Mystery Science Theater 3000 started as a locally produced television show for KTMA in Minnesota but soon grew in popularity. It moved to Comedy Central (originally the Comedy Channel), then to Syfy. After an eighteen-year hiatus, the crew of the Satellite of Love returned in 2017, airing on Netflix for two seasons. In 2021, the production started its own streaming service, The Gizmoplex, where the riffing of cheesy movies continues. Over the years, there have been several "test subjects": Joel Robinson, Mike Nelson, Jonah Heston, and Emily Connor along with their robot friends Tom Servo, Crow T Robot, and Gypsy (now GPC) all subjected to bad movies thanks to a host of mad scientists including Doctor Clayton Forrester, his mother Pearl, and most recently Kinga Forrester.
Joel comments to Doctor Forester about getting in trouble for launching him up into the space station after Doctor Forester makes a comment about him and his sidekick having to lay low. Joel, Tom Servo, and Crow are forced to watch an old movie about a non-Earthly crawling eye.
On the Invention Exchange, Joel comes up with something for motorcycles. Doctor Forester and Larry come up with something to make people leave a party. As a prelude to the Robot Vs. The Aztec Mummy, the crew are forced to watch the first chapter of Radar Men From the Moon featuring Commando Cody. The Aztec Mummy has to defend ancient treasure from a crooks lusts when he builds a robot to take on the ancient mummy while the crew watches.
To get revenge on his peers who scorned him, a scientist injects his gardener with wolf blood, turning him into a werewolf of sorts. The scientist then unleashes the beast to kill his enemies one by one.
Joel and the robots are forced to watch a old Bela Lugosi movie about a mad scientist who is kidnapping brides in an attempt to keep his wife young. Also features a chapter of the Commander Cody serial as a lead in to the movie.
The crew of the Satellite of Love are forced to watch The Crawling Hand, a B movie about an astronaut who disappears and then a strange disembodied hand shows up and starts killing people near the ocean. The Invention Exchange for this week is Joel developing a special saw and Doctor Forester developing an extendable arm that can compensate for Mister Reed of the Fantastic 4's special power.
The feature movie, the 1953 Robot Monster, is short enough that there's time for two shorts: chapters 4 and 5 of Radar Men from the Moon. Nothing happens in any of them.
Joel's invention allows a person to imitate a cartoon character. Chapter 6 of Commander Cody Radar Men From The Moon serial is riffed by the Satellite of Love's crew before the main event of The Slime People. After the short, Joel, Crow and Tom Servo poke fun at slimy creatures from below the Earth who attack all the surface dwellers in LA.
Joel shows Crow and Tom Servo how he can juggle water, and then they're forced to watch chapter 7 and 8 of Comando Cody and Radar Men From The Moon before the main movie starts. The movie takes them to the moon on the big screen. In the Invention experiment, the guys invent ties of the future.
Clayton and Larry present Chapter 9 of Robot Men from the Moon. When the film breaks, they cut to the main movie, Robot Holocaust, a 1987 movie which features a band of adventurers wandering an apocalyptic wasteland and a series of basements battling the robot Dark One and his incomprehensibly accented assistant Valeria.
The Mads send Moon Zero Two, a bizarre Hammer 1960s flick which combines an animated sequence, cheesy special effects, the "acting" of James Olson and his disturbingly large forehead, Bond-style music, and a plot taken from an American Western.
Joel and the bots take on The Black Scorpion, a 1957 Mexican-American movie with special effects by Willis O'Brien. A drooling over-sized black scorpion takes on the Mexican government and nobody wins.
After Chapter 1 of The Phantom Creeps, the gang take on the 1948 film Jungle Goddess. The film features two dim-witted bush pilots who fly into the darkest depths of Africa to rescue a missing heiress.
Collegians track art thieves and attend beach parties.
This week's Invention Exchange: Joel comes up with a way to play music at the end of a concert, Doctor Forester and TV's Frank invent a Karaoke machine loaded with public domain songs. The Experiment for the week forced on Joel and his robots is Pod People, a 'B' movie about aliens that land in the backwoods wilderness and become involved with a family.
Alien teens with ray guns land on Earth to breed their lobster-like space cattle.
Greek muscleman begins 12 labors, saves the princess.
An anonymous warrior on a supersonic cycle saves a girl and her father from a tyrant
The movie that the crew is going to be forced to watch is preceded by a old educational short film about dating, then escapees and policewoman need geologist in bayou.
A drug czar sells students spiked sweets.
