Watching this now on the Pluto Tv app. So nice to have Pluto tv dedicating a channel to MSTK continuously 24/7. Fun to tune into when everything else on television is crap.
MST3K, RiffTrax, The Film Crew and more are streaming on the Tubi MST3K channel as well as the other platforms mentioned. But here we all are on CZcams. In part because unlike many live streams, we can comment/interact w/other MST3K enthusiasts. I appreciate free 24/7 live streams immensely, but CZcams and other free (and ad-free if you're hip) stream-on-demand platforms have a number of desirable qualities. Often, I'll "tune into" a live MST3K channel mid-episode and head to the nearest convenient on demand service to watch from the beginning or help me identify a movie, short or episode I've not screened in some time. In short, Tubi and the other live streams have that special TV-like "push" I'm-watching-with-many-other-fans-in-real-time media charm, but stream-on-demand is the ultimate source for MST3K and mostly everything else. Mostly.
Uncle Earl's Classic TV (UECTV) was better. BUT it got yanked about 4 months ago (tragic). It had everything. I went on Pluto TV once a few weeks ago, and my computer got hacked.
The trend of casting smart ass kids in roles like this is just pointless. It's just embarrassing, even for a cheesy show like this. When will low budget movie makers learn?
That was very popular in the 50's. I think it was to get parents' nipples all tingly now that they were pooping out boomer kids left & right and the older ones were off the bottle & out of diapers..
@@mikezylstra7514 It was supposed to make the shows appealing to kids by providing them with a surrogate for themselves. What adult writers don't understand is that kids don't want to be Bobby, they want to be Rocky.
These old films always have people being knocked unconscious by blows to the head, then waking up like nothing really happened....head trauma doesn't work that way.
If AI could do anything, bring General Hospital back! While a internal medicine resident (1970's, Grace NW), that lounge was full of us, the interns, residents, nurses, the students, between 1:30 and 2:00. If you coded during that time...sorry, we're busy.
Ah, the days when writing science fiction consisted primarily of adding the words 'space,' 'astro,' etc to normal nouns. IE: "space gun," "astro phone...."
It's not that much different with Star Trek and Star Wars today. Really, the last scientifically accurate science fiction movie made was probably 2001: A Space Odyssey but it was so boring to the general public. And it was dramatically sterile. There's hardly a word of dialogue for a good chunk of that movie and the main bad guys are a stone monolith and a psychotic computer?!? That and the waltz music was guaranteed to put people to sleep! (That's a problem I have with Disney's Fantasia as well...!) Space opera which is what has been made since 1968 (for the most part) is generally more palatable and dramatically satisfying. Space opera is NOT hardcore science fiction. It's basically the late 20th century/early 21st century equivalent to the Western whether people want to admit it or not.
And this movie also had a hero named Rocky and another character named Ken. All this movie needed was a forklift, and it would have been perfect! Well, not perfect, but maybe slightly less horrible.
LoneKharnivore An older build of an Ambrosia game named “Escape Velocity” allowed you to equip your starship with a weapon which was literally the “forklift,” a guided kinetic impact system. The deployment sound is literally Servo singing “They tried to kill him with a fork lift...” Newer builds removed the weapon, but still had the sound clip.
Loved General Hospital. When doing Internal Medicine rotations on 5NW, 1:30 - 2:00 we were all in the lounge glued to the TV, even the nurses. God forbid if an emergency arose on the floor @ 1:45. My girlfriend was a nurse at another hospital, same thing there.
This Experiment was so funny as heck! Those guys kill me. These old space flicks were made to crack people up. Time well spent on this Experiment. Thanks!
Maybe you should write to the producers of MST3K because that's what their is all about and that's why the viewers can laugh and criticize all they want. But I do get your point.
This early cast is my favorite. I always give extra credit for original parts of a series. With different players, or when these guys did their own thing, its not the same... so of course the upcoming episodes with Mike are my next best. Anyway they are all a guaranteed laugh.
Yes. Cornball, early "lo-tech" sci-fi movie with that mid 1950's family "formula" of close knit sibs with ages spanning > 15 yrs, to include a 8 yr old boy with remnant toddler tendencies when not intellectually engaged. Totally a setup for riffing.
