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Mystery Science Theater

Season 8 - September 6, 1997
Episode 17 - The Horror of Party Beach ( 1964)

I found the riffs funny.

Observations about the movie.
The description says a teenage girl (actual age 30), her boyfriend (actual age 21), and her scientist father (actual age unknown) get credit for stopping the monsters.
Who discovers what destroys the creatures? Eulabelle, the family housekeeper and cook. She is black, and portrayed as someone that believes in zombies, and voodoo. She is met with remarks that suggest she is is ignorant of the real world with her magical beliefs. She replies in a voice that sounds like she is from Gone with the Wind, a southern uneducated black woman prone to hysterics. As said, she is the one that stumbles on what destroys the monster. Accidently, yes, and the script shows it as a bumbling "Lord have mercy! I've done destroyed your zombie arm." moment. Still, she is the one that discovers it.
Then when the boyfriend is ready to give up because he has gone through the whole phone book looking for someone that sells the compound that destroys the monsters. He tells her he is giving up, even though he only has "a couple" he has not called. Eulabelle is the person that tells him to keep going because that is the only thing that can save them. He makes one more call and what do you know? They sell the element. And what is this element?Eulabelle is the hero. Also, Eulabelle Moore, who plays Eulabelle, may be the only actor in this movie that has other acting credits. Well a few of the actors were in three movies, but the "heroes" and most of the cast each has one movie credit, which is The Horror of Party Beach. The point is, I serious believe this is an example old fashion racism.
The two of the writers of this film have one writing credit. The third has three writing credits. This is the only movie was not an adult film.


I've been watching MST3K Thanksgiving in June (June 26-July 4) on Shout TV (also YouTube)
I'm watching The Prince of Space, a Japanese Sci-Fi film from 1959. I will not post anything about it.

Mystery Science Theater 3000

Season 13 - June 10, 2022
Episode 5 - Doctor Mordrid

I like this movie, and I enjoyed Emily Connor (Emily Marsh) and the bots' riffing. I really enjoy Kelsy Ann Brady's vocalization of Crow T Robot and Conor McGiffin's Tom Servo. Yvonne Freese does the voice for GPC (formally Gypsy)
The episode was directed by Jonah Ray, the host in seasons 11 and 12.

The X-Files

Season 2
Episode 20 - Humbug

One of my favorite episodes.
(couldn't sleep. that was before watch the episode)

That's not make up. Those tattoos are real.

Indeed. There are several things in this episode that are real mingled with fabricated. It is one of my favorite episodes, and I remember it giving me an wonderful uneasy feeling, along with several laughs at Mulder's expense.

TV Episodes You Have Just Watched

The Avengers

Series 2 - September 29. 1962
Episode 1 - Mr. Teddy Bear

I still enjoy The Avengers, but honestly, it does not tickle my brain like it did when I was a kid in the late sixties and maybe early seventies when it was in syndication on weekends in the U.S. I don't recall seeing any episodes with Cathy Gale. I mostly remember Mrs. Peal and then the transition to Tara King. I did not take the change well.

Ironheart.

Dixon Of Dock Green (1970)

A police series that ran from 1955-1976 on UK TV, starring Jack Warner as an old-fashioned London 'copper' of a type unrecognizable in today's Britain.

Ironheart.

Sasha Baron-Cohen makes an appearance as Mephisto, a Satanic super villain, who tempted the show's chief antagonist, Parker, and now has tempted our Irongirl, Riri.

I watched the last 2 episodes of The Handmaid's Tale yesterday but I don't think I was paying proper attention to it
So I'll have to tune in and watch it again

American Horror Stories.