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  • Damn. I thought Joe Bob started hosting way before '95. My memory isn't very reliable.

  • Monstervision, USA Up all Night, and Creature Double Feature all need to come back. S'all I'm gonna say.

  • Figured there would be a WCW MONDAY NITRO commercial thrown in there. Then it would be extremely nostalgic.

  • Joe Bob initially started on The Movie Channel i think with a show called 'Drive In Theatre'.

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  • that was a very good tribute brought back some old memories

  • whats the movie at 4:40 with the evil rabbit? I just can't remember.

  • @GrapplerMaster i remember watching 5 min of that movie as a kid and i cried my eyes out because when i tuned in like half way through or something, they were shooting the rabbits and blood was going everywhere. i also wonder what the name of the movie was...

  • When are you going to talk about USA Up All Night??

  • 1:29 What the hell is the from, anyways? It was featured a lot in Natural Born Killers.

  • Fuuuuuck yeeeeeah.

  • i was so young when this was out

  • Ugh, they always damn things up.

  • I think it's awesome he showed this and reflected on his experiences ... bring this show back and let James host it !!!!! does anyone know more about horror films than this guy??

  • After watching this, i think to myself that i got cable TV much later than i thought.

  • @advflynm The movie you are referring to is Maximum Overdrive. Same movie that i racked my brain from 14 until 18 to figure out what my long lost nostalgic saturday late night show was. Oh man ....

  • Here's my dream:

    MonsterVision! with James Rolfe, Fridays at 9PM on Chiller and Saturdays at 9PM on SyFy.

    IT COULD HAPPEN!

  • @GodzillaBoyNY That's a brilliant idea.

  • i totaly admire your tribute. and i agree with 100% of everything u said. i was a teenager and was a huge fan of saturdays with joe bob briggs. i wish monster vision would come back

  • @EsotericSatanist maybe it will.

  • Man I remember sneaking out of my room and watching Joe Bob as a kid. there was this one movie where all these machines came to life and soda machines were killing kids by shooting soda cans at them, gave me nightmares for weeks

  • @advflynn Yeah that was Maximum Overdrive. Classic movie. Some monstervision episodes can be found online.

  • I wish they would review "TNT'S 100% Wierd." X-/ That was they're other late nite tv block for old monster films. X-(

  • i actually found a movie that a tagline with joe bob briggs being under it and i started freaking out because i remembered this video . i laughed at myself you but its fun to watch these nostalgic videos of when times were simplier and fake blood actually made a splatter.

  • I MISS MONSTERVISION!

    

  • The only way is Monstervision can come back is if SyFy gets the rights to it and brings it back.

  • It will never happen since tnt went fucking drama and ted turner became a soccor dad. Rip monstevision and fuck you tnt.

  • Oh, I always loved seeing those beakers at the beginning and then the sudden change of venue to Joe Bob Briggs in front of that trailer. It was so "homey" - yes, I've lived in the trailer park. lol Something about him in front of a fire as a normal guy, especially with that country twang, just made it more entertaining and fun than if he was dressed up like those old horror hosts. And you described to a T all the reasons I loved him as a host! :)

  • 3:48 Haha, I remember that so vividly from the theme song of Malcom in the Middle

  • Don't be so glum James. Monstervision will come back if we want it to. Never underestimate the power of the fanbase.

  • @Scifitater Yeah, but might be when I am a geezer.

  • @scottieman2 Hey, as long as I have monstervision i'll be happy!

  • If they ever bring back MonsterVision they NEED to have James host it. Nobody could do a better job than James.

  • TV Guide: MonsterVision with James Rolfe 2pm

  • I remember growing up with this and this is a great tribute. Joe Bob was great, I can still recall rushing into my room every night it came on with a bowl of Popcorn and a Coke, having a seat ready in front of the television. As the last show of the night would begin to fade to black I would already be anticipating the lightning lit test tubes and beakers, the MonsterVision sign and good ol' Joe Bob in his fold up chair sipping and beer and waiting on you to get the marathon started. Good times.

