Oh, there's no doubt it's a movie he didn't want to host but had no choice lol. I dunno if Joe Bob ever talked about this but I'm curious myself as to how much say he had in choosing which movies were shown on Monstervision. TNT probably rarely ever bought the rights to air a movie for Monstervision that Joe Bob wanted to show and just milked the films as much as possible that they already had the rights to. Omitting Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter from the famous Halloween (not the franchise) night marathon of Friday the 13th films was very strange, because they had the rights to 1-3 and 5&6 but not 4? I'm curious what the story is behind that.

@@what9681 in an interview last year on cinamassacre with James Rolfe, he said he was given a list of movies TNT had rights to and he'd pick out all he wanted but, they would never let him play anything black and white except for the rare times it was something like Earth vs the Spider or something. But, he would have to show things he didn't like because of them a lot. Also, found that Rusty/Renner Jo St John now is like a DA or something in Fairbanks, Alaska! :)

He's definitely more at home on Shudder than TNT. Limited selection of horror films and censorship= not as much fun.

@@NovaFeedback1979 Too bad he is kind of pigeonholed to only horror movies, when there are a ton of exploitation/B-movies he could also showcase.

I could probably recite pee weed big adventure word for word. To this day.

I loved him in Blow too, Bobcats scene was really good also.

" I can't feel my face"​@ET3Roberts

I read the transcript of Joe Bob Briggs' Monstervision host segments for Tim Burton's Beetlejuice and he gave that four stars and mentioned during it that he gets criticized a lot for bashing Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. It can't be Tim Burton's bizarre style or directing that he didn't like about Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, he just didn't find it funny at all and even says in this video that he thinks the jokes are for little kids which I completely disagree with. It's a way more clever comedy than Joe Bob gives it credit for and it's almost like he can't distinguish Pee Wee's Playhouse (which was a show for little kids) from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure which are in a completely different comedic style from one another. I've listened to the same interview that you're referring too lol, the one recorded a few months ago where he's interviewed by some host in NYC (great interview btw, well worth listening to). Joe Bob mentions that what he loved about Monstervision that he could no longer do today, is not be restricted to a very specific air time for his segments and how long they had to last. TV now is very strict in that you must begin and end any non-commercial segment to a specific start and finish time, and TNT allowed Joe Bob to just kinda do whatever he wanted and if his segments went over the time limit it didn't matter at all. The closest thing today I can think of is The Talking Dead which follows every new episode of The Walking Dead but even that they must go to commercial at an exact minute and second each segment.

+TheSeph1984 Wow, does that mean that all the letters he read on-air supposedly from inmates were real? I always thought they were meant as a joke.

Hey when you're a 9 year old kid none of it sucks haha

@@BonesBrigader When I first saw it I liked the TV show a lot more. Now my favorite is the PeeWee Hermin Show 1981 stand up video.

@@NickLMears I remember my mom telling me when I was a kid that Pee-Wee was pretty racy stuff for a kid so she didn't let us watch any of his shows or stand ups. Only way I was able to watch Big Adventure was because of my awesome babysitter haha