Episode 26
April 25, 2018
A More Romantic Alternative
MST3K 509 • The Girl in Lovers Lane
Hosted by Adam Clarke and Beth Martin
The Girl in Lovers Lane drifts into town and asks Beth and Adam about hoboes, littler hoboes, homosociality, character actors, and promotional toilet seats.
Show Notes.
The Girl in Lovers Lane: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. It’s currently on Netflix.
Rolling Nowhere by Ted Conover.
Don’t Call Them Bums by Lisa Hix.
Citizen Hobo by Todd DePastino.
The Littlest Hobo: An oral history.
The original Littlest Hobo.
The etymology of “punk”.
Beth quotes Merl Storr describing Eve Kosovsky Sedgwick’s theory of homosociality.
Jack Elam’s vintage Letterman interview.
Bix in Revenge of the Creature.
Garrison Keillor was shunned.
Xenon, the pinball game.
A punchy interview with Lydia Lunch.
More bad themed sports nights!
Interesting piece on MAD following its 60th anniversary.
Basil Wolverton’s MAD cover.
More about another Bix.
Bonus.
A bonus bit, with an update on the hoboes, is available as a thank you to our Patreon supporters.