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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Aw shit. Gerrit Graham -- indeed Beef from _Phantom of the Paradise_, among numerous other things -- has sadly died.

It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 18/09/2026

Hey, it's that MST3K episode that went missing for a few decades but then got found! We talk about K03, Star Force: Fugitive Alien II, now with funhouse mirror black hole sequences and Joel's dreamy long hair. Listen at itsjustashow.com/episode/194 or on your podcast app. And enjoy!

Screenshots from MST3K K03: Captain Joe and Ken go through a black hole and get all funhouse mirror warped.

Oh, more warping, but now it's all bathed in a blue light.

Meanwhile on the Satellite of Love, Crow is experimenting with clothespins, Joel has long hair, and Tom's head is filled with what looks like popcorn.

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 29/08/2026

And we're back! And so is Ken and the plucky crew of the Bacchus 3, for #MST3K 318, Star Force: Fugitive Alien II. Which also provides an excuse for one of us to finally watch Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Listen on your podcast app or itsjustashow.com/episode/193

Screenshots from the MST3K episode Star Force: Fugitive Alien II: The plucky crew of the Bacchus 3 dive in formation.

A close up of Colonel Yurulin, who is not the fugitive alien of the title, but is a fugitive alien, too.

Frank and Dr. F wearing BIG NOSES. (They're big.)

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 23/04/2026

All hail Mikey! In our latest episode, we revisit #MST3K 514, Teen-Age Strangler. With the short: Is This Love? And look, both are amazing, but we simply must celebrate a true cinema icon, John Humphries. Listen at itsjustashow.com/episode/192

Screenshots from the MST3K episode of Teen-age Strangler. Featuring John Humphries as Mikey!

Mikey and his acting coach emote their way into our hearts.

Meanwhile, a weird interlude from this guy. He's the sheriff, and he's making an announcement that the kids better stay safe. Hm.

Oh, this is Peg and her dreamboat. Look at them. Is this love? Well? Is it?

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 20/04/2026

Hey, I was in one of those theatres!

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 31/03/2026

Lon Chaney Jr. is in both the short (Undersea Kingdom) and the movie featured in #MST3K 409, Indestructible Man, and so we have to talk about him. But won't anyone take a moment to appreciate the film's other star, Max Showalter? itsjustashow.com/episode/191

Screenshots from the MST3K episode Indestructible Man. Here, Lon Chaney (Jr), behind bars, has some choice words to say to the lawyer who betrayed him.

The detective, played by Max Showalter (aka Casey Adams), proposes to Eva in just the worst way imaginable.

Meanwhile in the Undersea Kingdom, someone who might also be Lon Chaney (or maybe not? it's a little hard to tell in this shot) helps Unga Khan with his dastardly plan.

An uncomfortable close-up on Joel's eyes, à la Lon Chaney.

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Gregormortis (with Boo G's) @plusgreg.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

The *last* lost episode. We did it, folks.

Image of MST3K moon. Dark Souls "Great Enemy Felled" text but it reads "TAPES CIRCULATED"

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 20/03/2026

I have spent the last 9 years imagining what our episode on K03 would be like. Would it be significantly shorter than our usual episodes? Would we edit it to sound like we only had clips of it? Would we try to imagine the missing riffs? Anyway, here's Star Force.

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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 20/03/2026

Holy shit, someone found MST3K KTMA episode 3, Star Force II, at a garage sale. Lost media since 1988. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Z4...

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MST3K - KTMA - K03 - Star Force

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 28/02/2026

In our new episode we revisit #MST3K 1202, Atlantic Rim, and we talk about another movie that it took a little inspiration from. Oh, and Charlotte watches North (Rob Reiner, 1994) so you don't have to. Listen on your podcast app or itsjustashow.com/episode/190

Screen shots from the MST3K episode Atlantic Rim: Three colour-coded mechs fly over Times Square and attack a kaiju. Notice that Times Square is covered in ads for other movies from The Asylum, makers of Atlantic Rim, such as I Am Omega.

Our heroes, Green, Red, and Blue, when not encased in colour-coded mech. They're standing in front of a helicopter; Green is trying out a stylish headband that will allow him to have a deeper connection to his mech.

The team is lead by Admiral "Bull Butter" Hadley, played by the late great Graham Greene.

Meanwhile on the Satellite of Love, Growler plays a pipe organ that causes air dancers to flop about; Jonah and the bots recoil in terror.

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 17/02/2026

What if MST3K, but drawings? We take a quick look at MST3K: The Web Series (aka The Animated Series, aka The 'Bots Are Back) and MST3K: The Comic. One is a bit more successful than the other. Listen on your podcast app or at itsjustashow.com/episode/189b

From MST3K: The Web Series: GPC and Servo are talking on the SOL.

