Episode 100
September 10, 2021
A Cult Favourite
MST3K 424 • Manos: The Hands of Fate
Hosted by Adam Clarke, Beth Martin, and Chris Piuma
In our very special one-hundredth episode, Manos: The Hands of Fate keeps our heroes talking for a long, long time about notorious movies, controversial jazz, weird zeitgeists, stale comics, and exactly what MST3K does that makes us love it so.
Features the short, Hired, part 2!
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It’s Just A Show In our very special one-hundredth episode, Manos: The Hands of Fate keeps our heroes talking for a long, long time about notorious movies, controversial jazz, weird zeitgeists, stale comics, and exactly what MST3K does that makes us love it so. Features the short, Hired, part 2! More episodes
Show Notes.
Manos: The Hands of Fate: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Watch it on ShoutFactoryTV!
Hired!: IMDB. UnMSTed. [Part 1 was covered in our episode on Bride of the Monster.]
Our episode on Squirm.
The Pumaman action figures, as discussed on our episode on The Pumaman.
[A binky is, of course, a pacifier.]
Jackey Neyman Jones’s memoir, Growing Up Manos, is an terrific must-read for any fans of the movie or the episode. (She played Debbie, the little girl, in the movie.)
Our look at the Coleman Francis trilogy: Skydivers; The Beast of Yucca Flats; Red Zone Cuba.
Proposition Deep 13: Our guide to thirteen episodes from the thirteen seasons of MST3K (so far)!
Our episodes on The Wild Wild World of Batwoman and Pod People.
Harold P. Warren: Computerized Salesmanship: The New Last Frontier.
A review of the stage adaptation of Manos that Chris saw.
The video game adaptation of Manos on Steam.
Manos Returns and Manos: The Rise of Torgo.
Our episode on Monster A Go-Go.
Hired! in the Prelinger Archive.
The (SFW) Playboy interview, scanned.
Our episodes on Village of the Giants and Master Ninja II.
Calvin and Hobbes (and terrible captions) on Twitter.
On Cathy. [Includes the pie comic.]
Charles Schulz: The Complete Peanuts starts here.
Non-binary Krazy Kat and Popeye.
We talked more about Archie comics in our episode on Eegah!
Others have played that car game.
Bonus.
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