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  • thats hysterical that the only footage they have is of the mstk3000 episode lol!!!! rowdowser!!!!!

  • Even though it is waning, I can still see the remnants of the glory that's was once a mighty head of hockey hair. Zap.... you are an analogy for life.

  • He sounds like a wonderfully good sport about it all. Good for him!

  • Rowsdower!

  • Rowsdower was Canada's answer to Chuck Norris.

  • This is great. This guy sounds like a cool guy.

  • He seems like a totally sweet man. Definitely the best thing about this otherwise horrible film. :)

  • That was almost as funny as the movie! To hear him talk about it like he was an actor and to use words like "the film" instead of "turd" "dog" and "imdb's 18th worst movie of all time" is hilarious. ...and to have his name wrong in the credits? That's so Rowsdower!

  • I can smell the bacony stentch of Canada all over this interview...

    Coming soon: The Final Sacrifice II: Zapped

  • I'd love to get his autograph!

  • Perfect remake material starring Elijah Wood and Bruce Willis.

  • I AM STAR STRUCK....

  • all hail zappariah rosdower 

  • got me teary!! zap forever. <3

  • Hopefully he'll be on Inside the Actor's Studio soon.

  • He talks about this movie like he just made Taxi Driver.

  • Those who dislike this are from the cult.

  • He's so Canadian. It's wonderful.

  • This is fucking awesome, it is so gratifying to see the real Zap Rowsdower. Final Sacrifice is a great film. Great in that it has provided me and my drunken friends innumerable hours of uproarious laughter. This is perhaps the finest work of MST3K.

  • I am *very*distantly related to this man, no joke

  • @randomguy199545 Should I bow to you then?

  • Rowsdower saves us and saves all the world.

  • MY ROWSDOWER HAS COME FOR MEEE!

  • Would I do it all again? Most definitely. Will it ever happen again? I don't think so.

  • 0:16

    "I miss you. I wonder what happened to you."

    "I died."

  • One of my supervisors in the past looked like him. I sent a picture of Rowsdower and he actually used it as a BG image on his computer at work

  • Trying to imagine the actor as Pipper instead, but it just would not be the same. "OOH, I needs an eraser!"

  • The adventures of Rowsdower continues!

  • .....His synopsis was so much more comprehensive....I've watched the movie a few times (with the help of MST3K) and I NEVER understood what it was about! It all makes sense now! XD

  • This actually had the potential to be a really good movie. But even so, MST3k made it 10 times more awesome :D

  • "Is he a Make-up-less clown?" BEST LINE EVER!

  • "The worst thing to ever come out of Canada"

    lol Justin Bieber wasn't born yet <3

  • @marsisamazingilys I was thinking the same thing when they said that!

  • At least we didn't have to see him play a hacky sack.

  • He seems like a really nice guy.

  • 2:10, well no wonder the kid was so excited to see 'FOOD!' in the prospectors house.

  • @ryansmellsbad ...VERY funny!!! ....Food! LOL

  • I want to give this man a hug

  • I wish "Zap and Troy: The Legendary Journeys" was a real thing.

  • Thanks for uploading this-- Pretty cool!

  • I asked Reb Brown what his favorite name for David Ryder from 'Space Mutiny' was. He just loved them all. *lol*

    We put our faith in BLAST HARDCHEESE!!!

  • @Bobzeaux I remember laughing the hardest at "Bigg McLargehuge"

  • @Bobzeaux

    Wow, so he wasn't mad at the MST3k treatment of Space Mutiny? Unlike Joe Don Baker? lol

  • @CesMan83

    Nope, he was totally cool. He even autographed my Space Mutiny DVD for me. *lol*

  • @Bobzeaux

    Haha, sweet...Reb Brown probably admitted Spacy Mutiny to be a big turd of a movie. Good-natured dudes who don't mind self-deprecating themselves in good fun are cool in my book

  • Troy was in Band Of Brothers. He still looks the same!

