Well, another year, another Thanksgiving. As per usual, it was a quiet family meal with all our favorite traditional dishes—such as deviled eggs, mashed potatoes, buttered rolls, and stuffing—and some new touches, such as watermelon (added at the request of our middle child), and I suppose there was some turkey in there somewhere as well. And we all came up with some things to be thankful for. One of the things I was thankful for (yes, yes: after my lovely family and my lovely job) was the return of MST3K.
If you don’t know what Mystery Science Theater 3000 is, then you must immediately to go Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, or whatever your streaming engine of choice might be, and begin watching. If you vaguely remember MST3K as “that thing where silhouettes of robots make smartass comments at the screen,” use the tips in the preceding sentence to refresh your memory, because you obviously didn’t fully appreciate the genius of this show at the time. If you remember the show fondly, as most of us do, then I’m almost certainly not telling you anything you don’t already know. The return of MST3K (probably early next year), roughly 17½ years after its last new episode aired, is a bizarre little story in its own right, and perhaps worthy of a longer post someday (not that I have any inside information; just a long-time fan’s perspective). But today I’m just noting that I’m thankful to see it come back, with new talent as well as old, and I’ve got a lot of positive anticipation and excitement for seeing the new episodes.
And, on top of all that, we’ve now had a return of the Turkey Day marathons for the second year in a row, so we got to sit around and watch old episodes of MST3K before sitting down to eat. So that was pretty cool.
Anyhow, I hope all my faithful reader(s) had a lovely Thanksgiving meal, if they were so inclined to do so and geographically poised to take advantage of said holiday. Next week, if all goes as planned, we’ll start looking ahead to the next big holiday, which is already started to loom large in our household. Here’s an idea of what’s going on at our house these days:
Smaller Animal: Alexa, how many days until Christmas?
Alexa: There are 28 more days until Christmas Day.
Smaller Animal: NOOOOOOOOOO!!!! IT’S TOO LONG TO WAIT!!!
Only 27 more of those to go. Sigh.