25th Anniversary Reunion?

[Diet Kolos]

Back when the 20th Anniversary rolled around, Joel approached Jim about doing an MST reunion. Jim put the kibosh on that because of his much-lauded, earth-shattering idea for an MST flash series. This is what led to the Creation of Cinematic Titanic, as we all know.

In the interim 5 years, CT has done fairly well. The flash series crashed and burned within a month or so.

This past February it was announced CT would stop touring at the end of 2013. And Shout! decided to get Joel and do a new Turkey Day.

Anyone think maybe Joel might go to Jim again, or maybe already has?

From Joel's recent AMA:
•Now that Cinematic Titanic is winding down, do you have any other projects in the works besides "Riffing Myself"?
-I do, but I can't talk about them right now. But I will be on the reddit Black Friday special on this Friday 11/29 on their YouTube so keep an eye out: www.youtube.com/reddit
•MST3K is a uniquely fabulous show that has obviously withstood the test of time. Under what circumstances can you see bringing it back...maybe instead of on cable, keeping it online?
-You know, I would be up for it no matter what comes, but obviously you can't beat the computer for getting your content right now. Online is really compelling right now.

And a Frank tweet:
Frank Conniff ‏@frankconniff 18 Nov
An MST3K Turkey Day Marathon? In 2013?!!! What will they think of next…

Either a telling ellipses or just Frank being Frank...?

What say you?

[Diet Kolos]

Also, from the Shout! Turkey Day site:

"Its the 25th Anniversary of Mystery Science Theater 3000, and we've got some really cool things happening to celebrate, some of which we can reveal now, and some you have to stay tuned for."

Hmmmm...

[Torgo]

Shout announcements are always intriguing. I'll definitely stay tuned to see if something neat pops up.

[Diet Kolos]

I can't remember where I saw it, but I remember that Shout! were the ones who wanted to do some MST with Joel back on the 20th Anniversary before Jim 86ed it. Or they were involved somehow.

[Torgo]

I'm wondering, since this is coinciding with the announcement that Untamed Youth will be on the latest set (and presumably Black Scorpion on the horizon) if Shout might be planning to announce a complete first season set?

Of course the idea is problematic, as they would need to secure rights to Crawling Hand and Woman of the Prehistoric Planet in order to do so, the latter of which gave Rhino trouble on volume 9. Plus it might be counting eggs before they hatch if they were to do such a thing, as people would expect more season sets which would put pressure on them to strike deals with notorious rights holders Toho, Roger Corman, and Susan Hart which are unlikely.

A guy can dream though.

[Mod City]

Nothing is impossible, but I still think it's unlikely. Like Torgo said, when Shout gets dodgy with their announcements interesting things can happen - like releasing the Gamera episodes and some other great, genuinely surprising licensing coups. I personally think we're more likely to get KTMA or Godzilla episodes before we see a reunion of some sort.

That said, with CT winding down and assuming the original cast members, at least, would be available and willing, it could happen if Joel and Jim could arrive on the same page. I don't know if they could do it as full-on show like the old days, but the occasional fresh episode isn't completely out of the question.

It would be very, very cool. But I'll believe it when I see it

[Diet Kolos]

True. But what better day to announce something big like that, than on MST's go-to day, Turkey Day!

[Triple_sSs]

I'm not too sure about a full-blown reunion, however on Joel's recent AMA on Reddit he did say this:

“Would you be open to guesting on a Rifftrax? Finally having Joel and Mike together riffing a movie would be the ultimate love letter to fans.”

I would say yes. I think it will happen when the time’s right.

Just the thought of such a thing makes me giddy.