This is one of those “I need something to post because I didn’t have time to find a proper Showcase” installments. It’s Mystery Science Theater 3000, so you know it’s going to be good…even if the movie they’re riffing isn’t.
It’s Mike Nelson’s first movie since he was knocked out to replace the escaping Joel. His rookie experiment is 1962’s The Brain That Wouldn’t Die, the tale of a scientist who tries to save his decapitated fiancee by finding a new body to attach her to. We also learn why Tom has to be carried into the theater within what passes for MST lore.
Enjoy, won’t you?
When this was originally posted to YouTube, the host had annotations, a way to have extra text to fill in details or point extra things out. Shout Factory used this to annotate the jokes, explaining references for anyone who didn’t grow up with the same reference as the Best Brains writing staff at the time. YouTube got rid of this feature, so it’s a nice thing I stumbled upon a website that hosts annotated listings of the references.
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