Mystery Science Theater 3000: C/D, S/D.

the Pluto TV app for Roku has a channel that shows MST3k 24 hours a day year round

My go to when firing that up for background noise while working but I’ve noticed they do seem to be rerunning some of them much more frequently than others. Especially the coiley short.

Anyway, up and running. Now, who has a spare $25,000?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mst3k/makemoremst3k

I’ll take a servo @ 7.5K (i do not have that money)

You've got kids, make them earn their keep

I do not!

smh at Ned's .xls error

Corrupted data. I blame society.

Anyway I do appreciate the cost breakdown

Also they're already up to about half a million so I suspect they'll hit their 6.6 million ultimate stretch goal with ease.

$25k doesnt include shipping on the various merch rewards, so really its like $25,012.50 - nice try, Joel

I’m sitting this one out.

am I blind or is there no confirmation of any of the cast for this?

Well per the video it's the returning SoL Netflix crew at least, and presumably the photo of Oswalt and Day in the promo image confirm them.

just seems weird that they want money for a TV show but won't state clearly who is going to be in the TV show. wiggle room I guess.

starring... Shane Gillis and Michael Richards

Which makes me think of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN84P7OISmc

lost it starting with "Thomas Aquinas!"

I hope they learn from their mistakes and listen to viewer feedback this time.

maybe the viewers can feedback via little talking heads at the bottom of the screen

Interview with Joel here:

https://tv.avclub.com/exclusive-joel-hodgson-says-it-s-time-to-makemoremst3-1846634073

Also they're approaching $1.5 million and it's not even been twelve hours -- for the first time around the day one total was $850,000. This might all be more of a big blowout than we realize!

Interesting vibes there. The comment about not having to pitch it to a suit .... I wonder, has anyone from the Netflix era ever indicated anything about the show that was in any way pushed from the Netflix end? Or did the nature of the deal give them creative freedom?

MST will be an NFT.

Just what we needed.

In terms of the vibe -- Netflix is clearly in a position of not having to answer to anyone about their choices, so no, to my knowledge nothing has surfaced, probably only a bland statement or two. It's worth remembering that the previous Kickstarter got the show filmed and the Netflix deal happened after the season itself was in the can, so it can't have been that Netflix thought they spent too much money on the production straight up, though presumably there was some further deal. I'm sure Shout Factory and Joel were more than a little miffed at the opacity in the end.

It’s been reported that Netflix finds that seasons beyond the 2nd of their original series generally don’t have a measurable effect on subscriptions iirc

I thought it was three rather than two? Seems to be a magic number.

it is crazy to me that anything at all has any effect on their subscriptions. everyone i know, whatever else they do with their lives, also has netflix. to my knowledge no one ever cancels it or subscribes to it. like the fact that they shovel out content at the pace they do blows my mind because surely they could halve it and experience no measurable drop in income.

Fun detail -- Jonah is responding to a number of the comments on the Kickstarter page.

Anyway initial funding goal reached in a little over a day, so I'm guessing $5.5 million will happen when all is said and done.

Msties are indeed the craziest of fans, in a good way.

yeah, the average donation is currently hovering around $190, which is pretty absurd.

I did like Jonah's comment a few minutes back: "Wow, look at all those pledges... PREEEEETTY NIIIIIIICE!"

Actually what's kinda fucking crazy is that they've since added almost another $50K. Allowing for late evening/early morning slowdown that still puts them in range to hitting $3.3 million conceivably as early as late tomorrow or the weekend? But we'll see how this shakes out, normally there's a big initial rush then a ticking along before a final rush.

First note from Joel from it all:

The last 24 hours have been so crazy that I don't know what to say. When we decided to come back and do another Kickstarter – and to do it after a year-long worldwide pandemic – we weren't really sure how things would go.

The last time we tried this, it took us almost a week to reach our first goal, and make three episodes... so I guess I figured if we could do that again, we'd be off to a really good start.

But yeah, as you might have noticed, things went a little faster this time...

And it goes from there. I hadn't remembered it had needed a week for the first goal last time out, I don't blame him for being surprised!

New update from Joel clarifies some further details and reconfirms the (kinda) obvious, that it's the returning cast from the last two seasons but also dropped a pretty heavy hint that Emily from the live shows last year will be involved too, a good thing.

Chugging along and about to hit halfway to the main final goal. New update with some details

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mst3k/makemoremst3k/posts/3158936

Meantime on tonight's Mads are Back stream (with Kevin Murphy as a guest), one of the questions the moderator passed along -- saying they were getting a lot of people asking -- was whether either of the Mads or Kevin were involved with this new effort. Kevin politely begged off and noted he had Rifftrax but let's just say it was PLENTY clear that Frank and Trace still feel some ill will over everything that happened, though they tried to keep it relatively smooth. (Trace, not entirely.)

Kickstarter still chugging along -- should reach the next overall goal of $3.3 million in a couple of days -- but in the meantime, enjoy an oral history of the movie

https://film.avclub.com/mystery-science-theater-3000-the-movie-the-oral-histo-1846694612

really good read, thanks for linking! confirmed a lot of what i've probably been carrying around since Usenet FAQ days, but with a lot more detail - and a few lighter notes leavening the familiar nightmare of interfering studio suits.

yeah that was great

Very much makes me want to finally get the Shout Factory Blu-ray edition of the movie, long overdue there. Still working off the original random DVD!

Friends on FB commented that they were very much like Jonah in being obsessed with the movie in particular when young. To quote one of them: "when my mom first married my stepdad he had a ton of figurines and stuff from comics and old sci fi movies and he had a set from This Island Earth and I was like YES OMG YES SCROTOR IS IN MY BASEMENT"

I was lucky enough to catch in a theater like Jonah; unlike Jonah it wasn't as random as all that because it ran for a week in the multiscreen theater across from UC Irvine where I was living/going to grad school at the time. That was a treat.

I remember it in the theater bc I think it was my first experience of being the only person in a theater.

in hindsight i feel very lucky to see it in a theater! my dad took me, and also in hindsight i realize how nice it was that he did - it was at a mall multiplex but one quite far from home, i'm sure the only place it played in the atlanta area. he wasn't into the show (he basically "got" it but never sat down and watched it) but he knew how much i loved it.

ha, thats sweet. my dad loved the show, he probably wanted to come with me, i wonder why i went alone - probably just didnt want to wait for him, like a self-absorbed teenage jerk. he probably still hasnt seen it, i should gift him the blu ray.

Meantime, the Mads have shared their riff on Sonny Bono's warning to the youth about the demon weed, as done the other week. It's absolutely great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXbe9BuLRes

Updates from Kickstarter about various things (more on the Gizmoplex apps, how things are going etc.) plus Joel saying livestreams will be returning over the next couple of weeks, starting with:

SAVE THE DATE: Join us on MONDAY, APRIL 26, at 5pm PT / 8pm ET, for our first big #MakeMoreMST3K Livestream!

Apparently a big video announcement tomorrow, probably mentioning Emily joining the cast but we'll see. Anyway: they're about $80,000 to go until $3.3 million and 6 new episodes so far.

And here's that update with the video news and etc

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mst3k/makemoremst3k/posts/3168008

In sum, this is all pretty good! Emily and her bots were great in the live shows and all so bring it, might as well go full multiverse.

First Kickstarter livestream in half an hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hugO9coWrw0