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    • Now for Some Real User Power
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    • Just an old country doctor…
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      • Remembering Carroll Spinney
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      • Farewell to Gary Coleman, Dennis Hopper
      • Peter Graves: Avowing Knowledge of His Actions
      • Andrew Koenig's Preventable Passing
      • Frances Reid, of Days of Our Lives, Passes Way
      • Art Clokey of Gumby, Davey & Goliath, Passes Away
      • Have a Patrick Swayze Christmas
      • Captain Lou and Mario, Too
      • When You Die at the Palace, You Really DIE at the Palace!
      • First Lady of Star Trek
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      • The Ritz Closes
  • Films
    • A Pandemic Year of Moviegoing & Star Trek
    • Take care of yourself for Christmas 2020
    • The Wishgranter
    • Looking Back at 2014
    • It's easy to fall in love with Her, Computerworld, and MIT
    • Summer Shorts sellout: My favorite CGI films
    • Star Trek Into Darkness' origins and impact
    • Iron Man vs Superman vs Star Trek
    • Game of Thrones: The good parts version
    • Tis the season to Die Hard
    • Terminator 2 at 20
    • Pixar's Up Floats to Life
    • Looking Back at 2010, Looking Ahead to 2011
    • Summer Shorts: Validation
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    • From Zero Hour to Airplane!
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    • Reimagining TRON 1.0
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    • GET LAMP Text Adventure Documentary Coming in March
    • The Films of 2009
    • The Return of Superman Returns
    • To Die a Funny Death
    • Centennial Special Effects
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    • RiffTrax Brings Plan 9 to Earth
    • Transformers: Revenge of the Foul
    • Summer Shorts: Signs
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    • Summer Shorts: World Builder
    • Prelude to Summer Shorts
    • The House that Bueller Built
    • RiffTrax on TRON: It's Hard to Overstate My Satisfaction
    • Do Sci-Fi Films Get Advanced Tech Right?
    • Alien vs. Predator: Can't We All Just Get Along?
    • Saturday Morning Watchmen
    • The Science of Cinema
    • Merry Christmas, if that's okay
    • Davis Advertising and YOU!
    • 40 Inspirational Speeches
    • Why So Serious?
    • Hulk LAUGH!
    • Iron Man Faces His Greatest Foe
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    • Count Me In for the Drive-In
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    • Hollywood Meets MIT
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    • The 2007 Hiphop Awards
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    • A Convenient Film
    • For Want of a Nail
    • Life moves pretty fast…
    • Dirty Bond
    • The Screaming Skull
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    • Reinventing the Reel
    • Is There a Temporal Mechanic in the House?
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    • The Best of the Best
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    • Read All About It
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    • It's Better in the Original Klingon
    • Extras of the Lost Ark
    • A Pirate's Life (Not) For Me
    • Rock of Ages
    • Overture, Light the Lights
    • Light Up the Sky
    • 300: Truth or Tale?
    • Another Op'nin', Another Show
    • AC/DC
    • D'oh! A Deer, A Female Deer
    • Spoof of Life
    • The Year In Preview
    • Prepare To Be Regurgitated
    • The Not-So-Marvelous
    • Move Like a Butterfly
    • That's right, woodchuck-chuckers…
    • Demon of the Gibbet
    • Not the Grouch
    • Qapla!
    • Mock Turtle Soup
    • The Return of Statler & Waldorf
    • More Than Meets the Eye
    • Donner, Party of Two
    • Fantastic Faux
    • Trailer Sense is Tingling
    • Tis the Season
    • Hufflepuff, The Missing PokĆ©mon
    • But Superman Can See Through Tin
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      • The Antisocial Network
      • Insipid Inception
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      • The Technology and Security of Iron Man 2
      • Flying High with How to Train Your Dragon
      • DC Superheroes Duke It Out on DVD
      • The Invention of Lying
      • Jean-Claude Van Damme Is JCVD
      • Nothing Fishy about Ponyo
      • Harry Potter and the Half-Adapted Script
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      • Chai Wallah Millionaire
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      • The Majestic Jim Carrey
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      • Simon Pegg Goes the Distance
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      • Every Panda Was Kung Fu Fighting
      • Right on the Button
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      • Are You Watching Closely?
      • Shattered Glass
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      • There Can Be Only Two
      • WarGames: Still Alive
      • Utterly Enchanted
      • Every Rose Has Its Thorn
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      • Seaworld Struggles
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      • Hulk (a) Smash!!
      • Indiana Jones Rides Again
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      • Enter at Your Own Risk
      • Attica! Attica!
      • Great Balls of… Fury?
      • Today's Lesson: The Pen Is Mightier
      • Speedy Delivery!
