Mystery Science Theater 3000
Season 12
6 listed hours · 1988–1999 · KTMA/Comedy Central/Sci-Fi
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How this season is filed
Silhouettes in the front row, heckling a bad movie until it becomes a friendship. The comedy grammar of riffing as love: robots, host segments, and thrift-store cinema treated like scripture. Patient, silly, and oddly tender about junk — the show recap culture still copies. If you have ever talked back at a screen, this is your church.
TV Flash files Season 12 of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988–1999) on KTMA/Comedy Central/Sci-Fi as a mid listed season (12; 12 of 13) — 6 listed hours, 2018-11-22 from “Experiment 1201: Mac and Me” (S12E01) to “Experiment 1206: Ator” (S12E06). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
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S12E01 Experiment 1201: Mac and Me
Kinga decides to save time and money breaking Jonah's spirit by running a "gauntlet" of bad movies: six movies in a row. She starts with Mac and Me, a very bad ripoff of E.T.
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S12E02 Experiment 1202: Atlantic Rim
Jonah and the bots are forced to watch Graham Greene humiliate himself with a cast of dozens in a rip-off of Pacific Rim.
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S12E03 Experiment 1203: Lords of the Deep
Kinga forces Jonah and the bots to watch Lords of the Deep: a 80s' Roger Corman cash-in on underwater horror and s.f. movies of the era. There are no Lords, and it's not very deep.
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S12E04 Experiment 1204: The Day Time Ended
Jonah and the bots enter the first third of the second half of the Gauntlet and must withstand The Day Time Ended, a weird little movie fearing Jim Davis in his last appearance before his death as a character dealing with a parade of s.f. phenomena.
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S12E05 Experiment 1205: Killer Fish
It's the 70s, which means that it's time for a heist movie with Lee Majors, fresh off his triumph on The Six Million Dollar Man, as a jewel thief trying to recover a stolen fortune from a lake filled with piranhas with a taste for ham.
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S12E06 Experiment 1206: Ator
After Jonah and the bots are forced to endure Ator: The Fighting Eagle, they make one last attempt to escape to Earth.
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