Mike Nelson and the bots. From left to right, Crow T. Robot (Bill Corbett), Mike Nelson (Michael J. Nelson), and Tom Servo (Kevin Murphy).

In the comedic television series Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mike Nelson (portrayed by actor/head writer Michael J. Nelson) is a doofy, slightly dim temp worker from Wisconsin who comes to work for Dr. Clayton Forrester and TV's Frank in Deep 13 while they prepare for an evil-scientist audit in Mitchell (MST3K episode #512). When Joel Robinson escapes from the Satellite of Love at the end of this episode, the "Mads" knock Mike unconscious and shoot him up to the satellite to replace Joel as their experimental guinea pig. The hapless Mike finds himself forced to watch bad movies with robot companions Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot while interjecting humorous quips and cultural riffs based on the action and dialog of the films. Image File history File links MikeAndTheBots. ... Image File history File links MikeAndTheBots. ... Crow and friends. ... Bill Corbett - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... Mystery Science Theater 3000s Mike Nelson (left) and Kevin Wagner Murphy, at Exoticon 1 convention panel in Metairie, Louisiana, November, 1998. ... Tom Servo and his friends. ... Kevin Wagner Murphy (born November 3, 1956) is a United States actor and puppeteer. ... Comedy is the use of humor in the form of theater, where it simply referred to a play with a happy ending, in contrast to a tragedy. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Movie theater view, featuring the short film Hired!. Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988–1999), usually abbreviated MST3K, is a cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson featuring a man and his robot sidekicks supposedly trapped on a satellite in space and forced to watch particularly bad movies. ... Mystery Science Theater 3000s Mike Nelson (left) and Kevin Wagner Murphy, at Exoticon 1 convention panel in Metairie, Louisiana, November, 1998. ... State nickname: Badger State Official languages None Capital Madison Largest city Milwaukee Governor Jim Doyle (D) Senators Herb Kohl (D) Russ Feingold (D) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 23rd 169,790 km² 17 Population  - Total (2000)  - Density Ranked 18th 5,453,896 38. ... The name Dr. Clayton Forrester has two connotations in popular culture: the name of the chief protagonist of the 1953 film The War of the Worlds, and one of the mad scientists from the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000. ... From left to right, Dr. Clayton Forrester and TVs Frank. ... For the first seven nationally-telecast seasons of the Peabody Award-winning television show Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K), Deep 13 was the subterranean hideout (13 miles below the Earths crust, hence the name) for the villains of MST3K during that period of the shows history, Dr. Clayton... Synopsis Mitchell is a 1975 movie starring Joe Don Baker as a flabby, alcoholic police detective. ... This Mystery Science Theater 3000 Episodes list is intended to complement the Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) page. ... Joel and the bots. ... Satellite of Love On the Mystery Science Theater 3000 television series, the Satellite of Love is the giant bone shaped spacecraft that Joel Robinson and his robot friends - Crow, Tom Servo, Gypsy, and Cambot - live in. ... Tom Servo and his friends. ... Crow and friends. ...

Early in his tenure as the show's host, Nelson terminated the invention exchanges and letter readings that were a staple of the show's first five years, ending a popular tradition but giving the writers much more freedom in creating the opening and closing sketches.

Nelson's first episode as an S.O.L. inhabitant was The Brain That Wouldn't Die, episode #513. Mike embarrassed Servo greatly when he failed to carry Servo into the theater. A Promotional Poster for the 1962 classic. ...

Mike's relationship with the bots was very different from the one the bots had with Joel. Though the bots occasionally riffed on Joel, they generally respected him and his authority, often regarding him as a father figure (unsurprising, since he literally created them) who would expouse life defining lessons that could neither be questioned nor refuted. The bots never felt that way about Mike. Though they came to accept him as their friend and companion, they were often more cynical and merciless with him (particularly during the Sci-Fi Channel era) when he screwed up or failed to pick up on something that was blatantly obvious to them; if Joel was a father figure, Mike was more like an older brother. Mike was also different from Joel in personality and temperament - Joel tended to take his captivity in benign stride, often delivering his riffs in dead pan, holding no malice against his captors and affectionately calling them "the Mads". Mike tended to be more aggressive regarding his captivity and making fun of the films, and was forever scheming to escape the Satellite or at least make the Mads look like fools.

According to The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Amazing Colossal Guide, Mike is "as intelligent as the average man", and often displays a comic unawareness of his limitations and foibles. In Invasion U.S.A. (episode #602), he builds a robot whose only function appears to be to "destroy… destroy… destroy…". During the eighth season, he manages to contribute accidentally to the destruction of planets in three separate incidents. In Devil Fish (episode #911), he believes his identity has been stolen by a secret government agency after merely misplacing his wallet. For the Chuck Norris movie of the same name (but diffrent storyline) see Invasion U.S.A. (1985 film) Invasion U.S.A. (in the actual title frame but not the publicity, Invasion USA) is a 1952 motion picture set during the Cold War and portraying the invasion of the...