Join The A.V. Club’s Erik Adams as Mystery Science Theater 3000 crashes into Comic-Con@Home
Aux Features SDCC at Home
San Diego Comic-Con and Mystery Science Theater 3000 are like peanut butter and chocolate at The A.V. Club, where we breathlessly followed news of the MST3K revival from the (virtual) con floor back in 2016. And just because both of them are technically canceled this year doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate them…right? MSTies are used to weathering the occasional storm, after all.
And so, along with the stalwarts at Shout! Factory, The A.V. Club’s Erik Adams will be leading a panel discussion, appropriately titled Mystery Science Theater 3000 – A Panel Panorama, as part of Comic-Con@Home tonight. Joel Hodgson will be there, as will Bill Corbett and original Tom Servo J. Elvis Weinstein, for what’s described as “some good old-fashioned Q & A.” Unlike the in-person Comic-Con, there’s no line and unlimited capacity for this virtual panel—not to mention that if you get a whiff of body odor, that’s on you.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 – A Panel Panorama goes down at 6PM PT tonight, July 23, on the Comic-Con@Home official YouTube channel. Shout! Factory will also host a virtual booth on the Comic-Con@Home website, as well as special programming on Shout! Factory TV for the weekend called Shout! Stays In. You can get more information on those at the Shout! Factory website.
Fans should also head to mst3k.org, where they can donate to a fundraiser benefiting MIGIZI, a Native American youth organization serving the show’s hometown of Minneapolis. If the campaign reaches its goal of $20,000, Hodgson, Corbett, and Weinstein will return to their seats on the Satellite Of Love and riff a pair of short films.
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I saw the live show in Orlando and it was fantastic. They did “Circus Of Horrors”.
That show was great, but I gotta say ‘No Retreat, No Surrender’ was much better. I laughed so hard I hurt afterwards.
well i didn’t see that one so I GUESS I’LL NEVER KNOW
I feel like Joel prefers doing live shows to producing the show for TV anymore. I got that feeling back when he was doing Cinematic Titanic as well. I do hope we get more of the show on TV somewhere though
You might be right. I mean we all know the skits are dumb, but something about them on a stage makes them a little more endearing. And obviously the whole ‘actually in a theater’ bit helps.
I love the skits! Honestly one of the reasons MST3K will always be better then Rifftrax for me. I like the break in the movies. I will say that the revival skits were not nearly as good as the classic ones. I felt like season 1, especially, were all built around the idea that someone had a one of those laser cutter that you can make wood things out of. Every skit featured some wood cut item. Considering classic MST3K always really went out of its way to glue together crap to make silly props, it felt lazy
Oh I love em. Don’t get me wrong. I love their dumb little selves.There was WAY less they could have done for those interstitials. Hell, crafting puppets just so their silhouettes can yell at a screen seems pretty over the top to begin with.
Watch out for snakes!
Apparently, they’re doing a fundraiser for a Minneapolis nonprofit. Josh and Bill are going to do at least one short with Joel as Tom and Crow! 🙂