The Four-Short Collection
Jul. 26th, 2014 03:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerAnother official DVD collection of Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes is about to come out, and that just happens to be right around when Shout! Factory always seems to announce the titles for the next collection. Going to Satellite News to see what the latest "weekend discussion" topic was, I just happened to see the official announcement, and it just so happened that in absorbing the titles I was just as caught by the sight of every episode including a short.
"Jungle Goddess" fills out the official coverage of the second season a bit more, and along with introducing George Reeves and "french-fried potatoes" to the show it also includes Bela Lugosi in the first chapter of "The Phantom Creeps." "The Painted Hills" features Lassie in something of a Western setting and leads off with "Body Care and Grooming." The psychological horror (or the Mystery Science Theater canon's version thereof) of "The Screaming Skull" also includes a Gumby short, and I'd heard before that "Robot Rumpus" would make it difficult for that episode to be licensed for DVD. "Squirm" and its masses of earthworms leads off the penultimate episode of the series with "A Case of Spring Fever" and "Coily, the spring sprite," someone who at least managed to get mentioned in late-period MSTings. The collection including two of the three shorts featured in the "Sci-Fi Channel years" of the show does get my attention.
"Jungle Goddess" fills out the official coverage of the second season a bit more, and along with introducing George Reeves and "french-fried potatoes" to the show it also includes Bela Lugosi in the first chapter of "The Phantom Creeps." "The Painted Hills" features Lassie in something of a Western setting and leads off with "Body Care and Grooming." The psychological horror (or the Mystery Science Theater canon's version thereof) of "The Screaming Skull" also includes a Gumby short, and I'd heard before that "Robot Rumpus" would make it difficult for that episode to be licensed for DVD. "Squirm" and its masses of earthworms leads off the penultimate episode of the series with "A Case of Spring Fever" and "Coily, the spring sprite," someone who at least managed to get mentioned in late-period MSTings. The collection including two of the three shorts featured in the "Sci-Fi Channel years" of the show does get my attention.