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This is a show about an evil experiment where a guy is trapped on a satellite and is forced to watch bad films. He is forced to do this by Mad Scientists, who want to find a movie so bad that they can inflict it on the world and take over. We see the movie with the subject (Joel or later Mike) and his robot pals Crow and Servo...

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10x13 1003 - Merlin's Shop of Mystic… Aired: Sep. 12, 1999

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The show had 10 seasons and 207 episodes air between 1988 and 1999.

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  • Creator Joel Hodgson once revealed in an interview how he came to name the robots on the show. Hodgson said he thought it would be cool if one of the robots had a Native American feel, this…
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    Creator Joel Hodgson once revealed in an interview how he came to name the robots on the show. Hodgson said he thought it would be cool if one of the robots had a Native American feel, this is how he came to name Crow. He said Servo was named after a candy dispenser he once saw called 'Servotron'. He shortened it to Servo, later J. Elvis Weinstein who played Servo for the first two seasons of MST3K gave him the first name Tom. Gypsy came to be named after a pet turtle that Hodgson had as a child.
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  • Best Brains and Rhino Video played with the idea of continuing the show directly on video, but it proved to be too costly.
  • Ranked #11 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Top Cult Shows Ever!" (30 May 2004 issue).
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