MST3K KTMA Intro

[ZombieFaction29]

Was joel playing one of the mads?

[revaladdinsane]

@ZombieFaction29 I believe the mads were Trace and J. Elvis Weinstein.

[CrystalJupiter]

So...Servo has shoulder pads. And Gypsy's, like, a...grate...thing.

And the SoL looks completely different. xD

[xxZeroZonexx]

@CrystalJupiter KTMA Gypsy was scary as hell to me.

[FerHivore]

Damn, Servo looked freaky as hell... Gypsy did too.

[dogeymon83]

What is this??? Is this the first episode or something?

[femoman]

@dogeymon83 The original title sequence, from the episodes before it started being fan-recorded, on KTMA. So it's probably somewhere in the first 5 episodes.

[FuyuAkiWorld]

@dogeymon83 Before the show was on Comedy Central, it appeared on a local station called KTMA. About 20 episodes aired on there.

[VTPPGLVR]

The song felt weird without the "la-la-la!"

[milkmanv1]

@VTPPGLVR I just do it aloud

[guns4hire2000]

So this is Season... default?

[Zach121k]

@guns4hire2000 season 0

[MegaAstroFan18]

Probably one of the greatest local TV shows made, which is obvious because it was so great it became a national broadcast.

[Wunderwaffen1946]

Glad KMTA started this and gave it such a solid storyline and song.

[zorroazulapex]

CAMBOT CAN SEE INTO YOUR SOUL AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

[Wunderwaffen1946]

@zorroazulapex what a disturbing but cool idea

[MegaAstroFan18]

Wow, so different in season 0. Did you know the original Gypsy puppet was reused for Cambot?

[bartandAGK]

KTMA = season 0

[Thunderbird7090]

Great public service you're performing. Everyone who has an inch of tape of the old shows should be posting.

Truly national treasures. Every bit.

[SpliNterCellFan697]

man this is old

[DracoStarcloud]

Wooooooooow....the show really changed from the early days....

I like how the theme didn't change much though.

[mmichaelson]

Holy shit, Joel has long hair.

[Ratmouth66]

When god gives you lemons you...

FIND A NEW GOD!

lmao xD

[Dunes]

Man,what vintage MST 3000,i'd love to see more of these!

[adj789]

I remember watching this when I was little! :D

[JillLovesJer]

I wish Trace had never cut his hair. I loved the long pony tail. Sure he had a better "mad scientist" look with it short and messy, but I still like it long. I guess they figured Dr. Forrester wasn't cool enough to have a pony tail.

God help me - I have a crush on a mad scientist!

[CapapieAD]

if you're going to have a crush on a mad scientist...it might as well be Dr. F

[seanThree16]

ROBOT ROLL CALL

[paxtofettel]

what are they watching at 0:36?

[ShinyRayquaza2]

Trace looks like a hippie in this.

[Princesslildee]

Joel does too, lol.

[SeoulMan]

or Garth from Wayne's World.

[c3section]

It's astounding how an icon of the 90's can look so 80's

[Freebleeper]

He started his career in the 80s really... at around 1984 doing stand-up.

[vinylrecord68]

I keep wanting to sing the "la la la" parts...

[InvaderPet]

@vinylrecord68 Yeah the MST3K theme without the "la-la-la" is like Ducktales without the "Whoo-Hoo!"

[hbkgrl323]

@InvaderPet exactly!

[columbiancracka]

I ALWAYS get the "Robot Roll Call" part stuck in my head, haha.

[e33laf]

Wow! That's old school.

Does anyone else think that in these early seasons long haired Joel kinda looked like Garth from Wayne's World.

[AkimboJoe]

Anyone notice that the mr potato head that trace is dressing up kinda looks like his later played Dr. Forrester character? I mean between the mustache and the large green glasses.

[AkimboJoe]

Also I dig the use of he-man figure carriers in the opening :D. (the red painted bone lizards for the younger crowd, they used to hold a bunch of action figures by the waist, almost every kid had one)

[DrunkSabortooth]

Wow the show seemed so cheap when it was on KTMA. By the why what does KTMA stand for?

