I don’t normally get to watch the livestreams live. Here in good ol’ Central time, the livestreams start at 7 and my 4 year old daughter’s bedtime isn’t until 8. Of course, I’m not opposed to sharing MST3K with her (our cats are named Crow and Servo and we’ve been singing her the love theme when we tuck her in with the words changed to be about her and Mystery Science Bedtime for awhile now, so…) but she doesn’t really have the patience to sit through a cheesy live action movie yet, let alone get what the references or jokes being hurled at the screen actually mean, so my spouse and I have just been catching the replays either later in the night or sometime the next day, usually a bit of both.
I still haven’t watched the entire Future War stream, but last night I thought “Heck, we can probably sneak in the short. She’s just going to be playing with her toys anyway, and the absolute longest it could be is 20 minutes, only 11 if Pipeline to the Clouds is anything to go by!” As we know now, it was even shorter than that (a lean 5:35), and half of that was the bots just making mouth sounds in time with her cooking.
My daughter went absolutely nuts for it.
She was fascinated by the fact the robots had the same names as our cats. She roared with laughter every single time a silly sound was made. She was impressed by how big the fridge was. Normally she’s all over the place, but she was glued to the screen for those five minutes and loving it.
We let Future War start and she was pumped for another episode, got up and started dancing during the theme song, sat back down and watched and laughed all the way until a toy dinosaur started terrorizing people, at which point she started running around and pretending to be a dinosaur. We didn’t get her attention back after that, and of course we had to shut it off entirely for bed, but that was the moment we’ve been looking forward to for awhile.
Say what you will about “Let’s Make a Meal in 20 Minutes”, but it’s one of the youngest new MSTies’ favorite episodes!
By the way, someone mentioned in chat how this is the same actor from “A Date With Your Family.” YouTube also has another riffed Gasco Family spectacular called “Let’s Make A Sandwich.” Mom from “A Date” also appears there. Josh Way does his usual admirable job of riffing it, though his copy wasn’t colorized. (And yes, the food still sounds terrible. You’ll probably need to crack a window while viewing.)
I guess we should be glad they were below the purportedly edible stuff and not above it…? The cynic in me feels like there’s probably a pipe under the sink which leaks and that’s the real reason the soaps have to live where they do.
Dad called Mom and will be “late for dinner” again. At 3AM, he’ll once again wake up to find that Mother’s biscuits “aren’t agreeing with him.” But he hasn’t yet put 2 and 2 together, though Mother herself did so several months ago. If you get my drift.
Those revolving shelves are really cool. We wanted those when we had our kitchen remodeled, but there just wasn’t anyplace for them with the plan we picked out. I don’t think the short needed to spend quite so much time showing those off, however.
One thing we did get is the rounded-end countertop. I’ve always loved those. So even though it had to be at the opposite end of the kitchen where you see it walking out instead of in, I’m happy.