A promiscuous teen is framed for murder and then sent to a Catholic reform school in Girls Town (1959). Mike explains the honor system to the Bots and Tom "scats" until Mike and Crow can't take it anymore.
This weeks movie presentation that Mike is forced to watch starts out with the crew riffing a short called 'Once Upon A Honeymoon', they then advance to a movie by King Of The B's, Roger Corman that involves a crashed rocketship and something that has returned with it. With the help of a lot of people that seem to be named Steve, the cast of the movie seems to figure out whats happening and save the day. We are given Doctor Foresters full name when his mother visits him.
Mike Nelson, Crow, and Tom Servo riff the classic horror movie 'Revenge of the Creature' in their hilarious style. They meet Doctor Forester's mother, Pearl, who has become the Lawgiver of Professor Bobo and the crew of the Satellite of Love are forced to keep watching movies just as they thought they had escaped from their fate.
Deep in the heart of the jungle lives a tribe that holds the secret to youth. A doctor, his wife and her lawyer set out on an expedition to discover this incredible secret after an old tribal woman visits his office. Meanwhile, Crow sets his nanobots to work repairing the satellite and Professor Bobo and his friends start to question if Pearl is really the Lawgiver.
Mike and his misfit robots are forced by Pearl to watch a bad movie about bikers, nightclub dancers and crooks dealing in narcotics. They keep looking at the start of the movie for the story but have trouble finding it.
In the 1996 movie, Ernest Borgnine plays a grandfather telling his grandson two tales of Merlin's shop of mystical wonders. Merlin has come from the past to open a shop in the present and teach people about the wonders of magic. When he loses his artifacts, two tales of so-called horror ensue, one of which is a reedit of the movie The Devil's Gift, which may have been a ripoff of Stephen King's short story "The Monkey".
In Reptilicus. Copenhagen is terrorized by a prehistoric beast that has regenerated itself from a recently discovered tail segment. In the host segments, Gizmonic's crack space pilot Jonah Heston is lured to Moon Base 13 where he is the subject in a series of experiments created by Kinga Forrester to break his spirit by showing him cheesy movies. Only by riffing on the bad movies with the help of his new robot friends Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot can Jonah keep his sanity.
Jonah and the bots take on Cry Wilderness, a creepy story of a boy and his Bigfoot. Meanwhile, Kinga gets a visit from her grandmother and her friends.
Kinga decides to save time and money breaking Jonah's spirit by running a "gauntlet" of bad movies: six movies in a row. She starts with Mac and Me, a very bad ripoff of E.T.
Jonah and the bots are forced to watch Graham Greene humiliate himself with a cast of dozens in a rip-off of Pacific Rim.
SEASON 13 BEGINS, as Jonah and his crew endure their newest experiment: "Santo in the Treasure of Dracula" (1969). Outside the theater, Kinga and Max unveil their newest diabolical plan for world domination... the Kingadome!
Jonah and his crew find themselves caught in the middle of "Robot Wars," a 1993 sci-fi featuring Barbara Crampton and endless stop-motion robot battles.
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The Mads invention exchange is a new take on the exercise treadmill, the bots go into training. Joel and the bots do a explores skit while watching the movie about the military searching for a lost rocket.
On the satellite, our poor crew is forced to watch the really bad biker movie 'Hellcats', which for plot, has to come in second with 'Manos Hand Of Fate' being in 1st place for really bad plotlines and drawn out scenes. The biker gang spends most of their time running drugs and avoiding cops, quite a few humorous quips result from our robot friends as they try to stomach the film. By the end of everything, the satellite of love crew makes the mads cry.
This weeks invention exchange: Joel comes up with a Junk Drawer Helper, Doctor Forester and TV's Frank have a bit of trouble finding their experiment so they start the movie on Joel and the robots. The movie involves the discovery of some strange rocks found on Earth and the launch of a spaceship to Venus to discover their source.
The Satellite of love crew are forced by the Mads to watch a Japanese compilation sci-fi movie about a fugitive from raiders that committed a murder to save a small boy.
On this weeks invention exchange Doctor Forester makes a hard pill to swallow distressing TV's Frank out. Joel invents a giant dispenser, a unique mason jar and something that is Dyno-Mite! After the Exchange, the Satellite of Love crew is forced to watch a short on proper posture; Joel, Crow and Tom Servo are forced to watch a movie about a mad Doctor, whom the Bot's keep mistaking for the Kung Fu expert David Carradine, hatch his sinister plots as a way to extend life.
The Satellite of Love crew are forced to watch the first 2 episodes of the old "The Master" Tv series with Lee Van Cleef compiled into movie form.
