The Adventures of Edward the Less

December 20, 2015 4:36 PM

Back when the Mystery Science Theater guys were still on the Sci-Fi Channel, they made a series of short (very) limited animation cartoons called The Adventures of Edward the Less, a silly Lord of the Rings parody. It seems to have been narrated by the wonderfully-voiced Mike Dodge (RIP). While hard to come by for a while, the whole series is now on YouTube. (Previously)

1. A Long Annoying Party
2. The Odor of the Past
3. Where the Hell Are We
4. Finally, Someone Tall
5. Fight Like a Pudge!
6. Riders on the Bus
7. The Bus Stops Here
8. Table For Two
9. The Lair of the Lorekeeper
10. Getting Soapy
11. Stand By Your Pudge
12. Many Minutes
13. Of Course You Realize This Means War

posted by JHarris (5 comments total)

This seems as good a place as any to announce our 2015 MST3K Club Christmas Marathon. We've got SO MANY THINGS planned this year, all with the same terms as last time: drop in when you have a few minutes, laugh to something ridiculous, then go on and abandon us for your loving family. All GUILT-FREE!

It's not all settled yet (I have a book I'm trying to finish by the end of the year), but seeing as most of the hard work is now done I don't see what can stop it.
posted by JHarris at 4:51 PM on December 20, 2015 [4 favorites]

Is all the TimmyBigHands content lost?
posted by Chrysostom at 9:02 PM on December 20, 2015

I remember that some of it could be read if you went to just the right pages of the Wayback Machine, but it's possible that a robots.txt put up by a succeeding domain owner has blocked access to them. I rue the disappearance of so much classic comedy, like Mike Nelson's Socratic Dialogue With A Steak, or the Flash "games" in the Kill A Guy series, or my and I think everyone else's favorite bits, the sublime Syrup Wars.

If I could find that stuff on the web it would indeed be an epic post. Maybe it's for the best.
posted by JHarris at 10:51 PM on December 20, 2015

It was quite noble of you to post this, JHarris.
posted by LeLiLo at 4:23 PM on December 21, 2015

Soapward McFuggletoes. That's a mouthful. I can't get past the terrible animation to really get my ears into it. Maybe if it were purely radio , but the sheer crapness of it just irritates me. I know that's probably the point, but meh.
posted by trif at 6:36 AM on December 22, 2015 [1 favorite]