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1. Saw 2

   Please do Saw 2. I would gladly purchase the track three times over. I would do it even for the original because it's even worse, four time over.

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2. Vegetable Soup (1973 - Syndicated TV Show)

   This one I'll have a bit better for you. Now I know RiffTrax doesn't riff TV shows per se, but this one you might love to riff at least one of the episodes for this one made shows from Sid Marty & Krofft look positively normal. In fact if Mike, Bill and Kevin view this first episode I've linked to, they'll probably think 'Fun in Balloonland' is a cake walk compared to this.

   So what is 'Vegetable Soup?' Possibly a show designed by Andy Warhol to compliment his art? You wish.

   Once upon a riff, Kevin lamented that 'Free to Be, You and Me,' was responsible for an aci short.. not sure if it was 'At Your Fingertips: Grass,' or 'Cylinders.' But what 'Free to Be' did inspire was this plan on educating our kids to be tolerant of others of gender, race and cultures. Thus, in the Seventies, PBS and Syndicated series started producing a plethora of shows to do just that.

   However, when you see, Vegetable Soup, you might feel the same way as you did with 'Read On!' Especially since the intro has disturbing animation with them singing the theme song about the world being like a bowl of vegetable soup.

   Basically the show itself is broken up into vignettes: The first one is called 'Outerscope One.' This one hearkens back to the days of the marionette shows, 'Thunderbirds' and 'Stingray,' so no, you haven't lost your mind.

   Essentially the plot goes something like this, some kids decide on constructing a spaceship (or skylab, as they call it), which looks like something the Little Rascals had engineered (then again, I think they could've come up with something better), and they launch themselves up into space with a kettle that spews forth (get this) a solution of baking soda and vinegar (or something to that effect), and can safely pierce the atmosphere without burning up, or worry about asphyxiation for the fact their window is a bicycle tire (wasn't 70s world wonderful). Anyway, as with the Robinson Family, the kids end up getting lost, but travel to worlds where each have some underlying message about accepting others.

   After this segment ends, you'll scream GAH! Mainly because remember the animated singers in the intro? To segue you to the next segment, they show one band member sing about the next segment.

   Usually the following short will deal with kids round the world doing stuff. But one short vignette I remember most was 'Nigel.'

   Who's 'Nigel,' you ask? He's a pet boa constrictor which a little boy owns and has bizarre adventures, such as having him lose Nigel in a library, getting a fellow student to blame Nigel for biting him, and things like that. And, no, Bill, it doesn't have Nigel strangling and eating the kid, though for the most part there were times you'd like to see that.

   But the most bizarre segment of the series happen to be 'Woody the Spoon.' Voiced by the Miss Divine herself, Bette Midler, Woody would appear with his disturbing floating face and dole out a cooking lesson in rhyme upon foods from around the world. Personally, I used to endure the other crap just to see these segments, just for the fact the tune was actually soothing, just to offset the disturbing animation.

   Usually at the end we'd see the face (which was probably the ghost of Cookie Monster's ancestors) gobble up the food, then lick Woody.

   Overall, the reasons I feel RiffTrax should take a stab at an episode of this are as follows:

   (1) Outerscope One: If the stories aren't thinly-disguised, the marionettes are hilarious, as well as some of the plots. And as I aforementioned you really have to suspend disbelief with this one.

   (2) Woody the Spoon: The fact Bette Midler does the voice for this is a bit mind-blowing, since this was done probably before she became famous. Though she does an excellent job with the character, the animation does make this a bit off-putting. But it's fun to see how out-there you can make cooking something like Japanese rice for kids.

   (3) Nigel segments/live segments - Usually nothing special with the other live segments (think the .. and Families series which were previously riffed). But the Nigel segments stand out mainly not due to the antics which occur, yet, the odd fact Nigel's owner's family allows him to actually own a boa constrictor. (Interesting fact: a lot of families hated this segment because kids who did watch this show usually wanted a pet snake as well)

   I've submitted some links here for you to see the show. I recommend only selecting an episode from the series' First Season, since they were more riffable than the Second, which they did tone down on the animation, but did have Outerscope Two have an adventure on Earth, and combined the marionettes with live-action this time. Then had a strange game show called, 'The Big Job.' But the rest sort of lacked the bizarre atmosphere of the First Season.

