Completely Random Thoughts

[RVR II]

There must be close to 270 shorts now, I've got over 260 and haven't gotten around to buying the last few releases.

28 Volumes at 8 shorts each
+ Batman Serials (15)
+ Balloonland
= 240

What am I missing

I just had the post after MartyS's with the listing of the 243 in it to compare if you want.

I think there's a Bonus Shorts disc Bob made from the first Kickstarter a couple years back I believe

Oh, and 4 recent shorts for the future Vol. 29 disc

[MartyS (Gromit)]

I had some duplicates in my folder (HD and SD), and ballonland, so I've got 244 shorts bought, and at least 2 I haven't.  They used to split the longer shorts, so for unique titles 243 might be the correct number.

[RVR II]

I had some duplicates in my folder (HD and SD), and ballonland, so I've got 244 shorts bought, and at least 2 I haven't.  They used to split the longer shorts, so for unique titles 243 might be the correct number.

Ok cause I've purchased every single short available so that seems about right

[LucasM]

I had some duplicates in my folder (HD and SD), and ballonland, so I've got 244 shorts bought, and at least 2 I haven't.  They used to split the longer shorts, so for unique titles 243 might be the correct number.

I have the four 2-parters as the separate releases they were [s055 What It Means To Be An American - Part 1, s056 The Case of Tommy Tucker - Part 1, s057 What It Means To Be An American - Part 2, s058 The Case of Tommy Tucker - Part 2].  But I've checked my list against the catalog a couple times when updating (re-checked everything from the first Batman-on tonight), and still only end up with 243.

Could you possibly have duplicate copies with different names?  [e.g. "Such-and-Such" and "The Such-and-Such"]  Either that, or somehow in repeated scouring the listings I missed two of them (because the catalog itself only even says 245 shorts).  [That is not unheard of, I just would hope I've not been in such bad shape that I repeatedly missed the same two shorts.]

[MartyS (Gromit)]

Were all of the kickstarter shorts released for sale?  I thought there might be one or 2 that were not.
And those few specials they did that were short, "90s internet movies" etc, are you including those?

[RVR II]

Were all of the kickstarter shorts released for sale?  I thought there might be one or 2 that were not.

Hmm I'm not sure

And those few specials they did that were short, "90s internet movies" etc, are you including those?

I don't think I ever got those, and I didn't included them in my calculations

[RVR II]

I had some duplicates in my folder (HD and SD), and ballonland, so I've got 244 shorts bought, and at least 2 I haven't.  They used to split the longer shorts, so for unique titles 243 might be the correct number.

The very first short "Signal 30" the 3 minute demo is no longer available..
Was that included on the list Cause I still count 244

[MartyS (Gromit)]

Looking at the catalog they don't list those specials in with the shorts, and I seem to have missed the puppets one that came out a while back.  So there are 4 I haven't bought, so I must have 1 extra duplicate somewhere I'm not seeing in my folder.  And I'm not going to try and find it, my ears are still in pain from all the screaming kids at the observatory earlier this evening, so I'm going to have a drink and watch some more MASH episodes on Netflix (I'm getting close to having rewatched that entire series, has to be the only one to have that many episodes and not any bad ones)

And no, I wasn't including the signal 30 demo.

Later...

Oh, they do list that Nestor Christmas show as a short, are you including that in your list?

[LucasM]

Hmm... back some time ago (at least two years, probably closer to three or four, I forget what it was for, I think a List of Crap) I think it was Conor posted in that thread the official listing of RiffTrax to that point.  At the time it came out I had everything with matching numbers (and was pleased I didn't have to rename a bunch of MP3s and JPGs to fix the sequence).  At that time Nestor was in with the 'features' rather than the shorts.  That was likely because it was not available as a VOD (apparently it is now available as a VOD).

So if they changed its category from being a 'regular' RiffTrax to a 'short', then the newest three features will only bring the total of those to 199, and it will bring the total shorts up to 244.  But at this point no way in hell am I renumbering all the ones I have to match Nestor's transition.

For further checks by anyone (if anyone cares) here's the listings of each I had posted earlier:

...total number of RiffTrax (not counting the RiffTrax Presents)....

