MST3K is Back... Sort Of

Original show creator Joel Hodgson is bringing back MST3K, using crowdfunding to raise the necessary funding.


Someone did a good job at making the crowdfunding page entertaining for the fans. Some names of the rewards: "Hello. Thank You!", "Shirty the Shirt Sprite", "Big McLargehuge" and "She stole Mike's keyboard!". It also states "Finally, if we raise $1 BILLION – stay with me on this one – we’re going to adopt a real live teenage boy and “Truman Show” him into believing he is the Pumaman!"

A couple of the rewards are owning a Servo/Crow used in the show, having your own obscure joke used in the show and being listed as a producer.

Exciting news but there are a number of reasons to be... less excited. The host will not be Joel or Mike for sure and the robot puppeteers will likely be new as well. More importantly, what about the writers? The only person we know to be involved at all is Joel. That leads to the question, if the show comes back with an all new cast and all new writers, is it the same show?

I would argue "not at all" but, fortunately for me, I have money to spare on nonsense speculation like this.

Link.