Watching mst3k on their twitch channel and in some of the episodes Joel is wearing a green blue jumpsuit. He is also sporting a goatee, and I was wondering if this was some sort of parallel universe and I just haven’t seen the episode where they set it up.
Does anyone have any insight into this uniform?
Cheers.
I think it’s interesting looking back at the different sartorial choices our hosts have made over the years.
User Bart Fargo over on the forrestcrow boards made this amazing chart of all the jumpsuit colors from KTMA through series 10. What it shows is that first and second season Joel mixed things up more than people would think before they settle on the classic maroon in 212 which he wore through the rest of his run in the show.
Mike, on the other hand, had more lewks in his normal rotation. The color we most associate with him is the classic blue, but he wore green almost as often. And he had two different blue shades, meaning that the green jumpsuit is the single jumpsuit he wore the most.
This just makes me wonder 1)if Mirror Joel had a fuller beard most times, save for experiments where his counterpart had the goatee and 2)How did Mirror Mike kill Mirror Joel to get command of Mirror Deep 13?
And the Green jumpsuit had the patches we associate with Mike too. I guess Alternaversal chose Royal Blue to be the quintessentially Mike color to fit their schema of Primary Colored hosts (although Emily’s Lavender brings that to an end).
I’d chalk it up to just a bit of “figuring things out weirdness”; after all, if it was going to stick, they would have done something about the theme song. (Which incidentally may be why it got changed to maroon.)
It’s comparable to how the buttons on the bridge were missing in the earliest episodes and got added in later.