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*** Joel admitted he was kidding about that; he just wanted to see Crow's reaction.

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*** **** Joel admitted he was kidding about that; he just wanted to see Crow's reaction.
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**** cf. the KTMA episode ''Hangar 18'' where Joel asserted this was the case.
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** There are several theories about how the Bots ended up back on the SOL. The most agreed upon is that the original bots built by Joel are still living with Mike, as they were in the last episode of the original run. The ones on the SOL are newly built by Kinga to fully replicate her father's experiment. It even explains the new voices.
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*** Canonically, The Satellite of Love just has a bunch of random stuff laying around, and [[LampshadeHanging no one is sure why]]. If you want a FanWank explanation, Deep 13 is similarly full of random crap, and [[MundaneUtility Pearl did once use the SOL to store a couch while she was redecorating]]. Perhaps Forrester and Earhart were using their cool satellite for personal failed invention storage prior to launch? Alternatively, [[MeaningfulName the Mads]] are [[ItWasHisSled mad]], and trying to figure out why they do anything may cause [[{{Music/Madness}} a similar condition]].

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*** Canonically, The Satellite of Love just has a bunch of random stuff laying around, and [[LampshadeHanging no one is sure why]]. If you want a FanWank explanation, Deep 13 is similarly full of random crap, and [[MundaneUtility Pearl did once use the SOL to store a couch while she was redecorating]]. Perhaps Forrester and Earhart were using their cool satellite for personal failed invention storage prior to launch? Alternatively, [[MeaningfulName the Mads]] are [[ItWasHisSled mad]], and trying to figure out why they do anything may cause [[{{Music/Madness}} [[{{Music/Madness|Band}} a similar condition]].
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[[folder:Eating, Breathing, Other Science Stuff]]

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[[folder:Eating, Breathing, and Other Science Stuff]]Facts]]
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** Because they're Evil! EEEVILLL!!!
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**** No, but the bone is. The one the ape man tosses into the air where it jump-cuts to a space shuttle.

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* What was the last punching bag in the invention exchange in "The Giant Gila Monster"?

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* What was the last punching bag in the invention exchange in "The "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E02TheGiantGilaMonster The Giant Gila Monster"?Monster]]"?
** Looks like your standard Court Jester character. Want some medieval insults thrown your way?

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** He tries to keep his sanity with the help of his robot friends.
** Probably because watching terrible movies with snarky robots is better than sitting around with nothing to do.

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** He tries to keep his sanity with the help of his robot friends.
** Probably because watching terrible movies with snarky robots is better than sitting around with nothing to do. He tries to keep his sanity with the help of his robot friends.
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** He tries to keep his sanity with the help of his robot friends.
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*** Exactly. Joel figured, correctly, that having companions - even companions that destroy everything that he cares about, repeatedly, like the toothpick sculpture of Monticello he spent months building - is far more valuable than being able to skip the crappy parts of a movie.. [[MST3KMantra Besides...]]

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*** Exactly. Joel figured, correctly, that having companions - even companions that destroy everything that he cares about, repeatedly, like the toothpick sculpture {{sculpture|s}} of Monticello he spent months building - is far more valuable than being able to skip the crappy parts of a movie.. [[MST3KMantra Besides...]]
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* If the motto of the the show is "It's just a show; I should really just relax." why does this page exist?

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* If the motto of the the show is "It's just a show; I should really just relax." why does this page exist?
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* It's understandable why Joel, Mike, Jonah may know some of these, but how do the robots suddenly know about stuff like tv shows, movies, music, etc? (outside of RuleOfFunny)?
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** You’re asking this about guys who shoot an employee into space because they don’t like him?
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* How did the current Mads abduct the 'Bots?
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* Why did the Mads initially want to murder Mike? He was just a simple temp who would've probably been on his way as soon as he punched out. And it's not like he was Deep 13's first visitor.
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** Or maybe the Mads' attempts to drive Joel/Mike insane with bad movies is ''working'', enough for the SOL crew to hallucinate visits from fictional movie-characters.

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** Or maybe the Mads' attempts to drive Joel/Mike insane with bad movies is ''working'', enough for the SOL crew to hallucinate visits from fictional movie-characters.movie-characters and/or the actors who played them.
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** Or maybe the Mads' attempts to drive Joel/Mike insane with bad movies is ''working'', enough for the SOL crew to hallucinate visits from fictional movie-characters.
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiPtIL-elJk This scene from Lilo & Stitch 2 may help as well.]]

