Gizmonic Institute Radio: Your MST3K Companion

It's MANOS!! Dr. Odd makes a new friend, and we talk in-depth about one of the most well-loved MST3K episodes ever in this super-sized edition of GIR! 

Sometimes even Dr. Odd deserves the silent treatment even if he claims not to know what he did (HE KNOWS). The crew are visited by a holiday LEGEND, and discuss MST3K S4E23 - Bride of the Monster. Enjoy!

We are back from our holiday down on Earth and ready to talk more MST3K! Specifically S4E22 - The Day the Earth Froze, a delightful Finnish epic about something called a Sampo. Also Dr. Odd is cooking up a new scheme, and let me tell you... this one really STINKS.

Dr. Odd once again explores the limits of mad science, motivated by his obsession with having a 3rd arm and heat vision like Pseudo Seth. Will he finally achieve his dreams this episode? The crew also discuss MST3K S12E6 - Ator the Fighting Eagle, the final episode of season 12! 

This week, for multiple, unrelated, individual reasons, the crew has a collective existential crisis. We also discuss MST3K S4E21 - Monster a Go-Go, which while doesn't have a direct correlation to said existential crisis, didn't help.

Dr. Odd's experiments leave us temporarily down one crew member, but it turns out to be ok because we have a VERY SPECIAL GUEST fill in. We discuss MST3K S4E20 (nice) - The Human Duplicators a sci-fi mystery movie where the movie tells you all about the mystery right away, and then you get to watch people bumble around and figure it out. Also RICHARD KIEL!!Special thanks to our spectacular former-host-now-back-as-guest, Seth Macy! If you want to see more of what Seth has been up to, check out his TikTok @itssethorama

As it turns out, delivering an ape to space is harder than it seems. Espeically when you forget to load the ape into the shuttle. Learning experience!This week the crew also discusses MST3K S12E5 - Killer Fish a film that manages to be full of intrigue and piranhas, and STILL manages to be a snooze fest. 

This week the crew gets a visit from a new friend, who seems very interested in selling them things they don't need, for money they don't have. They also discuss MST3K S12E4 - The Day Time Ended, a surprisingly divisive 80's sci-fi movie

Whoever said you can't have a book club in space wasn't lying. But as it turns out, there are plenty of other types of media out there to discuss. The crew also discusses MST3K S4E19 - The Rebel Set!

This week we travel through several multi-verses and then Dr. Odd interprets our dreams. No, we haven't named the dog yet. The crew also discusses MST3K S12E3 - Lords of the Deep, a strange undersea film about goop and saving the planet. 

Ready your velvet bag full of beans, this one is about to get weird! The crew discusses Attack of The The Eye Creatures, an oily film whose title contains a double article, presumably at the expense of the film itself having any redeeming qualities! 

Your favorite 90's energy soda is back, and with a vengeance. This week the crew discusses MST3K S12E2 - Atlantic Rim, although most of the talk about Atlantic Rim is about The Asylum - the company behind Atlantic Rim but it's all Atlantic Rim adjacent. Mostly.

Summer means it's music festival season, and Dr. Odd definitely doesn't plan on missing out! Although he may end up having some unwanted company first... The crew also discusses MST3K S4E17 - Crash or the Moons OR Crash of Moons because even the people who made this tv-show-turned-movie didn't care enough about the title to be consistent. 

Dr. Odd returns from vacation, but he isn't alone... The crew also discuss MST3K S12E1 - Mac and Me. Do you like Peanut Coladas? 

Dr. Odd is gone on vacation this week so the crew invents new card games, rations food, and finally figures out what that coffee maker does. They also discuss MST3K S4E16 - Fire Maidens Of Outer Space, a hidden gem of an episode lost in the labyrinth of film licensing. 

This week Dr. Odd has us doing what he calls the "Pizzadental Fitness Challenge" which is as unpleasant as it sounds. The crew also discusses MST3K S11E14 - At The Earth's Core, the final episode of season 11!

