August 2005
Beginner
464 pages
12h 36m
English
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Make a Mystery Science Theater Podcast
Create podcasts that act as an alternate soundtrack to some of today’s worst movies.
He did a good job cleaning up the place. / But his bosses didn’t like him, so they shot him into space. / Now they send him cheesy movies. The worst they can find. / He has to sit and watch them all while they monitor his mind. / Now keep in mind Joel can’t control where the movies begin or end. / Because he used those special parts to make his robot friends.
—”Mystery Science Theater 3000” theme song
"Mystery Science Theater 3000,” or MST3K to its fans, was a show running from the 1980s through the 1990s that started on public access television and then went national with Comedy Central and, later, the Sci-Fi Channel.
The idea was simple: talk extremely clever and funny trash about very bad movies for two hours. The central portion of each show had the three main characters—a human (Joel or Mike) and two robots (Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot)—silhouetted against a screen that showed the movie. You could hear the movie’s audio track, with the characters’ snide comments on top of it.
The show was a cult hit, and a feature film was produced. But today it’s rarely shown in reruns, even though fans, known as mysties (subcategorized into Joel or Mike fans), are hardcore in their love of the show. Check out the show for yourself at its official site, http://mst3k.com/.
Podcasts present a new opportunity to create alternate commentary and soundtracks for movies. To test ...
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