There is strong evidence to suggest that Jack the Ripper was actually a farmer that came into the city to sell his goods. It was said he always got depressed when he came into the gloomy London city so the locals gave him the nickname “Blue” and when he showed up, the city folk would say “Here comes Blue’s Harvest”. Which coincidentally is very similar to Blue Harvest, the working title of the original Star Wars.

Fun Fact: The only adaptation that Alan Moore respects is an episode of Justice League Unlimited called “For The Man Who Has Everything.” It’s based on a Superman story he wrote of the same name. Would love to see you two talk about it.

As a real treat, you should wrap this up with the only adaption he's reportedly enjoyed - Justice League Unlimited's adaptation of For The Man Who Has Everything.

Hearing that Johnny Depp definitely died during the filming of the Lone Ranger was almost as surprising as hearing about the death of the Blue Harvest joke, which happens to be the original working title of the original Star Wars

The From Hell comic is an amazing piece of work, basically this incredibly well-researched piece of Ripperology that explores the idea of 'Jack' as ultimately being a kind of meta-figure, in long tradition of British occultism and murder. The From Hell movie is Johnny Depp insulting Cockneys for two hours.

I will say this but Alan moore. Even if he hates the adaptation, he makes sure the other co-writers and co-creators get the credit & money.

Here’s a fun little tidbit. while creating fake blood on set, someone tainted the mixture with a dye turning it a dark blue. The crew then had to remove all all the blue blood from the set and deemed the occurrence the blue harvest.

If Blue Harvest goes on hiatus, I hope reminding us about John Depp's untimely demise while filming The Lone Ranger takes its place

The end of Blue Harvest is devastating, but the hope of a Blue Harvest 2: Bluer Harvest keeps me going. That and the Rodney super cut, please don’t let that bit go

RIP Johnny Depp. Would have loved to see him play like a wizard or even some kind of adventuring pirate, I think he could pulled one of those off.

Hi, old Northamptonian here, who grew up with Alan Moore as a local weirdo (in the best possible sense). What's real sad is that about all this is how much Moore LOVES movies and TV. I used to see him back when I was a teen working in HMV buying stacks of DVDs. Always great and enthusiastic to talk about the new stuff he was into (man, he LOVED Peep Show at the time). Before this movie came out he was pumped for it - mate of mine at the time said he saw him in Blockbuster renting out all the Depp movies he could. It such a shame that this, and subsequent adaptations of his work have been shit - just become another thing for him to be annoyed about.

From Hell may just be Moore’s best work, or at least it’s a close second to Watchmen. I recommend scrolling to the back and looking at the authors notes as you read. It’s such a dense text, and despite the ultimate basis of the story being fictional, very well sourced. The way Moore sets up this decade as being the turning point for the modern world is unbelievably chilling.

More like Mr. Sunday TUESvies, amirite?

I just want to say special thanks to Ben and/or Lawrence for adding the error sound effect at 2:00 because I was in middle of rendering and spent a good chunk of my time looking for the multiple error messages. Thanks for the mini heart attack.

Alan Moore was actually Jack The Ripper he did this so he could write From Hell and later have it adapted to screen a film that he secretly loves

Rodney still cracks me up everytime. Literally at work laughing out loud

The real Jack the Ripper was the friends we made along the way

You two should cover the episode of *JLU* *For* *the* *Man* *who* *has* *Everything* at the end of this since its the one adaptation that Alan Moore actually likes.

I re-watched the 2010 version of The Wolfman recently, one of Universal's old initial attempts to kick-off their classical monster universe, and the inspector's name was Francis Aberline. I was told via reviews he was (loosely) based on the real-life man put in charge of the Ripper case, and the movie makes a point of establishing that as well. So now here I am, remembering "Oh yeah, Alan Moore wrote a comic about Jack the Ripper," and then laughing privately at the "coincidence" that is Wolfman Aberline being played by Hugo Weaving, who of course played V in the V for Vendetta adaptation (which I love). 😆🌹

I already miss the blue harvest jokes, truly the peak of comedic joke telling

“It came out in 2001 it’s so old” LMAO I was born in 2001 and I barely just turned 21 so this movie is old enough to drink

Absinthe isn't actually and never was poisonous. Wine and beer merchants were mad about people being into absinthe so they started a campaign that it was actually a drug. While absinthe does have wormwood in it, you would die of alcohol poisoning before you ever got high from it.

