New Shorts DVD "Shorts to Astonish!" Now Available!

[Thrashalla]

http://www.rifftrax.com/dvds/shorts-astonish


See! two young boys descend into madness at their local library!

Shriek! as you encounter the menace of Fad Diets!

Learn! the three magic words to use when selecting pork!

Wonder! why anyone would possibly need to make a short film about that!

RiffTrax: Shorts to Astonish! contains nine of our most thrilling, remedial, hilarious shorts! From the existential crisis of Cops: Who Needs Them? to the powerful fire-related questions raised by What if We Had a Fire?, it's a super collection of laughs that you'll want to add to your collection!

Includes the shorts:

Alone at Home
Cops: Who Needs Them?
Fad Diet Circus
Library World
Telephone for Help
The Parts of Speech
Three Magic Words
What if We Had a Fire?
Safe Living at School
Plus! Three bonus shorts performed by Cole Stratton and Janet Varney:

Boy of Mexico
Borrowed Power
At Your Fingertips: Boxes


http://www.rifftrax.com/dvds/shorts-astonish

[Artie]

Hate to be "that guy", but will those Stratton/Varney shorts be available to purchase separately? 

[mairsil]

I'm going to go in the other direction and say that this is a bad precedent to set, as I couldn't care less about other performers. In this case, the S/V shorts really are bonus material over the standard 8 or 9, but I don't want to see "other" people's shorts start to push MKB shorts out of the way. And once again: DO MORE BLOCKBUSTER RIFFS!

[Thrashalla]

We're alive and doing better than ever, actually. Thanks for the advice though. (here and in the other thread) A lot of the public interaction happens on social media rather than the forum these days, most of it actually - and there is plenty of activity there. 

Artie: As of right now there are no plans to release those separately.

[mairsil]

We're alive and doing better than ever, actually.

I would disagree with that, but that is only my opinion. It's clear that many people are enjoying the return to MST3K-style movies, but there are many of us who still lament the loss of the style of movies which helped launch the "third-coming" of MKB (can't forget the Film Crew after-all) (and get your minds out of the gutter...).

[Edward J Grug III]

I am really excited to get some Janet and Cole riffed shorts - They are new scripts and not the same ones MKB did, yeah?

[X3 Beast]

And once again we get a repeated short on one of these collections. Which is a huge waste.

The Parts Of Speech was previously included on Order In The Shorts. Great quality control going on here.

[Edward J Grug III]

And once again we get a repeated short on one of these collections. Which is a huge waste.

The Parts Of Speech was previously included on Order In The Shorts. Great quality control going on here.

It's not listed here:

http://www.rifftrax.com/dvds/order-shorts

[losingmydignity]

It's interesting but if you look at the page for Order in the Shorts Parts of Speech isn't listed. I always wondered why there were so few shorts for that disc.
It looks like Quality Control is using teh internetz (any one catch this reference?) instead of taking a look at the actual disc or wherever they store the master list (not the Master's List).

I don't have Order in the Shorts. It's one of only two I don't have the reason being I had already bought individually a number of the shorts on that disc. So I bought the rest and some newer ones and made my own disc. Because it's not listed I didn't buy Parts of Speech and still haven't seen it. So by pure luck it will be new to me. Eh, get the feeling I have some free time on my hands today?

Three Magic Words is also a kind of double dip, isn't it? That was riffed live at their Xmas show, right?

Still, I'm happy to see a new disc and will order right away.

[losingmydignity]

Grug you beat me to it! Dastardly Villain!

[X3 Beast]

And once again we get a repeated short on one of these collections. Which is a huge waste.

The Parts Of Speech was previously included on Order In The Shorts. Great quality control going on here.

It's not listed here:

http://www.rifftrax.com/dvds/order-shorts

It's not? You may want to re-read that page. No wonder there's quality control issues.

- American Thrift- Story of a Teenage Drug Addict- Your Chance To Live- Mr. Moto Takes A Walk- Kittens: Birth and Growth- Summer Is An Adventure- The Parts of Speech- Reading Growth: Basic Skills

[Edward J Grug III]

And once again we get a repeated short on one of these collections. Which is a huge waste.

The Parts Of Speech was previously included on Order In The Shorts. Great quality control going on here.

It's not listed here:

http://www.rifftrax.com/dvds/order-shorts

It's not? You may want to re-read that page. No wonder there's quality control issues.

- American Thrift- Story of a Teenage Drug Addict- Your Chance To Live- Mr. Moto Takes A Walk- Kittens: Birth and Growth- Summer Is An Adventure- The Parts of Speech- Reading Growth: Basic Skills

That page has been updated since my post, I assume since your post brought it to their attention. (They were previously listed running down the page).

Not sure what the crack about 'No wonder there's quality control issues' is meant to mean.

[X3 Beast]

That page has been updated since my post, I assume since your post brought it to their attention. (They were previously listed running down the page).

Not sure what the crack about 'No wonder there's quality control issues' is meant to mean.

I was unaware that they'd quickly changed the page after having the mistake pointed out. At least they seem on the ball there.

As for the crack, I was just poking a bit of fun thinking you had missed the title when you checked the page.

But the point still kinda stands, just directed at whoever maintains the website and prepares the DVDs.

[Edward J Grug III]

As for the crack, I was just poking a bit of fun thinking you had missed the title when you checked the page.

Not sure how me not seeing something on a site means Rifftrax might make a mistake in putting their DVDs together.

[Wernski]

First of all, I'm super happy to see another Rifftrax DVD, and I'm about to order that right now!

...I'd like to second the poster above who said he'd prefer these stick to just MKB and not other peoples' riffs.   Hope I don't start anything about "the guestt riffers suck!" vs "the guest riffers rule!"  Just one customer sharing his preference.

But, yay!  Another DVD!  I'm happy.  =)