Everyone that grew up a nerd/geek true and proud remembers watching Mystery Science Theatre 3000. For those that don't know what the show is about simply put it's an extensive troll on bad movies. The plot behind the show is that a delusional mad scientist sends a janitor working in deep 13 to his satellite (the Satellite Of Love) and forces him to watch the worst movies ever made. To retain his sanity Joel the janitor, and founder of the show, builds 4 robot friends Gypsy to manage the space station, Cambot to broadcast himself and the robots experience down to the scientist. Then there's Crow and Tom Servo the two main bots. They unlike the other two serve no real purpose as far as the S.O.L. goes, but instead their purpose is to join Joel in making fun of the craptastic movies the scientist forces them to watch to keep themselves sane and entertained.
Recently I've acquired *cough* every single episode of the show and have been watching through all of the episodes. Obviously this has been an extensive process but thoroughly entertaining, and what have I discovered now that I'm in the last season of the show? That there have been a ton of memes that began in MST3K including but not limited to the world first ever recorded rick roll. That's right folks the worlds most infamous trolling meme began not on 4chan but on a TV show in the early 90's.
Need proof?
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