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MST3K K00 - The Green Slime

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“ Speaking of number two positions... ”
- Joel Robinson


The Green Slime is the pilot episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. It is not considered an official episode of the show and has never been officially released.

The Movie[]

Main article: The Green Slime (film)

A space station is infiltrated by a green slime that mutates into one-eyed tentacled monsters. The crew must destroy the creatures before they can migrate to Earth.

The Episode[]

Host Segments[]

Prologue: Joel introduces himself and The Satellite of Love, which he states to be of his own design. He then announces the movie will be The Green Slime before exiting to the Mystery Science Theater.

Segment One: Joel introduces Crow and Beeper, also of his own design. He shows off an invention, the chiro-practic helmet. Beeper thinks being a human must be a rush.

Segment Two: Joel introduces the bots again, including Gypsy, and explains that there are twenty-five additional robots engaged in various operations on the ship. He mentions that he has programmed the bots to laugh at his jokes, then mentions how he found the secret of life, but was bummed out to find it was on 8-track.

Segment Three: Joel begins a little tour by showing off the ship's vaccu-flowers. He discovers that one of them has been infected by a space virus that generates a foamy substance. He calls for Gypsy to bring him his "doctor bag", but Gypsy winds up catching the virus by sniffing the flower. Joel tries to help and calls for Crow and Beeper, but movie sign flashes before they can arrive.

Segment Four: Joel starts examining Gypsy, but the robot faints and Beeper catches the virus as well. Joel then tries to clean up Beeper and he discovers that the virus not only effects plant life and robots, but also humans, when he catches it himself.

Segment Five: Things are back to normal. Crow ponders where or not the Satellite of Love and everything in it was just manufactured for the entertainment of a television audience. Joel, however, wonders why Crow never "foamed". Crow responds that he had saved it for the end of the transmission, shooting foam from several spots throughout his body.

Behind-the-Scenes[]

MST3K Cast[]

Notes[]

  • This episode is the unaired pilot shown to the management at KTMA to convince them to finance the production of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
  • The episode was long considered one of the "lost episodes", with only clips available, including host segment one, which appears in The MST Scrapbook. After 20 years, the episode was finally shown in its entirety at an MST3K convention on October 3, 2008. A recording of that presentation has been shared, making it available to a wider audience.
  • The pilot is 14 minutes long, with only segments of the film shown and virtually no riffs.
  • Joel identifies himself to the audience as Joel Hodgson, not Joel Robinson. Crow later calls him by the name Joel Hodgson.
  • There are two known deleted scenes from this episode: a clip of Joel watching the movie during the title sequence and a Star Wars riff ("That's no asteroid, that's a battle station!"). Both appear in the show's first promo.
  • While Crow, Beeper, and Gypsy appear in this episode, Cambot does not. Joel mentioned at the 2008 convention that he had only built three robots at that point.
  • Crow is the only robot shown to speak English. Beeper speaks only in beeps and Gypsy only in grunts.
  • Gypsy is portrayed as male throughout the episode.
  • The first use of the term "Movie sign" appears in host segment four.
  • Three of the host segments in this episode were remade for the first broadcast episode.

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