Mystery Science Theater 3000 was the funniest show on television EVER. Ran for 10 years, ended just a couple of years ago, had a silly premise of a guy trapped on a spaceship by a mad scientist and his henchman and forced to watch really bad movies so that the mad scientist could observe his brain slowly turning to pudding (in the name of science, of course!). But the guy formed himself a few wise-cracking robots out of spare parts and they watch the movies with him and they all make fun of the films as they play: low-budget monster movies, badly-dubbed Godzilla rip-offs, biker flicks, odd fantasy imports, cheesy sci-fi crap. The jokes at the film's expense just keep on coming and coming. And they never tried to dumb anything down for an audience, they just said, "The audience we want will show up for this kind of thing." I could have just given you a link to some info sites but it's much more fun to talk about it! You can find a very large resource site here, though, if you like: http://mst3k.booyaka.com/index.shtml?refresh
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Date: 2003-08-25 11:07 am (UTC)Mystery Science Theater 3000 was the funniest show on television EVER. Ran for 10 years, ended just a couple of years ago, had a silly premise of a guy trapped on a spaceship by a mad scientist and his henchman and forced to watch really bad movies so that the mad scientist could observe his brain slowly turning to pudding (in the name of science, of course!). But the guy formed himself a few wise-cracking robots out of spare parts and they watch the movies with him and they all make fun of the films as they play: low-budget monster movies, badly-dubbed Godzilla rip-offs, biker flicks, odd fantasy imports, cheesy sci-fi crap. The jokes at the film's expense just keep on coming and coming. And they never tried to dumb anything down for an audience, they just said, "The audience we want will show up for this kind of thing." I could have just given you a link to some info sites but it's much more fun to talk about it! You can find a very large resource site here, though, if you like: http://mst3k.booyaka.com/index.shtml?refresh