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* ''MST3K'' has infiltrated realms of fiction completely unrelated to the series. It has become an acceptable form of critical commentary in various [[fanfiction]] genres to MST or MiST a story that is perceived as flawed. In the [[MSTing]], it is common for characters of the story to examine it through the voice of the MSTier, usually in a biting or sarcastically funny manner.
* ''MST3K'' has infiltrated realms of fiction completely unrelated to the series. It has become an acceptable form of critical commentary in various [[fanfiction]] genres to MST or MiST a story that is perceived as flawed. In the [[MSTing]], it is common for characters of the story to examine it through the voice of the MSTier, usually in a biting or sarcastically funny manner.


* A comedy group in [[Austin, Texas]] put on "Mister Sinus Theater" versions of cult movies in which live ''MST3K''-style comedy takes place in the theater (The Alamo Drafthouse). The creators of ''MST3K'' sued the group over copyright issues, and the group has since changed its name to "The Sinus Show."
* A comedy group in [[Austin, Texas]] put on "Mister Sinus Theater" versions of cult movies in which live ''MST3K''-style comedy takes place in the theater (The Alamo Drafthouse). The creators of ''MST3K'' sued the group over copyright issues, and the group has since changed its name to [[http://www.sinusshow.com/]["The Sinus Show."]]


* For rock band [[Weezer]]'s 2001 [[Weezer (The Green Album)|self-titled album]] (aka ''The Green Album''), the band had a silhouette of the ''MST3K'' cast sitting in front of the band playing on-stage in the CD case insert. The trio can be found on the bottom right hand side of the crowd.
* For rock band [[Weezer]]'s 2001 [[Weezer (The Green Album)|self-titled album]] (aka ''The Green Album''), the band had a silhouette of the ''MST3K'' cast sitting in front of the band playing on-stage in the CD case insert. The trio can be found on the bottom right hand side of the crowd.

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Mystery Science Theater 3000
File:Mst3k.jpg
Created byJoel Hodgson
StarringJoel Hodgson
Michael J. Nelson
Kevin Murphy
Trace Beaulieu
Frank Conniff
Jim Mallon
Mary Jo Pehl
Bill Corbett
Josh Weinstein
Patrick Brantseg
Country of originUnited States
No. of episodes198
Production
Running time92 minutes
Original release
NetworkKTMA (1988-1989)
Comedy Central (1989-1996)
Sci-Fi Channel (1997-1999)
ReleaseNovember 24, 1988 –
August 8, 1999

Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988–1999), usually abbreviated MST3K, is an American cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson featuring a man and his robot sidekicks who are trapped on a satellite in space and forced to watch particularly bad movies. The gimmick of the show is that the man and his robots make a running commentary on the film, making fun of its flaws and wisecracking their way through the film. Series creator Hodgson originally played the stranded man, Joel Robinson. When he left in 1993, series head writer Michael J. Nelson replaced him as new B-movie victim Mike Nelson, and continued in the role for the rest of the show's run.

The format proved to be popular. During its eleven years and 198 episodes (including one feature film), MST3K attained a fiercely loyal fan base, and much critical acclaim. The series also garnered a Peabody Award in 1993.

Premise

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Movie theater view, featuring the short film Hired!.

The "plot" of the show never pretended to be anything other than just an excuse for the movie commentary and the comic skits called "Host segments."

Two mad scientists, Dr. Clayton Forrester (named after the main character in The War of the Worlds), played by Trace Beaulieu, and his sidekick Dr. Laurence Erhardt, played by Josh Weinstein, launch Joel Robinson (Hodgson), a janitor working for the Gizmonics Institute, into space and force him to watch truly horrible B-movies. They do this in order to measure how much bad movie-watching it takes to drive a person crazy, and to pinpoint the perfect B-movie to use as a weapon in Dr. Forrester's scheme of world domination. Forrester's scheme was that when he found a movie so bad that it broke Joel's spirit, he would unleash it on an unsuspecting populace and turn everyone into mindless zombie slaves. (The sycophantic TV's Frank, played by Frank Conniff, replaced Dr. Erhardt in the second season premiere following Weinstein's departure from the series.)

