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Welcome to the Mostervision page.
FAQ (frequently asked question): What's the difference between Monstervision on TNT and Mystery Science Theater 3000 on the Sci-Fi channel? Monster jokes "There are 3 types of people in the world - those who are good at math and those who aren't."
Past movies have included Star Trek 1 & 2, all 3 Poltergeist movies (in a row, the same night), Back to the Future, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, The Dead Zone, Christine, and even a couple of films they also made fun of on MST3K...
Following the Monstervision movie or movies was a film that TNT considers "100% Wierd". Sometimes it has something to do with the evening's selection (2 Godzilla movies were followed by "All Monsters Attack") and sometimes not. Sometimes "100% Wierd" is just a short film about Bigfoot ... which is about 50% wierd. Or Gilligan's Island, which is just plain silly. At this time there is no host, so the only difference between Monstervision and "100% Wierd" is the video logo at the beginning of the 1st movie. Joe Bob Briggs got fired just 3 or 4 years after showing Barbarella. Go figure.
These movies continue to run on TNT, TBS, and even the Sci Fi Channel in their original form. Simply print out the host segments for the movie when it comes around and read Joe Bob's comments on each segment as you watch the movie. It's the next best thing to having Joe Bob on the couch next to you...
Mon 9/16: TBS Dinner & A Movie @ 7pm is Pauly Shore in “Jury Duty,” Goldie Hawn tries to escape from New York in “The Out-Of-Towners” (1999) on Comedy Central @ 8pm (repeated Tue @ 3pm), a Highlander sequel “Endgame” is on TMC @ 9pm, TCM has One Million Years B.C. @ 12am/3am EST
Tue 9/17: TMC has "Pandemonium" @ 7:15am & 4:35pm (horror spoof, note word in middle after Pan), Cinemax has The Ambushers @ 7:15am, Comedy Central has "The Out-Of-Towners" @ 3pm, TBS has Terminator @ 7:30pm
Wed 9/18: AMC has "The Boston Strangler" @ 5:10am/8:10 EST starring Tony Curtis (father of Jamie Lee Curtis of Halloween), TMC has "The Nurse" (1997 thriller like The Surgeon) @ 7:15am & 3:35pm, Comedy Central has "Zapped" (Carrie without the blood) @ 8am, Cinemax has "Look Who's Talking Too" @ 9:35am Monstervision review & host segments, USA Network has "Mad Max" @ 11am, Cinemax has Sean Connery 007 movie "Never Say Never Again" @ 3:05, Comedy Central has "Dragnet 1987" Monstervision review & host segments. Showtime has "The Distinguished Gentleman" @ 11:30pm (Eddie Murphy's follow-up to Trading Places)
Previously in September:
9/1: Comedy Central has former Monstervision movie Trading Places and Oxygen channel had Hitchcock's The BirdsMonstervision host segments for The Birds
9/2: Lethal Weapon on TBS
9/3: "Stepfather 2" on WGN, Top Gun on TNN, Conan on TBS, Child's Play on TNT, One Million BC on TNT
9/4: Star Trek 2:The Wrath of Khan on TNN
9/5: Beast With A Million Eyes on AMC, "Aliens 3" on FX, Embrace of the Vampire on TNT
9/6: The Blues Brother on TBS and Monstervision favorite Spaceballs
9/7: WarGames on TBS, Bad Day At Black Rock on TCM, Children of the Corn on UPN, Spies Like Us on FX, Willy Wonka on FAM, Lethal Weapon on TNT, Daughters of Satan on Showtime
9/8: Return of the Living Dead 2 on Sci Fi, Dragnet 1985 on Com, Look Who's Talking Too on Cinemax
9/9: Hercules in New York on AMC, The Birds 2 on Showtime
9/10: The Great Outdoors and "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" (1997) on Hallmark channel
9/11: Look Who's Talking Too on TBS
9/12: Animal Farm (1999) on Hallmark and Lifetime profiles Lynda Carter
Friday the 13: FX has "Big Trouble In Little China" @ noon and Jaws is on TBS @ 9pm
Sat 9/14: FAM has Addams Family Reunion @ 3pm, HBO has "Cats & Dogs" @ noon (bad, bad talking cat), TNT has Back To The Future @ 5:30pm followed by "The American President", TNN has "Invaders From Mars" @ 5pm while Bravo has "Raiders of the Lost Ark", UPN has "Pumpkinhead 2" @ 8pm, at 2am TBS has that Joe Bob favorite Leviathan while Cinemax has 8 Heads In A Duffle Bag Also this month,
WGN has Weird Al Yankovic's UHF at various times
