History YMMV / MysteryScienceTheater3000

** The Bots having multiple sets of performers in season 13 is also a bone of contention. While some are happy it gives the performers from the tours the chance to show what they can do in a more widely-viewable way, others think it detracts from the characters to have them so readily handed off from performer to performer, even if it is explained in-universe as them being seperate sets of bots. Kelsey Ann Brady's take on Crow in particular has some fans thinking she's fine and others comparing her negatively to a 90's cartoon character.

** Hampton Yount has serious trouble syncing Crow's mouth movements to his lines. In the theater he often just leaves the mouth open the whole time, although that could be signal issues​ with the new radio controlled mouth mechanism.

** Some of the riffs on the Japanese movies, like ''Film/MightyJack'' can veer uncomfortably into AsianSpeekeeEngrish territory.

* BrokenBase: A massive uproar occurred when Mike replaced Joel as host mid-season-five, resulting in a FlameWar so bad that it eventually degenerated into personal attacks and pulled entire web communities apart. For years afterward the subject was banned on multiple fan sites, though in the later days of the fights there were more than a few {{troll}}s fanning the flames (Joel himself admitted years later that [[TrollingCreator he'd been one of them]], not really understanding how serious it was). These days, while fans disagree about who was better (and most admit that it really just comes down to personal preference), most find they generally liked both. Jonah Ray joked that an advantage of being the new host was that [[{{SelfDeprecation}} he could unite the Mike and Joel fans into hating a common enemy]].

* BetterOnDVD: TheMovie now has the deleted scenes, and deleted theater segments! Fans are already getting to work on a fan edit.
* BrokenBase: A massive uproar occurred when Mike replaced Joel as host mid-season-five, resulting in a FlameWar so bad that it eventually degenerated into personal attacks and pulled entire web communities apart. For years afterward the subject was banned on multiple fan sites, though in the later days of the fights there were more than a few {{troll}}s fanning the flames (Joel Hodgson himself admitted years later that [[TrollingCreator he'd been one of them]], not really understanding how serious it was). These days, while fans disagree about who was better (and most admit that it really just comes down to personal preference), most find they generally liked both. Jonah Ray joked that an advantage of being the new host was that [[{{SelfDeprecation}} he could unite the Mike and Joel fans into hating a common enemy]].

*** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65Nb73C0Tco 2017 rearrangement of "Mighty Science Theater"]] is preformed by a real orchestra and is something to behold.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3Je8aE_yv8 Gypsy Rose Me!]] It's nice to see Gypsy in the spotlight every once in a while.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWyOLBNajCQ Hired! The Musical]] is golden. The [[FunnyBackgroundEvent perplexed looks on Joel's face whenever Gypsy sings]] is the cherry on top.

* DorkAge: Not during the show, but during the period that [=MST3K=] was canceled, in 2007 the official web page released a series of animated Flash shorts starring the bots with Paul Chaplin as Crow, James Moore as Tom, and Jim Mallon himself as Gypsy. These videos weren't memorable at all and actually lacked the comedy of the original series. The web series only lasted four episodes.

* CriticalResearchFailure: Many of the movies the crew riffs on are guilty of this, but it's also invoked intentionally for comedic effect during some of the host segments.
** In Servo's planetarium show in the ''Skydivers'' prologue, he refers to the speed of light as "well over five hundred miles an hour" (which is technically true but also incredibly imprecise: the speed of light is 670.6 ''million'' miles per hour) and calls UsefulNotes/{{Mars}} "the brightest star in our galaxy". Needless to say, Crow and Mike can't resist derailing the show.
** During Crow's Public Service Announcement on how to treat women, he treats women as if they're a cryptozoological phenomenon, like Bigfoot.
*** ...complete with a grainy, black-and-white photo of a fur coat wearing lady that looks like a frame from the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson-Gimlin_film Patterson-Gimlin bigfoot film.]]
*** When Mike points out that Crow knows Pearl, he quickly amends his conspiracy to state, yeah, sure, ''one'' woman exists, but do they ''all'' exist? [[note]]Crow: Name me one other woman, go ahead.[[/note]]

** The episode, "Marooned," has a simple, sarcastic NonSequitur declaring, "Charles Rocket," mocking the ''Television/SaturdayNightLive'' alum whose post-SNL career floundered badly, ultimately ending in his suicide.