[SoftBank47]

That's because the financially-strapped KTMA gave MST3K only about $250 per show for a budget. KTMA stood for K-Twin Metro Area since it was a local cable station in Minnesota.

[rhatcher010]

wow, just wow!

[captainpegs07]

what year was this?

[starschwar]

1988

[squiggledog]

Crow is the only one that still looks the same

[BrunnerJamFilms]

KTMA Cambot will eat you in your sleep.

[wagnerologist1984]

Reminds me of a Tim and Eric Awesome! show skit.

[SamiStarshine]

:c

Does anyone else think Joel looks cool with that haircut?

[famouspogs]

they were all young and had long hair.

[Wolviesbabe89]

I wish there was something like this on my areas public acsess channel, the only thing we get are student-made health films from local high schools....each one more missrebel than the last

[WolfKazumaru]

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. When local TV gives you bad movies, you make MST3K.

[pytko3]

@WolfKazumaru Same rule applies to big budget Hollywood.

[VRMorrigon]

hahah fantastic

[cyebu]

MY EYES!!! MY EYES!!! GAHH

[pazks]

The first cambot was creepy.

[deathcode33]

yea it was weird looking

[OxBiglyV01]

What's that puppet thing that looks like Kryten from Red Dwarf @ 0:35?

[lamancha2]

It's from the very first episode, which was based around "Invaders from the Deep", a compilation of Stingray episodes. The episode isn't available any more.

[FluffyLovesSpyro2]

Nuh uh!! You don't make lemonade with lemons! You make grape juice! Then you sit back let people wonder how you did it. :D

[thegreatmonkey54]

Excellent! classic low-budget, local-tv comedy. Thank you so much for uploading the early intro to one of the greatest shows ever made!

[christimacc]

Gee, I didn't think the show could look any cheaper. Phooey on me.

[pawpawaul]

It just proves you don't need a high budget to make a quality show.

[mlnreplyer]

What's Gypsy doing in the theater?

[tela1000]

EMAIL ME IF YOU NEED ANY MST3K DVDS

[kataankoryu]

WOW. Just... Wow.

[DocSponk]

And thus a Legend was born...

[dsfddsgh]

That's as crude as it gets. LOL

[Bobzeaux]

Holy shit, that's scary. O_O

[samcwic]

I am in shock. It is so different! Gypsy looks like a giant cheesegrater! I'm adding this madness to my favorites.

[ilduce565]

I know, Gypsy looks like she could be really dangerous!!

[ekkostar]

I watched Silent Running after reading that it was the inspiration for MST3K's early design on the MST3K Temple website.

Joel went through the effort to look as much like Freeman Lowell as possible. :)

[tela1000]

I have most of the KTMA season on disk.

[wmryan78]

how in the heck did you pull that?!?!?!?

[GLove88mph]

original hexfield lol

[raith0818]

What happened to cambot?! What is it?!!?

[tamagotchikid]

Cambot was originally a robot operating a video camera

[reese419]

OMG Joel had a mullet!! I love this show, it will always be one of my favorites!!!!!

[BERTMARCH]

Wow, I had no idea there was such a major difference between the KTMA-era S.O.L. and the S.O.L. of the cable years. I would have thought it would have a crude "dog bone" design.

[satchmo7772000]

Huh? What's Kryten from Red Dwarf doing on MST3K?

[McDicker96]

lol the instrumentals never changed for 10 years awesome

[GLove88mph]

lol wow you're right, i never noticed that. only the singer and lyrics changed.

[limenlimpidgreen]

WOW. This is CRAZY. I love it.

[Vendetta73]

HOLY CRAP!!! This is amazing for their low budget and the 80's. I can;t beleive how much of the later shows look like this! They have the music, the plot, the robot roll call and the satilite of love! Everything that the high budget newer shows have!! WOW, and they even got the music!! Amazing!!