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** Gypsy was probably meant to watch the movies--she's in the theater during the KTMA opening credits, which were taped shortly after the first episode was filmed (Servo doesn't appear at all in that one and his unintelligible predecessor, Beeper, is only namechecked). Somewhere between then and the second episode's production Beeper was reworked into Tom Servo.
*** At a guess the Servo puppet was easier for Josh Weinstein to work during the theater segments. The KTMA Gypsy is very visibly unbalanced and awkward to move around.
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*** Of course, Joel intended the 2000 as a model number (as everything was being called the such-and-such 2000 at the time); the 3000 was a case of Jim Mallon CompletelyMissingThePoint and Joel not caring enough about it to correct him. As for the "Mystery Science" bit, Hodgson's stand-up routine was big at the time and he would refer to his bizarre gadgets as being made by Mystery Science Labs. (Said gadgets were used, at least early on, in the Invention Exchange segments, a notable example being the machine that makes it look like your head's doing 360-turns.)

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*** Of course, Joel intended the 2000 as a model number (as everything was being called the such-and-such 2000 at the time); the 3000 was a case of Jim Mallon CompletelyMissingThePoint completely missing the point and Joel not caring enough about it to correct him. As for the "Mystery Science" bit, Hodgson's stand-up routine was big at the time and he would refer to his bizarre gadgets as being made by Mystery Science Labs. (Said gadgets were used, at least early on, in the Invention Exchange segments, a notable example being the machine that makes it look like your head's doing 360-turns.)



*** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint But the satellite in 2001 isn't bone-shaped at all!]]

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*** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint But the satellite in 2001 isn't bone-shaped at all!]]all!

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** In a nutshell: Explicit, completed rape is forbidden but stuff that's offscreen or attempted is fine to show. The ''Film/GirlsTown'' one was foiled and the one from
''Film/TheViolentYears'' only showed the lead up and switched to the guy's girlfriend untying herself and escaping to get help once the female gang and that poor guy went into the bushes.

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** In a nutshell: Explicit, completed rape is forbidden but stuff that's offscreen or attempted is fine to show. The ''Film/GirlsTown'' one was foiled and the one from
from ''Film/TheViolentYears'' only showed the lead up and switched to the guy's girlfriend untying herself and escaping to get help once the female gang and that poor guy went into the bushes.



* If the motto of the the show is"It's just a show; I should really just relax." why does this page exist?

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* If the motto of the the show is"It's is "It's just a show; I should really just relax." why does this page exist?


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* Cloning people is a thing in the Mystieverse so perhaps that's how Clay & Frank reproduced. Perhaps Dr. F kidnapped Kim Catrall, extracted some DNA and made a Forrester / Catrall-clone baby... or perhaps he's lying about the "Kim Catrall" part and it was really just some random woman on the street.
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*** However, while it's rarer, guys do get raped by gals in RealLife and... yes... it's still a traumatic experience.


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** In a nutshell: Explicit, completed rape is forbidden but stuff that's offscreen or attempted is fine to show. The ''Film/GirlsTown'' one was foiled and the one from
''Film/TheViolentYears'' only showed the lead up and switched to the guy's girlfriend untying herself and escaping to get help once the female gang and that poor guy went into the bushes.
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** Specific examples: 1) In "Beginning Of The End", Mike and The Bots call down to Deep 13 to find The Mads in the midst of a 'domestic' scene (mud facials, eating bon-bons and watching daytime TV) like a couple; 2) in "The Creeping Terror", during Laundry Day, Frank makes mention of Forrester's "fine washables" ("I know I bought you more underpants!") 3) Also from "The Creeping Terror", during the ''Series/LoveAmericanStyle'' satire, Tom and Mike "must" get married because Mike get's Tom's engagement ring stuck on his finger. And so much more...
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**** Given the temporal shenanigans that occurred as a result of [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E16PrinceOfSpace everyone following Bobo through a wormhole back in Season 8]], it's entirely possible that they could've turned out differently in this timeline as a result. It's assumed that timeline changes were possible, [[ButterflyOfDoom since that was the reason they followed Bobo through the wormhole in the first place.]]
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** People ''did'' think to themselves "it's just a show, I should really just relax". . . then decided ''not'' to just relax, and came here.


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** In season 12, "the payload" also starts containing M. Waverly and Growler. Presumably, they've been dragooned into whatever it is Gypsy needs them to do.

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