   With that, I submit to you, Vegetable Soup:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwktFmbBg2c (Full Ep. 1)

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKOPVjpMZ4g (Woody)

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRcNIqrZ6KI (Outerscope One)

   This one I'll have a bit better for you. Now I know RiffTrax doesn't riff TV shows per se, but this one you might love to riff at least one of the episodes for this one made shows from Sid Marty & Krofft look positively normal. In fact if Mike, Bill and Kevin view this first episode I've linked to, they'll probably think 'Fun in Balloonland' is a cake walk compared to this.

   So what is 'Vegetable Soup?' Possibly a show designed by Andy Warhol to compliment his art? You wish.

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3. The Metric System (PBS TV Series 1978)

   What do the aci film shorts and this series have in common? They were both: (1) Insanely produced and; (2) aired on PBS' GRETA (Gulf Regional Education Television Affiliates) time during the school years (mainly used by home schoolers at time, or what your parents made you watch instead of 'Gilligan's Island' when you were sick).

   Anyway onto this series.. as the RiffTrax Crew knows from their plethora of aci shorts, producers had a bizarre way of 'education' the youth of the 70s. If it wasn't about making crafts out of refuse, it was counting turkeys in a pen, or creating unholy abominations and calling them 'puppets.' but I digress...

   About the time of the mid to late-Seventies/Eighties, the world was going 'Metric Crazy' and was being 'converted' faster than the ghouls in 'Night of the Living Dead.' Naturally our country held out and fought the system, but during this battle, the US did attempt to force us to learn about this new form of measurement in the most insane way possible.

   Before Square One TV, you had 'The Metric System.' Yes, that was the name of the show.. which basically was about a fictional television network that would show programs which were based on a metric/measuring theme. Some were direct parodies of other PBS shows, such as 'Centimeter Street,' with Big Bug (a giant version of the classic Cootie Bug Game character), whereas others were original send offs.

   One memorable moment was 'Metric Man,' where they would use a weird, live head action with puppetry, before Marc Weiner popularized it with his stand up and Weinerville show. The hilarious thing was MM's archnemesis was (get this) an inchworm. Yes, you heard me right, an inchworm, who mainly got pissed off at Metric Man for using him to compare the difference between inches and centimeters in one episode.

   Regrettably, I've attempted to locate something of this series for you so you can grasp the concept. To give you a frame of reference, imagine if the show was still running today: they would probably make a spoof on MST3K, probably calling it 'Metric Science Theater 10 K (because, you know, of the metric thing)' and have a Joel/Mike and the 'bots send off, watching cheesy metric-based films and making measurement comments, with the intermissions being based on metric-themed stuff, while the mads would probably get mad by using 'outdated' measuring methods. Though the show itself did educate in some way, it was hilarious for the fact this came off more like something along the lines of 'The Carol Burnett Show,' than an educational program. If you're wanting to accept this challenge of locating this classic, here's why I believe at least one of the episodes should be riffed:

   (1) The pretense of being a network: Overlooking the corny title, the show does begin and end as if you had come across an actual network program. The sketches are devised as television shows. Centimeter Street happens to be one of the more hilarious parodies for the fact Henson and CTW did allow the producers to use the muppets of Ernie and Bert (but here are called, Bernie and Ert).

   (2) Metric Man: Essentially the fact when you see how this is executed you can probably hear Mike go, "Oh, what new fresh Hell is this?" And Kevin go, "Wow, an inchworm for a villain? Who'd ever think of something like that?" Whereas Bill would comment on how the problems of the MM citizen deal more with measuring than real disasters.

   (3) Just for the fact the whole concept was more disturbing than anything 'Fun in Balloonland,' or aci films could devise.

   Sorry I couldn't locate anything on this classic for you, but if anyone out there can, I'd appreciate it if you submit it here and help see if this could get Riffed... even if it's just for one episode...

   What do the aci film shorts and this series have in common? They were both: (1) Insanely produced and; (2) aired on PBS' GRETA (Gulf Regional Education Television Affiliates) time during the school years (mainly used by home schoolers at time, or what your parents made you watch instead of 'Gilligan's Island' when you were sick).

   Anyway onto this series.. as the RiffTrax Crew knows from their plethora of aci shorts, producers had a bizarre way of 'education' the youth of the 70s. If it wasn't about making crafts out of refuse, it was counting turkeys in a pen, or… more

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4. "The Nasty Rabbit" starring Arch Hall,Jr.

