In all seriousness, whenever I've shown the show to other people they get incredibly quiet and awkward during the movie and crack up at the host segments, so…different people are different? I dunno, that's all I've got.

The trick is to never share your fandoms with anyone and live in perpetual shame of all you enjoy so you never have to risk disappointing others with your bad taste.

Yeah, no, I'm not arguing that more narrative works don't need naturalistic line deliveries. That'd be ridiculous. I dunno why I don't feel the same way about stand-up comedy or riffing, and the more we talk this out the more I'm positive that I'm the weird one here, so I'll just leave this topic alone I guess.

This post is proof of the old MST writer's room maxum that it's almost impossible to be funny while critiquing comedy.

They are also lunatics. Everyone who disagrees with me is wrong. :P

It's weird to me that the *spoiler* segment was in episode 199 and not 200, but then, if they did anything to actually commemorate the milestone, it'd ruin that perfect host segment at the end.

I'm not claiming folks want to be genuinely fooled, I'm saying that that "feeling" of the comedian talking to you is not something I've ever had.

The story's a lot more slow-simmering and less in-your-face than it was in the Sci-Fi years—I'm on episode eight and I still can't entirely tell where things are heading beyond Jonah eventually getting a spacesuit.

I've always felt the theater segments had more in common with stand-up comedy than acting, so what qualifies as a convincing preformance is different. I can't really say anyone working in that mode has ever convinced me they're holding a genuine conversation, beyond maybe Chris Gethard.

A lot of people are really attatched to the conceit that it's improvised, and I've never really understood why. If the fact that the breadth of pop culture knowledge is off the scales doesn't ruin the versimilatude, surely the fact that two of the preformers are robots should. Moreover, if you want fewer and more…

"Back then, diversity was more about height and shoe color." "Disabled? Too bad, we'll tell you about it later."

Don't worry, things slow up slightly after Reptilicus. At the very least you can tell where one riff ends and the next begins, which is kind of a problem in that episode.

"Living in Deep 13" and "Tom Servo Academy Men's Choir" have also featured.

Welcome aboard! How're you liking it so far?

Murphy specifically requested one that would cause him less pain? I guess that's the tradeoff.

damn, hoist by my own petard

I think the only real bum notes in the cast are Stephen Fry and Sam Rockwell. Honestly, the script is the only terrible thing in the film—it's kind of a beautiful movie if you watch it with the dialogue track turned off.

I think my favorite example of this ever is the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie, whose directors looked at Douglas Adam's last draft before he died and decided that this draft was tantamount to a last will and testament and had to be altered as little as possible, because that's what Adams would've wanted.

Yeah, no, I'm not defending it from a creative standpoint. I'm saying—like, okay, M Night loved the show, you can see that in the way he talks about it. But he loves it, like, uncritically? I feel like he's the sort of guy who'd look at the list of voice actors, see that the main representative of the Fire Nation is…

I mean, in fairness to M Night, his movie had more actors of color than the actual series did. The only folks with POC voice actors in Avatar: The Last Airbender are Zuko, Suki, Iroh (seasons 1 and 2), and the cabbage guy.