Alan Moores Swamp Thing run was amazinggg

If you really end up dropping the Blue Harvest bit, I think you should you should replace it with "What Does Alan Moore Think of This?". He's got a lot of opinions and I'd love to know what he thinks of Jungle Cruise.

The compilation of that guy shouting Rodney is like 80% of the reason I continue to watch this series. Not to say Caravan of Garbage is bad - I love it - but rodney guy is just that powerful. 10:17

From Hell is one of the few adaptations of Moore's work that actually highlights the importance of change, malleability and compromise. This extends to the production, where a lot of plans changed, but people just weren't aware because the movie was made under the working title Blue Harvest, which happens to be the original working title of the original Star Wars.

When I went to see this film, I had to leave the theatre I felt so ill. However, it was not due to the content of the film, but down to the large amount of skunk I smoked beforehand. At the time, when the cinema staff were being very kind and making sure I was okay, I was thinking "Oh this is going to end up as hype for the film- 'FROM HELL SO HORRIFIC THAT AUDIENCE MEMBERS HAD TO LEAVE!'" when I was just stoned as a wicket. I remember thinking at the time that the movie was quite good, but when I caught a bit of it on television a few years later (whilst sober) I thought it looked like a TV movie (it was the scene with Heather Graham and Johnny Depp taking in the park) Don't do drugs kids!

The fucking cut away to the Epic Rap Battles of History Jack the Ripper slayed me

Incredible to me that the trivia segment now has 3 running gags we have to do every video, but Blue Harvest is the one we're killing first.

How fitting you start up this new series of Alan Moore adaptations today, because yesterday I dressed up as V for Halloween this year! 🥰🎃⚔🌹

Every week, I keep forgetting about the “Rodney” bit, but I get a good chuckle every time I see it.

As far as I'm concerned. Alan Moore is a real life wizard and is annoyed with eveyone on this mortal plane.

My friend was in a terrible one season ghost hunting show where they communed with ghosts to "solve" historical crimes. So yes, they "solved" the Jack the Ripper case episode 1.

“We can’t show any Jack the Ripper murder clips since we might get demonitized. Anyways here’s our weekly clip of the “Rodney!” guy getting murdered by a tree monster. “

I hope you guys cover the one adaptation of his work he liked, the episode from Justice League Unlimited covering "For the man who has everything."

Alan Moore? more like I need Alan Moore of these videos

Jack the Ripper was a time traveling Jack Tripper(the character from Three's Company)

I love how you have Rainbow road music in the background during murder scenes :D

thanks for shedding some light on Alan Moore's work

I want what does Alan Moore think of this to be an ongoing segment regardless of his involvement on the week’s topic and regardless if he has ever made a public statement on the topic

I wish that LXG would make a comeback for a new generation and like, actually do a really good job with it. It's such a shame that the film from (i think) 2005 is lawded as being awful because there is so much to work with in terms of characters and the universe that it could easily be mined for content for a TV series or new set of films.

"We're just gonna catfish a buncha Nazis." might be my new favorite quote of the year.

Always enjoyed this film, and 'From Hell' and 'Sleepy Hollow' make for one hell of a double feature!

Because of where they filmed this movie, it turns out that when they would amputate prosthetic genitals from the prop dummies, because they were already grubby, they would turn blue, so this movie actually had a working title of "green trivia"

I guess it was Mason's turn to introduce a weird running gag that no one understands into this series.

Jack the Ripper was actually an immortal man who later became a world renowned director creating a little known movie that was originally called Blue Harvest.

It’s a very gradual process to recognize that you’re attempting to engage in genuine conversation with a partner who is using 20% of their attention to formulate their next quip. Who uses every response as an opportunity to crack wise. One of the hosts of this show is that kind of conversation partner. It is as useless to passively listen to as it would be to converse with.

"Too many British characters with nothing to do", well you've just described the whole run of Victorian England.

Any folks down here who dig this setting and want a good version of this kind of story, I highly recommend The Knick. 1900 New York medical drama with (apparently) highly period accurate surgery procedure replication and exquisite sets. Some of the best photography I’ve seen for a television show as well.

