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Post by JLH on Dec 31, 2016 10:44:09 GMT -5
Another good place to get a clean sound of this? The ancient (and often cut from most fan-copies and definitely from most official ones) season 1 & 2 Best Brains end card before they started using stingers. If you have an old copy that includes the "Comedy Channel" logo (not replaced with the Comedy Central's presentation card), it goes on even longer there.
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Post by JLH on Dec 9, 2016 11:26:50 GMT -5
Do you know if the city limits title card is in tact on the shout factory release It is! Someone posted a screen cap of it here on the board some time ago. As for the other slates, here's a compilation I put together (that someone wisely put up on Youtube):
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Post by JLH on Dec 1, 2016 10:09:12 GMT -5
The Comedy Central broadcast masters were on D-2 tapes. D-2 could run 32, 94, or 208 minutes. I always theorized that the tape-change moment for each episode was the non-bumpered, post-second host segment break. But if the tapes were those lengths, then that likely wouldn't have been the case.
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Post by JLH on Dec 1, 2016 10:01:11 GMT -5
Such an ancient thread, yet nobody brought up Bride of the Monster's "He tampered in God's domain". My favorite variation on it is probably "He peppered God's lo-mien".
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Post by JLH on Nov 29, 2016 7:33:31 GMT -5
Wasn't there going to be an MST3K comic book many many moons ago, (where they would riff over old comic book pages) or did I hallucinate that? Yep. Valiant Comics, or Acclaim Comics at the time (they got bought out by the video game company), had the rights, even solicited it. Sadly, I never kept the ad for it featured in the back of an issue of Diamond Previews, which looked like it was going to feature Mike & The Bots riffing on old Gold Key comics. But, I did dig this up some time ago, the solicitation for the first issue: Sci-Fi Channel Presents: Mystery Science Comics 3000 #1 The long -awaited comic book experience is finally here! With the first of these quarterly 96-page trade paperbacks, Acclaim teams up with the Sci-Fi Channel and Best Brains Productions to subject Mike, Crow, and Tom Servo to some of the worst comic books ever made. Predictably, Mike and the 'bots' response is to mercilessly "riff" on the material - with side-splitting results! The writers of Mystery Science Theater 3000 are directly participating in the creation of these books to ensure these comics have the irreverent and hilarious feel of the award-winning TV show from witch they spring! FC, 96 pages July 1998
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Post by JLH on Nov 28, 2016 10:33:21 GMT -5
Gerry and Sylvia Anderson were also responsible for Space: 1999.... Let's not forget the names of the Mole people that occasionally showed up in Deep 13! According to Joel in K01, it's Gene and Sylvia Anderson. Couple this with his "Gameron" comments, it's a shame they didn't eventually make Joel's "character" into "very bad with names".
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Post by JLH on Nov 26, 2016 10:32:34 GMT -5
My only small gripe, if it can be even called that, is the lack of end credits. Now we'll never know if Joel's hair was done by Mr Crow of Beverly Hills!
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Post by JLH on Oct 24, 2016 15:18:23 GMT -5
There's a lot I love from KTMA, but the one that jumps out at me at the moment is the running joke about Grandpa mooing from K06 Gamera vs Gaos.
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Post by JLH on Oct 23, 2016 10:30:44 GMT -5
I know Slvrsurfer/Bob/MST3KGuy. I tape traded with him starting nearly 20 years ago now, and his tapes (VHS then, of course) were excellent. I even tape traded some Turkey Day bumpers and promos to him. A few years back I got a few of his special compilations on DVD and the quality is definitely still there. He's been my go-to guy for MST stuff not yet officially released for years, and only Skyronitor (now retired) came close to being as good. His packaging, even during the VHS days, were always top notch (they used to have end labels reflective of the Deep 13 tape archives seen during seasons 5-7 bumpers).
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Post by JLH on Jun 30, 2016 23:11:10 GMT -5
I seem to recall hearing it had something to do with the time needed to change reels (remember the slates at the start used to say "reel 1", presumably "reel 2" would start after the bumper-less break. I dunno, maybe there's something to that).
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Post by JLH on Feb 23, 2016 14:15:28 GMT -5
I found this note about KTMA Cambot in my txt file notes which I copied from another forum's discussion about this info years back. It's not much help, but maybe it'll inspire some investigation into the subject.
"Unknown plastic toy(head), plastic dome(inner head), plastic sled(body), ping pong balls(eyes).
The camera I think is just some plastic pieces glued together, cambot was a toy beach or garden wheel barrel with some small hose insulation that the eyes, I think two ping pong balls painted a green like Gypsum."
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Post by JLH on Feb 23, 2016 12:42:16 GMT -5
I believe it was April 20th, 1991 when I watched my first full episode, a repeat of #203, "Jungle Goddess". Comedy Channel, as it was then, was still new to me (having just replaced HA!) and I'd seen ads for MST3K, but I didn't bother until I was home alone on a Saturday night. I knew who Joel was since his SNL eps had ran on HA! repeatedly prior. I was a dumb kid, so dumb I thought the short and the movie were connected (the plane crash cliffhanger in Phantom Creeps and the jungle plane crash in the movie). But I loved it. Next week, I caught a repeat of "Catalina Caper" earlier in the day, and that was that. As such, I was there when new eps started in the summer, which was an especially great time to be a MSTie.
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Post by JLH on Feb 22, 2013 22:08:36 GMT -5
Hey, Travis... are there any out-of-print titles that are unlikely to be reissued? Other than Megalon, of course.
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Post by JLH on Jan 31, 2013 5:27:27 GMT -5
Giving you both the regular and MST60M episode would be no different than the 2 versions on Night Of The Blood Beast. Except both versions of 701 were identical in the theaters segments. MST60M would actually chop out bits of theater footage to fit in more commercials.
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Post by JLH on Apr 1, 2012 8:33:59 GMT -5
They made 2 promos per episode from season 3 to season 6, one for during the week and one for right before the show. Actually THREE. Saturday at 10am, Saturday at 7pm, and "NEXT", which is the only one that would usually re-air during repeats. When they changed the morning timeslot to Sundays in season 5, they apparently didn't tell Best Brains until after they'd begun shooting promos, meaning there are a bunch of "Saturday at 10am" promos they made that never made it to air.
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