commetors!)
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Roborat · 82 weeks ago
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Tony · 82 weeks ago
As for passing on of geekery, I just decided that my 4 and 2-year-old second cousins (who are, for all intents and purposes, nieces) are getting at least Here Comes Science if not the rest of They Might Be Giants’ educational series of CDs (double-whammy of geekery, in that they’ll be getting CDs) for Christmas. It’s going to be tough to break the older one out of princess mode and into geek mode, but her little sister is ripe for being made into a geek.
And as soon as they’re old enough to not have to worry about choking hazards, I’m looking forward to introducing them to LEGO, and I’ll be damned if I let them see any of the new boxes that don’t have the alternate model pictures on them as if to say “You know, you don’t have to build the thing on the front. There are other possibilities in this box, as many as your little mind can conjure and your young motor skills can assemble…”
Siirenias · 82 weeks ago
…
MUDs.
alex · 82 weeks ago
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Kaidah · 71 weeks ago
“Did the actors do their own skydiving?”
“No, the skydivers did thier own acting.”
I’ve already passed down some of my favorite bits of geekery to my sons: Star Wars, Lego (two great things that are great together!), Calvin and Hobbes (which helped my youngest develop his reading. I don’t care what my grandmother says, reading is reading.), Doctor Who, and a general love for all things sciency or science fictiony. My kids are awesome! 😀
@stinabeastie · 69 weeks ago
Man, you got good taste.