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!

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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!

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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.!

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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.

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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.”

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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.)

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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…

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 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.

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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.

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FRIDAY NIGHT! SABBATH! GINA X! FUNKADELIC! LUDACRIS IS SHAGADELIC! WE GO TO A BELGIAN RAVE! SPOTLITE on an amazing episode of THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL with BILLY PRESTON, LABELLE, RUFUS ft. CHAKA KHAN & MORE!

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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.

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Unapologetically himself from beginning to end, Richard Simmons was a singular force, a geyser of kindness, a genuine force for change (rather than just a proto-wellness influencer), and a collector of the shortest shorts. Richard’s tireless work ethic helped him blaze a path through 40+ years of American television and radio, and we’re stoked to summarize that tonight. See Richard ride the wave through daytime talk, nighttime talk, syndicated talk, his half-hour series, infomercials, and even “American Bandstand”.

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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.

Tonight we get very conceptual! A “Dark Side of the Rainbow” for the 21st century, THE SHINING FORWARDS AND BACKWARDS is a hallucinatory, palindromic brainbomb resulting from musician John Fell Ryan’s literal interpretation of a fellow obsessive’s statement that “THE SHINING is a film meant to be watched both forwards and backwards.” This structural found-footage epic riffs on Kubrick use of doubles, symmetrical compositions and enigmatic suggestions of non-linear time, creating unexpectedly profound moments at nearly every turn.

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Required viewing for every Angeleno, whether you’ve been here just a few months or your entire lifetime!  In the early Aughts, aspiring Canadian comic Steve Markle comes to Hollywood with little more than a MiniDV camera and a dream.  He rents a room at the fabled Highland Gardens, a grubby residential hotel where optimists like himself land at what they hope to be a temporary crash pad on their way to the top (fun note: the hotel still exists!).  Previous residents like Errol Flynn, L. Ron Hubbard, Brad Pitt and Janis Joplin give the dusty place its enduring mystery and luster, while its current occupants – some of whom viewers will recognize after recovering from a double-take – seem enamored with its history, hoping that Golden Age magic will transfer onto them.

Here, just a few blocks away from the Walk of Fame, Markle starts recording this off-kilter collection of chain-smoking creatives, ex-cons, outcasts, poets, addicts and industry-adjacent aspirants during his two-month stay at the Gardens.  First broadcast on Canadian television two decades ago, CAMP HOLLYWOOD is a heartbreaking, continuously fascinating snapshot of a community and what one resident dubs “the myth of people who have the guts to live their dreams.”

‍Co-presented by Museum of Home Video (a weekly broadcast of found footage for stoners, seekers, archivists, and drinkers) & L.A. Daze, an occasional stream on MoHV’s network offering transmissions from the city of fallen angels.

‍dir. Steve Markle, 2004
Canada, digital projection,
72 min

7:30 DOORS
8:00 SCREENING

The best and most entertaining of VH1’s Aughties-era celebrity biopics! This cautionary Hammertale features money earned, money lost, joyous dancing and more mishegoss. Along the way, we find out MC Hammer (played pretty well by Romany Malco, THE 40-YEAR OLD VIRGIN) was a batboy for the Oakland A’s, sold thousands of self-financed ‘80s LPs from the trunk of his car and even spent some quality time with Tupac Shakur while in a Death Row Records poseur phase.

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One of the most consistently funny Muppet artifacts of Jim Henson’s post-LABYRINTH phase, featuring an absolutely on-fire Frank Oz in dual starring roles as Miss Piggy and Fozzie. Written and directed by some key lifers from the Muppet creative team, this is one to remember. Piggy roams around L.A. meeting Bob Hope, Dudley Moore, and George Wendt. Fozzie has a disastrous stint onstage at the Comedy Store.

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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.

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For the momentous occasion of our 250th episode, we explore a rarely-seen episode of a total fan favorite. Did you know that, in the middle of the 4th season of “Murder, She Wrote”, Angela Lansbury played her British cousin solving a murder in the UK, and that the guy who played Mr. Belvedere was her sidekick?! This out-of-body viewing experience will make you reignite your Angela obsession once more.

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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.

She was one of a kind. She styled her songs in a way that can never be done by anyone else. She came from poverty and abuse to International fame and wealth. She did it on her own. She created a new life for herself and her daughter. Eartha Kitt’s story is just incredible…hear it from her own words, in news and talk show clips.

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Carol always deserves celebrating, regardless of the time of year. Her scenes in ANNIE are so good that we’ve made a fan edit of just her scenes only (some of which have Tim Curry and Bernadette Peters.) We’ve also included a heaping helping of the breathless theater farce NOISES OFF, where Carol trades barbs with Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, John Ritter, Marilu Henner, Denholm Elliott, and Julie Hagerty!

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Even the most diehard fans of aesthetically unpleasant CGI have never seen anything like DRACULA’S ANGEL, a galaxy-brained 2010s backyard D.I.Y. CGI looksmaxxed vampire tale that one Reddit user describes as “seemingly scripted from a ‘90s chatroom exchange based on the idea of erotic fanfic”.

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Babushkas break bad! Get spanked by MADONNA and PATRIARCHY! BRITTANY MURPHY is a speedy feline! SPOTLITE on the cathartic, hypnotic & futuristic Ugandan drum & electronic group NIHILOXICA!

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.

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In tribute, lots of words from David himself. Part of the appeal of Lynch’s work was his accompanying personality, that of the surreal statesman. Tonight we go gaga for Lynch’s specific conversational TONE. "I love mysteries, to fall into a mystery and its danger...everything becomes so intense in those moments. So I want things to feel solved up to a point, but there's got to be a certain percentage left over to keep the dream going. You understand it, but you don't understand it, and it keeps that mystery alive. That's the most beautiful thing." - David Lynch

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Chicken Lady, “Girl Drink Drunk”, Buddy Cole and Tammy, oh my! KITH’s first two seasons bore lots of interesting sketch comedy fruit, but Season 3 is where our Canadian Kids turn on the burn…Mark, Bruce, Dave, Scott, and Kevin explode with a high batting average and very, very few duds. When cutting this piece, we found so much great material that we’ll save the rest for a Season 3, Part 2 to emerge soon.

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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.

Yes, this really happened!  To promote their first film THE MUPPET MOVIE, Jim Henson & Co. took over The Tonight Show for one evening (w/ guests like Vincent Price, Bernadette Peters and Leo Sayer). Kermit and Fozzie find out the hard way that hosting nighttime talk is harder than it looks! A lot of awkward improv and some genuinely interesting moments abound. As well, Bernadette and Leo do Muppet musical numbers.

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