Turkey Day 2024 Announcement

[ageekyguy]

Turkey Day is officially happening once again this year and it looks like they're making up for last year's.
It's an all-star pot luck extravaganza.

Here's the trailer: https://youtu.be/2UYl7lnvjY4?si=fD9s-bbABlSfTJih

Here's the full schedule (all times ET / PT):
5am / 2am: The Killer Shrews [Emily Marsh]
7am / 4am: Overdrawn at the Memory Bank [Kumail Nanjiani]
9am / 6am: Werewolf [Bryan Fuller]
11am / 8am: The Castle of Fu-Manchu [Matthew Lillard]
1pm / 10am: Space Mutiny [Mary Jo Pehl]
3pm / 12pm: Hobgoblins [Mike Flanagan]
5pm / 2pm: Samson vs The Vampire Women [David Dastmalchian]
7pm / 4pm: Gamera vs Jiger [Mark Hamill]
9pm / 6pm: The Final Sacrifice [Joel Hodgson]
11pm / 8pm: Manos: The Hands of Fate [Felicia Day]
1am / 10pm: The Mask [Jonah Ray]

[Chad Pigeon]

Turkey Day is officially happening once again this year and it looks like they're making up for last year's.
It's an all-star pot luck extravaganza.

Here's the trailer: https://youtu.be/2UYl7lnvjY4?si=fD9s-bbABlSfTJih

Here's the full schedule (all times ET / PT):
5am / 2am: The Killer Shrews [Emily Marsh]
7am / 4am: Overdrawn at the Memory Bank [Kumail Nanjiani]
9am / 6am: Werewolf [Bryan Fuller]
11am / 8am: The Castle of Fu-Manchu [Matthew Lillard]
1pm / 10am: Space Mutiny [Mary Jo Pehl]
3pm / 12pm: Hobgoblins [Mike Flanagan]
5pm / 2pm: Samson vs The Vampire Women [David Dastmalchian]
7pm / 4pm: Gamera vs Jiger [Mark Hamill]
9pm / 6pm: The Final Sacrifice [Joel Hodgson]
11pm / 8pm: Manos: The Hands of Fate [Felicia Day]
1am / 10pm: The Mask [Jonah Ray]

Pretty darn good line up... other than the Castle of Fu-Manchu... Even hardcore fans hate that episode. 

Still top tier Mike episodes and a few decent Joel era/nu-MST3k ones so good show sirs.

[ageekyguy]

Turkey Day is officially happening once again this year and it looks like they're making up for last year's.
It's an all-star pot luck extravaganza.

Here's the trailer: https://youtu.be/2UYl7lnvjY4?si=fD9s-bbABlSfTJih

Here's the full schedule (all times ET / PT):
5am / 2am: The Killer Shrews [Emily Marsh]
7am / 4am: Overdrawn at the Memory Bank [Kumail Nanjiani]
9am / 6am: Werewolf [Bryan Fuller]
11am / 8am: The Castle of Fu-Manchu [Matthew Lillard]
1pm / 10am: Space Mutiny [Mary Jo Pehl]
3pm / 12pm: Hobgoblins [Mike Flanagan]
5pm / 2pm: Samson vs The Vampire Women [David Dastmalchian]
7pm / 4pm: Gamera vs Jiger [Mark Hamill]
9pm / 6pm: The Final Sacrifice [Joel Hodgson]
11pm / 8pm: Manos: The Hands of Fate [Felicia Day]
1am / 10pm: The Mask [Jonah Ray]

Pretty darn good line up... other than the Castle of Fu-Manchu... Even hardcore fans hate that episode. 

Still top tier Mike episodes and a few decent Joel era/nu-MST3k ones so good show sirs.

Not to mention Final Sacrifice actually showing up, which is a pretty big deal.

[ageekyguy]

Any chance anyone nabbed the episode introductions from this?

[RowsdowerRevenge]

Yeah who watched this, what did you think?

[JackKnight94]

Yeah who watched this, what did you think?

I watched most of it...meaning I had it on in the background during most of the day, periodically paying attention to it. This might be a controversial thing to say, but nowadays, Turkey Day feels less special to me, and I think I just put it on out of a sense of obligation/tradition/habit. Turkey Day was a really cool annual thing back in the early days of MST, when the episodes were less easily available to all of us and you had more reason to be excited about a favorite being replayed. But nowadays, when most of us have all these episodes at the ready anytime, and have probably already watched them dozens of times, it's obviously less meaningful. For that reason, I wish the MST crew would put a bit more effort into making the day something more. Some more original content, such as new skits with the hosts and bots (they did this a few years ago, and I remember it being pretty fun). The celeb intros was a cool idea this year, and I generally enjoyed them, but they were also super brief. It might have been cool to cut into the episodes a few times with additional thoughts and comments from each celeb. Look, I get that there's probably no financial reason or motivation for the MST crew to put a huge level of effort into brand new material for Turkey Day, but still, I just have to be honest - I'd be more jazzed if it always felt like we were getting more original elements, like a new riffed short every year or something.

[ageekyguy]

Yeah who watched this, what did you think?

I watched most of it...meaning I had it on in the background during most of the day, periodically paying attention to it. This might be a controversial thing to say, but nowadays, Turkey Day feels less special to me, and I think I just put it on out of a sense of obligation/tradition/habit. Turkey Day was a really cool annual thing back in the early days of MST, when the episodes were less easily available to all of us and you had more reason to be excited about a favorite being replayed. But nowadays, when most of us have all these episodes at the ready anytime, and have probably already watched them dozens of times, it's obviously less meaningful. For that reason, I wish the MST crew would put a bit more effort into making the day something more. Some more original content, such as new skits with the hosts and bots (they did this a few years ago, and I remember it being pretty fun). The celeb intros was a cool idea this year, and I generally enjoyed them, but they were also super brief. It might have been cool to cut into the episodes a few times with additional thoughts and comments from each celeb. Look, I get that there's probably no financial reason or motivation for the MST crew to put a huge level of effort into brand new material for Turkey Day, but still, I just have to be honest - I'd be more jazzed if it always felt like we were getting more original elements, like a new riffed short every year or something.

At least they weren't asking for money or plugging the live tour this year. 

The few intros I saw I thought were great. I do agree that Turkey Day is a bit less special with the show being so accessible these days, but I'm glad they still do a little something out of tradition. 

I don't see them doing more of a full production again unless it's alongside a new kickstarter.