E.T. Week: Extra Terrestrial Visitors
E.T. comes to an end with "Extra Terrestrial Visitors."
...though you may know the movie better under a slightly different title.
...though you may know the movie better under a slightly different title.
Trumpy, you can do magic!
It's called "Evil", kid.
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I want to smack him with the "sledgehammer!"
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No Extra testicle??? You promised porn!!! The 5 minutes of rapist ET and 1 porno mag dont cut it!!!
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AT LAST, "POD PEOPLE"!!!!!!!!!!
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Congrats on making it through E.T week! Amazing how this actually was the best of the lot :0
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IT WAS ABOUT TIME!
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What is saturday not part of the week anymore?
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I clearly love this show and I watched every episode of it, but I think it's sick that it's ok to show a smashed head, but not a single naked breast.
Something's wrong with 'morality' in the States, without a doubt.
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The whole Rick "it stinks!" lip mismatch comes from the production; this flick was shot in Spain and in Spanish, though they try to hide that by using American food, english signs, and that photo of Reagan in the ranger shack. But you knew all that, Brad.
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This was the best. Week. EVER. You've always been one of my favorite reviewers, but you REALLY brought your A-game for these. Hilarious, every single one. I call ET Week a rousing success!
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AWesome review as always but I'm a little bit disappointed... I thought there were gong to be 2 more episodes. And there are so many more ET knockoffs and porn parodies apparently!
Oh, well! I need to see this movie on it's own someday! Is there a DVD with both versions of it on it? That you know of!?
I haven't seen the episode of MST3K itself but I'll check You tube and see if it's been bootlegged onto there!
I do gotta admit I like the alien design here and effects looks like something you'd see in a Star Wars movie or a half assed TV show of the time!
I wonder if you could do what they did with this movie with other sci-fi/horror movies and by adding in a kid they could turn them into an ET or a Kid and his monster/alien friend!? Like Friday the 13th Part 4 The Friendly Chapter!
I don't know why but when I was thinking of this Joke I was reminded that I read some where they made a porno-parody of FT13TFC called Friday the 13th The Nude Chapter and I'm wondering if Brad here has heard of it and if he can find it would he review it!?
So long ET week you were the best of the Year outside the Summer Midnight Reviews!
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The end of E.T. week? I am dissaponted you didn't review the argentinian parody "Los Extraterrestres". It's in your intro!
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The end of E.T. week? I am dissaponted you didn't review the argentinian parody "Los Extraterrestres", with Monguito as E.T.. It's in your intro!
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With the lip-reading thing, he's saying 'dreadful'.
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it looks like he's saying shit.
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Great stuff. Good cap off to E.T. week.
I've always thought that effect near the end was impressive.
The MST3K episode was hilarious as always. My personal favorite episode is "Horrors of Spider Island". Just classic!
Congratulations Brad, God bless you and your work and hope to see another great 50 episodes until the next anniversary series.
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Wait, this movie got a 1.8 on IMDB, and Nukie gets a 1.9!? I'm sorry, this movie makes Nukie look like Casa-fuckin-blanca. Trumpy could kick that little dried scrotum any day of the week.
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Sorry, I meant Nukie makes THIS movie look like Casa-fuckin-blanca. I think all that spicy Turkish food made my grammar wonky.
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As Brad said, it's because it was on MST3K. The bottom 100 isn't really a list of the worst movies, it's a list of the most notoriously bad movies. A movie needs 1500 votes to qualify for the bottom 100 list, so a movie needs to attract a lot of attention despite being bad, so it either needs to have a major theatrical release to begin with (like Baby Geniuses 2 or From Justin to Kelly) or it needs something like MST3K to propel it into infamy. But in both cases, the movies have to be at least reasonably watchable.
Curse of the Cannibal Confederates has a low enough rating to get on the bottom 100, but not enough people have rated it it, and I highly doubt people are going to be lining up to see it any time soon. It's not a Troll 2 kind of bad movie.
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Good review. And good week.
One thing I noticed when watching this movie for the MST3K episode was that the movie has some footage lifted from Space:1999 (in the review it came at the point where you made the Doctor Who joke) though something tells me I might be the only person to have noticed this. Someone please tell me I'm wrong!
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Great episode loved this whole series but special mention to the Kung Pow nuts line line was in the middle of having a drink when that happened needless to say i had to clean off my keyboard and monitor before i could type perfect timing lol bravo sir
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Gotta say I probably enjoyed ET Week more than anything on Cracked or TGWTG this week, & I visit those places daily.
