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===Ask Vector Prime=== | ===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 crowdsourcing 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}} | 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 crowdsourcing 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}} | ||
===''MST3K'' references in ''Transformers'' fiction=== | |||
[[File:CrowtrobotG2ish9.jpg|right|upright=0.85|thumb|Don't worry, there's more where he came from. Somehow.]] | |||
While the show is rarely ''directly'' part of ''Transformers'' fiction, there have been numerous references to the show over the years: | |||
* Robots that looks 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. | |||
* In the ''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)| Rescue Bots]]'' episode "[[Rescue Bots Academy]]", the characters watch and comment on a highlight reel while in silhouette, mimicking ''MST3K'''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 [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NightmareFuel TV Tropes] trope. | |||
* "Robot Roll Call" gets called out in the [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] ''[[Transformers vs. G.I. Joe]]'' issue "[[Headmasters (issue)|Headmasters]]". | |||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
Revision as of 17:21, 26 April 2017
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 crowdsourcing campaign to revive the program. Vector hoped his readers from the 23rd century would not spoil the results of that campaign. Ask Vector Prime
MST3K references in Transformers fiction
While the show is rarely directly part of Transformers fiction, there have been numerous references to the show over the years:
- Robots that looks suspiciously like Tom Servo and Crow appear among the corpses on J'asik in the Generation 2 issue "Swarm".
- In "Gone Too Far", Jackpot paraphrases Tom Servo's occasional boast of "I'm the wind, baby!".
- The title of the Animated storybook "Robot Roll Call" is likely a reference to the theme song's "Robot Roll Call" bridge.
- In the Rescue Bots episode "Rescue Bots Academy", the characters watch and comment on a highlight reel while in silhouette, mimicking MST3K'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 TV Tropes trope.
- "Robot Roll Call" gets called out in the IDW Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue "Headmasters".
Notes
Mystery Science Theater 3000 also provided the Transformers fandom with the term dull surprise, based on a sketch from the episode Alien from L.A..
Links
- Mystery Science Theater 3000 at Wikipedia
- Kickstarter revival campaign