  • When joe bob was getting angry about part 4 was that scripted or what ?

  • @mrwhippy101 I donno. Be cool if it wasn't.

  • I was never exposed to monster vision, but that Joe Bob guy does seem entertaining, and you've obviously got the whole 'hill william' hill billy thing going on, meaning that he is actually more intelligent and articulate than the whole trailer park vibe would have you believe. However I don't know if I would have liked a tally before my horror movies...it takes away from the surprise, and if I was told that I should be seeing 10 breasts but they were censored...I'd be p*ssed off...

  • awesome tribute!!! I remember watching this when i was ten and I would stay up late all by myself and watch these movies..they would scare the crap outta me..my parents would wake up the next day with popcorn, chips, and ice cream all over the place like there had been a party but nope it was just me lol..I miss monstervision!!!!!

  • at 1:28 what film is thta with the multiheaded dragon? it looks well ummmm interesting XP

  • I also wonder, why did they bother to air censored movies at USA Up All Night.

  • Nice documentary James. Really for me after August 1995, things were not too good.

  • @GokuMcDuck

    u mean u stopped watching monstervision after august 1995? how come?

  • @trapadoored

    How to explain...?

    First, I live in Mexico and my cable service to this date is very odd. In the early 90's we used to receive the Disney Channel, TBS anf Nickelodeon, all from the US. Eventually, years later we received the Latin American versions of those channels. Though we have always had the Latin American version of TNT, which is different to the original one at the US.

    Second, I entered jr high on 1995.

  • What a great retrospective :)

  • marathons like Monstervision are perfect for late night sprees. I wish more stuff like that were around. Ditto with people asking for James to host a monster show, I would start watching TV again if that happened.

  • I saw Joe Bob at a B-Movie Festival in town. Friday Night I walked right past him and knew somthing was faimliar about him. It wasn't till Saturday night when they were showing Killer Klowns from Outer Space he came up on stage of the theater and gave the Drive In Total for the movie and it was a really long total. that's when I knew he was familar but I didn't know for sure till rewatching this movie. I had a notion to joke "did you ever get part 4?" but it was too late. Maybe next year.

  • that scene at 8:19 .. ugh.. :|

  • yeah i don't need special glasses

  • 5:13 Big Trouble in Little China! I love that movie....

  • @Packers909 4 words for you. BEST MOVIE EVER MADE!!!!!!!!! That film is in my top 5.

  • im glad he reuploaded this video

  • ahh memories. i can remember growing up with this stuff and enjoying every weekend of my childhood thanks to monster vision and snick.

  • He'll yeah!! Monster madness!

  • Ahhh also brings back memories of MSTK3000.

  • Yeah up all night was the shit with gilbert and that chic, the hitchhiker was awesome

  • I loved Monster Vision. I also loved USA's Up All Nite.

  • Very nice analysis. And I too must admit, that I never knew monstervision existed before Billy Bob started hosting it. Great video!

  • 8:45: "Since then, with the abundance of DVDs and the ability to find out about movies through the internet, we're no longer dependent on television."

    And in a way that's a little sad. When things aired on TV they made you feel as if you were part of some secret community, sharing an experience with others somewhere out there. It's just not the same with the internet, with everything so fractionalized, everything existing in its own context-free vacuum.

  • @WastedPo yeah, a secret community called "media industry owns you" :P

  • Every Friday on AMC they play 50's B-movies at around 4 am its no match for Monstervision but its something.

  • Every Saturday for me is Svengoolie, idk if it's played around the U.S. but every Saturday, it's another horror movie, and it's awesome. P.S. I live in Chicago.

  • @Shlankyman545 ah,,,svengoolie!!! chicago's finest!! love him!

  • @Shlankyman545 I know Svengoolie is on here in Arkansas.

  • Man, the 90's seemed so cool!

  • did anyone notice the thing at 1:03 was in the "malcolm in the middle" intro?

  • I miss "MonsterVision," but thank god for Youtube. IT LIVES ON!! Joe Bob needs to be back on TV.

