From what I'm seeing, two of the first things released with the RiffTrax name are The Three Stooges in Color as well as The Three Stooges' Greatest Routines.
Sep 18, 2021, 18:25 pm (This post was last modified: Sep 18, 2021, 18:27 pm by BadFilms. Edited 2 times in total.)
That's incorrect. Those were actually officially guest appearances by The Film Crew instead of Rifftrax on some Legend Films DVD releases. Rifftrax was never mentioned and it definitely shouldn't appear on a wiki.
And there was no riffing. They just did some live introductions and an intermission where they talked and did skit-y stuff back during the days that they were trying to get The Film Crew going, before Legend Films recruited Mike to do the commentary tracks on their colorized DVDs (Night Of The Living Dead, Plan 9, Carnival Of Souls, etc.), which led to the formation of Rifftrax.
(I used to have the DVD rips of it up here, but it must have been on a Mega account that got taken down.)
(Sep 18, 2021, 18:25 pm)BadFilms Wrote: That's incorrect. Those were actually officially guest appearances by The Film Crew instead of Rifftrax on some Legend Films DVD releases. Rifftrax was never mentioned and it definitely shouldn't appear on a wiki.
And there was no riffing. They just did some live introductions and an intermission where they talked and did skit-y stuff back during the days that they were trying to get The Film Crew going, before Legend Films recruited Mike to do the commentary tracks on their colorized DVDs (Night Of The Living Dead, Plan 9, Carnival Of Souls, etc.), which led to the formation of Rifftrax.
(I used to have the DVD rips of it up here, but it must have been on a Mega account that got taken down.)
Well, it did have them do guest appearances so technically it counts, right?
Sep 18, 2021, 19:05 pm (This post was last modified: Sep 18, 2021, 19:08 pm by BadFilms. Edited 2 times in total.)
(Sep 18, 2021, 18:56 pm)JusSonic Wrote:
(Sep 18, 2021, 18:25 pm)BadFilms Wrote: That's incorrect. Those were actually officially guest appearances by The Film Crew instead of Rifftrax on some Legend Films DVD releases. Rifftrax was never mentioned and it definitely shouldn't appear on a wiki.
And there was no riffing. They just did some live introductions and an intermission where they talked and did skit-y stuff back during the days that they were trying to get The Film Crew going, before Legend Films recruited Mike to do the commentary tracks on their colorized DVDs (Night Of The Living Dead, Plan 9, Carnival Of Souls, etc.), which led to the formation of Rifftrax.
(I used to have the DVD rips of it up here, but it must have been on a Mega account that got taken down.)
Well, it did have them do guest appearances so technically it counts, right?
It came out well before Rifftrax. If it counted, so would the Film Crew DVDs. And all of MST3K.
Also, it lists them as "full length VOD films" and "pre-synchronized video files", which is completely untrue, as the two things listed aren't riffed at all. Nor were they ever for sale on the Rifftrax site, which it also states.
(Sep 18, 2021, 18:25 pm)BadFilms Wrote: That's incorrect. Those were actually officially guest appearances by The Film Crew instead of Rifftrax on some Legend Films DVD releases. Rifftrax was never mentioned and it definitely shouldn't appear on a wiki.
And there was no riffing. They just did some live introductions and an intermission where they talked and did skit-y stuff back during the days that they were trying to get The Film Crew going, before Legend Films recruited Mike to do the commentary tracks on their colorized DVDs (Night Of The Living Dead, Plan 9, Carnival Of Souls, etc.), which led to the formation of Rifftrax.
(I used to have the DVD rips of it up here, but it must have been on a Mega account that got taken down.)
Well, it did have them do guest appearances so technically it counts, right?
It came out well before Rifftrax. If it counted, so would the Film Crew DVDs. And all of MST3K.
Also, it lists them as "full length VOD films" and "pre-synchronized video files", which is completely untrue, as the two things listed aren't riffed at all. Nor were they ever for sale on the Rifftrax site, which it also states.
Got it, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the clarification!
