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Monstervision

  • TV Series
  • 1991–2000
IMDb RATING
9.3/10
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Monstervision (1991)
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"Monstervision" was a hosted movie show, with a number of hosts, one being John Bloom as "Joe Bob Briggs"."Monstervision" was a hosted movie show, with a number of hosts, one being John Bloom as "Joe Bob Briggs"."Monstervision" was a hosted movie show, with a number of hosts, one being John Bloom as "Joe Bob Briggs".

  • Stars
    • John Bloom
    • Renner St. John
    • Joe Flaherty
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  • IMDb RATING
    9.3/10
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    • Stars
      • John Bloom
      • Renner St. John
      • Joe Flaherty
    • 15User reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 win & 1 nomination total

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    John Bloom
    John Bloom
    • Joe Bob Briggs
    • 1999
    Renner St. John
    • Rusty the Mail Girl
    • 1998–1999
    Joe Flaherty
    Joe Flaherty
    • Count Floyd
    • 1999
    Rhonda Shear
    Rhonda Shear
    • Self
    • 1999
    Honey Gregory
    • Honey the Mail Girl
    • 1997
    Wes Craven
    Wes Craven
    • Self
    • 1997
    Cheryl Bartel
    • Summer The Mail Girl
    Clint Howard
    Clint Howard
    • Self - Guest
    • 1999
    Linnea Quigley
    Linnea Quigley
    • Self - Special Guest
    • 1999
    Kathy Shower
    Kathy Shower
    • Kat The Mail Girl
    Teller
    Teller
    • Self - Host (1993)
    Penn Jillette
    Penn Jillette
    • Self - Host (1993)
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    BlueHeMan

    Greatest show on earth!

    Monstervision is my all time favorite TV show. Joe Bob Briggs and his cheesy movies helped me get through countless tough Saturday nights. Even though I fell asleep during the second movie every week, I especially enjoyed Joe Bob's rants before each show and his tidbits in between commercials as well as Rusty the mail girl and obscure guests such as Linnea Quigly, Zachary Ty Bryan and Eugene Levy. The movies were great also. (the Guyver, Embrace of the Vampire, Voodoo, The Beastmaster, et. al. i recall Joe Bob's Friday the 13th marathon on Halloween being a real treat. I don't understand what happened to this great show. I came home from college for the summer one year and it was just gone. No explanation, no farewell show, just nothing!! Another network should pick up Monstervision or even just give Joe Bob another similar show. It had a cult following and no real competetion at 1:30 AM on saturdays...whats the problem??

    Someone please get Joe Bob back on the air. He is THE MAN.
    Weirdo-x

    A television show with everyone's favorite drive-in critic as the host.

    I've been watching this show for three years now, and I simply love it because of how funny Joe Bob Briggs is. In fact, he's my idol now.

    Every Saturday night I tune into TNT to watch the cheesy flicks he hosts, and I like only SOME of the ones he plays. My favorite segments in his show are when he reads some fain mail on the air with Rusty the Mailgirl (because I send some in) and when he does the Drive-In Totals for a film he shows. I hope that "Monstervision" remains to be the longest running television series, as long as everyone's favorite funny man stays as host. It wouldn't be the same without him. You can also catch Mr. Briggs make cameo appearances in films such like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2", "Casino", "The Great Outdoors", and "Face/Off".

    Right next to Howard Stern, Joe Bob Briggs may top over the classy radio DJ as the "King of all Media".
    yenlo

    Shame on TNT

    TNT pulled this great Saturday night show off the air and now they have a big hole there. Hosted by Joe Bob Briggs it generally featured films of a creepy nature but also included Sci-Fi and even at times comedies. Joe Bob of course made the show what it was with help from his various Monster vision mail girls. Once there were a number of Monster movie programs that featured colorful hosts like on this show. Now with this one gone it looks like that complete era may be done for good.
    reider49

    Monstervision

    Monstervision was a great show hosted by Joe Bob Briggs. JB would comment on the movies playing, usually 2 every Saturday night. Joe Bobs comments included little known trivia and behind the scene facts about the featured shows. Hopefully another network will pick up Joe Bob Briggs. Email me if anybody has shows on tape and would like to trade from my over 80 shows.
    newnoir

    Joe Bob Briggs For President!

    Ah, yes, Joe Bob Briggs, host of TNT's Monstervision!

    The show was a great movie show and Joe Bob was a great horror movie host. I liked the episodes where he sat outside his trailer instead of inside it. That's a weird quirk for me, but I liked the outside of the trailer rather than inside it.

    Joe Bob was and is a great movie host like Commander USA but the show got a bit dull towards the end of its run. They started doing this annoying shot towards the end of the series where they would cut to Joe Bob after a commercial and then pan past some tacky looking scrub brush and up to Joe Bob sitting outside his trailer. What was with that shot? Maybe I'm nitpicking but that annoyed the hell outta me.

    And the banter with Reno the mail girl was great. I never liked Rusty the mail girl though. She was just an annoying bimbette. Long live Reno and long live Joe Bob!

    And I especially loved the Monstervision music video. With the song lyrics "tearin' the heart out of Saturday Night". I guess it was just more of an extended promo for the show, but I still dug it!

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      Joe Bob Briggs (John Bloom) took over permanent hosting duties of Monstervision in 1995 after Ted Turner had seen his Joe Bobs Drive-In show on The Movie Channel. Briggs remained the host until the show was cancelled in 2000.
    • Connections
      Featured in Cinemassacre's Monster Madness: Godzilla (2008)

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    • Release date
      • April 1993 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • joebobbriggs.com (United States)
      • TNT
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Joe Bob's Hollywood Saturday Night and Monstervision
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      • TNT
      • Tall Pony
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