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Posted by Sampo, on April 7th, 2012 Alert reader Marty suggests a “discussion about which episodes fans consider to be ‘graduate-level.’ I assume what he means by that are episodes that — either because the movie is painful or the host segments are impenetrable, or both — will drive newbies away screaming, will cause casual fans to wander into the kitchen for a snack and may even make seasoned fans look at their watches and wonder what else is on, but which hardcore MSTies just love.
Having just done “Monster A-Go Go” in this week’s episode guide and “Manos” only a few weeks away (both would have to be included in this list), it definitely seems like a timely topic. I once made the mistake of showing “Manos” to my sister as her very first episode. I guess I thought she could handle it. She couldn’t. Oh well. Lesson learned.
One I would pick is on the most recent set: “Last of the Wild Horses,” featuring a difficult black-and-white movie and host segments you would only really appreciate if you knew the show and the characters very well. But I just love it.
What’s your pick?
Posted by Sampo, on April 5th, 2012 
Here’s the press release on Vol. 24, including street date and extras:
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: XXIV
4-DVD BOX SET FEATURING 4 EPISODES PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ON DVD TO BE RELEASED BY SHOUT! FACTORY
IN STORES JULY 31
Los Angeles, CA – Put on your spacesuits and get ready for a summer vacation on the Satellite of Love! Shout! Factory has announced the newest release in their Mystery Science Theater 3000 line, readying Mystery Science Theater 3000: XXIV for release on July 31. A must-have for fans of cult television shows and B-movies alike, the 4-DVD set features four episodes previously unreleased on DVD: Fugitive Alien, Star Force: Fugitive Alien II, The Sword And The Dragon and Samson Vs. The Vampire Women. Also included are all new bonus features, including introductions by Japanese cinema historian August Ragone, You Asked For It: Sandy Frank Speaks!, MST Hour Wraps, Life After MST3K: Frank Conniff, MST3K Shorts: Snow Thrills & A Date With Your Family, Lucha Gringo: K. Gordon Murray Meets Santo, and four exclusive Mini-Posters by artist Steve Vance.
The cult comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000 has always welcomed immigrant films with open arms. One can almost imagine a Satellite of Liberty greeting the waves of foreign films seeking a more prosperous life in America. Its inscription might well read, “Give me your tired plots, your poor acting, your muddled directors yearning to be schlock-free.” It is in this spirit that Volume XXIV presents four of cinema’s transplants — from Russia, Mexico and two from Japan —that simply didn’t take.
Mystery Science Theater 3000: XXIV brings us Fugitive Alien, wherein our hero Ken is pursued as a traitor by his own race because he refuses to kill humans; Star Force: Fugitive Alien II continues the story of Captain Joe, reformed interstellar marauder Ken and the rest of the crew of the Bacchus-3 as they set off to destroy an alien race’s super-weapon; The Sword And The Dragon, an epic journey of a mythical knight and his fights against a barbarian horde in an ancient land; and Samson Vs. The Vampire Women, featuring Mexican wrestling hero Santo saving the locals from Vampire women awakened by their leader with orders to find him a bride.
Thankfully, Joel, Mike and their band of robot brothers (Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot) alleviate their (and our) suffering by watching these movies with a joyously irreverent stream of higher consciousness. You have in your hands passports to laughter. Consider them riffed and stamped by those tormented souls aboard the Satellite of Love.
If you’d like to pre-order Vol. 24 from Amazon, we’d appreciate it if you used this link.
Posted by Sampo, on April 3rd, 2012 Oh, man, on the heels of “Frankenstein Island,” another bad movie classic:
 
Download it or see a sample here.
Posted by Sampo, on April 2nd, 2012 July 5, at the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, two shows. More info here.
Posted by Sampo, on April 2nd, 2012 The Nerd Show podcast does a phone interview with Joel. These guys are not hardcore fans, they’re more “I’m too young to remember the Comedy Central era but I used to watch it on the Sci-Fi Channel sometimes/The episode I watched on youtube the other day was the first one I’ve seen in years” guys, so the interview goes over familiar ground, but Joel gets to plug the new Shout set and Cinematic Titanic, so it’s all good.
The interview starts at about the 12 minute mark.
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