   It's in color, It's supposed to be funny but isn't. The characters are unbelievably awful. Its got Arch Hall, Sr. and Jr. and a white rabbit that remarks on events around it.. I'd like to see what you guys do with this one.

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5. The Revenge of the Teenage Vixens From Outer Space (1985)

   Pulling this out of the Fangarian Cauldron of Alphabet Soup Titles, this bizarre piece emerges from 1985. Though actually a spoof in itself, this B-Movie definitely deserves riffing for a plethora of reasons galore, but since the requirement here requires I give three good reasons (not to mention including a link and a photo), I'll just have to settle on this:

   (1) The genre-hybrid/mash-up spoof: What can I say? This production came from Canada (I'm presuming, since this was also a direct-to-video/late night production), and apparently in the 80s, it was a trend to create spoofs of: Slasher films, horny teens (or young adults masquerading as teens) films, and alien films. Though Teenage Vixens have no slashers in this flick, the producers decided on combining the horny teens with sexy aliens in this one. But if you're expecting body-snatching, mind control or even full out invasion, you can sort of forget it as this comes off as a really-bad plot you'd see in an Archie Comic (though I believe Archie and the Gang could've pulled this one off a whole lot better). The problem with this is when you attempt to do this, things can unexpectedly go wrong from the get go. Especially when your 'mean girl' strangely resembles the shoplifting chick from the short, 'The Myths About Shoplifting.'

   (2) The bizarre plot which makes as much sense as Fun in Balloonland. No seriously, I kid you not. Here's the spiel, Famille: While our teenage troupe is out at a poor-man's version of Inspiration Point, their fun (if you call having the girls being bitches to one another, and a douche drinking beer and hitting on everyone fun) is interrupted by the arrival of some hot chicks. Danny says the most Captain Obvious thing: 'Wow, they must not be from around here.' Hey, Sherlock, what tipped you off? Certainly not their space-age, yet skimpy outfits, or the mysterious fog protruding from behind. (Now, I've always pondered this: do aliens in every flick from the 80s have a backfog machine. I mean seriously, because EVERY time they show something extraterrestrial, they are surrounded by fog.. EVEN in the daytime..) Anyway, the deal is that the Vixens have arrived not because their planet is dying, nor that they need men, as the summary in IMDB claims, but instead due to a mishap with a Teen Magazine being sent to the wrong address. One of the main characters, Mia, discovers this when the Vixens actually comes to her house and hands her the magazine, asking to explain it (although they're aliens, they're unusually polite aliens). Meanwhile the other main lead, Pete, has always felt he has been different in some way, but they don't dwell on this much. Instead the Vixens decide from the magazine that Earth is full of horny, experienced men. In fact one attempts to get together with Pete's dad, who's a teacher at Maxfield High. Anyway, as expected the Vixens find out the magazine's a lie, the boys here are virgins, and the mean girl riles them up. Now, like I said, you'd think because these Vixens are aliens, they would retaliate by performing mind control on the guys, or even using 'brain sex' from 'Wonder Women,' but no.. get this... they get pissed and start transforming everyone into vegetables... yes, you have to see this to believe it. Meanwhile, Mia and Pete have their own romantic thing, despite the fact their friends have now become walking salad bars, and it is discovered that Pete wears a strange medallion and possess odd powers... well, if you call flipping over his medallion telekinetically as 'powers.' Then we discover that these Vixens had accidentally landed on Earth before, years earlier due to a mishap with the Elvis Presley broadcast from Ed Sullivan. Apparently while we saw the top half, they saw the bottom half (hey, Elvis and aliens, just work with it!). Not only that but the Vixen Queen (who was just a plain Vixen then) had mated with Pete's Dad, and Pete is her son.. of course, she wants no part of her son's life, now that's she's queen (oh.. lade-DAH). The only reason she came was to warn Pete's Dad about the Vixens here and that they are angry because Earth males were NOT what they were expecting (like what? All the Vixens are suddenly on their period? Apologies, I know.. but with this film you have to wonder.). Meanwhile, Mia and Pete discover this when Danny gets caught by a Vixen, and Danny gets transformed into a cucumber..(not sure if that's a metaphor for Danny being a dick throughout the whole film, but hey..). Making matters worse, the mean Shoplifter girl riles up the whole town against the Vixens (good luck with that..)...

