MST3K, the Russian knock-off

[Brass Scorpion]

A couple episodes of this Russian knock-off of MST3K (Mystery Science Theater 3000) are online. There's not much they didn't copy directly from the original cow-town puppet show:

- [url]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-228762758084086168#[/url]

- [url]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2988947153633950316#[/url]

The Russian show is split into 3 roughly 15 minute parts. At the end of Part I of the episode I’m currently watching it says, “In Loving Memory of MST 3000. Peace.”

One MSTie who speaks Russian was kind enough to translate the opening theme into English over at
Satellite News:

[url]http://www.mst3kinfo.com/?p=8658[/url]

In a science institute, there’s an experiment,
They’re testing the effect of movie reels on people.
How will consciousness be affected by a movie.
Of questionable quality and made long ago
A nice guy, Stephen is in need of some money
He got a job as a test subject, threw caution to the wind
He didn’t know that the process is supervised by
Professor Zamishlavkin, a bad guy [something]
Stephen watches movies, he’s now imprisoned
If it’s wasn’t for his friends, he’d be miserable
Mutants, saboteurs: a dog and a penguin
Rescue his psychie and watch along with him
:::Fidel::: [penguin's name]
:::Ketchup::: [dog's name]
:::the greatest achievement of national defense!:::
When the friends are all together, they don’t fear the bad guy
They make comments on everything, so that it’s more fun
In the face of scientific theories,
They giggle and laugh, as they watch Project Popcorn