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  • Kickstarter: For When Delayed Gratification Is Your Jam

    I suppose I should apologize to somebody for that post title, but it’s true in its own way, right? Right.

    A couple of years back I threw some money behind the idea of a self-produced, non-Netflix-y 13th season of Mystery Science Theater 3000. And it was good! Very, very good. Albeit not without the sort of technological growing pains one might expect from cobbling together a whole streaming environment out of available parts. (Not entirely unlike using special parts to make robot friends, after all.)

    But seriously. Several sets of hosts, some superb(ly bad) movies and top-notch riffing, exactly what one hopes for from another batch of newly-minted MST3K. I got what I paid for, no argument there.

    Oh, but I also had signed up at a level which suggested there’d be… physical goodies. At some point. Well… it took a couple of years but today’s that “at some point.” Behold:

    I never know what to do with stickers. It’s not like I have a car. Maybe I’ll look into some magnetic backing material and turn them into really big fridge magnets.

    Stickers! A t-shirt! A popcorn bucket! A guzzler of a drink cup! Posters! (Not pictured in an unrolled state; they didn’t want to stay unrolled without heavy weights for eight corners’ worth, oh also they’re huge. Just trust me that they’re really nifty.)

    It’s not like I signed up to back Season 13 specifically to have physical goodies shipped to my doorstep, but I’m sure not complaining. And I’ll definitely get some mileage out of that t-shirt if nothing else.

    Maybe I’ll pour some non-popcorn-y snacks into the bucket and curl up with “Beyond Atlantis” some evening soon…

  • Ivan With The Head Of A Bear

    How’s this for a bold, principled statement on a controversial topic:

    “Jack Frost” is the best MST3K episode of all time.

    Yes, better than its cousin, “The Day The Earth Froze.” Yes, better than “Manos, Hands of Fate,” largely because (let’s face it) “Manos” is just plain painful for most of its running time. Yes, better than “Gamera vs. Gaos.” Yes, better than “Prince Of Space.” Need I go on?

    Let the evidence speak for itself, then.

    • “I thought Jerry Garcia was Father Mushroom.”
    • ‘No, not a princess. You are a queen!’ “In that you look like Freddy Mercury.”
    • “M is for the many times you beat me. O is for the other times you beat me…”
    • “Jack Frost opened fire on a stand of willows today…”
    • “I’m bacon! Baconbaconbaconbacon…”
    • “Bob Keeshan is Mr. Natural.”
    • “Michael Nelson is Lord of the Dance!”
    • “So I guess instead of vacuuming this house, you Zamboni it.”
    • “Hello, this is the sun. Your call is important to us, so please stay on the line…”

    At any rate, until today I had to make do with an old VHS copy, but no longer. I now own this fine bit of televised hilarity in DVD form!

    You may now bask in the glory of my awesomeness. Thank you.

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