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.

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 ).

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.

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.

( 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.

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

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

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 MST3K version, Joel and the bots joke about him " having an episode " and swatting at " flying elves ".

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.

" When heckling it, the MST3K crew lampooned it as being in a public library and featuring a " giant circus mirror.

On November 5, 2007 Jim Mallon and Paul Chaplin of Best Brains revived the MST3K brand by launching a new series of Flash-based animated shorts featuring the robots of Mystery Science Theater 3000 on the official website.

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

In 1993, the television comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000 ( MST3K ), a show based on the premise of mocking B movies, featured Manos: The Hands of Fate, giving the film cult status.

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.

Factory released a special edition of the film which includes both the MST3K and uncut versions called Manos y Manos.

The horror film Blood Hook was filmed in Hayward, Wisconsin by MST3K co-creator Jim Mallon.

The film Killers from Space was featured in The Film Crew, Michael J. Nelson's follow-up to MST3K.

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

* 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 film features the fictional pop band's performance of " Burning Rubber Tires ", which was lampooned in a sketch on Mystery Science Theater 3000 for its unintelligible lyrics, specifically the chorus, " hear the engines roll now ", which was interpreted by the MST3K cast as " hideous control now ", " idiot control now " and other variations.

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

The film was lampooned on Mystery Science Theater 3000 ( MST3K ) in 1997.

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.

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.

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

As Space Travelers, Marooned was mocked on a 1992 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, becoming the only Academy Award-winning film ever to receive the MST3K treatment.

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.

In the pilot for MST3K, the robot who would become Servo was named " Beeper ," who just spoke in beeps that only Crow could understand.

So far it is the only time Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy have appeared as their MST3K characters Mike Nelson, Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo since MST3K was cancelled.

With his MST3K co-stars Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett, he was part of a comedy team called " The Film Crew " which has created comedy segments for N. P. R.

In 2007 MST3K was listed as " one of the top 100 television shows of all time " by Time. com.

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 was the host of MST3K from 1988 to 1993.

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 ).