Joel Hodgson Quotes
22 Joel Hodgson quotes:
"Besides, 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."
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"They 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."
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"The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite."
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"A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater."
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"A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious."
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"Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies."
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"But 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."
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"But 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."
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"Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar."
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"I spend a lot of time thinking about what I do and how it fits into the scheme of things. I won't do something just because it's funny."
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"If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000."
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"It was very disorienting and I didn't like it, but the people who like Mystery Science Theater all seem to understand the story."
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"Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences."
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"So 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."
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"South Park started as a little video Christmas card."
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"The first twenty shows at TV 23 were really a workshop."
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"The 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."
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"Then 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."
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"Then 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."
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"Well, 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."
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