fnoo
The humor seems mostly to involve mentioning that things exist. Not making a point about them, or expressing a perspective, or using the reference to underline some interesting truth. Just throwing out random references, in rapid fire.
MST3K is a machine gun of pop culture references, but usually it uses them to make clever observations.
fnoo
Even when it's not particularly clever, MST3K is always joyful. By comparison, Family Guy's tone is relentlessly cynical. Which would be fine if the cynicism had some kind of a target. But I've yet to see evidence of that. Like everything else about the show, it just seems to be aiming in all directions.
You may have seen it during the 1990s. it ran for ten seasons, first on Comedy Central then on Sci-Fi. It's the show where the guy and the two robot puppets sit in the corner and comment on bewilderingly inept old movies. Generally the writing got better as it went along. Hardcore fans disagree, but I think the final three seasons are the best.
fnoo
It's got much the same sense of humor as Futurama, except even dorkier.
MST3K is a machine gun of pop culture references, but usually it uses them to make clever observations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000
You may have seen it during the 1990s. it ran for ten seasons, first on Comedy Central then on Sci-Fi. It's the show where the guy and the two robot puppets sit in the corner and comment on bewilderingly inept old movies. Generally the writing got better as it went along. Hardcore fans disagree, but I think the final three seasons are the best.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngBNklagsHQ
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