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      • Expecting the Unexpected
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      • Rust and Gravity
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      • Ad Astra Per Aspera
      • Everybody Dansu Now
      • Also Not Appearing In This Film: Cinder
      • American Elseworlds
      • Up the Slipstream Without a Paddle
      • A Fistful of Quarters
      • All Knocked Up and Nowhere to Go
      • Seduction of the Innocent
      • Less Than Meets the Eye
      • Phoenix Descending
      • Off the Beaten Path of Enlightenment
      • Security Goes to the Movies
      • By Your Powers Combined…
      • Hung Ogre
      • One Ringer To Rule Them All
      • Occam's Journey
      • A Great Big Bang-Up
      • Truth, Justice — All That Stuff
      • A Gentleman's War
      • Heroes in a Half Shell
      • Us the People
      • What If God Was One of Us?
      • In God's Kitchen
      • Buddy Christ
      • Waiting for God
      • Knight Life
      • Who Da Man?
      • Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
      • What's Snoo?
      • Domo Arigato
      • Long Walk Off a Short Pier
      • Library Distortion Field
      • Staying Alive
      • To Grandma's House We Go
    • Trailers
      • The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug trailer
      • Identity crisis in Man of Steel trailer
      • Shuffle: A life out of order
      • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey trailer
      • Avengers Assemble
      • In Brightest Day
      • Yuri Gagarin's First Orbit
      • X-Men: First Class First Look
      • Ice Age 4 begins breaking ground
      • Iron Man 2 Gets Whiplashed
      • Prince of Persia Pines for Passion
      • The Lonely Maiden Heist
      • Recruits Riveted on Ruminants
      • TRON's Legacy Revealed
      • Cartoons That Should Come to Life
      • Earth 2.0
      • Super Bowl Trailers
      • Dr. Manhattan Project
      • Alpha Wolverine
      • TRON 2: More Than a Game
      • The Day the Earth Previewed
      • Who Watches the Watchmen Trailer?
      • Out of Control
      • Terminator's End Begins
      • Streaming Racer
      • Bring the Dark Knight Home Tonight
      • The Skull That Wouldn't Die
      • View from the Rooftop
      • You Can Call Me Cloverfield
      • Don't Blink
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      • When the Whole World Looked Up
      • How Ironic
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  • Humor
    • Sesame Street parodies the Hobbit, Hunger Games
    • Mystery Science Theater 3000 Turkey Day offerings
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    • Even Trekkies need cars & insurance
    • Take flight to Middle-Earth with Air New Zealand
    • Application to SHIELD
    • Star Trek gets spoofed in John Scalzi's Redshirts
    • Thomas the Transforming Tank Engine
    • The Hobbit trailer, real and literal
    • Cello Wars
    • Duck Tape TRON
    • The Netflix Relief Fund
    • The Avengers' Backup
    • Ode to Spot Rap
    • Star Trek Voyager Turns 16
    • RiffTrax Shines on Twilight
    • Lost over Lost
    • How It Should Have Ended
    • An April Fool's Tribble Treat
    • Happy St. Muppet's Day
    • Turkey Volume Guessing Man!
    • Jack Bauer, 1994
    • RiffTrax Live's Holiday Shorts
    • Star Wars Meets MacGuyver, Airwolf, Dallas
    • Star Trek Dallas Team: The 1969 Generation
    • White and Trekkie
    • Le Wrath di Khan
    • Rock the Galactic Vote
    • Last-Minute Costume Ideas
    • The Enterprise Enterprise
    • A Fool's Trek
    • I Can Has Tribble?
    • Faster than a Stop-Motion Bullet
    • Festive, Fun, and Sexy!
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    • Montagne de Brokeback
    • The Power of RiffTrax in the Palm of Your Hands
    • Cow Tipping Gone Horribly Wrong
    • Attack of the Colonels
    • Parallel Trekking
  • On Stage
    • Crazy About Crazy For You
    • Doctor Atomic's Explosive Opera
    • The Stage Is Alive
    • THAT'S the Broadway Melody!
  • Potpourri
    • Rogue One is a one-hit wonder
    • Darth Santa
    • A Muppet Family Christmas for all of us
    • Super Megafest 2013: Celebrating celebrities young & old
    • Super Megafest 2012: Superman, Hercules & TRON
    • Have a Patrick Swayze Christmas, Chorally Yours
    • All the Muppets Need Is Love
    • Star-studded NASA PSAs
    • Gandalf vs. Darth Vader
    • Bill Corbett's Super-Powered Revenge Christmas
    • Animal's Holiday Guide
    • Filming the holidays with iMovie trailers
    • The Public Library: Netflix 2.0
    • Tom Servo's Christmas Concern
    • After These Messages: Chiptuning the Eighties
    • A Visit to Where Everybody Knows Your Name
    • Know Your Meme
    • Beantown Is Geektown
    • Independence Day
    • NASA and Pixar: Life Imitates Science
    • Separated at Birth
    • War of the Formats
    • Super Happy Fun Hour
    • The Broadcast Goes On
    • Here In My Car
    • The red wire! Cut the red one!
