#lost continent

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Hans Stefan Santesson - Understanding MU - Paperback Library - 1970 (cover illustration by Ron Walotsky)

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Gonna repost this from the MCoG discord I tried to make a version of the Muan Script as an alphabet a few months back , but its just so incomprehensibly complex and we barely get any lore or details about it, and as a guy whose interested in learning about scripts, it kills me inside😭 It is slightly based off of the alphabet Churchward made, but i added and repurposed a few letters for different sounds.

Here are some examples of it used in the show

 R-ā-n- ā O-r-ī

Th-ā-ll-ī-o-s

Apparently, Tao reads this as Sundagatt, which makes no sense since the 5th symbol should represent either an 'l' or an 'r' sound, which is nowhere in the name. So I'm just gonna say this is read as "B-a-d-a-l-o-m"

[bugbarians]

"One Minute You're Gettin' The Shiatsu Massage Of A Lifetime. Next Thing - You're At The Bottom Of The Ocean. Way To Go, Atlantis." Original Digital Art by Monte' X. Burke ©2026 Bug Barians Ltd., LLC.  All Monte' X. Burke Abstract is Non AI.

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Fantasy adventure needs to come back and yes it must be cheesy and crudely made

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"Echoes of Aldmeris"

In-game art asset for The Elder Scrolls: Online

*Artist Unknown* If anyone knows the artist, comment below

[mst3knitathon]

If I can just get to the border on this blanket during the next episode ... Anyway, I am continuing to knit while continuing to watch through the list of fan-voted best Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes from 100 to 1. We're in the 50s now, and today's episode is:

Top 100 Episodes of MST3K

A list of the Top 100 Episodes of MST3K was compiled based on a survey taken of backers of the Bring Back MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 campa

56. Episode 208 Lost Continent

Content Warning: There's a riff of an offensive stereotype of a Chinese accent because a background scientist looks Chinese. That's not the level of offensive I usually warn for, but it's such an unforced error, especially in the same episode that they do a whole sketch about how offensive the portrayal of Pacific Islanders' speech and superstitions in these movies are. Also, this movie prompts the sketch by having a stereotyped portrayal of Pacific Islanders' broken English and superstition.

Summary: The United States's first atomic rocket has failed to return to the launch pad as planned, so two pilots (one played by Cesar Romero), a flight mechanic, and three rocket scientists (one played by Hugh Beaumont) are sent on an aerial search over the ocean to locate the wreckage and recover the flight data to learn what went wrong. As they approach a mysterious island, the Geiger counter goes crazy and all other mechanical devices, from the mechanic's watch to every instrument and engine on the plane, stop working simultaneously. The pilots glide to a crash landing on the island, where they learn from a young woman that a "screaming bird of fire" crashed on top of their sacred mountain. Notoriously, they spend a surprising chunk of the movie's runtime struggling to climb to the top of the mountain, where they find volcanic gasses have kept a high plateau unnaturally warm, and dinosaurs and prehistoric plants survive that were never destroyed by the ice age. After being menaced by dinosaurs for a bit, they find the rocket, recover the data, and head down the mountain just in time and as it begins to erupt in an explosion that will destroy the whole island. The survivors (minus one scientist (rock climbing) and the mechanic (Triceratops)) take an abandoned pontoon (the native Islanders have already fled) to open water and comment about how it looks like the end of the world as the closing title appears. (Maybe the native girl was right about the gods being angry about white people climbing all over their sacred mountain.)

MST3K lore or notable moments: Rock climbing, rock climbing, rock climbing.

I wanted to leave it at that, but actually, there's actually a bunch more in this episode. I think the opening sketch where Joel discusses their previous movies like an American football coach giving a pep-talk deserves a shout-out: he declares that Wild Rebels (already discussed) was a win for Joel and the bots, but Rocket Attack U.S.A. (did not make the top 100 list) was a loss. Also notable is that Joel does not get to do his invention exchange as the Mads are too eager to get to the movie; Joel tries not to go into the theater and receives an electric shock (other episodes suggest that the Mads remove the oxygen from the rest of the ship during movie sign to force the host into the theater); "Hugh Beaumont" appears as one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse and in character as Ward Cleaver from Leave It To Beaver explains his plan to destroy the Earth with other TV Dads before Joel and the bots talk him out of it; and Joel and the bots see a cool thing out of the satellite window, and challenge viewers to draw or describe what they think it was. Entries for the Cool Thing Contest from viewers will be shown in several episodes in seasons two and three. At the close of the episode, the Mads declare this one a win for them.

What do I think about its place on the list? Now, this is an infamous episode that is one of my favorites! The movie is dull, but the riff is great, it has some pretty good acting, and there's a weird paint-by-numbers quality to the script where it feels like this could have almost worked as a movie if there had been some cohesion instead of just ticking boxes (and a good bit less padding). Rock Climbing (said in tones of dread to denote boredom) becomes a frequent callback of the series, and the treatment of the experiments as challenges that the riffers can win (by having fun mocking the movie despite its flaws) or lose (by allowing it to crush their spirits) is always interesting whenever it comes up. This is one of the few spirit-crushing ones that I enjoy. We're at 56, so we're almost to the top half of the list, but my instinct is to nudge this up just a few slots to get it into the top 50.

[mst3kgifs]

That’s right, I’m really gonna give you the business. Destroy you, your world and all that you know... but first, a stern talking to.