Trapped on board the Satellite of Love (S.O.L.) — a reference to a Lou Reed song — Joel builds the robots that populate the ship (ostensibly because he is lonely, and as a homage to the 1970s film Silent Running). The robots are Tom Servo (voiced first by Weinstein, then by Kevin Murphy) and Crow T. Robot (voiced first by Beaulieu, then by Bill Corbett), who accompany Joel in the screening room; Gypsy (voiced first by Weinstein, inhaling as he spoke, then by Jim Mallon and later by Patrick Brantseg, both using a falsetto voice), who does not appear in every episode but handles the "higher functions" of the S.O.L. (such as steering the ship); and Cambot, the recorder of the experiments who is visible only during the opening credits and occasionally interacts with the others. Also making intermittent "appearances" in the show's early years is Magic Voice, a disembodied female voice whose primary role is to announce the start of the first commercial break in each episode.

Joel has no control over when the movies start, for, as the theme song states, "he used those special parts to make his robot friends". He must enter the theater when "Movie Sign" flashes, though, as Dr. Forrester has numerous ways to punish Joel for non-compliance (including shutting off all oxygen to the rest of the ship and electric shocks). As the movies play, the silhouettes of Joel, Tom, and Crow are visible at the bottom of the screen, wisecracking and mocking the movie (a practice they often referred to as "riffing") to prevent themselves from being driven mad.

Just before or after commercial breaks, Joel (and later, Mike) and the bots sometimes perform skits, songs, or other short sketch pieces (called "host segments") that are often related to the movie they are watching. These segments sometimes even feature "visits" by prominent characters from the movie, such as Torgo from Manos: The Hands of Fate. But before too much frivolity can transpire, the "movie sign" lights flash, signaling the resumption of the movie.

Many episodes also include screenings of unintentionally hilarious short films or "shorts," including propaganda-style films from the 1950s, a training film for Chevrolet sales managers, and films intended to teach children about posture or personal hygiene. These are less frequent in later episodes.

History

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The Satellite of Love.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 first aired on local TV in the Twin Cities on KTMA-TV, a UHF station (not a cable access channel, as is sometimes reported, but an over-the-air station that continues to exist today as KMWB-TV) from November 24, 1988 to May 1989. The station's declining fortunes forced it to cancel MST3K, but just as its run was ending, the creators used a short "best-of" reel to pitch the concept to executives at the Comedy Channel, a national cable channel that was then being created. It became one of the first two shows picked up by it. After two seasons there, the Comedy Channel and rival comedy cable network HA! merged to become Comedy Central. It would run there for five more seasons, reigning as its "signature series" for several years, before falling out of favor with the network's management. When Comedy Central dropped the show after a shorter-than-normal seventh season, MST3K's Internet fan-base staged a precedent-setting write-in campaign to keep the show alive. (This included taking contributions from MST3K fans worldwide for a full-page ad in the television trade publication Daily Variety magazine. One notable contributor to the campaign was TV personality and Biography host Jack Perkins, whom Nelson had impersonated on the series several times.) This effort led the Sci Fi Channel to pick up the series, where it resumed with some cast changes and ran for three more seasons. The series finale premiered on August 8, 1999, although an episode produced earlier in the season was the last new episode of MST3K broadcast on September 12, 1999. Reruns continued on the Sci Fi Channel until January 31, 2004. Including the feature film, in total there were 201 full episodes of MST3K.

The show's run coincided with the growth of the Internet, and numerous fans (MSTies) devoted websites to the series. The Internet also facilitated tape-trading of previous episodes among fans, a practice the show's creators encouraged by flashing the phrase "Keep circulating the tapes!" during the closing credits of episodes — every episode during seasons 2, 3, and 4. Before season 5 started, lawyers alerted them that the phrase may constitute a support of piracy.

There were two official fan conventions in Minneapolis, run by the series' production company itself (zanily called "ConventioCon ExpoFest-A-Rama" (1994) and "ConventioCon ExpoFest-A-Rama 2: Electric Bugaloo" (1996), the second being a misspelled reference to the movie Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo). Some noted celebrity fans of MST3K are film director and producer Steven Spielberg, songwriter-musician Neil Young, musician-composer Frank Zappa (whom the show honored at the end of episode 523 on January 22, 1994, a month after his death), writer-director Paul Schrader, former Vice President Al Gore, Time film critic Richard Corliss, singer/songwriter "Weird Al" Yankovic, actor Emilio Estevez, and MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann.

