I came here ready to quip, “What are they gonna call it, Realer Steeler?”

exactly. Everyone remembers Real Steel, but no one has seen Real Steel.

Telly Savalas biopic when?

I had that thought in a slightly different form: “I thought that making a movie based upon a presumption of nostalgia for Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots was a weirdly outdated idea when Hugh Jackman did it, and that was an entire decade ago.”

I'm just here to agree with your counter-counterpoint because my first thought on reading the headline was "didn't Hugh Jackman already make this movie?"

I just watched the finale and I really liked this show. It was definitely quirky and had something to say but neither of them overwhelmed the series, which sometimes happens with high concept shows that obviously is making a point. Thy also did the tricky job of having a villain and explaining him a little and…

Alien is on IMDBTV and all the other movies are on Prime. This is why people hate streaming services.

Agreed, and one can also see its influence on shows like Scrubs in their tone and slight sense of magical realism. I know that reboot they announced is likely never going to actually get made, but I really wish it would find its way onto a streaming service so a new audience could discover it - I think it would…

I believe that was the first gay marriage on television. Northern Exposure was such a great show, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a major influence on a lot of the “nicecore” television we’re seeing. There was always something comforting in how it depicted people of different ethnicity, class, and politics…

I agree. Joel’s stuff is ok, but the cynic in me can’t get enough of Mike’s humor. 

I hear tell there’s a lot of benefits to being Ben Murphy, not the least of which is being Ben Murphy. Can we get some confirmation on that?

As a fellow ‘Riding With Death’ fan, you can imagine how excited I was when my daughter made friends with a girl whose dad’s name is Ben Murphy.

Samurai Cop is the best Rifftrax movie. It's also the perfect one to show someone to get them into Rifftrax. 

Noticed that most of the movies from the 80s and 90s were from the Mike era. 

Mixed-Up Zombies is probably my least favorite MST3K that I’ve seen, because the film is so awful that Mike and the Bots just seem to be in shock throughout most of it, and the riffs mostly fall flat. I maintain that Mixed Up Zombies is worse than Manos as far as movies go. While the pacing is atrocious, Torgo and a…

It’s hardly recent, but I’d say Northern Exposure (to which RA has been compared a number of times) was great for Indigenous representation. The main cast was predominantly white, but for a show that debuted around 1990, they were incredibly inclusive, with two Indigenous main cast members (and a large host of…

There’s a very subtle bit that I haven’t seen mentioned in any article about the show. Several times, there are signs in the background about not serving water or having to charge for water. When Hazel first gets home, her father yells at her for running the tap and for taking such a long shower. The amount on her…

I like Joel as a host, but the movies during his tenure are very hit-or-miss for me (Especially stuff like the sloppily-dubbed Sandy Frank productions.) I found that the quality (“quality”) of the films themselves improved as the series went on; I don’t know if that shift was precipitated by Mike’s ascension to host…

The show definitely needs a second season. There are so plenty of tantalizing characters and potential story threads that it could follow. The first season sometimes meandered into alleys that didn’t lead anywhere, but I was always glad to follow Hazel. (I loved, in particular, scenes like when she comes upon the dude…

I feel that if the MST3K Movie was going to have a realistic chance of actually recouping its $2 million budget, they needed to riff a recognizable movie* or a lesser-known movie with a recognizable star. You needed something that would pique a casual consumer’s curiosity, something that would potentially attract…