The good folks over at Mystery Science Theater 3000 (a show that has contributed heavily to my mental stability in the last few weeks of college) have finally regained the rights to show "The Final Sacrifice", pretty widely considered the funniest episode of the show. This comes after years of unavailability due to the fact that the director of the riffed film The Final Sacrifice, Tjardus Greidanus ("He comes from a long line of great anuses"), has been desperate to never let this film be seen again. As such, an important part of MST3K history, an episode that has spawned some of the most enduring jokes within the fandom ("Rowsdower!"), has been unavailable for years.
Until now.
Every Thanksgiving, multiple streaming platforms run an all-day hosted marathon of MST3K, and for this year's, they announced the return of "The Final Sacrifice" to regular rotation. Apparently no stick is bedeviling Tjardus's Greidanus anymore. And now, it's on YouTube! Bear in mind, the upload linked above is still exclusive to people who have "joined" (aka paid) the MST3K channel on YouTube, and will be for about another week, but after that, it's free! Hooray!
I watched the episode recently after getting my hands on an MKV file and adding it to the little 256gb USB stick I use as a media library, and it is a fantastic episode. It has everything: cults, Canadians, hermits, even beer on the sun. It's well worth a watch, and I'm very glad it'll finally get the reach it deserves. In times like these, watching a dude and some robots make fun of crappy movies is the perfect antidote.
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