   Now here's where either they ran out of money for the budget, or the producers were like, 'You know this thing's dying worse than Manos.. let's just wrap it up with it being like some bad newsreel announcement with the Vixens turning every city into vegetables, then having them attack that mean Shoplifting girl.' 'For being mean to the Vixens?' 'No, for being stupid and getting caught at the end of that Shoplifting short..' And you know what, that's EXACTLY what they do! As a result the Queen with Pete and his Dad decide to have a confrontation with the Vixens..... and, well, let's just say the ending's not exactly what you really expect.

   (3) Breaking the Fourth Wall: Rarely do you see films do this for the most part, but in several spots, you do see the characters talk to the audience about some of the stupid situations the film has put them in. Especially when the Queen explains the situation of her homeworld to her son, Pete and his father.

   Overall, this is one of those late night flicks that really deserves to be riffed for the fact it starts out partially okay, then leaves you wanting more (more, as in, why did they even make this film, and just exactly what where the producers smoking when they pitched this idea to get green-lighted by some studio in Canada?). And because it's officially public domain (the full movie is on YouTube), it would be easy to VOD, or even do it as a RiffTrax Live. This one is a classic next to Manos, Hands of Fate.. in fact, after you watch this one, Manos and Torgo will start to look pretty good to you...

   Here's the film link:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAaQm9HXs2U

   Pulling this out of the Fangarian Cauldron of Alphabet Soup Titles, this bizarre piece emerges from 1985. Though actually a spoof in itself, this B-Movie definitely deserves riffing for a plethora of reasons galore, but since the requirement here requires I give three good reasons (not to mention including a link and a photo), I'll just have to settle on this:

   (1) The genre-hybrid/mash-up spoof: What can I say? This production came from Canada (I'm presuming, since this was also a direct-to-video/late night production), and apparently in the 80s, it was a trend to create spoofs of: Slasher films, horny… more

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6. Jesus town usa
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7. Star Trek: Renegades

   Even for a fan film this is pretty bad.

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8. Saturday the 14th Strikes Back

   A musical "comedy" that tries to gain a little leverage by insinuating it's a sequel to another little known B movie. It was made to be riffed. Oh, and it's got the other kid from Explorers in it.

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9. Attack of the Beast Creatures (1985)

   Where to start. It's a horror movie about a stranded bunch of community theater actors being attacked by razor-toothed kachina dolls. Literally they're holding the dolls to their faces and bodies like they're graduates of the Bela Lugosi Attacked By Octopus Acting School.

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10. Scream (1996)
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11. Lawnmower Man 2: Jobe's War

    Here lies a movie experience that could only be slightly surpassed by Satan farting in your face while your mouth's open.

    1) The movie was apparently so weak that they couldn't get even one of the original actors to star in it.

    2) Like so many modern movies, it relied on excessive CGI to supplant meaningful storytelling.

    3) It has the kid from the Last Action Hero.

    Thanks guys! I am, and will always be a huge fan!

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12. Futurekick (1991)

    Pulling something from my Oriental Cauldron, I bring up a spicy little film called 'Futurekick.' Just as you once riffed 'Fist of Fury,' with Bruce Lee, this come from a series of action films by Don 'The Dragon' Wilson, who was famous for kickboxing.

    1) One of the funnier 'Terminator/Total Recall' knockoffs: As the RiffTrax crew knows, throughout the 80s and 90s, whenever there was a box-office hit, the direct-to-video market would get flooded with these bad knock-offs. In this case, because Jean-Claude Van Damme did it with 'Cyborg,' (and I don't mean the DC Comics' Teen Titans member) apparently Don thought he could do it as well, with this futuristic tale that mashes up the Terminator and Total Recall, heck, even the box art cover has Don wearing dark-glasses and leather jacket. Which was what lured many renters, as myself, in giving this a view. But as we've learned, some things you watch, you regrettably can't unwatch.. and this is one of them. But in all fairness, it doesn't tease you like 'Cyborg Cop 2' did..

    2) The bizarre plot: Sometime in the future, a woman's husband is murdered and somehow she gets pursued by black-market organ harvesters, since despite cybernetic technology improving bodies, living organs are somehow invaluable. Don 'The Dragon' Wilson plays an actual cyborg (yay, Bill! yay,Kevin!) who crosses paths with her to protect her. Turns out, the corporation her husband was working for had perfected a new process for regenerating tissue (or some revolutionary process, I forget which) which would be bad for the organ harvesting business, thus was murdered. For some reason, they couldn't find the actual process, suspecting the wife might know something about it, but decides they want to kill her off anyway. (Like I said, these made-for-video films weren't really known for their logical plots, and Mike, be prepared for people doing stupid things here, that normal people would not do in real life. Such as people trying to attack Don ineffectively, though he's supposed to be a kickboxing cyborg, imagine.)

