optiMSTie: Hey, Bluesky folks! That's a good question posed below: where are the MSTies? If you're a part of the fan community and you see this, let's sound off!

Hey, Bluesky folks! That's a good question posed below: where are the MSTies? If you're a part of the fan community and you see this, let's sound off!

where’s MST3k bsky hiding 👀

Blood Waters of Dr. Z is *such* a fun kick-back-and-relax episode, even though it's an episode where only terrible horrible no-good very-bad things happen in the movie. Gotta love the dune buggy-looking thing they apparently swiped from Camp Snoopy!

I guess I could be stupider, but it'd be hard

Lot of that happening on Bluesky.

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH, I LOVE IT :D

:D

"I wonder if there's beer on the sun..."

That is the look of a Rowsdower who's deep in thought...

“Crow, what do you want for Christmas?” “I want to decide who lives and who dies!” “Oh, I don’t know…”

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS :D Love love love that episode as a Christmas tradition! Also, they had such a great callback to that in a host segment for Space Travelers: Joel: "Who gets to decide who lives and who dies?" Crow: "I do, remember? I called dibs!" Also, hello there!

It’s definitely a tradition in our house!

So much, aye. Has been ever since seeing (and recording) the MST Hour treatment in junior high. And then the Mexican Santa Claus movie got worked into the mix. After that, it was fun to work The Christmas That Almost Wasn't into the holiday rotation as well! And now, The Christmas Dragon! Love it!

We've added The Christmas Dragon in recent years, for when we're simply having a wonderful Christmas time.

Oh, indeed... love to work in all four Christmas episodes - Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Santa Claus, The Christmas That Always Wasn't, and The Christmas Dragon - if that's at all possible. Any one of those episodes makes for special jazz. All four? Something exceptional.

I’m just here for Mitchell references

I came here specifically for DINNER. Heh, love that one! Second-fave episode behind Jack Frost. Also also, hi there, and glad to have you taking part in all of this, then!

Glad to be here!

"This makes Driving Miss Daisy look like Bullitt!"

"Yes, the future belongs to 3M!"

*car misses it’s turn and rolls onto its roof* “MITCHELL!”

"Word on the street is you're a jerk."

It's even better in the theatrical version of the movie, where she writes "BASTARD!" on his windshield. Also, Mitchell & the kid yell "PISS OFF" at each other instead of "BUZZ OFF," and Mitchell crushes John Saxon's head w/ a rock after Saxon tries to kill him with a rock (as seen in the credits!).

I knew none of this!

Oh yeah! The one used in the MST3K version was a TV version, so a lot of stuff had to be sanitized/deleted. Case in point, we get to see the effect of Martin Balsam getting shot at the end instead of the focus on Mitchell. And because MST3K had to cut stuff for time, we lost a lot of scenes... /1

... including one where Mitchell calls his boss a "cookie stealer." And you KNOW the gang would've had a field day with *that.*

I knew about "BASTARD" but not about "PISS OFF" or John Saxon getting rocked. Wait, wasn't John Saxon in this movie?

[thinks on that for a while] [has a moment of recollection] ... OH YEAH!

Absolutely!

I'm still wondering what happened to Jon Saxon

Got his head smashed in with a rock by an agitated Mitchell after he crashed his dune buggy! It's in the theatrical cut as opposed to the TV edit that was used for MST3K, but you can kinda sorta somewhat see it in that opening title sequence with Mitchell bringing his arms down.

So that’s what that is! I always wondered what that image was from since we don’t see it in the movie (at least the MST version)

And here's the scene in question, solving the John Saxon conundrum! Also also, I misremembered the scene, my bad: the rock was used to kill one of Saxon's buddies. Saxon himself dies when his dune buggy flips over, because it was apparently made of explodium. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZcD...

Mitchell - Hot Dune Buggy Actionwww.youtube.com A scene from the 1975 Joe Don Baker action vehicle, "Mitchell." This scene was edited out of the MST3K version. Answers the question, "Wasn't John Saxon in...

Mittens!

... Mithril?

Mobsters laughing, really smiling, a man selling heroin!

... the spotted cuckoo bird is flying backwards?

Mittens!

Joe Don Baker *IS* Mittens! He's a cop!

He’s the Chubby Blue Line!

BUT EATING!?

[cleans out an impossibly grody ashtray] I think there's a potato cake in here or somethin'.

Mitchell..... even his name says, is that a beer?

HOT MERGING ACTION

Best joke of the episode.

"Word on the street is you're a jerk!" is a close 2nd.

Which is hilarious, because that was taken from the TV-edited version of Mitchell. In the theatrical cut, she writes "BASTARD" on his windshield. It's also the cut where JDB kills John Saxon by smashing a rock on his head, which you kinda sorta somewhat see in those opening credits.

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