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Joel InterviewDylan Dawson at Minnpost.com interviews Joel.
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Joel Hodgson is making a comeback, and he’s bringing the Satellite of Love crew with him. If you’re under 25 or over 40, these words might not mean anything to you, but to those of us in between who grew up watching “Mystery Science Theater 3000” on Comedy Central,
I stopped reading right there.
Most of the MSTies I knew from the first-run days are over 40 now. :roll:
I’m 22 years old, and it means everything to me. I’ve been a fan since I was 12 years old.
Yeah, I don’t know how the interviewer came up with those age limits. Must be pretty out of touch, for being a so-called fan. I’m 47 and know and enjoy the show as much as ever.
I, too, am an over-40 and love the show, and have since I happened to catch Cave Dwellers while channel surfing in the early 90s.
I also have several under-25s in my household who love the show. Granted they weren’t first-run watchers, but they certainly know the significance of the words “Satellite of Love” Just the other day, my 13-year-old daughter was explaining the cute robots and spaghetti ball magnets on my fridge to her friend. Then she asked to watch the episode with Peter Graves and the giant grasshoppers (she couldn’t remember the title). She and her brother LOVE the “I’m Peter Graves and I went to the University of Minnesota” segment. And the rubber grasshopper/postcard segment.
I started reading again. My mistake.
MP: When you first started MST3K on public access TV, how did you assemble the writers and performers for the show?
Is there a Smiley which is just the slow shaking of bowed head from side to side, with eyes squeezed shut? That’s what I’m looking for.
Oh Joel, please bring Cinematic Titanic back to Minneapolis! I promise to stop my feet and light a match, even if I’m the only one in the theater doing so.
Hey guys
I’m the “so called fan” who conducted and wrote the interview. I definitely am aware that fans of MST3K range well beyond those limits I put forward, but was writing the piece for a website who’s readership is largely much older and, as I was made to understand it, largely unaware of the show. I was also responding to MANY younger people in my own life who, to my dismay, had never heard of the show either. Hence, these words MIGHT not mean anything to you.
The changing of “little UHF station” as Joel put it to “public access” is an editing error on my part, one i meant to change but didn’t. Yet the world keeps spinning.
Not used to the comment section fireball attack. I am a minneapolis born true fan who used to run next door to my friends house every week to watch the show because I didn’t have cable. Only saw your comments cause i was psyched to get linked to the official fansite. Learning quickly that the advice I’ve always gotten not to read them is all too true.
Don’t hate on fellow fans over small details! I begged for the interview cause I want to get the word out on Joel to his own hometown!
MST3K love,
Dylan
Dylan:
I thought your interview was excellent, by the way. Usually interviews with MST3K alumni are boring and occasionally wince-inducing. I thought yours was informed and intelligent, and you did a very good job of getting Joel to speak frankly.
Unfortunately, hyper-reactive fanboy culture has a tendency to drown out the more sensible voices out there. Don’t for a minute doubt your mojo. I look forward to reading your stuff in the future.
I agree with #8. That was a good interview. The internet is full of perfectionist nit-pickers who can sit in front a computer screen and act superior to others. You made a slight mistake, so what? Like we all don’t make mistakes on occasion. I’ve watched the show for twenty years and I still make mistakes about it. So does our wonderful Sampo. So, keep up the good work, and I hope you get to interview the others soon.
I think the posters are just jealous. You had an interview with Joel. Lucky bast… :smile:
I also thought this was a fine interview. I’m 43 and didn’t have cable during the original run of the show, but if I had I might have thought on first glance that it was too juvenile to devote myself to.
I’m glad that Joel has “come out” about his reasons for leaving the show and how therapy helped him get over his deep sense of disappointment at how things went down. Many entertainers never get the chance for a “second act” in show business: it seems like blessing/miracle that CT exists at all. BTW, Joel speaks even more about this an a recent podcast with Ken Plume at “A Bit Of A Chat With Ken Plume – FRED Entertainment”. Ken has also chatted with many other MST alumni. Thanks to Sampo for hipping me to these.
