Didn't Pet Sematary Teach Us Anything?
Fred Gwynne had it right when he said, in a ridiculous nor-eastern accent, that "sometimes dead is better." As a die-hard fan of MST3k (I have every episode, watch them a ridiculous amount, and I have a tattoo of the Gizmonics logo on my shoulder) I've tried to follow the former members of Best Brains in their post-show careers. I've bought their books and as a result of Rifftrax actually own copies of Wicker Man and Battlefield Earth. So when I got home last night and found this postcard in my mailbox I was actually pretty excited. I'd talked with Chris about the upcoming animated shorts and even though I'd expressed doubts, this little card ballooned the hope right up in me. Excited, I hurried upstairs and headed over to mst3k.com as soon as I got the chance.
What greeted me was this. What the heck is this? I don't know exactly what to make of it. For starters it makes my old computer ache and strain just to render it. If you click on videos it takes you to a couple clips from the series, which is nice. When you watch the actual animated short that things start to go downhill in a hurry.
Spoiler Alert! The "joke" here is that Crow is riding in a canoe and then he falls out of it when Tom rides by on a jetski. That's it. I just saved you 3 minutes. Use them well.Now that I've experienced the first salvo in the destruction of my favorite show I feel that, like Fred Gwynne, I too have had a deceased child spring out from under a bed, severing my tendon with a scalpel before slicing a slit across my wide, screaming mouth.
In a purely metaphorical sense.
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