To begin with, we at Satellite News, all of us proud backers, are just LOVING season 11. Our congratulations to Joel, first and foremost, to the tremendous cast and crew and all 48,000-plus backers. Give yourselves a round of applause!
Second, YES, we know that our FAQ, show history and other sections are now out of date. We are working to update them, but, as we have noted before, we both have full-time jobs. We will get to it. Please be patient. (By the way, Steve “Daddy-O” Finley is also at work on an update of Daddy-O’s Drive-In Dirt but, again, it’s going to take some time.)
Third, because of renewed interest in the show, there will come a day, shortly, when you are going to be asked, if you wish to partake of our comment threads, to register with the site. Sorry, but with the influx of people, this is going to be necessary.
Fourth, episode guide Thursdays will continue as normal, with two exceptions. Next Thursday we will look at “Assignment: Venezuela” and then, for the following two weeks, we will take a short break and tackle the two KTMA episodes, (K01 and K02) that were posted as kickstarter bonuses. After that, we will begin season eight. When we finally get to season 11’s proper place in order (some time next March?), we will do them again there, more formally.
Fifth, discussion of each season 11 episode, in numerical order, will begin next Saturday as weekend discussion threads. These will be proto-episode guide entries and you get to help construct them!
That is all. Enjoy this wonderful moment in the history of the show.
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Well. Okay then! But let that be a lesson to you about what you said in 1999 when you wished there were no further seasons of Mystery Science Theater 3000!
Look at all the trouble that occurred when it stopped at ten.
So be careful what you wish for, EricJ!
Yes sir, Captain Sampo, sir! *awkwardly complicated salute*
And THANK YOU, and Brian, for keeping the MSTie flag waving high and proud lo these many years.
Dr. Sampo, will there be focus groups involved? *bats eyes*
Sounds awesome, and keep up the great work!
Long time lurker, first time poster, and what better time to start than now?
Thank you guys for all of the hard work you’ve put into this site for us MSTies!
Now to get a Netflix account, since, ya know, it’s almost the 2020s, and all of the kids have one. Not to mention the return of that show with the bad movies and the robots.
Free Netflix trial for a month and no better time to start it than today!
Guys, take your time with the updates. I’m not going anywhere. As for this occasion? All I can say is that I’ve never been more exited about a tv show in my life. It may sound corny but seeing those silhouettes again almost made me tear up. I’m so thrilled to see this come to fruition. And as always, thanks to Sampo, Ehrhardt, and all involved for keeping this site going. I’ve been coming here for years and I’ll be here for the foreseeable future.
Like Syssiphus you guys have a never ending task, but your boulder never slides back downhill (it just gets bigger). Thanks for all the hard work on top of living actual lives. I don’t know how you do it.
I plan to realize it’s just a show and I should really just relax. (And, yeah, thanks for all you do!)
Thanks for the information. By my count, if the episode guide Thursdays continue the way you describe them, we’ll reach episode 1013 on April 12, 2018. Wow.
I’ll absolutely keep reading, and will probably register, though I’ve only posted on here a few times. Season 11 is, in my mind, absolutely worthy of the MST3K name.
Keep up the great work. As Jay said, I don’t know how people who run sites like this (in any fandom) do so on top of maintaining real lives.
The volume that the ‘mads’ who run this site care about the show is so monstrous that it is unguessable by TURKEY VOLUME GUESSING MAN! and despite being monstrous, Sodium has no effects upon it!
Thanks for your work.
So… Ah… Does this mean all of the Kickstarter names get to be immortalized in the cast and crew roundups? Ooh! Or better yet, can we get entries in This day in MSTory? If so, I died on June 4th, 1629….
Woot! Thanks for the update. Per-episode weekend discussion threads will be awesome.
From this long-time visitor, approximately once-a-month poster, and rare but occasional contributor, thank you guys so much for keeping this site going! I have to imagine your wives/friends/families/etc. get a little exasperated with you on how much time you spend on this, but to all of us fans, your efforts are very much appreciated. (I hope you have lives outside of this too – church, music, outdoor hobbies, golf, something.) I’ll be happy to register when the time comes.
I have…no idea what that means (especially since I LIKE the new show, but had an explanation of how it finally fixed right everything that S7-10 did wrong, and how this was “the S7 we should have gotten long ago, if Joel hadn’t been so distracted by the Bad Breakup”, silenced by the Powers that be)–
But thought you were referring to the fact that that now we can actually have an Account to Delete.
OK. I admit it. I’m evil. I did not support the kickstart. Is there any way I can see K01 & K02 anyway?
Hey everybody!
Am I to understand that two of the original lost episodes from the KTMA period are now available? I thought those were never recorded! Are those going to be released for non-Kickstarter backers?
People having to register to post doesn’t sound like a bad idea if it means no more rants from EricJ.
It seems unlikely, but you never know!
As I said above, it seems unlikely that they will be released but you never know!
LOL No we will not attempt to get the birthday of every single backer. I understand what a cruel disappointment this is.
i wasn’t a backer (dont like using credit card online unless i have to). since i am a fan of show (and help around the site a little), can i have a death date of August 6th 1969 (killed in Vietnam).
(Graham Chapman): Aha! He fell for my little trap!
“By his own troops.”
that is from Animal House i think (and what some people did)
The latter is the fate of Neidermeyer from “Animal House”. The former is Inspector Dim of the Yard cornering the Cardinal Richelieu impersonator in an early Python episode.
As for the site, I really appreciate the work you guys are doing. Thanks for the info!
Because so many of the season 11 movies have so much dubbing in them, all of the comments threads about them on this site should also be dubbed.
Can I choose who dubs my comments? I’ll go with Paul Frees.