    3) The twist ending... unlike my past contributions, here I'll just let the crew watch this film for it, but when you find out, you'll be going, 'OKAY, WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT ALL ABOUT?'

    All in all, Futurekick wasn't such a bad film, but more along the lines of the better knockoffs in the fact they attempt to make the effort of making it an action-adventure film. This is one which would definitely be fun to riff since it was hilarious on how they attempt to emulate two different sci-fi genres and hybrid it into this odd feature.

    And besides, it has Don 'The Dragon' Wilson in it, rather than some ineffectual hero who just repeatedly crack a whip.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NRg6qC0w38

    Pulling something from my Oriental Cauldron, I bring up a spicy little film called 'Futurekick.' Just as you once riffed 'Fist of Fury,' with Bruce Lee, this come from a series of action films by Don 'The Dragon' Wilson, who was famous for kickboxing.

    1) One of the funnier 'Terminator/Total Recall' knockoffs: As the RiffTrax crew knows, throughout the 80s and 90s, whenever there was a box-office hit, the direct-to-video market would get flooded with these bad knock-offs. In this case, because Jean-Claude Van Damme did it with 'Cyborg,' (and I don't mean the DC Comics' Teen Titans member) apparently… more

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13. Nightmare Sisters (1988)

    Direct from the Fangarian Cauldron, I pull forth the classic brew called, 'Nightmare Sisters.' Now as the RiffTrax Crew probably knows from riffing such classics as 'The Dark Power,' 'Rock and Roll Nightmare,' and 'Fever Lake,' the late-80s/early-90s brought forth some really horrible films. Nightmare Sisters happens to be one which is hilarious on the front that it was spoofing the whole 'exorcist/possession' craze which was hitting the horror scene.

    1) The typical, inexplicable plot: The story first begins with a woman visiting a local medium (Omar), to find out what happened to her husband. Omar uses a crystal ball (no really, a crystal ball) to contact the spirit world, there while channeling the dead husband, Omar accidentally unleashes a demon within that pulls his head off. Years later, in a sorority house (which was somehow where Omar's place once stood, yeah, I know this was the late-80s) three hefty woman have dates with the local frat boys. As normal, the frat boys have the typical, snotty bullies, and they must sneak out to go on their date. After some mishaps, one of the girls happens to find the ominous crystal ball, and they all decide to have a seance (yeah, because THAT'S ALWAYS a good idea). As you'd expect, Omar's head appears and tricks the girls into touching the crystal ball. Suddenly after some odd special effects, the woman are instantly transformed into hot babes, but something's not quite right as they now want to do their dates in the most possible way. Meanwhile the jerks realize the frat boys have escaped, and they secretly decide on snatching the frats, taking their dates in the process. Unfortunately, these girls are now demons who drains men's souls by... well, you'll have to see the film to believe it... and the jerks get theirs while the frat boys discover what has happened and must find a way to free their girlfriends' from this possession.

    2) Bad costuming/acting: Of course, bad acting was always course for the par in these films, as it seems the actors are just saying their lines in a most cliched way. However, the worst costuming comes from the women themselves, and I don't mean after they become hot babes, but before, as you can sort of tell they're wearing bodysuits throughout the first part. It's most apparent when an incident causes one of the girls to fall on the young men. Even funnier is when these demon-girls attack, they just show them with horrible faces, darting their tongues in an out for the most part. Funniest is how the jerk guys react when they're attacked. Rather hilarious as well as the effect of what happens to them.

    3) Inexplicable ending of this film. Normally when I suggest a Riff, I rarely give away endings, but this is one which will make Mike, Bill and Kevin scratch their heads in question. Mainly because when the boys do manage to exorcise the demons from the girls, they don't die, nor revert back to normal, but remain in their new, sexy forms. Talk about a body shaming lesson to those overweight women out there.