  • Seems like a genuinely nice guy.

  • I once went to a costume party dressed as Zap Rowsdower.

    Not a single person in attendance figured out who I was supposed to be.

    Instead, they all thought that I was just their drunken neighbor.

  • @themightycelestial So, they were pretty close.

  • It's funny how he says Christian (Troy) took the brunt of their jokes but they were all good natured. So he was treated like a spaz on film and off. I honestly believe the shots of him in hole weren't even originally written for film. They just dug a hole and made him sit in it, just to see if he nerdy butt would do it all day long. Don't know where he is, Bruce? He probably commited suicide after the film was completed.

  • "Give up your hockey hair"

    "NEVER!"

  • O baby Rowsdower saves us, and saves all the world!!

  • What a classy guy. Even if it is a little bit in jest, I'd be jealous of a guy who can walk down a street and hear someone go, "Oh my God! You're Rowsdower! I've seen that film you made 20 years ago!"

    If you've never done something that you look back upon and go, "Ha, that was sure silly, and maybe a little bit cornball," you haven't lived!

  • Wow! I thought they found the guy for this movie at a heroin clinic - But he actually seems like a really soft-spoken decent guy! I checked on IMDb and found out he's also a trained Nurse!

    Maybe he was a better actor than the film gave him credit for! :P

    I mean, he PLAYED Rowsdower, but he AIN'T Rowsdower...

    Weird...

  • @trentmuch1 He's now a small scale theatre actor in Canada, not hugely famous but quite talented actually.

  • A young Jedi named Satoris, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil...

  • A bit of *huff* character to the *puff* role. An actor *huff* always gets into character *puff*.

    Jesus christ it was painful to listen to him talk about this, he's getting winded from TALKING.

  • AAAAAAAAHHHHH my drinking arm!

  • Awwww! This guy seems like such a sweetheart!

    Rowsdower away!

  • Wow.... you can tell by his face that he thought this movie didn't deserve to be made fun of.... even if i was a part of this movie i would have thought it needed to be made fun of!! WOW!!

  • Awww..Bless him for giving me so many laughs.

  • Buy me anything in there with larry csonka on it..i'll pay you for it..

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  • D'awww, he married Sherry.

    :)

  • haha how many got here from mst3k

  • @Dyerboy3 I think a better question is how many AREN'T?

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  • It appears that his hockey hair is gone. That was the source of his power :(

  • 1:20 I wonder if there's beer on the sun...

  • Hasn't seen the episode? He must be afraid to find out what they say about him... they were a little rough on him personally with lines like "Well he blends in, he looks like a sack of garbage."

    As ridiculous as the movie is, I actually thought he acted fairly well in it, he's no Harrison Ford (who he seemed to be trying to channel) but still decent.

  • Have a drink on me, tattoo.

  • I'm glad to see he still has the moustache.

  • Rowsdower!

  • "It's A-boot time for a drink Rowsdower."

  • It's nice to see this guy is still alive. He has made me laugh so hard! 

  • Rowsdower saves us and saves all the earth!

  • Nice guy, good interview. Thanks for posting this.

    It's hard to tell what is going to be great and what isn't. Think of the genesis of The Evil Dead -- not unlike most of MST3K's bad movies. That could have easily been ridiculous. I think we need more people with no money going out to make movies in the middle of the woods...

  • Rowsdower saves us and saves all the world!

  • He looks so weird without his mullet!

  • "He drinks a lot... he lives out of his truck"

    .

    He just described most of western Wisconsin, Arkanas and Mississippi

  • @nurb101 ROFL !!! ha ha ha ha..........

  • This guy is 101% Canadian.

    Awesome :)

  • I get the idea that he doesn't want to say anything bad about anybody (except himself - notice that the only thing he criticizes is his own performance). Maybe he's just genuinely nice.