Dillon,
Sorry to read that I hurt your feelings. Was “Queen of Outer Space” your favorite episode too?
Still need a cookie? Asking about a CT date in Minnesota garnered an interesting response. Good on you for asking that.
Dylan,
Don’t worry about the few grumblers, you did great. I remember KTMA of the era, and it was little more than an over-glorified public access channel that played Green Acres reruns and MST :)
Although I think it’s a little amusing Joel didn’t think they got much of response in the Twin Cities. All of the fans here in town I know are proud that MST3k not only started here, but stayed here and didn’t turn into a production out on the coast. Its midwestern-ness kept it grounded, besides County Road C jokes are far funnier than name-checking streets in LA.
#7- Dylan- I saw that 25-40 range, but didn’t let it steer me away from a great article. That said, I have always felt the show was multi-generational. I am 53 and started watching when I was 42- I have three kids who loved the show who now range in age from 19-25. My present “squeeze” is 38 and enjoyed the show in college and now watches the Shout and Rhino sets- and I have three or four friends who are 65 plus who are huge fans too. When I went to see the Titans in Royal Oak, MI the crowd was mostly 50 plus (I had jello today…) thanks for writing!
#7 Dylan Dawson,
It is not the “little details” that you and members of your ilk miss in these interviews. It is the fact that you keep missing them in every one. If you miss the “little details” while interviewing someone you are a fan of, what is it like when you interview a stranger?
I realize that we are no longer in the world of journalistic integrity that Walter Cronkite or Edward R. Murrow brought us.
Heck, the New York Times reminds us of that almost daily.
I also realize that this is a little show, and a puff piece, that does not require the accuracy of a “real news story.”
However, with the rise of Cinematic Titanic, and RiffTrax, more and more interviews are being done and we fans are seeing just how slipshod and inefficient the current generation of reporters and interviewers have become, and it saddens us.
(and yes, I know you are a “documentary researcher” and not a “reporter.” but this is just a symptom of a bigger disease so bear with me)
Even famous and established names on cable news get the history wrong. I am not talking about the nit-pik things like “how many fingers did Crow have,” or “were there seven or eight buttons on the original jumpsuit.” I am talking about UHF vs public access stuff. Things even the most basic fan knows thanks to reading and the Internet.
Yes, the world continues to spin, and meeting a deadline is more important than getting it right. We also understand that with a small story like this, pre-interview research time was at a minimum. By now you have probably done a half dozen other stories and western civilization has not collapsed because of “an editing error on [my] part.”
What we all find interesting is the bristles reporters and interviewers (is there a difference?) raise when they are called to the carpet by the great unwashed masses that are your readers.
“Not used to the comment section fireball attack.”
Really? You consider this a “fireball attack”? An you are a playwright? I guess the New York Critics are not as harsh as we have been told. I got more heat than this on the lunch order I took last week.
Sometimes what you write is not going to be met with the same approval you get from your personal circle.
If it is accurate then that is the best you can hope for. Like you said, “the world keeps spinning.”
But don’t blanch every time someone points out a error or two in your work. You nailed your parchment to the tree. People are going to read it, and fans are going to correct your mistakes.
Maybe you can learn from them and do a little better the next time.
Overall, it was a good interview BTW. You did touch on things your counterparts always miss, and you shed some light on Joel/ Mike controversy only fans understood.
@ Brandon
Me too! Well i’m 23, but still.
Good interview though, despite that arbitrary age range.
Cheese n crackers! Some folks who have posted here need a nap. I like this site because of the respect shown towards each other whether in agreement or not. If you have to make a comment, try to be more adult about it. The comment you may think is a clever insult leaves most folk shaking their heads at your lack of maturity.
Joel compared himself to Jesus! I’m burning my Beatles albums immediately!
LOL :lol: :lol: :lol:
So am I!! :lol: