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The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite.
Joel Hodgson
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The name Crow was inspired by a number of things. I thought it would be cool to have a robot with sort of a Native American feel to it.
Joel Hodgson
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But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.
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Then we tried to come up with ideas for the sketches, and then, when we actually shot the movie, we really just sat down - never previewed the movie - we just really winged it.
Joel Hodgson
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If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000.
Joel Hodgson
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Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.
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So the actual riffing came out of us just sitting there and doing it the way I think some people think we really did it, which is all spontaneously, and it really was.
Joel Hodgson
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Well, we had more money and more time the first season than we did at TV 23.
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They would hear 3000 and think it was the year 3000, I was hoping it would sort of disorient them and prepare them for the strange message they were about to receive.
Joel Hodgson
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Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them in a store in Minneapolis in a store called Props, which was kind of a high end gift shop.
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Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song.
Joel Hodgson
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A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.
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Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.
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