  • I bet hes seen the mst3k episode thats bullshit

  • "This video gets a rating of 40 Rowsdowers."

  • Rowsdower drank a bit! HA!

  • The Final Sacrifice is one of my favorite MSTs... and seeing Bruce recalling the filming of a dirt budget film with fondness shows what a classy gentleman he is.  Thank you, Bruce. :)

    Far as I'm concerned, you've saved us and saved all the world.

  • Clint Eastwood x Chuck Norris = Sam Steele, second greatest Canadian ever

    Sam Steele x James Cagney = ROWSDOWER, greatest Canadian of ALL TIME

  • Rowsdower, Rowsdower!!

  • The best line in the movie is when crow says, that is such a classic rowsdowerism

  • Kinda sad that this guy actually thinks he did a good job acting in the film. A lot of the charm of it is the total lack of any acting skill of anyone in it.

  • i bet he owns a liquor store now.

  • Most beloved character from any MST3K episode...except for maybe Torgo...but that's a difference kind of, "beloved."

  • Please tell me this guy eventually sat down and watched the whole episode. I really think he'd get a kick out of it... and this is one of those MST episodes that I feel was so good because the guys were, in a way, really endeared of the movie. The fun that Bruce had shooting it totally came across and made for great MST fodder.

  • Some one should send this man a DVD, VHS, digital copy or something of this episode because he deserves it.

  • Hmm... can I drink him? No...

  • It occurs to me it'd be a pretty nifty feature to have interviews like this included on the MST3K box sets in a sort of extras section or some such. I rather enjoyed the interview, and Bruce Mitchell (Mitchell!) seems like a very nice guy who enjoys his job. :)

  • so, eh then, eh?

  • Rowsdower FOREVER!

  • Jeez do some of the people here want him to apologize for the movie or something? He had fun making a crazy movie on no budget, and he gave an interview about it. There's nothing wrong with that.

  • This dude actually genuinely seems proud of that stupid role lol Finding someone that played a character named Zap, saw that completed movie, and felt the need to talk about it, is a winner in my book.

    Now all he needs to do is Zap and Troy: The Legendary Journeys

  • I'd watch the SHIT out of that.

  • Thanks for posting this. Bruce Mitchell really seems cool.

  • rowsdower saaaves us and saves all the worrrrrrrrrld!!!

  • What a great guy!! Bruce <3 <3 <3

  • I think he said "Mister Science Theater 3000"

  • Zap Rowsdower - Wolverine without the claws.

  • @Hallinilla9 funny funny funny hahahaahaha

  • this interview is not what i was expecting, is he actually taking this movie seriously?

  • @Banminator

    Well, he's fond of the memory, he isn't trying to pretend like he did Blade Runner or anything.

  • Thank you for posting.. the Man, THE LEGEND.

  • He said he has never seen the MST version!! How is that possible?? No one could make it through the whole movie unless it is the MST version

  • Rowsdower: the Han Solo of Canada.

  • @HisuroKun God damn, what a great comment lol!

  • Kind of crazy he didn't know of the cult following he has in the US. That is one of the awesome things about MST3K, they bring to light things that may have never seen the light of day.

  • the one dislike is the real rowsdower.

  • "So Rowsdower...is that a STUPID name?"

  • Rowsdower seems like a great guy, but my question is: When will they interview Pipper? "Know him? He was DELICIOUS!"

  • Over the years, I've stumbled upon a lot of random nostalgic video clips while browsing YouTube, but I never, ever, ever, expected an interview with Zap Rowsdower to be one of them. Thank you for making me believe in the impossible.

  • How can you be IN a movie and not be interested in seeing the episode of MST3K? What are you so busy doing in your life?

  • @robotpanda77 I don't think they showed MST3K in Canada.

  • @AllenbysEyes Zap prob spent all his money on donuts and beer and couldn't afford to rent the MST3K episode.

  • I love that he seems like such a classy gentleman, much different from Zap Rowsdower.

