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Joel Hodgson

"Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies."

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"Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies."

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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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"Well, we had more money and more time the first season than we did at TV 23."
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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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"The first twenty shows at TV 23 were really a workshop."
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"When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies."
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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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"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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"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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"Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar."
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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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