I remember when this aired in our region. It was always super late night/morning and I had always already taken out my contacts. (My eyesight is horrible and I couldn't afford both contacts and glasses.) And I had invariably missed the intro and hadn't yet grokked that "MST3K" and this mystery show were one and the same. I had so many questions.

This was also the era of public access television, which was arguably much, much weirder. Like, "a guy dressed like Elvis eating a massive bowl of mashed potatoes and griping about ghosts and Bill Clinton" weird.