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* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Jim Mallon, the puppeteer and voice for Gypsy, previously received recognition for being the head of the "Pail and Shovel" Party when he was a student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. To garner votes, he would make outlandish campaign promises such as decorating the front lawn of Bascom Hall with hundreds of pink flamingo lawn ornaments, or bringing the Statue of Liberty to Lake Mendota. [[Crazy Enough to Work|And he did.]] The former was straightforward (though 60 students requested a complete refund of their money, and he followed through...for a total of $6.00), and the latter was achieved through creating a replica head and torch that seemed to jut through the ice of Mendota during the winter.
* [[Popularity Redo]]: When the show made the jump from local low-budget KTMA to the cable station Comedy Channel, they revisited movies from the KTMA era and reused some host sketches in their first season. Around season four they exhausted their stock of affordable KTMA-era films, and the repeat host sketches stopped by the second season.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Before [[Comedy Central]] canceled the show, they offered the crew a deal: reformat the show so that it would run in a thirty minute time slot and have Mike and the 'bots make fun of TV shows, not films.
** Gramercy Pictures had a choice between ''[[Barb Wire]]'' and ''<nowiki>MST3K: The Movie</nowiki>'' to back with a full ad campaign and theater spread. They chose the former. ("[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Barb_Wire_1996.aspx Even still], [http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?view=main&yr=1996&wknd=16&sort=avg&order=DESC&p=.htm in its first weekend it had a higher per-theater average than even the number one movie in the country.] So, just imagine the business it could have done [[Invisible Advertising|if people had actually known it was out.]]")
** Once in a while, you can catch a glimpse of someone's mouth moving in the theater (this is most prominent with Crow) but no one says anything. It's likely that they're saying jokes that were cut or perhaps censored. One such example can be found in their riff of ''[[Manos:
{{quote| '''Bride:''' The woman is all we want!<br />
'''Crow:''' ''[Mouth moves, but nothing comes out]''
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