From MST3K: The Web Series: Crow is fishing in a lake.

From MST3K: The Comic: A scene on the Satellite of Love. Jonah, on a ladder, is checking out a lighting fixture; Servo, holding a copy of "A Little Bit of Schmervo in the Night" on vinyl, says: "Looks like a speaker. If so, we can play my new record!" Crow, building a toothpick sculpture of the Eye of Sauron, says, "It's just a pasta strainer, lighten up!" GPC, with a bucket of tools, says, "The boneheads probably put it there on their last maintenance visit. I can tell because it's crooked." M. Waverly, holding a magazine, says, "Hey-- who creased the Mad fold-in?" Growler, driving a small work vehicle, saying, "Y'now, we all want the same thing--a fistful of fifties and a day without fear." Cambot watches on silentlyl. This is located in the path between the bridge and the theater; a bumper sticker on the next door says "Reptilicus is Silly!". There's a workbench with lots of crow parts.

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 14/02/2026

Charlotte has escaped containment! The power of romcoms was too strong! Hear her talk about three movies with our @fiascofamilypod.bsky.social friends for Valentine’s Day!

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 03/02/2026

In the meantime, there are still lots of older episodes to rewatch, like #MST3K 406, Attack of the Giant Leeches. With the short: Undersea Kingdom, ch. 1. Who would win in a fight, a giant leech or "Crash" Corrigan? Listen to our new podcast about it at itsjustashow.com/episode/189

Screenshots from the MST3K episode Attack of the Giant Leeches. Here, in the beginning of the short, we see "Crash" Corrigan (playing "Crash" Corrigan) in all his bare-chested glory, being inspected by a naval officer or something.

Meanwhile, Dick (Bruno VeSota) and his wife Liz (Yvette Vickers), despite their marital struggles, both take a moment to appreciate her gams.

One of the few frames of the film that show (part of) a giant leech. It's, uh, well, it's probably for the best that they barely show the giant leeches, so your mind can fill in the scary details.

Back on the Satellite of Love, Crow, Joel, and Tom are dressed up Hee Haw style, singing about how they're a danger to themselves and others. Crow has buck teeth, which is a nice touch.

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 02/02/2026

Hunh. OK, well, I guess that answers a few questions.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Servo and Crow tried to bring WAITING FOR GORGO to Broadway but producers balked when they heard it was only three minutes long.

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 16/01/2026

Let's switch it up a little this Gamuary, and enjoy a kaiju from off the coast of Ireland who destroys downtown London! Yes, this year we're looking at #MST3K 909, GORGO! Is this also a thin excuse to talk about Samuel Beckett? Yes, of course it is. Happy Gamuary! itsjustashow.com/episode/188

Screenshots from the MST3K episode of Gorgo: Gorgo's parent, also a giant kaiju, destroys Tower Bridge. A London bridge is falling down, even if it isn't London Bridge.

The harbourmaster at Nara Island, who looks a little bit like Samuel Beckett.

Crow and Tom in their production of Waiting for Gorgo.

And Pearl is hanging out with Leonard Maltin? OK, sure.

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 16/01/2026

Well, this got cited on Wikipedia, so I guess it's true. Hunh.

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 25/12/2025

Happy holidays! Let's see what's in this box... Oh. It's Munchie. That's right, we're looking at #MST3K 1304, Munchie, and arguing that it's a holiday movie! It's a terrible argument but it's ours and we're sticking to it. Listen at itsjustashow.com/episode/187 or on your podcast app. Ho ho ho!

Screenshots from the MST3K episode on Munchie. Here, Munchie is revealed, with fireworks. He's terrifying to behold (but perhaps even more terrifying to listen to).

Cathy (Loni Anderson) looks on as her creepy boyfriend Elliot (Andrew Stevens with a micro-Ned Flanders moustache) says weird things to her son.

Munchie drives a jeep in front of the moon, in a classic movie homage that even a child could recognize.

Meanwhile on an SoL, Jonah is dressed up as a rock star, showing ever so much chest, and pouting. Crow and Tom look on.

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 23/12/2025

As a holiday treat for our Patreon supporters, Chris & Charlotte joined other Megaphonic podcasters to talk about SONG OF NORWAY, a 1970 musical biopic about the composer Edvard Grieg. The movie isn't worth watching. But it was fun to talk about for 2 hours! www.patreon.com/posts/holida...