Yes, my joke wouldn’t make sense unless filtered through the short “A Case of Spring Fever,” that featured “Coily.”
The short appeared in episode 1012 – Squirm.
I can’t wait for registration! Been wanting to put my avatar with my pic so it makes sense!
One of the great beauties of this site was no log in. So long and thanks for all the fish.
NO ERICJ.. (whistle)……..aw shoot it didn’t work.
I think it’s a mistake to exclusively use weekend threads for the next 3 months or so
on the new shows. I don’t use Netflix, I just watch Mst3000s if on cable tv or dvds,
so I guess I’ll be excluded from the chats until the Fall.
And yet there is STILL that free month of Netflix you could sign up for and watch them all. Sigh.
Sounds like a plan, Mister Sampo Sir. I’ve been wondering how y’all would handle the new season episodes so thanks for the info and of course for helping to keep our favorite cowtown puppet show alive. I truly think without all of yall’s hard work there would have been no successful Kickstarter and thus no season 11… so thanks!
We’ll miss you, mthead… but I’m seriously wondering why having to register for this site would cause anyone heartburn.
I like using the WDTs for the new eps, though I understand it might exclude some. Oh, but hey, waitaminit… Netflix offers a free month??!!?? Wow, thanks Mike “ex-genius” Kelley!!! ;-)
oh i dunno, it’s just “fin” by me! heh heh heh… (slamming on door; door busts in; quick heavy stomping; pummel-pummeling “oof!! ack!!”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoZ_eupjzYg
I’ve seen posts on various internet forums saying netflix offers some sort of free viewing period??? Can anyone confirm?
If true, I guess that would make it possible for people to watch all the Season 11 episodes for free!
I suspect you may be being sarcastic but just in case — yes, NetFlix not only offers a free month of service, they are actively promoting it this weekend due to The Return. Just go log in and take advantage of it (you can watch all the episodes during that month).
The other nice thing about NF is you can always pause your subscription at any time and resume at any time — so if you don’t happen to get them all watched no problem, just another $10 (or whatever version of sub you choose — I think mine is $15 per month) and you have one more month. Or take a break during the summer (we often do this). Or… whatever.
Um, you already can do that… See that image up there next to my name?
So I should get on some Netflix list and get repeated appeals to please sign up
after the free month period (and spend $$$ to buy a new tablet or computer—mine
has trouble with the “a” key :) ).
Ooh! Sign me up for that! (I don’t think so).
But I will buy some once they’re on dvds.
Uh, you DO know that you can get Netflix on Playstation, X-Box, Roku, AppleTV, or any Smart TV in the last seven years, sit in a more comfy living-room chair and not worry about your problem keyboard, do you?
Of course, there’s not as much else good on Netflix as there was in ’10, and can’t help you with the renewal appeals, but…
Please explain how, I’ve never figured out how to do it here. Thanks!
What universe do you live in?
You can sign up for Netflix or Blockbuster (when they were around) or ANYTHING and NOT get repeated emails or whatever asking you to reup. When I quit Netflix (after being a member for nearly 10 years) they never once sent me ONE SINGLE DAMN THING asking me to rejoin (which I finally did after we moved). You are completely paranoid but that’s okay — the rest of us get the goodness that you are too wimpy to receive.
As a 100% committed, diehard old media lover – one who ALWAYS buys physical media, and ONLY ever downloads IF THERE IS LITERALLY NO OTHER WAY TO ACCESS WHATEVER IT IS I’M INTERESTED IN VIEWING / PLAYING / LISTENING TO, let me just say:
If I can cross the hateful Digital Divide and sign up for Netflix (on my PS4) for the very first time in my life, if even I can do such a thing, I think just about anybody can. Well, assuming you own a TV or computer or something. Why someone would want to watch a movie on a computer, though, that’s beyond me… or worse, on a smart phone…
You don’t have to be angrily Luddite about Digital and Netflix to be a Physical supporter–Just keep the sense of perspective that crazy baby-and-bathwater studios don’t have, namely that one is for rental, one is for travel and one is for the permanent shelf, etc.
Nobody watches cable anymore, so subscription Netflix/Hulu has taken the place of weeknight channel-clicking, and I used to say “I’d never watch my free disk-code Ultraviolet movies unless I was stranded at an airport with my Wifi!”, upon which I was….stranded at an airport for nine hours with my iPad while coming home from vacation during last Feb.’s big Nor’easter. But if I buy a disk (like, ahem, certain Japanese MST3K movies whose rights might disappear any minute), I stay true to my disks.
Studios don’t actually use any of this themselves, so they don’t know why the rest of us do, and think One Has to Replace The Other (isn’t that silly?), because they’re afraid another MP3 or E-books will come along. The rest of us are adults, and we don’t use a hammer to fix a pipe, we don’t use a wrench to saw wood, and we don’t use YouTube to rent VOD movies.
Now, if those same crazy studios would stop starving the Netflix services, and let us actually watch something on it, rather than worry it’s going to “replace” VOD…
I don’t object to adding logins for commenters (it’s your site, you’re welcome to do what you want), but what makes it necessary? Has there been an increase in new, abusive posters that I haven’t seen? (…uh-oh…I’m not the new, abusive poster, am I?) Or is it just that you’re upgrading your CMS and that means a new comment framework?
I really dig EricJ urging us to keep a sense of perspective. ;-)
You from around here, boy?
I hope success doesn undo this website. I remember a guy that ran a Jessica Alba fan page years ago and When she was cast on “Dark Angel” the number of people visiting his site increased twentyfold. The costs of operation soared and it folded soon after.
Not sure why that would be the case but perhaps back then his hosts were charging by visitor? In any case, doesn’t matter if 10 or 10 million folks come to a site (my own used to have a million each week, and now is down to around that 10 — made no difference either way).