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Join Us Saturday, October 12th @ ~8:00PM (US/EDT) Here: http://cytu.be/r/TroperCoven


For the uninitiated... A contingent of tropers (mostly from across America) holds regular get-togethers over the Interwebs on this site called Synchtube which lets individuals, such as ourselves, open and join in text-based chatrooms within typical web browsers (Firefox, Chrome, et. al.) that allow the chat participants to view YouTube videos in synchronization with everyone else present (without even needing to set up an account)... and we've decided to use said chatrooms to play cheeseball webvideos and feature-length movies found in the public domain which stretch all the way from letters B to Z, which everyone subsequently riffs on a la MST3K.

For over EIGHT years, everybody who gets involved mostly finds good enjoymentnote  in calling out tropes that are recognized in the videos and stories and coming up with jokes to fling back at whatever's happening on the screen, many of which turn into various in-jokes and running gags (a Coven Glossary is kept and maintained for everyone's help and convenience HERE) to repeat in the chat.

We're always looking for new ways to better coordinate and expand our activities and are more than happy to welcome newcomers interested in joining our gatherings.


Complete List of Past Features (and Their Respective Ratings)

Suggestions List for Future Features

Coven Glossary of In-Jokes, Memes, and Other Useful Terms to Know

Coven .gif Gallery (Our favorite moving images composed in the simplest of digital formats)

Edited by SeanMurrayI on Oct 12th 2020 at 1:47:43 PM

EgregiousOne Dark Master of Stairs from the Mancave of Despair Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Too sexy for my shirt
Dark Master of Stairs
#2051: Feb 17th 2013 at 12:24:06 PM

So how did Street Fighter turn out? What was the rating? I still have to see it, one of these days.

EDIT: Didn't realize the Past Features list included ratings.

edited 17th Feb '13 12:25:37 PM by EgregiousOne

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PhysicalStamina ain't nothin' but a party y'all (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
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#2052: Feb 17th 2013 at 12:49:06 PM

edited 17th Feb '13 12:49:16 PM by PhysicalStamina

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Danniiee GROWWWWWWL from    THE DEPTHS OF HELL    Since: Jun, 2012
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#2053: Feb 17th 2013 at 2:15:23 PM

Have you guys done the classic riffing movie Baby Geniuses 2? evil grin

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#2054: Feb 17th 2013 at 2:18:12 PM

Might come tonight, if I can make it.

Most certainly going to try and be there for Starcrash.

Go play Kentucky Route Zero. Now.
PhysicalStamina ain't nothin' but a party y'all (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
ain't nothin' but a party y'all
#2055: Feb 17th 2013 at 2:23:21 PM

[up][up]Not yet. Ask Sean about it.

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Danniiee GROWWWWWWL from    THE DEPTHS OF HELL    Since: Jun, 2012
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#2056: Feb 17th 2013 at 2:30:35 PM

Just throwing out suggestions, sorry if it's annoying. tongue

Also, Barney's Great Adventure. I think we'd riff it to death.

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#2057: Feb 17th 2013 at 2:32:46 PM

If you can find it on Youtube or something, we might consider it. That being said, bad children's movies tend to lead to disaster.

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Danniiee GROWWWWWWL from    THE DEPTHS OF HELL    Since: Jun, 2012
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#2058: Feb 17th 2013 at 2:34:00 PM

How do they lead to disaster? Please enlighten me, I'm still kinda new-ish. [lol]

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#2059: Feb 17th 2013 at 2:44:24 PM

We've watched six films that could be classified as "children's" unless I'm missing one. Of those six, only two received better than a one star rating. Two of those received an    X    rating. One of those is the worst film we've ever seen.

For reference, the six films I'm referring to are Santa With Muscles, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Mac and Me, Twin Sitters, Nukie, and Foodfight.

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#2060: Feb 17th 2013 at 2:46:32 PM

[up]Which was our worst, again? Nukie or Foodfight?

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CompletelyNormalGuy Am I a weirdo? from a place where folks put cream cheese on hot dogs (Oldest One in the Book)
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#2061: Feb 17th 2013 at 3:13:31 PM

Foodfight. Nukie was bad, but Sean liked it, and the two Brain films were worse.

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#2062: Feb 17th 2013 at 3:34:00 PM

...I'm going to have to see Foodfight too, one of these days; as a test of guts if nothing else. >.< When are we planning to watch Starcrash, again?

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#2063: Feb 17th 2013 at 3:34:56 PM

edited 17th Feb '13 3:38:37 PM by EgregiousOne

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SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#2064: Feb 17th 2013 at 3:51:12 PM

Baby Geniuses 2 is a "classic riffing movie"? All I've ever heard is that it's an utter travesty, much like the original. And terrible family/children's/Christian/etc. movies are usually always the hardest stuff for us to watch.

No matter, anyway, seeing that it we won't plan on watching it, at least, for another week*

until after we wrap-up our retrospective week and then feature our mysterious 200th movie next weekend.

Speaking of that, let's start looking at how that's gonna turn out...

