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Mar. 28th, 2026 01:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serizawa3000 *sigh*
I can UNDERSTAND some of the MST3K hate.
It's just the struggle to NOT AGREE with some of it these days...
* You're a filmmaker. You've maybe busted your hump trying to put a picture together, and after things settle down, some golden spider duck and crimson pig are on TV calling Alan Hale Jr. a "pork vacuum" or, if you're Ray Dennis Steckler, saying very TERFY things about your wife.
* You're Thom Yorke, and someone just described you as a "heroin vacuum" to the MTV viewers.
* You're a documentarian, and for whatever reason your student film has been unleashed on an unwitting audience of Sci-Fi Channel viewers.
*You're Joe Don Baker. Never mind Walking Tall or being in James Bond movies or whatever, everyone bugs you about Mitchell.
* You're someone who's never called by their name anymore; now you're "The Paper Chase Guy" or "The Fish-Lipped Guy".
*You're a regular Frankie fan, going to Rocky Horror nights at the local movie theater. Then you read Kevin Murphy's A Year at the Movies, where in the entry on going to the theater on Halloween, he tears mercilessly into Rocky Horror and its fans. Pot, have you met Kettle? Never mind.
*You like to go to the Renaissance Festival. And then, you go and find what Kevin Murphy (again!) wrote about RenFests and Fairegoers, taking digs at the SCA as well, reminding us that Ye Olden Tymes weren't ideal because they didn't have antibiotics or paved roads, but apparently not knowing (or worse, knowing and not caring) that the first ever Renaissance Festival was established to raise funds for Pacifica radio AND provide work for blacklisted actors.
*You prefer Joel to Mike because (from your POV) Joel kept the show from getting too mean. You can hardly watch any of the Sci-Fi Channel episodes because you think they're just vitriolic at times, you enjoy the new episodes with Jonah and Emily, you donate to Joel's Kickstarter for Season 14, and it flops... and about a year later Mike and his Rifftrax crew start up a Kickstarter and it's a success. And more recent news has you thinking "Joel has left the show... again."
*You like Patton Oswalt and some troll on a board is immediately like "He's not funny".
*You're a Creature Feature host, one of many across the country, trying to keep your show going for whatever market you have, when some Minnesota prop comic's UHF-based show suddenly hits a new cable channel.
*You just like cheesy movies whether they're riffed or not. You think about likely candidates while everyone else is doing the "throw it at the wall and see what sticks, watch the world burn" shtick, naming films that really wouldn't be likely candidates.
*You like movies and never cottoned to the idea of goofy cowtown puppets talking over them in the first place.
Anyway.
(Like a lot of things I write, when I remember to, this was long percolating)
*vehemently slams fist down on button, breaking it*
I can UNDERSTAND some of the MST3K hate.
It's just the struggle to NOT AGREE with some of it these days...
* You're a filmmaker. You've maybe busted your hump trying to put a picture together, and after things settle down, some golden spider duck and crimson pig are on TV calling Alan Hale Jr. a "pork vacuum" or, if you're Ray Dennis Steckler, saying very TERFY things about your wife.
* You're Thom Yorke, and someone just described you as a "heroin vacuum" to the MTV viewers.
* You're a documentarian, and for whatever reason your student film has been unleashed on an unwitting audience of Sci-Fi Channel viewers.
*You're Joe Don Baker. Never mind Walking Tall or being in James Bond movies or whatever, everyone bugs you about Mitchell.
* You're someone who's never called by their name anymore; now you're "The Paper Chase Guy" or "The Fish-Lipped Guy".
*You're a regular Frankie fan, going to Rocky Horror nights at the local movie theater. Then you read Kevin Murphy's A Year at the Movies, where in the entry on going to the theater on Halloween, he tears mercilessly into Rocky Horror and its fans. Pot, have you met Kettle? Never mind.
*You like to go to the Renaissance Festival. And then, you go and find what Kevin Murphy (again!) wrote about RenFests and Fairegoers, taking digs at the SCA as well, reminding us that Ye Olden Tymes weren't ideal because they didn't have antibiotics or paved roads, but apparently not knowing (or worse, knowing and not caring) that the first ever Renaissance Festival was established to raise funds for Pacifica radio AND provide work for blacklisted actors.
*You prefer Joel to Mike because (from your POV) Joel kept the show from getting too mean. You can hardly watch any of the Sci-Fi Channel episodes because you think they're just vitriolic at times, you enjoy the new episodes with Jonah and Emily, you donate to Joel's Kickstarter for Season 14, and it flops... and about a year later Mike and his Rifftrax crew start up a Kickstarter and it's a success. And more recent news has you thinking "Joel has left the show... again."
*You like Patton Oswalt and some troll on a board is immediately like "He's not funny".
*You're a Creature Feature host, one of many across the country, trying to keep your show going for whatever market you have, when some Minnesota prop comic's UHF-based show suddenly hits a new cable channel.
*You just like cheesy movies whether they're riffed or not. You think about likely candidates while everyone else is doing the "throw it at the wall and see what sticks, watch the world burn" shtick, naming films that really wouldn't be likely candidates.
*You like movies and never cottoned to the idea of goofy cowtown puppets talking over them in the first place.
Anyway.
(Like a lot of things I write, when I remember to, this was long percolating)
*vehemently slams fist down on button, breaking it*
