Joel Hodgson, Creator of Mystery Science Theater 3000,
Announces Series of Livestreaming Events Supporting
the Campaign to #BringBackMST3KWith four days left in the campaign to #BringBackMST3K and the Kickstarter at 73% of its final goal, Joel Hodgson is pulling out all the stops to ensure the campaign reaches the $5.5 million needed to fund a full season of 12 brand new, feature length episodes of the beloved cult television series Mystery Science Theater 3000, before the 10 pm PT deadline on Friday, December 11th, 2015.
This week, MST-ies old and new are invited to join Joel for several days of festivities, including big announcements about the revival, nightly streaming MST3K double feature events hosted by Joel, and the live streaming event “Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Final Countdown! A Livestreaming Telethon with Joel Hodgson & Friends to Help #BringBackMST3K.”
Nightly Livestream Mystery Science Theater 3000 Double Features
Each night this week, tune into the Nightly Livestream Mystery Science Theater 3000 Double Feature for a double dose of classic MST3K episodes.The streaming broadcast will run through Thursday, December 10th, with screenings at 7 pm ET / 4 pm PT and 10 pm ET/ 7pm PT. Each lineup will feature new introductions by Joel, and include one Joel episode and one Mike episode. To watch, tune in to MST3K.com/FinalCountdown. Join the conversation with fellow MST-ies by using the hashtag #BringBackMST3K.
On Friday, December 11th, the double feature will start at 5 pm ET / 2 pm PT, as a special lead-in to the final night’s event, “Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Final Countdown! A Livestreaming Telethon with Joel Hodgson & Friends to Help #BringBackMST3K.”
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Final Countdown! A Livestreaming Telethon with Joel Hodgson & Friends to Help #BringBackMST3K
Starting at 8 pm ET / 5 pm PT on Friday, December 11th , join Hodgson, special guest hosts Paul & Storm, and a cavalcade of celebrity friends and supporters for an evening of laughs, music, magic and MST3K memories with Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Final Countdown! A Livestreaming Telethon with Joel Hodgson & Friends to Help #BringBackMST3K . Featuring in-person and video appearances from celebrity guests including Felicia Day, Jonah Ray, Hampton Yount, Patton Oswalt, Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland, Robert Lopez, Pendleton Ward, Dana Gould, Steve Zaragoza, Freezepop, Starbomb, Master Pancake, John Carney, Game Grumps and many more, the event is powered by XSN, the Internet’s home to discover, buy and sell collectables and hosted at the legendary epicenter of cool, Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles.Fans will be able to participate in the festivities by tuning into the livestream of the event at MST3K.com/FinalCountdown and join in the conversation on social media using the hashtag #BringBackMST3K.
To contribute to the campaign and for updates, visit www.bringbackmst3k.com, and follow MST3K on Facebook (facebook.com/MST3K), Twitter (@MST3K) and Instagram (@MST3K).
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Jugglers. I demand jugglers…
Yes, we need more faygo showers!
Place your bets! First movie tonight will be Space Mutiny
Ah, “Space Mutiny”, the generation-gap “More cowbells!” of MST3K…
I don’t like that one either, EricJ, but 99% of Msties do (why, I’ll never understand), so that’s my guess for tonight. For some reason, my least favorites are among the communities most favorite. For example, I don’t care for Werewolf (why is this funny? it’s typical 90s direct to video fare), Overdrawn (everything about this episode I loathe lol), Space Mutiny (worst crime is having a bad editor, and beaten to death Hercules call backs [you know, the endless memes of Dirk Squarejaw, as if Space Mutiny is the only MST worth watching]), and Agent For H.A.R.M. (Prince jokes, anyone?). I much prefer the under rated The Thing That Couldn’t Die, The Deadly Bees, The Space Children and even good-ol Lembeck from The Projected Man if I have to watch Sci-Fi era.
Late Season 8 is a double-edged sword. Sometimes I think Prince Of Space is funny, other times it cuts me right to the core with searing doldrums of pain. Season 9 gets better (although a few missteps along the way that others love and I don’t, like Hobgoblins and Touch of Satan). Give me Season 10 please, the best of the Sci-Fi era. Actual good episodes like Soultaker, Girl In Gold Boots, Merlin, Blood Waters, Boggy Creek 2, Moon Beast, Final Justice. Only a few Season 10 duds IMO, like Future War and Spider Island, but even they have their moments. Well, all episodes do. It’s just late Season 8/early Season 9 is a dead zone for me. No vibe in those episodes, 815-820, 822 and 904. Yuk, bottom of the barrel. Hey, something’s got to be at the bottom!
Thank you for letting me get that off my chest, once again ;) now, let’s #bringbackmst3k ! We need more episodes so Space Mutiny can be dethroned! You hipsters with your transistor radios, and your Blast Hardcheese, and your CED disks and your Beck…
love ya!
And don’t forget (as most apparently have) the FAR superior werewolf movie riffed in the Sci-Fi era, I Was A Teenage Werewolf! Man, now that’s a near perfect episode!
One more oddball point, 819 Invasion Of The Neptune Men, one of the most universally disliked episodes of the whole series, right? I say 820 is just as insufferable. I mean, how do you go from the “worst” episode to the “best” the very next week? Emperor Wears No Clothes, I say. But that’s just me, as the Battlestar Galactica-less joke filled Space Mutiny memes keep rolling by…
yay! I was wrong! Batwoman FTW!