[Hazelw0lf]

I want to see the episode where they riff on stingray (the yellow puppet with the flat-top at 00:35) that show was ripe for laughs XD

[ratmankey]

unfortunately that's one of the episodes that's lost forever :(

[Hazelw0lf]

shame. Though i suspect it'd be a good one, puppets poking fun at puppets :P

[dsfddsgh]

Wow talk about low budget. LOL But luckily they went to Comedy Channel and had more money to spend on the set and other things.

[Gothdemon01]

Public access kicks ass! We had a local PA channel in Valrico where I lived and it had tons of great and original programming. Nothing as good as MST3K though! Joel and that hair! He looked like Tommy Shaw in that clip with the duster! :P

[Anitasusana07]

Oh how far it came...

I love this show! :)

[OnYouthfulCynicism]

Joel's... hair... how...?

I literally choked on my gum when I saw that. Good God, I'm not sure how to react or even if there is a reaction that could capture what I'm feeling right now.

[JiaBlackholesun]

Apparently Joel didn't get immunized for hockey hair, there.

[sparkkle2]

I laughed like an idiot from reading that :P.

[donovanfrost]

WOW.

[GoForkYourself]

damn that's old

[RalphieAtChristmas]

Joel had hockey hair LOL

[Genjibunbun]

.......wow, how old school is this..^_^

[DAJ01]

Naked Gypsy!

[tomservo3]

ktma crow IS cool

[catswortheggs]

public access tv rocks  this proves it

[drpondo]

truer words were never spoken

[mechak332337]

i met the guys who made the show!! its soo kewl!

[mjrchapin]

Wow! But so much survived intact, which shows you how great it really was. Crow, for one, hardly changed! Thanks for showing us outlanders how it started!

[Futuramaooy]

Love the mullet :D

[bugfatty]

Its like looking into another space time dimension.

[Zoomer30]

One day Joel had $5 bucks and a used camcorder.... XD

Bfore you know it he is on Sci-Fi and partying with Drew Berryymore

[eiremoonblossom]

Comedy Central, not Sci-Fi. That was where the equally good Mike Nelson was in.

[CaptainConfederacy]

Oh, man, that show came a LOOOONG way from its early days. Still, it's nice to see how the saga began.

[NamiNeko888]

I'm scared of what it was! T.T

[wattamack4]

Here's something I thought I should point out:Since KO4 Gypsy was referred to her regular name Gypsy,so I guess in the intro theme from KO1 - KO3 she was referred to Gypsym on the "Robot Roll Call" part.

[wattamack4]

@wattamack4: Brining this back up, apparently she was Gypsy from the start after seeing more clips from the 3 lost episodes and the complete pilot episode. I have no idea why she keeps being refered to as "Gypsym" in K03 and a few other KTMA episodes.

[falconlem]

The great thing about the 80s was that a show like this could still be aired by a local tv station, not many local shows anymore, now its internet.. or YOUTUBE@@ Yeah baby!

[lebowskirulz]

WOW the show realy evolved from this nightmare 0__o

[ZippyLaRue]

Wow! I'm so glad things got better over the years! I've seen low budget but man this?! Joel with long hair....no! He looked like a homeless guy! I guess things were rough for him then after his prop comic gig fell through, this show saved his ass from a life of mindless toil working in a supermarket!

[foley15136]

WOW! This is the first time I saw that. You can see cambot without a mirror.

[johnnybgoode2007]

Sorta kitschy...Kind of 'anybody-can-do-it' inspirational. Not too bad.

[GreenDay1981]

Thank god the show evolved big time. This looks like the intro to a kiddy show. Joel looks horrible with long hair.

[quizno1992]

yea the ktma episodes r boring

[nightowl3090]

AHAHAHHHH someone wanna put a date on this? lol

[Porchfault]

1988.

[CuteFuzzyWeasel]

good lord this show was bad when it first came out!

[redrosary]

It's public access TV. What do you expect?

[RedBullKatie]

haha "what's wrong with you anyway?" one thing never changed: dr.f's attitude. awesome

[littlevolcano]

Cute!!!

