Joel Hodgson Quotes

When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.