Ah, one man’s trash… (“Prince of Space” and “Neptune” are my wife and I’s favorite episodes — actually, any of the Japan movie ones, from Gamera to Godzilla, are all just wonderful).
That’s the great thing about the variety we have — and nowadays you just don’t have to watch any you don’t like (to me, about the only episode I really can’t watch is “Catalina Caper” — them doing that kind of comedy just never got funny at all).
And your Captain Santa Claus, which Rifftrax has to fan-panderingly callback every single danged time Cameron Mitchell shows up in a cheap PD movie (which is often).
FTW, indeed. One last blast of good old-fashioned Joel-era bizarre-for-bizarre’s-sake in the first Mike days of S5.
Ha, ha! My #11 top fave episode Catalina Caper, movie #2 tonight!
Catalina Caper is one of my favorites, I’m always surprised to hear some people don’t like it. It seems to be polarizing, you either love it or hate it.
I know we’re better off ignoring you, but….you hate Mike Nelson with a fiery passion, yet you apparently watched all of his MST3k episodes AND enough Rifftrax to know about their running gags?! Incredible.
EricJ: “Ah, “Space Mutiny”, the generation-gap “More cowbells!” of MST3K…”
This comment is Hurting Man-Baby George Lucas and the Prequels Ruined my Childhood Star Wars Fan levels of dumb. Space Mutiny and Werewolf (since that was brought up by someone too) are popular because they’re both funny, well written episodes. This “no fun allowed,” paranoid, divisive “older, ‘proper’ MST fans vs ignorant millennial fans who offend me because they supposedly only like RT and the Sci-Fi years” stupidity is getting really old. So if Space Mutiny is the “More cowbells! of MST3K,” is Pod People the “Heyyyyyy, Makin’ Copies!!! of MST3K”? I wonder how many other TV shows and movies we can use the astute “EricJ SNL-era skit sliding scale of acceptability or lack thereof” model on?
So callbacks – which have been part of the MST3K (and CT) joke arsenal almost since its inception – are “pandering” when the Rifftrax crew do them? You’re a fountain of cogent criticisms, you are.
I could say “Know thy enemy”, but think it’s more accurate to say “Who goes into a poker game and just looks at their cards?” 8-)
If you’re going to insult somebody, remember, as M&tB so often forget, the sacred MST3K tenet that Humor is Research.
And besides, I only watch the cheap ones on Amazon Prime for free, although I did get Ice Cream Bunny and Balloonland when they sent out free promotional coupons. Thus I can say with a clear conscience that I have never paid them a cent, and still be a properly target-specific heckler.
On the CT shows, Joel frequently joked about how they were trying to keep the shows from being MST3K fanboy conventions, and wanted to keep the new movie riffs original without sinking into fan-pimping callbacks to a TV show that was now off the air.
Something the RT’ers never have any problem with in keeping their pubescent cash cows in the audience loudly mooing. (And with occasional pandering shoutouts to those in the grass and weeds.)
The RT guys have specifically referred to this as pandering. I recently watched SCCtM Live and they do a “Tor. Go. Torgo.” joke which they immediately tag as pandering.
And yet! (from CT’s TV Tropes page)
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From the East Meets Watts live show:
[the film’s lead is battling a snake in a rock pit]
Joel: Hey, Trace? Watch out for snakes.
[audience goes wild]
[the lead is climbing out of the rock pit]
Trace: Hey, Joel? Rock climbing.
[audience goes wild]
Frank: Torgo! (audience cracks up) No, wait, that has nothing to do with anything.
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Those riffs get you “mooing,” did they?
The point isn’t whether it is or isn’t pandering, it’s the selective outrage over it. Or for that matter, any type of outrage at all, which is just plain weird.
I wouldn’t define Rifftrax callbacks to earlier Rifftrax as pandering, nor MST3K callbacks to earlier MST3K episodes. But Rifftrax calling back to MST3K, especially when it’s obvious, I would kind of see that as pandering.
(Followed by: )
Joel: Hey, Trace? Audience pandering.
[knowing laugh from older, more progressive fans]
(One of my favorite CT’s out of an otherwise dreary bunch, so don’t try to out-quote me, sunny-Jim.)
Haaaaa! Wow.
LOL. Wow. I mean, there’s reaching, and there’s this.
I always thought “pandering” was going to a Furries convention dressed as a black and white Chinese bear?
We’ll probably get Space Mutiny tonight. Or maybe not at all! Wouldn’t it be funny if Overdrawn is not shown this week? Joel said this week’s are his favorites, so we’ll see. I guess the remaining themes will be Space, Sword & Sandal and/or Spy. Friday’s picks will be I Accuse My Parents and Laserblast (if not Final Sacrifice).
And Laserblast is so a word, spellcheck!
And since he doesn’t watch his old CC episodes–and thinks the SFC episodes are hilarious because he didn’t have to work on them–take a wild guess which one of two others he’s said is his favorite…
HAHAHA EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD LOVES SPACE MUTINY EXCEPT A SMALL MINORITY OF BITTER FANS SUCK IT!!!
Seems to me a given that the “Mike” episode will likely be “The Final Sacrifice” or “Laserblast”, but I wonder what we’ll get for Joel era episode. He already did “I accuse my parents” which he frequently refers to as one of his favorites. Does he pander and show “Manos” which in the past has said is NOT one of his favorites?? I guess I just don’t have a good feel for what he’s going to pick. I never would have thought “Warrior of the Lost World” would make the list. (And I say that as a good thing.)
Edit: Oh – is it going to be “Mitchell”? That’s probably it.