I have created a thread or two like this on other boards, so why not create one here?
If for some reason you're not aware of
one of my favorite shows of all time, the basic premise is that a guy is shot up into space where these mad scientists make him watch bad movies. He builds robot buddies as company and viewing partners. They watch the movie in a theater and make fun of it, or "riff" on it, as it's known now. Just search for it on YouTube (it's easier to search using the show's abbreviation "MST3K") and you'll see what I mean.
Anyway, these episodes were slowly rolled out on DVD by Rhino, but distribution has since been superseded by Shout! Factory. The latest volume, Volume XXIV, hits stores today:
310 - FUGITIVE ALIEN
318 - STAR FORCE - FUGITIVE ALIEN II
617 - THE SWORD AND THE DRAGON
624 - SAMPSON VS. THE VAMPIRE WOMENThe episodes for Volume XXV (release date TBA) were also recently announced:
110 - ROBOT HOLOCAUST
508 - OPERATION KID BROTHER (AKA Operation Double 007; changed due to legal reasons)
615 - KITTEN WITH A WHIP
801 - REVENGE OF THE CREATUREThis set has some MSTies all aflutter. Universal has been reluctant to license their movies for use in MST3K DVD releases, but Shout! Factory has recently been rereleasing old Universal horror films, so some believe this helped SF obtain licensing for releasing Revenge Of The Creature, and this could possibly allow other Universal-based episodes to be released in the future (much in the same way SF's release of all the Gamera movies helped in getting all the MST3K Gamera episodes out there). Oh, and not to mention this was the first Sci-Fi Channel episode.
There's also personal history for me with Robot Holocaust, as this was the first episode of MST3K that I ever saw. I was flipping through the channels at some point in 1989 when I landed on (what was then) the Comedy Channel. The episode was a few minutes in (I missed the invention exchange and the movie's opening credits) and there were these silhouettes at the bottom of the screen. There's a shot of a disheveled city and Joel refers to it as "Six Flags over Armageddon"... the first riff I ever saw. The rest is history. And part of me still misses Servo's old voice.
I fully realize that this may end up being a thread of vanity (as my others are), but I'll just repeat to myself it's just a thread, I should really just relax.
**TWANG**