| 9/9/2008 8:54 PM |
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Ethan Van Sciver
Member since: 9/9/2008 | | MST3K Extras....some ideas. | Knowing as I know (or hope) that Shoutfactory is in this for the long haul, I'd like to offer some suggestions for Special Features on future MST3K releases!
--Bumper segments! This is a must. All through the Comedy Central era, the crew would record 10 or 15 second skits advertising new experiments. I'm not sure, but I think they did 2 or 3 per episode. I've still got many MST3K VHS tapes with the commercials intact, and these are always a joy to stumble upon, as they're usually jokes based on host segments within the episodes themselves. Who has these? Can Shoutfactory get them?
And if they can, please don't even worry about only including the ones that apply to the episodes included in that particular dvd release. Just smack them all together: Season One bumpers, Season Two bumpers, etc. They're of historical interest to fans, and they're damn funny.
--Turkey Day segments!! Dear god, please collect all of these and give them over. Perhaps next year at this time, release a special MST3K TURKEY DAY boxed set, with four new episodes and all of the Thanksgiving themed segments and bumpers available. (Hint, there are LOTS of them) Turkey Day is precious to our memories as fans, when Comedy Central would spend 24 hours giving us a nonstop MST3K feast. A DVD set reminiscent of this would appeal to all.
--Finally, please grab that Making of MST3K documentary that Comedy Central aired way back when. It's vintage, and it'd be great to have.
I, and lots of other fans are excited about the possibilities, Shout Factory! Thanks very much!
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| 9/11/2008 11:07 AM |
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Skooj
Member since: 2/29/2008 | | RE: MST3K Extras....some ideas. | | I'm interested to see what Shout comes up with on their own, but since we're making suggestions...
I'd love to see the Playstation Underground footage come to DVD. It's on YouTube, but a high-res version of this short video would be fantastic! It features footage of Mike and the Bots on the Bridge playing Playstation games, before going into the theater and riffing on several old Playstation commercials. It was released with Playstation Underground magazine, and included a behind-the-scenes easter egg that showed them filming the video.
Looking forward to the History of MST feature on the 20th Anniversary set! |
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| 9/16/2008 10:24 PM |
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AdamCerious
Member since: 9/16/2008 | | RE: MST3K Extras....some ideas. | | I'd like to see the MST Hour segments with Mike as Jack Perkins, and if possible footage of the two MST3K conventions- especially their live performance of the Frank Song.
On another note- hey, it's comics artist supreme Ethan Van Sciver! I really enjoyed babbling with you about MST3K instead of comics at HeroesCon. |
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| 9/23/2008 4:50 PM |
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soundandvision
Member since: 9/23/2008 | | RE: MST3K Extras....some ideas. |
- Bumper Segments: Another vote for this. Some were often funnier than the actual episode host segments. I believe Comedy Central & SciFi produced at least 1 per episode to promote that weeks episode.
- Outtakes: This is something Rhino did on a handful of discs (Sidehackers, for example) and I thought it was a very exciting extra. As someone who has seen some of these episodes (especially back in the day, as a teenager) until the VHS tape finally broke...it's cool to see the evolution of the host segments, etc. Kind of imagining them at work creating cool bits of "funny". Would be nice if each Shout disc had outtakes from that particular episode.
- Turkey Day Bumpers: Yet another vote for these. Maybe Shout could feature a year's worth on one set and then another, etc.
- This is MST3K Documentary: Produced by Comedy Central in 1992, another vote for this.
- MST Scrapbook: This absolutely has to be included on a future Shout Release. It was too cool of an item to never see the light of day on DVD.
- 1992 MST3K Uptown: I don't know if it exists but if there's a "good" quality tape of this in Mallon's possesion, this would be a great treat for fans of the early years. They riffed on "World Without End".
- MST ConventioCon Footage: from 1992 - 1996.
- Making of MST3K Documentary: Produced by Scifi in 1997.
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| 9/28/2008 6:42 PM |
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Tor Johnson
Member since: 9/28/2008 | | RE: MST3K Extras....some ideas. | I have always said that TV spots they filmed for CC and S-F would make great DVD extras, and we know there would be no messy copyright problems. I also agree with the above poster about the 1992 MST3K Uptown. If there is a clear copy, I would be very happy to see it. Turkey Day bumpers would be great too. Oh and a featurette on the life of Tor Johnson would be excellent.
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| 10/27/2008 11:26 AM |
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callipygias
Member since: 10/27/2008 | | RE: MST3K Extras....some ideas. | Mylar: What's It To You? The missing short from the never-released cd-rom that also was to have Assignment: Venezuela on it. I've heard it's lost, but you never know. |
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| 10/27/2008 11:37 AM |
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BtaraKtahn
Member since: 5/8/2008 | | RE: MST3K Extras....some ideas. | I'm hoping that they can recompile and release all of the Undersea Kingdom serial shorts that they did onto one disc.
*would love to see those in their entirety with the bots riffing them*
I think that Rhino released 2 of them on episodes they had...
Don't ask me what I think of you;
I might not give the answer that you want me to.
- Fleetwood Mac,"Oh Well" |
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| 11/3/2008 2:39 PM |
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kingdinosaur
Member since: 11/3/2008 | | RE: MST3K Extras....some ideas. | | I'd love it if all of the bumper segments could be collected into one long "special feature." |
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| 11/12/2008 2:53 AM |
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MightyJack
Member since: 11/12/2008 | | RE: MST3K Extras....some ideas. | | Please keep doing the MST Hour segments. I beleive there is one for Manhunt in Space. In fact, go back and collect the ones Rhino failed to do, like the MST hour segs for Manos, etc, then we'd be all up to date on them. That would make a nice little extra. |
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| 11/26/2008 3:05 AM |
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JLH
Member since: 11/26/2008 | | RE: MST3K Extras....some ideas. | These were actually called promos. Bumpers would be the stuff like the planet spinning before going to commercial, or the Deep 13 various things during late season 5 and season 6.
As far as I know, there weren't any specially made in seasons 1 & 2. They started doing them in season 3, at first with a generic 'premise' about the show featuring Joel and the Bots, allowing the movie part to be replaced each show. The first time they did an episode specific (aka episodic promo) one was "Fugitive Alien", I think (Farmer Joel and his chicken bots). They kept doing them until Sci-Fi, when they went back to multiple-use generics (meaning you see one, you've seen them all, unlike episodics).
There tended to be three versions of each one. "Saturday at 10" (or Sunday at 10 during season 5-6), "Saturday at 7PM", and "NEXT" (to run usually in the last commercial break of whatever was running before the episode). Each was shot during the episode, centering around 1 or 2 host segments (usually just one), and each of the three was original. Only the "NEXT" versions were aired during repeats, since they tended to harp on the episode being new throughout the promo in the other versions (I remember during a repeat of 502 "Hercules" the 'NEXT' actually had an embedded graphic touting the episode as the season premiere).
From what I understand, these promos tended to be included on the Comedy Central broadcast master tapes. They shouldn't be hard to get whatsoever, I guarantee it!
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by soundandvision at 9/23/2008 4:50:49 PM
- Bumper Segments: Another vote for this. Some were often funnier than the actual episode host segments. I believe Comedy Central & SciFi produced at least 1 per episode to promote that weeks episode.
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