Editing Mystery Science Theater 3000

'''''Mystery Science Theater 3000''''' is a [[human]] [[television]] series, a once-cancelled comedy which inspired the [[MSTF]] tradition in Transformers. 

==Fiction==
===Ask Vector Prime===
Of all of the cancelled television programs he had seen, ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' was [[Vector Prime]]'s favorite. However, no television or holovision program is worth bending or breaking causality to save. All hope was not lost, however, as there was an early 21st century crowdfunding campaign to revive the program. Vector hoped his readers from the 23rd century would not spoil the results of that campaign. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/12/07}}

==Notes==
[[File:CrowtrobotG2ish9.jpg|right|upright=0.85|thumb|Don't worry, there's more where he came from. Somehow.]]
*''Numerous'' references to ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' have been made in Transformers over the years:
** Robots that look suspiciously like Tom Servo and Crow appear among the corpses on [[J'asik]] in the ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (Marvel)|Generation 2]]'' issue "[[Swarm (issue)|Swarm]]".
** In "[[Gone Too Far]]", [[Jackpot (G1)|Jackpot]] paraphrases Tom Servo's occasional boast of "I'm the wind, baby!".
** The title of the ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]'' storybook "[[Robot Roll Call]]" is ''likely'' a reference to the theme song's "Robot Roll Call" bridge. The same reference is also made in the [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] ''[[Transformers vs. G.I. Joe]]'' issue "[[Headmasters (issue)|Headmasters]]".
** In the ''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Rescue Bots]]'' episode "[[Rescue Bots Academy (episode)|Rescue Bots Academy]]", the characters watch and comment on a highlight reel while in silhouette, mimicking ''MST3K''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s "Shadowrama" movie segments.
** A likely-indirect reference comes in the form of "[[Nightmare Fuel]]", a term the show coined which became the name of a [[TVTropes:Main/NightmareFuel|TV Tropes]] trope.
* ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' also provided the Transformers fandom with the term "[[dull surprise]]", based on a sketch from the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2tt4dhkTdI episode] ''{{w|Alien from L.A.}}''.
* The Netflix-exclusive seasons of the show star [[Patton Oswalt]], one of the punch-up writers for the [[Transformers (film)|2007 ''Transformers'' movie]].

==External links==
* {{w|Mystery Science Theater 3000}} at Wikipedia
* [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mst3k/bringbackmst3k Kickstarter revival campaign]

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