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Remind me to come up with a PHM mst3k AU when this post exits my queue

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okay so the reason i thought of this was:

guy gets conked on the noggin and shot into space against his will

no human companions just the ship voice and a robotic element

the friend he does have is a little puppet guy

inventions.......

anyway, here's how the crossover would work-

Mike and the bots go temporarily AWOL so Pearl gets Brain Guy to acquire a new test subject and he teleports Grace and Rocky from their dimension

Grace is like are you telling me i've been sent into space on the orders of a single woman AGAIN?

then grace rocky watch movie! movie bad bad bad.

Grace's riffs are usually referential to pop culture, Rocky gets to make absurd commentary and at one point turns around in his seat and starts hitting his carapace against a wall.

Grace is fascinated AND furious about Bobo's entire existence.

Grace is like Rocky this educational short film is not just outdated it's really not something you should be learning from. Rocky is confused but enjoys learning about Earth Culture™️

Grace is enjoying the non-world ending stakes of things after a while and has fun making little hats and accessories for Rocky to wear during the skits, even Armando gets to join in on those

when Mike and the bots return I think GPC would either try to flirt with Armando or get extremely offended she's being replaced and try to fight it (Armando does not understand what is happening)

Grace is so rusty on talking to other humans that after they get teleported back home Mike is like

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i think the bots would also make rocky costumes out of carboard and styrofoam and mike would be wearing one of grace's science shirts and they would do a skit about a taumoeba cooking show where mike attempts a julia child impression the whole time and keeps referencing ryan gosling movies that it is obvious he has not seen (also servo is committed to rocky voice pattern but crow is doing some gordon ramsay nonsense)

and when it cuts back to pearl she catches brain guy on the phone ordering a range of xenonite products infomercial style and bobo keeps chiming in telling him to ask for the matching cutlery set and right as the eridian on the phone starts to yell at them in screeching chimes that translate to how disgust disgust disgust they are pearl is like DO YOU KNOW THE PHONE BILL I AM GOING TO GET FOR A DIRECT CALL TO ERID? order the massage chair THEN HANG UP!

[roll credits]

theflikchic

MST3K as a show and cultural snapshot is so fascinating to watch the evolution of. Watching it the whole way through, you get to see the jokes change and continue, more women be added to the cast and writers (PEARL), watching the cast and puppets change develop, the background and the lighting switches up, hearing references to Lord of the Rings but the movies weren't out so you know they're referencing the books which means all these people writing the show actually read stuff to make jokes about it rather than just doing a Google search or watching a film adaptation, figuring out what year an episode came out based on the references (I figured out "Time of the Apes" was written and aired in 1991 because of all the Silence of the Lambs references and I am not kidding), and the politics develop forwards and backwards - sometimes in the same episode.

MST3K is the show where they insult American colonialism and take the piss out of Donald Trump repeatedly in the first season in 1989 and then, do racist Asian accents for joke because they do accents for EVERY character so it takes seasons for them to realize that maybe that's not okay. Joel spends several seasons being kind of a hard-core feminist and then when Mike shows up, they do too many transphobic jokes even though Mike will dress in drag in the same episode.

Tom and Crow almost get married and Dr Forrester officiates while wearing rainbows and Mike ONLY disapproves because they jump into it too quickly but then they'll fetishize two women characters who do something queer coded. You have GPC, whose name in the first 12 seasons is literally a slur and is kind of a goofy female character for the sake of having "the girl" and then they slowly add Mary Jo Pehl to the cast of supporters and then have her play Pearl fcking Forrester - a fat, intelligent, devious, commanding badass evil scientist who I kind of want to be when I grow up. They use "Inuit" in a great joke and then in the second joke in the SAME EPISODE which is about how Indigenous culture is valuable, they use the e-slur. How?!

And yet, there's an episode with a movie that merges what is clearly actual stock footage of somewhere in Africa and white people in blackface dancing around and the writers and crew not only point out which is which, but carefully determine which is which so that they're careful not to make fun of the actual footage - just the racist caricatures. Like..??? In 1997???

MST3K is like this beautiful smorgasbord of political takes of the time, of flawed advocacy and allyship, a snapshot of a small group of people who - despite their shortcomings in some ideas - would be shunned as "woke" today by the jokes and criticisms they were making back in 89. And that's not including the changes still being made with Jonah and Emily - and who knows what else when Mike comes back.

You watch more women and POC be included, drag is cool and being trans isn't but also kind of is in circumstances and then by Jonah we go all out with gender being fluid (thank you "Carnival Magic"), sometimes we can make fun of mentally ill people and sometimes we don't, it's all fluid. I find it genuinely wonderful - even when disappointing - to see a show that grows and shifts like MST3K.

kelpo-cereal

I couldn’t get phm mst3k au out of my head

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happy pridem'nth

radiofreederry

@jame7t forgot to add a cooldown to their new fun stream activity

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being nonbinary at 17 is like fuuuck I have to be perfectly ethereally androgynous at all times and never age. and being nonbinary at 27 is getting gender envy about Dr. Forrester mst3k. that's how it's going for me anyway

riggio037

#let him drive

mijlen

In honor of the news, I figured I should finally post my entire "Mahou Shoujo Theater 3000" series as a triptych. Huzzah!

(Acrylic and watercolor on canvas, 2025)

itsakissingshow

They're beautiful! 😍

mijlen

"Well, Mike... looks like I'm a magical girl. Yup, this is the real me!"

"Wow, Crow. Nice, uh... orb."

"Yeah, I've contemplated it. Probably gonna go suffer some ironic fate now."

"Have fun!"

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I think I'm going to call this series "Mahou Shoujo Theater 3000"

Acrylic and watercolor on canvas.

fleetsparrow

My Two favorite MST3K Valentine's from the MST3K Motivation Twitter.

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A Murder of Crows, among other things

(an mst3k doodle dump)

#that's why she really ejected him.

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Yes, you heard right. The rumors are true! It really IS a Giant Spider Invasion of savings at Menards!

But more important than that, we've got Movie Sign on four all-new episodes of MST3K, with Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett and Mary Jo Pehl returning in the not-too-distant future for Mystery Science Theater 3000: The RiffTrax Experiments!

In addition to the return of the Sci-Fi Channel era cast, it's a return to Minneapolis for production, including practical sets and props.

The Kickstarter campaign is now live and will run through March 16. The goal was to raise $20,000 in celebration of the 20th anniversary of RiffTrax, with a commitment to produce the episodes regardless of the fundraising total. That goal was met just a few minutes after the Kickstarter went live, thanks to the incredible passion and generosity of MST3K and RiffTrax fans!

So... what do you think, sirs?