  • I remember watching night of the living dead on this when i was like 5 or 6 or something. lol. curled up between my parents to scared to turn off the tv.

  • Penn & Teller kick ass.

  • WHAT A GODZLLA MARATHON crap i couldnt have been born earlier

  • @sovrcat Hahaha. And why is that?

  • This show was so awesome, i loved how the host dishout so much trivia about the movies.

  • have you seen the Saw films. ive heard em to be really REALLY good splatter films, but i havent seen em cuz i cant find em. but i wanna but if you dont know em you should check em out if you see them

  • @davistoa how old are you like 10, take your punk ass to bed

  • @chessinfantry ehh im 12 and you shut up. also just bought the first one and gonna see if they really are good

  • @KyleGibbons91 Really? I need to watch the movie myself just to see how bad it is. Thanks for replying.

  • James should upload all the host segments and the stuff in between the movies.

  • Before it was "Monstervision" it was "100% Weird"

  • TnT Monster Vision and USA up all night its rival were awesome. Only problem with USA up all night was the host Gilbert Godfrey. Never cared for him, but the shows, movies they aired were good.

  • aw man the 90's seemed awesome.

  • @videomakerman1232 Dude, was the best decade ever. I mean, everything was so new. Somehow, 90's were meant to be the decade of the revolution of what the 80's were. 80's were about colors and fashion, money and shallowness, pop and success. 90's were about sincerity and minimalism. If a stereo system was silvering in the 80's, in the 90's it became black. 80's had new wave. 90's had grunge. I bet that my childhood in 90's was happier than the childhood of today kids. The 90's rulz!!!!

  • @videomakerman1232 They were.

  • @videomakerman1232 the 90's wer awsome

  • Man, Monster Vision was the best! Between that and MST3K, I was given an amazing education in B-Movies growing up. People never seem to remember Joe-Bob or Monster Vision when I talk about it. Glad to find some people who remember how awesome this was!

    The one I remember best was this theme night of movies Mark Hamil did after Star Wars. Hilarious! Hahaha

  • Man that took me back. I loved Monstervision when I was a kid. That Godzilla marathon was pure gold. I got tons of VHS tapes filled with Godzilla movies because of that. Thank you Monstervision!

  • There's now Elvira Movie Macabre right now in syndication during the late nights on weekends!!! It's cool stuff!!!!

  • 6:01 I wonder which movie it was that got 1/2 star rating.

  • Funny thing is, MonsterVision IS coming back in a certain form.

  • I used to get all of my monster movies from "Monster's From Space" since I was born as a part of this shitty ass generation. It's where I saw a lot of my favourite Godzilla films though, which kicks ass.

    I wish Television itself would make a comeback like this. It's all Dvd/Internet now, and even on television it's all Reality TV/Sit Coms today.

    Bring back kick ass TV.

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  • Wow! This was a great tribute. I also had no idea "MonsterVision" had been around since the early-90s. I only discovered it in 1995, I guess shortly after Joe Bob became permanent host. Sure, the movies were edited, but I love it and, since I didn't have any movie channels at the time, it was a great way to discover movies I would have otherwise never seen. It's a shame TNT changed formats in the final year and pushed for more mainstream films. It just wasn't the same as the older fare.

  • Dude some troll spammer is marking all the comments under your video spam until they get taken down.

  • @ScrewLimbBizkit Nope! That was TNN before it became Spike.

  • @zero1498 Remember when WPIX-TV used to have horror movies during the month of October? It was called "Shocktober". This was back when channel 11 was "New York's Movie Station".

  • @Lobstrosity666 Never heard of USA's "Up All Night", it was similar to WOR-TV's "9 All Night" and WCBS-TV's "The Late Show" back in the 1980's. "The Late Show" on WCBS-TV had the best kick-a@@ intro of all time. It had dots flying around with graphics came right out of a Lite-Brite with catchy silent movie music that goes into the main title. That brought back some memories. They also had "The Late, Late Show" as well.

  • what movie is at 1:17? I really want to know Plz and THANKS!

