OK, how come Gypsy and Cambot don’t have to watch the movies?
And does anyone know where I can get the complete lyrics to Gypsy’s evil pod lullaby? I think the movie that week was “Giant Spider Invasion”, and Pearl, Bobo and Brain Guy had picked up the pods on a camping trip. I’m still fascinated by Bobo’s seeming immunity to the pods’ influence.) I can think of some situations where knowing this could come in handy.
Gypsy has to run the ship, which is a full-time job. The one time she went in with the bots she made excuses and left. (Gypsy has been in the theater a few times though.)
Cambot is watching the movie because what you are seeing the view from cambot! Cambot hasn’t made many jokes (in fact, only one comes to mind in the movie “SideHackers” where he made an ESPN style score-update effect during a boring race scene.
If you’re wondering how he eats and breathes,
And other science facts
Just repeat to yourself, “It’s just a show,
I should really just relax”. 
Zev Steinhardt
I’ve got Giant Spider Invasion (“of savings at Menard’s!”) on tape here somewhere–I’ll see if I can’t dig it up and see what those lyrics are.
To avoid the Evil Mod Anti-Full Lyrics Death Ray ( ), here is the complete transcript of that sketch, which includes Gypsy’s evil lullaby.
I have a wav file of Gypsy singing it.
BTW, I named one of my cats after Gypsy. She rocks.
Especially on “Master Ninja Theme Song”!
I think my favorite MST song was the Gamera one.
you mean?
Gamera is really neat, he is full of turtle meat
Actually I thought Joel (and later Mike) was the only one who had to watch the movies.
“He’ll have to sit and watch them all and we’ll monitor his mind”
Joel just made the robots to keep him company.
“But keep in mind Joel can’t control,
Where the movies begin or end.
Because he used those special parts,
To make his robot friends!”
Clearly, the bots were Joel’s idea. He made them himself for company, but only Joel is actually compelled to watch the movie. Although Crow and Tom might be compelled by their programming. More interestingly, apparently he had the ability to control the movies being sent to him, but sacrificed the ability to turn them off or fast forward them to create the 'bots. This self-sacrfice clearly sets Joel up as a Christ figure for the show. Which raises an interesting theological conundrum with his replacement by Mike, indicating a subtle leaning towards some early forms of Gnosticism <a small dart buries itself in Miller’s neck> However, Gypsy’s role lends the… uh… lends the show… a… <Miller collapses. Several white-coated men run in and drag his slumbering carcass away as he mumbles vaguely about connections between Gammara and the Manichean heresy.>
PACKERS!!!
Packers?
WHOOO PACKERS!!!
Um, I’ve only seen a couple of the Joel episodes. How did he manage to escape from the Satellite of Love? And how did Mike get stuck up there? Hell, how did Joel get stuck up there?
Gypsy (yea!) helped Joel escape the SOL in the episode with the movie Mitchell (Mitchell!). The episode starts with Mike temp’ing down in Deep 13. Meanwhile, Gypsy “mis-overhears” a discussion between Dr. F & TV’s Frank about “killing” Joel in a scene that’s a take off of the HAL lip-reading scene in 2001. Gypsy tricks Frank into sending her the access code to the SOL escape pod (the Deus Ex Machina) and at the end of the episode, Joel is whisked away from the SOL. Meanwhile, as Mike asks to have his timecard signed at the end of the day, Dr. F asks him what his jumpsuit size is…
A MST3K classic, helped by the fact that Joe Don Baker gives a “masterful” performance as the most unlikable movie “hero” in history.
One of my friends laughed so hard at that episode he barfed. Sometimes I wonder if they designed these moves to be mocked by later generations as comedy.
Speaking of Joe Don, the story is he hates the Brains for Mitchell and has said that if he ever sees them, he’ll beat the living crap out of them.
Of course, that didn’t stop them from ripping The Final Justice.
“You think you can take me? Then go 'head on, it’s your move.”
As explained by the original version of the opening theme song, he worked at Gizmonic Institute, and did a good job cleaning up the place, but his bosses [i.e., the Mads] didn’t like him so they shot him into space.
Pretty straightforward, no?
I must admit I’ve rarely watched the show since it moved to Sci-Fi. And, not trying to start a “who’s better–Joel or Mike” debate, but… I’ve always preferred Joel, although there have been some very funny episodes with Mike.
And I miss TV’s Frank (even though he himself was a replacement for Dr. Ernhardt). 
Leave Joe Don alone. His performances in “Charley Varrick” and “The Natural” make him aces in my book.
“Mitchell” was pretty funny tho’…