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Cambot, as he appeared in the early years of the series.

When Joel Hodgson decided to leave the series, halfway through season five, an episode was written in which his character escaped from the S.O.L. (after being forced to sit through the Joe Don Baker movie Mitchell). Joel escaped with the help of Gypsy and Mike Nelson (a temp worker hired by Doctor Forrester to help to prepare for an audit from the Fraternal Order of Mad Science), after they discovered an escape pod (amusingly named the Deus ex Machina) in a box marked "Hamdingers". To replace Joel, Dr. Forrester sent Mike up in his place. The series head writer Michael J. Nelson played Mike from 1993 until the end of the series. Debates (sometimes heated) raged in fan forums about who was the better host for quite some time, but in more recent years a consensus has developed among the fanbase that acknowledges that each performer had his merits.

A feature film, in which Mike and the 'bots worked over This Island Earth, was released in 1996 during the gap in the show's run between seasons 6 and 7 (which explains the absence of both TV's Frank and Pearl Forrester). Unfortunately, Universal Studios invested few resources into the resultant Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie. The film was never given wide release, instead playing for a limited time in different cities and then moving to another city. The result was that many fans did not even know it had been released.

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The Widowmaker Pearl Forrester used during the 8th season.

Before the series moved to the Sci Fi Channel, Trace Beaulieu, who played Dr. Forrester and Crow, departed the series. Mary Jo Pehl took over the lead "Mad" role as Dr. Forrester's mother, Pearl. Her sidekicks were the idiotic, Planet of the Apes-inspired Professor Bobo (played by Murphy) and the highly evolved, supposedly omniscient, yet equally idiotic Observer (AKA "Brain Guy"), played by writer Bill Corbett. Corbett also competently took over Crow's voice and puppetry. In the middle of the first season on the Sci Fi Channel (the eighth national season overall), Mallon handed over the voice and puppetry work for Gypsy to BBI staffer Patrick Brantseg.

At first, Sci-Fi Channel officials mandated that every movie featured on the revived series had to fit within the channel's broad definition of science-fiction (which included horror and fantasy), instead of the varied genres present in past shows. But by the final season this restriction seemed to be loosened, allowing movies such as Girl in Gold Boots, and the Joe Don Baker film Final Justice. In any event, the network's vast library of science-fiction films provided an abundance of bad movies to "riff". The show finally ended with Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders being the last episode to be shown, although, technically, the last episode was episode 1013, featuring the movie Diabolik,in which Mike and the Bots return to earth, only to riff bad movies in their small apartment.

In the May 30-June 5, 2004 issue of TV Guide, a feature article listed Mystery Science Theater 3000 among the 25 Top Cult Shows Ever!:

" 11 - Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1989-1999)
A space traveler and his smart-ass robots watch and crack-wise about bombs like The Brain That Wouldn't Die and The Killer Shrews.
Cult-ability: Mike Nelson, writer and star (replacing creator Joel Hodgson), recently addressed a college audience: "There was nobody over the age of 25. I had to ask, 'Where are you seeing this show?' I guess we have some sort of timeless quality." (Source: TV Guide May 30th-June 5th, 2004 issue, "25 Top Cult Shows Ever!" feature article, page 32)

Among the more notable movies dismembered on the series are the infamous Manos: The Hands of Fate, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, five Japanese Gamera monster movies, Red Zone Cuba starring John Carradine and Coleman Francis, Space Travelers, an edited version of Marooned starring Gregory Peck and Gene Hackman, Mitchell, Prince of Space, and the Ed Wood films Bride of the Monster and "The Sinister Urge". Most of the movies were edited to make room for commercials and the sketches surrounding them, a practice which some people suspect allowed the Best Brains writers to introduce discontinuities that would render the movies all-the-more ripe for ridicule (although many such discontinuities are clearly shown in the original films or in their commercially available prints).

