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7th Annual MST Club Holiday Video Marathon Social Distancing Edition

JHarris — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 16:48:58 -0800

It's time again for that weird thing we do, which is program 72 hours of specials, bad Christmas movies, MST3K episodes and other things. It's MST Club's 2020 Holiday Video Marathon! We usually put this in for intermittent yuletide jollies and destress, to help people relax at an often frustrating time of year. This year, with so many people sensibly staying home for the holidays, it promises both to be less and more stressful than usual. Anyone can come by and watch weird stuff with us, members or not! Our show runs from December 23 through to midnight December 25. Details inside! Previous years: 2019 - 2018 - 2017 - 2016 - 2015 - 2014 We have a chat room attached so people can joke along with the show, but it's fine to lurk or have us on in the background! We do this by the seats of our collective pants, but we have a vague sort of theme schedule. We are open to reading the crowd to see what people would like though. Our plans (times are Eastern) are: DEC 23: Morning: specials, riffing Afternoon: Rankin-Bass Evening-Night: MST3K and other riffing, miscellaneous DEC 24: Morning: more specials Early afternoon: Christmas episodes of old TV shows -- Jack Benny, Burns & Allen Evening-Night: MST3K and other riffing, our favorite specials DEC 25: Morning: Quiet time -- Yule logs, specials Afternoon: Our standards -- classic riffing Evening-Night: Winding down, non-holiday fare Our moderator list this year is TheSnakeOfArgument, valkane, StarkRoads, Satri and TV's Ilana. oneswellfoop might be helping too but has been having computer issues lately. Some of our items are from the Rifftrax catalog. While we have a terrific hodge-podge of material from them, we try to make sure that everything we have is bought and paid for. Please give them your support!

Election Day video destress party!

JHarris — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 18:54:47 -0800

MST Club is planning a marathon of Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes, shorts and other fun things on November 3 that I'm calling... ELECTRON DAY! It will be in our usual video share room for MeFi members and anyone else to watch! AND Halloween we're doing an impromptu selection of spoo[k|p]y things in that same room! Click through for the deets-- ELECTRON DAY (Nov 3): The theme is science fiction, because it's fun, distant from the electoral politics we're trying to get people to relax over, and because at 9 PM Eastern time we'll be doing our twice-weekly Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode watch, of horrendously bad sci-fi movie MONSTER A-GO-GO, which is legitimately one of the very worst movies ever made, if you have never seen it I don't even want to spoil the amazingly awful ending, possibly the worst movie ending of all time. Of course, if you're a US citizen, you are forbidden from using our programming as an excuse to not vote this year. The stakes are incredibly high! If need be you can put the show on your phone while you're standing in line! We did something like this four years ago, expecting it to be fairly low key and fun, but as the horrible news rolled in things got sadder and sadder as the full enormity of the awful thing that was about to happen settled in. Things are looking better this year, but they looked pretty good last time, and I feel like I've got some residual PTSD from it. The video room helped me out last time, hopefully it'll help this year too. On Halloween, we have a much more low-key program planned, basically just some MST episodes and shorts. We might not even have people overtly "running" the thing that night, we've had a lot of shows lately and have ELECTRON DAY three days later. Think of it as snacks and soda, relative to the other's cheese and wine. And this is as good a time as any to remind that we are still on for Turkey Day 2020 (maybe) and Christmas Marathon 2020 (which honestly is the big one). I try not to litter Talk with these posts, but I'll probably announce the Christmas show when we get closer to it. It'll be our 7th year doing a Christmas show! That's kind of worrying!

Turkey Day 2019

JHarris — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 21:05:02 -0800

Word is that Joel Hodgson is doing another Turkey Day stream of classic MST3K episodes on Thanksgiving this year, starting at noon Eastern time, both through YouTube and their new 24 hour Twitch stream! The stream already shows MST3K all the time, but watching it for Thanksgiving is like a tradition, a tradition that we in MST Club believe strongly, so we watch the whole marathon in our video room each year, as kind of a preliminary for the big Christmas Marathon. Come join us!

Turkey Day 2017 with MST Club

JHarris — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 11:40:44 -0800

Last year we discovered that our cytu.be video sharing room worked well with the official Shout Factory YouTube stream of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 Turkey Day marathon. So, presuming that it works so well again, some of us will be getting together to watch bad movies all day long, official style, and without having to compete with a horde of wanna-be-witty YouPotatoes in their chat. No, we can be wanna-be-witty all by ourselves, and starch-free, thank you! It'll be happening in the cytu.be room for MST Club starting Noon Eastern time and going for probably 12 hours. Drop by for the whole thing, or for just as long as you want, like when Uncle Noxious starts talking politics and you just need somewhere to GO. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone in the US, happy Just Another Day everyone else! If it turns out that cytu.be isn't useable this time, we have a backup plan to watch it in our rabb.it room. We haven't made it through over 180 episodes of MST3K without planning ahead! Also remember everyone, even if you can't make it this time, we're still on for this year's MST Club Christmas Marathon! Which may be our last! I'm still thinking about what to do when we finish the last episode in less than half a year from now....