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7 hours remain in the fundraising pledge drive to make a 14th season of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Yesterday was the 35th anniversary of their premiere on local cable in Minnesota. It's all-or-nothing; they're currently at 66% of goal.

Update, Sunday: They didn't make it.

Are you, or is anyone you know, a fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K)? If so, you may be interested to learn that they're currently crowd-funding a new fourteenth season, completely independent of any studio or other corporate overlords (unlike the revival eleventh and twelfth season done in cooperation with Netflix, but very much like the revival thirteenth season in which they launched their "Gizmoplex" independent streaming, and of course also different from the old Comedy Central days, or Sci-Fi Channel days, or even the primordial local cable days).

Learn all about it at mst3k.com! Or on their YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter/X. This effort runs through this Thanksgiving Day (November 23, 2023), after which they will lock in the number of new episodes they'll produce for the season, so, to get more episodes, fund them before their deadline. And of course there will be their traditional "turkey day" marathon of "turkeys" (bad movies) being mocked in signature style.

I've personally backed each of the revival seasons so far, including this hoped-for fourteenth. I'd be happy to describe my experience with their "Gizmoplex" streaming and as a backer; please ask any questions.

(Never heard of MST3K? It's not like anything else, so it's kind of hard to explain, but don't worry -- as the theme song says, "it's just a show," so we can "just relax" about the backstory in which mad scientists trap a victim alone in space and force him or her to watch endless cheesy genre movies, but the victim fights back by creating sentient robots to watch the movies with, together endlessly mocking everything about the movies in a rain of jokes so dense that even if you catch only every fourth joke, you laugh all the way through. It's not for everyone! But it is very much for some. It's something I get to share with my sister, so I value it even more highly for that.)

Addendum: With 13 days left, they are currently at 33% of goal for a 6-episode season. Ouch. It really hurt that the studios didn't settle contracts earlier, so that the actors weren't able to do any promotion on social media or elsewhere. (They want to do a 12-episode season if they can get the money; they set the 6-episode season as the minimum goal.)