Oh, man, I’m telling you about this and then I’m sending the link to my wife! I just found out that Amazon dropped its prices on the first five volumes of the MST3K Box Sets! They are now only $26.47 each, which is even $10 cheaper than the price at DVDPacific (which before this had the DVDs far cheaper than Amazon’s).

Here are the details:

MST3K Volume 1
Contains:
Bloodlust: It’s “The Most Dangerous Game” only with Mr. Brady. Totally worth it to see what happens during the SOL’s Mystery Murder Dinner Theatre.
Catalina Caper: Makes you long for the serious intensity of The Boatniks.
The Creeping Terror: An alien made of carpet samples wanders the countryside eating lovers in convertibles.
The Skydivers: A Coleman Francis film about a devious wife who sleeps with pharmacists for acid so she can sabotage parachutes.

MST3K Volume 2
Contains:
Angels Revenge: Seven “Angels” join forces to take down a local drug dealer. With Jack Palance and Jim Bakkus.
Cave Dwellers: An MST3K sword and sorcery classic, as Ator, Dong and the valley girl wearing a hubcap as a breastplate battle an evil overlord with the help of medieval hang-gliders.
Pod People: E.T. ripoff about a vanfull of teenage musicians who must contend with Trumpy the cute alien. Two words: IT STINKS!
Shorts Vol. 1: Short subjects about home economics, rodeos, body care, cheating, inbreeding, industrial arts…and chickens!

MST3K Volume 3
Contains:
The Atomic Brain: A hideous crone experiments upon pretty, untraceable women.
The Unearthly: Radioactive experiments with the help of Tor Johnson.
The Sidehackers A violent gang based on an oddball short-lived motorcycle fad.
Shorts Volume 2

MST3K Volume 4
Contains SCI-FI Channel episodes:
Girl in Gold Boots: A girl runs off to become a go-go dancer with the help of a criminal and a critter.
Hamlet: Mike Nelson finally wins a chance to pick the movie, but his choice of “Hamlet” is fulfilled by this German TV-made, pork-filled Hamlet. With an uncredited voiceover by an unmistakeable Ricardo Montalban.
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank: Raul Julia in the only MST3K film your tax dollars paid for: a Boston PBS shot-on-video film. It’s like “The Matrix” mixed with “Casablanca”, except nothing happens.
Space Mutiny: Canadian railing-kill stuntmen and recycled Battlestar Galactica footage combine to tell the story of a rebellion on a generational starship led by Santa Claus and his forty-year-old twenty-something daughter.

MST3K Volume 5
Contains:
Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues: A scientist and some kids go looking for Sasqu– uh, the Boggy Creek Monster. One of the kids shows off his total lack of muscle tone by going shirtless the entire movie.
Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders: An astounding overuse of narrative devices, as a storytelling grandfather (Ernest Borgnine) who used to be a TV producer tells his grandson about an old movie pilot about Merlin running a shop in a strip mall which is just a narrative device for telling second-rate “Tales from the Darkside” episodes.
Touch of Satan: A wandering hunk stays at a farm with a girl who might be a witch, along with her 700-year-old sister. Not all that funny, but worth it to watch Brain Guy being read Green Eggs and Ham by a baby sitter. “Why doesn’t he just leave him alone? He has pointedly made his refusal to eat this dish clear! The mere hypthetical changing of a location is irrelevant and tedious.”
Time Chasers: Funniest movie of the set, as a small airplane and a 5 & 1/4 floppy drive become a Time Machine when engineered by the hockey-haired protagonist. He tries to sell the device to Bob Evil (headquartered from his office in a shopping mall) and his henchman Michael Medved, who proceed to run amok in time with it.