In the not too distant future, on your next trip to the Center for Puppetry Arts, you’ll find — among the Muppets and Skeksis and marionettes — a pair of robots that appear to be built out of discarded toys and gym equipment.
That pastiche of components that make up the characters of Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo give some insight into the thrown-together charm of the cult classic television show, “Mystery Science Theater 3000.” The Center welcomed the two into their permanent collection in an unveiling ceremony with the show’s creator, Joel Hodgson.
“MST3K” started in 1988 and found several homes over the years, from Comedy Central to the SyFy Network and finally getting a reboot on Netflix in 2017. It featured Joel and the bots, trapped on a satellite in space, forced to watch bad movies, with heckling as their only relief.
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