Joel Hodgson's Quotes
Born: 1960-02-20
Profession: Entertainer
Nation: American
Biography of Joel Hodgson
A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.
Tags: Become, Often, ScienceA lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.
Tags: Serious, Talk, TryBeanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.
Tags: Cartoon, Remember, WatchingBut 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.
Tags: Cool, Creative, NiceGypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.
Tags: Brother, Pet, ThoughtIf you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000.
Tags: Press, Show, YearMystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.
Tags: Mystery, Science, ShowThe internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite.
Tags: Internet, Opposite, TelevisionThe 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.
Tags: American, Cool, ThoughtWell, we had more money and more time the first season than we did at TV 23.
Tags: Money, Season, TimeBesides, 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.
Tags: Living, Sense, YearBut 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.
Tags: After, Happy, TogetherSo 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.
Tags: Actual, SittingThen 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.
Tags: Friend, Song, StoryThen 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.
Tags: Actually, Ideas, MovieThey 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.
Tags: Hear, Strange, YearWell, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them in a store in Minneapolis in a store called Props, which was kind of a high end gift shop.
Tags: End, High, ScienceWhen we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies.
Tags: Bad, Him, Movies