906 - The Space Children
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Wow. There goes the ice cream truck. I just don't have the energy to chase it.
"How do animals learn?" As long as they learn to taste good, I don't care.
"Let's see... what else can I hate?" - Crow as Ann
"A lot of loose-meat sandwiches eaten here." (Tom, upon arrival at the trailer court.)
"Um, General, at this point in time I am scared..."
"Yup. SCARED, SIR!"
Well we'll just say Operation "Blow Up the Rocket on the Launch Pad" was a huge success.
"So right now St. Matthew's poolside at The Polo Lounge smokin' cigars with Shay Black and Jerry Bruckheimer..."
"Well, [sigh] at least we got powdered orange drink outta' all this hoohah."
"The Dinky Rocket Show!"
"It's da' coppuhs'! Mugsy musta' sang like a canary."
"I'm done with roller derby."
"Hey, a glowing Challah!"
"Let's get to the wife-swapping."
"Wow, lookit' that giant cave squid stinging 'im to death... suckin' the blood right out of 'im... Cool."
"Now, we roast this squab with new potatoes and it's only 5.99."
"These are actual Jell-O™ molecules."
Yes, I will take money from my dad's wallet and send it to Soupy Sales.
(1:06) Crow's 'Fashion Means Coogan'---"Want to see even mooore of Jackie? This crocheted banana warmer should do the trick!"... Mike & Servo: "NO, NO, NOOOOOOOO!!!"
Let's head on over to the steak and martini pavilion.
I'm in the phone pavilion dear, I'm wearing a fright wig......
"Let's say you want to call your mother who lives in Des Moine." Why?
I want you to get a hold of a man named Mr. Howell. It's really important.
"There may be trouble launching the Thunder." If all the stalls are taken, yes.
Soon you'll have all your friends hanging up on you and dreading your calls.
"She had her calls transferred to my house." We're lovers now.
I'm trying to solve a crisis and all you do is smoke and criticize.
We brought you a nondescript "B" actor just like you asked, oh powerful jelly-brain!
Celebrating Pride Week at the fair. I'm Gay!!! I feel good about me!!!
"I'm getting out of here!" I have an appointment with my broker.
"Earth vs. Nougat."
"Well, it's 1963. Let's get in line for Beanie Babies™."
"Okay, but you have to feed him and walk him. Having a blob is a big responsibility!"
"Ah, that Rockford throws a great dinner party!"
"Hey, Kids, enjoy my Silly Putty™ qualities. I can lift images off the funny papers for you!"
"Moondoggie's really gone to seed."
"This is a perfect place to make our delicious Roquefort Cheese!"
♪ ♬ "But you can't escape Death..." ♬ ♪
"Oh, c'mon! You're gay and you know it!"
"Yeah, I'm drivin' the Monorail drunk. So what? [hic!]"
And the editor comes to the writer's rescue.
Devil’s office… … No, he went down to Georgia lookin’ for a soul to steal.
Go find out what he put on his job application under: "Do you drink a lot?"
They're trying to get as far away from Jackie Coogan in tiny shorts as possible.
Look, it's a giant beach chicken... oh it's just Jackie Coogan.
"There are only 3 pastries left on the tray, I've got to get down to the office!!"
"There's something wrong with the steering wheel!" "Stop it!" Well I'm not doing it on purpose!
Ya know, look, it's just a peepshow, it's not like I want to cheat on you or anything. Sheesh.
Hey, we're young and perky! Get the hell out of our way!
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For Space Children, the concept is Okay. The script could use some work. But, overall, the acting is at a level well above the MST3K standard.
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"Isn't it great there are only white people here?" Actually, there are only lime green people there!
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I just realized the wife in this is the same actress in The Screaming Skull, neat!
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Is it just me or do the riffer's voices sound more echoey than usual?
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Anyone else get an annoying pulsating circle on their TV screen when watching this video on a metacafe link below? It only happens when I play the vid on my TV, not on my computer. Ideas to remove it?
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https://www.metacafe.com/watch/10723481/mst3k_the_space_children/
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I have a dvd copy of this episode...I just do not have the means to upload it anywhere. :(
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Bummed that this episode is no longer available! :(
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Sadly, the link to this classic episode with The S[ace Children and its choice bits of 50"s culture no longer works. Fix?
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The "doctor woman" motif that permeates this episode is hysterical.
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This is one of the few films MST3K put through the ringer that I would actually enjoy watching sans the riffing.
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What is wrong with the "mom"?? She's making all upset about living "so close to the end of the coast" (or whatever)...THEY JUST CAME FROM FRIGGIN' SAN FRANCISCO!!! WTF??? Was she unaware that SF is ALSO "at the end of the continent" (or "Land's end" or whatever)? Did she never get west of Market St? Never knew there's plenty of beaches & sand & rocks, etc in SF too? Gawd!