Joel and the Bots watch a re-edited version of Time Walker (1982) called "Being From Another Planet" in which a mummy awakened by a university team goes on a killing spree. The Mads are awfully proud of their "Tragic Moments" figurines while Joel and the Bots play haunted house on the SOL.
A bartender sends his wife and her lover into a swamp where big, smart leeches lurk.
The Satellite of Love crew are forced to watch a bad movie in this weeks experiment by the Forrester and Tv's Frank about Killer Shrews, a experiment on a island gone awry. They painfully suffer through dogs in costumes and bad acting mixed with decent acting.
The Greek muscleman fights leopards, a giant and the grip of a queen's magic potion.
An executed killer called the Butcher is zapped back to life in Los Angeles. While waiting for the man to become indestructible, we are given the pleasure of watching the Satellite of Love's crew Riff the second installment from Ray "Crash" Corrigan's 12 part chapter serial Undersea Kingdom.
The heroic muscleman takes on rock men and the bad queen of Samar.
Knight St. George rescues a princess from a sorcerer and his two-headed dragon.
Greek hero saves his son from the sexist queen of Atlantis.
Hero Jones and crew join a 21st-century manhunt. From the Rocky Jones, Space Ranger TV series.
After a jazz pianist lets his lover drop from a lighthouse deck, he starts seeing her body parts and hearing her voice everywhere. The robots and Joel riff the movie while dealing with Dr. Forrester's antics.
A gang member's dream of stardom is ruined when his buddy commits murder.
Astronaut crew lands on Jupiter's 13th moon and finds a monster and women from Atlantis.
Our hero fights evil in outer space. From the Rocky Jones, Space Ranger TV series, a short from General Hospital is riffed by the Satellite of Love crew before the feature movie. Crow, Gypsy and Tom Servo do a rendition of the old song 'Gypsy Moon'.
A couple must destroy blood-curdling aliens that threaten the world.
A coffeehouse owner and three arty types scheme to rob an armored car.
Government agents thwart an alien's plot to take over Earth with android doubles.
An astronaut mutates.
A witch spitefully steals the sun.
The Satellite of Love gang riffs this Ed Wood produced movie where mad Doctor Vornoff is attempting to create a mate for his monster, in the process he kidnaps people for his nefarious plot.
A family driving through Texas asks a cult master for directions.
Soviet Sinbad seeks bird of happiness for the poor.
A prehistoric man (Richard Kiel) abducts a teenage singer's girlfriend. The Satellite of Love Crew do their experiments and are tortured by Dr. Forrester.
Judge cites parental neglect in case of teen up for murder.
Operation Double 007 spoofs James Bond flicks.
A drifter is blamed for a sweet young thing's murder, but the village idiot confesses.
Lassie avenges its gold-miner master.
A Texas marshal's widow faces a saloonkeeper and her hired gun.
A detective hunts drug dealers and falls for a call girl.
Mike, Crow and Tom Servo are forced to watch a movie about a surgeon who wants to put his fiancee's head on a model's body. On the invention exchange, the Satellite of Loves crew invents a special type of umbrella.
There's a high-school killer on the loose.
Bat Woman confronts evil Doctor Neon.
Mousy girl finds Atlantis and becomes beautiful.
Crops thrive on irradiated soil; so do grasshoppers.
A mad doctor makes two zombies and a cat woman.
A 20th-century professor and his sidekicks fight a high priest on a desert planet.
Federal agent and pal track uranium-ore hijackers with radar.
Santa and Merlin save kids from the devil.
Teens eat boy genius's food, grow big and bad.
An astronaut takes international scientists to the moon, where they have a chilly reception.
A slow hairy monster from outer space absorbs people in Lake Tahoe, Nevada
A demented doctor hunts teenagers with a bow and arrow.
The villains of Deep 13 force Mike and the 'bots to watch Why Study Industrial Arts? (1956) and The Skydivers (1963) after challenging them to a swing choir contest.
A cowboy winds up in the middle of a turf war between a rancher and his neighbors in Last of the Wild Horses (1948). An invention from the Mads goes awry and creates mirror versions of everyone on the SOL. The crew must battle the mirror versions of themselves while trying to withstand the movie.
An Air Force major trains a pilot how to fly F-104 Starfighter.
The crew are forced to watch a old movie about a high school guy who is used by a temptress, then gets frustrated and hatches a plan to steal a million dollars while dealing with his drunken father. Dr. Forester has dinosaur problems.
