Mystery Scribble Theater Monday #16 - Problem Solving
Being a robot, Crow doesn’t quite understand how people work, especially this newest one.
Doing the right thing is important. Helping others in some way should just come naturally to everyone.
Fun Artist Fact: I drew the roughs for this in the airport, while waiting for my flight out for vacation. I’m honestly surprised at how good it looks finished. XD
For those wanting to catch up, you can look here: Mystery Scribble Theater Mondays. I’ll be organizing a full page of links soon too, so you can find your way around a little better!
A really awesome thing we got to do for HIDDEN AMERICA was SUB POP RECORDS as our music library. Here is a comprehensive list of the music used in season 1. They also let us use their offices to shoot a scene in for our SEATTLE episode.
Afterglow- Arthur Yu
Antennas Erupt- Marching From The Womb
Bad Luck- Lonesome Shack
Bondye- Goat
Bronx Sniper - Mister Heavenly
Cemetary- Life Stinks
Cinco De Mayo- Golden Triangle
City Man- Lonesome Shack
Clouds Below - TV Dream
Comfortable Comparable -Hooray For Earth
Day After Day- Pokey LaFarge
Down And Alone- Lonesome Shack
Every Man Needs a Companion- Father John Misty
Every Night You’ve Got To Save Me- Mass Gothic
Every Summer, Every Spring- Gashcat
Evil -Chad Van Gaalen
Filaments - Shearwater
Get Off - METZ
Hi-Livin -Pree
Holy Soul -Coldair
Holy Water- King Dude
Idea For Strings- Gem Club
Last Night In Town- Daniel Joseph Dorff & Ronnie Kuller
Limb Fron Limb- Land Lindes
Losers- S
Losers- S
Love Makes Love -Lonesome Shack
Marky Move- Fergus & Geronimo
Memories of You - Avi Buffalo
My Name- Kevin Morby
O I Long To Feel Your Arms Around Me - Father John Misty
Only Son Of The Ladies Man- Father John Misty
The Morning Sun- Gashcat
The River -The Dutchess & The Duke
Remember Love- S
Rolling/Nectarine- Hooray For Earth
SAY ENOUGH- Hooray For Earth
Skimming- Still Corners
Surrounded By Your Friends- Hooray For Earth
True Loves- Hooray For Earth
Cheap Girls - Slow Nod
FARTBARF - Homeless in Heathrow
Toys That Kill - Little Bit Stranger
TV Dream- La Luz
Vegetable Acid -Baby Jesus
Vizcaya -Jacuzzi Boys
Where The Walls Are Made Of Grass (Instrumental)- Fergus & Geronimo
I was lucky enough to be on two episodes of The Larry Sanders Show. I remember filming a take then Garry walked over. He had a performance note for me. He didn’t preface it with “this is what I want you to do.“ He prefaced it with “only try this if you think it’s funny.” I was floored. I barely had any acting experience and couldn’t believe he trusted me that much. I realized this is what made him the real deal.
Sometime after filming the episodes I planned a trip back to LA. I think Sarah Silverman told him I was coming. Before I left there was a message on my answering machine: “Todd, it’s Garry Shandling. I heard you were coming to LA. Want to stop by the set? I think you should.”
So I went to Garry’s office and hung out for hours. I told him about my girlfriend at the time. After rattling off a list of her good qualities, he said “she sounds great.”
There was pause.
“Do you want to call her?’I asked.
He smiled. “I was just about to ask.”
I laughed, gave him her number, then watched Garry Shandling call my girlfriend.
Special release! Fourteen minutes of comedy from the inimitable Paige Weldon on this limited edition 7" vinyl pressing. Second collab release with our stalwart imprint Literally Figurative Records.
“I first saw Paige Weldon at coffee shop open mic. It was a noisy night and all the other comics were doing their best to talk over the hustle and bustle of a cafe. Except Paige. She got up on stage and started telling jokes in her normal, quiet voice. Then, the room also got quiet. Her comedy, though not asking for any attention, got everybody paying attention. It was funny, sad, self-deprecating and it blew me away. I cannot wait for everybody to get to know Paige.”
Hello! So, you’ve seen me post about Hidden America a bunch and a lot of people ask where they can see it. Well, it will eventually be available on SeeSo.com. If you want to know what that is, basically it’s the Comedy Central of digital platforms. SeeSo is to Comedy Central as Netflix is to HBO.
THIS LAUNCHES TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Seeso launches in full subscription on Thursday (tomorrow!)
- on web at seeso.com, and on iOS and Android apps tom’w
- it’s JUST $3.99 and - NO ADS
- new stand up comedy from great comics every single day
- TONS OF BRITISH STUFF THAT I’M OBSESSED WITH, like Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place, Nathan Barley, the ENTIRE Alan Partridge cannon, A Bit Of Fry & Laurie, Saxondale, Black Adder
- great classic comedy shows like 30 Rock, Parks and Rec, The Office, ALL 40 years of SNL, Tonight Show and Late Night next day
- LIVE Stand Up shows (including LIVE show on on 1/13 - James Adomian, Chris Fairbanks, Sean Patton, and the NEW TOM SERVO: Baron Vaughn
- Kids In The Hall - EXCLUSIVE AND FIRST TIME EVER IN HD
- Everything Monty Python has ever done - EXCLUSIVE and including Flying Circus FIRST TIME EVER IN HD
- New episodes of new series every single week, like (Hidden America coming soon!) and The UCB Show, and Cyanide & Happiness - new episodes of the last three go up tom’w, with new episodes every Thursday.
- Also, Rory Scovel’s special and Matt Besser’s special premiere tom’w on the channel as well.
- Hidden America will premiere soon - but subscribers will get sneak peeks and other cool shit FIRST
- also, it costs less than a non fat latte or a domestic beer.
Today is the last day of the #bringbackmst3k Kickstarter. Help us make 12 episodes so I can go back in time and tell my younger self “everything you dreamed about comes true.” DONATE!
So here we are, two hundred feature films riffed. Haven’t counted the shorts, but man. Our nine-year anniversary and our seventeenth live show are coming up.
I mentioned in our last live show that we’ve now riffed more features than we did on Mystery Science Theater 3000. This is in no way meant to diminish the wonderfulness of MST3K or my time with it - on the contrary, it’s meant to honor it. It’s humbling, because MST was such a part of my life for so long, and still is in a lot of ways. I was involved with every single episode of the show, from pilot to finale. It comes up one way or another every day. It’s in my blood. And Hell, my blood is in it - if you bought a piece of the set when we finished, you may very well have a drop or two of my blood on your chunk.
It’s humbling because I’m still riffing, two decades along. I love to see MSTie parents come to our shows with their kids,carrying home-built ‘bots and wearing Tommy Wiseau shirts. As MST is in my blood, so is Rifftrax. I guess riffing is in my DNA. It’s humbling, sure, and baffling, and joyful and life-giving.
So I find myself at this strange milestone overflowing with gratitude for my opportunities, for all the talented souls I have and continue to work with, but mostly I’m grateful for you, the people who watch, who laugh, who share, who reach out to me to say thank you, or even to say “Hey, I think you can do better.”
And whether you prefer MST to Rifftrax or Joel to Mike or Picard to Kirk or Gary Busey to Nick Nolte, whether you like all of it or some of it or none of it, it’s your preference and your preference is always totally cool. I’m immensely proud and thankful for it all, and it’s wonderful to me that you have liked, and continue to like, what it is we do.