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FlyingAceCMX - 9/30 bday (Chris Molinar) @flyingacecmx.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

In at least two episodes of Hogan's Heroes, there's a very familiar actress, who has played an undercover Gestapo agent. It turns out that it's Ulla Strömstedt, aka, "Creepy Girl" from Catalina Caper! #MST3K

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 15/12/2025

In our new episode, we look at #MST3K 603, THE DEAD TALK BACK. (Or do they?) With Crow dressed up as Jerry Garcia and a short about selling cabinets to sell more ice cream, this has something for everyone. Listen at itsjustashow.com/episode/186 or on your podcast app. Enjoy!

Screenshots from the MST3K episode The Dead Talk Back. Here, a scientist in his laboratory attempts to speak with the spirit of a murder victim, whose body is in a glass vitrine behind him. It's all very scientific.

A model, dressed up as a pizza dominatrix, waves her magic wand over a large ice cream display chest. It's very marketing.

Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank are wearing fedoras and are lit moodily. Frank confesses to every possible crime. They're adorable.

Crow, dressed up like Jerry Garcia, is playing a guitar solo. GPC reads War and Peace, Tom plays solitaire, and Mike folds up some sensible slacks while they wait for the solo to end. It does not end.

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 27/11/2025

Happy Turkey Day! On Thanksgiving Day in 1988, the first episode of #MST3K aired — and now, 185 episodes into our podcast, we're ready to talk about it! We discuss K01, Invaders from the Deep, and the Supermarionation show Stingray that this "movie" comes from, over at itsjustashow.com/episode/185

Screen shots from the MST3K episode on Invaders from the Deep. On the Satellite of Love, Joel introduces us to the show — kind of.

Phones and Troy Tempest pilot the underwater vessel Stingray, with the silent Marina sitting in the back.

One of the underwater baddies has Marina strapped to a chair. She only has a few marine minutes to escape!

Back on the SoL, GPC has come down with a bad case of foam. Not FOMO, just foam. (Don't worry, she'll be fine.)

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 24/11/2025

Seems like a good time to revisit that first episode. Our podcast about it will be out soon!

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 16/11/2025

Before our big Turkey Day episode, let's take a look at a short that was meant for the ill-fated #MST3K CD-ROM: Assignment: Venezuela! And let's try to keep it light, hm? Yes? No? Oh. Listen at itsjustashow.com/episode/184b or on your podcast app.

Screenshots from the MST3K short, Assignment: Venezuela. An American gets off the plane for a new job in Venezuela. Good thing he speaks a few words of Spanish, kinda!

Meanwhile his wife and kids are back in the US, waiting to join him.

Our American businessman is hard at work, sitting near a pool, enjoying the local, uh, scenery.

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 04/11/2025

Our latest episode looks at #MST3K 1005, BLOOD WATERS OF DR. Z (aka Zaat). It's got more fish in it than you can shake a stick at. Or a fishing pole at. Or something. Insert fish pun here. Listen on your podcast app or at itsjustashow.com/episode/184

Screenshots from the MST3K episode on Blood Waters of Dr. Z. Here, a sargassum fish hides amongst the sargassum plant. Inspirational!

Our man-turned-fish anti-hero looks at his to-do list, which is unexpectedly shaped like a many-layered wheel.

On board the Satellite of Love, Crow is getting into dip. Which, yuck.

Brain Guy and Bobo do a scene from Glengarry Glen Ross — in the buff. Does it improve things? Sound off in the comments!

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 28/10/2025

Our Donald Pleasence Day episode is spectacularly late (sorry) but here it is! Please enjoy all the familiar faces you'll find in #MST3K K15, Superdome, a made-for-tv movie about bad things happening at the Super Bowl. Listen at itsjustashow.com/episode/183 or on your podcast app.

Screen shots from the MST3K episode on Superdome. Here, Tom Selleck, chest and moustache fully on display, plays a star quarterback, hanging out in the locker room, getting ready for a pre-game soak in the electric whirlpool.

David Janssen plays the general manager of the team.

Donna Mills (spoiler alert) is the one doing all the killing. Is she about to kill David Janssen?

M. Emmet Walsh as the team physician, who (again, spoilers) Donna Mills does kill.

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 18/10/2025

If you listened to me talking to Charlotte all about Ed Wood's last movies and thought "I need MORE!" — well, here are some other folks talking about them. Also I need to grab @willsloanesq.bsky.social's book about Ed Wood at my local bookstore. (They have six copies in stock!)

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 16/10/2025

Our friends over at HubrisWeen! are doing it again - daily mini podcast episodes about movies from A-Z - in the run up to Halloween. And they just released K, for THE KILLER SHREWS! They also covered THE GIANT GILA MONSTER for G. Fans of #MST3K, check em out! megaphonic.fm/hubrisween/2025k

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Those are some happy looking Killer Shrews (1959) there.