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Heard Cat Stevens' "Where do the children play?" on the radio. Had to watch this now.
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"I'd go, but I'm high!"
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I'm just absolutely loving catchin up on episodes I've either never seen all the way through, or ones that I haven't seen in so long it's almost like the first time! This is on that list !!!!!
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Jesus, the bald riffing is as bad if not worse than Puma Man. Bill must've been projecting.
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The mom and the oldest son look like they could be related IRL
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Wow...Uncle Fester - with still a little bit of hair left!!!
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They keep razzing Tim as being way too old to be part of the kids group, but Johnny Washbrook (the actor) was 14 when this movie came out. Michel Ray (Bud, supposedly 12) was also 14, and Sandy Descher (Eadie, supposedly 11)) was 13. So really, the oldest ones are all close to the same age. Even Johnny Crawford (Ken, supposedly 10) was actually 12. Johnny Washbrook just must have moved into puberty sooner than the others.
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ONE OF THE BEST EPISODES! EVER!
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I was just reading about Michel Ray (The mighty Bud), and he's a very impressive person. He started acting at age 10, and he had the role of Faraj in Lawrence of Arabia, and then decided that he wanted an education instead of being an actor. He went to college and today, he's married to a childhood friend and together they're the major owners of Heineken (his wife's father was the founder). Apparently, he's one of the richest men in the world.
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This deserves way more laughs and I've used my allotment of one.
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At around 25:00, did I hear the guard say family of 3 when obviously there was 4 in the car?
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sadly, I remember when touch tone phones were introduced. but, what does it mean?
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so...(in short)...a rotary phone, or touchtone phone, can basically do what a smartphone still can't do?? turn on sprinklers? turn on AC? seriously?? Did all the stupid apps like Angry Birds, Snapchat, and Tinder take all the focus away from being able to control my life from dialing a freaking number on a touchtone phone in the 1950's??? wtf!?
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I just noticed Anne The Cranky Mom's outfit. A mid-length skirt and heels that she wore in the car, while her husband drove 500 miles?! I know it was the mid-1950s but really?! Was the wardrobe department nuts? You don't travel in those clothes. Were capri-length pants and tennis shoes too risque?
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So, if the blob has telekinetic powers and is omniscient, why does it need the children? Whatever they did to the rocket, couldn't it have just done it itself and saved the parents a lot of worry? "Put a jacket on if your going to take over the world!" I entertained the idea that the children are conduits for the blob's power but then, there's that scene where the blob interrupts the phone lines and no child is present! That's it, now I need to go repeat something to myself.
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That wife really needs to get laid or something, she's the most depressed character in any movie I've ever seen!
And Eadie's fake 'cute' smile... Jesus that's scarier than any monster shown on MST3K!
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Why does the 21 century seem so OLD???
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Servo sleeps with a nuclear bomb under his bed? Don't watch this one often enough. I think Servo has some real badass mad points for that. Like forming a town around an active nuclear warhead and calling it Magaton in Fallout 3. But so what. I sleep on one all the time. No big deal. XD
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The wife immediately earns my hatred and lack of respect in record time. Reminds me of my ex, she could find a way to complain about having to breathe other peoples air and share pool water when it was her idea to go swimming. People like her are the reason man invented booze.
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does anyone know if they ever actually made the phone inventions for wide spread use?
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"I bet it's a real cave!"
as opposed to a fake cave?
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the use of Biblical quotations to lend gravitas to movies annoys me.
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A vimeo episode with semi-reasonable quality? Blow me down.
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Uncle Baldo....ahhh...such a great friend to all kids, I loved his Saturday Morning TV show
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I love the Jackie Coogan fashion designs.....especially Mike and Servo's horrified reactions
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...At the Annie Sprinkles Show!!
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in short: so...instead of the chicken of tomorrow, which I assume they roasted--the PIGEON of tomorrow is learning BASIC and will be leading the revolution....? so...PIGEONATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY is nigh?
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Love the short, and one of the best movies riffed--just proof as to how crappy movies were...well...CRAPPY, especially in the 50's...
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I was there at the Space Needle and at that science center back in the 90s. Much different then. I'd be careful eating there however. *runt*
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So why does a sentient ball of goo from beyond the stars care if we blow ourselves up?
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Uncle Fester, the kid from the Rifleman and a drunken Professor!
Shades of my childhood.
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Is there actually a plot to this movie? It's just random people talking, what the actual
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What does the riff "Hi Mia." mean when the guy is walking alone on the beach?
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Watching this again, I think Raymond Bailey (Dr. Womanly/the bald guy/future Mr. Drysdale) put in a good acting performance. He showed compassion, authority, concern...and managed to keep some share of dignity.
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How does it pass that the wife is griping on and on about starting a weird new life on the coastline, and then she reveals that she's homesick for San Francisco?