  • @surfdudezuri its the time machine

  • is that the skeleton fighters in Jason and the argonauts at 2:05? i watched that before the superbowl.

  • first, holy nostalgia batman! damn i miss the 90's, i never misssed a joe bob monstervision. also, what movie is the clip at 4:16 from? i must see it!

  • they need to bring it back to SPIKE TV, that network is for men, come on people

  • im 27 now, i used love watching this back in the day on tnt

  • Do an ELVIRA TRIBUTE

  • I only watched Monster Vision during Godzilla marathon's (and when The Blob was on). I can personally thank Monster Vision for making me a Godzilla fan.

  • @kdoggjr You're always welcome! TNT used to have a "Godzilla" marathon as part of "Monstervision". They used aired the Godzilla films back when they were on WOR-TV's "Holiday Movie Special" back in the 1980's as well as on WPIX-TV's "Chiller Theater" and WABC-TV's "4:30 Movie" back in the 1970's.

  • 8:15 FALCON PUUUUNCH!!!

  • I think I'm much better off for watching things like Monstervision when I was a kid.It means I don't ever come up with some completely idiotic reason to not enjoy a movie, like 99 percent of every self proclaimed movie "fan" tends to do, amateur or not.Such as, "This movie isn't realistic enough!!!", or anything as nonsense filled as that statement.

  • I swear I wished I owned a tv station

  • who noticed that the monster coming out of the water is in the opening theme to malcom in the middle

  • Just like nick studios solong, you will be missed

  • James should talk about Mystery Science Theater 3000

  • I disagree. I wasn't very old when it disappeared but I own some tapes with MonsterVision on them and only the REALLY nasty scenes are censored. I still recall seeing decapitations, exploding heads, and eye-gouging scenes that were quite brutal and to my knowledge uncensored. I'm not trying to be an asshole, I'm just saying that the censors weren't as harsh about graphic violence as they were profanity and nudity. Nice job though and sorry I had to share my two cents.

  • @DmdWasserTanzt not really.

  • 5:10 what is the movie??

  • @brutusunix Night of the Lepus

  • I heard a rumor that Joe Bob was going to host a new version of Monstervision on the TV station Horrornet. I don't know if it's true, but if it is I would SOO watch it.

  • 2:51 Seen it seven times? How bout he gets seven fingers?

  • "It was better when they were showing older, black and white, movies because [they were better movies that did not need gore to get people to watch them/carry the story]. Now the only point of watching Monster Vision wasn't for the movies [which were glaringly bad without gore for the fanboys] but for Jo Bob."

    -fixed

  • every saturday in chicago has sven goolie

  • Not to question James, but I thought u liked the giant claw

  • I wish James would have his own monster vision type of show. Man that wud be awesome!

  • @SumDuDe34 he kinda has one monster madness in october if you watch his video on cinemassacre 2010 monster madness he talks about it

  • @Duane237 I know. I meant one where we can watch full lenght movies with him

  • @SumDuDe34 he does, it's called MONSTER MADNESS!

  • @SumDuDe34 Look up his Monster Madness series.

  • as soon as this finished i heard the holloween music i was like wtf i though it was a joke james hid in the video but it was my brothers tv :(

  • It's somewhat depressing that MonsterVision, and other cool marathons have been removed from TV. However, the internet has so much potential; it can easily adopt the concept in a fresher format, where there would be a live showing over the internet hosted by some internet personality where the audience can talk to each other over chat. Damn, that's not a bad idea. AVGN, you have been summoned!

  • 90's & 80's kids, we ruled the world and had badass stuff, not this crud now a days!

  • they need to bring back monstervision and put it on FX or AMC where they can say shit and be a bit more liberal with the violence. don't change a single thing with the format, just loosen the censoring.

  • Holy shit watching some of those promos brings back memories. Joe bob was great thou, and i remember some hot girl on there like a mailgirl or something. drive in totals were good too.

  • lol i watched steven king movies for christmas

  • BLESS YOU JAMES ROLFE!!!!