EDIT:  Full numbered listing inside spoiler (for size).
001 Road House
002 The Fifth Element
003 Star Trek V - The Final Frontier
004 Cocktail
005 xXx
006 Crossroads
007 X-Men [1]
008 Top Gun
009 Point Break
010 Halloween
011 The Matrix [1]
012 Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace
013 The Grudge
014 Lord of the Rings [1] - Fellowship of the Ring
015 The Island of Dr Moreau
016 Firewall
017 Nestor the Long Eared Donkey
018 Reign of Fire
019 Daredevil
020 Battlefield Earth
021 Troll 2
022 Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country
023 Over the Top
024 Aeon Flux
025 The Wicker Man
026 Terminator 3- Rise of the Machines
027 Lost
028 Star Wars Episode II - Attack of the Clones
029 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
030 Casino Royale
031 Eragon
032 Glitter
033 Predator
034 Grey's Anatomy
035 Fantastic Four
036 Star Trek Generations
037 300
038 The Bourne Identity - SMALL
039 Independence Day
040 Heroes
041 Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
042 Raiders of the Lost Ark
043 Spider-Man
044 Next - SMALL
045 Missile to the Moon
046 Transformers
047 Harry Potter [1] and the Sorcerer's Stone
048 Star Wars Holiday Special
049 Fantastic Four Rise Of The Silver Surfer
050 Plan 9 From Outer Space - 3 riffers
051 Batman and Robin
052 Jurassic Park
053 The Matrix [2] Reloaded
054 Beowulf
055 Spider-man 3
056 Cloverfield
057 I Am Legend
057,1-Presents Star Trek New Voyages 3 - World Enough and Time
057,2-Presents Saw
058 Lord of the Rings [2] - The Two Towers
058,1-Presents Star Trek New Voyages 2 - To Serve All My Days
058,2-Presents The X Files - Fight the Future
058,3-Presents Alien
059 The Sixth Sense
060 Harry Potter [2] and the Chamber of Secrets
061 Memento
062 Ocean's Eleven
062,1-Presents Spider-Man 2
063 Pirates of the Caribbean [1] - The Curse of the Black Pearl
063,1-Presents The Day After Tomorrow
064 Iron Man
065 The Incredible Hulk - Final Round
066 The Happening
067 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
068 X-Men [2] - X2- X-Men United
069 The Dark Knight
070 Harry Potter [3] and the Prisoner of Azkaban
071 Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope
072 Reefer Madness - MKB
073 Little Shop of Horrors - MKB
074 House on Haunted Hill - MKB
075 Night of the Living Dead - MKB
[075,1 Missile to the Moon - MKB ver w same script as 045]
076 Jaws
077 Carnival Of Souls - MKB
078 Swing Parade
079 Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
080 Twilight
081 Planet of Dinosaurs
082 Casablanca
083 Voodoo Man
084 The Room
085 Red Dawn
086 Fast & Furious
087 The Matrix [3] Revolutions
088 Dragon Wars D-War
089 Transformers [2] Revenge of the Fallen
090 Titanic
091 Star Trek ['09]
092 Maniac
093 Drag Me To Hell
094 Star Wars Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
095 Terminator Salvation
096 Paranormal Activity
097 Twilight [2] New Moon
098 Avatar
099 Harry Potter [4] and the Goblet of Fire
100 Lord of the Rings [3] The Return of the King
101 The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
102 High School Musical
103 Clash of the Titans
104 The Last Airbender
105 Twilight [3] Eclipse
106 Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny
107 Inception
108 Harry Potter [5] and the Order of the Phoenix
109 Birdemic Shock and Terror
110 Highlander
111 Karate Kid 3
112 Star Trek 2 The Wrath of Khan
113 Crater Lake Monster
114 The Devil's Hand
115 X-Men [3]- The Last Stand
116 The Galaxy Invader
117 Abraxas
118 THOR
119 Laser Mission
120 Harry Potter [6] and the Half-Blood Prince
121 The Sons of Hercules- Land of Darkness
122 Warriors Of the Wasteland
123 Buffalo Rider
124 Transformers [3] Dark of the Moon
125 Magic Christmas Tree [Christmas With RiffTrax]
126 Captain America
127 Ghost House
128 Rise of the Planet of the Apes
129 Twilight [4] Breaking Dawn Pt 1
130 Frankenstein Island
131 Mesa of Lost Women
132 Curse of Bigfoot
133 Mutant
134 Prisoners of the Lost Universe
135 Brainiac
136 Bloody Pit of Horror
137 Future Force
138 Neutron the Atomic Superman vs the Death Robots
139 The Revenge of Doctor X
140 The Bermuda Triangle
141 The Hunger Games
142 The Guy From Harlem
143 Future Zone
144 Nightmare at Noon
145 Tourist Trap
146 Santa's Village of Madness
147 The Avengers
148 McBain
149 When A Stranger Calls Back
150 Cool As Ice
151 Twilight [5] Breaking Dawn Pt 2
152 Breaker Breaker
153 Viva Knievel!
154 The Apple
155 Kingdom Of the Spiders
156 Psycho II
157 Dr Who and the Daleks
158 Firehead
159 Fangs of the Living Dead
160 Silent Rage
161 Starship Troopers
162 Supersonic Man
163 Harry Potter [7] and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
164 Swamp of the Ravens
165 Dr Who Daleks-Invasion Earth 2150 AD
166 Treasure of the Amazon
167 Wizard Of Oz, The
168 Night Of The Lepus
169 Cyborg Cop 2
170 Terror at Tenkiller
171 Super Mario Bros
172 Fist Of Fury
173 Sisters Of Death
174 Attack of the Puppet People
175 City Of The Dead
176 Zindy the Swamp Boy
177 The Bride and the Beast
178 Jack the Giant Killer
179 Yambao
180 The Last Slumber Party
181 The Beast of the Yellow Night
182 Dinosaurus
183 The Sword and the Sorcerer
184 ROTOR
185 Hawk the Slayer
186 Fun In Balloon Land
187 Godzilla (1998)
188 Wonder Women
189 The Dark Power
190 Kiss of the Tarantula
191 Alien Outlaw
192 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
193 Anaconda
194 The Hideous Sun Demon
195 The Incredible 2 Headed Transplant
196 Radical Jack
197 To Catch A Yeti
198 Rock N Roll Nightmare

