Martin Short, Catharine O’Hara, Rick Moranis, Andrea Martin, Joe Flaherty, John Candy, Dave Thomas and Eugene Levy absolutely smash it. For some reason we’ve never tackled SCTV on MOHV before, so we’ll change that with this absolute doozy.  SCTV’s whole premise was transmissions from their fake TV station in “Melonville”; this full hour of their commercial parodies is an exercise in how long you can continuously LOL.

ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC

Catch up on past episodes of Museum of Home Video on our Patreon.

Before “American Idol”, there was “Stairway To Stardom”: an Eighties NYC public access show that felt like a broadcast from the faux TV station in TWIN PEAKS. From homebrewed R&B party hits to aggro stand-up comics, from amateur magicians to interpretive dance by zombified children, “Stairway To Stardom” is an unending trove of bizarro entertainment that was a staple amongst OG tape traders for decades.

ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC

Catch up on past episodes of Museum of Home Video on our Patreon.

As we reach Thanksgiving, we offer one of MST3K’s finest moments. There’s nothing quite like the spacey brain-broken witlessness of Sixties regional horror MANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE…which might be the most mutated anti-film the gang ever attempted to riff on. Imagine a Beatles-era version of THE ROOM, but it’s a horror film.

ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC

Catch up on past episodes of Museum of Home Video on our Patreon.

Unbelievably, it’s once again time for IVOR and Jenny’s Annual Double Birthday Extravaganza! Stop by and hang with these zany kids and their big, steamy pile of music video madness…and of course: CAKE.

Hosted by the International Voice of Reason.

About IVOR: IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.

Catch up on past episodes of Musicvideodrome on our Patreon.

In the annals of troubled Hollywood productions, Elaine May’s ISHTAR remains one of the wildest stories. This ‘80s adventure comedy (a cross between ROMANCING THE STONE and an Apatow-style riff fest) from idiosyncratic genius May drove Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, and Columbia Pictures to the brink of sanity as the project ended up costing today’s equivalent of $140 million and critics were lukewarm at best to it. Watch highlights from the thing and judge for yourself.

ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC

Catch up on past episodes of Museum of Home Video on our Patreon.

Another magnificent two-hour blast of movie trailers from films left behind in the video store wastelands. 2000s thrillers, 90s ensemble casts, 80s Oscarbait, and 70s sleaze.

ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC

Catch up on past episodes of Museum of Home Video on our Patreon.

A gazillion watts of entertainment value radiates from UK punk demon John Lydon (Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd.) as he terrorizes the BBC’s milquetoast panel show of celebrity record reviewers. Originally a Sixties thing, “Jukebox Jury” was revived for a single season in ‘79, and it’s one of the most watchable British banalities of its era. In this infamous episode, Lydon spars with fellow panelist Joan Collins over tacky musical opinions and professes his disdain for pretty much everyone and everything.

ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC

Catch up on past episodes of Museum of Home Video on our Patreon.

IVOR’s on deck to keep us all dancing this Friday night—yep, we’re broadcasting on Halloween proper!—so grab some candy and dig into a new episode of MUSICVIDEODROME. Here’s what he says you can expect: “SUPER SPOOKY SPECIAL SHOW! LOTS OF SCREAMING AND EXPLOSIONS AND PLAYFUL GORE!”

- - -

MUSICVIDEODROME: A joyous and frenetic stumble through the archives of music television, coming at you monthly! Forgotten live performances, modern and classic music videos, outrageous interviews & more. Hosted by the International Voice of Reason.

About IVOR: IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.

Catch up on past episodes of Musicvideodrome on our Patreon.

We started this Halloween season with Donald Pleasance, and now we come full-circle! “The Dr. Loomis Tapes” is the Museum’s revolutionary new take on the classic HALLOWEEN slasher franchise, told solely through the eyes of Pleasance’s unstable (and possibly wasted) psychiatric savior. Watch as Loomis gets increasingly unhinged and battered as the series wanes on.

ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC

Catch up on past episodes of Museum of Home Video on our Patreon.

