Before anyone bites my head off since I'm treading upon their beloved terrain, this is just my opinion. I'm not saying you can't like MST3K or that my opinion should be the only opinion. I'm saying that I myself find its content and entire premise of the show stupid. Not to sound like a film snob, but just... just why? What's the point? Sure, humor is subjective, but this whole show is just immature and obnoxious, and reminds me of those "react" videos on YouTube where you're watching somebody else watching something. I just don't get it. Maybe you have to be a certain type of person to get it, and if you are, fair enough, but seriously, where's the humor in this? It's just annoying! For half the price it costs to watch an episode of this, I can go down to the thrift store, buy up some B-movies on VHS and make fun of them myself, and actually enjoy what I'm watching on my own terms without needing three stenciled cartoon heads in the bottom of the screen telling me when to laugh and talking over the whole thing. I have a certain respect for some parodies, but MST3K isn't even that. All it is seems to be a bad film with a commentary dubbed over the top. I'm sick to death of being told by all my pretentious hipster friends that I'm so ignorant for failing to find MST3K funny. It amazes me in a depressed kind of way that there are seriously people who have wasted a certain chunk of their lives watching all ten seasons of this without just getting bored.

What's so hilarious about a show that criticizes low budget films? With the comments so supposedly clever that idiotic fans label the show "genius" and the "greatest show, ever...", etc. MST3K is the TV equivalent of idiotic trash like the Howard Stern radio show. A bunch of morons sit around and make fun of, whatever, without taking a good look at themselves. Taking pot shots at low-budget films is no big deal. The morons who embrace this show have no imagination and have to have someone make the remarks for them, so they can feel superior. If MST3K took on the big, so-called "important" films, like ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN, THE COLOR PURPLE, ARMISTAD, anything by Woody Allen, Robert Redford, Spike Lee, etc., then I could respect them. Making fun of a low-budget film on a televised show, is the TV equivalent of a bully picking on a 98 pound weakling.

...but you have to be in the audience to agree. For those of us in the intended audience, the iconoclasts or nerds or quirky people who love this show, it's the best comedy that TV has ever done. It probably helps to understand the humor if you're from the heartland of the US and about the same age as the writing staff, but those aren't necessary qualifications for finding this funny. MST3K takes the bad sf, giant-bug, and made-for-TV movies I will watch anyway on a rainy afternoon and makes jokes at their expense. Bad sound, bad lighting, bad dialog, bad acting, bad costumes, bad music: none of these are safe from the MST writers. Sometimes I feel guilty for laughing at their insult humor, but I can't deny they do it well. They excel at making interesting connections between what they are watching and pop culture, as when the potato- eating gal dies in Deathstalker, and they quip "She was all-righta" (a joke on an old advertising slogan), or when in Gorgo, they came up with a clever rewriting of lyrics from Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."The two actors who voiced Crow, Trace and Bill, are my favorites of the performers, but I like the whole bunch. The sketches are hit and miss, but if they sing, that one is almost guaranteed to be a winner. If you don't get it, I'm not angry at you. Many people don't connect with it. Some of the people who made the bad movies they poke fun at are resentful. (But dudes, your movies weren't great. I'm sorry, but they just weren't. Deal with it.) But for me, watching and rewatching every episode five or six times has provided me with countless hours of healthy laughter.

This is an example of how many Beavis and Buttheads actually have too much money and power.The idea is the same lame idea that drunks, crack heads, and deadheads have been harping on ever since movies were shown. Their intense hatred makes them hate to see people have a good time, watching great science fiction.So they call the best science fiction movies ever, classics like FIRST SPACESHIP TO VENUS, "bad" movies. End of their credibility, but it doesn't end there. They take the entire golden age of science fiction and let you think you are going to watch the films, but instead, they just keep talking through each film, making comments that make no sense.If they would do this for the stupid science fiction movies of today, like the Terminator series, it might make sense, but it would still just be hateful for those who want to see the movies.It just goes to show which type of people have the most hate in them. Very pathetic. No one wants to hear these talentless, boring drug addicts whine during a movie, whether the movie is good or bad, and there are a few bad ones, but very few.It also proves that Beavis and Butthead were not a myth. I met plenty of them. Their underlying theme is pure hatred, and that's all they want. This trash is purely for psychotic control freaks, period.