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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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Donna Grant

"A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"I don't have pet peeves, I have whole kennels of irritation."

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Donna Grant

"I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan."

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

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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."

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Joel Hodgson
"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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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
"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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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
"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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