...here's a numbered list of the 243 shorts:
s001 A Visit To Santa
s002 Act Your Age
s003 Beginning Responsibility - Lunchroom Manners
s004 The Terrible Truth
s005 Why Doesn't Cathy Eat Breakfast  &  Petaluma Chicken
s006 Coffee House Rendezvous
s007 Safety - Harm Hides At Home
s008 Are You Popular
s009 If Mirrors Could Speak
s010 One Got Fat
s011 Drugs Are Like That
s012 Down and Out
s013 Patriotism
s014 Skipper Learns A Lesson
s015 Buying Food
s016 Right or Wrong
s017 The Trouble With Women
s018 It Must Be the Neighbors
s019 Each Child Is Different
s020 Kitty Cleans Up
s021 Why Vandalism
s022 Aqua Frolics
s023 Good Health Practices
s024 Good Eating Habits
s025 Know For Sure
s026 Christmas Toyshop
s027 Shy Guy
s028 Self-Conscious Guy
s029 Overcoming Fear
s030 Playing Together
s031 How Much Affection
s032 Your Chance to Live- Technological Failures
s033 Understanding Your Ideals
s034 As We Like It
s035 Going Steady
s036 Carnivorous Plants
s037 You And Your Family
s038 Primary Safety In the School Building
s039 Damaged Goods
s040 Cooking Terms
s041 What About Juvenile Delinquency
s042 Snap Out Of It!
s043 Toward Emotional Maturity
s044 Alcohol Trigger Films
s045 Back to School with Joan Miller
s046 Highway Mania
s047 The Bill of Rights In Action
s048 Shake Hands With Danger
s049 Wing Claw and Fang!
s050 The Tale of Moose Baby
s051 Flying Stewardess
s052 Constance Bennett's Daily Beauty Rituals
s053 Teenagers On Trial
s054 Cork - Crashes & Curiosities
s055 What It Means To Be An American - Part 1
s056 The Case of Tommy Tucker - Part 1
s057 What It Means To Be An American - Part 2
s058 The Case of Tommy Tucker - Part 2
s059 Women In Blue
s060 A Circus Wakes Up
s061 American Thrift - Part 1
s062 Call It Free - Part 1
s063 Christmas Rhapsody
s064 Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
s065 Christmas Dream
s066 The Night Before Christmas
s067 Three Magic Words
s068 Parade of Aquatic Champions
s069 American Thrift - Part 2
s070 Molly Grows Up
s071 Call It Free - Part 2
s072 Story of A Teenage Drug Addict
s073 The Following Instructions Game
s074 Little Lost Scent
s075 An Aquarium In Action
s076 Mr Moto Takes A Walk
s077 Seat Belts The Life Saving Habit
s078 Drawing for Beginners The Rectangle
s079 Kittens Birth and Growth
s080 Reading Who Needs It
s081 Families Food and Eating
s082 Summer Is An Adventure
s083 Beginning Responsibility Taking Care of Your Own Things
s084 Reading Growth Basic Skills
s085 Geography of Your Community
s086 The Parts of Speech
s087 Watch Out For My Plant
s088 Values The Right Thing to Do
s089 Family Teamwork
s090 Pearl of the Orient
s091 Individual Differences
s092 Whatever the Weather
s093 Building Better Paragraphs
s094 Are People All the Same
s095 Mealtime Manners and Health
s096 Things Are Different Now
s097 William's Doll
s098 Decisions Decisions
s099 Library World
s100 Fad Diet Circus
s101 More Dangerous Than Dynamite
s102 Alone At Home
s103 Telephone For Help
s104 What If We Had A Fire
s105 Seven Little Ducks
s106 Cops Who Needs Them
s107 You Can Do Something About Acne
s108 Safe Living At School
s109 Behavior of Domestic-Pigs In A Semi-Natural Pig-Park
s110 Monkey See, Monkey Do Verbs
s111 Don't Be A Bloody Idiot
s112 Magical Disappearing Money
s113 Values- Understanding Ourselves
s114 The Calendar- How To Use It
s115 Unto the Least of These
s116 Santa Claus' Punch and Judy
s117 Courtesy A Good Eggsample
s118 The Being On Time Game
s119 Basic Job Skills Handling Daily Problems
s120 Courtesy Counts A Lot!
s121 Remember Me
s122 Walking To School
s123 Improve Your Pronunciation
