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.
From Joel Hodgson
Well, we had more money and more time the first season than we did at TV 23.
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.
Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.
But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.
A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.
Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.
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.
So the actual riffing came out of us just sitting there and doing it the way I think some people think we really did it, which is all spontaneously, and it really was.
A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.
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