This week we do some SCIENCE! The crew also discusses MST3K S4E15 - The Beatniks, a film about Beatniks which has no actual Beatniks in it... we don't think... because we STILL aren't really sure what Beatniks are.

This week Jeff gets mentored about the free market and tries to negotiate with Dr. Odd. Renea really wants a t-shirt with a polar bear on it. The crew also discusses MST3K S11E13 - The Christmas That Almost Wasn't, an actually... not bad Christmas movie? Does a thing exist in the MST3K-a-verse? 

Dr. Odd gets a visit from his favorite family member, and the crew put on their problem-solving goggles and discuss MST3K S4E14 - Tormented. FIREWORK RAT!

"Magic" is such a challenging modifier for this film. "Mundane", "Horrifying", or "Sweaty" seem like they would all be better choices, but at the end of the day, who are we to judge? As you may have guess from the previous sentence and the name of the episode, this week the crew discusses MST3K S11E12 - Carnival Magic, while Dr. Odd makes a series of mistakes, that are different than the series of mistakes he made last week (these ones involve vegetables!).

Grab your D20 and roll initiative, because a new audio log is here! Dr. Odd and the crew are playing D&D which goes about as well as you can imagine a D&D game with Dr. Odd would go. Renea and Jeff also discuss MST3K S4E13 - Manhunt in Space!

We discuss Dr. Odd's dating profile on Doctrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr and Topher the ape gets a job at Ralph's. The crew also discusses MST3K S11E11 - Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II, a film that one could describe as a disappointing sequel to Wizards of the Lost Kingdom I, if one were to be generous and use words like "sequel" and "film" to describe Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II. 

It's surprise inspection time! We'll see if the crew can pass Dr. Odd's semi-quarterly and mostly optional OSHA (Outer Space Health Aliens) walk-through without too many violations. The crew also discusses MST3K S4E12 - Hercules and the Captive Women, a good MST3K episode riffing an unintentionally hilarious movie. 

This week, there are no fools to be pitied in Dr. Odd's newest experiment, and the crew discusses MST3K S11E10 - Wizards of the Lost Kingdom! Check it out!

This week Dr. Odd explores new horizons of mad science and get rich quick schemes, and learns that you should never trust a chimp with mange. The crew also discuss MST3K S4E11 - The Magic Sword, complete with a fun quiz! 

This week we talk dreams, and Dr. Odd fills us in on all of the new changes he is planning on making for the show now that it's a 'reboot'. The crew also discusses MST3K S11E9 - Yongary, Monster of the Deep, a Korean kaiju movie filled with harmless fun... until the incredibly disturbing end. Beware the jack-o-lanterns filled with feathers!

Jeff and Renea wake up from a 3 year nap to find things are... different. Dr. Odd waxes nostalgic about the job he just left and then we talk about Hercules Against The Moon Men, a movie that contains no moon men as far as we could tell, but A LOT of Hercules. ENJOY

Renea and Jeff talk about what dinosaurs are. Dr. Odd dreams about a career in TV & VCR repair. The crew also discusses MST3K S11E8 - The Loves of Hercules!

Jeff and Renea wax nostalgic about some of their old space friends, Dr. Odd talks about some of his cool powers and gets some mail from prison. The crew also discusses MST3K S4E9 - Indestructible Man! 

Dr. Odd delivers a TURD talk, teaches Jeff and Renea how to make cheese and everyone talks about who their best friend is! Renea and Jeff also discuss MST3K S11E7 - The Land That Time Forgot!

Renea and Jeff explore new uses for the ridiculous amount of clam juice they always seem to have on hand. Clam juice ice cream? Sure. Clam gel? Ok. Skim Clam Juice? Huh. The crew also discusses MST3K S4E8 - Hercules Unchained!

Dr. Odd discusses space zoology with Jeff and Renea and then tells the origin story of the evil AI Fats Geronimo. Jeff and Renea send a space message. The crew also discusses MST3K S11E6 - Starcrash!

Renea plays music, and then the crew encounters some wild space dogs. They also discuss MST3K S4E7 - The Killer Shrews. Radiation is a magical artist!

