The movie was featured in episode number 3. 21 of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and a new version by the MST3K spinoff Cinematic Titanic became available in late November 2008.

* The MST3K version of the film was released by Rhino Home Video as part of the Essentials DVD set.

The MST3K version of the movie is available in both VHS and DVD formats.

* The MST3K version of the film was released by Rhino Home Video as part of the Collection, Volume 2 DVD set.

The series gained notoriety in 1991 after a re-edited version of the second installment, released as Cave Dwellers, was lampooned on the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 ( MST3K ).

* The MST3K version of the film ( accompanied by the uncut version, included as a bonus feature ) was released by Rhino Home Video as part of the Collection, Volume 1 DVD set.

The MST3K version of the film was released by Rhino Home Video as part of the Collection, Volume 2 DVD set.

The version of the film used in the MST3K episode also contains a very prominent editing mistake.

A stray comment on the MST3K version led to this film incorrectly appearing on the IMDB profile for Lisa Kudrow for a number of years.

The MST3K version of the movie was released on DVD in March 2000 by Rhino Home Video.

The MST3K version of the film was released by Rhino Home Video as part of the ' Collection, Volume 6 ' box set.

* The MST3K version of the film was released by Rhino Home Video as part of the Collection, Volume 8 DVD set.

* The MST3K version of the film was released by Rhino Home Video as part of the ' Collection, Volume 6 ' box set and being on Netflix's instant streaming.

* Hangar 18 film at YouTube (" MST3K " version )

* The MST3K version of the film ( along with the uncut version, included as a bonus feature ) was released by Rhino Home Video.

The Internet Movie Database currently gives Mitchell a user ranking of 2. 3 out of 10 while the MST3K version holds a much more favorable ranking of 9. 0 out of 10.

* The MST3K version of the film was released by Rhino Home Video in November 2001 with the theatrical trailer as an extra.

* The MST3K version of the film was released by Rhino Home Video as part of the Collection, Volume 10 ( out-of-print on both Rhino's and Mst3k's official websites ) and Collection, Volume 10. 2 DVD sets.

The MST3K version was released by Rhino Home Video, as part of the Collection, Volume 10 and Collection, Volume 10. 2 box sets.

* The MST3K version of the film was released by Rhino Home Video as part of the ' Collection, Volume 7 ' box set.

According to the MST3K storyline, Crow — like his fellow robots Tom Servo, Gypsy, and Cambot — was built by Joel Robinson, who created them to help him withstand the torment of watching bad movies on the Satellite of Love.

MSTing began in the early 1990s, as fans of the show, many of whom were involved in Usenet discussions in groups such as popular MST3K newsgroup rec. arts. tv. mst3k. misc, began adding amusing or critical remarks to others ' posts, attributing them to the show's characters ( typically, Crow T. Robot, Tom Servo, Joel Robinson, and later Mike Nelson ).

He is best known for creating Mystery Science Theater 3000 ( MST3K ) and starring in it as the character Joel Robinson.

As co-star and writer Kevin Murphy explained, Nelson was many things " but he's not a tinkerer "; the invention exchanges had in any case been vehicles for Joel to engage in the sort of prop-based comedy he had specialised in before MST3K, and Nelson's strengths lay more in the portrayal of comic characters.

Joel Robinson is a fictional character featured in the American science fiction comedy television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 ( MST3K ).

Joel was the host of MST3K from 1988 to 1993.

On October 30, 2007, Joel Hodgson announced he was starting a new series — distributed on DVD — with the same " riffing on bad movies " premise as MST3K.

In 2007, she returned to MST3K-style riffing on bad movies, joining former castmate Mike Nelson's RiffTrax for the film Glitter, and Bill Corbett for The X-Files movie, as well as becoming a cast member on Joel Hodgson's Cinematic Titanic, making her one of a select few MST3K alumni to be involved with both Mike and Joel's successor projects.

On October 30, 2007, Joel Hodgson announced he was starting a new show with the same " riffing on bad movies " premise as MST3K called Cinematic Titanic, together with former MST3K cast and crew members Conniff, Trace Beaulieu, J. Elvis Weinstein, and Mary Jo Pehl .< ref >

MST3K creator Joel Hodgson joined them on stage to sing the theme at a show in 1996, and Joel's character on MST3K later claimed to have toured with Man or Astro-man?

