Twenty Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films That Changed M... by Frank Conniff

JM: The other thing is today you kids what with your digital camcorders and your iPod-Phone things have this thing called your YouTube so if someone comes up with a neat idea on Monday, by Friday 350,000 people have seen it and they’re on to the next thing. TB: When you see the show, you get what it is, but it’s almost impossible to describe to somebody. NFC: Do you think a show like Mystery Science Theater could be created today with studio pressure and that sort of thing? Then they can Google it if they don’t understand. I know that’s probably far more technical then you were looking for, but that’s the evolution. I think it was Tom that said, “Well, you’re a girl” and she mumbled under her breath, “Well, I think I am.” The falsetto and raising of the voice high roughly parallels the difference between the sexes, between humans where men’s voices tend to be lower and women’s voices tend to be higher. Although I was noticing in one skit, the other bots threw a shower for her and she asked why, was she pregnant, and she didn’t think so. I went to falsetto because Gypsy was female. JM: Then again the writers in those days gave Gypsy one or two word statements like “My stars!” or “Oh!” so there probably wasn’t the danger. JM: Yeah I was concerned I would end up – Then to be in front of over two thousand fans, super charged the evening. So to get the whole band back together and feel that energy is pretty cool. TB: Or he’d be a campaign person for Adalai Stevenson. Or Paul who probably in a different life would be a professional fishing guy, don’t you think? And then the funniest stuff just pours out of him. JM: There’s someone like Frank who… if he was a guy who came to your house to move a refrigerator, you wouldn’t think twice about it…. JIM MALLON: One of the things I’ve enjoyed is just getting back together with everyone after all these years and remembering how funny everybody is. It’s really flattering to return to it when there’s this much passion for it.

TRACE BEAULIEU: It’s so strange because we stopped doing it and it kind of left our lives but it’s never left the fan’s lives.

NICO FROM COLLIDER: What is it like revisiting it after ten years? The whole Mystery Science Theater phenomenon?

Twenty Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films That Changed M... by Frank Conniff