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More “Yes, we know…”

Occasionally, we get a flurry of emails about a news item that is only marginally related to MST3K. Here’s the latest:

Yes, we know that Tony Franciosa, who was mentioned in a host segment in episode 401- SPACE TRAVELLERS, and who was briefly married to Shelley Winters, recently passed away. But since he didn’t actually appear in the episode, we didn’t feel the need to post a notice about it. Until now. This also goes for the recent passing of playwright Wendy Wasserstein, whose initials provided two of the many W’s in Crow’s bracelet in episode 1002- GIRL IN THE GOLD BOOTS.

And yes, we know that John Allen Nelson, Mr. Deathstalker himself from episode 703- DEATHSTALKER AND THE WARRIORS FROM HELL, is currently appearing in the FOX series “24.” But literally thousands of actors and crewmembers have been involved in the making of the various movies featured on MST3K, and we really don’t want to mention each and every time one of them works on a new project. Unless it’s something really newsworthy. Like curing cancer. Or shooting a janitor into space.

More culture commentary from Mike

Click here to buy Happy Kitty, Bunny PonyFollowing the success of Happy Kitty, Bunny, Pony: A Saccharine Mouthful of Super Cute, Harry Abrams Publishing presents more volumes, also featuring commentary by Michael J. Nelson. Now available are Goth-Icky: A Macabre Menagerie of Morbid Monstrosities, Fluffy Humpy Poopy Puppy: A Ruff Dog-Eared Look at Man’s Best Friend and Love Sick: A Smoldering Look at Love, Lust, and Marriage.

Thanks to our buddy Tom Noel for the tip!

Satirical piece

Over on the SomethingAwful web site, Dennis “Corin Tucker’s Stalker” Farrell, tongue planted firmly in cheek, wonders what it would be like if various broadcast and cable networks picked up MST3K, and made it conform to their network style.

Check it out at http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=3507

Thanks to Sam and Nick for the heads up.

Beginning of the end for “Beginning of the End”?

Due to a rights issue, Rhino has had to immediately discontinue the selling of episode 517- BEGINNING OF THE END on DVD and VHS. The Info Club is also immediately halting sales of the episode. Rhino and BBI are working to resolve the issue, but that’s all the information we have at this time. Stay tuned…

Also in Rhino news: Our contact at Rhino tells us (as we suspected) the glitches that people have noticed on the disks containing episode 603- THE DEAD TALK BACK in the Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection: Volume 8 came from the original source master. We are told that Rhino did its best to clean the problems up. They tell us the only other alternative was to find another episode. which would have meant “another long journey into the dark night of rights clearance and a significant delay of the release,” our source says. “So we decided to go with it.” There are no plans to offer replacement discs.

Volume 8 problems

A number of people have reported problems with THE DEAD TALK BACK DVD included in the Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection: Volume 8. There are several places where the DVD “skips” or drops frames. There’s also a place, about 25 minutes in, where the top portion of the screen gets all blocky and faded looking. You can see some screen captures of this at the following URLs:

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