s124 Basic Job Skills Dealing With Customers
s125 The ABC of Walking Wisely
s126 Vision In The Forest
s127 A Badger's Bad Day
s128 Families Earning and Spending
s129 Kangaroos
s130 The Red Hen
s131 Tooth Truth With Harv and Marv
s132 County Fair
s133 Prickly the Porcupine
s134 The Mysterious Message
s135 Beginning Responsibility- Being A Good Sport
s136 Animal Homes
s137 Beginning Responsibility- Getting Ready For School
s138 Adventures of A Chipmunk Family
s139 Billy's Helicopter Ride
s140 Paper and I
s141 Aesop's Sound Fables- Frozen Frolics
s142 At Your Fingertips- Grasses
s143 At Your Fingertips- Boxes
s144 Borrowed Power
s145 Eggs To Market
s146 A Boy of Mexico- Juan and His Donkey
s147 One Turkey, Two Turkey
s148 We Discover the Dictionary
s149 What Is Nothing
s150 Feelings- I'm Feeling Alone
s151 Setting Up A Room
s152 Join Hands, Let Go!
s153 The Creeps Machine
s154 Boy of India Rama and His Elephant
s155 What Are Letters For
s156 Making Sense With Sentences
s157 Jobs in Cosmetology
s158 What Makes Things Float
s159 Let's Pretend Magic Sneakers
s160 Beginning Responsibility The Broken Book Shop
s161 Corky the Crow
s162 Reading From Now On
s163 Friends
s164 The Lemonade Stand What's Fair
s165 The Clean Club
s166 David and Hazel A Story in Communication
s167 Sailing A Toy Boat
s168 Alcohol
s169 Cooks & Chefs
s170 Danger Keep Out!
s171 The Fish That Nearly Drowned
s172 Nutrition The All-American Meal
s173 The Toymaker
s174 Dinosaurs The Age of the Terrible Lizard
s175 Farm Babies and Their Mothers
s176 Jimmy of the Safety Patrol
s177 Joy Ride
s178 Love That Car!
s179 The Hare and the Tortoise
s180 Get That Job
s181 Perc! Pop! Sprinkle!
s182 Choking To Save A Life
s183 Tic Toc Time Clock
s184 Say No To Strangers!
s185 Live And Learn
s186 Safety With Animals
s187 Ten Long Minutes
s188 Ghost Rider
s189 The Other Fellow's Feelings
s190 The Day I Died
s191 Story-telling Can You Tell It in Order
s192 Maintaining Classroom Discipline
s193 RescueMan
s194 Goodbye, Weeds
s195 When Should Grown-Ups Stop Fights
s196 Batman Serial 01-Batman Takes Over
s197 You're The Judge
s198 Batman Serial 02-Tunnel of Terror
s199 Batman Serial 03-Robin's Wild Ride
s200 Batman Serial 04-Batman Trapped
s201 Norman Krasner
s202 Norman Checks In
s203 Welcome Back Norman
s204 Batman Serial 05-Robin Rescues Batman
s205 Mr B Natural
s206 A Trip To the Moon
s207 Batman Serial 06-Batman Target Robin
s208 Batman Serial 07-Batman Fatal Blast
s209 Safety Woman in Danger Out of Doors
s210 Batman Serial 08-Robin Meets the Wizard
s211 This Is Hormel
s212 Batman Serial 09-The Wizard Strikes Back
s213 Norman Gives a Speech
s214 How to Keep A Job
s215 Health Your Posture
s216 Writing Better Social Letters
s217 At Your Fingertips Cylinders
s218 Fashion Horizons
s219 Batman Serial 10-Batman's Last Chance
s220 Color It Clean
s221 Batman Serial 11-Robin's Ruse
s222 Read On! From Left to Right
s223 Clean and Neat with Harv and Marv
s224 Willie Whistle
s225 Batman Serial 12-Robin Rides the Wind
s226 Flying Saucer Mystery
s227 Batman Serial 13-The Wizard's Challenge
s228 Batman Serial 14-Batman Vs the Wizard
s229 Batman Serial 15-Batman Victorious
s230 Rediscovery Puppets
s231 A Case of Spring Fever
s232 Warty the Toad
s233 At Your Fingertips Play Clay
s234 The Frustrating Fours and Fascinating Fives
s235 Zlateh the Goat
s236 Santa and the Fairy Snow Queen
s237 Behave Bernard
s238 Duck and Cover
s239 Getting Angry [PosterB]
s240 Study Skills- Verbal Communication Made Easy
s241 Starting School
s242 With An All-Star Cast
s243 The Myths of Shoplifting