    ROWSDOWER!

  • more boring than the movie

  • What a nice guy! Too bad he hasn't seen the whole MST3K episode...

  • Holy shit Rowsdower! His canadian accent is even stronger than Mike Holmes! That gets me thinking - now i need to write a movie with Mike Holmes and Rowsdower in it together.

  • One of the greatest MST3K movies of all time! FUCK YEAR ROWSDOWER

  • He's actually a reeeeaalllyy cool guy, and a good actor

  • "Can I drink him?"

  • Fun fact: Christian Malcolm made a cameo in episode 9 of Band of Brothers. Toward the end of the episode, when Capt. Nixon visits the concentration camp, Malcolm was the MP who offered Nixon a handkerchief.

  • @bwing55543 Fun fact 2: Christian Malcolm is "Head of Operations" in "Hanna".

  • Who is the one idiot that gave this a thumbs down? Must of been Satoris.

  • @ClutchFan1971 LMAO that actually made me bust out laughing. Thank you.

  • when the bad guys are labeled as 'evil people', you know the movie is going to be big

  • This man is a legend. He deserves to be hoisted on our shoulders!!! ROWSDOWER!

  • 1 person disliked da Rowsdower? Exile him !

  • Wow, I consider it an honor to meet the actual Rowsdower of all Rowsdowers!

  • rowsdower rowsdower, zipity zopity zowsdower, fipity fopity fowsdower, dipity dopity dowsdower

  • Why isn't this man the God-Emperor of Canada?

  • I don't go map findin behindin'

  • Hasn't aged much in 20 years considering how haggard he looked in the film.

  • This video needs a Rowsdower button.

  • Can I drink him? .......Nahhhhhh.

  • Thank you Zap!

  • Thanks for everything... You know, the fleas and all!

  • LEMON MINES

  • I'm not gonna lie -- I actually really like The Final Sacrifice as a movie. Yeah, it's silly and low-budget, but it's campy in a good way and fun to watch. :D I'd love to get ahold of an un-riffed version.

    Anywho, "Rowsdower" seems like an amiable fellow. :3 It's cool that he looks back on the experience positively. And a-ha, it WAS shot out west! Thought so.

  • He seems like such a sweet dude. Thanks for the upload. And I cannot imagine him as the role of Pipper LOL!

  • you're harshin my buzz

  • I'm very glad he recovered from that severe case of hockey hair. Man, he had a full blown course of it!! But as you can see, Pearl was right, if you leave it alone it will run it's course.

  • im glad to see his drinking arm is healed

  • Uh. I just dreamed that I was watching an interview with this big smelly drunk guy named Rowsdower... D'OH!

  • I wonder if there's beer on the sun......

  • oh rowsdower

  • I gotta get his autograph!!!!

  • Rowsdower for President!!!

  • Rowsdower on the quarter! Rowsdower on the stamp.When you lick it it taste like beer

  • ZAP

    ROWSDOWER

  • Don't take the riffing the wrong way. You are now a cult hero. Thank you for your contribution to films from another canuck.

  • This is awesome, I love how he talks about this movie as if it was actually good.

  • Cool! I can't believe this was made. Where did this come from?

  • little does he know you can see the whole thing on youtube! of course, you'd need the internet. not sure if they've got that in canada.

  • My Life's Ambition is to have a beer with this guy at a Leafs Game

  • ROWSDOWER SAVES US AND SAVE THE WORRRRRLD!!!.. He comes to save the day in a BROKEN TRUCK... With a stinky demim jacket on his back.., He couldn't help this movie which really really sucked! At least we didn't have to see him play HACCKY SAC!

  • I woinder if there's beer on the sun?

  • @thefoppa1000

    Classic line forever.

  • What an adorable man

  • This is a classic Rowsdowerism. Thanks for posting this. It was nice to hear some of Mr Mitchell's comments on the movie.