CT happened because they were all in LA at the time - in fact, one of the major reasons CT is breaking up is because none of them live near each other anymore, making it much more difficult to write & perform together. Mike, Kevin & Bill had already been doing Rifftrax successfully for a while & weren't around to get…

Nah, there will definitely be some Mike-era stuff, too. Joel's been giving the Mike / Bill / Kevin era some major props in interviews lately & showed "Werewolf" & "Final Sacrifice" at a run of episodes he curated a few months ago.

Your loss, pal - it continued to be awesome.

I saw them in support of OS, too, & felt like they put on the exact type of set you describe for their Congratulations tour - no energy, no flow, nothing played with conviction. It seemed like it was a chore for them to be playing the show & completely turned me off to them until I gave Congratulations a listen a few…

I am also one who thinks "Congratulations" is far superior to "Oracular Spectacular". The first half of "MGMT" sounds like an outtakes compilation from "Congratulations", which is fine by me. I'm not too fond of the latter half, but my absolute least favorite thing about this record is that it's so hard on my ears.…

Blame Adult Swim. Mike Lazzo passed on taking "Beforel Orel" to series - apparently, he doesn't like "Moral Orel" unless it's full of the broad & obvious kind of humor on display in the first season (one of his favorite seasons of any Adult Swim show, oddly enough).

Cinefamily in LA, I think. They're going to screen the "lost" episode "Abstinence" & do a reading of 2 unproduced season 3 scripts. I hope they record it - no way I can fly across the country for that shit…

I guess Heaven just got a little more READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL!!

Oh yeah! I love that tune - it streamed on his website sometime between Guero & The Information. There were a few others from that era that were pretty fantastic, too -  I think they were outtakes from The Information sessions with Nigel Godrich that produced something like 4 dozen songs…

@avclub-47cb33b6a930575cfe604d5cc6046d57:disqus - "Dumped his girlfriend" is kind of misleading - they broke up because Leigh Limon was cheating on him with some guy in a band named Whiskey Biscuit (yes, someone who got a woman to cheat on Beck at the height of his relevance was in a band named Whiskey Biscuit at the…

Yep - September 3rd, to be exact:

The creators of "Clone High" are working with one of the best directors from "Moral Orel". Even without the cast, I'm sold.

To be fair, he really only did that when he was hired on as a temp for Season 1 (he lied about being a good typist to get the gig & would have been fired if he hadn't busted up the room as frequently as he did) & it became an oft-repeated self-deprecating joke after that. Once Season 2 got started, they had other…

Hah! Dumping on "Outlaw (of Gor)", the episode that won them the Peabody Award? Bold move, Dyess-Nugent…

Don't forget the incessant "toot-toot-ta-toot" music! And the fact that the villain is:

Pipper!

Huh - I actually thought the season 5 episodes leading up to Joel's departure were some of his best. He even says so himself on one of the box set special features…

I first got into the show with Joel as the host during the year the MST Hour was syndicated (our local cable provider didn't offer Comedy Central until the show was on Sci-Fi), but my favorite era is the Mike Comedy Central one. Sci-Fi is good, too, though the Mike / Kevin / Trace riffing combo will always be my…

"Touch a button, things happen."

None of these are on DVD, but should be up on YouTube & are all fantastic episodes from season 7: