YMMV / Mystery Science Theater 3000 S02 E01: Rocketship X-M

• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • After Crow's comment about the inappropriateness of the movie's subject material, Joel asks the Mads, "Why don't you just show us Marooned?" Forrester's reply: "We couldn't get it!" Two years later, though, they would get it, thanks to Film Ventures International's repackaging of Marooned as Space Travelers.
  • Crow makes a couple references to Super Mario Bros. during the debrief about the space mission. 17 years later...
  • The 2017 relaunch of the series featured a new Running Gag of Servo floating around the theater, prompting a big Broken Base about whether it was funny.
  • The fan letter in this episode complains about how new robots should be added to the show. All that person had to do was wait until the Sci-Fi Channel era with the Nanites.
• Moment of Awesome: Joel's invention exchange is an ersatz version of the Power Loader from Aliens, meant to be used as a mobile drum set for rock bands. (TV's Frank immediately steals the idea.) So awesome it remained in the opening credits for the rest of Joel's run.

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