"TV's Frank: Conniff: "Saw Sarah Palin with Matt Lauer on Today Show....

[Amerigo Vespucci]

...What a dim, shallow, empty-headed ditz!

Wasn't crazy about Palin either.

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[southernyankeebelle]

1. Can someone please tell me who is TVs FrankConniff? I never heard of him before but this is the 2d

time I've seen his name. What am I missing.

[CreekDog]

2. He was a writer/actor for the cult-classic show -Mystery Science Theater 3000

He played "TV's Frank".

He's awesome and it's fun to see him on Twitter and FB applying his dimwitted snark to Republicans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%27s_Frank

[southernyankeebelle]

11. Honestly I don't remember ever seeing this man. Maybe I was living overseas at the time he was

on tv. I was out of the country from 6 to 14 yrs old. I know I missed alot of programming. Like Howdy Doody (or whatever its name was).

[Skittles]

12. hey syb

I too spent much of my childhood overseas, and it does indeed leave some gaps in the American experience!

[southernyankeebelle]

16. I bet like me you wouldn't change those experiences either. I loved living overseas. always things

to see and do and meet interesting people. But times like this I do wonder what was I missing.

[Skittles]

19. yup

I absolutely see a difference between people who grew up in more than one continent and those who never left their country!

[southernyankeebelle]

20. Me to.

[roguevalley]

14. When he left being in front of the camera a piece of me died. :)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. He was an ongoing character in the "host" segments of MST3K

Premise was Dr. Clayton Forrester (Trace Beaulieu) and his crony, "TV's Frank" (Conniff) shot janitor Joel Hodgson into space so that they could use him as a "test case"...making him watch terrible movies and monitoring his reactions. Joel didn't want to be alone so he built his "bots" out of parts on the spaceship.

That's Frank on the left, Trace on the right.

[Kelvin Mace]

4. A co-star of Mystery Science Theater 3000

One of the funniest TV shows of the 20th Century. The premise was to take really bad movies and riff on them. To me though, the funniest stuff they did was when they riffed on "educational" shorts:

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And TV's Frank's first day:

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[southernyankeebelle]

10. Oh my I have never ever seen any of these clips before. I don't recognize him. When was he around

tv? What years?

[Kelvin Mace]

18. MST3K ran from 1989-1999

There are over 200 episodes.

The guys have since split into to different companies, Riff Trax and Cinematic Titanic.

Many episodes are available on Netflix, and any decent sized public library probably has at least a few episodes. YouTube has tons of clips.

Definitely worth checking out, if only to see the train wreck that is "Manos: The Hands of Fate", which makes Plan 9 From Outer Space look like "Hamlet" with Patrick Stewart.

Join us. Join us.

[roguevalley]

15. you can buy them in boxed sets. I will never forget 'coo-koo for cocoa puffs'

and whenever a gladiator would bounce in their saddle someone would say 'ow'.

[LadyHawkAZ]

8. You never saw MST3K????

You SO missed out.

[southernyankeebelle]

9. No I never heard of it. sorry

[Geoff R. Casavant]

13. You can get the MST episodes from Netflix.

Most of them are streaming too. Well worth 90 minutes of your time, if it's your cup of tea.

[southernyankeebelle]

17. Thank you for the advice.

[joeybee12]

5. Very nice...let's not forget Matt is a right-wing tool...

Frank was trying to be funny, but it's an accurate description of Mr. Lauer.

[malaise]

6. That's a freaking DUzy

[niyad]

7. k and r for a much-needed laugh