Did you know that to get all of the dye used to make the policeman outfits, the directors had to search for a specific pigment resulting in a "Blue Harvest" which also happens to be the working title for the original starwars!!

I love that my favorite Dracula (Paul Rhys) was in From Hell, and you guys covered Dracula last week.

With that pin in the "blue harvest" bit, i'm looking forward to hearing "blue harvest" shouted during the "what are we reading" theme song.

I rewatched this recently, actually really liked it until it fell apart at the end, but just the stylised look of this world, that red sky, beautiful.

Actually quite enjoyed this movie. I first saw it on dvd, and thought the making of the movie was quite interesting in the behind the scenes documentary on the dvd.

Modern Absinthe is basically the same as Victorian-era Absinthe. The alcohol part might be a bit safer than the alcohol distilled in that era, but otherwise it's roughly the same. Also, it's not especially hallucinogenic or dangerous, it just got a bad reputation because it was popular and consumed to excess.

I love how most result images for Fredrick Abberline, a real guy, are from Assassin's Creed. I know there are no actual photos of him, but still.

To be fair about Moore's hate of adaptations... he also hates most of the work that he himself wrote by this point. He's your grumpy grandpa, who just happens to have done some amazing stuff back in his day... but that doesn't mean he won't shake his fist at every single passing cloud.

Saga of the Swamp Thing is easily his best comic.

I zoned out for a sec then tuned in as you were saying "We're just gonna catfish a bunch of Nazis into watching this" and man, there's some contextual whiplash going on.

I just went for a Jack the Ripper tour last week (don't ask) and the guide kept mentioning this movie. What a coincidence to see a movie no one talked about in 2 decades mentioned again

So excited for this series of CoGs :))) smashing work boys

I unironically love LXG as it was one of the very few DVDs I owned as a kid. Yet I have purposefully not read any of the comics so as to not ruin the lie im living in which it is a good film.

The trivia section just continues to evolve and eventually people who haven’t followed the channel will not be able to comprehend it, and I love that.

Suddenly I have a sick desire for film adaptations of Moore’s other works like Lost Girls, Miracle Man, Swamp Thing, and his very first comic book project: Blue Harvest. Which as we all know was also the working title for the first Star Wars 💙🌾

Oh he died! That's why Johnny Depp isn't in movies anymore.

The Michael Caine Jack The Ripper movie is a really good one if you wanna deep dive into this whole story!

JD getting dragged to death: that bit made me figuratively literally lol out loud & laugh literally. Figuratively.

Fun fact: did you know the only adaptation that Alan Moore respects is actually an episode of the 2002 show Birds of Prey called "pilot". For the incredible portrayal of joker and Barbara Gordon’s scene from the killing joke.

I think it's pretty clear that Jack the Ripper was whoever was publishing stories about Jack the Ripper during the murders, because how would they know his name was Jack the Ripper?

RIP Robbie Coltrane, he will be missed

It’s probably not true but I’m going to pretend like it was my comment the other week that convinced you guys to do V For Vendetta for the week of November 5th! It’s my favorite movie of all time and you guys are my favorite KZfaqrs so it’s a match made in heaven 😁

Sad that Johnny Depp died. He was really great in the EXACTLY ONE Pirates of the Caribbean movie they made

I think I may be able to shine some light on the Jack the Ripper case. My great-great-great-great-grandfather was alive at the time. And my family has several of his possession still in storage. Among the items is an old thick coat which would have been out of fashion even at the time. The coat combined with a hat and cane would have made him look like an older and harmless man. He would have been able to pass through society without attention. But, more interesting is a diary that was found inside the pocket of the coat. My family is hesitant to discuss this for obvious reasons. But, the diary is full of semi-coherent ramblings about different "societal ills". Chief amongst them was the belief that some women were evil spirits sent to cause disharmony. This seems to be because his mother left after his father was found to have hired a sex worker. This seems to have left a deep scar on him. But, most troubling is a small note in the margins of the red-stained pages. The note says, "I am the one they call Jack the Ripper though I have never been fond of that name. For the sake of the family's reputation, I would like the contents of this diary to remain secret for a century and a half. Until it can be shared on an as-of-yet uninvented platform that can allow two Australian chaps to discuss popular media."