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 15/10/2025

Next episode is running a little late, for reasons. We thank you for your patience.

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 06/10/2025

Happy Donald Pleasence Day, everybody!

Screenshot of Donald Pleasence in an amazing shiny top.

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 30/09/2025

"Why don't they look (at #MST3K 520, Radar Secret Service, with the short Last Clear Chance)???" We finally looked. Our Sam Newfield festival continues — and hey, why don't we also check Newfield's most notorious film, The Terror of Tiny Town? On your podcast app or itsjustashow.com/episode/182

Screen shots of MST3K's episode, Radar Secret Service. Here, a distant train is coming at us down the tracks. Danger!

Two engineers look at (an offscreen) tragedy caused by their bloodthirsty trains. "Why don't they look?" one of them asks.

In a different movie, a metal ball on top of a car from the 40s lets you know that RADAR is on its way! (This Radar Secret Service doesn't seem like much of a secret.)

Down in Deep 13, Dr. F and TV's Frank (in a beard) talk about the Hypno Helio Static Statis in today's film that makes it so boring. (All of the walls of Deep 13 seem pretty stable.)

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 25/09/2025

I haven't heard the Growing Up with Manos audiobook, but the book itself is a delight. And weren't we just talking about how fun we found Frank's reading of Twenty Five MST3K Films....? So, you know, treat yourself.

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 22/09/2025

Can't believe we weren't able to go to this.

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Rex Thrillho @evanbrady.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Attn @itsjustashow.com listeners

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 17/09/2025

In our latest episode we revisit MST3K 507, I Accuse My Parents — and the episode of The Mads Are Back where they tackle it, and the chapter of Frank's book (now out in audiobook!) where he talks about it. All of which are very good. Listen on your podcast app or at itsjustashow.com/episode/181

Screenshots from the MST3K episode on I Accuse My Parents. This is from the short, The Truck Farmer, and shows an endless field of crops getting sprayed with an endless supply of chemicals. OK, probably not endless — it's just one guy in a vehicle spraying things — but it looks like not gonna stop any time soon.

From the movie: Young Jimmy measures nightclub singer Kitty's feet for a new pair of shoes. (In a shoe store, not in a night club.) He's going to tell her the wrong size, but for once Jimmy's not lying. He makes an honest mistake! He doesn't know what he's doing yet — but she's his first customer.

At the nightclub, Kitty sings a song that will be rattling around my head even in the grave.

Joel (with a hastily painted on pencil moustache) enjoys GPC's performance of that song. She look even more glamorous than Kitty!

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 29/08/2025

Let's get stuck in MST3K 1312, The Bubble! They say the movie is worse than Manos — could that be true? Who is this Arch Oboler guy anyway? And what about this movie will make Charlotte say: I object! Listen to our latest episode and find out! itsjustashow.com/episode/180

Screenshots from the MST3K episode on The Bubble. Here, a man tells the woman who just gave birth to his child that she's already got her sexy figure back.

Two men have found the edge of the bubble. "It's a wall made out of glass!" one of them says. ("It's called a window," Tom notes.)

The town they're stuck in is absolute mishmash of whatever they could find in a backlot. Old West general store? Stone grotesques? Why not! As long as it's brown.

Oh, there's also a little freakout section where disembodied masks of heads float towards you (because this was originally released in 3D). But this is not The Mask.

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 28/08/2025

Our new episode should drop tomorrow. Are you ready to re-enter... The Bubble?

A screenshot of MST3K's episode on The Bubble. A cab drives down a dirt road, with a random assortment of statues, columns, and pipes on either side of the road.

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It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 08/08/2025

We celebrate a big birthday by looking at MST3K 203, JUNGLE GODDESS. Hoo boy, that's gonna give us something to talk about. But also there's the first chapter of The Phantom Creeps! Listen at itsjustashow.com/episode/179 or on your podcast app

Screenshots from the MST3K episode on Jungle Goddess. Here, George "Superman" Reeves and Robert "Dick Tracy" Byrd stand next to Wanda "Jungle Goddess" McKay, as they try to get out of the jungle.

Meanwhile in The Phantom Creeps, Bela Lugosi shows off his adorable giant robot to his assistant.

We see Crow and Tom Servo through an "intestine scope" (i.e., a matte stencil of an intestinal track), for some reason.

Joel and the bots star in the wacky sitcom My White Goddess! High-larious.

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Steve Horton 🚀 The Comic Book Story of Space Exploration @mst3k.fan · 04/08/2025

RIP Loni Anderson, of course best known for MUNCHIE (1992).

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