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Post by scott123 on Jul 12, 2010 10:27:11 GMT -5
Hi ... please help me settle a question. I'm not a MST die hard, but recently started getting into it and have watched it over the years here and there. I am absolutely positive I saw a "Mystery Science Theater 2000" in the early days ... and then thinking 'Oh they changed the name' when I saw 3000. I've seen posts by other people making this claim too ... but most people say that it never existed. I really don't think I'm imagining this ... please settle this.  Thanks |
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Post by Mitchell on Jul 12, 2010 12:16:07 GMT -5
During part of the KTMA run, the show was simply known as Mystery Science Theatre, but Joel eventually assigned the 3000 as a "version number."
There was never an "official" MST2K, and the show sometimes is misidentified as 2000, but I can't rule out there was some spoof or another project that included 2000 somewhere in a MST-like fashion.
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Post by msmystie3000 on Jul 12, 2010 12:30:58 GMT -5
I also think Joel Hodgson mentioned his "Mystery Science Lab 2000" in some of his stand-up acts.
Most likely, he's thinking of the misidentification thing. Even way back in the day, I may have accidently refered to it as "Mystery Science Theater 2000"...I was a kid, I never actually watched the show on a regular basis during it's first run. I only saw one full episode (Time Of The Apes). Oddly, I knew 3 of the bots names, Crow, Tom Servo & Gypsy. When Mike came I was "Who's that guy?!!!". One minute it's "The Guy I Vaguely Remember From A Comedy Act"...the next it's "Some Big Hunky Blond Jock".
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Post by Mitchell on Jul 12, 2010 14:19:38 GMT -5
I also think Joel Hodgson mentioned his "Mystery Science Lab 2000" in some of his stand-up acts. I do seem to remember that too...I think I have seen a Letterman appearance where he mentions that. |
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Post by Bix Dugan on Jul 13, 2010 8:16:29 GMT -5
I think I remember (somewhere) hearing that "2000" wasn't far enough into the future, so they went with "3000".
But this could just be in my head.
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Post by scott123 on Jul 13, 2010 10:12:24 GMT -5
Thanks all for your replies .. I'm actually referring to the logo .. not somebody just calling it Mystery Science Theater 2000. If I remember right it looked like the current logo, except it said 2000. And I remember it later switched to "3000" ... I swear I remember that ...
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Post by callipygias on Jul 13, 2010 10:16:31 GMT -5
I think I remember (somewhere) hearing that "2000" wasn't far enough into the future, so they went with "3000". But this could just be in my head. That was an old interview with... Joel, I assume. He said something like, "We were calling it Mystery Science Theater 2000, but then 3000 just seemed like a thousand more." |
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Post by Mitchell on Jul 13, 2010 13:49:57 GMT -5
I think I remember (somewhere) hearing that "2000" wasn't far enough into the future, so they went with "3000". But this could just be in my head. 3000 was never a year, it was a version, meaning the 3000th version of the Mystery Science Theatre the mads created. I think you're right though, Bix, that they purposely shied away from 2000 since it was only a decade away and would make the show dated... Scott, I really think you've misremembered. I've seen all the KTMAs and the first season on the Comedy Channel, and it's always been either Mystery Science Theatre or Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Also, neither MST's Wikipedia page nor the Sattelite News site mentions 2000. I doubt they would have created a logo that differed from the show's actual name. |
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Post by Mogol on Jul 13, 2010 23:35:32 GMT -5
Thanks all for your replies .. I'm actually referring to the logo .. not somebody just calling it Mystery Science Theater 2000. If I remember right it looked like the current logo, except it said 2000. And I remember it later switched to "3000" ... I swear I remember that ... 3000 was never a year, it was a version, meaning the 3000th version of the Mystery Science Theatre the mads created. With today's trends of reboots, remakes and re-imaginings... I smell prequel! |
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Post by christmas on Jul 14, 2010 2:03:41 GMT -5
I hope we don't find out he was thinking about the Futurama "30th Century Fox" logo...
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Post by parianpour on Oct 3, 2014 2:17:32 GMT -5
Scott123 I think you are totally right! I'm so glad someone else feels this way! I distinctly remember it being MST2000 back in the day.
I hadn't watched the show in years when I saw it on Netflix with the name MST3000, I assumed it was a new version of the show! That's how strongly I remembered the 2000 version. So weird, also I didn't remember them making their own movies but just making fun of old movies. I'm confused!!!
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Post by Torgo on Oct 3, 2014 12:06:01 GMT -5
So weird, also I didn't remember them making their own movies but just making fun of old movies. I'm confused!!! Jigga-what-now? |
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Post by Mod City on Oct 3, 2014 13:20:23 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm not sure to what you're referring there with making their own movies, parianpour, but I understand what Scott123 was saying in the OP.
For some reason the name Mystery Science Theater 2000 bounced around in my head when I was just getting into the show, too. But over the years and a lot of study, reading interviews, studying the history of the show and so forth has led me to conclude that people who recall the "2000" are just flat-out misremembering, just as I initially did. Maybe there was a product out at the time that carried the number 2000 in it - like an infomercial product of some kind, perhaps. Or a toy line or something else that might have carried the designation of "2000."
But I haven't seen any evidence of whatever it is I thought I saw/remembered. I've seen every episode that is available to fans and it's always just been "3000" when it comes to the show.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Oct 3, 2014 15:52:29 GMT -5
So weird, also I didn't remember them making their own movies but just making fun of old movies. I'm confused!!! Jigga-what-now? Well, they did make one movie. But it was still making fun of an old movie. And, sorry, but it was never 2000. I've been a fan since 1990 (rabidly so), and never once was it referred to as MST 2000, except possibly by mistaken word-of-mouth or in Joel's stand-up act (as referenced above). But once the show started, it was always 3000. |
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Oct 3, 2014 16:39:53 GMT -5
Part of the confusion may also be because *everything* was getting the number 2000 in the 90s. MST3K sort of bucked that trend, but could've easily been associated with it.
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