"Do you know what that is Bobby?" "Sure I do! It's Coors Lite! Coors Lite should never be used indiscriminately, the gamma rays could be fatal to those who use it."
Best line, Bobby: "Winky must die!" (36:14). Sally Mansfield had really nice legs. No wonder they put her in such a short skirt. The next episode is about Reggie's demotion and court martial for being a totally incompetent screw-up, who gives up completely as soon as the chips are down. If it weren't for Vena's quick thinking, Rocky would have blown their asses to smithereens.
Yeah, what exactly were those supposed to accomplish? Even if their clothes were somehow able to resist the vacuum of space (not to mention the near-absolute zero cold), their arms were still bare, so their blood would boil then freeze solid and they'd be dead inside of 15 seconds.
At 5:06 - Elvis Costello song reference: Gypsy says (regarding their "invention exchange"), "yesterday's news is tomorrow's fish & chip paper" - from a song on Costello's great album, "Trust" called (aptly enough), "Fish & Chip Paper".
LOL, Just looked up the actor who played Winky. His bio is brutal. He was an Our Gang member for 2 years then was in a ton of films after that but had a drinking and gambling problem (and was a dealer) and was fired from this show because of it. He was run out of pictures and died at age 38 living his last dozen years on skid row. Rinkman the bad guy was flaming gay in real life and was with Judy Garland's 4th husband a long time. Ah, Hollywood.
So apparently, our solar system has multiple Earth-sized planets floating around in it, all of which are capable of supporting human life. And this society has faster-than-light communication, since someone on Earth is able to talk to someone on Mars as if they were in the next room. And an astronaut puts on a space helmet when he enters an airlock, presumably as a safety precaution, but leaves his arms bare, making the helmet completely superfluous. I also love how Rinkman has to explain to Veena how orbits work, because she clearly wouldn't know that, being from a society where space travel is routine. I know, I know, it was for the benefit of TV audiences in 1953, most of whom wouldn't have understood how orbits work. Still, they could have worked it in more logically, or just said the ship was left adrift in space.
Hold still my beating heart, it's just, just, oh alright! I can't stop thinking about her, my sweet, sweet Gypsy! Those months orbiting Venus, I thought she loved me, only to run off with the Prince Of Space. Gypsy Gypsy 💔
Those hats identified them as RN's. They were told to remove them actually to establish egalitarianism - everybody is the same; no rank. It was done in the 1980's - phase 1 of communism.
The organ music in that General Hospital kills me. It's so monotonous, you can't tell what emotion they're supposed to be emphasizing XD Someone will say something, and the organist is like "worbleworbleworble"
I don't know about the drug-running, but the last several years of his life were pretty rough. Even so, he had plenty of stage, radio and film work. Sadly, he'll be remembered as Winky, rather than for his roles in serious films.
Tom: Hey, it's the MST3K logo!
Joel: Um, you're not supposed to know about that...
"We'd rather ride the rocket." LOL cracks me up every time.
"It's a million-to-one shot that we'll even be seen."
"They're on Comedy Central?"
Watching this now on the Pluto Tv app. So nice to have Pluto tv dedicating a channel to MSTK continuously 24/7. Fun to tune into when everything else on television is crap.
I used to have it on my new l.g. TV and they took it off and made me mad,I used to watch it 24 hours a day
@@kelvintorrence5994 In addition to Pluto TV Shout Factory and Twitch TV also have 24/7 live streaming channels
MST3K, RiffTrax, The Film Crew and more are streaming on the Tubi MST3K channel as well as the other platforms mentioned. But here we all are on CZcams. In part because unlike many live streams, we can comment/interact w/other MST3K enthusiasts. I appreciate free 24/7 live streams immensely, but CZcams and other free (and ad-free if you're hip) stream-on-demand platforms have a number of desirable qualities. Often, I'll "tune into" a live MST3K channel mid-episode and head to the nearest convenient on demand service to watch from the beginning or help me identify a movie, short or episode I've not screened in some time. In short, Tubi and the other live streams have that special TV-like "push" I'm-watching-with-many-other-fans-in-real-time media charm, but stream-on-demand is the ultimate source for MST3K and mostly everything else. Mostly.
