MST3K in Other Media

Posted this in another thread, was recommended to share here as well. Hope you dig!

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Freaks and Geeks, on which J. Elvis Weinstein was a producer, had Joel and Trace in recurring roles. This included Joel singing the praises of a jumpsuit.

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Weezer’s Green Album includes a picture of the band in concert, in attendance (in shadowrama) is Mike, Servo and Crow.

Weezer (The Green Album) - Weezerpedia

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Pancho’s Happy Bottom Riding Club.

Now that’s an obscure reference. Nice.

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I’ve heard the band Man or Astroman are huge fans of MST3K. They even released a cover of the theme on their official album “Destroy All Astromen!”

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The now-defunct punk band The Riverdales did a bunch of MST3k-inspired titles for their final 2 albums…

RiverdalesInvasion

Invasion USA released in 2009.

Tracklist:
Agent For H.A.R.M. - 1:35
Gemini Man - 2:19
Heart Out of Season - 1:56
Red Zone Cuba - 1:50
Squirm - 1:27
Prince Of Space - 2:08
Rocketship X-M - 2:55
King Dinosaur - 2:22
Castle Of Fu Manchu - 1:56
Time Of The Apes - 2:19
Atomic Brain - 1:26
Crawling Eye - 2:05
Teenage Strangler - 1:54
Werewolf One - 2:02

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Tarantula released in 2010.

Tracklist:
Bad Seed Baby - 1:46
The Beginning of the End - 1:40
Infection - 1:39
Diabolik - 1:31
Volcano - 1:58
The Girl in Lover’s Lane - 1:40
Girls Town - 2:06
Soultaker - 2:22
12 to the Moon - 1:46
Crash of the Moons - 3:15
Stranded in Space - 2:18
I Don’t Wanna Live Forever - 1:43
Master Ninja - 2:35
Time Chaser - 3:21

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Some early DVDs with commentary tracks would incorporate Shadowrama silhouettes. Two I know of specifically are Muppets from Space and Ghostbusters. I think both of these came out in 1999, just when the Sci-Fi era was coming to an end, so likely this was their way of waving their freak flags high!
Muppets from Space

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The “grasshopper walls into a bar” joke was expertly done. And that cutscene was heinous. Good on them for laughing about it.

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Just noticed this reference in an article

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Funny. I actually made Joel and Dr. F characters, though Joel was a villain (mastermind with robots) and Dr. F. was a hero. I forget what build I had for him.

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Amazing (Man, masterminds were so good in that game. I managed to solo Lord Recluse with a zombie mastermind)!

I don’t have a picture to share, but I made a T.V.’s Frank in City of Villains as a brawler with the express purpose of standing next to Dr. Forester and annoying passerbys.

After I got the toga costume piece I even wandered around for a while as “Televisionus Frankus,” with that character.

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The most prevalent in my memory is The Lion King 1 1/2 (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead to the Lion King’s Hamlet) wherein Timon and Pumba watch reels of Timon’s life before/during/after the events of The Lion King in shadowrama. The screenwriter confirmed that it’s an MST3K reference!

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In the classic Chinese Restaurant episode of Seinfeld, Jerry doesn’t want to see Plan 9 from Outer Space alone. “I can’t see a bad movie by myself. What, am I supposed to make sarcastic remarks to strangers?” The crew confirmed this was a deliberate MST3k reference, after Joel and Jerry had become friends on the stand-up circuit in the '80s.

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This isn’t a reference to MST3K itself, but last night while channel flipping I caught the last five minutes of Desperately Seeking Susan. Aidan Quinn is a movie projectionist, and the film he’s showing is The Time Travelers. :eyes:

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Another one that’s technically not a reference, especially since it comes from something that predates the show, but any fan of the show will get a huge kick out of Stephen King’s IT, where the subplot with the heroes as kids in the '50s has a bunch of stuff about them being fans of goofy horror and sci-fi movies, and manages to name-drop no less than four films which would later appear on the show. The biggest reference goes to I was a Teenage Werewolf, where there’s actually a whole chapter of the kids talking about the film (it was no surprise to learn the film was one of King’s own favorites as a kid), and then there’s a bit where Pennywise turns into the monsters from The Crawling Eye, and finally a spooky insect-like noise is compared to the ones from The Black Scorpion and Beginning of the End.

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From Reddit:

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I think the guy who wrote “Troops” went on do comics including a series called Tag and Bink that is basically two characters more in Star Wars who manage to never be part of the big action.

In one section there’s a prequel joke scene set in the diner and Crow and Servo make a cameo.

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Here’s another fun one. The Chapman brothers loved having 90’s references in their seminal flash cartoon Homestar Runner.

Here’s Homestar himself as Mr. B Natural for their 2016 Halloween cartoon.

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And here’s Marzipan as Servo from the ‘toon “I killed Pompom.”

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Here’s the Poopsmith as Voldar (From Santa Claus Conquers the Martians) in the ‘toon “Which Ween Costumes?”

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And lastly, here’s Servo himself from the ‘toon “A Jorb Well Done.”

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I remember an episode of Friday Night Lights where Jean suggests to Landry that they watch a bunch of Mystery Science Theater 3000 shorts that she found on YouTube.

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Many years ago Rifftrax and Manos were name-dropped in Tim Seeley’s comic series “Revival” (a great book BTW). In a later panel the director of the movie within the comic mentions it being mocked by robots - so Tim got his riff projects mixed up (because as we know, Rifftrax didn’t have bots, that was MST)

Anyhoo, the movie being talked about was Octopocalypse (not a real film) and the actor shown, bears a resemblence to Joe Don Baker.

image in full… http://www.horrornewsnetwork.net/images/stories/FLzBRCD-revival204.jpg

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