I think Baron and Hampton, if you watch their video of the Bots auditioning for STAR WARS, are doing a fine job. They capture the smartassery of the characters, yet give it their own voice, and that matters to me. I don't want two guys doing bad Kevin Murphy and Trace Beaulieu impersonations; I want two guys who have…

We already had Jim Mallon's Flash series. Anything—and I mean, ANYTHING—is bound to be a step up.

I look at it as a RASHOMON effect: Trace and Frank and Joel all have different stories and different perspectives of the same situation. Either way, I do not wanna choose sides, I want to support the MST3K offshoots in all their forms, and I am perfectly fine with a new MST cast lineup.

But he does know he has to hand the kid off to Jesse Eisenberg when the kid turns 10, STORM OF THE CENTURY-style?

Well, tin can futures ARE extravagantly high this quarter…

That was all Jim Mallon's doing. He's owned the MST3K brand up until Joel bought it back this summer.

I'm a little bummed by that too, but I don't wanna believe Joel was just deliberately keeping the old MST3K people out of the conversation. Maybe he just wants to wait until the Kickstarter is done and he can honestly, seriously say: "Yes, there's a new season of MST3K officially happening." I don't know. I don't like…

Joel's going to invite everyone back once the Kickstarter is done, since the new season will be official then and the MST3K crew can get appropriately paid, since they haven't seen money from the show until this year. But Mike has said that he's not looking to do it, because it's not his show, it's Joel's. He was just…

TO WENDY'S!

I'm not sure, but the whole MST3K crew is now able to make money off the show when you buy old episodes on RiffTrax, which I presume was part of Joel's new deal. So maybe it's subsided. Plus, Mallon's daughter died, which led him to take up psychiatry, so I dunno if that helped anything.

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As long as it's not one of Kevin Smith's 1,991-tweet-long hissy fits, I'm fine.

Ooh, the wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'…

Oh no, it'll happen. Besides, MST3K's seventh season was just 6 episodes, and look at all the gems we got from that season.

Well, if Mallon finally let Hodgson get the rights back to MST3K, which is how this Kickstarter started in the first place, maybe they've mended ways. But Mallon's a psychiatrist now, so there's that.

The idea is that they'll make as much episodes as their final Kickstarter count allows. If they hit 3.3, we get six episodes; at 4.4, we get nine; at 5.5, we get all twelve.

Yep, Joel's confirmed on Twitter that Gypsy will be back to perform more one-woman shows and tell Crow she still doesn't get him.

I can't agree with you on that. I agree the humor on RiffTrax is more leaning toward contemporary references, but the only reason I think it's meaner is that none of the guys are hiding behind a puppet anymore. If a little kid runs around in diapers, it's funny; if an old man does it, it's sad. But hey, if you feel…

He has a disease called age.

That's not Patton's fault, that's whoever that writer is. Boy, between Jonah Ray's appearance on Hatesong and Felicia Day's "it's in my book" interview, the AV Club sure knows how to hold a grudge.