If you didn’t watch Mystery Science Theater 3000 on Comedy Central and the SciFi Network, it was a very funny series created by Joel Hodgson featuring a man and his robot sidekicks who are trapped on a satellite in space and forced to watch horribly bad movies. The gimmick of the show was that the man and his robots made a running commentary on the film, making fun of everything happening on screen, ripping the movies’ flaws apart and adding smart-assed dialogue to the film. They’d even rip on the credit roll & make that funnier than most things you’ve ever seen on tv. Hodgson created the series and originally played the stranded smart-ass on screen, but when he decided to leave the show he was replaced by head writer Michael J. Nelson who did a fantastic job for the rest of the shows run. Some of the episodes are available on dvd and as pirated video online.. so if you like The Funny Stuff, get on that.
I tell you all of that because Michael J. Nelson has a brilliant new project called RiffTrax. It’s basically Mystery Science Theater 3000-style commentary tracks for big famous Hollywood movies like Titanic or The Matrix without the movie.
Patton Oswalt in “The Amazing Screw-On Head”
Patton Oswalt writes:
Help a great show get on the air!
The Sci Fi Network is going to air THE AMAZING SCREW-ON HEAD on July 27th. It’s an animated pilot based on the genius, one issue comic by Mike Mignola. It features the voices of Paul Giamatti, David Hyde Pierce, Molly Shannon, and me.
Bryan Fuller broke his ass to bring it to life, and he stayed super-faithful to the vision of the comic.
It’s about a robot superhero who fights zombies for President Abraham Lincoln.
But they’re doing an early preview of SCREW-ON HEAD at www.scifi.com/amazingscrewonhead/ on July 13th. Go there, watch the pilot, and vote for it to become a series.
I had a lot of fun doing the pilot, and Bryan’s told me more of the stories he has planned. They’re really cool. I want to do them. Paul wants to do them. So do David and Molly. You can help it happen.
Check out AMAZING SCREW-ON HEAD at www.scifi.com/amazingscrewonhead/ and vote!
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