  • I think they should bring back the classic MosterVision and have it hosted by none other than James himself. How fucking awesome would that be? The only person that I have ever seen that would be a worthy successor to Joe Bob.

  • man i misss this i watched this but i didnt have to get scared if my parents were gana catch me awake they worked late nights lol but man me and my sis would watch dis id give my life to be doin this now

  • I would have loved Monstervision as a kid, would have totally geeked out over it. Gutted, I live in the UK and to my knowledge, we didn't get Monstervision.

    That's what I love about AVGN, he's a true nerd to the core. Loved this vid.

  • 3:29 Giant Enemy Crab

  • just shows how tv hosts have lost their charisma and initiative nowadays =(

  • rating to this video

    4 STARS!

  • You Americans are blessed that you had something like this on the television !!

  • Can someone tell me name of the 8:59 movie,

    I would be very grateful :D

  • I miss Joe Bob.

  • @horizonshine129 yeah i've only seen the new 1

  • @horizonshine129 yeah have not seen that movie that's probly why

  • thumbs up if you think they should bring back monster vision

  • MonsterMaddnes will be the future MonsterVision

  • @soric16 MonsterMadness IS the future MonsterVision.

  • pause at 7:09 and look at the background. It looks like boobs which matches the subject joe bob was talking about >_>

  • its sad about Monster vision. CURSES!

  • Giant Enemie Crab @ 3:29 37 people won't get the reference

  • Well TV,DVD,CD,VHS,Analog,Laserdisc­,BETA,and yes a good"bootlleg"cannot compare to "B-Movie"Friday.Except for Off Beat Cinema on which you'll have to stay up till 'fore day in the mornin' to enjoy good stuff on TV JOE-BOB.....Please come back so we can relive early nights,And I won't even channel-surf TNT go back,goback, GO BACK

  • Thumbs up this comment if you think Joe Bob Briggs should get a new hosting show.

  • Ok James the fact that you know about Joe Bob Briggs gives you some bad mother fucker cool factor. I might have to start Briggs style tally counting AVGN videos.

  • what happened to Joe Bob?

  • At time 4:16, what is that movie. My brother sister and I always called it attack of the killer tree stump but I think we are wrong. Let me know.

  • Were the heart out, of saturday night!!

  • dang i forgot about monstervision thanks for that nerd

  • What the hell? 8:20 is brutal. O.O

    Anyone know the name of that movie?

  • @19Peace69 Jason X

  • @19Peace69

    Jason X !!

    10th part of Friday The 13th !

  • @19Peace69 jason X

  • i wonder what joe bob's doing nowadays.

  • i miss usa up all night with ronda. man she was hot

  • VeeGiaN, I liked this video.

  • James said he first found out about MonsterVision in 1993 and didn't know when the show began...It began in 1993

  • Late night TNT and USA Up All Night with that blonde chick were my main staples of the late 90's when I was a teen. A true end of an era.

  • Can I buy some of the VHS tapes?

  • My mom recorded a few (and enire VHS Tape) of the Godzilla movies from Monstervision marathon. When I was younger (like 5ish) I watched that VHS everyday till the DVD came out. Then I still watched the VHS until I had Internet. AND EVEN THEN I still watched that VHS tape. Then my mom got tired of me watching that same Godzilla Marathon every weekend and she just bought all of the DVD's and now that tape sits quietly under my bed with the Toy Story VHS.....good times....

  • Joe bob said that a monster vision is going on horrornet, cable tv on comcast next year.

  • the whole problem is that ted fucking turner screwed everything up and made it drama shit. R.I.P MONSTERVISION

  • @akiraman26 Same thing happened when all three of their independent TV stations such as WPIX-TV, WWOR-TV and WNYW-TV gave up the movie series and replaced with network programming including Fox, CW and My Network. That sucks! RIP: WOR-TV's "Fright Night" and "Holiday Movie Special". RIP: WPIX-TV's "Chiller Theater" and "8:00 Movie". And RIP: WNEW-TV's "Creature Features" and "Drive-In Movie".