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A fine end to E.T. week. Pod People really is the best of these E.T. ripoffs, and it's almost it's own movie too.
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And this week comes to an end with "Pod People" and all is right with the world.
I'm still suffering aftershocks of watching the "Nukie" review. "Pod People" is still a terribly put together movie, but it has some great laughable moments, ie. "Idiot Control Now", the stop motion scenes, the bad accents and bad dubbing etc. Not to mention having already seen the MST3K episode, I had already thoroughly enjoyed this movie with the help of Joel & The Bots.
Whereas "Nukie", well... FUCK THAT PIECE OF SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THERE WAS NOT ONE ENJOYABLE THING ABOUT THAT MOVIE! AND IT DIDN'T MAKE ANY GODDAMN SENSE! THERE WAS NOT ONE REDEEMING QUALITY ABOUT THAT MOVIE! I SWEAR IT EXISTS ONLY TO TORMENT ME! AND IT STILL DOES!
Whew! Now I feel better! Thank you Brad for ending E.T. week on "Pod People", as campy as "Homoti" was, it still wasn't enough to give me closure for the horrors of "Nukie". I'm still surprised that you made it out of that with any shred of sanity! At least we had Joel and the Bots and "Pod People" to let us cry on their shoulders for a while tell us that it's all gonna be OK.
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Brad.
As a fellow MST3K fan I've read at least a few other fans on the internet claim the original broadcast version of Pod People on MST3K had a few seconds cut with the puzzle scene that you were wondering about in this video.
Unfortunately for us the Rhino VHS and DVD versions of the episode have that small portion missing.
Some MST3K fan video vendors on the 'net offer the broadcast version at this moment due to assumed post-Rhino home video rights expiring. In fact I'm going to find out for myself how much was cut by ordering a copy of a fan recording now that you've reminded me of this.
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"John Holmes doing a handstand in a coat"
There is only one Brad Jones.
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Best of the bunch? ... Oddly enough, I'll believe that.
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I noticed that in the opening you used a fragment of Argentinian E.T rip off. Believe me when i say that no matter the riff you do on it, the people of Argentina are very protective of those two "comedic" actors mainly because they squish EVERY.SINGLE.ONE.OF.THEM and their sports "celebrities" even today because they fail to develop talent and must milk all of them to death. And dont even get started If you saw the tv shows where they think its very clever to also do references (not parodies, references) to Hallowen, Jaws and The Good father by playing the musics in every segment they can think off over and over and over and over until your mind just stops
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check out a modern day one man made horror flick bong of the dead
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(^_^)b It stinks!
Seriously though, Pod People is up there in my Top 5 Favorites of MST3K (although Space Mutiny is my #1). The plot feels like 3 different scripts were drafted and strung together in a shallow, haphazard way, the dialogue sounds so stilted and inhuman (though I'm pretty sure it was dubbed-over audio; Tommy's "voice" doesn't sound natural at all), and I couldn't stand "She Who Has Brain of Rock" and Tommy (although Trumpy, Renaissance Man and Not-Leslie Nielsen make up for that). But all of that just adds to it's so-bad-it's-good charm (it also helps that J.P. knows how to direct a pretty creepy atmosphere; even with Joel and the 'Bots riffing, the 'alien horror' scenes are a tad unsettling).
I also agree on the ending; the more you think about it, Trumpy gets a pretty sad ending. He's still technically a newborn who doesn't know anything about the world since Tommy didn't teach him crap, he's got no spaceship, and no other friends to help him (or to give him potatoes).
That being said, I immensely enjoyed E.T. week (except for NUKIE... goddamn... I read Something Awful's review before, so I knew it was going to suck, but... goddamn.), and I look forward to next week's episode. =)
HUZZAH! (I couldn't resist... I'm sorry)
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I really appreciate the episode showing what the MST3k version censored. The only movie I recall that I really wanted to see uncensored was Escape 2000, mainly because I can't find that movie anywhere.
Oh, and Zombie Nightmare. But maybe I'm just not looking hard enough.
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This movie didnt seem as funny as those other ones, because this movie is actually professional looking.... unlike the turkish ones and the porn.
Im sure this pod-people/Et-movie is a far more entertaining movie than the other movies in ET-week. But i had a better time with those because it so obvious those suck.
But this is the only of the ET rip offs i could actually watched by my self as though it was any other movie.
