If you missed it last night, it is scheduled to run a bunch more times in the next few days.

Some observations:

* MST3K is mentioned only briefly in the first few minutes and there are no comments from any of the cast members. As several people have noted: while the mention was brief, it puts them ahead of Comedy Central, which dropped its ersatz “signature show” into the memory hole and didn’t mention it at all during a retrospective a few years ago.
* The narration makes it sound as if MST3K was there at the beginning of the channel, when in fact the network had been around for more than four years before MST3K was picked up. A little misleading.
* TV Guide’s Matt Roush (who, by the way, had some comments in “This is MST3K”) says something strange: He describes the show as “the perfect show to rescue because it wouldn’t have cost anybody very much money to just film that thing.” I’m not going to make too big a deal about that comment, because I don’t think Roush has a clue what the decision process was and he was just making stuff up that seemed to sound good in his head, but I think if I worked on the show I’d be a little offended. In any case, it’s interesting that in the end one of the chief complaints of the network bigwigs was how expensive the show had become.
* Looking at the special as a whole, the oddest thing to me was the way all performers and executives of all the shows spoke of cancellation as something that just sort of…happened. Like getting a cold or having a meteor hit your house. Nothing any human could do about it! Very odd, and frankly what it felt like to me was a long series of justifications for some very ham-handed programing decisions. Just my opinion.
Did you see it? What did you think?