5/10
Bill Corbett's arrival marks the beginning of the end of MST3K
1 July 2023
This is the first episode after the brilliant Trace left and we get a new Crow voice actor in Bill Corbett. Bill was an absolute dud from the start. He turned Crow from a lovable, spastic "little brother" character into a sarcastic misanthrope. His riff ability was either some variation of "this movie is bad because it's bad", "something something White people" or weird sexual riffs.

Mike and Kevin did their best to keep it elevated with their usual high quality stuff and managed to carry the show for the next few seasons but Bill's presence really turned out to be too much of a burden.

This is probably one of the lower rated episodes in my view as Bill drops dud after dud and the awkward silence hanging in the air after each one becomes impossible to ignore.

Things do get better and there are some incredible episodes in the next few seasons, even a few of the best. But make no mistake, those great episodes are because of Mike and Kevin's brilliance. Don't stop watching, by any means. Best advice is to ignore 90% of Bill's riffs.
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