FRIDAY NIGHT HALLOWEEN PARTY feat. BRET ON BASS: For the first time since before Museum of Home Video was created, I’m playing bass at an IRL show in Los Angeles. Museum friend Chaki has organized a one-off covers band for a show at the Kibitz Room (next door to my beloved Canter’s Deli) on Fairfax Avenue. Come see us on Friday 10/24, it’s free admission!

Within the sparkling legacy of Donald Glover’s Afrosurrealist TV opus “Atlanta” lies the thoroughly creepy, horror-twinged episode where Donnie plays a demented, rich guy resembling Michael Jackson, dressed as Hugh Hefner. Tonight we luxuriate in the uncomfortable cinematic fantastic-ness of “Teddy Perkins”, a two-hander between Glover and LaKeith Stanfield.

ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC

Catch up on past episodes of Museum of Home Video on our Patreon.

A frenzied found footage take on the Stephen King ‘90s TV miniseries THE LANGOLIERS, but with a twist!  THE TIMEKEEPERS OF ETERNITY was meticulously crafted by an intrepid solo Euro artist who edited a Fasterpiece Theater-style LANGOLIERS cutdown, printed each frame to paper, and animated it into a brand-new creature feature with Bronson Pinchot (who previously played a side character) as the de facto star. One of your new favorite King adaptations, which must be seen to be believed.

ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC

Catch up on past episodes of Museum of Home Video on our Patreon.

To kick off the Halloween season, we’ve Fasterpiece’d an already amazing Eighties found footage feature that uses an avalanche of horror cinema’s greatest hits (up to that point). Nancy Allen and a somewhat soused-looking Donald Pleasence host TERROR IN THE AISLES: a moody, atmospheric early take on the “supercut” that might end up becoming one of your favorite horror films.

ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC

Catch up on past episodes of Museum of Home Video on our Patreon.

One of the crown jewels of the PBS kids’ canon. “Zoom” was, simply put, a dynamite joyous treasure. Imagine a major network variety special with sketches, song and dance…but with a cast of endearing pre-teen Boston theater kids and a fun, literate script. Tonight we air the uncut pilot: 30 minutes of top-shelf showbiz edutainment.

ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC

Catch up on past episodes of Museum of Home Video on our Patreon.

Kicking off the Halloween season a little early with a show all about dead people. You’ll see lots of New Yorkers, all dead, including legendary fashion designers, sitcom stars, glam rockers, foreign film directors, and more! 

- - -

The wildest city in the world gets even wilder at NITE! Filmmaker and nightlife guru Adam Baran (TRADE CENTER, CIRCUS OF BOOKS) curates an after-hours examination of the brilliance and beauty of New York, New York.

A joyous and frenetic stumble through the archives of music television, coming at you monthly! Forgotten live performances, modern and classic music videos, outrageous interviews & more. Hosted by the International Voice of Reason.

About IVOR: IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.

Catch up on past episodes of Musicvideodrome on our Patreon.

Wanna-be stars in a no-star hotel! In the early Aughts, aspiring Canadian comic Steve Markle came to Los Angeles with little more than a MiniDV camera and a dream. Instead of making it big in stand-up comedy, Markle crafted this utterly fascinating, haunting, and sad feature doc about the chain-smoking creatives, ex-cons, outcasts, poets, addicts, and industry-adjacent aspirants he met during his two-month stay at the Highland Gardens Hotel.

ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC

Catch up on past episodes of Museum of Home Video on our Patreon.

We have a ton of new Fasterpieces on deck, so let’s make a special out of it. Dave Cowen (@eschatfiche) has new edits for this ep…and in a fun twist, Dave + Bret have each cut “dueling Fasterpieces” of ZARDOZ. This infamous ‘74 sci-fi braintwister starring Sean Connery in his underwear is so dense that both edits contain almost no overlapping footage!

ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC

Catch up on past episodes of Museum of Home Video on our Patreon.

