![]() ![]() This was a lightning in a bottle moment in season 8, and while it would've been very hard for the crew to just ignore that beloved line of jokes completely, it was also a huge burden to have to try and match it. Now, let's cycle back around to the biggest highlight of the original MST3K episode, the Ryder name riffs. Lamont's impressive 80s hair, a fun visit from a horrifying vision of primate balloon carriers, and a much heavier attack on the technology on display in the film, which is just very special with another 20 years distance from it. In particular is a fat handful of riffs on Lt. ![]() And we will get to the Big McLargehuge jokes in a moment, but there is some fun stuff that they didn't do much of in the original as far as I could tell/remember. Lamont's death and resurrection, Cameron Mitchell's whole deal, or the Kalgan/Calgon jokes. They pick up some things from the MST3K episode, like acknolwedging the footage borrowed from Battlestar Galactica (a long time complaint of some apparently) and they definitely don't let go of any of the riffing themes from that episode, like Lt. Of course, it isn't until the movie starts that the riffing really picks up, and there's a lot of fun to be had. The riffing helps the short out, as they highlight the Dad/narrator's nonplussed attitude about all of the madness around him, and the creepiness that infests the supposedly whimsical store, which is kind of like Weasley's Wizard Wheezes on downers. This isn't the best pre movie short we've ever seen, but it's fun in its random bouts of hyper oddness. Then there's a bunch of weird crap, then we all go on to the movie. The story sees a father and son stumbling into a magically appearing magic shop, where a mysterious clerk shows them all sorts of magical things, talks a lot about wonder and childhood and such. Speaking of attention deficits, this live show's short, a film version of the HG Wells short story "The Magic Shop", is a weird mix of dull as hell and insane weirdness. the only thing I felt like I didn't see in the MST3K version that added here was a bit more of MacPherson meeting with the Commander and Captain, but I can't verify that because paying attention to the movie is a bit much for me. A bit of Bellerian writhing was added back I think, and there's some more space fighting. There's a post coitus scene between Brown and Cameron, who were married for about a decade at this point, nothing of value there. What you might not have seen before is the cut content, which isn't too much of interest. Why? Because no one in the command structure of this ship seemed to notice that Kalgan assembled a damned army! Dude has hundreds of shock troopers, and has been wantonly enacting martial law, and apparently no one in charge had any idea.these are deeply stupid people. With the aid of Commander Alex Jansen (Cameron Mitchell, riffed like 5 times, I don't feel like counting) and Captain Scott Devers (Graham Clarke from Laser Mission) they must thwart this scheme, and I have to say, the odds were against them. Lea Jansen (Cisse Cameron, only riffed here) become the front line of an effort to investigate the situation and railing kill the hell out of anyone who stands in their way. ![]() Anywho, when their sabotage of the flight deck kills a Doctor Spooner, pilot Dave Ryder (Reb Brown, you know him) and Dr. The devilish duo of Flight Commander Kalgan (John Phillip Law of Diabolik) and Chief Engineer MacPhearson (James Ryan of Kill and Kill Again) are engineering a plot to divert the Southern Sun to a local system, hopefully aided by the local pirate fleet, which suggests a large human presence already in this area so I don't know why they aren't headed here anyway hey don't worry about it. A legend returns in Rifftrax Live: Space Mutiny! This re-riff of the MST3K episode comes uncut, but the plot is still the same: generations into a journey from Earth to colonize a new world, the Southern Sun colony ship is beset by, well, mutiny. ![]()
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