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lol I love that title you did during the credits "Snob finally does Pod People"
What a great way to end the week and have as the anniversary it was really funny and you referenced a lot of your past reviews.
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Hey Brad. It's me writing you from heaven!
Don't you dare to end the "E.T." week before you review the Indian E.T.!
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Thanks for an awesome week of reviews
I totally agree on the atmosphere in Pod People. It's almost as if it's shown through the perspective of a person with high fever and/or under narcotic influence. Doesn't do me any good, unfortunately, almost feels nauseating rather than providing atmosphere. My other big problem is the characters. It might be poor writing, but the movie can't make me like any of them(except maybe Trumpy). That's a big problem in slasher films. There's no tension if you don't have anyone to root for. The early Friday the 13th movies did that right.
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Hope this means other movies that are frequently referenced on the show will be snobbed. Such as Criminally insane.
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I gotta say, I enjoyed this movie. I love movies that mix up genres, and this one does a great job of being a horror movie with elements of a "kid and alien" movie tacked on. Sure, the stuff with the kid isn't as memorable as the real E.T., but it still has some of the feel they were going for. The horror itself, though, it's pretty well done. It's in the best style of Evil Dead and the early Friday the 13th movies. Go Extra Terrestrial Visitors!
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Dear god Brad. You work 24 hours a day? You make me feel like a lazy bum ;P Great work on the E.T week it was most enjoyable.
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I am starting a campaign to have everybody go to the "Pod People" IMDB page and rate the film (or change your previous rating) at a 2 or higher, in an effort to get "Pod People"'s IMDB score higher than "Nukie"'s!
WHO'S WITH ME?????????
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Yeah! *throws voice several times* Yeah I'm with you! Yeah! Me too! Yeah buddy!
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I have watch that MST3K esp, but I'll rewatch it later today.
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I just now got your joke about grizzly 2.... once i checked out the snob-video you did. Fucked up they claimed copy right about something which will never get released.
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Looks like the Snob stepped in some TRUMPY DUMPY!
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it's bee a great week, so much snob
if i could say one good thing about nukie
it's that it makes almost anything else
seem better by comparison
speaking of which is there anything else worse than that?
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You did E.T. without bothering to review XTRO??? The infame!
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Haha YES! This just made my day Brad, you have no idea how exciting it was to see you take this one on. And to hear that you're an mst3k junkie like myself! I will applaud a splendid job making this review your own because I know it is impossible for me to watch any of the mst3k on my Top 10 list and NOT quote the entire thing. Pod People bounces around my top 5 with Prince of Space, Cave Dwellers, Space Mutiny and Skydivers. Once again, thoroughly entertaining and always love tuning in to you
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"I don't know what kind of meteor crashed here but it apparently had genital warts."
Nice to see Mark Shannon's nutsack make a cameo in "Pod People", err, I mean "Extra Terrestrial Visitors".
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Pod People is probably still up there as one of my favorite MST3K episodes ever. While Manos gets a lot of mentions, Pod People is probably one of the best full episodes to show to initiate people into the show. Even my friend who doesn't have the patience to actually sit through most episodes remembers the "Chief! McCloud" riff despite it being several years since he watched it.
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Brad, great review. I lost it at the Kung Pow joke. Great stuff! I got to watch these reviews twice these days, I keep missing jokes.
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Hey Brad, was curious not sure if you ever answered this before. Whats your top 5 or 10 favorite MST3K episodes? Where you a Joel or Mike fan? What is your take on the other projects like Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic? Was wondering since you did do Pod People and have mention some references on The Cinema Snob and on Radiodrome. Wouldn't mind seeing you and Josh do a MST3K episode on the 'drome.
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I still can't hear that song without singing, "With a pickle mind we kicked the nipple beer, steady as a goat, we're flying over trout..."
Incidentally, if you want to hear the Trumpy "magic things" music, seek out the album Music for Fun by Roger Roger.
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Well, that was both amusing and informative. Thanks, Cinema Snob. That explains fome things.
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So, Brad, is that trash-bag wearing Alf finally out of your head yet?
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I still say we're supposed to hear the engines roar, not roll.
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Maybe. But he's saying roll.
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Its got nothing to do with pods, nothing to do with people but everything to do with HURTING.
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THAT'S A LOT OF NUTS! Epic Kung Pow reference.
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"It stinks!" "WAH WAH WAH..." LOL!!!!
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I love the MST3K of this it was the first ep I saw of them
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