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The MST3K Season 14 Crowdfunding Campaign Is Live

The MST3K Season 14 Crowdfunding Campaign Is Live

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In the not too distant future, next Sunday AD, there was a man named Joel, no different than you or me. He produced a long-running cable show, where they made fun of movies either bad or slow. He did a pretty good job raking in the cash, but his bosses grew sick of him so they booted out his ass. He next found a home at a streaming site, where his fans could view him either day or night. Netflix seemed the place where he could finally chill, but he was booted just as quickly from their ruthless content mill. Finally he figured out the actual truth — it was his fans that would support him and give him a roof. The man at Gizmonic launched the Gizmoplex, where crowdfunding would produce the funds he needed to flex. If you’re wondering how he eats and breathes, and other science facts (ooo la la), repeat to yourself it’s through the fund, you should really just fork over cash. For Mystery Science

Gizmoplex Built: MST3K Achieves $5.5 Million Goal

Gizmoplex Built: MST3K Achieves $5.5 Million Goal

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It’s official: the experiment cannot be stopped! Mystery Science Theater 3000 (or MST3K as it’s commonly abbreviated) will be returning thanks to the wondrous new invention called the Gizmoplex — fully funded as of today. The original vision for was for MST3K to run indefinitely, with rotating hosts, Mads and puppeteers. Big business had other ideas, and the show has had to bounce around networks to chase its dream. There was the long and successful run at Comedy Central, followed by the short stay at the Sci-Fi Channel, and then for a long time nothing until the rise of streaming services hungry for any type of content. In 2017 MST3K found a cozy new home on Netflix, seemingly for good. The streamer had a reputation for buying as much content as possible. This, however, was before Netflix dropped the other shoe and revealed it loves cancelling shows just as much as making them. The revival received just two seasons there. Ever since, the production has resumed its nomadic wandering, looking

MST3K Kickstarter Launched With The Goal Of Making More Episodes

MST3K Kickstarter Launched With The Goal Of Making More Episodes

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The original vision for Mystery Science Theater 3000 (or MST3K as it’s commonly abbreviated) was for the show to run indefinitely, with rotating hosts, Mads and puppeteers. Big business had other ideas, and the show has had to bounce around networks to chase its dream. There was the long and successful run at Comedy Central, followed by the short stay at the Sci-Fi Channel, and then for a long time nothing until the rise of streaming services hungry for any type of content. In 2017 MST3K found a cozy new home on Netflix, seemingly for good. The streamer had a reputation for buying as much content as possible. This, however, was before Netflix dropped the other shoe and revealed it loves cancelling shows just as much as making them. The revival received just two seasons there. Ever since, the production has resumed its nomadic wandering, looking for another place to live. But series creator Joel Hodgson has a new idea…why not just build their own home? Behold the diabolical Gizmoplex:

Netflix Has MST3Kanned The MST3K Revival

Netflix Has MST3Kanned The MST3K Revival

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The honeymoon period is over between Netflix and its users. Not that long ago they were known as the streaming service that would greenlight anything, but throughout 2019 they’ve gained a new reputation as the Cancel Kings, beheading promising young shows before they got a chance to grow while giving the Logan’s Run treatment to anything over three seasons old. A brand as iconic as Mystery Science Theater 3000 is not immune to this either. Last year new host Jonah Ray took the occasion of Thanksgiving — a holiday embraced by MST3K fans — to announce and debut a second Netflix season. This year he took to the podium to announce its cancellation. And he did so in the flippant, media-oversavvy style inherent to this property: So, Netflix decided to not do another season of MST3K. We are off to Get Down in Lilyhammer while the OA helps us take it One Day At A Time. We will be in group therapy with Tuca & Bertie, Jessica Jones, & Lady

Rifftrax Live: The Giant Spider Invasion Comes To Theaters

Rifftrax Live: The Giant Spider Invasion Comes To Theaters

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Fathom Events is teaming up with Rifftrax to bring another live riffing to theaters — and this time, it’s 1975’s B-movie “classic” The Giant Spider Invasion. Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett, all former MST3K veterans, will be along for the wild ride, throwing in their insight when necessary. There’s a monster in Wisconsin, and it’s going to slowly, VERY slowly, strike TERROR INTO YOUR HEART! Sure your grandma could outrun it, but TERROR is more fun! When a fiery meteor lands in the woods, strange things begin to happen in this small Wisconsin town — even weirder than usual, and that’s a pretty high bar! While the townspeople are picked off by spiders of varying sizes, two esteemed scientists ramble around the countryside in a late model sedan, where they find friendship, romance and a big mechanical spider built on a Volkswagen Beetle chassis! The Great Spider Invasion starred “Alan Hale Jr, the (Skipper from “Gilligan’s Island”), Barbara Hale (“Perry Mason,” and no relation to the Skipper)