Mike and the 'bots take on Coleman Francis' mise-en-scène epic, Night Train to Mundo Fine (1966). (aka Red Zone Cuba). A true tour-de-force of ineptitude, combining two vagrant day-labourers, an escaped convict (Francis), Cuba, uranium, and frogs legs. Also getting riffed is Speech: Platform Posture and Appearance (1949).
Tom Servo shows off the crown jewel of his insect collection; The Mads try running a bed and breakfast; The crew of the Sattelite of Love are forced to watch a short by Union Pacific, 'The Days Of Our Years' before the main torturous event. Then they are forced to watch a B movie about a scientist doctor who breaks a criminal out of prison to use him for his invisibility experiments.
Mike Nelson and his robot buddies on the Satellite of Love are forced to watch a 1950's movie 'The Mole People'. The Mole People are discovered to live deep underground in a mountainous region of Asia when a professor leads an expedition in an attempt to discover an ancient civilization high on a mountain top. Professor Bobo and his fellow apes celebrate Lawgiver Day.
This week Mike Nelson, Crow and Tom Servo are forced to watch a movie where a professor has built a machine that is able to bring objects back from a future time. Tom Servo decides that it is very important to comfort rate everything on the Satellite. The Observers decide they have had enough of the Lawgiver and they force Pearl to fight Professor Bobo to the death.
The Observers decide that dissecting Professor Bobo's brain might bring them some knowledge. Crow, Tom Servo and Mike Nelson are forced to watch 'The She Creature' a movie about a mad doctor who hypnotizes his patient into regressing back to primitive times. Meanwhile, Pearl and Professor Bobo escape from their captivity and take the Observer they call Brain Guy with them. Crow invents a Dr. Carlos Lombardi action figure and tries it out on Mike.
Michael Landon is the star of the movie that is riffed by our favorite Satellite of Love crew this week. A teenager who starts turning into a werewolf because of an experiment. Meanwhile, Pearl shows Brain Guy and Professor Bobo how to camp.
Pearl takes a couple runaway children home while Professor Bobo forgets how to send Mike and the Bot's the terrible movie for the week, however, with help, they end up being forced to watch a movie about people being hypnotized into zombies at an amusement park. Mike and the gang meet a female nanobot, Crow and Tom Servo build a roller coaster.
Crow becomes transcendent, Pearl and Brain Guy pose as Roman gods and force the guys on the Satellite of Love to watch a bad movie that is a cross between Beach Blanket Bingo and Creature from the Black Lagoon but with much more badly made creatures.
The guys are forced to watch Boggy Creek II: And The Legend Continues by Pear and her cohorts. Meanwhile, Crow and Servo act out in weird ways during their breaks from Riffing the movie. As the swamp mayhem continues the guys seem to be close to the end.
The Satellite Of Love crew riffs a bad movie where a young couple out in the desert runs into a moon meteorite of an unknown element and the man starts turning into a beast during the phases of the moon. Mike's robots stalk him while he sleeps,
Joel and the bots take their shots at The Time Travelers, a 1960s movie about three hapless scientists and their even more hapless assistant, who go through a time portal and find themselves a hundred years in the future with the last of the human race.
A ski resort developer played by Rock Hudson tampers in God's domain and the result is a killer avalanche. Meanwhile, Tom and Servo rehearse Mad Bots, and Gypsy gives a one-robot performance, while Kinga sorta/kinda meets with her long-distance soulmate.
Jonah and the bots take on The Beast of Hollow Mountain, a long slow cowboy-dinosaur movie that seems more interested in cowboy rope opera than the title monster. The latter doesn't show up until an hour into the movie.
The Mads present the 1978 Italian Star Wars knockoff Starcrash, with Caroline Monroe, Marjoe Gortner, Christopher Plummer, and David Hasselhoff embarrassing themselves for life.
"Hi, I'm Doug McClure. You've probably seen me in a stink bomb like The Land That Time Forgot, featuring frozen pterodactyls, rubber dinosaurs, dingy cavemen, and countless scenes of periscopes going up and down."
Jonah and the bots are forced to endure The Loves of Hercules, which features real-life husband-and-wife Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay as six of the biggest boobs in ancient Greece.
The Mads try to raise a furor over Hitler-brand coffee. They fail. Then it's on with the movie, Yongary, a Korean ripoff of Godzilla that turns surprisingly dark in the last few minutes.
In the first of two movies, a wizard boy dressed in mauve goes on a series of pointless quests with a doughy swordman and a white shag-rug companion.
It's Jonah and the bots vs. Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II, a "sequel" to the previous movie that has nothing to do with it. Meanwhile, Kinga gets an idea to seize control of the TV industry and start a family.
