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Sock Monsters of the Cosmos, and other films

Steven

 "Dave, it's long past time that we both owned-up: we're neurotypical."

I wondered which films, books, songs, poems, ice cream vans (and so on) you all feel an affinity with? Perhaps these, also, inform your understanding of your autism? Perhaps they speak to you of a common identity, as if you & they are in unspoken sympathy? Perhaps I should get treatment for my addiction to the word 'perhaps'?

Anyway, I won't bore you all to tears by listing my favourites; instead I'll just read your own while lying in wait & then, when you least suspect it, drop my tatty choices upon you like a grand piano bunged off a cliff.

PS Tragically, 'Sock Monsters of the Cosmos' is not a real film.

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  • Slightly off topic, but your title chimes with the fact I’ve just started filling in some gaps with the episodes of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 that I’ve never seen. For those who don’t know it, it was a cult show that ran from 1989 to 1999  (and has made a return in recent years too) where someone is trapped in a prison satellite above the moon being forced by a mad scientist to watch the worst movies ever made. To keep his sanity, he’s made two sarcastic yet  simultaneously endearingly naive robots to trade quips with all the way through watching these things. They sit silhouetted against the movie screen as this commentary of hilarious piss taking riffs plays out over the top of the chosen b movie of that week. And it’s wonderful, and lifted my spirits momentarily last night (always a transitory but worthwhile fight) with its sheer unapologetic silliness. 

    I recommend it to anyone willing to give it a try. If you look up MST3K Gizmoplex all the eps are there, many of them for free. I’m seldom easily made laugh out loud by telly comedy, but this thing has me helpless at times. 

  • in reply to Shardovan

    ‘The Crawling Eye’ was the one I just watched today and that gives you some idea! Unwatchable and barely endurable in themselves, the riffing over the top of these films is like pure alchemy and instead they become addictive and like old friends. 

  • in reply to Steven

    Nonsense. You always give good thread. 

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