Mystery Science Theatre 3000
A Tribute
Premise: A human test subject has been imprisoned aboard the spacecraft Satellite of Love by mad scientists and their henchmen (collectively called “the Mads”) and is forced to watch a series of bad movies in order to find one that will drive the test subject insane. To keep his sanity, Joel built himself a series of sentient robots (the “bots”) from parts aboard the Satellite. The two main ‘bots include Tom Servo, Crow T. Robot.
They join the human as they watch the film in the Satellite‘s theater, and to keep from going mad, the trio frequently comment and wisecrack atop it, a process known as “riffing”. At regular intervals throughout the movie, the hosts leave the theater and return to the bridge of the Satellite to perform sketches (“host segments”) that satirize the film being watched.
