We think we’ve found the cure for the Deep Hurting that’s plaguing society. Announced earlier today, the RiffTrax crew will be returning to the Satellite of Love for four brand-new episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Mystery Science Theater 3000: The RiffTrax Experiments will celebrate RiffTrax’s 20 years of movie mockery by bringing Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy back to where their journey began, aboard a spaceship where they’re forced to watch schlock until they go insane. This also means the return of the original voices of Tom Servo and Crow, with Corbett and Murphy shoving their hands up the butts of their beloved plastic bots and controlling their characters once again.
Since the show ended in 1999, Mystery Science Theater split into various movie-commentary groups, including Cinematic Titanic, RiffTrax, and MST3K. RiffTrax launched in 2006, releasing movie commentary tracks as digital downloads, and MST3K returned on Netflix in 2017 for a few seasons before launching its own platform, the Gizmoplex, in 2021. Earlier this year, show creator Joel Hodgson sold the property to Radial Entertainment, the company formed by the merger of Shout! Studios and FilmRise. It had previously been owned by Hodgson and Shout! since 2015. “Creating your own comedic art form like MST3K is deeply fulfilling and fun—but that doesn’t mean I’m required to work on it every day for the rest of my life,” Hodgson said of the sale. “This move feels like the best way to encourage MST3K to find its future, while I find mine, including the chance to focus on some new and different projects with fewer moving parts.” Unfortunately, all this good news means there will be no RiffTrax live shows this year. Fans will have to settle for one of the new MST3K episodes landing in theaters as a Fathom Event later this year.
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