After much watching and enjoyment, I figure this Forum needs a Mystery Science Theater 3000 thread. The show’s riffed and parodied subject matter in the movies and the host segments shares much with the subjects in this Forum!
It’s hard to think of a good place to start, but this bit sums up what we do every day both as Unbelievers and human beings in general:
Mister Gaskins of The Brute Man and Eullabelle of The Horror of Party Beach would make a great curmudgeonly couple and he could refute and allay her fears, though sadly at that time, they would have had to creep around:
The Mole People also exhibited the horrors of compulsory worship during Pearl’s “Lawgiver Daze” plus Crow and Tom demonstrate how to correctly respond to a proponent of Pseudoscience when Mike went “down. down, down” the rabbit hole. Tom makes musical folklore of a grim past event. Crow also exhibited paradolia with his self-made “artifacts” and Mike deals with his former delusions by shedding light upon them.
The following is all meant in good fun for Pride Month. If it pisses off both the Woke Left and the Based Right, and it encouraged great future musicians, it is in the Goldilocks Spot as far as I’m concerned:
MST3K not only foreshadowed by nearly 30 years the online debates of today about sex and gender, but did it with all the order of an Oxford Debate, without cancel culture or censorship, and without the cacophony found on The Piers Morgan’s show:
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