Before MST3K, (co-producer) Jim Mallon and (writer/voice of Tom Servo) Kevin Murphy worked together at KTMA, producing parody news shorts in their off-hours. This short is titled “The Wall”(higher quality), focusing on the wall separating Minnesota’s twin cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul.
During the day the two of us wrote and produced the station promotions and the commercials the little TV station managed to sell, and then at night and on weekends we used the camera gear and production facility to make the kind of TV we dreamed of doing—very much like what ten years later became The Daily show. Both having had formal training in documentary television, we did parodies of the news (see “The Wall”), and because the station had bargain basement programming, the work that Kevin and I did was nearly all the positive press KTMA would garner.
As a Twin Citian and a MSTie, I have a moral obligation to reblog this like a motherfucker
IF YOU STOP PLAYING HORRIBLE ACOUSTIC VERSIONS OF MODERN TOP 40 HITS I WILL LITERALLY GIVE YOU ALL THE MONEY I HAVE IN THE WORLD.
IT MEANS THAT MUCH TO ME.
PLEASE.
Okay, this Aquabats! villain is literally just Strong Bad in a top hat.
Whooooo,Young Justice. Glad to see that Jason Marsden is popping up in another DC property. Haven’t heard much from him lately outside of Skyrim, which was starting to really get to me. I like his work.
WHEN CATS FORGET TO PULL THEIR TONGUE ALL THE WAY BACK INTO THEIR MOUTH.
Faust and Gatsby do this all the time. I usually stick my tongue out at them in retaliation.
One time Faust left nearly his entire tongue hanging out and was just staring at me like I was the idiot.
It’s been decided.
Next year, I’m taking my younger brother to CONvergence, his first actual con (it doesn’t count unless you spend the night in a hotel room, just like with losing your virginity) and we’re going to dye our hair black and go as Terry and Matt McGinnis/Batman and Robin.
It’s going to be a hell of a task designing a Robin costume that will look good, fit the theme and be instantly recognizable as a Robin without being annoying and obnoxious to the other congoers/the internet, but I’ll figure something out. I figure pull some aspects of the Beyond setting, the current and other recent Robin and Nightwing costumes and maybe work in a smidge of Carrie Kelley, and it’ll at least be interesting to look at.
Batman, Bender, Stimpy, Christopher Walken, Bubbles, William Shatner, and Pinky (among others) read Star Wars. In case you were ever wondering what that hollow feeling was that’s been eating away at you your entire life, it was that you hadn’t heard Batman narrating A New Hope.
Also, Tara Strong quotes Han Solo and says “Even I get boarded” and then I start snickering.
