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This Thanksgiving, Mystery Science Theater 3000 returns to Netflix, for its 12th season (or second season as The Return), premiering Nov. 22. Jonah Ray, Felicia Day, Patton Oswalt and the robot friends voiced by Baron Vaughn and Hampton Yount will all return for new episodes.
"Thirty years ago on Thanksgiving Day 1988 is when we premiered Mystery Science Theater 3000 in the Minneapolis market," Joel Hodgson, creator and the show's first host, told AV Club. "We were competing with 60 Minutes for the same time slot, and I think history has shown which is the better show."
MST3K made its Thanksgiving 1988 debut with Invaders from the Deep and Revenge of the Mysterons of Mars.This year marks the series' 30th anniversary (okay, there are a few missing years in there).
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 Season 12 will be shorter than the previous, with a total of six episodes, instead of 14. Hopefully one will be as good as Cry Wilderness.
While the movies for Season 12 have yet to be announced, photos from the new episodes at least give a sense of the interminable, but somehow charming, skits you'll be sitting through with Kinga and TV's Son Of TV's Frank during movie breaks:
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Leading up to the premiere of Season 12, Ray and Hodgson will appear around the country for the MST3K Live 30th Anniversary Tour, with Hodgson back in his jumpsuit to riff on The Brain and Deathstalker II with new host Jonah Heston and the robots. (Would that make those movies good candidates for Season 12?)
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