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   From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   mblackwl@gmail.com writes:   
      
   >Mystery Usenet Theater 3000   
   >The Wasp Woman Review   
   >By Stuart Galbraith IV   
      
   	Oh, a wonderful piece and thank you for MiSTing it so swiftly.   
   I may have something for you to look over, too, shortly.  Just a warning.   
      
      
   	For those not in on the game, Stuart Galbraith IV's ancient   
   _Hopping Mad Over MST3K_, referred herein, appears to be the earliest   
   MiSTing anyone's found.   
      
      
      
   >>                                                      then BCI slaps   
   >>his puss even more prominently on the cover of The Cult Films of Roger   
   >>Corman, a ten-film set of unwatchable transfers that might have been   
   >>mastered in somebody's tool shed.   
      
   >Mike; Ironically, Corman originally filmed them in a tool shed.   
   >Crow: They still made money though!   
      
   	Now, that's the first riff that got me snorting aloud, not that   
   the whole thing wasn't funny.   
      
      
   >>"Buzzzzzz!" cries another; "Many, many bees were harmed in the making   
   >>of this movie!" quips a third), and innumerable obvious pop culture   
   >>references, everything from The Andy Griffith Show to Monty Python's   
   >>Flying Circus, which someone quotes at length like a geeky fan.   
      
   >Crow: Five people, one of whom constantly makes Python references?   
   >      Sound like they're a bag of Cheetos away from being a group   
   >      of D&D players.   
      
   	That's the big laugh, by my reading.  Others may have alternate   
   opinions.   
      
      
   >> Another problem I have with shows like this is that they perpetuate   
   >>unnecessarily negative misperceptions about old movies,   
      
   >Mike: Such as that some of them suck?   
      
   	That's another one that I like.   
      
      
   >> As mentioned above, if you own a plasma TV, this edition of The Wasp   
   >>Woman is not for you; there's a good chance it'll burn a permanent   
   >>silhouette of the cast on your TV.   
      
   >Crow: Geez. Where did you buy your TV from? Guatemala?   
      
   	His silhouette fears are certainly the weirdest part of the   
   whole thing.  I mean, the whole thing is weird, but a burn-in from a   
   90-minute movie?  Good grief.   
      
      
   >>           If you want to see the movie, not the show - don't buy   
   >>this.   
      
   >Crow: This advice and more in this week's issue of "Duh!" magazine!   
      
   	I can't finger just what it is but something about the line   
   strikes me as off.  I mean, it's an appropriate riff, I just think it   
   hasn't quite got Crow's voice somehow.  I think I keep reading the   
   line with strong emphasis on 'this' both times, and the line feels   
   out of balance somehow because of it.  Maybe if 'issue of' were struck.   
      
      
   >> * My favorite to this day remains something writer Christopher Potter   
   >>(or maybe Jeff Mortimer)   
      
   >Mike: Or perhaps it was Mortimer Christopher.   
   > Tom: Stuart, namedropping only works if we actually know who the hell   
   >      these people are.   
      
   	Good development of the joke, too.   
      
      
   >>Like the TV show its worst offense is that it...just...ain't...funny.   
      
   > Tom: This must be an alternate definition of "Funny" that I'm not   
   >      familiar with.   
   >Crow: With which I am not familiar, Tom.   
   >Mike: Crow, you've known Tom longer than I have.   
   >Crow: Nevermind.   
      
   	I like the sewn confusion too.   
      
      
   >Keep circulating the posts.   
      
   	I'm trying, I'm trying.  There's only so much I can do effectively   
   and I can't even do that.   
      
      
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   								Joseph Nebus   
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