Quotes by Joel Hodgson - Page 1

South Park started as a little video Christmas card.
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Christmas
Smile
Cards
Littles
Video
Card
Park
South Park
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The first twenty shows at TV 23 were really a workshop.
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Firsts
Tvs
Twenties
Twenty
Workshop
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The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite.
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Opposite
Inversion
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Sometimes I go into my own little world. It's okay, they know me there.
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Funny
Humor
World
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Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.
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Analogies
Cartoon
Thinking
Analogy
Cecil
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Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.
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Influence
Mystery
Postmodern
Theater
Derived
Influences
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Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.
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Pet
Brother
Gypsy
Names
Peculiar
Turtles
Turtle
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A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.
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Mystery
Shows
Theater
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If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000.
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Deny
Ethos
Years
Notice
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A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.
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Serious
Theory
Trying
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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.
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Nice
People
Refreshing
Thinking
Cool People Who
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I spend a lot of time thinking about what I do and how it fits into the scheme of things. I won't do something just because it's funny.
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Fit
Schemes
Thinking
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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.
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Crow
Native
Native American
Robot
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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.
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Josh
Theme
Explain
Jim
Suggested
Theme Song
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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.
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Strange
Hoping
Prepare
Receive
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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.
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People
Sitting
Thinking
People Doing Way
Actual
People Way Doing
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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.
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Pop Culture
Besides
Reference
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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.
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Sat
Shot
Sketches
Winged
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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.
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Robots
Unfolding
Pilot
Pirating
Satellite
Signal
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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.
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Extremely
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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.
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Fifty
Minneapolis
Props
Robots
Theater
Shop
Sold
Store
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Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didn’t think it was funny and said no. They doubled the money, and that kind of offended me. I realized, oh, that’s right, my opinion means nothing in Hollywood. I’d seen other people compromise, and I felt that once you gave up on what you wanted to do, you couldn’t go back. It was selling out. So I decided to go back to Minneapolis.
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Mean
School
Thinking
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