[rdnzl23]

Trace! Long hair? No mustache?? And Gypsy is truly a perturbing amalgamation of metal...

[galantpd]

Wow! Joel with long hair just looks wrong for some reason.

Pretty cool to see how it all began

[quizno1992]

i have a video of the pilot episode

well kind of

its like 20 seconds and the recording was played live and this guy video taped it on his camera

im still downloading it though

[shesoutofsync]

Very, very different...

[punisher617]

i like joels hair :)

[DireSloth]

Old Gypsy = Terrifying...

[Pageboy72]

The low budget is hurting my eyes!

[bottleovodka]

ROFL...awesome.

[bloodrunsclear]

This looks a little Saul of the Moleman. Difference being that MST3K is FUNNY. Saul ain't.

[carolineskomix]

Holy cow! Talk about old. He he, Joel looks so wierd, not to mention the bots! Can't thank ya enough for this one man! ;)

[audan2006]

wow, how old is mst3k? =\

[IXAX15]

since 1989

[ratmankey]

1988

[ElveeKaye]

OMG this is great! I've never seen this before! Thanks for posting it. ^_^

[sugreev2001]

It seems that Joel himself has sung this theme song...atleast it sounds like him.

[ratmankey]

Joel and Mike always sung the theme songs from their respective eras

[KingCharltonHeston]

Really?

[Rogers1981]

Wow... just... wow.

[contrecoup]

Joel hair = win

[AlexandriaM]

Fantastic.

[soniquefus]

good job, i hadn't seen this before. Funny how it turned into such a huge hit

[vaiman777]

Great :D

[wokmonster]

Once again. "VINTAGE" MST3K. You can't beat it.

[gthreek]

Now THAT is a barnet to be proud of.

Why oh why did you cut your hair, Joel?! :(

[Tareei]

And so history is made! XD

[imajuggalo666]

it sounded like they sang "his forskin lacks so they shot him into spaaaccceee"

[NUTCASE71733]

OMG, that sounds like something Crow would say that would result in one of Joel's punishments!

[SeanGray]

That was insane.

[sugreev2001]

Who's playing the Mads here?Plus this has an extremely cheesy intro,like someone has made a personal video for Youtube. ;-)

[bang3387]

One of the mads is still Trace, and the other is the one who originally voiced Servo.I forgot his name.

[hangman86]

josh weinstein

[donna637]

The other guy is Josh Weinstein.

[BassAssassin]

Haha, that's sweet. Wish I could get my hands on those old episodes. Joel looks great with the long messy hair too, really fits that kind of sleepy stoner look he has lol

[skunkypilot]

Gypsy looks disturbing.

[DerrickProductions]

joel a true minnesotan that makes me so proud to have been born and raised here in baby canada lol

[Raaben]

Haha, thanks for posting! I love Joel's hair xD

[g2vk]

if you noticed at the robot roll call servo paused for a moment he was obviously waiting for his cue

[midniter07]

That. Was. Gold. God, I wish that show had never gone to such low depths as it did the last season or two and then gotten cancelled. Go out great, or don't go out at all. Thanks for posting.

[Webins]

Never saw the early intro before. Thanks a million for uploading it.

Low-budget or not, it was the birth of the greatest comedy show in tv history.

[mrsbartycrouchjr]

Oh, the hair! The hair! ;)

[XelaRini]

The frist three episodes are lost forever

[Kane6662006]

np guys glad u liked it

[g2vk]

I never knew about the ktma until i saw this, cambot isn't even a camera thanks for posting

[sparticusjoe]

Really, Gypsy did not make fun of movies with Joel, Servo, and Crow. I'm not sure why they put her/it in the theater in the theme song, though...

[yumichan89]

Whoa, what planet have you been living on? Gyspy's always in the theme song, even if she doesn't make fun of movies with them.

[sparticusjoe]

I Mean, Gypsy is in the theater with Joel and Crow in the theme song here. This is not true. It is really Joel, Crow and Servo. I'm just clearing that up.

[g2vk]

actually it was just joel at first,then they wanted crow to be there to, and then they used tom servo