{"id":593,"date":"2004-01-31T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-31T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/?p=592"},"modified":"2004-01-31T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-31T18:00:00","slug":"keep-circulating-the-tapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/?p=593","title":{"rendered":"Keep Circulating the Tapes."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of 11:00am Eastern Time, 1\/31\/04, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/\">&#8220;Mystery Science Theater 3000&#8221;<\/a> is officially off the air.  Again.<\/p>\n<p>As a fan, I&#8217;d like to thank SciFi Channel for bringing MST3K back to TV after it was dumped by Comedy Central.  But, at the same time, I want to take SciFi to task for losing faith and patience in the show, and pulling that old network trick of constantly changing the timeslot, then saying &#8220;the ratings are down&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>MST3K was the proto-typical cable show when it first came on the air in the early 90&#8217;s &#8211; it was cheap, it was reasonably quick to produce, but it had a hook that drew viewers in, not unlike one of my other favorite shows, <a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media\/moltarcoolthing.mov\">Space Ghost: Coast to Coast<\/a>.  It would be copied and imitated, but never equalled.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, one day, my favorite &#8220;cow-town puppet show&#8221; will find its way back onto a cable channel.  (One can only hope.)  And so, on this extremely cold winter&#8217;s day, I salute Joel, Mike, and the Bots (and, lest I forget, Dr. Forrester and TV&#8217;s Frank).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media\/Mighty%20Science%20Theater.mp3\">SA-LUTE!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of 11:00am Eastern Time, 1\/31\/04, &#8220;Mystery Science Theater 3000&#8221; is officially off the air. Again. As a fan, I&#8217;d like to thank SciFi Channel for bringing MST3K back to TV after it was dumped by Comedy Central. But, at the same time, I want to take SciFi to task for losing faith and patience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hxip-9z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}