In a cozy suburb of Minneapolis, a guy in a blue jumpsuit is once again stuck aboard a space station with his robot pals, watching the worst movies ever made.
\n\nTo paraphrase the show’s catchy theme song, if you’re wondering how that works, it’s just a TV show, so you should really just relax.
\n\nIn May, Variety went behind the scenes of “Mystery Science Theater 3000: The RiffTrax Experiments,” the latest revival of the beloved cult comedy series “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” to get an up close and personal look at how poking fun at bad movies gets done at the highest level.
\n\nThe series — which features an amiable host and his sharp-tongued sidekicks Tom Servo and Crow riffing on obscure movies like “Manos: The Hands of Fate” and “Space Mutiny” — originally aired from 1988 to 1999, mostly on Comedy Central and the Sci-Fi Channel.
\n\nJoel Hodgson created and starred as that guy forced to screen cheesy flicks; he left mid-run and was replaced by Michael J. Nelson. After the show wrapped, Nelson and fellow “MST3K” writer-stars Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett took the basic idea and launched their own version, RiffTrax, which started as a website and…
Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/