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Post by vanhagar3000 on Mar 5, 2007 19:00:34 GMT -5
This is something of a retread topic, so there's my own hypocracy, but I don't know if this thread has been presented this way. Now I know there was a thread earlier on how it was hard for advertisers to pin down who MSTies were. Some of that was just the average MSTie wasn't probably the average Comedy Central viewer so it skewed more to a CC audience for ads. So it's hard to pin down WHO MSTies are, but are there any category of people that you can say for the most part like the show.
I would say hippies/stoners of the Midwest almost all enjoy it when they see it. Anytime I bring up the show I will either get a reponse or somone saying that it sounds cool (and then they'll watch and enjoy). People from the Twin Cities, Rochester, Stevens Point, all over the places that I know are stoners all enjoy the show. Except one did NOT like Hamlet, which I agreed with him on.
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Post by Captain Hygiene on Mar 5, 2007 19:58:44 GMT -5
I am profoundly Midwestern, although pretty much the exact opposite of a hippy/stoner. People from this area do seem to like it, so I'd probably expand on that classification just a bit.
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Post by Poe33 on Mar 5, 2007 22:38:39 GMT -5
I grew up in a geek in East Harlem, NYC - a son of Italian American parents and 4 sisters. I loved magic, model rockets, comic books, space topics etc etc. Not a stoner but I appreciate the value of the Green King and partake when I feel. MST instantly spoke to me.
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Post by beljah on Mar 5, 2007 22:47:02 GMT -5
OK, I have a history of...partaking...certain...substances, but that ended by the time I'd reached my 27th B-day. I've never watched MST in an altered state, just NY  . I think the appeal of the show for me is that you want all the brain cells firing while watching. Helps me to be able to play along. |
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Post by vanhagar3000 on Mar 5, 2007 23:01:43 GMT -5
Not to dwell on the hippie/stoner thing, can anyone think of other groups of stereotypes?
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Post by Don Quixote on Mar 6, 2007 0:10:20 GMT -5
Friendless nerds who just sit alone.. in... their... rooms... doing... nothing... but watch... MST3K...
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Well, I fit that stereotype perfectly.
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Post by Hugh Beaumont on Mar 6, 2007 2:56:20 GMT -5
I'm really, really white. Does that help?
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Post by Da Worm Fizzle on Mar 6, 2007 9:20:57 GMT -5
I don't know if I fit cleanly into any group. As one of the few black people here on the board, I'm not white, nerdy or from the Midwest. I'm from D.C. and thuggish when I want to be. Yet I too partake from time to time of the green leaf. Though I didn't when I first discovered the show. And I don't need any substances to enjoy it.
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Post by Blackmarket Jazz on Mar 6, 2007 10:55:46 GMT -5
Nerds would be the stereotype I would first think of. Monty Python, Star Trek types. I myself am far to diverse to fit squarely into any category.
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Post by MymymyMitchell on Mar 6, 2007 17:25:18 GMT -5
The demographics I'd fit into: Well, lets see........politically conservative, clean-cut, non drug using guys who like to laugh their asses off at a dude and two robots making wisecracks during crappy movies. (Now, lets see if I get blacklisted from this board!)
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Post by fanliorel on Mar 6, 2007 18:17:43 GMT -5
As far as stereotypes, I'd say a big one is college. I started watching in high school, but it was college where I really got into it, and where I found others who liked it too.
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Mar 6, 2007 21:29:09 GMT -5
I'm just a weirdo. Not sure if that helps.
In some ways I guess I'm not really the "typical" MSTie either (if there even is such a thing). I'm a white female, 34, weed-free (so far), not really into sci-fi (although I'm a horror geek), politically very liberal, an atheist, originally from the South but with an artsy NYC mentality, very into gothic and punk culture, an obsessive reader of evolutionary biology and genetics texts. I like a lot of British humor (The Young Ones, the Office, Eddie Izzard) -- there does seem to be something of a correlation there, I've found. And I would consider myself very intelligent, which I've also found is true of most MSTies.
Like I said, not sure if any of that was very enlightening.
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Post by Bad Touch on Mar 6, 2007 23:12:52 GMT -5
Wow.... I guess I'm a multi-group stereotype then. I'm a chronic smoker (both in quality and quantity), pretty "odd", a touch nerd-ish but most definitely a weirdo plus I'm in college.
Man..... did I cover them all or WHAT?!
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Post by MSTie500 on Mar 6, 2007 23:19:18 GMT -5
I'm a westerner by birth(Wyoming to be exact), I'm white, sort of a geek about topics I love, and just a run-of-the-mill kind of person. Maybe in some places we could find common ground.
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Post by ForkliftKiller on Mar 6, 2007 23:31:46 GMT -5
I have lots of free time, a penchant for puns and sarcasm, an intellectual bent, and love of dry (and wry) wit. I'm knowledgable about pop-culture, but not your average, mindless consumer. I think these are the main characteristics that make me both a MSTie and a lover of British humor (BTW, Eddie Izzard ROCKS, EC!!).  |
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. I think the appeal of the show for me is that you want all the brain cells firing while watching. Helps me to be able to play along.
