"Mac Breck" <macthevorlon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Sampo" <MSampo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Throughout all its 11 years on TV, one thing remained constant for
>> MST3K, it was never really a ratings hit. MST3K is THE most
>> well-remembered show almost nobody actually watched. Select a random
>> person on the street, ask him or her about MST3K. In all likelihood
>> their eyes will light up and they'll and say, "Yeah, I LOVED that
> show!"
>> Now quiz this person. How often did you watch it? How many episodes
> did
>> you see? What was your favorite episode? You'll see the light quickly
>> fade from their eyes.
>
> Well, a large part of that is due to the utter obscurity of the movies
> that they riffed.
>
>
>> As one its biggest fans, I'm here to tell you: MST3K's devoted
> audience
>> was a mile wide and an inch deep. "The right people will get it," Joel
>> said. Too bad there aren't enough of the right people.
>
> Too bad they couldn't be using current bad movies as their fodder,
> especially the current glut of Sci-Fi Channel Z-Movies. Hell, I'd even
> open it up to painfully bad episodes of recent sci-fi tv shows.
Another factor, IMO, was the seemingly random and psychotic changes in
broadcast scheduling (I remember 9 out of 10 times setting the VCR to
record
based on the cable TV schedule, and instead got Duckman or what have you).
Spotty independant cable providers didn't help much either, where you'd
literally have to move to another city or state to get Comedy
Central/Sci-Fi, back in pre-Comcast/AT&T days.
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