MST3K Will Officially Riff Mac And Me This Thanksgiving

MST3K Will Officially Riff Mac And Me This Thanksgiving

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The official trailer is out for the next season of MST3K, set to debut on Netflix Thanksgiving weekend. It’s been dubbed “THE GAUNTLET” because it’s expected many viewers will, in the tradition of the holiday, swallow it all in one go. It’s six episodes long and includes a movie many fans thought would never get an actual episode. It’s been riffed on by countless Internet critics over the years, but never the Bots themselves. It’s Mac and Me, the ill-conceived 1988 ET knockoff about a paralyzed boy and the rubbery O-faced thingamajig he befriends. Its existence was purely a corporate venture stuffed with blatant product placement, including a now-famous over-the-top visit to a McDonalds restaurant where everyone is inexplicably dancing their heads off. Ronald himself appears at the front of Mac and Me’s trailer, introducing the picture to the world. He was the first thing anyone saw. And according to an interview that I can’t seem to Google yet I swear I read two months ago, his original role was

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Renewed For Season 12

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Renewed For Season 12

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Netflix can be torturous sometimes with how long they take to announce show renewals. The announcements are seemingly made at random — you could hear about Season 2 one week after the first season comes out, or one month, or one year. Fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000 have been waiting on pins and needles for a LONG time regarding the fate of their favorite riff-fest, which was only recently revived. Renewals came quickly for other shows, but still no word on MST3K for most of 2017. If there was any place the announcement could still be made, it would be during the MST3K Turkey Day Marathon, which nowadays is streamed by their current owner Shout Factory on YouTube every Thanksgiving. So guess what happened. What makes this even better is that you don’t have to sit through the archive of the entire marathon to see the announcement happen. That portion has been broken off into a separate video, embedded below… Watch for Season 12 in 2018, starring Baron Vaughn

Shout Releases The Final Classic MST3K DVD Set This Fall

Shout Releases The Final Classic MST3K DVD Set This Fall

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How many DVD sets do you think it would take to print the entire original run of Mystery Science Theater 3000, minus the inaccessible KTMA pre-episodes? Apparently, it would take about 42. But we’re only getting 39. Shout Factory has announced the very last MST3K volume will be released this November. It’s taken a long time, almost since the dawn of TV on DVD, to come to this point…and it required the cooperation of two different companies (Rhino released the first few volumes before Shout bought the property and took over). Now about those missing numbers. There would have been three more volumes, but twelve of the episodes are unreleaseable due to the owners of the movies they lampoon forbidding their re-release in this form. They are as follows: Ep #201 Rocketship X-M Ep #212: Godzilla Vs. Megalon Ep #213: Godzilla Vs. The Sea Monster Ep #309: The Amazing Colossal Man Ep #311: It Conquered the World Ep #416: Fire Maidens from Outer Space Ep #418: The Eye Creatures Ep

A Twitch MST3K Marathon Is In Your Not Too Distant Future

A Twitch MST3K Marathon Is In Your Not Too Distant Future

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The streaming web service Twitch, normally known for hosting video game livestreams, has gotten attention recently for running marathons of quirky shows. Bob Ross may have not been the greatest tonal fit with the Twitch audience, but their next marathon selection definitely is: Mystery Science Theater 3000. Shout Factory, who currently holds the rights to the series, will be broadcasting 38 classic episodes nonstop over six days. The URL says “Shout,” not ‘MST3K,” so presumably more from their library is coming. Unlike previous Twitch marathons, which have included such rarities as the entire run of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Mystery Science Theater 3000 isn’t exactly scarce. Back when the show was originally running fans were encouraged to tape episodes and “circulate” them. Shout has been a gracious host, giving the reruns plenty of exposure on their website, on YouTube and on digital subchannels. A marathon of selected episodes is streamed every Thanksgiving day. And of course, we just got a new season of the show earlier this year, with a new

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Literally Riffing On Netflix

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Literally Riffing On Netflix

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The new season of Mystery Science Theater 3000 starts streaming on Netflix TODAY! And what better way for the crew of the Satellite of Love to show gratitude to their benefactors than to riff apart their pre-existing programming? Sparing nobody, they’re going after Netflix’s most sacred cow. Watch them watch Stranger Things! The new season stars Jonah Ray as the latest victim of a mad experiment to find the single worst movie of all time. He’ll be joined by iconic robots Tom Servo, Crow and Gypsy as well as be treated to daily transmissions from the new gaggle of Mads — Felicia Day as Kinga Forrester and and Patton Oswalt as TV’s Son Of TV’s Frank. The 14 new episodes include such deliciously cheesy offerings as “Reptilicus,” “The Loves of Hercules” and the 1978 Star Wars ripoff “Starcrash.” Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return is live now on Netflix.