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Posted by Sampo, on August 13th, 2011 Alert reader “Sitting Duck” suggests:
How about Favorite DVD Menu? The animated menus featured on the Shout Factory DVDs can be entertaining in their own right (which almost makes up for the lack of any scene selection menus) For me, it can be a bit hard to decide, so I’ll narrow it down to three Second runner-up: Tom fails to make Crow his Final Sacrifice (a fun bit of slapstick in that one). First runner-up: Tom and Crow trek through The Lost Continent (love how, just before the loop starts over, Crow say, “Haven’t we seen this before?”). And the winner: It’s the Wacky Fun Time Revue starring Tom Servo and his Devil Doll (Debbie!!!!!).
Then again, there are people who hate the Shout menus. If that’s the case, then go and name your favorite Rhino menus, whether due to a music selection or a chapter title. For me, it would be I accuse My Parents for Tom’s singing.
Alert reader Troy Thomas agrees, noting:
My choice would be “The Crawling Eye,” probably because I love the silly visuals mixed with the booming, dramatic score from the movie. A runner-up would be “Robot Monster.” I love that conversation the bots have that’s taken from riffs in the episode.
I think the raw violence of the menu for Episode 1005- Blood Waters of Dr. Z would be my pick. What’s yours?
By they way, for your reference pleasure, the DVD lists are here (we haven’t updated it with the latest set yet…maybe this weekend if I can find the time…
Posted by Sampo, on August 12th, 2011 
Apparently the egg industry is run entirely by ugly people.
Download it and see a sample here.
Posted by Sampo, on August 12th, 2011 Canadians are generally less familiar with MST3K, which shouldn’t be surprising, since the show never played on TV there. But via the intertubes and the DVDs, a fan base is building north of the border.
Case in point: I submit for your approval one Adam Clarke who recently penned an article in “The Scope,” an arts and entertainment magazine in St. John’s. On the Joel/Mike issue Adam clearly lands solidly in the Joel camp (not that there’s anything wrong with that) but, in a show of a typically Canadian sense of fair play, he includes many fun Mike moments in the extensive lists of videos that accompany his piece. Enjoy!
Posted by Sampo, on August 12th, 2011 It is the policy of this Web site to keep the private lives of the people we cover private, unless they’re willing to talk about it. We were aware that Frank was recently featured on comedian Paul Gilmartin’s “Mental Illness Happy Hour” but since the podcast deals almost entirely with Frank’s personal issues, we hesitated to post a link to it. However, he e-mailed us today and suggested that our readers would be interested.
So check it out here Oh, and: some of the language and topics are probably not appropriate for kids.
Posted by Sampo, on August 8th, 2011 The New Bern Civic Theatre (aka “Athens Theatre”) in New Bern, N.C. is showing “MST3K: The Movie” Friday, Aug. 12, at 7 p.m. Find out more about it here and here.
By the way, if you are having, or hear about, a public showing of an MST3K episode, be sure to let us know!
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