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MST3K?

posted 14 years ago by kelso102970-1
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Not sure if this is true,(if so it would've been the first animated feature on the show)it is what I heard from somewhere.
Before they were finished with (what ended up as) the second to last season of the show the Best Brains writing team had at least eight episodes in the planing stages that didn't get produced.
One of them was The Ragedy Ann and Andy Movie, however before the episode could get past the first draft, the show was canceled.
I'm not sure if it's true.
But, if it is do you think if produced the Ragedy Ann Episode wouldv'e been on par with "Manos:The Hands Of Fate"?

[–] Humphrey_Fish 14 years ago

No. There aren't enough "dramatic pauses" and "time-wasting landscape shots" to make comments well for this movie, heh.

Lets just say: I'd have to see it to believe it(...and to be honest, I really missed Trace's Crow persona in the later seasons, ).

[–] askmonroville 13 years ago

Well, there's always rifftrax.com. Maybe send them a request?

[–] marcusman48 12 years ago

No. Most of the MST3K offerings tend to be movies that are not only "bad" (and the jury is still out on whether RAGGEDY ANN & ANDY really is that terrible) but fairly obscure and unloved, which makes them easy to mock. I was surprised when they spoofed ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, which not only is a reasonably well-known film but was apparently popular enough to justify a sequel (ESCAPE FROM L.A.) 15 years later.

Besides that, the MST3K treatment works best with movies that are inherently "dark" or semi-serious in addition to being Z-grade material. Since RAGGEDY ANN & ANDY is already partly a comedy, it would just seem superfluous to poke fun at everything.

If MST3K had continued with more contemporary targets, I'd have seen them ridiculing vaguely absurd movies that took themselves VERY seriously, such as the films of Tim Burton or Sam Raimi.