When zany mad scientist Dr. Clayton Forrester and his loopy assistant Frank get bored with their work at the Deep Thirteen research center they kidnap Joel the janitor and shoot him into orbit on the Satellite of Love. While in space Joel builds wacky robot sidekicks Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot to help him withstand an onslaught of grade Z movies that the mad scientists force him to watch.
Review
Comedy Central gets credit when credit is due. "South Park" the "Chapelles Show" "Win Ben Steins Money" "The Daily Show" and a few others were breakthough series for a very hungry comedy generation. But this was their very first hit let no one tell ya differently.
At first I thought Mystery Science Theater 3000 would bug me. A bunch of folks talking through a movie. I HATE that. But these guys have gone through and chosen a host of films that are bad to begin with. And you know as youre sitting in the comfort of your home by yourself or with friends watching these same films you are saying or thinking the same thing of what Joel and Mike and the bots are.
Yes MST3K is "cheap" its stupid..but its a heck of alot of fun. There are a few movies they took that I didnt think deserved an MST3K "doover" but at some points in the series they did a unique thing and added in Cartoons old Soap Operas and TV Series before showing the full feature. That was a laugh riot.
Comedy Centrals MST3K went to the SciFi Channel where they still show the series but I wish they would also show the ones with Joel and the bots along with the ones with Mike and the bots. In such a depressing time it puts a smile on my face for two hours every Saturday Morning. Its simple and simple.
Every year the SciFi network does "Twilight Zone" Marathons which I love. I remember Comedy Central ONCE doing a "MST3K" Marathon its time to do another. This is the best comedyscifi series to date it deserves alot more than it got.
If not maybe its time to pull the gang together and do another "Movie". The "MST3K" gang really blew it with doing "This Island Earth" when we all know "Manos the Hands of Fate" would have gotten them Academy Award Nominations. Find another film like that put these guys back into space (and hey bring em back home!) and I bet it would surprise everyone in the film industry for how well it would do.
Great Series!