One of the (many) pleasures of classic cult comedy show Mystery Science Theater 3000 is sifting through the dozens of obscure, esoteric references Mike, Joel, and the Bots lobbed at the various cinematic stinkers they were forced to endure. From Hawkwind to W.B. Yeats, from Hamdingers to Larry Csonka, every episode had at least one joke certain to go over or under the heads of all but the most Renaissance of men and women. (It also helped if you had an encyclopedic knowledge of the culture and geography of the northern Midwest of the United States, where the show was made.)
