Trivia / Mystery Science Theater 3000 S07 E03: Deathstalker and the Warriors

• Creator's Favorite: This is Ballyhoo director Daniel Griffith's favorite episode. Ironically and unfortunately, when he went to make a documentary about the film for one of the MST3K sets, hardly anybody wanted to be interviewed by him because they wanted to forget they were involved.
• Write What You Know: The host segments are basically the Brains' way of bashing Renaissance fests, which they've attended in the past. Kevin Murphy, in particular, can't stand them:
  Kevin Murphy: As you might guess if you've watched more than one episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, many of us involved in the writing of the show hate Renaissance festivals to the point that we have wished dire harm on their participants and patrons, written letters to wit, received court orders enjoining us from stalking around them, been incarcerated for lighting fires in the bazaar and hurling flaming dream-catchers at horrified festers. Well, that describes me to the letter. "Creative anachronism" my sorry Irish ass. A Ren-fest is nothing more than an excuse to be lame, smelly and fat, just like XFL fans, only worse. I'm betting most of these clowns couldn't spell "Renaissance" if you threatened their tender vittles with hot iron. I hope some day they live out their wish to know what it was like back then by contracting plague. Too harsh? You go to a Renaissance festival and get back to me.