Renea and Dr. Odd make Jeff cry, Dr. Odd gives the crew an astrology lesson, and then people make New Year's resolutions. The crew also discusses MST3K S11E5 - The Beast of Hollow Mountain!

Renea falls asleep, and Dr. Odd does some architecture. Then Dr. Odd receives a surprised visit from his mother Maude. The crew also discusses MST3K S4E6 - Attack of the Giant Leeches!

This week Dr. Odd pitches his biography to Jeff and Renea, and discusses past Babar The Elephant related traumas. They also discuss MST3K S11E4 - Avalanche!

Jeff and Renea are recovering the last few weeks, after Dr. Odd took them on a summer vacation. They also discuss MST3K S4E5 - Being From Another Planet!

Jeff and Renea hack Dr. Odd's Netflix account, and have a great time going through his viewing history. They also discuss MST3K S11E3 - The Time Travelers. What Are When?!?

Someone a long time ago once said “the Pen is mightier than the Sword”. Well up here in space we have neither pens nor swords, but Renea STILL managed to write a fairly lengthy space station newsletter. Maybe “newsletter” should be put in quotes? Aside from a rather interesting website write up, the other 900+ pages are somewhat questionable…This week we discussed MST3K S4E4 – Teenagers From Outer Space. Not only is this a very good MST3K episode, but the film itself isn't half bad either! All-in-all both Jeff and Renea enjoyed this episode quite a bit – particularly, but not limited to, anything directly related to really fake-y skeletons.

Do you ever metaphorically feel like things are out of control, and someone else is at the wheel? We literally feel that way this episode when we meet the unfortunate creature that Dr. Odd has tasked with piloting our ship (as well as a few other unsavory jobs).This episode we discuss MST3K S11E2 – Cry Wilderness, a movie featuring a littering Bigfoot, and a lot of bowl cuts. Fortunately (despite the high ratio of bad hair) this turned out to be a fantastic MST3K episode – not just for the new season, but one of the best in the series.

I don't know a lot about science, let alone mad science, but I'm pretty sure doing an “exchange program” with your test subjects isn't par for the course. But in the domain of Dr. Odd “par for the course” is usually about as far from normal as you can get, so I suppose that this shouldn't have been unexpected. Dr. Odd and Dr. Rodd have decided to do a test-subject switcheroo, meaning that Seth was sent away to be subject to whatever horrors Dr. Rodd has in store, and Dr. Rodd's captive Renea was sent over to the land of MST3K and clam juice.After a brief acclimation period, we watch MST3K S4E3 – City Limits a film which seems to have inspired most, if not all of the outfits in the Fallout video game series. It's a pretty bad movie, but a overall pretty decent MST3K episode.

Oh no! This week your favorite MST3K podcast hosts are really ‘boned! (that joke will make sense once you've listened to the episode, trust me). Dr. Odd unleashes his newest hobby on us, and we get to watch S11E1 – Reptilicus, the first of the FOURTEEN NEW EPISODES OF MST3K THAT CAME OUT THIS YEAR AND I CAN'T EVEN BELIEVE THAT THIS IS A SENTENCE I GET TO WRITE. Seth and Jeff have slightly differing opinions on certain aspects of the new episode, but overall really love it.

I'm not going to lie, things get a little weird this week. Dr. Odd has started some sort of farm in his Chuck E. Cheese basement, but also there might be a gas leak? One thing's for sure, there are a lot of puns!We also discuss MST3K S4E2 – The Giant Gila Monster. It's a movie where people throw a real lizard at models, and features some original “music”, or as I like to call it, “crimes against a ukulele”. Luckily, the film itself is so manic, that the riffing is fantastic, making it a preeeeety great MST3K episode.

We're excited to dig into the first episode of MST3K season 4, and Dr. Odd is excited about managing a baseball team! A werewolf butler baseball team! But not as excited as he is to tell us about his “roller derby” experiences. Who knew Dr. Odd was so athletic? Certainly not us!This episode we discuss MST3K Season 4 Episode 1 Space Travelers, which may be the most star studded film they've had on the show yet! It's also one of the most boring and dour films they've had on the show to date, despite the fact that it actually won an Academy Award (which we also have serious issue with, but not for the reasons you might think).