After Kinga tells Jonah that he's going to marry her for ratings--or lose his oxygen supply--she springs the experiment on him: Carnival Magic, a movie about a depressed carnival chimp that (barely) talks and his hypnotic magician owner.
Prepare to overdose on whimsy as a depressed Santa and a suspiciously high-spirited lawyer join forces to thwart the evil Prune who has bought the North Pole and plans to make sure that it's The Christmas That Almost Wasn't.
Jonah prepares for his wedding day with Kinga, but first she shows him and the bots At the Earth's Core, complete with a side of big, beefy Doug McClure.
Kinga forces Jonah and the bots to watch Lords of the Deep: a 80s' Roger Corman cash-in on underwater horror and s.f. movies of the era. There are no Lords, and it's not very deep.
Jonah and the bots enter the first third of the second half of the Gauntlet and must withstand The Day Time Ended, a weird little movie fearing Jim Davis in his last appearance before his death as a character dealing with a parade of s.f. phenomena.
It's the 70s, which means that it's time for a heist movie with Lee Majors, fresh off his triumph on The Six Million Dollar Man, as a jewel thief trying to recover a stolen fortune from a lake filled with piranhas with a taste for ham.
After Jonah and the bots are forced to endure Ator: The Fighting Eagle, they make one last attempt to escape to Earth.
In the theater, the crew watches as a team of jewel thieves discover a mysterious island and the bug-eyed civilization living there, in "Beyond Atlantis" (1973). Meanwhile, a new test subject is trapped in the Simulator of Love with an animatronic Tom and Crow.
A bullied boy meets a magical creature who wants to help but only manages to make things worse. Dom DeLouise lends his voice to the nightmare namesake at the center of this "family comedy". After the episode, join up for a live, post-Munchie support group with Jonah Ray, Hampton Yount, Rebecca Hanson, and Deanna Rooney.
In the theater, the crew watches as as the magical DOCTOR MORDRID (1992) defends the Earth from the forces of evil. Meanwhile, on the moon, Dr. Kabahl has a new idea to increase the show's viewership.
Joel Robinson makes his long-anticipated return to host MST3K with this movie about a paranormal investigator scrambling to keep an artefact of unthinkable power from falling into the wrong hands. Prepare yourself for ... Demon Squad.After the movie, join us LIVE for a post-show discussion with Joel Hodgeson, J Elvis Weinstein, and special guests Demon Squad director, Thomas Smith and screenwriter/star Erin Lilly Smith.
In the theater, Jonah's crew watches as the excavation of an ancient statue awakens the centuries-old Jiger and only Gamera can save the day in GAMERA VS JIGER (1970). Meanwhile, on the moon, Pearl tries to convince Kinga to take a little vacation.Plus, stick around after the show for a LIVE DISCUSSION featuring a few of the writers on this episode, as well as host and writers' room lead Jonah Ray.
A wealthy socialite/professional wrestler dons a vaguely batlike (and definitely unlicensed) costume to confront a mad scientist building an army of killer fish men. Then stick around after the show for a live discussion featuring the newest crew to grace the SOL on MST3K.
In this week's premiere, a beautiful supervillain leads her all-lady army to world domination with liberal doses of intrigue and murder.Plus, stick around after the show for a LIVE DISCUSSION featuring writers and cast from the episode.
In this week's episode, post-apocalyptic space colonists fight a villain bent on destroying their home, featuring the imposing Jack Palance! Join Emily and the bots as they suffer through episode 1310: THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME.
Join us for the LIVESTREAM PREMIERE of MST3K's first ever Halloween special AND first-ever 3D riff! Grab your Kingavision 3D glasses and prepare yourself to face... THE MASK, in 3D! Then, stick around for a live post-show Halloween hangout with our cast, and we'll reveal the winners of the first-ever MST3K HALLOWEEN COSPLAY CONTEST!
JOEL ROBINSON RETURNS! Again! This time, Joel and the bots watch as an innocent couple wanders into an eerie town trapped under a clear dome, whose residents seem drugged or otherwise incapacitated. You'll wish you were incapacitated too!Then, hang out after the premiere for a live post-show discussion with our cast, as we debate the worst movie ever to appear on MST3K. (You'll understand why.)
This momentous holiday extravaganza features our first-ever triple riff spectacular, in which hosts Joel, Jonah, and Emily all share riffing duties!Join our heroes for a vaguely medieval tale about a pack of precocious orphans hoping to save a dying Father Christmas in The Christmas Dragon!After the premiere, stick around for a post-show discussion with the entire cast of season 13 (almost!), led by producer Matt McGinnis.