It feels like MST3K taps into a particular well of knowledge for (American) people between the ages of 25 and 50 - the useless clutter we all gathered through a combination of entertainment and schooling.    The 50s for college freshmen would be like the 30s are for you.  And granted, the 50s are more 'around' than…

There are a lot of great episodes but also a lot of duds.  I haven't seen enough of the Comedy Central run to really compare.  And also the host segments get kinda tedious (some of them are inspired, like the wormhole, and this one with Eddie, but the Planet of the Apes riff and the focus on plot - not great)

My friend just brought up a joke from this one, when they put the head in a hat box and someone asks 'What's in there - is it a hat?' and Crow says 'Well, it's hat related'.  I might have to seek this one out, as I don't remember it being particularly great.

In addition, one never knows what gets left on the cutting room floor to fit into the two-hour allotted run - in a time travel movie, that's really going to throw things off.  But yeah, easily in the 80th percentile as far as 'Best movies MST3K mocked' - this film was, IIRC, bookended by Prince of Space and Invasion…

You Castleton snob!

That is patently untrue, there are always more Time Chasers jokes, you Castleton snob

dude:  Tell that to Zach Braff.  It's fine to solicit for this - I mean, sort of degrading, and I'd like to think if I were a decently-known artist I wouldn't resort to this - but the market said no, we don't need this.  Lesson learned, I imagine.  There's a kind of reverse-patronage at play here, and I can't really…

I saw them in the order 3 - 1 - 2, and I think all of them older than 18 too - the problem with 2 is the shoehorning in of Atherton's character.  He's already sort of distracting and silly in the original but his presence can be explained.  In 2, he's a total waste of time and he doesn't need to be there.  Yeah, 3's…

But I think that's part of the issue - the economics for most art is shitty.  So if you've got enough visibility to crowdsource funding for it, why put up your own dime?

The Spelling Bee's spiced up sentences are good - one year, before he was a household name among political pundits, they had one referencing Nate Silver's Burrito Bracket blog (seriously, Nate Silver's pet project before 538 was determining by rigorous examination which Wicker Park restaurant had the best burrito).

There are almost no words of English-only origin, so all English words are from another language.  We tend to standardize the spellings of loanwords.  Whatever the case, this kid is working out of the same dictionary that the spelling people are.

It probably took me 5 viewings to figure out what the hell Gregor is saying here.

The most interested parties are the Russians and the Irish so I always assumed it was some top-secret alcohol

Sorry, my own dialogue is not very impressive - I didn't exactly 'get' the movie on first viewing.  I thought it was cool and the chases were awesome, but if you'd told me after I'd seen it once that it'd be one of my favorite films, I wouldn't've believed you (ditto The Big Lebowski).  Then when I watched it again…

I actually don't particularly like The Pixies (probably spent more of my life as a bigger fan of Sugar Ray, if I look at it closely) - I'm not saying it's 'bad' that Boomer bands are reuniting, but my point was that they had their halcyon days.  They were at the top of the charts with lots of fans, they split up,…

I saw it in theaters and like a poster below, wasn't really impressed besides the car chases, but I love the dialogue - no one seems to talk to anyone else because they're too busy trying to appear badass, so it takes a few viewings to actually figure out what people are trying to communicate (and suss out the plot…

Eh, reunion tours of Boomer bands are still kind of egregious in that most of those bands had enormous hit records and at least moderately successful solo projects - they feel like a cash grab for people who squandered their money.  I don't think it is nostalgia necessarily driving these reunions as it is that these…

Yeah, I know Pete was trying to make himself the butt of this joke, but I think he failed.  He's trying to tell the story about getting out of a bad neighborhood by searching for Barnes and Noble, which is a funny premise, and the explanation of the pimp is funny, but hoo boy did that bit not need the Bone Thugs n…

The thing is that those places no longer exist for 90% of operating sports teams and the threats are no longer credible.

You don't seem to understand that some people would be paying MORE, and that they'd be willing to do so. Yes, great, you've nailed that that's ostensibly the price point where they make the most profit under the current system where cable is offered in terms of packages.  But under a la carte people who want a large %…