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** According to season 12, Creator/KimCattrall.
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** To be more specific, you're taught at an early age that you're not allowed to touch someone else (or that, if you do, they will have license to touch you back i.e. shoving) but it's an annoying sibling tactic to wave your hands or fingers around your sibling's face, close enough to be irritating and distracting but not "technically" doing anything wrong because you're not actually touching them. A lot of bad movies will have baddies close in on a character but not actually doing anything except look menacing as they hover over them, and this is what that joke is making fun of.
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*** Are we seriously supposed to believe that Forrester or Frank ever got laid?
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*** It was actually called that in the pilot episode.
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** It's just something children occasionally do to each other when trying to be annoying.
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*Can someone explain this riff to me? They say it in several episodes and I've never been sure what they're referring to. Is it just something everyone but me gets?
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[[MST3KMantra It's just a show]], but even ''[=MST3K=]'' has a few things that just don't make sense.
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** JerryLewis also called the satellite that transmitted his annual Labor Day telethon the "Satellite of Love".

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** JerryLewis Creator/JerryLewis also called the satellite that transmitted his annual Labor Day telethon the "Satellite of Love".
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*** The new host bridge/theater transition sequences in Season 11 turn the long hallway into living space, with what appear to be a kitchen, laundry room, bot workshop, and other rooms divided up by the series of doors.

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*** The new host bridge/theater transition sequences in Season 11 turn the long hallway into living space, with what appear to be a kitchen, laundry room, bot workshop, and other rooms divided up by the series of doors. This results in the shape of the SOL arguably making somewhat more "logical" sense, but it's not that hard to imagine Dr. Forrester deciding to construct the ship in such a way that getting to the theater required a pointless trek down a long scary hallway with a bunch of elaborate forbidding doors purely for deranged evil genius showmanship.
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*** The new host bridge/theater transition sequences in Season 11 turn the long hallway into living space, with what appear to be a kitchen, laundry room, bot workshop, and other rooms divided up by the series of doors.
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** In response to widespread speculation, the only cryptic WordOfGod explanation which has been offered for what Gypsy drops off in each episode is that it's "the payload." During the live show tour following the release of season 11, however, there were occasional references made to the "payload" containing snacks and alcoholic drinks, usually ones suited to the local tastes of the current city on the tour.
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** Joel Hodgson has confirmed that the joke is a reference to the TV show and a bizarre question on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (a personality test somewhat like the better-known Meyers Briggs test) which asks the respondent if they have ever had any "dark, tarry-looking bowel movements."
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** The franchise ''had'' been defunct for over 17 years, and subject to a nasty rights scuffle between Jim Mallon and Joel Hodgson, so to an outsider it may have seemed too complicated or risky. And a successful Kickstarter is, funding aside, also a great litmus test to present to executives who want to gauge potential interest in a property.
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* Why did a show as venerable, iconic, and classic as ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' have to resort to crowdfunding to make new episodes like some unknown, debut indie project? Shouldn't Netflix have had to come to them, hat in hand on bended knee, to beg Hodgson to revive the show?
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** So the Forrester's really did drive humanity insane with awful movies? ''That explains so much!''
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*** Well, the real reason was because between having to disassemble the Deep 13 set every season lest it collapse and seeing to all the other random junk scattered between the sets, they lost track of the Cambot prop--which, after all, they had needed exactly once in all of the first five-and-a-half years to show in the opening sequence. The second one was similarly lost after two-and-a-half years of disuse for the same reasons. (More likely than not, they just thought the KTMA Cambot stank, though I quite like it. It's cute.) But, in-universe, it might've kept blowing fuses, and to make things easier for himself Joel kept simplifying the design, bringing Cambot from a full-fledged robot with a camera to a snake-like 'bot with a camera for a head to a floating [[{{Pokemon}} Pokéball]]. Brilliant.

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*** Well, the real reason was because between having to disassemble the Deep 13 set every season lest it collapse and seeing to all the other random junk scattered between the sets, they lost track of the Cambot prop--which, after all, they had needed exactly once in all of the first five-and-a-half years to show in the opening sequence. The second one was similarly lost after two-and-a-half years of disuse for the same reasons. (More likely than not, they just thought the KTMA Cambot stank, though I quite like it. It's cute.) But, in-universe, it might've kept blowing fuses, and to make things easier for himself Joel kept simplifying the design, bringing Cambot from a full-fledged robot with a camera to a snake-like 'bot with a camera for a head to a floating [[{{Pokemon}} [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pokéball]]. Brilliant.
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**They had been watching/making fun of bad movies for years, in the bots' case, their whole lives. It became part of their routine, so they kept at it. What I want to know is why they're inexplicably present again on Kinga's rebuilt SoL.
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** It always ''has'' been, just was never explicitly stated on-screen before the new season.
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*According to the new series, it's the name of the theater they watched the bad movies in.
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**It's a common joke, to imply guys are gay when they're not. If you're referring to stuff involving the bots, wouldn't it technically be [[{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}} "robosexual"]], though?
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** WordOfGod says that [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants they haven't decided who Kinga's mother will be yet]]. We might find out next season.
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** Joel claims it's because a lot of riffing is about reacting to characters' faces, and bad animated films tend to have very inexpressive characters.
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* Beginning in Season 11, Gypsy is able to drop in on the theater and deliver the occasional riff, but she's usually either dropping off or picking up some sort of bucket-- what exactly is it? A cooler full of drinks and snacks for Jonah and the bots?
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* I know a lot of people are probably asking this, but who is Kinga's mother? How did Clayton find her? Or was Kinga concieved a different way?

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* I know a lot of people are probably asking this, but who is Kinga's mother? How did Clayton find her? Or was her and what happened after that? Was Kinga concieved a different way?way?
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* I know a lot of people are probably asking this, but who is Kinga's mother? How did Clayton find her? Or was Kinga concieved a different way?
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** The 'pizza' is actually a giant omelette made of alien eggs. Crow pulled out a menu due to the RuleOfFunny.
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* There was that one Gumby short but why did they never do a feature length animated movie?
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