Episode 161
September 25, 2024
Nothing Horrid
MST3K 108 • The Slime People
Hosted by Charlotte Wells and Chris Piuma
The Slime People obscures Chris and Charlotte, who keep talking about volcanoes, fog, mist, domes, and slaughterhouses.
Featuring the short Radar Men from the Moon, part 6: Hills of Death.
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Show Notes.
The Slime People (Robert Hutton, 1962): IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
(We never mention it, but yes, the director is the same guy who plays our reporter hero.)
Radar Men from the Moon (Fred C. Bannon, 1951): IMDb. UnMSTed. (Our episodes with parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 & 5).
All about Bosley.
Jeffrey (Christopher Ashley, 1995).
Our episodes on Hercules Against the Moon Men (with Sand Storm) and... oh no, we still have to watch Lost Continent (with Rock Climbing)!
We talked about Andy Rooney in our episode on Phantom Planet. Here’s Andy on morning people.
The eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980.
Why we dropped that bomb into that volcano.
Ursula K. Le Guin: Tales from Earthsea.
Avatar: The Last Airbender (season 3, episode 6): The Avatar and the Fire Lord.
Bombing volcanoes in Popular Science.
The USGS on what bombing a volcano would actually do.
The Fog (Rupert Wainwright, 2005) and The Fog (John Carpenter, 1980) and The Mist (Frank Darabont, 2007).
Hubrisween!, a Megaphonic podcast that reviews an alphabet of horror movies in the 26 days leading up to Halloween, covered The Mist for the letter M in 2019. (And hey, their 2024 episodes should be dropping in a few days!)
Buckminster Fuller (who we talked about in our episodes on Invasion of the Neptune Men and The Deadly Mantis) and his Dome over Manhattan.
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five.
A quote from the novel: “There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.”
Slaughterhouse-Five (George Roy Hill, 1972).
Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives.
Glenn Gould: Music from Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five.
Slaughterhouse-Five: The Graphic Novel, with images by Albert Monteys and words adapted by Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics fame.
(And the giant plush dinosaur we mention is the largest one pictured on this page.)
How to throw a progressive dinner party.
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