It is also mentioned numerous times by Mystery Science Theater 3000 creator Joel Hodgson in various MST3K episodes as well as in his appearance on Space Ghost Coast to Coast.

The episode is also notable as being MST3K creator-star Joel Hodgson's last episode ( save for a cameo in Episode 1001: Soultaker ) and the first to feature Mike Nelson as host, replacing Joel on the Satellite of Love.

Joel Hodgson also appeared on the program with MST3K co-producer / co-star Jim Mallon.

Over time, the term MST has also been used to describe general fan fiction mockeries, without the use of the MST3K character-based joke format.

A point concerning the narration, about which the robots in the MST3K episode joke, is that the narrator speaks over much of the dialog in the film while long bouts devoid of dialog have no narration ( similar in style to many of the educational films of the 1950s and 1960s ).

Though the movie does explain what a Sampo is, the MST3K characters are talking during the explanation and miss it, and are therefore confused throughout the film as to what exactly a " Sampo " is, and argue about it their own theories throughout the rest of the episode.

During a Q & A session at the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con International, a question was put to the cast and writers of MST3K about any movie they passed on that was worse than Manos, and many cited the film Child Bride.

Decades later, Mystery Science Theater 3000 featured a running gag about how Nelson almost always became imperiled by his air supply being cut off in one way or another, one of the MST3K characters reciting the line, " By that time, my lungs were aching for air.

After the end of MST3K, Murphy spent the year 2001 going to a different movie every day and wrote a book about this experience, entitled A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey.

One host segment in the MST3K episode makes reference to the editing mistake by having host Mike Nelson trip over and over again.

Stevenson has been referenced in television episodes of The Simpsons ( in the episodes " Lisa the Iconoclast " and " The Secret War of Lisa Simpson "), The Golden Girls, Happy Days ( in the January 28, 1975, episode " The Not Making of the President ") and Mystery Science Theater 3000s presentation of Manos: The Hands of Fate ( a Stevenson lookalike buys a car and one of the MST3K characters comments on it ).

It remained obscure until its Mystery Science Theater appearance, which sparked two DVD releases ( the original film and the three separate releases of DVDs featuring the MST3K episode of the film ).

The film was featured in the final episode of season four of Mystery Science Theater 3000 ( MST3K ) on January 30, 1993, preceded by the second half of the short Chevrolet training film Hired!

While Nelson and fellow MST3K alum Kevin Murphy were part of the cast when MST3K riffed on Manos, their fellow Rifftrax star Bill Corbett nor their writers were not involved in the original episode ; the riffing was expected to be all new.

The MST3K episode featuring the film was released on DVD on its own in 2001, and in the Mystery Science Theater 3000 Essentials collection in 2004.

( MST3K archival site mst3ktemple. com presents a substantive argument that this replacement was probably done before or during episode # K01: Invaders from the Deep, based on an analysis of related set and costume changes.

The final scenes show Mike and his robot friends sometime later, now living together in a ground level apartment in Wisconsin, where Mike enjoys a bowl of rice as he sits down to watch The Crawling Eye, which had been the featured movie for the very first nationally-syndicated episode of MST3K.

Consequentially, this makes " MST3K: The Movie " shorter than the original " This Island Earth ", or even the average, 90-minute " MST3K " episode.

The movie was featured in episode 301 of Mystery Science Theater 3000 ( MST3K ).

The first three errors in this list were brought to the attention of the " Mads " in the film's MST3K episode.

He enjoyed the MST3K treatment of the film so much that he requested a copy of the episode.

The movie was the basis of an episode of the cable television show Mystery Science Theater 3000 ( MST3K ) during its fifth season.

This episode of MST3K ( during which the movie is shown, and heckled ) was released on DVD in 2001.

TV's Frank's first MST3K episode was episode # 201 Rocketship X-M, where, apparently still in his Arby's mindset, he took fast-food orders and, rather to Dr. Forrester's annoyance, almost brought the Satellite of Love down so the crew could " dine in.

It is the second Joe Don Baker film to be riffed on MST3K, following Mitchell, to which a few references were made in this episode.

After the Satellite of Love crashed into the Earth in the final episode of MST3K (# 1013: Diabolik ), Gypsy is not present with Mike and the Bots in their shared apartment.

In the late 1990s, the television show MST3K brought the actress to a new generation of B-movie viewers when the film was featured on an episode.