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Post by Afgncaap5 on Nov 8, 2003 14:12:39 GMT -5
Okay, we all know the backstory of MST3K. Mad scientist wants to break a person's free will by forcing him to watch the worst movies ever made, all the while selling the experiments to cable television in order to get some extra cash on the side.
Do you think that proper notes were taken, though? I mean, both Clayton and Pearl were occasionally seen "filing" the experiment away at the end of an episode, and Pearl occasionally commented on her dissapointment at the lack of Mike's pain (such as through all of Experiment 913-Quest Of The Delta Knights and at the very end of Experiment 1003-Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders), but do you think that they ever took notes on what types of movie did the most damage or what types of scenes seemed to generate the most riffing opportunities?
I know that it's "just a show, and I should really just relax," but I'm a mad scientist in real life (the pay stinks, but it's a fun hobby), and this type of thing interests me.
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Post by deep13 on Nov 8, 2003 19:08:35 GMT -5
Okay, we all know the backstory of MST3K. Mad scientist wants to break a person's free will by forcing him to watch the worst movies ever made, all the while selling the experiments to cable television in order to get some extra cash on the side. Here's what I think: if the experiments were sold to cable television, then they *must* be on videotape, right? So maybe there are sitting on shelves and banker's boxes in the basement, just waiting for someone to catalog them (Brain Guy or Steffi the babysitter, perhaps?). Oh wait, that's what my basement looks like...never mind! ;D
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Nov 9, 2003 2:36:14 GMT -5
Heh-heh....I wonder if Steffi ever really grasped just what was going on there. She seemed fairly capable of keeping a sentient evil ape and a hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional being under control while Pearl was away. A force to be reckoned with, that one was.
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Post by Unsavory on Nov 9, 2003 2:43:31 GMT -5
I think the mads went about it all wrong. If I really wanted to drive someone crazy, I'd just make them watch the Mitchell sex scene on a loop for two straight hours every day instead of a new experiment each time.
Guess that wouldn't have made much of a show though...
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Nov 9, 2003 19:14:15 GMT -5
They should've just made them watch the shorts straight through, but put the episodes in the wrong order. THAT would've done it.
Better yet, imagine the pain that would've been felt if "Hired, pt. II" had come AFTER Manos, and not before it? Pain, pain, pain, pain, pain....
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Nov 10, 2003 21:35:40 GMT -5
Oh, definitely. Servo lost it, and Mike left the theater for a minute despite the lack of air anywhere else in the ship. The mads definitely "won" in that episode.
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Nov 10, 2003 22:19:26 GMT -5
Well, perhaps Dr. Forrester didn't need one movie, but several in a row. His calculations probably said that Mike was only one movie away from losing it, and that an easy one would be just as good as a bad one.
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Nov 11, 2003 0:25:05 GMT -5
No, it didn't make much sense....unless one counts the Training Tapes that the bots had Mike sit through between Mitchell and The Brain That Wouldn't Die.... It's also possible that Forrester rated some of Mike's as being harder than Joel's. This also doesn't make sense as Joel had so many horrible ones to choose from that Mike simply wouldn't have had the time to catch up, but who knows how he was rating it? Or you could attribute it to the fact that he's mad.
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Post by vanhagar3000 on Jul 31, 2004 11:18:03 GMT -5
I was cruising through these old posts and I should mention that it happens one Sunday from when it orignally aired with Joel (hence, Next Sunday A.D.), so all Joel episodes actually occured one Sunday in the future, which is now the past. Just thought that might help even though you all stopped talking about it.
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Jul 31, 2004 13:36:19 GMT -5
Ah, every post that was old is new again....
That may have been true back in the Joel era....but as of episode 801 I'm pretty sure that the time lines got a bit more hazy until....well, at least 901. And I think that I read somewhere that the line "Next Sunday" refers more to the writing process; the episode would always air on the Sunday after the show was written.
I've thought about this a few times since it first started....man, that was less than a year ago, we've grown fast....and I think that this must've just been a "side" goal on the quest to global domination.
I mean, even back in Season K it was clear that Dr. F had a few other projects going on. This weekly experiment was just one of many attempted goals to take over the planet. Ergo, the seeming "shot in the dark" approach to the movies rather than the serious method.
Or something....
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Post by vanhagar3000 on Jul 31, 2004 14:23:10 GMT -5
Ah, every post that was old is new again.... That may have been true back in the Joel era....but as of episode 801 I'm pretty sure that the time lines got a bit more hazy until....well, at least 901. And I think that I read somewhere that the line "Next Sunday" refers more to the writing process; the episode would always air on the Sunday after the show was written. That's what it was a reference to (done on Saturday aired Sundays at 6PM on KTMA). But afterwards Joel said it meant in the future one Sunday. It was a nod to people who were watching it on Sunday telling them this was happening next Sunday when a new episode will be on.
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Aug 2, 2004 2:33:25 GMT -5
There were a number of episodes where Dr. F in the last host segment says something like "Sorry, Joel, we didn't catch that." (I know they do it in I Accuse My Parents)
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Aug 2, 2004 2:45:48 GMT -5
True. Which begs the question of just how much effort Dr. F puts behind this thing.
Reminds me of the line in the first segment of Cave Dwellers when Dr. F mentions that he hasn't watched all of Cave Dwellers before sending it to Joel. Is Dr. F trying to cause himself pain as well?
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Post by doctorz on Aug 2, 2004 2:54:25 GMT -5
Oh, everybody who has ever had to take Chemistry knows you keep a record of your experiments! I always assumed that all the data recording and cataloguing of the experiments was done off camera because it wasn't that entertaining. Never really thought about this until you brought it up!
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