History Awesome / MysteryScienceTheater3000

*** Even more impressive was that what screened was the ''second'' take, and the only reason there were two was that the director decided to bring the camera in for a tighter shot.

* Bobo defeating the [[Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers pod people]] in ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E10TheGiantSpiderInvasion The Giant Spider Invasion]]''.
** And then you get a villainous example from Pearl, who does something not even her ''son'' did: [[HereWeGoAgain resend the movie]].
** Earlier, Servo scaring away his Pod Clone by intimately and precisely listing the contents of his underwear collection.

* Crow's ClusterBleepBomb in ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E15AgentForHARM Agent for HARM]]''.
** From the same episode, when Mike Nelson is on trial for [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds accidentally blowing up multiple planets]]. Observer is testifying against him and Professor Bobo, acting as Mike's defense attorney, utterly obliterates Observer's testimony thanks to [[ItMakesSenseInContext his encyclopedic knowledge of pies]].

*** Even more impressive was that they landed the performance in ''two takes'', and only needed that many because the director decided on a tighter shot.

*** Even more impressive was that they landed the performance in ''two takes'', and only needed that many because the director decided it needed a tighter shot.

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* Creator/ShoutFactory declared in their press release regarding the release rights for the show that they would release ''every single episode on DVD'', legal difficulties in securing the film rights be damned. It seemed like it was all talk at the time. Then they secured the rights to, and subsequently released, ''all of the'' Film/{{Gamera}} ''episodes.'' [[note]]The ''Gamera'' movies are currently out of print, but Shout is working on the rights issues.[[/note]]
** For those not in the know, the ''Gamera'' episodes--and most of the show's Japanese-import-based Season 3 episodes, for that matter--had been unavailable for years because the guy in charge of importing them, Sandy Frank, pushed the rights fees through the roof to get a bigger paycheck.[[note]](He may also have been motivated by the show's repeated insults aimed at him. This includes at least one song declaring him "the source of all our pain", as well as accusing him of harboring repulsive hygiene habits and being too lazy to make his own movies.)[[/note]] No one was both willing and able to pay him these fees, so these episodes languished in the vault; the prominent fansite [=MST3KInfo=] had the ''Gamera'' episodes and other Season 3 episodes featuring Japanese films categorized as "Extremely Unlikely" on [[http://www.mst3kinfo.com/ward_e/listlikely.html this list of potential DVD releases]].
** Shout Factory one-upped themselves when they snagged the rights to some of the Creator/{{Universal}} and Creator/{{MGM}} films featured on the show, some of which were also listed as "Extremely Unlikely".
*** In September 2013, Shout Factory released a long-awaited special edition Blu-ray/DVD of ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie MST3K: The Movie]]'' which included both the legendary deleted scenes and deleted riffs from the theater segments.
** They topped themselves once more with Vol. 29 by finally tracking down the rights to ''Film/ThePumaman'' after years of the run-around. ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=672kLAGig7s The full episode is even on their YouTube page.]])
** Shout Factory makes a very large number of episodes (over 100) [[https://www.shoutfactorytv.com/film/mst3k available to stream for free]]. In addition, they're still attempting to make good on their promise to release every episode, as in August of 2020 ''Film/QuestOfTheDeltaKnights'' finally got an official release.
* On Thanksgiving 2013, Shout Factory ran an [=MST3K=] Turkey Day marathon on Website/YouTube, showing six episodes that fan consensus agreed were an awesome selection: ''Space Mutiny'', ''I Accuse My Parents'', ''Werewolf'', ''Cave Dwellers'', ''The Final Sacrifice'', and ''Mitchell''.
** Joel got a moment of awesome in one of the bumpers by talking about how much he admired Mike's work on the show.
** At various points during the night, #mst3k, #rowsdower, and #mitchell were some of the highest-trending tags on Twitter.
** One bumper had Joel hoping Joe Don Baker--the star of ''Mitchell'' and ''Final Justice'', and a man famed for hating ''[=MST3K=]''--was having a happy Thanksgiving.
* Shout ran a second Turkey Day marathon the year after; this one featured Trace Beaulieu reprising Crow and Josh Weinstein voicing (for the first time in [[LongBusTrip something approaching 25 years]]) Tom Servo, which allowed them both to be more than quick cameos.