    Overall, Nightmare Sisters was a hilarious film for the fact that the story is goofy enough to make you wonder how this got produced in the first place, and how the guys had to keep a straight face when the demon girls make that reaction (with odd sound sting) before attacking them. This would make an excellent VOD to have for a filler while we wait for the recent 2015 Live Shows to go on VOD. And apparently the film is now public domain since you can see it on YouTube... here it is for your perusal.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ3F1LJwQec Enjoy, RiffTrax

    Direct from the Fangarian Cauldron, I pull forth the classic brew called, 'Nightmare Sisters.' Now as the RiffTrax Crew probably knows from riffing such classics as 'The Dark Power,' 'Rock and Roll Nightmare,' and 'Fever Lake,' the late-80s/early-90s brought forth some really horrible films. Nightmare Sisters happens to be one which is hilarious on the front that it was spoofing the whole 'exorcist/possession' craze which was hitting the horror scene.

    1) The typical, inexplicable plot: The story first begins with a woman visiting a local medium (Omar), to find out what happened to her husband. Omar uses a crystal ball… more

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14. Space Station 76

    Though this was suggested earlier, I'd thought I'd better expand this one so those can comprehend it why it should be included on the RiffTrax List.

    Basically Space Station 76 was supposed to spoof the space craze which plagued films of the late-70s, thanks to Lucas' Star Wars. The problem came that some where so bad they even made the Star Wars' Holiday Special acceptable (Anyone recall 'The Ice Pirates,' or 'Galaxina?'). So sticking with the RMR format, I give the crew three good, detailed reason on why this film should be considered, although it's more on the recent end of the timeline.

    1) Botched hybrid/bad spoof: Though the title implies this is technically a space-age film of the 70s, it actually devolves more into a 70s drama set in outer space, and not a good one at that. Considering the fact there are NO aliens whatsoever in this film. In fact, one subplot deals with the child, Sunshine, freaked out over the fact her pet gerbil keeps committing infanticide (which makes me wonder if her ditzy mom actually got her a mole rat instead). In fact, if it wasn't for the space scenes of asteroids and the station itself, you wouldn't ever think this was a film set in space... let alone the so-called futuristic tech of the 70s space theme, which leads me to the next reason.

    2) The Futuristic Tech (or lack of thereof): Apparently the producers of SS76 obviously had never really watched a futuristic 70s space program. Though the film does technically have robots, automatic doors, vidphones, and push-button stuff. The problem is, that even Space: 1999 had better 'tech' to pull off in their show, and they had a limited-budget. Basically, the station robots are actually those better robot toys the rich kids got for Christmas, while the rest of us had to settle for either remote R2-D2s, or Tobors. Sunshine uses a pocket computer that suspiciously is reminiscent of one of those Mark IV pocket games (look it up on Wikipedia), uses Betamax tapes for learning. On the bright side, there's a pharmaceutical vending machine that dispenses drugs, and a vector based video game, yet, one turn off shows one character using a View-Master to order dresses.. yes, you heard me right, a view-master. Also laughable is Matt Bomer's character's cyber-hand, which looks more like an early prototype of the power glove (the power glove, it's so bad..)

    3) Dubious casting and plot: The best way to describe this film is if you took a 70s sci-fi flick, then added the cast of That's 70s show grown up and married (the kids I mean), and surgically removed the aliens, and threw in some Soap Opera elements for good measure. One thing which bugged me was the fact, ever since his bomb with Kangaroo Jack, Jerry O'Connell has somehow been typecast as the sex-crazed Lothario. Except here, which is worst, they now have him married and with a kid, and cheating on his wife with his best friend's wife. You can even see this when Liv Tyler's character comes on board the ship, and O'Connell's character tells Matt Bomer's character that he would love to do her, complete with obscene noises and gestures.

    Ironically just as everyone's secrets are about to blow up at a Christmas Party, an asteroid hits a space shuttle which was going to take O'Connell as his wife off the station. And the ending is a big odd, whereas despite the great soundtrack, you wondered what in hell was this really all about. I mean, Fun in Balloonland made more sense than this.. and that's not really saying much.

    Overall, I believe this would be a great film for RiffTrax to riff as a VOD, or possibly select as the next Kickstarter Live project, since this film is hilariously bad for the fact the directors had good intentions and they just went horribly awry in doing it. And if not for the Anti-G sequences with Sunshine, you'd never know this was taking place on a space station. Well, that, and the randomly, oncoming asteroid.

    Though this was suggested earlier, I'd thought I'd better expand this one so those can comprehend it why it should be included on the RiffTrax List.

