The main thing I recall about this thing was trying to stay up for truly dull late night movies.
It took me a while to catch on that the cast was making fun of the movies for being so bad (truthfully, they weren't bad, they were just dull).
I stayed up for Crawling Hand and Hillbillies, and the one with Lugosi and Tor Johnson, but after that, it got impossible. These things were monotonous.
As for the bits with the show regulars, Newman as an usherette and the other five as movie patrons, they were a little funny. Phil Nee never spoke and was designated a communist for some reason.
I remember one joke where one of the guys was talking to him about the candy he was eating, a jaw-breaker or something, and upon divulging some pretty bad ingredients, Nee simply spit the candy out across the seat in front of him.
Newman, as the usherette, would then appear, "is that your seat?" There were only five people in the whole theatre. She actually made that joke pretty funny.
But I was rather new to this deliberate sarcasm for the sole purpose of being funny.
It was a definite predecessor to MST3K, that's for certain.
It took me a while to catch on that the cast was making fun of the movies for being so bad (truthfully, they weren't bad, they were just dull).
I stayed up for Crawling Hand and Hillbillies, and the one with Lugosi and Tor Johnson, but after that, it got impossible. These things were monotonous.
As for the bits with the show regulars, Newman as an usherette and the other five as movie patrons, they were a little funny. Phil Nee never spoke and was designated a communist for some reason.
I remember one joke where one of the guys was talking to him about the candy he was eating, a jaw-breaker or something, and upon divulging some pretty bad ingredients, Nee simply spit the candy out across the seat in front of him.
Newman, as the usherette, would then appear, "is that your seat?" There were only five people in the whole theatre. She actually made that joke pretty funny.
But I was rather new to this deliberate sarcasm for the sole purpose of being funny.
It was a definite predecessor to MST3K, that's for certain.