** The episode, "Marooned," has a simple, sarcastic NonSequitur declaring, "Charles Rocket," mocking the SaturdayNightLive alum whose post-SNL career floundered badly, ultimately ending in his suicide.

** Jonah Ray has joked that Jonah Heston [[SelfDeprecation gives both sides a common enemy to hate together]]

* DorkAge: Not during the show, but during the period that [=MST3K=] was canceled, in 2007 the official web page released a series of animated Flash shorts starring the bots with Paul Chaplin as Crow, James Moore as Tom, and Jim Mallon himself as Gypsy. These videos weren't memorable at all and actually lacked the comedy the original series. The web series only lasted four episodes.

** The 2017 revival gives absolutely no indication of why the Bots are back on the satellite, causing some warring fan theories about why they came back (the most popular being that they got homesick for the only home they'd ever known, and just went along with it when they suddenly got another human to watch movies with), or even that they're simply duplicates while the originals are still right where we last saw them. [[note]] Not even Joel seems to know, as in the 2019 tour, at least in the ''Film/NoRetreatNoSurrender'' version, mention is made of there being multiple copies of the bots, while in the Emergency Riff-Along of ''Film/MoonZeroTwo'', the bots say their minds were wiped and they returned to the satellite in ways we don't really need to know. [[/note]]

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Season 12 attempted saving throws:
** First, the next season was set at just six episodes, as Joel admitted he'd forgotten just how much work it took to make the kind of quality product the show was at its best, and the shorter episode count would allow each one to receive the attention it needed.
** The season also features far less obsession with [[FillingTheSilence added riffing]] that many fans complained about in Season 11, with a return to the more natural pace of the original. And the three riffers are again all recorded together, allowing them to play off each other and even crack each other up more naturally. The lack of rapid-fire riffing helps with the issues of audiences having trouble telling who is doing the riffing as well.
** The poorly received overarching plot of Kinga and Jonah's wedding and Max's unrequited love for Kinga is brushed under the rug and promptly forgotten.
** While the response to the celebrity cameos was certainly mixed, but to the relief of many they've dialed down the more gratuitous cameos that many felt were less ''[=MST3k=]'' skits and more "let's stop the show to have a celebrity do a bit."
** However, none of it was able to get a Season 13 from Netflix. But that still wasn't the end, as a year of downtime during the COVID-19 pandemic gave Joel plenty of time to think over how to continue [=MST3K=], and he ended up deciding to launch his own streaming platform for the show. And this time, rather than follow the mixed results of the Netflix model, the series would once again simply release one episode at a time, with the hope that it would make each one feel like a unique event, complete with the platform offering live chatrooms for each debut. Season 13 also features the return of the much-beloved shorts after they were noticeably absent from the Netflix episodes, also having their own releases rather than having to wait for a short enough film to fit them into a regular episode.

* UncannyValley: During the opening host segment of ''Film/TheViolentYears'', Servo replaces his dome with a ventriloquist dummy's head, which frightens and disgusts the others. Crow suffers unbearable BrainBleach.

** The original writers were fond of obscure UsefulNotes/RichardNixon and Watergate references, such as joking about a shot of a yacht in ''Devil Fish'' as "Bebe Rebozo's home movies" or comparing a werewolf in ''Film/{{Werewolf}}'' to Nixon's dog King Timahoe.

** During the livestreams for the 2021 relaunch, Bill Corbett called out a reference to Robert Bork's failure to get on the Supreme Court in ''Film/{{Werewolf}}'' as being an old reference even at the time, happening more than ten years earlier.

** The Bots having multiple sets of performers in season 13 is also a bone of contention. While some are happy it gives the performers from the tours the chance to show what they can do in a more widely-viewable way, others think it detracts from the characters to have them so readily handed off from performer to performer. Kelsey Ann Brady's take on Crow in particular has some fans thinking she's fine and others comparing her negatively to a 90's cartoon character.

** The original writers were quite fond of obscure UsefulNotes/RichardNixon and Watergate references, such as joking about a shot of a yacht as "Bebe Rebozo's home movies" in ''Devil Fish'' or comparing a werewolf in ''Film/{{Werewolf}}'' to Nixon's dog King Timahoe.

** The writers were also quite fond of UsefulNotes/RichardNixon and Watergate jokes, such as joking about "Bebe Rebozo's home movies" in ''Devil Fish'' or comparing a werewolf in ''Film/{{Werewolf}}'' to Nixon's dog King Timahoe.