Joel Hodgson Quotes

A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.

Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didn't think it was funny and said no. They doubled the money, and that kind of offended me. I realized, oh, that's right, my opinion means nothing in Hollywood. I'd seen other people compromise, and I felt that once you gave up on what you wanted to do, you couldn't go back. It was selling out. So I decided to go back to Minneapolis.

Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.

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.

The first twenty shows at TV 23 were really a workshop.

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.

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.

Well, we had more money and more time the first season than we did at TV 23.

Besides, it doesn't make any sense to have these characters living in the year 3000 when all their points of reference are from the pop culture of the 80's and the 90's.

The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite.

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.

But after that, I was extremely happy with the story and the look of the show at the beginning of season two - everything was working together. I felt like it was finished conceptually.

If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000.

Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.