MST3K Goodness

I have been anxiously awaiting the chance to buy the single DVD disk of "Giant Gila Monster" from the Mystery Science Theater 3000 series. See, what happened was that after their 10th box set was released, there was a rights issue regarding the Godzilla movie contained therein. Rhino pulled the title, removed Godzilla from the collection, threw Giant Gila Monster in its place (thus making the giant lizard on the cover relevant again) and re-released it as MST3K Volume 10.2. But for those of us who don't want to purchase the 10th volume all over again, we were told that you could also purchase Gila Monster separately. After months of waiting, I googled it only to find that it is only available direct from Rhino, and for a limited time, and I may have missed it. Wah. (I was looking forward to hearing one of my favorite riffs again: "Looks like Larry Miller's traveling hot tub.")

My hunting tonight also revealed some great news: after 7 years, the Mystery Science Theater 3000 Movie has finally been put back in print.

Oh, and TV's Frank has a new job on a web-based mini TV series called "The Writer's Room". It's about the writers for a late night show hosted by Kevin Pollak. One of the running gags is that Kevin calls the writers on a speakerphone and bores them with his impressions. Here's one of the five episodes: