Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Animated Series?

[Patrick McCart]

For fans of the great show, MST3K, you may know that the show is cancelled...

What if an animated version was produced?

Cartoon Network would be the obvious choice for the channel since Disney wouldn't think of touching the MST-style of humor.

What are some really bad/cheesy animated movies and cartoons that you think would probably end up on the animated version of the show?

A few of my choices:

Cartoons

Popeye For President
Good Night Elmer
Shangheied Shipmates
Good Little Monkeys (It's weird)
a Dragonball Z episode (really cheesy show)
a Scooby-Doo episode (again, cheesy)
South Park: The Movie (Edited for TV, 6 minutes)
Movies

Tom and Jerry: The Movie
The Pagemaster
Pokemon: The Movie I, II, and III (Any of the 3)
Land Before Time 2-??? (It's in the twenties now, I guess!)
Jetsons: The Movie

[The Dork Knight]

The LAnd Before Time series
The Pokemon Series
Black Cauldron
Stuff like Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

- Peter "Just Push Play " Melnick

[Brandon Pierce]

http://www.mst3kinfo.com/satnews/images/moonwbot.gif
Some things I'd love to see on MST3K:

Good Night Elmer
The Bird Came COD
Ghost Wanted
any Teletubbies episode
any Tots TV episode
any Land Before Time movie (exept the first one)
The Secret of Nimh (this movie isn't so bad, but I can imagine the jokes Crow would make)
any episode of any Nickelodeon show (exept The Angry Beavers, it doesn't deserve to be made fun of)

Well, that's my list.

[Jon Cooke]

How about just about anything Hanna-Barbera made after 1970? Stuff like Jabberjaw, Josie and the Pussycats, The Amazing Chan Clan, Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch, The Flintstone Kids, The Gary Coleman Show...


-Jon

[PorkyandDaffy]

I've heard of this show before, but I'm not exactly sure what it is. Can anybody tell me about it?

[Jack]

MST3K is a series about this guy and a few robots who were sent to outer space to watch cheesy movies. The movies play and they make funny commentary while it's playing.

I most like Jon's ideas to use admittedly bad H-B stuff, but I'd especially choose those awful Scrappy cartoons. I'd also choose the Filmation cartoons.

It would be hard to pick classic cartoons because who would decide what's good and bad? I like "The Bird Came COD" and "Good Little Monkeys", but I also like the Chan Clan, so I'm strange....


Jack:D

[Brian Cruz]

There really doesn't need to be two MST3K animated series topics, so I used my supreme power as a moderator to combine them into one. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to use the "merge" feature!:D

[don Jaime]

A subject dear to my heart. I've been MSTing cartoon fanfics galore this year at FFN. But actual cartoons are nearly impossible to MST. It's not the lack of subject matter so much as the lack of long "dramatic" pauses where riffs can be inserted. Most American shows talk to much to MST without drowning out the stupidity, and Japanese shows are only marginally less easy to do.

That said, if somebody figures out how to do toon MSTings, add the Smurfs to that list. Oog.

I always thought an animated Adventures of Gypsy, Crow, and Tom Servo would be interesting to watch. Turn them loose on original takes on SF cliches and let them go to town. Plus, their arms would finally work!

[Patrick McCart]

The writers and performers of the Scifi version were actually told what to do!

Season 8's requirment was that they have more "plot" host segments which build a story (If you've seen any Comedy Central episodes, you'll notice that there's almost never any plot in the segments...just skits)

Also, they were limited to ONLY scifi/fantasy/horror movies (They were allowed, however, to really stretch it...for example: Riding With Death)

Because of the more plot-directioned host segments, they had to stop using shorts. (Notice the longer segments...)

For Season 9, they got to go back to movie-inspired skits.

Season 10 finally let them go back to a bigger variety of movies (Hamlet, Girl In Gold Boots, Diabolik) without a scifi theme.

The only drawback was that they were forced to have a mad scientist subplot for the first 5 episodes...

By the middle of filming the 10th season, they found out that Scifi didn't have any interest in renewing the series for an 11th season. They then decided to go back to the original format.

Oddly enough, the channel that expressed the most interest in picking up the old episodes (Comedy Central and Scifi Channel) was American Movie Classics.

[Thad Komorowski]

Stuff I would like to see:

Any H-B stuff after 1970
Any post-HB T&Js
Land Before Time Movies (except the first one)
Tom & Jerry: The Movie

-Thad

[Brandon Pierce]

There never was a Institute for Mad Scientist plot. That was the idea, but was dropped. The only episode that featured IMS was the third season ten episode, Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders.

[PlopKat]

I think much of Ruby-Spears output would be ripe for MST3K. Anybody else remember Mightyman & Yukk, Rickety Rocket, or Rubik the Amazing Cube?

The only animated short that MST3K did was a Gumby one, Robot Rumpus (or was it Robot Rampage).

I don't know if anyone else here subscribes to Satellite News, the MST3K fanclub newsletter, but they're offering a new video that contains the "lost" MST3K short, Assignment Venezuela. It was made to be included on the CD-Rom that was scheduled until Trace "Dr. Clayton Forrester" Beaulieu left the show. When I took the Best Brains tour, I was told the CD-Rom was Trace's project more or less and no one else there was very enthusiastic about finishing it. This short wasn't aired on the show and has only been seen at one of their conventions.

-PlopKat

[Patrick McCart]

Remember the Mad Scientist (Paul Chaplin) who came over to Castle Forrester in 1002?

In 1004, Pearl conducted LSD tests (in the name of science), in 1006, the plan was to shut off electricity to the world so that their potatoes could power the world (failed plan, of course.)

In 1007, Pearl takes off Bobo's skull cap to mess with his brain (with funny results) Bobo: Officer Krumpke-eeeeeeee!

By the time they were filming and writing 1008, they realized that this would be the "end' and dropped the mad science subplot.

(By the way, timmybighands.com is now a dating service :eek: )

[PorkyandDaffy]

Oh, yes, NOW I remember what MST3K is. I remember a long time ago, when I would occasionally flip the channels at night, I would catch this program on Sci-Fi that showed an old movie, and had 3 shadowy figures at the bottom of the screen, watcing the movie, and making comments on it. I never caught the name of it before until now, though. Thanks.

[Jason Furness]

Originally posted by PlopKat

The only animated short that MST3K did was a Gumby one, Robot Rumpus (or was it Robot Rampage).



Nah, they've done at least one more. On one Sci-fi channel episode they showed some Jam Handy short about springs. That's right, springs!

[Pietro]

How about "The Door" or "Buddy Steps Out?" That'd be really funny. Or better yet, "Spaced-Out Bunny!" I think if they ever make an animated series the first few episodes should be with Joel and than Mike, like in the original series. If Joel and the 'bots were ever animated,

http://www.mst3ktemple.com/images/colorbook2.jpg

This was from a 1999 coloring book was to help explain Joel and his brother Jim’s concepts.

-Pietro:D

MST3K FOREVER!:D

[Meow]

Originally posted by Patrick McCart
Cartoons
a Dragonball Z episode (really cheesy show)
Heeeeeeeeeeeey...I like that show. Then again, I do tend to poke fun at it from time to time. I certainly wouldn't consider it cheesy though. (However the dubb does tend to give off that impression..although not enough to keep me from liking it) DBZ's definatly NOT cheesy enough to be compared to Scooby Doo....

Actually there IS this really funny site that makes fun of DBZ episodes (the dubb of course) MST style. It's really funny. Click on the link to check it out if you want. http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Shrine/7990/index.html

[Brandon Pierce]

Add Invader Zim to the list of cartoons that doesn't deserve to be made fun of.

[kami and kat]

yes. definately no MSTing OF Invader Zim, but if the Invader Zim characters were doing an MSTing of bad nick shows...

[PlopKat]

Is it my imagination or have I seen the name of Frank Coniff, who played TV's Frank on the Comedy Central episodes of MST3K (except for the first season), listed as a writer on some episodes of "Invader Zim"?

-PlopKat