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Joel Hodgson

"Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar."

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Joel Hodgson
"Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar."

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Joel Hodgson
"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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Joel Hodgson
"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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Joel Hodgson
"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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Joel Hodgson
"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."

People

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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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"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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Joel Hodgson
"Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences."

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Joel Hodgson
"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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Joel Hodgson
"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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Aberjhani

"Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar."

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Aberjhani

"It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy."

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Aberjhani

"It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young."

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Aberjhani

"I have a Lab, it's fun to hang out and hike with the dog, people come up to him, and pet him, it's fun."

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Aberjhani

"A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house."

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Aberjhani

"I was in New York and I walked into this pet store and came out with a dog."

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Aberjhani

"I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine."

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Aberjhani

"My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere."

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Aberjhani

"It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high."

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Aberjhani

"My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo."

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