

However, this set also includes some specific Turkey Day stuff, including 30 minutes of bumpers from the three years when Comedy Central was willing to pay the Best Brains production company to do the intros. Josh Weinstein did Tom Servo’s voice I wonder if Kevin Murphy was unable or unwilling to do the job.

They’re funny bits, but most of them don’t have anything to do with Thanksgiving. All of the episodes in this set feature short films before the main features - “The Screaming Skull” has “Robot Rumpus,” which was an early Gumby short.Įach disc has a new Turkey Day intro with Joel Hodgson and computer-animated bots. That last one is notable for its Rick Baker creature effects, some of which were unfortunately cut for time. The other episodes in this set are “The Painted Hills” (season five), “The Screaming Skull” (season nine), and “Squirm” (season 10). Only one of the episodes in this set, season two’s “Jungle Goddess,” was actually featured during a Turkey Day marathon, but I glanced through the episode listings on an “MST3K” wiki and it looked like all those episodes have already been released on DVD. The Turkey Day marathons have been mentioned in past “MST3K” sets, but this is the first time Shout! Factory has released a collection centered around them. Forrester scheming to use the marathon to crush the world’s spirit. They featured several episodes of the series with original introductions that would tell an unfolding storyline, such as Dr. Alternate programming for those who don’t like parades and/or football has long been a staple of the cable industry, and in the early 90s, the show “Mystery Science Theater 3000” did a few of its own Turkey Day marathons.