In July: AMC has A & C Meet Frankenstein (1948, Bela Lugosi as Dracula, Glenn Strange as the big green guy, Lon Chaney as the Wolf Man) @ 7am/10am EST, Comedy Central has former Monstervision movie Trading Places, Cinemax has a Highlander sequel
Sat 7/27: TNT has Stephen King's Dolores Claiborne Monstervision review & host segments, the Sci Fi Channel has RoboCop 3, ABC has Live & Let Die and WB has Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1992), WGN has "Telefon" (1977, with Donald Pleasence of Halloween as the Russian bad guy), AMC has the Robert Foxworth 1973 version of Frankenstein
Friday 7/26: Cinemax has the new remake of Planet Of The Apes, Lifetime channel has a portrait of Lea Thompson inc. clips from Back To The Future and USA network has Sean Connery in "The Rock" (not to be confused with Within The Rock), and VH1 has the sequel to The Blues Brothers. If you're in the mood for something really different, check out "Dr. Goldfoot & The Bikini Machine" starring Vincent Price on AMC @ 6:20am EST Saturday morning
Thurs 7/25: VH1 has a sequel to Gremlins
Wed 7/24: Cinemax has a 1994 sequel to Highlander
Tues 7/23: TBS has "Universal Soldier:The Return" and Comedy Central has Nat. Lampoon's European Vacation
Monday 7/22: TMC has "Dirty Dancing" starring that nice couple from Red Dawn, and at Sliders tv series returns to the Sci-Fi channel with a similarly-themed 2-parter in which the Ruskies take over California
Sundays @ 10pm, USA Network has episodes of "The Dead Zone" based on the The Dead Zone movie
July 20, the Sci-Fi channel had a Frankenstein movie marathon, and 2 sequels to Return of the Living Dead
And before that, Turner had Jaws and Jaws 2, twice! Enjoy Joe Bob's history of the mechanical shark that just wouldn't work right
Then on Saturday afternoon, it was Clash Of The Titans at 4pm EST on TCM (the semi-remake of Harryhausen's Jason & The Argonauts, Joe Bob just loved the mechanical owl), while Comedy Central has former Monstervision movie Gremlins various times (don't feed them after dark)
Friday night the Sci Fi Channel movie @ 3am was "The Funhouse" Monstervision review & host segments - by the director of Poltergeist
Important note: don't confuse Poltergeists with Gremlins - that's a whole different movie
Bored with the politically-correct "Dinotopia"? Then click here for the Monstervision review/host segments of Star Trek 2:The Wrath of Khan
In the mood for unintentially funny/strange stuff? HBO and Showtime are showing one of Joe Bob's favorites this month, "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure," the first feature directed by Tim Burton: Click here for Monstervision host segments of it. Or would you prefer the Monstervision host segments for Friday The 13th?
Host segments now also available for Blues Brothers (VH1 is showing it and the sequel from time to time)
AMC ran "Targets" recently starring Boris Karloff - a drive-in movie (1968) that was actually set in a drive-in!
Comedy Central and Disney Channel have Beetlejuice from time to time, about the ghost with the most who's seen The Exorcist over 100 times & it just keeps getting funnier!
Tim Burton's Mars Attacks!, seen on a tv near you as TBS Dinner & a Movie on 11-26-01, repeated just after midnight without the giggly Dinner hosts (can you believe these guys outlasted Monstervision?)
If the Family Channel thinks Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory is just a kid's movie, they haven't seen Joe Bob's review & host segments, which was followed on Monstervision by the nightmare-inducing Ice Cream Man starring in-studio guest Clint Howard
I also have a tape of Monstervision's presentation of Carrie, anyone want me to type up the host segments for this website? Frankly, I'd rather review my Monstervision tape of "Time After Time," or "Duel."
Or Brimstone Or would you rather just read the latest Stephen King book? He wrote "Stand By Me" but just try to find his name on the TV Guide description of that movie. It has a dead body and everything...
Christine, and even a couple of films they also made fun of on MST3K...
Host segments now available for the big Monstervision triple-feature: Fargo,
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