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Christmas Eve Eve Diversion: Santa Claus, Martians, and MST3K

By Marcus Gilmer in Miscellaneous on Dec 23, 2008 8:00PM

After reading Karl's fantastic interview with the brains behind Cinematic Titanic, the spawn of the geniuses behind Mystery Science Theater 3000, we dug back into the Google Video archives and started watching some of our favorite episodes from the original show. And, luckily, one of our favorites is also a seasonal flick: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, one of the movies the Cinematic crew tackled during last week's run at the Lakeshore Theater. And from that episode comes this classic clip of the crew singing Crow's new holiday song, "Let's Have A Patrick Swayze Christmas," our gift to you. And like the best Christmas mornings, there's even a teeny surprise after the jump.


Okay, so maybe it's not that much of a surprise, but if you're like us and still stuck at the office, or maybe you're already on holiday and the weather and family have you bored to death, here is that entire MST3K episode for your enjoyment.