It's a Thanksgiving Miracle!

[oldmanmerton]

We always talk about how hard it is to introduce MST3k to people, and it definitely is.

But it looks like the stars have aligned this holiday.

So my wife is a 6th grade teacher and it's one of those do-nothing days before a holiday. She was going to show a movie (Up or something), but last minute she asked me to pick out an MST3k.

Always a daunting task. I wanted to Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, but a) too many soft swear words (at least for an introduction) and b) wife wanted to save that in case they did one before Christmas.

So I did some scanning looking for one with host segments kids might find funny and a movie that wouldn't be too much of a drag if the riffing aspect didn't hook them.

Wound up going with Day the Earth Froze (with Here Comes the Circus).

Turns out it was a HUGE success and seemingly all the kids loved it. Her team co-teacher came over to see what the hell had the kids laughing so hard.

So...score. A class full of young potential MSTies.

[Mod City]

Great story, and cool your wife thought of MST3K for an event like that. Hard to believe those sixth graders weren't even born when the show was canceled.

[mrsphyllistorgo]

Excellent! I bet the kids would love some of the Gamera/Gozilla movies too.

[Mike Flugennock]

Nov 21, 2012 15:31:15 GMT -5 mrsphyllistorgo said:

Excellent! I bet the kids would love some of the Gamera/Gozilla movies too.

I won't speak for anyone else here who's Of A Certain Age, but when I was in the 6th grade back in the late '60s, I was already totally into stuff like Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Wolf Man, Gamera, Godzilla, Ultraman, and all those cheesy Roger Corman and Bert I. Gordon monster flicks. So were most of my friends.

[oldmanmerton]

One of the girls in my wife's class loved this so much she wrote a letter to the brains (it's on my homepage) and Mike responded and asked for her address to send her something.

Wife got the package at school today and he sent a letter and 3 signed DVDS (Rifftrax Jack the Giant Killer, and MST Diamond Head and Last of Wild Horses). Totally totally awesome and Mike is a hell of a guy.

It actually made my wife cry...ha. She says her student is going to be over the moon when she gets it on Monday. Will update with pics or something later!

[Mr. Atari]

How awesome is that?!

Just curious- did she send it to the Brains' P.O. Box from the show? I'd be amazed if that's even still open. Or did you or your wife track down more current mail options?

[oldmanmerton]

Nah. I scanned the letter and put it up on my website and tweeted it out to Kev, Mike, Trace, and Frank.

Didn't send it to Mary Jo, Bill, or Josh since it wasn't one of "their" episodes though they might have seen it it since Frank and Mike retweeted it.