Joel Hodgson Reveals All   Remember how much fun those wasted
evenings at home were, back high school?  The nights where you
and your friends watched really bad late night movies and you'd
start running commentary and making jokes at what you were
watching?  Imagine if all your jokes were not only really smart
and incredibly funny but you actually earned a living at being
an armchair wisenheimer.  That's what "Mystery Science Theater
3000" creator Joel Hodgson did.  What he turned that innocent
teenage activity into is pop culture history.  One night in the
80's, the very first episode of "Mystery Science Theater 3000"
first aired in Minnesota on a local UHF station. The show's
catchy theme song succinctly explained the premise:  an average
guy, Joel Robinson (Hodgson) is shot into space and is forced to
watch cheesy movies. He creates two robot pals, Tom Servo and
Crow to keep his sanity and make jokes (or 'riffs' as Hodgson
calls them) on the celluloid idiocy they are subjected to.  Joel
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