Eras of MST3K:

  1. KTMA era
  2. Joel era (Comedy Central seasons 1-4, 5 through episode 512 Mitchell)
  3. Mike era (Comedy Central season 5 episode 513 The Brain That Wouldn't Die to end, seasons 6-7)
  4. Sci Fi era (seasons 8-10)

Alternatively, some view the KTMA era and the first Comedy Central season as a separate era ("the Beginnings"), when the series was still experimenting with its form. The departure of Josh Weinstein, who portrayed both Dr. Erhardt and Tom Servo, marked the end of this early phase of the show's development. At the start of season 2, Frank Conniff replaced Weinstein as the new Mad sidekick, TV's Frank, a character which would remain until season 6. At this point, Kevin Murphy took over as the voice of Tom Servo, a role Murphy played for the rest of the series. Furthermore, by the start of season 2, the Deep 13 and Satellite of Love sets took on the form that they would have for the rest of the series' run on Comedy Central.

MST3K on the Internet

The internet was always full of activity from MST3K fans. Tape trading, and now DVD trading, has always been active on the internet and still is today. The official MST3K fan club Satellite News, owned by Chris Cornell and Biran Henry, had gone solely to the internet, whereas before, MiSTies would receive material from them through the mail. Satellite News continues to thrive today, offering the most up to date news on anything related to MST3K. When Mike had replaced Joel, there was an outrage over the internet between those who believed Joel is superior to Mike and those who thought Mike was superior to Joel. As a result, most moderators of online MST3K discussion groups outlawed any juxtapositions between Mike and Joel and it lasted for quite some time, although it is rarely enforced today. Now, there is hardly, if any, bitterness between those who prefer Mike and those who prefer Joel.

MST3K online communities slowed down considerably since the show was cancelled. The official message board on the Sci-Fi Channel MST3K website was the largest community near the end of the show but was less an online community for chatting about MST3K than a haven for internet trolls and obscenities. This motivated MST3K fans Don MacGregor and Forrest Rice of MST3K Review to create the most active and largest MST3K online community: MST3K: The Discussion Board.

DVD

Since the show has been off the air since 2004 (and there have been no signs of it coming back), much of MST3K's loyal fanbase rely on DVD releases by Rhino. There have been 10 various releases of single movies (one episode, featuring the movie Beginning of the End, was recently discontinued due to rights issues), along with 9 "Collection" sets of the show. Collection sets consist of 4 movies and/or "shorts" DVDs each, and each set may contain movies from any era. There is also an Essentials collection, containing two movies (the previously released Manos: The Hands of Fate and fan favorite Santa Claus Conquers the Martians) and a shorts collection (only available when ordered directly from Rhino). The feature film Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie was released on VHS and DVD in 1998, but the DVD version offered no special features or deleted scenes and was withdrawn from the market in 2000. A fan-produced special edition was released in 2003 containing deleted scenes, trailers and other bonus features. Copies of the discontinued official release sometimes sell on eBay or Amazon.com for upwards of $100.

Recently, some fans have expressed anger and disappointment in Rhino Home Video, due to glitches on discs in Collection Volumes 7 and 8. In one of these cases, Rhino officially announced that the errors were from the original analog master tape and could not be fixed. This led to further criticism over why Rhino would release a DVD knowing it suffered highly noticeable audio and video errors without mentioning the problems earlier, and note that Rhino could have tried to obtain a broadcast copy without said problems or released another episode instead.[citation needed] Rhino responded to these complaints by stating that choosing another film would result in another lengthy process of rights negotiation, further delaying the set's release.

The cast

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From left to right, Crow T. Robot, Joel Robinson, and Tom Servo (the latter dressed as a candystriper).

"The guys"

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"Mads" (left to right) Dr. Clayton Forrester and TV's Frank.

"The Mads"

