Showbiz info: The syndicated television series “Rocky Jones, Space Ranger,” lasted only one season, because it lost a considerable amount of money.Wonder if Trace would still make that joke? I know I wouldn’t! :smile: Hardy” Beradino appears, Crow says “Wow, he was old even then!” Beradino was in his mid-40s when that scene was shot. I love how, in the short, the doc tells his patient that his treatment for her apparently minor condition is TWO WEEKS in the hospital.A little backstage info: Kevin has acknowledged that he actually does have red-green color blindness, which I guess is where the idea for the bit came from.This episode was included in Shout! Factory’s “Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection: Vol XIV.”.The host segments are mostly pretty good (although the “space modifier” segment wears out its welcome) and generally I didn’t have any trouble staying awake and laughing a lot. The movie is pretty strange but the cast really commits to the premise, which makes the riffing easier and more fun. This time through I was fully functional (more or less) and I have to say I liked it a lot more. The consequence was that the black-and-white movie and all that monotonous rocketship taking off and landing practically put me to sleep (the meds might have contributed to this). The previous time I watched this I was really, really sick. Of the two Rocky Jones episodes, I prefer “Crash of the Moons,” but this one is a good time too.
As with other boxed sets in the series, a set of mini posters is included, along with a plastic statuette of Gypsy to match the earlier Crow and Servo statues. Other featurettes discuss such elements as MST’s invention exchange and the initial reluctance to riff on a “classic” like Robot Monster. The best arrives on the Bride of the Monster disc, a documentary covering the legacy of Wood from the people who knew him, a discussion of Bela Lugosi and a lovely rumination on the immortal Tor Johnson from George “The Animal” Steele (who played Johnson in Ed Wood).
The discs contain a surprisingly muscular series of extras: short, but very insightful.
Mike and the bots allow no cinematic sin to pass unpunished, and while they lack the novelty value of Joel’s entries, his efforts remain the funniest of the quartet. The last film, Devil Fish, relies on MST’s typical diet of rubber monsters, featuring a squid-like creature that terrorizes a bunch of Floridians with suspiciously Italian names. Devil Doll revisits the classic chestnut of a possessed ventriloquist dummy, playing just like that old episode of The Twilight Zone except that, you know, it sucks. Nelson’s two films follow a more business-as-usual pattern: lesser known stinkers that benefit from the host’s sharper wit.
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