Sol-mates: Love And Mst3k

It's our annual swears-free holiday episode, and we're being punished, er, celebrating with the Rifftrax favorite Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny! We're sorry! (cw: suicidal ideation, depression)Host segments: running out of options; Ice Cream Bunny Facts (TM); Jeff explains padding; Florida vs. Flurrida; weird labor dynamics; 'tis the season for Mulder and Scully; a very Florida Man Christmas; Bill Corbett carries this thing.

(Gene Siskel voice) Despite it's rollicking title, Monster a Go-Go goes NOWHERE. Host segments: doesn't pay to be a Good Samaritan; proper meat placement; soda v. pop; this is now an anti-Edward DeVere podcast; Blast-Off Girls is porn; MiMi loves dying fauns; we're all the wind, baby.

Well, folks - this one is no Operation Kid Brother, but it means well. But, hey! Jeff's got a slide whistle!Host segments: Joe tells us how to make omelettes; tough times for Agent for HARM; BoBo Darrow; dangerous statutory liaisons; oddly specific branches of spying; Joe's CC scar.

What do you know? It's election season again and the SoL-Mates are back here to litigate yet another epic match - Earth vs. the Spider!Host segments: Lip and tongue action; Chekhov's science experiment; Joe is a secret undercover teen/grownup; best speech professor ever; problematic speech acts; vandal squirrels; hearing the nasty truth.

Having run out of our own spoopy stories, we're reviewing some other spoopy stories! Up this year, The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020) and The Baby (1973).

We're celebrating Joe's birthday in style this week - by making MiMi watch one of the MST3Ks she actively hates and was dreading! What a guy! Hear us sidehack our way through this one. (CW: discussion of sexual assault, domestic violence, murder)Host segments: hat crimes; where's Rita?; Morally Ambiguous Knievel; so much more lead in the atmosphere; load-bearing nudie shot; Joe asks the important questions; a message from Frank Coniff; girl power sidehacking.

We're going all the way back to the beginning with this week's episode, The Crawling Eye! That is, if MiMi and Jeff aren't driven mad by home renovation madness (spoiler alert: they are).Host segments: blindsided by climbers; it's super effective!; MiMi drinks straight Campari - it's super effective!; Jeff vs. Milli Vanilli; The Shining, but worse; Ann's comb; Brody was right, Joe is a stone-cold assassin.

We're hitting the road (metaphorically) with Carnival of Souls this episode (literally)! What mild horrors does Herk Harvey have in store for us this time? Also, do we ever stick it to Utah. Take that, Utah! (CW childhood sexual abuse)Host segments: Joe slights scone nuggets; Carnival of Souls of Blood on the Highway; could have been an email; Jeff's one job; It's not good to be dead, Joe; A History of Saltair; plot vs. cause and consequence.

The SoL-Mates are celebrating Labor Day by talking workplace safety with some shorts ("The Days of our Years" and "Shake Hands with Danger") and that exploration of equitable labor and quiet (nay, invisible?) quitting, The Amazing Transparent Man.Host segments: identifiable body parts; industrial accidents (CW - graphic descriptions of accidents 22:44 - 26:00); Operation Paper Clip problems; shake hands with toxic masculinity; Shake Hands with Danger misses the plot structure lesson.

We're pivoting to the family-friendly feel-good flick about several murdered men, but WITH A DOG. A dog. Who murders someone. And you watch it happen. Host segments: honest skin care tips; classic sheep-boy; internal vs. external; the hard truth about Lassies; the feather and the Dilly-bar; we broke this thing wide open; reverse-Wicking.