Recurring guest characters

  • Jack Perkins (Michael J. Nelson) — in real life the host of the A&E Network's Biography program, Perkins first appeared in MST3K simply to annoy the Mads by describing the movie with glowing praise. When MST3K appeared in syndication as The Mystery Science Hour, Nelson's fake "Jack Perkins" hosted the show.
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Mike Nelson and the 'bots
  • "Krankor" (Bill Corbett) — a pudgy, vain, would-be conqueror with an unfortunately chicken-like appearance and a drawn-out, braying laugh, "Krankor" (technically, "The Phantom", dictator of the planet "Krankor" in the movie Prince of Space) appeared in a host segment when MST3K riffed Prince of Space, and returned three episodes later in a host segment for Invasion of the Neptune Men, a movie with a similar plot.
  • The Nanites — Self-replicating, bio-engineered organisms that work on the ship, they are microscopic creatures that reside in the S.O.L.'s computer systems. (Their name likely comes from the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Evolution (TNG episode)", which featured "nanites" taking over the Enterprise.) The Nanites made their first appearance in season 8. Based on the concept of nanotechnology, their comical deus ex machina activities included such diverse tasks as instant repair and construction, hairstyling, performing a Nanite variation of a flea circus, conducting a microscopic war, and even destroying the Observers' planet after a dangerously vague request from Mike to "take care of [a] little problem".
  • Pitch (Paul Chaplin) — a devil from the Mexican movie Santa Claus, Pitch was one of the only characters from the Comedy Central seasons to return in the Sci Fi Channel seasons.
  • Torgo (Michael J. Nelson) — a rebellious monster henchman (bad knees) in Manos: The Hands of Fate, Torgo was among the most frequently returning "guest characters" of MST3K. He got his knees fixed and accompanied TV's Frank to sidekick heaven and was never seen again (episode 624 Samson vs. the Vampire Women).
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Later "Mads" (left-to-right) Observer (aka Brain Guy) (Bill Corbett), Pearl Forrester (Mary Jo Pehl), and Professor Bobo (Kevin Murphy).
  • Pearl Forrester (Mary Jo Pehl) — Dr. Forrester's horrible mother appeared once in season six (episode 607 Bloodlust). The character returned in season seven as a replacement for TV's Frank (Frank Conniff), and then became the main villain in the Sci Fi era. This is the only time a guest star was made into a regular character. (Professor Bobo and Observer were added as regulars from their initial appearances.)
  • MST3K has only had two non-staffers make guest appearances on the show: Minnesota Viking Robert Smith (as "Howard" in episode 803 The Mole People) and film critic Leonard Maltin (as himself in episode 909 Gorgo). All other guest appearances were filled by a Best Brains crew member or a regular cast member in disguise.

Quotes

Most of the humor in MST3K episodes comes from quotable quips that the S.O.L. crew insert into the dialog and scenes of the movies they mock, as well as clever riffing during the "host segments". A large sample of notable MST3K quotes is available on Wikiquote.

The episodes

A complete list of the 201 full episodes (and one unaired promo) of Mystery Science Theater 3000, including details and brief synopses of the movies and notes on the episodes, can be found at List of Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes.

Several of the movies used in the MST3K series have consistently made the Internet Movie Database list of the Bottom 100 movies over time, including Hobgoblins (1987) (episode 907), Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) (episode 424), Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders (1995) (episode 1003), and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) (episode 321).