    Basically Space Station 76 was supposed to spoof the space craze which plagued films of the late-70s, thanks to Lucas' Star Wars. The problem came that some where so bad they even made the Star Wars' Holiday Special acceptable (Anyone recall 'The Ice Pirates,' or 'Galaxina?'). So sticking with the RMR format, I give the crew three good, detailed reason on why this film should be considered, although it's more on the recent end… more

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15. The Adventures of Superpup

    After George Reeves' death, the producers filmed a pilot on the set of the iconic TV series. Viewers' favorite characters were all there, played by hand puppets and little people in ridiculous animal costumes.

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16. Fred: The Movie (2010)

    In the vein of recent internet icons getting their own mainstream series/ specials(Annoying Orange, Grumpy Cat's Christmas), comes probably one of the earliest attempts of this type of genre-Fred: The Movie a low-budget 2010 made-for-TV-movie inspired by a YouTuber of the same name, whose main bit was that he was a high pitched, barely pubescent boy with the attention span of a rodent rambling off his wacky adventures like a kid coming off a sugar high. The movie, of which I use the term very, VERY loosely, is a disjointed mess, going from this kid's stalker fantasies under the guise of a "Romantic Comedy" to more random vignettes than the average modern-day Family Guy episode, creating this very amatureish, uncomfortable. and downright mean-spirited series of less than ninety minutes that somehow spawned two sequels.
    <img src=" http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/dvdboxart/8251346/p8251346_d_v7_aa.jpg"> </img>

    In the vein of recent internet icons getting their own mainstream series/ specials(Annoying Orange, Grumpy Cat's Christmas), comes probably one of the earliest attempts of this type of genre-Fred: The Movie a low-budget 2010 made-for-TV-movie inspired by a YouTuber of the same name, whose main bit was that he was a high pitched, barely pubescent boy with the attention span of a rodent rambling off his wacky adventures like a kid coming off a sugar high. The movie, of which I use the term very, VERY loosely, is a disjointed mess, going from this kid's stalker fantasies under the guise… more

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17. Batman Returns

    Some say that the fall of the first Batman franchise started with Batman Forever, but I beg to differ...
    1. Pee-Wee Herman attempts infanticide
    2. Batman burns a man alive
    3. Michelle Pfifer puts a live bird in her mouth
    4. Creepy, horny Cobblepot
    5. Christopher Walken
    6. Said infant (see above) grows up to attempt mass infanticide

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18. Cabin by the Lake

    This made for USA movie is one of the first "so bad it's good" movies I ever saw. Made the rounds to all my friends on VHS and we laughed and laughed. Would be so good to hear you guys do it.
    Here's why it's worthy: Judd Nelson trying to be creepy/sexy while flaring his nostrils a lot and constantly making sandwiches.
    Practically all the characters are wooden idiots who often laugh for no reason. Also, Judd Nelson's hairy nipples underwater are a sight to behold.
    There is also an equally riff-worthy sequel: Return to Cabin by the Lake - won't go into that too much here, but it definitely enhances the first film since the original was trying to be scary and accidentally made something hilarious, the sequel (after the news broke that everyone was laughing at their film) tries to be a black comedy but looks more like a goofball comedy except with murder. Also Judd Nelson has to hide his identity in that one behind mountain-man beards and trucker hats.

    http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cabin_by_the_lake/
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjKtdlyr7pY

    This made for USA movie is one of the first "so bad it's good" movies I ever saw. Made the rounds to all my friends on VHS and we laughed and laughed. Would be so good to hear you guys do it.
    Here's why it's worthy: Judd Nelson trying to be creepy/sexy while flaring his nostrils a lot and constantly making sandwiches.
    Practically all the characters are wooden idiots who often laugh for no reason. Also, Judd Nelson's hairy nipples underwater are a sight to behold.
    There is also an equally riff-worthy sequel: Return to Cabin by the Lake -… more

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19. Deadly Weapon (1989)

    A bullied teenage boy discovers a top secret military laser weapon, and decides to seek vengeance on his tormentors. The US military hurries to put a stop to the carnage.

    Produced by Charles Band, this film was made by Empire Pictures in 1989. It was originally intended as "Laserblast II," a sequel to the 1978 cult film featured on MST3K. Due to budget reasons, the script was rewritten.

    Stars Rodney Eastman (A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: DREAM WARRIORS), Susan Blu (FRIDAY THE 13TH, PART VII: THE NEW BLOOD), and was directed by ROBOCOP co-writer Michael Miner.

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20. bitch slap

    this movie is amazing and needs to be riffed

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