    • Shaken, Not Stirred
    • Borderline
    • Call for Podcasts
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    • The Showbits Family
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  • Star Trek
    • Star Trek IV: The Voyage to Alameda
    • WordPress: The Final Frontier
    • Picard Will Make It So
    • Reuniting The Next Generation's cast
    • A Christmas aboard the Enterprise NX-01
    • A Star Trek Christmas with family
    • Unboxing Star Trek: The Original Series
    • Star Trek at Seattle's EMP Museum
    • Star Trek Beyond review podcast
    • Unboxing Star Trek: The Next Generation on Blu-Ray
    • My first Star Trek convention
    • We Are the Explorers
    • Star Trek mosaic's Christmas landing
    • As Star Trek: The Next Generation turns 25, my 14 favorite episodes
    • Star Trek: TNG on Blu-ray & silver screen
    • Views of First Contact
    • A Cappella Star Trek
    • Kirk vs. Gorn vs. Science
    • Star Trek Warps to DVD
    • Enterprise Rising
    • Star Trek: The Motion Comic
    • The Profits and Prophets of Star Trek
    • The Star Trek Family Guy
    • Looking Back on the Future of Star Trek
    • Star Trek Scene It? Warps to Stores Early
    • Star Trek Trailer: Past, Present, and Future
    • Stills Trek
    • Some Secrets Are Worth Keeping
    • Of Gods and Men
    • Hailing Frequencies Closed
    • Flights of Fantasy
    • Uncaged
    • If Only, If Only…
    • Return to the Forbidden Planet
    • TNG at 20: A Good Day to Die
    • TNG at 20: But Don't Take My Word For It
    • TNG at 20: The Voyage Continues
    • TNG at 20: The Human Condition
    • TNG at 20: Where, Oh Where, Has My Little Spock Gone?
    • TNG at 20: To Everything, There Is a Season
    • TNG at 20: T-Minus One Week and Counting
    • There Can Be Only One
    • Star Trek Boxing
    • These Are the Voyages…
    • Live Long and Prosper
    • A Christmas Trek
    • Ensign Abrams, Reporting for Duty
    • iDIC
    • Coming Soon to a Quadrant Near You
    • To Boldly Go…
    • The Kirk Identity
  • Star Wars
    • Darth Vader's License to Intimidate
    • Summer Shorts: Star Wars: Pink Five
    • Family Guy: Something Something Something Darkside
    • A Very Eighties Christmas
    • A New Sith; or, Revenge of the Hope
    • Kiss a Wookie for George
    • Star Wars Sounds Around the House
    • Fanboys' Rebellion
    • Casualties of the Clone War
    • Pink Five FX
    • Over My Dead Body
    • The Circle Is Now Complete
    • Padawan Apparel
    • Quatro de Mayo
    • The Spaceport Tango
    • Neither Rain, Nor Sleet, Nor Dark Lord of the Sith
    • Revenge of the Nerds
    • A Long Time Ago…
    • The Force will be with you… always
    • Can't Be Worse Than "Darth Tater"
    • This Will Be A Novel Long Remembered
    • They're Not Dolls, They're Action Figures
  • Television
    • Televisions shows for the pandemic
    • DC superheroes on TV this fall
    • Agents of SHIELD comes to ABC this fall
    • PBS remixes Reading Rainbow, Bob Ross
    • Sherlock Holmes, anti-hero
    • Top 10 shows cancelled after 1 season
    • Mister Rogers Remixed: Garden of Your Mind
    • The Science of the Big Bang
    • Summer Shorts: My Deaf Family
    • The Best of the Super Bowl's IT Commercials
    • It All Started with a Big Bang
    • The A-Team: Back in Action
    • Drives Us Bats
    • Defying Gravity's Bold Launch
    • NASA to Relaunch Firefly's Serenity
    • The Death of Analog
    • TV Obamanation
    • MST3K on iTunes
    • Eat Like Snake
    • Heroes Redux
    • A Prescription for Horrible
    • A Glimpse of Life on Mars
    • NTSC's Dying Light
    • Tomorrow's Artificial Intelligence, Today
    • Sit Right Back and You'll Hear a Tale
    • Carry On Wayward Man
    • Keeping It Unreal
    • Mighty Max
    • Heroes for One Season
    • From Zero to Heroes
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    • Alphanumeric!
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    • KITT: No Assembly Required
    • Women Are From Venus
    • I'll have a ham and cheese on rye
    • Mazes & Monsters – A Requiem
    • A Child's Christmas in Space

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