Eegah Is a Masterpiece: MST3K with Krissy Lenz & Kyle Olson

From Make Me A Nerd with Mandy Kaplan · 46:12

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Kyle Olson sent Mandy a ranked viewing list. She watched it in the wrong order, skipped the movie entirely, and showed up to declare the third-choice backup, a 1962 caveman picture shot for fifteen thousand dollars and currently sitting at zero percent on Rotten Tomatoes, "a perfect introduction to this world." Fair. Mystery Science Theater 3000 was never supposed to work either. A prop comic came home to Minnesota, a UHF station had nothing to air between ten and midnight, and the result was one man and two puppets heckling the worst films ever made from a spaceship, recorded live in a warehouse in Eden Prairie. Krissy Lenz learned comedy from it, in two installments, before and after school. Kyle has attended one of its two conventions, has seen Eegah performed live with a brand-new script, and attempts to describe a bit about a pool slide and a vomiting robot that killed in the room and cannot possibly survive retelling. Naturally, he tells it anyway.Also covered: why Joe Don Baker wanted to fight the writers, why the sketches exist at all (commercials), which Night Court star a caveman movie's hero turns out to resemble, Mandy's unresolved grievance against Jiffy Pop, and the news that new episodes are coming out right now. Press play.Guest SpotlightKrissy Lenz has been doing improv since the 1990s and, by her own host-page description, delightfully embarrassing herself on stage for more than 25 years. She has spent 15-plus years directing, producing, and teaching improv to students from 7 to 77, and she's a director and performer at the Neighborhood Comedy Theatre in downtown Mesa, Arizona. On TruStory FM she produces and co-hosts The Most Excellent 80s Movies Podcast and Gank That Drank, a supernatural drinking game, and she turns up on 3TV's Your Life Arizona as the "Guru of Geekery." She and Mandy also teased a new podcast together on this episode.Krissy Lenz on TruStory FMThe Most Excellent 80s Movies PodcastGank That Drank!The Neighborhood Comedy TheatreKyle Olson is an award-winning writer, producer, playwright, and podcaster. His high school heist comedy Answer Key, which he pitches on air as Ocean's Eleven meets The Breakfast Club, is published by Gitelman & Good. He co-hosted The Marvel Movie Minute for more than 300 episodes with Rob Kubasko, co-hosts Craft & Chaos with Pete Wright, and created the audio drama The Swashbuckling Ladies Debate Society and the storytelling podcast The Story Well. He is also, as of this episode, officially a MSTie and a Scaper.Kyle Olson on TruStory FMAnswer Key at Gitelman & Good PublishersKyle Olson on New Play ExchangeWade Into The Weird, Kyle's siteThe Marvel Movie MinuteCraft & ChaosThe Swashbuckling Ladies Debate SocietyThe Story WellLinks & ReferencesMystery Science Theater 3000Mystery Science Theater 3000List of Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes — the Season 11 (Netflix) section lives hereList of Mystery Science Theater 3000 characters — Dr. Clayton Forrester, Kinga Forrester, Pearl ForresterTom ServoCrow T. RobotMST3K official siteSatellite News — the long-running fan site, including the convention FAQ Kyle's ConventioCon story checks out againstMystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996) — the follow-up episode Mandy owes themThe People Who Made ItJoel HodgsonMichael J. NelsonDana GouldElayne BooslerCarrot TopWUCW — the Twin Cities station formerly known as KTMA, where the show premiered in 1988The Comedy Channel — merged with HA! to become Comedy CentralThe Netflix Revival CastJonah RayFelicia DayPatton OswaltBaron VaughnHampton YountNeil Patrick HarrisHar Mar Superstar — leads the Skeleton Crew, the house band Kyle couldn't nameRiffTrax and the New EpisodesRiffTraxRiffTrax official siteMST3K: The RiffTrax ExperimentsRiffTrax Makes MST3K! on KickstarterSting of Death (1966) — the half-man, half-Portuguese-man-of-war picture, first of the four new experimentsThe ExperimentsEegah (1962)Avalanche (1978)Mitchell (1975)Thi...

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