History YMMV / MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie

* HilariousInHindsight: During a scene where Brack communicates via interocitor, Tom sings a fictional theme song that goes, "It's the Brack show, starring me -- I'm Brack! It's the Brack show, and I've got lots of good guests..." Four years later, ''WesternAnimation/TheBrakShow'' would come into existence (which was preceded by two specials, both entitled ''[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Brak Presents the Brak Show Starring Brak]]'', the second of which was a variety show that -- indeed -- had guests).

** The riffs weren't as esoteric overall, removing one of the charms of the show. One example: A character was said to look like "Bootsy Collins", which was changed to "Leona Helmsley".

* FanMyopia: The cult popularity of ''This Island Earth'' is OlderThanTheyThink. It even made an appearance in ''Film/ETTheExtraTerristrial''.

* FanMyopia: The cult popularity of ''This Island Earth'' is OlderThanTheyThink.

** Big men sticking screwdrivers into things - turning them - AND ADJUSTING THEM!

** The crew imitating WilliamShatner throughout the movie.

** (over footage of a farm from the airplane) "GreenAcres!"

* BetterOnDVD: The special edition released by ShoutFactory finally includes the deleted scenes, plus an interview with the Brains discussing the making of the film and their thoughts, and even a documentary on the [[ShowWithinAShow film within the film]]!

* BetterOnDVD: The special edition released by ShoutFactory finally includes the deleted scenes, plus an interview with the brains discussing the making of the film and their thoughts, and even a documentary on the [[ShowWithinAShow film within the film]]!

** MisBlamed: JoeDante complains on the ''This Island Earth'' documentary about the film being unfairly edited down by The Brains to make the film look more like a weak film, and not make sense to moviegoers. The problem with this complaint is [[CriticalResearchFailure it wasn't The Brains' decision to edit the film down!]] It was [[ExecutiveMeddling Gramercy's]] decision to cut the film down (plus remove a couple host segments), because focus groups complained about the movie being too long.

* {{Woolseyism}}: The Brazilian dubbing, with three LargeHam dubbers [[ThrowItIn letting it loose]], has developed a cult following in the country. For instance, once a Metalunian appears, in the original Crow goes "Leona Helmsley!" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W9G0mt3yDI The dubbing has him saying]] "It's TinaTurner!" and singing [[Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome "We don't need another heeeeeroooo..."]]

* OlderThanTheyThink: ''This Island Earth'' was no stranger to being riffed on by the ''[=MST3K=]'' crew, as it had already been mocked during the [[FanConvention Mystery Science Theater 3000 Conventio-Con Expo-Fest-A-Rama]]. That had the benefit of being explicitly written ''for the fans'', though.[[note]]Still, most of the riffs from the live version ended up in the movie[[/note]]

!! The [=MST3K=] version contains:

---> '''Crow''': I calculated the odds that this would work versus the odds that I was doing something incredibly stupid and... I went ahead anyway.

* HilariousInHindsight: During a scene where Brack communicates via interocitor, Tom sings a fictional theme song that goes, "It's the Brack show, starring me -- I'm Brack! It's the Brack show, and I've got lots of good guests..." Four years later, TheBrakShow would come into existence (which was preceded by two specials, both entitled [[DepartmentOfREdundancyDepartment Brak Presents the Brak Show Starring Brak]], the second of which was a variety show that -- indeed -- had guests).

* OlderThanTheyThink: ''This Island Earth'' was no stranger to being riffed on by the ''[=MST3K=]'' crew, as it had already been mocked during the [[FanConvention Mystery Science Theater 3000 Conventio-Con Expo-Fest-A-Rama]]. That had the benefit of being explicitly written ''for the fans'', though.

* HilariousInHindsight: During a scene where Brack communicates via interocitor, Tom sings a fictional theme song that goes, "It's the Brack show, starring me - and Brack! It's the Brack show, and I've got lots of good guests..." Four years later, TheBrakShow would come into existence (which was preceded by two specials, both entitled [[DepartmentOfREdundancyDepartment Brak Presents the Brak Show Starring Brak]], the second of which was a variety show that - indeed - had guests).