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" The name Crow was inspired by a number of things. I thought it would be cool to have a robot with sort of a Native American feel to it. "
Joel Hodgson
Cool
American
Thought
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" When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies. "
Joel Hodgson
Movies
Robots
Bad
" They would hear 3000 and think it was the year 3000, I was hoping it would sort of disorient them and prepare them for the strange message they were about to receive. "
Joel Hodgson
Year
Strange
Prepare
" Then we tried to come up with ideas for the sketches, and then, when we actually shot the movie, we really just sat down - never previewed the movie - we just really winged it. "
Joel Hodgson
Shot
Up
Never
" A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater. "
Joel Hodgson
Mystery
Become
Lot
" Well, we had more money and more time the first season than we did at TV 23. "
Joel Hodgson
Season
More
Well
" Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences. "
Joel Hodgson
Many
Theater
Show
" Besides, it doesn't make any sense to have these characters living in the year 3000 when all their points of reference are from the pop culture of the 80's and the 90's. "
Joel Hodgson
Reference
Culture
Sense
" Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies. "
Joel Hodgson
Think
Cartoon
Remember
" South Park started as a little video Christmas card. "
Joel Hodgson
Started
Christmas
Little
" Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song. "
Joel Hodgson
Theme
Explain
Story
" The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite. "
Joel Hodgson
Internet
Total
Television
" But after that, I was extremely happy with the story and the look of the show at the beginning of season two - everything was working together. I felt like it was finished conceptually. "
Joel Hodgson
Happy
Story
Together
" If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000. "
Joel Hodgson
Always
You
Year
" Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar. "
Joel Hodgson
Pet
Brother
He
" The first twenty shows at TV 23 were really a workshop. "
Joel Hodgson
TV
Twenty
Workshop
" So the actual riffing came out of us just sitting there and doing it the way I think some people think we really did it, which is all spontaneously, and it really was. "
Joel Hodgson
Doing
Think
Sitting
" But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice. "
Joel Hodgson
People
Nice
Creative
" Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them in a store in Minneapolis in a store called Props, which was kind of a high end gift shop. "
Joel Hodgson
Mystery
Gift
End