  • Monday will be SHIT
    • Between the pretty damn good weekend we've been having and what we'll have to look forward to in the coming days, we're getting our most difficult night out of the way first. Before tonight's movie, I'm polling the following movies:
      • Hard Rock Zombies— Learning of the existence of this movie on Youtube was the whole reason for starting this little club in the first place; It's also a [awesome].
      • Star Crystal— The worst movie we've ever watched that has never been officially rated (mostly because nobody who has seen it could remember much about it when we finally put our ratings system in place)

  • Tuesday thru Thursday (and maybe Friday, if we decided to call off KFF for something else on this list) can potentially feature any of the following:
    • D'Wild Wild WengWeng Weng teaming up with our favorite mute, Lupo, in one of our biggest [awesome][awesome][awesome][awesome] movies yet.
    • Freaked— The best film that practically nobody else in the coven has actually seen, [awesome][awesome][awesome].
    • Abraxas: Guardian of the Universe— A [awesome] that is well worth giving a second chance, after our Abridged Version had rekindled some insane interest.
    • "Turkish Star Wars"— To reconsider its current [awesome][awesome][awesome] rating.
    • The Giant Claw— The greatest handpuppet monster battles the most incessant, incomprehensible technobabble ([awesome][awesome][awesome])
    • Glen or Glenda— Stock Edward D. Wood, Jr. option ([awesome][awesome])

  • If we don't call off Kung Fu Friday, we'll be considering:
    • The Crippled Masters— The first kung fu flick this coven ever watched ([awesome][awesome][awesome])
    • The Shaolin Drunken Monk— The kung fu flick which began our regular Kung Fu Friday tradition (Also [awesome][awesome][awesome])

  • Saturday, we will rewatch Starcrash, the coven's all-time favorite bad film ([awesome][awesome][awesome][awesome]).

  • Sunday, we'll have our big gathering for our 200th movie, which remains a mystery.

edited 17th Feb '13 3:52:51 PM by SeanMurrayI

PhysicalStamina ain't nothin' but a party y'all (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
ain't nothin' but a party y'all
#2065: Feb 17th 2013 at 4:22:15 PM

[up]Sounds like a plan.

Also, I'm voting for Hard Rock Zombies since I haven't seen it yet.

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SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#2066: Feb 17th 2013 at 4:39:47 PM

Pre-show is starting. Picking our poison for tomorrow in a few minutes. http://synchtu.be/SeanMurrayI

edited 17th Feb '13 4:40:04 PM by SeanMurrayI

SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#2067: Feb 17th 2013 at 7:49:41 PM

According to IMDb, this last movie had an estimated budget of $4 MILLION (wit a MEE)!!!!

...Yep, it doesn't show.

edited 17th Feb '13 7:52:00 PM by SeanMurrayI

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#2068: Feb 17th 2013 at 7:57:52 PM

Oh shit... Oh shit!

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#2069: Feb 18th 2013 at 3:11:26 AM

Most of it was probably paying for Iced Tea and Coolios' fees.

They certainly didn't spend it on scriptwriters.

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#2070: Feb 18th 2013 at 7:54:14 AM

[up]Neither of them could have been needed on that low rent 'West Side Story' set for no more than just a few hours*

. Granted, their hourly rate might have been a little higher than any other actor's... but it really shouldn't have been so high that getting half a day's work out of them would have made a noticeable percentage of a $4 million budget.

Then again, who is to say that these guys were ever good with money or what they were buying with it? They put having a fire suit ahead of having an actor who could convincingly yell, "Oh shit!"

Anyway, tonight begins our Retrospective Week, and to kick things off, we have the worst movie we've never rated—Star Crystal.

edited 18th Feb '13 9:42:09 AM by SeanMurrayI

SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#2071: Feb 18th 2013 at 4:42:05 PM

Retrospective Week begins with the delivery of a final verdict...    X    or [awesome] for Star Crystal? YOU*

decide! http://synchtu.be/SeanMurrayI

Indigo12ash from Aperture Science Since: Feb, 2012
#2072: Feb 18th 2013 at 4:44:02 PM

I'm sick, I'm going back to sleep.

Momentum, a function of mass and velocity, is conserved between portals. In layman's terms: speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out.
Danniiee GROWWWWWWL from    THE DEPTHS OF HELL    Since: Jun, 2012
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#2073: Feb 18th 2013 at 4:48:07 PM

What's Star Crystal about? I might join in a half-hour or so.

[down] ...wow. Sounds...interesting...

I've never watched American football, so I might tune in purely for that. [lol]

edited 18th Feb '13 5:31:24 PM by Danniiee

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#2074: Feb 18th 2013 at 5:02:53 PM

[up]Two astronauts pretend to play American football (handegg) with a large rock on Mars, the rock contains an alien, the alien gets out of the rock and kills people on a space station, and then the alien turns good after it reads the Bible. Yeah.

edited 18th Feb '13 5:03:16 PM by SeanMurrayI

Indigo12ash from Aperture Science Since: Feb, 2012
#2075: Feb 18th 2013 at 5:05:18 PM

... oh yeah, definitely a good night for me to skip.

Momentum, a function of mass and velocity, is conserved between portals. In layman's terms: speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out.

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