obscure media trivia; mst3k
Today's trivia question, something I ran into on a general web crawl. I couldn't get it, myself:
One and only one (old school, Mike and Joel) MST3K movie won an Oscar. Which one was it?
(HINT: We get to hear Crow's Gregory Peck imitation.)
obscure media trivia; mst3k
Was that the "by then my lungs were filling with water" thing?
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@001zlnv "By this time my lungs were aching for air?" Lloyd Bridges? Nope! You're at least at the right approximate level of washed-up actors, though. :)
obscure media trivia; mst3k
@zebratron2084 Marooned/Space Travellers. But the Oscar isn't the neat thing about it. The neat thing is that the movie's having a cosmonaut saving astronauts startled the Soviets into thinking that US proposals for a joint mission were in earnest, so that the actual course of Apollo-Soyuz and Mir-Shuttle and International Space Station's history was (very slightly) affected by this MST3K'd movie.
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@Austin_Dern Wow. You completely leapfrogged me there. That's a fascinating story and I had no idea. So many bonus points!
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@zebratron2084 Aw, thank you. This lies at the overlap of several of my big obsessions, so it's lucky I'm not *still* talking.
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Okay, second hint for today's MST3K trivia question:
It co-starred the star of the original The Fugitive.