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Yes Virginia, There is a 2009 Turkey Day Marathon at IS

GersonK — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:25:34 +0000

It’ll just be a four day affair, Thanksgiving to Sunday. As usual, there’ll be screengrabs from the original versions of films that were featured on mst3k for everyone to come and riff on their own. You can see the list of movies here, but you’ll have to guess when your favorites are airing. I like the element of surprise. Sorry for not making a bigger production out of it, but (a) the kids at Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic have re-lit the torch sufficiently that I don’t feel as much of a need to keep it going and (b) because.

Turkey Week Wrapup

GersonK — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:09:37 +0000

Thanks to everyone who came and capped with us during our BYOTurkey Week festivities.

(word cloud of the captions made during Turkey Week, courtesy Wordle.)
I’m thinking of scaling things back next year to four or five days, which I know means some people may not be able to get to a computer during the festivities, but I hope will mean we’ll get more concentrated crowds and a more festive atmosphere.

And in other news, for those of you who’ve long wondered what the F in HanoverF is for, apparently it’s for Farm. I’m as surprised as you are.

Turkey Week – What Do You Think, Sirs?

GersonK — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:29:04 +0000

Well, Turkey Week is in full swing. Leave your thoughts about it for your fellow cappers and for your idiot webmaster.

Turkey Week Starts Tonight

GersonK — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:16:57 +0000

That’s right. At midnight. Come on down. I’m running it by the seat of my pants this year, so it’ll probably start with the premiere of The Wasp Woman, which got the Cineamtic Titanic treatment. Come on down.

Turkey Week

GersonK — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:11:38 +0000

There will be a Thanksgiving marathon this year. I’m just not hyping it as much. And the schedule won’t be out until later. But it’ll start 24 hours before Thanksgiving and last a week or so. It’ll be the usual assortment of stuff seen on mst.

Admit you’re coming over here.

Classic Thanksgiving Bumpers Coming to mst3k.com

GersonK — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:46:56 +0000

Since we’re busy preparing our own homage to the classic mst3k Turkey marathons, we’d be remiss if we didn’t point out that some of the special commercial bumpers from those very marathons will be showing in the videos section at the official site starting Monday 11/19 (until ?) along with (we think) a new Thanksgiving bit with those animated bot-like objects. Word on the street is that those cartoons should start showing improvement any episode now.

Turkey Day Schedule Released

GersonK — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 03:44:06 +0000

Here’s when you can see your favorite movies during the Turkey week festivities It all weighs in at just over seven days, showing most items twice.

I’ve added two more “new” movies, Ring of Terror and Gamera. It’s not exactly the same version of Gamera the Brains used, General Curly Joe’s not in there, but close enough by my standards. I’ve also got fresh grabs for Master Ninja I and First Spaceship to Venus.

I’ve got two more new movies that’ll be surprises during the marathon, they’re listed as “Mystery Box” on the schedule, and I’m going to try to add new grabs for a few more movies.

Turkey Day Video

GersonK — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:58:40 +0000

Once again, rather than work on the grabs for the Turkey Week marathon I’ve made another video promo that probably won’t attract new cappers. This time reflecting on what we as msties, have to be thankful for:

Help see if it appeals to the non-capper msties out there by taking it down and passing it around.

Rocky! Winky! Fun!

GersonK — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:43:51 +0000

From the newest addition to this year’s Turkey Week festivities, it’s everybody’s favorite dorky space sidekick, Winky, with his lullaby Sleepy Little Fella (drowsy little dame not included):

This is of course from episode 413’s Manhunt in Space, the first of two Rocky Jones telemovies the gang riffed. In addition to giving us both “Rockies” in our lineup, it also creates a run of 10 straight features from the middle of season 4. I hope to have a tentative schedule released in the next couple of days, but since Thanksgiving seems to have crept up on me this year, I’m still buy getting the screengrabs that determine the final timing of the whole festivities. But do tell your friends that it’ll be running from the Tuesday November 21st, 8 PM eastern until the 28th.

You had to be the High School Big Shot, didn’t you?

GersonK — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 02:24:31 +0000

It’s that time of year again! Time for me to start plugging away for the upcoming 5th Anniversary Inventing Situations Bake Your Own Turkey Week tv juniors presented by food. Our first official addition is High School Big Shot, starring Tom Pittman as a crazy mixed up kid sharing a dank dank apartment with his even danker dad. I’ve got a few more movies on hand to add, and I’m still scouring the net and the discount bins. Even so, I’m reaching the point where most of the mstied movies I don’t have in the collection are either still under copyright or really tough to find. Based on that and the results (so far) of this poll:

Our sixth Turkey Day/Week event is approaching, should I:

most of the additions this year will be in the form of new grabs for old favorites.