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Holy Crap the conference call thing -- TOO hILaRiOuS. This certainly could have been a gag they did in Office Space. Office workers understand... omg. HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MST still relevant 25+ years later...and counting!
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In this episode: Pearl brags about here space program to a man who’s actually been to the edge of the universe and has once advanced beyond his corporeal existence.
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It’s fun to see absurdly primitive technology showcased as if it were the greatest thing ever.
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Amazing. Push Button Phones... Now I've seen everything.
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Ah go ahead and touch. Being Japanese she can't afford to have a sense of personal space.
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I put in a link to the episode from vimeo and it came out 107. Club MST3K, Please Fix This Issue!
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C'mon now!! Not even a MST3K episode!! Another "glitch" perhaps!!!
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I love that Brain Guy still has his hood and cape, even when he's wearing a lab coat.
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All Hail Grand Overlord Bud!
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I wish Pearl would've worn that lab coat and glasses more often.
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Wow, the mom in this movie has an Anakin-ian level hated of sand.
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What in the hell is that alien supposed to be? Like a growing, glowing, burnt marshmallow from space? For some reason that thing weirds me out and I have this weird desire to taste it...barf
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Holy crap, it's back! :D
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http://www.videoweed.es/file/f109abfa7f3f7
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Fix The Links ! ! ! Especially if you make it a Watch It Together Episode!
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You know, it's the little things that get my love from this episode. Servo's noises he makes during the short including the spit and splat when they're on the Space Needle. Also the way he just happily bounces along to the music. Then Crow's sudden biting remarks. Definitely Corbett at the top of his game.
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9:30 What they don’t tell you is that the only reason pigeons were trained to do that was so they could pilot early pigeon based guided missiles. That’s sounds like a joke, but it isn’t.
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I'm sure everyone has heard, but I'll leave this here anyway; I hope it doesn't read too much like a press release. RIP Russell Johnson, who, while playing a drunken lout of a stepfather in "The Space Children," was everyone's favorite Professor on "Gilligan's Island," and a dedicated charcter actor in dozens of other roles (just under two-hundred, in fact), especially in sci-fi and Western genres. By all accounts a good man and decent human being, who lived long enough to see the joy he brought to millions, he will be greatly missed.
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Boy, the people of the future sure were excited about the future!
Boy, the people of the future sure do look exactly like the people of the past!
Boy, the people of the future sure are white!
Boy is this short ever *STUPID!!*
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Thankfully I didnt have a mouthful of tea when during the short they said "oh you know youre gay". I could have ruined my keyboard.
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Wasn't the alien so lucky to have found a bunch of sociopathic children to do his bidding.
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http://filenuke.com/vkn5u83t195m
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Oi, the main link is broken. Get the bots to fix it!
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mine's bacon...!!
mine's horseradish!
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The short forgot to mention how modern communications will make it possible to pretend to be using your "portable phone" in public to avoid human interaction and even become so involved in your "portable phone" at home that you will forget you even have a family and they will forget all about you! ahhh...the wonders of technology...will they ever cease to amaze.
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Only 81 laughs...Far too low a number for a such a great episode.
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short works, video not youtube format....
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Man, that's the longest peanut butter commercial I've ever seen.
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I'll admit it. I kind of like this movie. Yes, the soundtrack is pointless, and there's some weak acting, but the plot of it is kind of cool. Children controlled by a supposedly benevolent, omnipotent power...but a power which is willing to cause injury in order to achieve its goals. Kind of reminds me of the unnamed powers in 2001, 2010, and 2061 (the books).
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Hey, the mom in this movie is the wife in The Screaming Skull!
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Farciot Edouart...the name of the gods!
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Anyone notice that "Overlord Bud's" mom is Eric's new wife/victim from The Screaming Skull episode?
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Anyone else have love for the Space Needle?
It's 50 years old, but it still looks like THE FUTURE!
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How long do you think you could last if you were stranded on an island with the wife in this movie. Shade under the palms, plenty of coconuts, and sand. So much sand.
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"We got it. We walked and got it."
Are you sure that was it, kid? Are you sure you didn't respire, look, age, itch, weigh something, and THEN walk and get it?
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Oh intolerable cruelty, you movie! Uncle Fester without pants, Mr. Drysdale without his toupee, The Professor as drunken child abuser; how many of my after school Snack-Pack pudding eating 60’s sitcom re-run TV watching happy memories of youth must you pervert?!
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05:31- Tom: "What a narrow, dangerous freeway!"
It's nothing, compared to the Alaskan Way Viaduct.
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Geez and to think I went to the Seattle World's Fair as a kid.
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Then you can go off with your DRINKING & PILL POPPING !! Yup, ....IT GET'S WORSE, (or better depending on your disposition) Crow is BRUTAL.
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Crow is in high form on this episode!
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This particular download is fantastic-
the sound quality is awesome-
it's like being in the theater with them
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The link dosen't go anywhere...
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One of Crow's greatest moments.