Uncle Earl's Classic TV (UECTV) was better. BUT it got yanked about 4 months ago (tragic). It had everything. I went on Pluto TV once a few weeks ago, and my computer got hacked.
Mike doing Winky was priceless!
Winky sure was a setup for that. btw, I thought that was Tim Considine.
@@mikezylstra7514 Maybe
Despite how riffable Rocky Jones Space Ranger is, it certainly has its charm. It had to crawl so Star Trek could run.
“ A little song, a little grace, a little seltzer in your face!” 27:28 🤣
mike as winky is one of my favorite things
I keep hearing "Shut up, Wesley!" in my head whenever Bobby spoke.
I always liked Wesley Crusher.
The trend of casting smart ass kids in roles like this is just pointless. It's just embarrassing, even for a cheesy show like this. When will low budget movie makers learn?
That was very popular in the 50's. I think it was to get parents' nipples all tingly now that they were pooping out boomer kids left & right and the older ones were off the bottle & out of diapers..
@@mikezylstra7514 It was supposed to make the shows appealing to kids by providing them with a surrogate for themselves. What adult writers don't understand is that kids don't want to be Bobby, they want to be Rocky.
@@graemesmith6721 I'm thinking Winky was aimed at kids. Heck, I wanted to be Olive Oyl.
"Hey, it's the MST3k logo!
Shh! You're not supposed to know about that.
Uh... when Glen the Amazing Colossal Man turned up he complimented them on their show. It is a TV show in their world.
That second sentence is quoting Joel.
43:50 Winky sits down using the Riker method
Put a wig and MM Ears on Winkie and you get Annette Funicello.
Mike Nelson nails another special guest character as Winky. That skit was hilarious!
I think Nelson's best stuff are his guest appearances.
I DATE HOT AND SAVAGE WOMEN AND YOU'RE NOTHING,YOU'RE NOTHING!!! (sobs)
so, Winky is short for Winchester
Nurses' hats and a woman in a cape in the same episode. What's not to love?
Joel is so weird it's cool. "Let's have some quiet time now"
And that leads to creativity!
The host segment with Mike Nelson as Winky was pretty funny.
1:06:49 - LOL @ Mike acting as Winky. The only few times that we actually see Mike and Joel somewhat interacting.
Watch Crash of the Moons. Mike doing John Banner was just awesome!
They've interacted a few times already. He was the giant in the Colossal Man episodes
These old films always have people being knocked unconscious by blows to the head, then waking up like nothing really happened....head trauma doesn't work that way.
What I don't get is why point a gun at the guy then never fire it? There were more wrestling matches here than on Nighttime Wrestling.
@@mikezylstra7514 Because it was a show for kids, so they couldn't have people shooting each other.
Meanwhile in video games, the same logic applies 😂
"This is one time I'd like to say no, Bobby, but I can't...."
"You outrank me."
Why didn't they do more soap operas? The overdramatic acting is perfect for this. Some priceless moments here.
Maybe because it's just too easy? that and they might not have had the rights to play a lot of those other soaps.
If AI could do anything, bring General Hospital back! While a internal medicine resident (1970's, Grace NW), that lounge was full of us, the interns, residents, nurses, the students, between 1:30 and 2:00. If you coded during that time...sorry, we're busy.
Right¡
Servo imitating that nurse is probably the funniest thing ever.
"She's angry when she's beautiful" (that line is why my wife divorced me)
Rinkman is the actor who played Barnaby in March of the Wooden Soldiers and the Commanche chief Scar in "The Searchers"
"Send in the clowns! Never mind, they're here."
I love 💘 that song😁
This is my favorite space show from my space childhood.
Clearly you meant to say "astro" childhood. Easy mistake to make.
Yeah, you're right. Clearly I SPACED out! ;)
did you kids wear salad spinners?
This movie is a real hard slog! Hard to call it a movie when hardly anything moves--especially the PLOT!
i love joel's delivery in the g.h. short HA! "NOTHING AN EXPENSIVE OPERATION CAN'T COMPLICATE" HEE HEE
"You calling me a liar? Get out! GET OUT!"
