Sol-mates: Love And Mst3k

In case your Vitamin Puppet is low this week.Host segments: is MiMi dead or committed to the bit?; Hugo, we hardly knew ye; Devori has bog witch plans; Three-chez; Vorelli knows how to control the options; add Shania Twain to the apology tour; Pehl and Nelson-tier petty; Jeff's late 90s trouble.

When you're wishing you could watch The Sidehackers instead, you know you've gone wrong somewhere.Host segments: Más Funner; Roberty Denby strikes again!; gotta have a woody to crime; it's hip to be square; the lost works of Wang Chung; a brief (and stupid) history of biker gang films; smoochin' pay deduction; one of us!

Apologies to the president of Acapulco.Host segments: the most harmless pervert; ladies who luch; Meet the Mayor; you got Buffy in our Batwoman; fixing the Kinga-Dome; M'hael the fundraiser; the worst collage ever; Reptilicus callback.

So many bat facts. Much wow. The movie, not so much.Host segments: we stopped using those things for a reason; so much midcentury; committing to the bit; a life sketch; the Leonard Cohen of the apocalypse; Jeff's punishment hutch; Joe tests the statute of limitations on cheating confessions;  the Sol-Mates have feelings about math classes; host segment world-building; some are not compelled by Pipe Dreams; Devori changes Jeff's world; just Manos it.

We're back to our regular, boring, non-Twilight programming. Boo. But the big take-away is that it's 10:00 PM - do you know where your corpses are?Host segments: toot/Tud/tut-triple threat; just want people to be silky-smooth; Elizabeth Bathory buzzkills; you juiced her, you bought her; are coffins built for comfort?; these glands are drastically under-used; the Hays code and Hirohito did this.

Devori does a war crime against Jeff and makes him watch what surely is the worst film ever watched on this pod.Host segments: existential dread not found; Taylor Lautner is wasted in this one; dying by misadventure vs. murder-bear; it's just shirts and skins; the Twilight to T. Swizzle pipeline.

It's the second part of our Independence Day Rifftrax sandwich - and man, can we talk about Jaws a lot.Host segment: Biffo and the Squeeze; cut the big naturals; Quint's trauma; showing instead of telling; once again, Devori is begging you to watch Duel (1971); the strange history of The Lady of the Dunes; sharks do be biting us sometimes; dissecting a breakfast burrito.

Man, we are fourthing it up over here - and it's not even the fourth yet!  Host segments: Independence Day McG-ed; how does it stand up against other early disaster films; patching plot holes; what do you do between the parade and the fireworks?;  you got X-Files in my Independence Day; Area 54.

We're riding with death this week. We'll admit, we thought there would be a lot more...death...on the ride. With death.Host segments: Kegel fails; brake line moral relativism; Devori knows a lot about Smokey and the Bandit; give him a cracker friend; Jeff the "guess the network" savant; Buffalo Bill? Or Buffalo Bill?exposing the world to the weirdness that is "Teddy Bear;" give us Magnum any day.

We're dipping back into the realm of kaiju with Gamera vs. Barugon - and saying goodbye to a dearly departed friend.Host segments: the curse finally cursed; Jeff's strategy for keeping girls on farms; we gotta let them mug us; insert funnier STDs; Barugon vs. Bergeron; rest in pastrami. 

We're celebrating MiMi's birthday in style with her selection, the TV classic? Blood on Her Hands!Host segment: MiMi's favorite type of word; cheap hitmen; Susan Lucci is straight devious; we're upset about a distinct lack of Dennis Farina; getting arrested at your reception; J. Peterman is actually in financial trouble; we absolutely can make this a better movie; it's already a whore movie.

These bees - they sure are deadly. Host segments: chicken troubles; too soon for Thomas Jay jokes; adept at pumping; sonnet 101; Joe taking more for the team; Jeff is a connoiseur of boob jiggling; Devori gets emotional talking about Shadowlands; the Idaho of England; so much Hannah Montana discussion.

We finally got it right! Gene Hackman IS in this movie!Host segments: MiMi culpa; don't even wanna go to the dump; we all know Jeff would make a bean joke at some point; can Gregory Peck smile?; I regret throwing my friend into the vacuum of space; Joe Don Baker with space madness?

Hey - guess what? Gene Hackman isn't in this movie.Host segments: 100% Gene Hackman-free; small critique of MiMi's kissing; Jeff has opinions about geologists; Nuveena kink; this is now a chair review podcast; shirtless beefcake American; Dean-o's outttakes.

We're continuing our dive into the expansive Rothrock cinematic universe. This one is MUCH better.Host segments: a truly disasterous panel discussion; exaggerating the number of karate-ready government officials; what did they even win?; bidet humor; suspension of disbelief re: how many people can karate; the challenge of Raygun; the crazy summer of Top Gun; fixing these plot holes; we all shimmied.

We're coming back to Roth-rock you once again! This time, it's the inscrutibly maddening Undefeatable, which did, in fact, defeat us.Host segments: Hamster Style; yes - but what kind of Karate Guy?; part of the problem is that they're not good actors; Jeff teaches us how NOT to punch people in the back; constant soundtrack saturation; Hey - I Went There!; where else are we going to go, Annie?.

It was a rough week around here, and not just for the teens in Attack of the Eye Creatures.Host segments: Why do you need to stop on your way to eloping?; we keep disinformationing ourselves; putting smoochers to work again; Shyama-lazy; I was east bound and downed; bless the Chets; superior Saucer Men; we spend an inordinate amount of time reminding MiMi who Rip Taylor is; Joe is an Eddie Murphy film curator; what if everyone is a sex pest?; the Joe Don Continuum. 

It's a birthday request with the classic episode The Sword and the Dragon. Man - it sure is beardy around here.Host segments: awkward invasion tactics; Roger Corman got his paws on this one, too; some people will be charred; death or Sharla?; this is now an Ilya Muromets fancast; always open with the dragon; Bergman does SNL; the magic tablecloth of lost opportunities.

It's a birthday request! (annoying air horn sound) We're tackling the perennial Rifftrax/MST3k favorite The Million Eyes of Sumuru.Host segments: apologies to Frankie Valli; two fingers of brown; MiMi's fingers got a workout; Jeff's new life goals; Sumuru review; Annette's new gig.

Host segments: your finest chablis; Brandy is a fine girl; the best laid plans of reporters with cans of gasoline; listen to the tale of the Lon Talbot Group; Jeff - a romancer of the elderly; this could have been an email, Ben; unwatchable unriffed.