In the not too distant future, you'll be able to enjoy a new season of Mystery Science Theater 3000 on Netflix!
The AV Club reports the cult favorite TV series will have its season 12 debut on Thanksgiving: Thursday, November 22.
Longtime fans of "MST3K" know Turkey Day holds special meaning: it was on Thanksgiving 1988 that the show first aired on Minnesota public television station KTMA-TV. The show, which follows a human "host" and two wise-cracking robots, features the trio making merciless fun of b-movies.
For a quick sampling, here is current host Jonah Heston (Jonah Ray) and bots Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo taking on Netflix's Stranger Things:
The series would eventually grow to 197 episodes across 10 seasons on Comedy Central and then the Sci-Fi Channel (now SyFy), in addition to a 1996 feature film. After being canceled in 1999, MST3K eventually returned thanks to a 2015 crowd-funding campaign through Kickstarter that raised more than $5.7 million from nearly 50,000 backers.
The 11th season of Mystery Science Theater 3000 is currently available as a 14-episode Netflix original series, and now a six-episode season 12 is all set for this upcoming Turkey Day.
But if you can't wait until November for some new MST3K riffing, you do have a chance to see them perform live! Series creator and original host Joel Hodgson, along with Jonah Ray and of course, the bots, are hitting the road for a 30th Anniversary live tour, beginning in Portland, Maine, on October 9.
They'll make a stop here in Norfolk on Tuesday, October 16, where they will riff the movie The Brain -- described as "a Canadian science fiction suburban nightmare" -- at Harrison Opera House. You can buy tickets on MST3K's website.
