This website is an homage to the greatest television show of all time:  Mystery Science Theater 3000.

What is Mystery Science Theater 3000 (or MST3K for short), you ask?  Well, a while back on a small independent UHF station in Minneapolis a man named Joel Hodgeson was challenged with the task of filling up the airtime on the station which fell between local wrestling commercials and reruns of Hogan's Heroes, Gilligan's Island, and Mr. Ed.  With this in mind, and the fact that the station was giving them a two hour slot every week, Joel presented an idea he had had a long time before about a guy trapped in space who is forced to watch bad movies.  Deciding that he had absolutely nothing to loose and everything to gain, the first episode was filmed in just a few days time with a very minimal budget.

The premise of the show is as follows:  Joel plays Joel Robinson, a mild mannered, easy going, sleepy eyed janitor who works for a company called Gizmonics Institute.  His bosses, mad scientists Dr. Clayton Forrester and Dr. Larry Earhardt (later replaced by TV's Frank), shoot Joel up into space aboard a satellite and send him an extremely bad movie every week in order to gauge his reactions to it.  The ultimate goal is to find a movie that drives Joel completely insane so that they can unleash said movie on an unwitting public and consequently rule the world.  All of this, however, is nothing more than a flimsy excuse for Joel and his writing staff to heckle the very worst movies that Hollywood has had to offer us.  With the help of his robot friends Tom Servo, Crow T. Robot, and Gypsy (she mainly manages the satellite's higher functions; i.e. life support, navigation, etc.) Joel sits through all the movies, while he and his pals make with the wisecracks throughout the entire thing.

Joel left the show and was replaced by headwriter Mike Nelson, Dr. Earhardt left and was replaced by TV's Frank, then both the mad scientists left and were replaced by Dr. Forrester's mother Pearl.  Throughout all its incarnations though, the show's premise has remained the same:  STICK IT TO HOLLYWOOD!!

The show had the very long run of ten years; first on KTMA in Minneapolis, then onto the Comedy Channel which merged with the television station HA! to become Comedy Central, and finally was picked up by the Sci-Fi channel to live out its final days.  When the show went off the air many Misties (Misties is to MST3K as Trekkies is to Star Trek) began to feel a void to their existance.  With so much crap coming out of Hollywood these days, I have taken it upon myself to fill the void.  Well, fill it in my own way, of course.  There's obviously not enough room on a website to heckle an entire movie nor would I have the resources to pull it off if there were.

Instead I've opted to do captions on still images with the trademarked MST3K silhouette at the bottom of the screen.  I've also decided to expand my pallette to include most forms of entertainment and not just movies.  I look forward to feedback on my work.

Push the button, Frank.