MiSTing: Yellow Submarine

So, here’s something I haven’t done it awhile. I’m reposting an old MiSTing I found in the archived files from Web Site Number Nine. Unfortunately, it’s not the Digimon stuff I’d been doing before, but it is one I could have sworn I had put up here before. Thought I had it in my other files, but I guess not.

I think this may have been one of the ones that inspired me to start using a partner character for my own main, as well as the “bandwidth wasters” theme based on the Turner Classic Movies One Reel Wonders theme. This was a short one trying to “sell” supposedly legal alternatives to various sorts of uppers without saying what exactly they were selling, instead relying more on stoner lingo and slang than anything to make sales.

The host segments were meant as something of a parody of a parody of the commercials for International Correspondence School that Sally Struthers was famous for in the mid- to late 1980s. It’s one of those things that stuck with those of us who saw them as kids and teens back then.

I’m doing this as one big piece because it’s too short to break up.

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A Note On The Upcoming MiSTing Repost

Have I mentioned the bad page layout and formatting in the Mystery Science Theater stuff I've been reposting lately?

MiSTing: Ten Science Thingamajiggers

This is another one of these things that I found in that old archive I mentioned in the one of these I posted back in September. This is also the one I was saying had all the artifacts from it being done on what is, by now, a decidedly ancient word processing program. I'll be leaving them in because this is a fair bit longer than “Make Good Money At Home”. I'll also be posting it all at once, even if it is a bit longer than I'd prefer for that, simply because there are no good places to break it up.

There's a nod to a bit of continuity I'm not entirely sure is my own or something from the actual show. Right at the beginning, there's a line where Pearl threatens to send Observer into the theater again, and I cand't recall if I did that or if Best Brains did it. After all, it's been the better part of twenty years since it was something important enough for me to remember.

I'm sure the things I used as a base for this come from at least one technical article, but it's hard to piece together, and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have understood any of it even if it had been possible.

Since this is going to be a longer one, I'm just going to wrap the intro up now and give a brief endcap after the main event.

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MiSTing: Make Good Money At Home

Earlier this week, I made a post about coming across an archive that had a fairly substantial number of my old Mystery Science Theater fan fiction and how it brought back a lot of good old memories. I also said I'd at least consider going through a few of them and maybe repost a few. Since one of the ones I happened to have handy is a relatively short one that I've already had a chance to read, I'm gonna get it up and ready to go.

As the title suggests, this is a junk email I got to what was my AOL email address, I believe, since I still had one of those in the early 2000s. This was a relatively early piece in my career doing MST3k stuff, as I was still using the Sci Fi Channel era cast of the show, although only Mike, Pearl and Observer actually show up here. This was kind of an experimental thing, because I do believe I was considering switching to using my own character for this sort of thing, which is what we've been seeing in the DigiDefenders episodes I've been putting up.

An interesting side note here is that I do believe I actually wrote this on the very first Internet-enabled PC my family ever had. By then, I had sort of “inherited” the unit because my folks had upgraded to a newer for the time machine running Windows 98, rather than the one I was using, which still had Win95 on it. Part of that meant using a productivity suite called MS Works, which is definitely old school by today's standards. As a result, there are artifacts caused by a difference in the way single and double quote marks were encoded in plain text files. Since this is a relatively short one, I'll try to take care of as much of that as I can. There's another, longer one I may put up as well that has the same issue, but I may not be as enthusiastic about correcting it, mostly due to length.

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Another Quick Update: May 1, 2021

I know this is coming right on the heels of the last one, but I need to make a few more posts this month if I want to keep up with my goal of 100 posts this year.