I just got home from a meeting of the executive staff at WREK. I have proposed they have a "Grand reopening" and am pushing the ball to get it rolling, at which point they are on their own and I'll run away like hell.

The VCD of the MST3K episode worked well enough, although there were a number of irritating things about it. The time was off, for one thing, such that the DVD player thought the 96 minute episode was 77 minutes, and any time search got scaled accordingly. Also, there were no chapter divisions, even though I told the VCD program to make one every 5 minutes. The picture quality was kind of bad, about what you'd expect with a 3rd or 4th generation VHS dub. There were plenty of MPEG artifacts and some imperfections from the original tape (which was off the air and not perfect either.) All in all, interesting but I'm not planning on doing many more.

I'm not sure how early the earliest episode I've seen is, but I had never seen Josh Weinstein as "Larry", Dr. Forrester's assistant. The episode I watched was early in the run (2nd of the first season) and they weren't really clicking. I didn't particularly like JW as Tom Servo and thought the comments weren't nearly as funny as I was used to. The best one was when someone started on fire and Crow remarked "Immolation is the sincerest form of flattery." I've already downloaded an episode from season 8, and I'll try that one and that might be it for this experiment.