Perhaps the funniest episode MST3K ever produced? Joel & Co. were firing on all cylinders against this incomprehensible Seventies cop jaunt starring slob extraordinaire Joe Don Baker and our beloved beady-eyed John Saxon. This is also the key episode in which Joel Hodgson taps out as host, with Mike Nelson swapping in for the remainder of the series’ original run. Keep circulating the tapes!

ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC

Catch up on past episodes of Museum of Home Video on our Patreon.

guest-presented by Major Label Debut

The ultimate in cinematic hero worship, and the most expensive rock ‘n roll biopic ever filmed. Drunk on power and unlimited budget after multiple Oscar wins in the Eighties, Oliver Stone kicked off his Nineties with the utterly ridiculous THE DOORS, starring Val Kilmer in the role of a lifetime as everyone’s fave Boomer narcissist d-bag/poet extraordinaire Jim Morrison.  Tonight’s Fasterpiece treatment is presented by “Major Label Debut”: the podcast hosted by Tokyo Police Club’s Graham Wright, all about iconic rock major label debuts!

ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC

Catch up on past episodes of Museum of Home Video on our Patreon.

The delightful DAVE HOLMES drops by to discuss DUTCH POP DIVAS! MARY J is here to play! We’re ecstatic about AUTOMATIC! JOYWAVE throws clothes! Early gems from R.E.M.!

- - -

A joyous and frenetic stumble through the archives of music television, coming at you monthly! Forgotten live performances, modern and classic music videos, outrageous interviews & more. Hosted by the International Voice of Reason.

About IVOR: IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.

Catch up on past episodes of Musicvideodrome on our Patreon.

We like our TV comedy divas uncouth and unhinged! It’s hard to pick a favorite character where “The Righteous Gemstones” is concerned, but Judy Gemstone has off-the-charts evil charisma. Here’s a tightly-edited platter of our favorite Judy moments. In Edi Patterson’s own words, “I just kind of figured that no filter, plus entitlement, plus truly feeling like you're being chosen by God would lead to some wild shit.”

ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC

Catch up on past episodes of Museum of Home Video on our Patreon.

A star-studded celebration of daytime talk banality, with a murderer’s row of iconic, wide-ranging personalities muttering word salad while the world watched. Here, Southern belle Dinah Shore (gently) lays down the law with her marshmallow demeanor. She’s the perfect breezy foil to the loose-cannon brusqueness of Orson Welles, the loose-cannon gruffness of Gary Busey, and the loose-cannon vocal fireworks of Grace Jones (who practically whips the audience into submission.)

ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC

Catch up on past episodes of Museum of Home Video on our Patreon.

What happens to the human brain when you watch every Swedish Chef segment from “The Muppet Show” in a row? We’ll find out tonight, as we stroll through thirty nonstop minutes of mush-mouthed mumbly comedy classics like “Chocolate Moose”, “Chicken In The Basket”, and “Turtle Soup” while dodging flying utensils. Børk!  Børk! Maybe we’ll tackle Lew Zealand next…

ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC

Catch up on past episodes of Museum of Home Video on our Patreon.

 E! Entertainment Television’s “Talk Soup” was one of the many early inspirations for Museum of Home Video’s format, and a wild time capsule of ‘90s daytime talk nonsense to boot. Tonight we celebrate both “Talk Soup” and daytime talk itself with the show’s extended 1993 best-of episode. Here, OG host Greg Kinnear operates at peak insouciance while ducking and covering from Richard Bey, Vicki, Jerry, Downey, Joan, Ricki, Sally Jesse, Maury, Larry King, and special guest star Phil Hartman.

ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC

Catch up on past episodes of Museum of Home Video on our Patreon.

Perhaps the most controversial Museum episode yet? Before the existence of Museum of Home Video…and before Bret was even a film programmer…he impulsively created an 80-minute fan edit of David Lynch’s most mercurial work. Now, almost 20 years later, Bret’s returned to the scene of the crime and made a completely new fan edit of INLAND EMPIRE for today’s Museum audience.

ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC

Catch up on past episodes of Museum of Home Video on our Patreon.