(via JC’s Eye Candy)
Here’s a parody of a commercial (audio NSWF):
Georges Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune) was released on September 1, 1902:
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“Filmed in Zapruder vision, guys.”
– Tom Servo
The Hellcats gets the Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment:
(more…)Rod Serling says he was never able to make real science fiction
(more…)“‘Cause, see, I love science fiction, but I’m an aficionado, not a contributor, and I say this, you know, with no stupid, dumb, dumb humility at all. I’m am purely a Johnny-come-lately. I am perhaps the least scientifically knowledgeable man in the whole writing group, and I bow with great deference and respect to the real masters, you know, Asimov and Bob Heinlein and Sturgeon and all the rest of them. And these, of course, and yourself included, because you write pure science fiction. I can adapt science fiction I think quite adequately, but I can’t create it on an original level.”
Stan Ridgway: “Drive, he Said”:
(more…)Ginseng chicken soup (samgyetang)
(more…)Ingredients:
Small chicken (Cornish hen), 1/4 cup of sweet rice, a dozen cloves of garlic, green onions, a few jujubes, and 1 or 2 small ginseng roots.
- Wash and rinse your chicken in cold running water.
- Soak 1/4 cup of sweet rice for 1 hour.
- Stuff the chicken with the sweet rice, a ginseng root, a few jujubes, and 3-4 cloves of garlic. Place it in a pot.
- Pour water into the pot and boil it over high heat for 20 minutes. When it starts boiling, skim off any foam and fat that rises to the surface Then pour in more water and boil it over medium heat for 40 minutes.
- When it cooks properly, the chicken will be easily pulled apart by chopsticks.
- Serve it with salt and pepper and kimchi or kaktugi.
“Let’s just pretend we’re watching Trip to Bountiful.”
Manos: The Hands of Fate gets the Mystery Science Theater treatment (along with the short, “Hired! – pt. 2″):
(more…)Peter Gabriel’s “Solsbury Hill” (live):
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Anthony Bourdain: Fish Head Curry in Kerala, India:
(more…)“Your Opium shipment’s in Mr. Lugosi, sir.”
Ed Wood‘s Bride of the Monster gets the Mystery Science Theater treatment (along with the short, “Hired! – pt. 1″):
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