This was the Christmas of DVDs, and I do mean a whole lotta DVDs, and the DVDs are the reason I haven't been online since late Christmas Eve, or early Christmas morning, depending on how you look at it. When we haven't had company, or been out visiting, or volunteering at Antietam (seven hours on Saturday for me) we've been having one giant Holly Jolly Butt-Numb-A-Thon! Oh we exchanged other gifts besides DVDs, but DVDs were the bulk of the gift giving and receiving joy. Click the link below to read the breakdown with running times and what we've watched so far.
*From Larry and the lovely Anne we received Mystery Science Fiction Theater Volume 2. It contains two of our MST3K favorites, Cave Dwellers - which we watched with Larry and Anne - and Pod People. It's important to know that as a film, Pod People has nothing to do with pods and nothing to do with people, but everything to do with hurting. And how much O'Keefe is in Cave Dwellers? Miles O'Keefe! The volume also contains a collection of hilarious short subjects - such as Why Study Industrial Arts - and a film we've never seen, Angles Revenge. Total running time 380 minutes.
*Jenne gave me Buffy the Vampire Slayer Seasons 3 and 4. Total running time of 1060 minutes and 990 minutes respectively. That's a whole lotta Buffy... and Willow. Ummm Willow ahhhhhh. I haven't watched any Buffy yet.
*I also received The Simpsons season 3 and Futurama season 2. I have 552 and 437 minutes of animation hillarity to watch. We have already watched the first DVD in each collection. Season 3 of the Simpsons is when the series really took off and each episode is a jem.
* Close Encounters of the Third Kind Special Edition. I'll be watching all 137 minutes of alien and mashed-potato-mountain-sculpture goodness sometime this week. This film is one of my all time favorites. Ummmm mashed potatoes ahhhhhhh.
* From Ted and his generous Border's Books gift card I picked up the Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers extended edition. Watched all 223 minutes of this one last night, and I could watch it again. Now I need to follow it up with trip to The Senator for a third viewing of Return of the King.
* I gave Jenne season 2 of South Park. This 4-DVD collection equals 404 minutes of Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman. How many times do they kill Kenny? A whole fricking lot... you bastards!
* Jenne used her Borders gift card to pick up the Outer Limits Collection 1. This collection of classic TV SciFi runs twenty-seven hours and twenty two minutes! That's a lot of time for the control voice to control the vertical and horizontal! We haven't even cracked this one open yet.
* I gave Jenne the weirdest DVD of all. Ghostbusters Special Edition with a running time of 107 minutes. What's so weird about it? Well the package is marked Ghostbusters, the DVD has the Ghostbusters logo all over it, but the movie on the DVD is STEWART LITTLE! That's just fricking weird man! I guess we should call it StewartBusters or GhostLittle or some such nonsense. I've never had this happen with a DVD. Maybe it's actually a Twilight Zone DVD.
As you can see we have a whole lotta viewing and we've only just scratched the surface. Total running time of all of the above is 5954 minutes. That equals a seriously numbed butt. I'm gonna need more beer.
Oooooh, Season 2 of MST3K. I have Season 1, but would always love more, of course. ;) Sounds like you've got some great watching ahead of you.
Posted by: Christine on December 28, 2003 02:21 PMhttp://www.mst3kinfo.com/satnews/sched.html
Posted by: David on December 29, 2003 09:18 AMWhat do your cats do when you're watching all these dvd's? Do they love it and curl up with you to watch, or just curl up with you and sleep? My husband put one of his horror-of-war dvd's I got him for Christmas and piped it through the stereo. He said that between the sounds of the helicopters and the gunfire the dog didn't know what to do and eventually had a mini freak out and went to bed - in our bed. Eeww, dog hair! Talk about unintended consequences.
Posted by: lynn on December 29, 2003 05:49 PM