Couldn't agree more! They all do so well in that particular short. "Oh sure it's dangerous and painful, but don't worry."
I have performed surgery once before and although the person didn't survive I feel confident. Hahaha!
"Here comes Nurseferatu."
One of the best jabs ever. Total LOL material.
EPIC!
Mike as Winky-priceless!
Did Dr. F really just say it's a "Kinescope suppository from our video depository"?
Ah, the days when writing science fiction consisted primarily of adding the words 'space,' 'astro,' etc to normal nouns. IE: "space gun," "astro phone...."
It's not that much different with Star Trek and Star Wars today.
Really, the last scientifically accurate science fiction movie made was probably 2001: A Space Odyssey but it was so boring to the general public. And it was dramatically sterile. There's hardly a word of dialogue for a good chunk of that movie and the main bad guys are a stone monolith and a psychotic computer?!?
That and the waltz music was guaranteed to put people to sleep! (That's a problem I have with Disney's Fantasia as well...!)
Space opera which is what has been made since 1968 (for the most part) is generally more palatable and dramatically satisfying. Space opera is NOT hardcore science fiction. It's basically the late 20th century/early 21st century equivalent to the Western whether people want to admit it or not.
AvengerII I agree with you except for the part about 2001 being scientifically accurate. I'd agree that it ATTEMPTS accuracy to a certain degree.
AvengerII Who doesn't like fantasia?
Neutreno calipers
AvengerII There’s also “Interstellar.” That’s got some decent scientific accuracy with respect to relativity and astrophysics.
I’m sure the actor playing the space villain Rinkman also played Scar, the Comanche chief in John Ford’s “The Searchers”.
It is. Bobby, Robert Lyden, played Ben Edwards.
I love when they remark about past "experiments".
"I told you to find adventure, not bring it home"
"He tried to kill me with a forklift"
The forklift is my favourite riff ever.
And this movie also had a hero named Rocky and another character named Ken. All this movie needed was a forklift, and it would have been perfect!
Well, not perfect, but maybe slightly less horrible.
LoneKharnivore An older build of an Ambrosia game named “Escape Velocity” allowed you to equip your starship with a weapon which was literally the “forklift,” a guided kinetic impact system. The deployment sound is literally Servo singing “They tried to kill him with a fork lift...” Newer builds removed the weapon, but still had the sound clip.
@@Chunkboi I grew up on that game, what a masterpiece, I also liked that it had a pilot name generator of the many names of David Ryder
They tried to kill me with a forklift 🎶
Despite how Winky's life turned out he had quite a career
That is true. I was going to say something like that but couldn't think of the words. He shined bright but burned out to quickly😞
Yeah, he pretty much self-destructed.
Yeah that boy was a mess
This one's laugh a line, not just a minute! And love the General Hospital skit!
Loved General Hospital. When doing Internal Medicine rotations on 5NW, 1:30 - 2:00 we were all in the lounge glued to the TV, even the nurses. God forbid if an emergency arose on the floor @ 1:45. My girlfriend was a nurse at another hospital, same thing there.
This Experiment was so funny as heck! Those guys kill me. These old space flicks were made to crack people up. Time well spent on this Experiment. Thanks!
Maybe you should write to the producers of MST3K because that's what their is all about and that's why the viewers can laugh and criticize all they want. But I do get your point.
Those baseball caps make the spaceship look more like a Cracker Barrel.
@@mikezylstra7514 They most certainly do :)
The Firesign Theater reference was worth the price of admission.
One of my favorite episodes, and the General Hospital short is totally LOL.
"what's a barber doing there?" lol
1:08:29
I love Servo's and Winky's breakdown.
Funny how they used a puppet instead of an actual person for the shadow of Winky’s mother.
I can now proudly say that I have watched ALL of the Rocky Jones movies. :3
Okay...maybe I can't proudly say that....
Despite how riffable Rocky Jones Space Ranger is, it certainly has its charm. It had to crawl so Star Trek could run.
First rule of all heros,always stand with your back to the door,any door.