Alan Moore is often seen in and around Northampton Town centre. And doing some food shopping in the local Marks & Spencer Food near Phippsville. In the 90s he played in a band called Emperors of Ice Cream.

From Hell, Chapter 4, ''What Doth the Lord require of thee?'' One of the most fascinating chapters in the whole story ;p

The problem with adaptations to film, is there is always studio people who think they know better about what should be filmed as opposed to what made the source material successful. Sometimes you have to change some things, but so many movies suffer from extreme changes to the material.

I feel like in the US, “The Alienist” is the closest we got to a From Hell TV series.

i love the very specific 1 second long clip of always sunny that was spliced in

You cannot possibly get rid of the Blue Harvest jokes. The absolute peak of comedy.

I love the channel! Keep up the awesome work!

Rest in Peace Johnny! We will never know what you would have been like if you lived. Naturally I'm sure based on your charisma you would have been a role model to men.

I've often wondered if the Ripper was ultimately killed by a pimp or somebody else from the street community who wouldn't report it, and the body was disposed of and never connected to the murders.

I'm surprised you didnt mention that when blood no longer carries oxygen it turns blue. When the ripper cuts throats before harvesting organs the organs would have an in natural blueish tint, resulting in the removal of organs being referred to as a "blue harvest", the production name for this film and for the origional starwars, given how much difficulty George Lucas was having making the film, he compared it to that process in it's working title.

I've been waiting for you guys to do LXG for years. I am so incredibly psyched!!!! I loved that horrible film so much when I was a young lad. I had it on dvd later, but I had a pirate copy of it. You couldn't really see anything in the dark scenes. Beautiful. I CAN'T WAIT FOR THAT VIDEO! I'm going to rewatch it immediately. I'm also very excited about the V for vendetta video, but that film is quite good.

I get a kick out of Alan Moore because he's like "People who like Batman - which I wrote on once, but I wish I hadn't - they have infantile thought processes... anyway, did you know I'm a magician. Like a literal sorcerer, let me summon the snake God for you, he'll tell you all about it."

Hell yeah. Watchmen is such a great movie. Best comic book movie ever made.

Since the inception of their Star Wars episode, the duo at Mr Sunday Movies conducted a running joke during their Green Trivia segments wherein they told a fabricated story about the movie at hand that ended with the mention of "Blue Harvest" which coincidentally enough was the working title for the original Star Wars.

"(Robbie Coltrane) has quite recently passed away at the time of recording." Not to turn this into another Hugh Jackman/Wolverine fiasco, but Robbie Coltrane actually did come back to life. He is assuming a quiet life in the countryside under the alias Robert Steemlocomoteev.

“Choo choo the Robbie Coltrane has stopped” could have been the buzz feed article announcing his death

So excited to see how they tie blue harvest into this weeks green trivia

Actually Jack te Ripper is an immortal Scotsman by the name of Connor MacLeod. So you could probably still arrest him I reckon.

The lads hang out with Aunty Donna just a couple of times and the editors are like "ALL THE AUNTY DONNA." Good stuff, keep it up everyone!

If Blue Harvest goes, which is super devo. I love the idea of Caravan of Garbage episodes eventually being like 40 mins long just because of the inside jokes. But if Blue Harvest does go you should add a new segment called 'what does Alan Moore think of this' even when its not one of his creations. If you cant find it just lie like old mate did in this comic.

Obviously Abberline survived: he became a werewolf later, in that film starring Elrond!

When you talk about V for Vendetta, I think you really need to talk about how the TV series Pennyworth, a show about the life that Batman's faithful butler had before moving to Gotham, is now in it's third season and is now also becoming a prequel to V for Vendetta!?!?!

I can't wait until the trivia section is green trivia, that guy saying rodney, blue harvest, and like 10 minutes of repeated jokes before they actually get to any trivia.

Boy oh boy, the "Rodney" clip makes me laugh every time.

I can't believe that you're doing Alan Moore films, and next Thursday is the 5th of November, and you're doing LXG.

I realized a few years ago that the plot of LXG and the villain motivations are basically the same as Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.

you guys got it all wrong, johnny depp didn't die, he just went to live on a nice farm upstate with a bunch of other actors we don't see in movies anymore for nooo particular reason........