[MartyS (Gromit)]

 Nestor and SF Sketchfest 2015 make 245 VODs, so those are the 2 extras on the catalog webpage...

I was numbering my files, but when it got to be around 200 I started to want to list alphabetically to find certain ones easier so took out all the numbers...

[LucasM]

Nestor and SF Sketchfest 2015 make 245 VODs, so those are the 2 extras on the catalog webpage...

I was numbering my files, but when it got to be around 200 I started to want to list alphabetically to find certain ones easier so took out all the numbers...

Interesting... I find it easier to find them based on 'relative age' (possibly because I don't always remember the titles).

And you're right, the Sketchfest shorts are what make up the difference.  So I was only a 'Nestor' off (in both lists), apparently.

[ScottotD]

I remain confused about Americans issues with Temple of Doom

[Miku Fan]

I'm pretty sure that movie made a gazillion and five dollars in the U.S.A.
It was well liked, and the only issue people had was, "How fast can i get to this movie and hand Harrison Ford my money?"

[RoninFox]

Just the need for any series to have a "worst one" to complain about I guess. Thus I've noticed complaints about Temple of Doom fall off drastically after Crystal Skull came out the same way complaints about Return of the Jedi fell off after the prequels started.

Personally, Temple of Doom is the first Indy I can remember watching as a kid and so its the reason I like the character.

[Pak-Man]

I know some people have an aversion to Willie and Short Round. If you can get over the sidekicks, though, it's a fantastic movie. I can't think of a better action set piece in the whole series than the mine cart chase.