Look up what happened to Scotty Beckett (Winky) in real life. Sad story.
www.imdb.com/name/nm0065717/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
Truly it was
This early cast is my favorite. I always give extra credit for original parts of a series. With different players, or when these guys did their own thing, its not the same... so of course the upcoming episodes with Mike are my next best. Anyway they are all a guaranteed laugh.
I think this particular episode would be a great episode to get someone started as a MSTie. If someone wanted to check it out, I'd suggest this ep.
Yes. Cornball, early "lo-tech" sci-fi movie with that mid 1950's family "formula" of close knit sibs with ages spanning > 15 yrs, to include a 8 yr old boy with remnant toddler tendencies when not intellectually engaged. Totally a setup for riffing.
Wonderful, another mind numbing Rocky Jones movie, to pass the time on this rainy day.
Now Taking the ice, your Minnesota North Stars!
"Do you know what that is Bobby?"
"Sure I do! It's Coors Lite! Coors Lite should never be used indiscriminately, the gamma rays could be fatal to those who use it."
Best line, Bobby: "Winky must die!" (36:14).
Sally Mansfield had really nice legs. No wonder they put her in such a short skirt.
The next episode is about Reggie's demotion and court martial for being a totally incompetent screw-up, who gives up completely as soon as the chips are down. If it weren't for Vena's quick thinking, Rocky would have blown their asses to smithereens.
Love that word " smithereens"....haven't heard it in decades!
I feel like I watch this at least once a month. I know logically it can’t be that often, and yet…
Those space helmets are a laugh riot.
salad spinners lol
Yeah, what exactly were those supposed to accomplish? Even if their clothes were somehow able to resist the vacuum of space (not to mention the near-absolute zero cold), their arms were still bare, so their blood would boil then freeze solid and they'd be dead inside of 15 seconds.
'The rockets will be ready to roar'....real man talk!
Ok, I admit it. They won me over with the MC5 reference this time. This was one of their most clever music references yet.
The way the queen says Rocky Jones amuses me
"OK, I want you to do your space math. Space two plus space two equals space four".
Ken is played by James Griffith, who was Major Paul Krenner in "The Amazing Transparent Man," which was also featured on MST3K.
When in Duluth, visit the lift bridge!
Wow, it's nice to see Roy Thinness 6:47). I never knew he was on a soap. This must've been a little bit before he did The Invaders.
I see the invaders on metv ever Saturday nite it the best of Sci fi old shows I love,beside kolshak the nightstocker,I know I spelled it wrong
At 5:06 - Elvis Costello song reference: Gypsy says (regarding their "invention exchange"), "yesterday's news is tomorrow's fish & chip paper" - from a song on Costello's great album, "Trust" called (aptly enough), "Fish & Chip Paper".
Actually it's a quote from, I think, Lord Beaverbrook. Definitely a newspaper guy.
LOL, Just looked up the actor who played Winky. His bio is brutal. He was an Our Gang member for 2 years then was in a ton of films after that but had a drinking and gambling problem (and was a dealer) and was fired from this show because of it. He was run out of pictures and died at age 38 living his last dozen years on skid row. Rinkman the bad guy was flaming gay in real life and was with Judy Garland's 4th husband a long time. Ah, Hollywood.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotty_Beckett
Yeah he really fucked up his life.
Hollywood hasn't changed lol
Misery + time passed = comedy
...c'mon, man...everyone knows this.
Too soon?
Are there any members of Our Gang who didn't lead a miserable life?
TB Tabby
Darla had a lucrative career in commercial voiceover and animation.
Watch out for space snakes.
So apparently, our solar system has multiple Earth-sized planets floating around in it, all of which are capable of supporting human life. And this society has faster-than-light communication, since someone on Earth is able to talk to someone on Mars as if they were in the next room. And an astronaut puts on a space helmet when he enters an airlock, presumably as a safety precaution, but leaves his arms bare, making the helmet completely superfluous. I also love how Rinkman has to explain to Veena how orbits work, because she clearly wouldn't know that, being from a society where space travel is routine. I know, I know, it was for the benefit of TV audiences in 1953, most of whom wouldn't have understood how orbits work. Still, they could have worked it in more logically, or just said the ship was left adrift in space.
No - DO NOT let Bobby duck those missiles! Crow saying it for me even more than usual about the little brat with SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP!