We're back on that MST3K grind with the bat-tastic* creature film, It Lives By Night! *terribleHost segments: Bat Facts!; Twilight is a documentary; Morbin' time!; the physics of becoming a bat; this is now a Marianne McAndrew fancast; batsh*t premises; the pivotal hobo scene; Batmento; Smokey and the Bat-dit.CW: suicidal ideation

We accidentally cast *engorgio* on our podcast operation, so now you have this SUPER-SIZED discussion of the first Harry Potter film to deal with. If podcast content was gold, you'd be more flush than Harry's vault at Gringott's. (Please note that SoL-Mates will not be discussing the controversy surrounding Rowling's comments re: trans identity - but we stand squarely behind the trans community!)Host segments: a vocal defense of Hermione by CERTAIN podcast hosts; do you even Potter?; Huffleplacation; a Snape is a Snape; sexy Potters; Jeff's guarantee.

Y'all - we're on the highway to the DANGER ZOOOONE today! Our summer fun continues with the Rifftrax take on the classic blockbuster Top Gun. Come for the greasy beach volleyball, stay for the surprising redemption of Iceman, who is JUST TRYING TO DO HIS JOB.Host segments: second-best pilots; the Pauley Shore effect; Mission Impossible 2 slander will not be tolerated; the patience of Iceman; making a film with stock footage; ideal two-riffer match-ups; Shriner's beach volleyball mystery; Charlie redux; Muppet Gun; Everybody Loves Goose.Cw: mentions of sexual assault/harassment

We're dipping back in to the Cinematic Titanic world with the franchises first-ever movie, The Oozing Skull! It's terrible!Host segments: You know, golf buddies.; no pranking allowed; a Rigby 10; What even is this movie?; host segment vs. interstitials; Tracy's composition.cw: ethnic slur

We're tackling the first Emily episode (available in the Gizmoplex)! Bonus Sid Haig content throughout!Host segments: HaigFacts (TM); PearlFacts (TM); MidsommarFacts (TM); CryptidFacts (TM); HerAlibiFacts (TM); MotherCrabberFacts (TM); FishFacts (TM); VoiceFacts (TM).

We recorded this one in the same room - and we're not sure if it actually made that big of a difference! Huzzah!Host segments: Valley Lodge sez no; El Paso 10s; raggin' on the 'Musch; Jeff threads a treacherous needle; Hired!: The Manos of Fate; Torgo's bathroom habits; the Stinkiest Generation; Wives or Senate or both?; a crash-course in femunism.

We're tackling the first part of Hired! (and subsequently the movie that's attached to it) this week. I guess you can learn about Chevrolets AND monster brides this week!Host segment: drive-by colonoscopy; Bride of Dragonheart; bad Operation Paperclip; pokin' around the swamp house; Coily Fan Club; amateur boob historian Joe Kimbro; where even are they?; dream Joe vs. real Joe; My Two MiMis; apologies to Monty Python; Jeff's questionable fashion choices; Dead Alive vs. The Frighteners.

To honor MiMi's birthday, we're buzzing about Neil LaBute's "remake" of The Wicker Man starring Nic Cage. Once again, we are here to make silk purses out of a really, really poorly plotted sow's ear. (Spoilers for Six Feet Under TV series from 24:40 - 25:29)Host segments: not how bee allergies do; Joe's Wicker Man Tactics (TM); the cultural cache of bees; problematic historical research; two-riffer problems; The Mitchell Man.

We're going way, WAY back to the first KTMA episode (courtesy of the Gizmoplex, but also on YouTube) with the marionette-filled Invaders from the Deep. It's a different era of MST3K, for sure, but stay for our discussion about the wonder that is Supermarionation!Host segments: how WASP-y are you? Puppet confusion; Supermarionated; cold war and puppets (it's a thing); Puppet Impossible: 2.Host segments: It's not hoarding if you catalog it; puppets be livin'; How WASP-y are you?;

We decided to make it a ghostly girl/murdering guy two-fer with the late-run The Screaming Skull (and beloved short Robot Rumpus). We do not recover any faith in humanity. Don't murder your SOs, folks.Host segments: Poky's popular; raaaah; Joe's controversial theory; Eric's just had enough; there's "real" screaming skulls!; Jeff's life scares Jack Torrance; a controversial rating.