List of Productions Similar to MST3K

The following lists various films, TV shows and live productions that are similar in nature to Mystery Science Theater 3000. Some of them have the same kind of spoofing premise where one or more TV show hosts talk between or during (or both) a B-grade movie that is playing. Some of these pre-date MST3K, many were inspired by it in one way or another. Others are listed here either due to similar humor, riffing or quirky premises.

A

• Achievement Hunter
• The All-Night Show - a 1980-1981 Canadian series on CFMT-TV

C

• The Canned Film Festival
• Cartoon Dump
• Cheap Seats
• Cinema Insomnia
• Cinematic Titanic
• Commander USA's Groovie Movies

D

• Danger Theater
• Dave's Old Porn
• Destroy All Movies

E

• Ed's Nite In
• Elvira's Movie Macabre (with Elvira, Mistress of the Dark)

F

• Fast Food Films (created by Josh Weinstein)
• Faux Pause
• The Film Crew
• Film House Fever- A low-budget comedy film that has two cinema geeks mocking low-budget drive-in film trailers.
• Fractured Flickers
• Front Row Film Roast- A live film riffing crew!

G

• Good Bad Flicks

H

• Hell Den- a SyFy Channel Original Series that was described by one of its castmembers in a Who Would Win podcast episode as being rather similar to MST3k

I

• Incognito Cinema Warriors XP
• It Came from Hollywood

J

• Joe Bob's Drive-in Theater
• The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale (starring Joel McHale)

L

• The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs
  

M

• The Mads Are Back
• Mad Movies with the L.A. Connection
• MonsterVision with Joe Bob Briggs
• MST3K vs. Gamera: Round 2
• MXC: Most Extreme Elimination Challenge
• Movie Jo Night
• Mystery Fandom Theater 3000

N

• No, You Shut Up!

P

• Project "Popcorn"
• Puppet Up!

R

• The Riff Bros.
• RiffTrax
• RiffTrax Presents Bridget & Mary Jo

S

• Sammy Terry
• Saturday Fright at the Movies
• SchleFaZ
• Short Attention Span Theater (which guest-starred Trace Beaulieu, Joel Hodgson & Dana Gould and aired on Comedy Central)
• The Slash Trax Network with 80's Slasher Librarian
• The Soup
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast
• Svengoolie

T

• Talk Soup
• This Movie Sucks! - Canadian TV series with Ed the Sock and Ron Sparks riffing full length movies
• Top Secret Videos
• Total Riff Off
• Transylvania Television
• Tromasterpiece Theater

U

• USA Up All Night

V

• Video on Trial

W

• Whose Line Is It Anyway?- Segments from this improv show feature performers overdubbing an old film, often of the same kind used on MST3K.
• William Shatner's Full Moon Fright Night