There's never too much space for a manhunt.
yeah, but to much manhunt'll give you painful bleeding planetoids.
Holy Crow, he was also Scotty on The Little Rascals.
Hold still my beating heart, it's just, just, oh alright! I can't stop thinking about her, my sweet, sweet Gypsy! Those months orbiting Venus, I thought she loved me, only to run off with the Prince Of Space.
Gypsy Gypsy
💔
A "Hiatus Hernia? Is this a hernia that only shows up between acting gigs?
"See what you can do about making this lobby spookier!"
25:15 : LOL - damn, Joel goes for their Commander Data-esque Off Switches! He will NOT play "Soap Opera."
from the Utney Reader to baby got back.... Lord I do love em
I didn't believe that I could love these idiots any more than I already did until Joel did a Pete Townshend windmill on Crow.
“Ride the rocket...” 🤣🤣
Too bad nurses don't wear those cool hats any more.
6:52. Explain that origami fold. Holy cow.
Those hats identified them as RN's. They were told to remove them actually to establish egalitarianism - everybody is the same; no rank. It was done in the 1980's - phase 1 of communism.
I had planetoids once, had to sit on one of those doughnut things...
Lol!
“They took off all of our cargo.” “And your S-cargo."
Nurseferatu! Brilliant!
"let me show you the power of cold light!"
Hmmm, ok, I could use a cold light right now!"
Rocky is the original Captain Kirk.
Oh man! now i have to erase all the words "space" from my space script... i mean, my script
The organ music in that General Hospital kills me. It's so monotonous, you can't tell what emotion they're supposed to be emphasizing XD Someone will say something, and the organist is like "worbleworbleworble"
George Wright. Pretty famous in his day among both organists and soap opera fans.
26:25 Did he *really* just go into the "airlock" wearing a T-shirt..?
"Sgt. Pinback was in the airlock and now he's floating away without his starsuit"
"I always knew that guy was weird"
(Dark Star)
I guess a vacuum only affects your face.
In the 50’s, astronauts only needed to breathe. They hadn’t invented explosive decompression yet.
The skit with Chad feel good is absolutely hilarious.
Nice, if a bit cheesy, oldschool space opera.
I don't know about the drug-running, but the last several years of his life were pretty rough. Even so, he had plenty of stage, radio and film work. Sadly, he'll be remembered as Winky, rather than for his roles in serious films.
"Winky!"
Diane!
Chopper!
Chief!
MCCLOUD!!
Karstens Creations
Mr. Eddie’s father?
This is one of those few episodes that actually make me more mad than entertained. God damn Winky.
LOL A General Hospital, rather than an educational or sponsored informational travel short before the feature. The nurses then were HOT!!!!
Emily MacLaugnlin (Nurse Jessie Brewer) was first married to Robert Lansing, then to Jeffrey Hunter, 2 seriously gorgeous men.
@@mariakelly5 She got pretty dumpy looking later on.
The guy's name is "Winky" and he talks about a "gay nightlife"....what riff is one supposed to come up with?!
Winky ended up in a Mexican Jail, and was replaced later in the series.
Don't forget his little black book
@@troywright359 "We've been traveling at faster than light, when we get back to Earth these girls are gonna be legal!"
Given this was the 50's... X-D No kidding, there's not much else to think about for Winky though.
This is a Hollywood product . . it;s gay as the day is long
"The body sees a hernia as a series of ones and zeroes..."
1:08:35 "It's Clarissa, my girlfriend, and she's real pretty and I kiss her..."
Winky went to jail!! The Winky character Scotty Beckett became unavailable because he was serving time in jail for carrying a concealed weapon.
24:04 "Mo go on the g' go-go". Great WC Fields reference.
"I think she's been into the Percodan."
Winky's space lullaby was so space stupid.
Cornball Award of the century!
Mike as Winky is one of the best skits they ever did. This episode overall is one of their best.
"Ken is that close to a written warning." LOL
LOL the whole "Winky" storyline!
Mike is great as Winky in this one...
Winky.."I'll find it...(looks over shoulder) I can't find it"
Man, I missed those Comedy Central bumpers at the end of each episode.
Ooh, right in the Winky!