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Ask MST3k Creator Joel Hodgson

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-can dept.

As turkey day approaches, we have the chance to ask Joel Hodgson whatever you can think of. If you've lived without electricity since the 80s, you might not be aware that he was the creator and original host of what may be the funniest show in history - Mystery Science Theater 3000, as well as the upcoming Cinematic Titanic. I've still got my fan club membership card even after nearly 2 decades. Standard Slashdot interview rules apply: ask your questions here, and we'll pass a bunch of the highest scoring ones for Joel to answer.

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  1. Don't turn your backs on Jesus. by grub · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    Mystery Science Theatre goes against the word
    of God Almighty. Science is evil and atheist. It promotes
    the young of today to turn their backs on God and Jesus.

    All the answers you need are in God's writings: The Bible.
    Read your bible, commit it to memory, live as an unquestioning
    member of Jesus Christ's flock.

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    1. Re:Don't turn your backs on Jesus. by grub · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Ah hell, forgot to AC this.
      Praise Fucking Jesus.

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      Trolling is a art,
    2. Re:Don't turn your backs on Jesus. by geekoid · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      "Don't turn your backs on Jesus."

      Cause he'll stick a shiv in it!

      Seriously people, I think he was trying to be funny..he wasn't, but he doesn't deserve flamebait.

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  2. What's it like by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    to be the idol of millions of losers?

  3. Funniest show ever? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Am I the only one who doesn't get this show? It's not funny at all.

  4. How do you live with yourselves? by Jack+Action · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I am curious if you ever had any qualms about making a career out of attacking other peoples' hard work.

    While some films featured on your show were shoddy and amateurish, many just lacked a mainstream presentation. When one sets aside the markers we are conditioned to expect in a "good" film (slick sets, smooth acting, professionalism instead of enthusiasm or originality), there is alot to be gained by watching and understanding the films you have slighted. At the very least these film-makers had a sensiblity and a point-of-view not available in mainstream, Hollywood productions (I thinking particularly of the films of Ted V. Mikels -- who I believe was one of your foremost punching bags). To make them the target of mockery was really an exercise in conformism -- something I thought the geek/scientic community was supposed to be against.

    One has only to read through the comments left at the Internet Movie Database on films featured on your show, to see page after page of the kind of derision towards the work of these men and women you have inspired (example: Girl with the Gold Boots by Mikels). Do you think that this kind of mob mentality is the permanent legacy of your show?

  5. Re:Never heard of it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Eat a bowl of dicks, you humorless cocksucker. Just because you're too goddamned l33t to watch TV doesn't mean that the rest of the world can't have some fun. I hope an escaped nigger convict assrapes your mother while you're forced to watch, just to make sure everything in your universe is completely un-fun and uber-serious, just the way you like it.

    I hope your babies die of ass cancer, too.