When you are saying you have a movie, it’s easy to say that you have a riffed version (“I have the MST3K/CT/FC/Rifftrax version!”), but what do you call a movie that HASN’T been riffed (or the non-riffed version).
Non-riffed sounds too tame, and “straight” doesn’t seem right either (esp. for a comedy [possibly only intended] movie.)
Back in the days of webrings, people who did MiSTings (basically doing MST3K style typed riffing of fanfics) called non-riffed stories “Bot Fodder”…so maybe that?
Every now and then I get to flex my Linguistics degree and talk about marked and unmarked classes. That’s what Vader is talking about here, and I stand behind this 100%.
Unless you’ve got a really funny name for the concept, then I’ll declare my studies a waste of time and money.