The Joel Hodgson Appreciation Thread

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

He taught the Bots all kinds of stuff about the 60s, like, it wasn't uncommon for your mom to come and serve you a great big char-broiled steak while she smoked and drank a Tab and made your dad another Manhattan for the road, and that was just breakfast!




He played hide-and-seek with the elusive and inexplicable forces which control the universe. He modeled Don Martin's Doc Martens. And he led the debate about whether Mr. B Natural was a man or a woman, a question which was never resolved.



He sang about waffles, and lemurs, and pants, and Frank. He was way funnier than Mike, and yes, way cutier too.



And if you're waiting for me to tell you something really depressing, like he's dead or Republican - well buddy, it's worse than that:

He writes and produces for the Jimmy Kimmel Show.

Joel, what happened? Come back to us, son! :cry:

Only Love Pads the Film

[mac56]

1. My lovely wife and I, on our first date, went to see Joel live.

At a comedy club in Mpls that has since closed. How we laughed. We've been Joel fans ever since.

A former co-worker was his college roommate. Tells some great stories.

[myrna minx]

11. I saw Joel at the Comedy Gallery

sometime in the 80's. I think it was love at first sight. I think I went as Jiffy Pop popcorn one Halloween, per his suggestion. He is hilarious!

[mac56]

14. We may have been at the same show!

Cool!

Add on edit: We also went to MST3K Live at the Uptown some years later. It was great.

[myrna minx]

17. I miss those days...

Remember when MST3000 was on Broadcast TV? Was it on Channel 41? I think that was waaayyy back when the show was local.

[mac56]

21. I got on board sometime after that.

I did drive out to Best Brains in Hopkins one snowy afternoon to buy some collectibles. Neither Joel nor Mike was around, but one of the interns showed me the place. Very cool, looked like a fun place to work.

[phillybri]

2. Oh Manos, thou of primal darkness!

Joel was friggin brilliant...

You know,...."Manos".

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

3. Joel!! Joel!!! Wherefore art thou?

My life is as bleak as Richad Kiel's body of work without you in my life!!!

[CatWoman]

4. Right on, SWMBO!!!!!

I LOVE JOEL!!!!!

The show was never the same after he left.

[tigereye]

6. in full agreement

there was a drollery that the replacement guy lacked. Joel was really cute, too.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

5. Sidehackin' is the thing to do and it doesn't hurt to have a low IQ

:kick:

[LostInAnomie]

18. I loved that episode.

You ever see Big Jake break a man's spine.

[Bunny]

7. Another Joel fan.

The show just wasn't the same after he left - no offense to Mike, but he was no Joel.

[Zomby Woof]

8. I base my life on Crow's teachings

I miss MST3K in general. Damn Comedy Central for cancelling the reruns!! :nuke:

[djeseru]

9. Brilliant comedian.

But I always felt that comparing Joel and Mike is like the apples/oranges scenario.

No one complains about the new Crow when they moved to the SciFi channel.

Both sets have their funny points.

[SideshowScott]

10. Joel will be dear to my heart always for turning me on to MST3K

Ill never forget watching the first ep I saw ( The Unearthly with John Carridine ) And I was in love with a show about a guy and his two bots trapped in outer space watching bad movies ever since.
The Mike/Joel thing is defiantly the definition of apples and oranges. Both completely different but both great. For me the show never failed to not make me laugh no matter who was in the theater. But I will always think of Joel as the man who WAS MST3K

[SideshowScott]

12. Oh by the by KEEP CIRCULATING THE TAPES!

Keep turning on Friends to the show.
I get my eps at Alt.Binaries.multimedia.comedy in newsgroups ( Xnews in a good reader to get ) there are always 3 to 5 eps for download ( You need winrar to put it together )
Also here on the web
http://dml.dapcentral.org/
and of coarse Kazza but beh! you never know what your getting

[FunBobbyMucha]

13. There was an ep where the movie was pre-empted by a short film

in which little Timmy goes to the World's Fair. They flash a sign for the display "Chemical Wonderland."

"Uh oh, I think we've all been there..." mused Joel.

I can't remember the title of this ep, or the movie that ran with it, but it was my favorite. Little help?

[4_Legs_Good]

16. KTMA Episodes... available yet?

I have to check in every couple years to see if the first 4 KTMA eps have seen the light of day yet.

K00
K01
K02
K03

Have any tapes started circulating of these babies?

david

[SideshowScott]

19. Ive seen the KTMA's on newsgroups..and Kazza

but not sure if they are on DAP yet..keep looking they are there

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

15. It's not all about Joel vs. Mike

That would be like Superman vs. Batman, okay probably more like Batman vs Spiderman, or Bugs vs. Daffy, or Quisp vs. Quake.

Mike was there from the beginning and stayed till the end, and was very very funny though not funnier than Joel and certainly not cutier.

But that's not primarily what this thread is about.

This is about a guy named Joel, not too different from me or you. Back when a fully stocked bar was considered standard office furniture and office parties were like something out of a Playboy cartoon. We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun. The cars go in here, and we have parking, we have parking for three--no, thirty thousand compact trucks and cars. Then we build a tram off your upper lip and then onto the Capitol Records building, it goes here. I need my uh, my copy of "The Fountainhead." Uh, Howard Roark? Oh, Howard...Roark...

And he's working for Jimmy Kimmel. We gotta get him some real work.

We got movie sign!

[SideshowScott]

20. Movie Sign!?! OHHH NOOO..cue doors!

Greetings space monkeys! Your movie this week is a piece of Drek called DC 9/11: A time of Crisis starring a Has been Timmothy Bottoms as a Blubbering Presedent Bush. This film has more spin than a whole month of watching Fox News. Be sure to bring your motion sickness bag Joel-ee.. Enjoy!
Send them the movie Frank!

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

22. I WILL push the button. I will push the BUTTON. I will...

Speaking of TV's Frank, I read that he's a writer/producer/performer for Air America now!! I wonder if he's on the forum. Hi, Frank!



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