About MST3K


What The Hugh Beaumont Is MST3K?
You say you've never seen MST3K before? Shame, shame, know your name! Well then, let me try and explain the show a little with a question (How's that for confusing?). How many times have you been sitting in a movie theater, or even at home, watching a movie that stinks so bad it makes rotten eggs look like Chanel No.5? And how is it that you maintain your relative level of sanity during the three-hour, subtitled monstrosity about a fish and his love for cross-stitch? You fire out one-liners at the screen and do low-tech voice-overs of your own.

Now then, take this same premise of bad movies and even worse jokes. Add to it a janitor (Joel - he's later replaced by a temp named Mike), three cornball robot puppets that he makes himself, an evil scientist and his aesthetically pleasing side-kick (who are later replaced by the mad's mom, an ape profressor, and a guy who carries his brain in a petri dish), and a disembodied voice. Now take them all, launch the guy and the bots into space, bury the mads deep into the Earth, and get the mom, ape, and brain-guy to chase those in space in a flying VW Microbus and what do you have? Mass confusion, yes - but more importantly, you have Mystery Science Theater 3000.

See? It's quite simple. Now give me back my flow charts pickle-child.



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