In the Peanut Gallery with Mystery Science Theater 3000: Essays on Film, Fandom, Technology and the Culture of Riffing by Robert G. Weiner

Author:Robert G. Weiner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2012-08-10T00:00:00+00:00

10. In “Talking out of School: Academia Meets Generation X,” Traci Carroll contrasts how MST3K and Beavis and Butthead employ a similar mode of criticism as they draw from two very different assumption bases: (according to Carroll) “highbrow” for the former, and “low-brow” for the latter. In “What’s Happening on Earth? Mystery Science Theater 3000 as Reflection of Gender Roles and Attitudes toward Women,” Jessica A. Royer focuses her inquiry on the social attitude towards women in the 1990s as understood in light of MST3K’s treatment of The Amazing Colossal Man (Mallon 1991, Episode 309) and The She-Creature (Mallon 1997, Episode 808).

11. Searching the MLA International Bibliography’s database for other prominent television series that feature satire as a major element yielded the following number of hits: M*A*S*H, 5; Monty Python’s Flying Circus, 7; South Park, 33. Other searches for studies of more traditional television sitcoms yielded these hits: Friends, 11; Seinfeld, 42; The Cosby Show 16; Cheers, 3.

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