* In 2015, Joel launched a Website/{{Kickstarter}} for a reboot of the show. Within a week, it was $500,000 above its original $2 million minimum, which meant three full brand-new episodes. But the awesome did not stop there. With less than three hours left before the Kickstarter campaign ended, the fandom rallied together and pushed the grand total to ''nearly six million dollars'', which allowed the revival's first season to be ''a full thirteen episode season''. It made more money than the Kickstarter for ''Series/ReadingRainbow'', and it didn't even need Creator/SethMacFarlane's help!
** ''[=MST3K=]''[='=]s success in reaching this goal should not be understated. The donation total had stalled at just below $3m after the first week, and it did not go past $3m until after the 2015 Turkey Day marathon. Only during the campaign's last week did the money come pouring in like clockwork.
** Thanks to additional donations from outside the Kickstarter, the show managed to secure a fourteenth episode on last day of the campaign, so Season 11 will have thirteen episodes and a Christmas Special to boot. ''DownToTheLastPlay'' Certified!
** The campaign's final total, for those interested, was $6,364,229 ($5,764,229 from the Kickstarter plus an additional $600k from outside donations) making it, at the time, the highest-funded video Kickstarter project.
* On March 22, 2017, [[https://youtu.be/5ct0Z2bQndM The trailer for the revival dropped]] in all its SoBadItsGood PracticalEffects glory. We've got a new [[VillainousLegacy Forrester]], the Bots we all know and love (and now their arms work!), and the promise of plenty more B Movies.
** In a promotion for the new series, Jonah and the bots tear into [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkOMAQAcBKE the first two minutes of Stranger Things]].
* The 2017 version's theme song, recorded by Har Mar Superstar (who had made a version of the original theme song an epic part of his live show for decades), where the original silly little ditty gets a whole new and far more confident orchestration, much better production values that still manage to evoke the beloved handmade feel of before, and ending on a triumphant high note sure to get any long-time fan pumping their fist.
** And the ending theme "Mighty Science Theater" is now a fully orchestrated piece and it's every bit as hauntingly beautiful as the show is funny.
* With Gypsy now being attached to the ceiling, Crow having working arms, and Tom being able to fly this has led to a lot more visual gags within the theater segments, such as Tom flying out of his seat and attempting to pull a lever on-screen during ''The Time Travelers''
* Gypsy now visits the theater [[OncePerEpisode twice in every episode]], and makes a joke both times, often the best riffs of the episode.
* The revival has a sterling 100% "Fresh" Critic's Rating on Website/RottenTomatoes and a similarly impressive 93% "Fresh" viewer rating.
* After months of suspense given Creator/{{Netflix}}'s usual fast notices on whether their new shows will be renewed, in classic MST fashion the show was announced to be getting a 12th season in their Turkey Day marathon.
* The final movie of The Gauntlet is none other than ''Film/AtorTheFightingEagle'', whose sequel ''Film/CaveDwellers'' was riffed all the way back in Season 3. This is a loop that's been waiting to close for ''twenty-seven years''.
* The Gauntlet includes Creator/TheAsylum mockbuster ''Film/AtlanticRim''. For those who don't know, The Asylum's primary source of distribution was through what would eventually become the Creator/SyFy Channel, aka the channel where the original [=MST3K=] met its end due to ExecutiveMeddling. Revenge is sweet.
* Kinga was poised to succeed where all her predecessors failed: Breaking the host and the Bots. The trailer shows their real fear in having to riff six movies in a row and some of the riffing shown in the trailer consists of screams, sobs, and maniacal laughter. Intercut with that are quick flashes of some truly bonkers Host Segments. Sometimes it really is about quantity over quality.
