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If you ask me: This group is the strongest stretch of episodes in the show’s run! A wide range of movies with fantastic riffing and incredible host segments.
I agree these are the strongest episodes in the Sci-Fi run, though I think Jack Frost is wildly overrated compared to the earlier Russo-Finnish episodes.
Jack Frost is also my favorite experiment, and I can assure you, I’m not wildly overrating it. In fact, I could screencap the whole damned thing with fave riffs. But I’ll try not to overdo it (still, what I’ve grabbed comes from around the same section of film - I still need to do ones with Ivan and his bear head, Frost himself, step-sis – we’ve got the witch and the mushroom fairy, so that’s good)
The next batch gives us Devil Doll, Space Mutiny, Time Chasers, and Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, which are all freaking amazing.
Granted, Invasion of the Neptune Men is there, too, and that drags down the average a skosh, but… yeah, this is an absolutely top-shelf cluster of episodes, all gems!
Heh, I’m way overly biased towards Jack Frost, but I’m curious and have to ask: which of the Russo-Finnish episodes would you champion more than the others?
Oh, excellent! Yeah, I love this one to pieces above the others, too. The tricky thing for me is avoiding watching this one too much so I don’t wear out the effectiveness of the jokes.
Same deal here. If there’s any episode where I could (and would want to) flood the reply section with screengrabs, this would be the one!
I’d have to pick The Day the Earth Froze. The whole episode is great, but Trace’s Bullwinkle impression while the boat is on fire slays me every time. And “Here Comes the Circus” is a great bonus.
I like Devil Doll and Overdrawn a lot, but I think Space Mutiny and Time Chasers are entirely mediocre episodes. I realize other people will disagree. I was baffled when those two first aired and the reaction online was through the roof. The sense I had at the time was that most of the people praising them hadn’t seen the Comedy Central seasons, though I know you have.
It’s a fine choice. They’re all fantastic episodes, although I’d have to put The Magic Voyage of Sinbad just slightly ahead of Froze. I have three of those as top ten episodes, while I’d put The Sword and the Dragon comfortably in the top 30, give or take.
That Circus short is a bit of amazing, too, especially with Joel admonishing the Bots for going too dark, while then proceeding to fly on the dark side himself.
I caught a smattering of the Comedy Central episodes at that time, with what was commercially available on Rhino Home Video and a few selections I caught via installments of the Mystery Science Theater Hour I recorded off TV (The Amazing Colossal Man, Space Travelers, The Giant Gila Monster, Teenagers from Outer Space, and Hercules Unchained).
I loved the Joel “That’s too dark” running gag from Here Comes The Circus running gag too, because the long-form punchline is so worth it. Joel’s shrugged shoulders response to getting called out gets me every time!
