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Post by TV's Cowboy on Oct 3, 2014 18:10:41 GMT -5
It's true I saw the show when it was called MST2K. I also got copies of the Satellite News when it was called the Binding Polymer
Please don't take this seriously.
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Post by crowschmo on Oct 3, 2014 19:00:24 GMT -5
I saw it when it was called Matlock.
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Post by afriendlychicken on Oct 3, 2014 19:14:54 GMT -5
I saw it when it was called Matlock. I could swear it was called McCloud.
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Post by crowschmo on Oct 3, 2014 19:19:19 GMT -5
McMillan and Wife?
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Post by ssalty on Jan 21, 2016 0:27:18 GMT -5
You did see that. I don't know how long it was on or what happened to it. I was living in rural Alaska at the time and we got one channel that was very much delayed behind broadcast TV. But on a few trips south I saw the show you mention and thought it was great. It used the same format and had the same commentators. When I visited near the end of the 90's, I couldn't find it. Then a few years ago I noticed it was on as MST3000.
It may have been the same people making it but the only difference is in the designation of years. Most of the people who watch these days think they're so original with their comments, but probably they were just too young to stay up late enough to watch the actual original.
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Post by afriendlychicken on Jan 21, 2016 4:11:41 GMT -5
From the moment I first saw portions of episodes in 1990 on The Comedy Channel it had the 3000 designation. During that whole time I've never known it to be called by any other designation. Maybe some local stations called it by a different name in some regions? I wouldn't know but here in Hawai'i it's always been known as Mystery Science Theater 3000.
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Post by majorjoe23 on Jan 21, 2016 11:29:37 GMT -5
It was always Mystery Science Theater 2000, but the purpose of Dr. Forrester's experiment was to break our minds and see the number "2000" as "3000." It worked, which is why when you tell most people "I'm a big fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000," they usually stare blankly or say "The show with the robots?"
They say that because they never watched, so are still able to see the name as "Mystery Science Theater 2000" and are staring at us like if you referred to MASH as MASHed Potatoes or something.
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Post by chudnado on Jan 22, 2016 4:05:06 GMT -5
You did see that. I don't know how long it was on or what happened to it. I was living in rural Alaska at the time and we got one channel that was very much delayed behind broadcast TV. But on a few trips south I saw the show you mention and thought it was great. It used the same format and had the same commentators. When I visited near the end of the 90's, I couldn't find it. Then a few years ago I noticed it was on as MST3000. It may have been the same people making it but the only difference is in the designation of years. Most of the people who watch these days think they're so original with their comments, but probably they were just too young to stay up late enough to watch the actual original. The fan community has access to nearly every episode, with their original openings, taped off the tv on their original airdates, and the show was never called anything other than Mystery Science Theater 3000, except when episodes were split for syndication and called The Mystery Science Theater Hour. Maybe instead of insulting our age, you should consider that your memory just isn't as good as you think it is. Mystery solved.
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Post by viking66 on Apr 9, 2016 15:05:33 GMT -5
The op is not crazy, there certainly was a MST 2000...it was a precursor to MST 3000 and largely impromptu. It took me less than a minute to find it on Google. *smh* MYSTERY SOLVED
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Post by wedestroymyths on Apr 9, 2016 15:34:11 GMT -5
This is a joke, right? Like a bit?
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Post by TV's Cowboy on Apr 9, 2016 16:02:36 GMT -5
You'll notice all the accounts that support the MST2k story aside from the topic creator only have one post and serve only to bump this old thread.
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Post by Torgo on Apr 9, 2016 16:45:11 GMT -5
This topic will never die. It's our forum's tumor.
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Post by majorjoe23 on Apr 9, 2016 19:35:27 GMT -5
It's not a tumah.
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Post by afriendlychicken on Apr 9, 2016 20:51:07 GMT -5
There is a video on YouTube listed as Mystery Science Theater 2000 uploaded in 2009 but it was obviously done way after MST3K went off the air. I'm wondering if this "Lone-Gamera" poster is one of the creators of that unfunny video which, of course, has lots of swearing.
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Post by SoCalChevy on Apr 10, 2016 11:18:09 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. I know some people who saw the show once and then referred to it as MST 2000 when I brought it up. And even though I was a little kid at the end of the century I also remember a bunch of things being called "something 2000." So I agree that this is probably a case of mishearing or misremembering since it wasn't the number they expected.
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