[Note 11/22/6: We've been spending a lot of time running much more than 5 minutes off schedule. I have to jury-rig the system to be able to have items start and end at appointed times, and usually that rig works a little better than it does this year. First off, I will do my best to make sure the premieres (the stuff labeled as 'new') start. Second off, most of the stuff I've trimmed from the schedule to catch up, will replay starting late Sunday afternoon between the capper choice segments.]

[Edit 11/23/6: Happy Thanksgiving! I just adjusted the Turkey Week festivities. If all goes according to plan, items may start up to 5 minutes after the labeled time. If things don’t go according to plan, then you’re guess is as good as mine. There’ll be more repeats into the day on Sunday, but those are gonna be decided by poll and whim. All times eastern standard

Mon Nov 20th 12:00 AM 101 The Crawling Eye
Mon 1:10 AM 102 Radar Men From The Moon Chapter 1
Mon 1:45 AM 102 The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy
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Do you like stag films that could easily get a PG-13 rating? Maybe a PG? How about when they’re crossed with Lost, but minus the easy to follow plots and pesky intrigue? Do you wish Spider-Man wasn’t so chock full of heroics and believable science? Then have I got the movie for you! Horrors of Spider Island, as featured in mst3k #1011 is what I like to refer to as a really horrible awful terrible bad not at all good film. It’s the fourth out of five new to IS movies in this year’s Thanksgiving marathon.

Running at Wednesday the 22, 8:35 PM and Sunday the 26th, 2:35 AM.

[Edit 11/17: added links]

Poor Boris Karloff. This year his birthday would’ve fallen on Thanksgiving. Though, I suppose if you were to dig him up and put some bolts through his neck and shoot a few kajillion volts through him and bring him back to life, that overlap might be low on his list of concerns. Even if you didn’t do that, I suppose it still wouldn’t bother him too much right now. It is a concern for me, since I don’t want to shoehorn the celebrations into the Thanksgiving marathon, so I consulted the appropriate legislation (H.R. 5768X, Standard for Celebration of Boris Karloff’s Birthday) and saw that in such cases, it should be celebrated on the following Monday. So, come on by Inventing Situations Monday November 27th at 7 PM eastern, and join us for The Ape and The Terror.
Our more attentive readers might ask why it is I feel these little mockfests are appropriate ways to celebrate artistes’ birthdays while I didn’t feel one was the right way to mark Sid Davis’ death. Good question. I could give you a load of philosophical nonsense here, but the short answer is “because I do”.

Introducing our third (of five) “new” movies this year for Turkey Week: Hercules Unchained, as featured in mst3k episode 408. A few factoids on the film:

• This was the first of four Hercules movies featured on mst.
• This was the second of Steve Reeves‘ two turns as Herc.
• This is the last of the four to premiere on Inventing Situations. Hercules Against The Moon Men [410] and Hercules And The Captive Women [412] have been with us since the start of our turkey marathons and Hercules [502] premiered last year.

I had to remove the copy of Sylva Koscina singing “Evening Star” (the love theme from Hercules Unchained) to make room for the turkey week pictures, sorry. I left it as anexercise for the reader to create their own mash-up with this, The 5th Dimension’s (Last Night) I Didn’t Get To Sleep at All, and Gypsy’s mash-up of the two.

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Now that we’re done with all those campaign ads, here’s a little something I whipped up to promote the upcoming Thanksgiving festivities at IS:

Direct link to the video.

As the eagle eyed mstie will no doubt notice, all but one of these bits were also used as stingers, which sort of explains why the flow from clip to clip is not always as good as it could be. I leave it as an excercise for the viewer to identify what films these come from, which one wasn’t a stinger, which one is edited differently than the stinger version (this is simply how it appeared on the copy of the film I had), and what movie I lifted the audio from.

Please feel free to share this vid with any msties you want to turn onto capping.

[Edit 11/17: Links!]