Trivia

  • One piece of the Satellite of Love set was a painted Hungry Hungry Hippos game. Other pieces included portions of a toy Millennium Falcon, a toy Proton Pack from Kenner's Real Ghostbusters line, some sports water bottles, and two children's training potty seats. The potty seats are the only known set decoration to survive from KTMA to the Sci Fi Channel. [1]
  • There is a miniature doll of Dr. Forrester hidden on the right side of the screen during one of the doors in the Mike-era door sequence.
  • In the "Potty Emergency" episode of the cartoon series Animaniacs, Wakko, Yakko and Dot go to watch Brain Eaters from Outer Space, wherein an alien attempts to eat its victim by catching her betwixt two pieces of sliced bread. As she runs over to the side of the spaceship, she opens the window and screams. Right above the very window is inscribed: "MST3K". [2]
  • When the series finale (1013: Diabolik) aired, the Sci Fi Channel had an official IRC chat with Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett [3], and Kevin Murphy. When asked by fans if they should stop watching the Sci Fi Channel after MST3K's cancellation, Kevin Murphy responded "YES STOP WATCHING!! NOW!!!" before the moderators could respond. [4]
  • The original cut of one movie, the biker flick The Sidehackers, reportedly included a graphic rape/murder scene which was removed, leaving an obvious gap in the storyline. The BBI staff explained that they had not thoroughly reviewed the film before deciding to use it, but changed this practice afterward.
Gypsy.
  • One of the only elements included in every known episode of MST3K is creator Joel Hodgson's voice during the "Robot Roll Call" portion of the opening theme song.
  • The videogame magazine PlayStation Underground (Volume 2 Number 1) included a Best Brains-produced MST3K short on one of their promotional discs. The video opened with a host segment of Mike and the Bots playing some PlayStation games, only to go into the theater to riff on some videos from the magazine's past. The feature is about seven minutes long. An Easter egg on the disc has some behind-the-scenes footage of Best Brains filming the sequences.
  • MST3K is actually the password for the final level in the computer game Mac Attack. [5]
  • The computer game Escape Velocity features many Mystery Science Theater references, including: An Easter Egg where you can fly the S.O.L., a secret weapon called "The Forklift" which plays a brief snippet of the MST Song "They Tried to Kill me with a Forklift", and by holding down the 'Option' key one can watch a parody of the MST Theme Song in place of the games normal opening scrawl.
  • Wing Commander 3 had a mission set in the Torgo system. In addition, a player could type "Mitchell" (a reference to the Joe Don Baker movie MST3K parodied) to put the game in cheat mode; if it was successful, the game played an audio snippet of Joel, Crow and Tom Servo saying "Mitchell!"
  • LucasArt's computer game Star Wars: Rebel Assault II contained an elaborate easter egg that, if activated, would display the famous MST3K silhouette on the bottom of the screen. Afterwards, all the cutscenes in the game would display alternate, humorous dialogue in the style of the show.
Mystery Science Theater 3000's Mike Nelson (left) and Kevin Murphy, at "Exoticon 1" convention panel in Metairie, Louisiana, November, 1998.
  • During a tour of the Best Brains studio, Info Club "Poobah" Barb Tebben mentioned that, according to the writers and performers, the "classic" Satellite of Love set used from Season 2 until the end of Season 7 cost $200 to construct.
  • The only appearance to date of the cast in character since the final episode was an episode of ESPN Classic's Cheap Seats, where they briefly appeared in a cameo to make fun of the hosts' own skits. The show is largely looked upon as the closest thing to MST3K on television as of January 2006.
  • In the Archie Comics series Sonic the Hedgehog, issue #52, Sonic the Hedgehog is sent into a 1920s variation of Mobius. In searching for the handheld computer Nicole, Sonic does battle with a number of robots, two of them resembling Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo.
  • The DC Comics series Young Justice and Teen Titans Go! had various MST3K references. References include a box of "MiSTe-Os" with Tom Servo on it in Young Justice: "Sins of Youth" (#1), the remains of the Satellite of Love in a spaceship graveyard in the Young Justice installment of "Our Worlds at War", and Starfire going to Torgo's Pizza in Teen Titans Go! issue #2.
  • In one of the show's skits from 1993, the cast decided to poke fun at Minneapolis, Minnesota radio station WBOB, which had adopted the identity "Bob 100" and the slogan "Turn your knob to BOB". In their parody, Dr. Forrester was naming a radio station after TV's Frank with the slogan "Turn your crank to Frank". In 2006, Nassau Broadcasting actually started a variety-hits "Frank FM" format, similar to the "Jack FM" format, so in areas of the Northeastern United States, people can now actually turn their "crank" to Frank.
  • The Homestar Runner cartoon "A Jorb Well Done" features a theater scene (which in itself is parodying A Clockwork Orange's conditioning scene) in which Tom Servo is visible.
  • MST3K has infiltrated realms of fiction completely unrelated to the series. It has become an acceptable form of critical commentary in various fanfiction genres to MST or MiST a story that is perceived as flawed. In the MSTing, it is common for characters of the story to examine it through the voice of the MSTier, usually in a biting or sarcastically funny manner.
  • A comedy group in Austin, Texas put on "Mister Sinus Theater" versions of cult movies in which live MST3K-style comedy takes place in the theater (The Alamo Drafthouse). The creators of MST3K sued the group over copyright issues, and the group has since changed its name to [[6]["The Sinus Show."]]
  • For rock band Weezer's 2001 self-titled album (aka The Green Album), the band had a silhouette of the MST3K cast sitting in front of the band playing on-stage in the CD case insert. The trio can be found on the bottom right hand side of the crowd.
  • The webcomic Megatokyo features a strip named "Mega-Science Theatre 3k" where Largo talks about previous scenes saying, "The scene is saying I am lame."

See also

References

  • Beaulieu, Trace, et al. The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Amazing Colossal Episode Guide (1996). ISBN 0553377833.
  • The Official MST3K FAQ
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