In the not too distant future (April 14th, 2017 to be exact), Netflix will be streaming the return of one of the most popular cult series to ever grace our television screens: Mystery Science Theatre 3000. The show revolves around a human worker, who against his will has been trapped on a spaceship and stranded in space. In order to keep his sanity, he creates a few robot companions, each with their own personalities and traits. With his companions, the human is forced to watch old B movies and public domain films, during which the host and robots tear into the films with comedic commentary in a process called "Riffing".

The show originally began on a local cable channel in Minnesota in 1988. After gaining popularity through word of mouth and early internet communication, it gained a cult following and got picked up for 6 seasons by Comedy Central. After fan acclaim, it was picked up for another three seasons by The Sci-Fi Channel (now Sci-fy), until its final end in 1999. From its final cancellation, the series continued to thrive in video form, most commonly in VHS sets that circulated throughout its fan base until the internet became more popular and streaming became a thing (several episodes of the series can still only be found on VHS sets). The series thrived as a pop culture monument, being named one of Time Magazine's "100 Best TV Shows Of All Time" in 2007, and continued to thrive though the continued trading of the VHS tapes and DVD sets. Several of the cast members from the original shows went on to continue the riffing traditions in the mean time, creating such businesses as Rifftrax, Cinematic Titanic, and The Mads Are Back, with each catering their own brand of riffing humor to different B movie disasterpieces.

With the success of Rifftrax's several kickstarter campaigns and a renewed fan interest in Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (hereby shortened to MST3K), the creator of the show (Joel Hodgson) decided to see how far he could get with another kickstarter, this one involving the potential revamp of the show itself. His campaign was so successful, it reached OVER it's intended goal of $2 million a SINGLE WEEK after the official launch of the campaign (making $5,764,229 with an additional $600,000 from backer add ons), and certified that the show would be brought back for 14 more episodes. The revamp was then shopped around until it found its new cast members (Nerdist Host Jonah Ray as the trapped viewer and Felicia Day and Patton Oswalt as the new Mad Scientists), and its new home. It got picked up by Netflix, and production of the show officially ended in February 2017.

Be sure to tune in to the newly revamped season on Netflix later this month, and if you're wanting to get a feel for the show or just catch up on old episodes, several sites are devoted to just such a thing. And remember, Keep Circulating The Tapes!