** However, at the end of ''Ator, The Fighting Eagle'', the finale of "The Gauntlet", [[BaitAndSwitch Kinga and Max got played]]: Jonah and the Bots ''faked'' being broken so that they could get put on a shuttle heading for Earth. Meanwhile, they had done some modifications to the movie vault in Moon 13, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard locking the Mads in a movie theater, doomed to the same exact punishment Jonah and the bots were forced into]].
* Netflix, a company which typically zealously guards all their original programs and refuses to let them be seen anywhere outside their own website, allowed ''Film/CryWilderness'' to be part of the 2018 Turkey Day Marathon. That's a major case of AdoredByTheNetwork they've got.
* In April 2021, Joel revealed that his promise about finding a way to continue the show after Netflix's cancellation wasn't in vain, as this time he's setting up ''his own streaming service'', Gizmoplex, dedicated entirely to the series, and the entire cast of the relaunch would be coming back for Season 13. Within hours, their Kickstarter passed the halfway point of its two million dollar goal, and met its goal on its ''second day.'' For full context, that record-breaking Kickstarter mentioned above took a week to get to this point. Joel's letter to the backers then joked that if it turned out they again set a new record for the service after that one was lost to ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'', he'd personally be StormingTheCastle to take the certificate back.
** The fans passed a bonus challenge two days ahead of schedule, resulting in Season 13 including the show's very first 3D movie, including glasses being sent to the backers, and specifically looking to new kinds of gags they can do with the format.
** The new seasons also feature a whole new level of ambition by using two different hosts, with episodes switching between Jonah and Emily from the live shows. And as if that wasn’t enough, Joel himself returns to the theater for the first time since 1993 (after his guest appearance in the original run’s final season notoriously only involved the host segments).
** The Gizmoplex episodes also have J. Elvis Weinstein in the writing room for the first time since 1990, with Joel trumpeting him as their best joke writer from that time.
** In the end, this campaign stayed ahead of the previous one's numbers for its ''entire'' run, ultimately reaching its top goal with a whole day to spare. Even more so, as they reached their goal before the campaign ended, this means that the Gizmoplex will also host a live show from Podcast/{{Rifftrax}}, meaning that (possibly) all four ''[=MST3K=]'' hosts will be under the same roof!
** And in its very last hour, they actually surpassed the previous total, resulting in once again adding an extra holiday special episode. The final count: $6,518,255.57, more than a million dollars over the top goal. Plus, while they weren't able to retake the number one spot, they did end up the ''only'' film and video project to be in the top five for both money raised and number of backers.
** Joel made one more major announcement in his update after the campaign ended, that Season 13 will feature ''Film/GameraVsJiger'', which they'd desperately tried to get the rights to during the show's original run alongside the other films in the franchise, but weren't able to until now.
* A couple from the Gizmoplex tribute showing of ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E04SecretAgentSuperDragon Secret Agent Super Dragon]]'':
** For the short that preceded the episode, the ones doing the riffing wasn't Jonah's group or Emily's group, but rather Pearl and Dr. Erhardt. WebVideo/CinematicTitanic fans rejoice.
** [[Creator/PennAndTeller Penn Jillette]], TheAnnouncer for Creator/ComedyCentral during the show's run on that channel, returns to do voiceover work for the ad promoting ''The Shape of Things to Come''.

* Kingachrome. A pretty ludicrous concept; movies in liquid format. It's got drawbacks that make it basically useless. However, the idea of movies recorded in liquid gives the latest iteration of [=MST3K=] a character unique from previous ones, with bubbly "static" and movies being "flushed" up to the [=SoL=]. And finally, Kinga (actually Synthia) manages to invent a way to use the Kingachrome so you can drink it and play audio. Her plans to market it to soft drink companies would actually be a huge moneymaker... imagine taking a swig of your favorite soft drink and then being able to play your favorite Music/{{Queen}} song just by opening your mouth. Awesome.

** [[Creator/PennAndTeller Penn Jillette]], TheAnnouncer for Creator/ComedyCentral during MST3K's run on that channel, returns to do voiceover work for the ad promoting ''The Shape of Things to Come''.