2/13/2023 0 Comments Mst3k tor johnson![]() ![]() In fact, in the entire original run of MST3K, the only movie one might call a “comedy” is Catalina Caper. You can only groan, or object that “this joke isn’t funny” so many times. It has often been observed by the MST3K faithful that the one genre the show never tackled in any real way was comedy, and the reason is simple: It’s almost impossible to riff a comedy, and especially a bad comedy. 1111, Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II, 1989īest riff: “Wise wizard, please teach me how to run.” You can find all of these capsules in the overall ranking of all 191 MST3K episodes, but here are the highs and lows of the show’s Netflix return, ranked from worst to best.ġ4. Just try reading that thing in one sitting.īut, if you’re simply looking for a more easily digestible appraisal of the new season, you’ve come to the right place. Of course, I knew these episodes would eventually need to be added to the overall ranking, and they now have been, bringing its current total up to a robust (and fairly ridiculous) 191. ![]() There were some odd, overarching observations to be made (Why are there so many jokes/references to parades in almost every episode of this season?), and over the course of a season the new cast managed to assuage most of my concerns for the future of MST3K. That’s what you do, when you’re the kind of obsessive fan who would rank all 177 episodes of the original series over the course of nearly 50,000 words, as I did for Paste back in April. Instead, I watched them in pieces, one or two a week, savoring the appraising the new cast’s adjustment to the iconic roles of “Guy and Bots in space.” And throughout it all, I kept notes. I didn’t marathon the new MST3K episodes I’d been so intently waiting for. I like to take my time, and process things slowly. They waited 18 years, and by god, they weren’t going to wait any longer.īut personally, I’m not really like that as a consumer of media. For them, there was joy in messily gorging on 21 hours of new MST3K: The Return riffing, the first new episodes to air since season 10 of the cult sci-fi comedy concluded on the Sci-Fi Channel in the summer of 1999. When the new season of Mystery Science Theater 3000 arrived on Netflix, some of the fandom dove in head over heels, marathoning all of the new episodes in the first two days. It’s funny how we all differ in terms of how we approach rare indulgences. ![]()
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