Vol XXXVII

[Edward J Grug III]

The titles for the next set from Shout! Factory are…

420- THE HUMAN DUPLICATORS

705- ESCAPE 2000

817- HORROR OF PARTY BEACH

819- INVASION OF THE NEPTUNE MEN

[Edward J Grug III]

People are speculating there is only one more set of easily released titles after this one...

[SJP]

Easily released?  Dammit, they should've left the Bronx!

[Pak-Man]

Ooh. Party Beach and Neptune Men are both awesome. Never saw the other 2.

[Darth Geek]

I could have sworn they already released Neptune Men. But it's probably just all the times I watched my old VHS tape of it.

[BathTub]

Yeah no stand outs on that pack for me. (still get it of course)

[Darth Geek]

I remember not caring that much for the Escape 2000 episode when I saw it years ago, But Invasion of the Neptune Men and Horror of Party Beach are both awesome! I don't think I've seen Human Duplicators, though.

[Darth Geek]

I remember not caring that much for the Escape 2000 episode when I saw it years ago,

Ooh, I just read the MST3K wiki on Escape 2000, and that has the great gag of Dr. F putting his Mom in a "home"! It also has the bit about Timmy Bobby Rusty!

[Johnny Unusual]

I like most of these episodes a lot, except for Human Duplicators (it's not bad, it's just a perfectly fine also-ran).  Man, Shout! does a great job getting the licencing.  Not counting KTMA, how many are left uncollected?

[Imrahil]

By my count, 18 left:
201   Rocketship X-M
213   Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster
309   The Amazing Colossal Man
311   It Conquered the World
416   Fire Maidens of Outer Space
418   Attack of the Eye Creatures
601   Girls Town
602   Invasion U.S.A.
605   Colossus and the Headhunters
618   High School Big Shot
623   The Amazing Transparent Man
807   Terror from the Year 5000
809   I Was a Teenage Werewolf
905   The Deadly Bees
906   The Space Children
913   Quest of the Delta Knights
1007   Track of the Moon Beast
1013   Diabolik

[Johnny Unusual]

Nice.  On the ones I want to see most, I got High School Big Shot (for the bread short) and Invasion U.S.A. ("YOU'RE MY WOMAN NOW!"), but most of those remaining episodes are good ones.

[BathTub]

Quest of the Delta Knights and Diabolik for me.

[Imrahil]

I'm COMINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG

[losingmydignity]

Horror of Party Beach! My favorite Mike ep!

[SJP]

Neptune Men has the hardest to watch final half hour of any MST in existence.  It is just so incredibly dull, and they knew it, what with the way Mike tries to leave the theater in the middle of the dogfight and how they huddle together afterwards crying.  How a movie about spaceships fighting can be this boring is beyond belief.

And yet, it is made up for by the inexplicable appearance of "The Hitler Building."  This completely out of nowhere moment leads to one of the best single laughs to come out of an MST ever.  They way they mercilessly mock it is priceless in and of itself.  "All the Hitler rides and games!"  "The great restaurant The Bunker...it's gone!"