Hello everybody! You know, sometimes when life gives you lemons, you challenge yourself by shoving an entire lemon in your mouth and trying to eat it. That old adage has never been more true, especially for us this episode.  We also discuss the final episode of season 3, S3E24 – Master Ninja II, which is really just two episodes of a TV show standing on each others' shoulders while wearing a trench coat and trying to convince everyone that they're a real movie. It does have a hamster in it though (the film, not the trench coat)!

Hello friends! It's nice to see you again! Things are still totally normal up here in space, and this week Dr. Odd let us watch a recording of the world series and showed us his newest hobby! An old friend returns for some goofs as well!We also discussed MST3K S3E23 – The Castle Of Fu Manchu – the film equivalent of spending an entire day staring at grains of sand being blown around in the wind, except there isn't any wind and at the end of the day you find out the grains of sand actually had character names. This movie is pure Deep Hurting, and is so bad that it actually negatively affects the episode enjoyment quite a bit. That's a huge shame because the host segments are actually some of the best in the series so far (particularly the final segment), but even that can't save things as a whole. We still had a lot of fun talking about it though!

Hello everyone! I hope that you're enjoying the summertime down on earth, running around and capturing defunct mid-2000's celebrities on your flip phone app. Or maybe that's just Dr. Odd.This episode we discuss MST3K S3E22 – Master Ninja I, a MST3K episode that we didn't really like that much, riffing a movie that we kind of did like… This paradox has left us shaken to our collective cores – we'll be over here sitting in the corner, rocking back and forth with our knees clutched to our chests mumbling about racist stereotype accents.

Hello and happy holidays! (whatever holidays those may be).Dr. Odd has mysteriously disappeared, leaving us completely unsupervised up here in space. Since this was the case, we threw a dart at our space calendar and decided that by our calculations (and we're both very good at regular math and calendar related math) it was probably prettttty close to the Christmastime holidays down on earth, which is great because our audiolog is about MST3K S3E21 – Santa Claus Conquers the Martians! This episode is truly a treat – the movie itself is poorly made and has the world's most obnoxious theme song, but it has a lot of heart and is genuinely enjoyable in spots. The riffing from Joel and the bots is SPOT ON this episode. These two factors combine to make this a classic episode – great for watching over and over again, or for introducing someone new to the joys of MST3K.

Hello everyone! Don't be scared! That isn't a living jack-o-lantern filled with fake blood grinning at you! That's just Dr. Odd with a mouthful of cough drops. A LOT of cough drops. On second thought, maybe you should be scared.This week we discuss MST3K S3E20 – The Unearthly, a slow-moving garbage barge of a movie that even MST3K riffing failed to salvage. Luckily, this episode is balanced out with a couple of delightful shorts – “Posture Pals” and “Appreciating Our Parents”. These shorts were able to pull this episode back from the void of extreme boredom. Man, is The Unearthly bad. I don't think we can stress that enough.

I want to start off by saying that it isn't our fault we ALLEGEDLY might be sky criminals. Unintentional sky criminals. Sorry about the headaches.This month we watches MST3K S3E19 – War of the Colossal Beast, an unnecessary sequel to a movie that probably didn't need to be made in the first place. Seth kind of liked some of the makeup? Luckily this episode also featured the phenominal short – Mr. B Natural, which kind of redeems the whole thing. It's about a demon woman who uses her dark powers to convince middle schoolers to join the band and buy CONN brand musical instruments. It's… it's really unique.

Learning is fun! At least that's what Dr. Odd wants us to believe, and even then, learning all about cheese doesn't really seem that helpful. This will all (hopefully) make sense once you listen to the episode.This week we discuss MST3k S3E18 – Star Force: Fugitive Alien II – a “movie” that has both a long, and very confusing title. Also, I put the word “movie” in quotes because this is just another Sandy Frank re-edit of a Japanese television show, except this time it was re-edited to not make any sense at all!