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For the more traditional snarking of bad movies MSTing, see [[Alternate DVD Commentary]].

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* On [https://web.archive.org/web/20160525221444/http://www.mindspring.com/~khabal/www/rst3k.htm The Satellite of Revolution], the cast of ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' gets snarky on horrible ''Utena'' fanfic. Also, Mikage as the mad professor is several kinds of great.

* The [[DVD Commentary]] track for the anime ''[[Bakemonogatari]]'' consists of the characters MSTing their own show, with dialogue written by the original author.

== Comic Books ==

* [http://tehwritinggenie.deviantart.com/art/FPRT-E1P1-171497242 The Freelance Police Riffery Theater]{{Dead link}} is a young but promising MST starring [[Sam and Max|the Freelance Police]].

* [[Deadpool]]'s text boxes have shifted from mere thought boxes to this role in the later years.

 

== Film ==

== Literature ==

* A non-fanfic example: Jeff Vandermeer's novel ''Shriek: An Afterword'' features the story's protagonist snarkily commenting on the narrator's work.

* The [[Black Pawn Movement]] MSTs various rant and complaint videos of ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' fans. The spinoff [[DnA]] riffs much broader fare.

* Arguably the only safe way to enjoy ''[[The Eye of Argon]].''

* Though not a fanfic, [[Mark Twain]]'s ''[[Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences|Fenimore Coopers Literary Offences]]'' is some sort of proto-MST.

** In ''Roughing It,'' Twain gives ''[[The Book of Mormon (literature)|The Book of Mormon]]'' the same treatment after he is given a copy when he is travelling through Utah.

* Some of the better ''[[The Lord of the Rings|Lord of the Rings]]'' MSTs were done by [https://web.archive.org/web/20160402080427/http://www.alswaiter.net/LOTR/msts.htm Al's Waiter].

* John Nowak and Matt Plotecher's MSTing of [[Tom Swift]]'s [http://keithpalmer.ca/mst3k/favourites/tom-swifts-war-tank.txt War Tank] tears into the original series' hallmarks of [[Patriotic Fervor]], [[Ethnic Scrappy|Ethnic Scrappies]], [[Canon Sue]]s and the magnificent colossus of all-consuming stupidity that is [[The Ditz|Ned]] [[Too Dumb to Live|Newton]].

* The brave Rorschach, from the website [https://web.archive.org/web/20110910080053/http://impishidea.com/tag/Maradonia-Spork/ ImpishIdea], is facing the daunting task of sporking the ''[[Maradonia Saga]]''. Should the "movie" of the book come to fruition, expect a spork of it as well.

* [[Older Than Radio]] example: In [[Charles Dickens]]'s ''[[Great Expectations]]'', [[First-Person Smartass|narrator Pip]] and several other crowd members riff on a particuarly bad performance of Hamlet. "The ghost appeared to have died with a bad cough which he carried with him to the tomb."

* The LiveJournal community [http://community.livejournal.com/house_mst house_mst] is dedicated to MSTing the very worst of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' fanfiction, using characters from House to comment on it rather than the original [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]] characters.

* The [[This Time Round|spinoff-of-a-spinoff-of-a-spinoff]] [http://www.ttrarchive.com/msts.html MPT3K] involves MSTing done by alternative [[Fanfic]] versions of a number of companions and related characters from the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' Canon and Expanded Universe, as well as fan-created characters. It gets a bit complicated...

{{quote|'''Hawkeye:''' (''as movie first shows line of wedding guests'') I've invited you here today as I'm ready to name the murderer.}}

* [[Game Show Network]]'s original series ''[[Faux Pause]]'' screened obscure, short-lived game shows, paused them at certain points, and riffed on them.

* In ''[[Community]]'' Abed and Troy apparently have a tradition of doing this to horrendous B-movies; Shirley, Pierce, and Señor Chang show up, too. (And yet Jeff, played by the one cast member who had guest starred on [[Riff Trax]], does NOT show up.)

* Some of the [[DVD Commentary]] tracks for ''[[Mad Men]]'' feature the actors riffing on the episodes. It happens pretty much any time Vincent Kartheiser (Pete Campbell) and/or John Slattery (Roger Sterling) are on the commentary, and there are a few episodes where they're together.

 

* The LiveJournal community [http://community.livejournal.com/badfic_quotes badfic_quotes] sporks multifandom fanfic and "professional" stories, with a particular love of poorly concieved summaries from The Pit (fanfiction.net), while [http://community.livejournal.com/weepingcock weepingcock] is the smutfic sporking equivalent, hunting down the worst descriptions of sex and body parts that will having you screaming for [[Brain Bleach]]. Particularly of note: the dark, dark world of Transformational Porn Fic.

* The blog [http://literarytravesty.wordpress.com/ Library of the Damned] riffs on fanfics from a variety of fandoms, ranging from video games to children's TV shows.

* [http://raetekusu.livejournal.com/ The Daily Insanity], made by Raetekusu. As of now, he only has Chapters 1-11 of [[My Immortal]] and a MST of an article comparing Stephenie Meyer to J.K. Rowling, but under-planned MSTs, he has [[My Inner Life]], a Sue-fic from Kingdom Hearts, and a couple of more recent fics he's found.

 

 

== Video Games ==

* [http://wurb.com/if/game/146 MST3K Presents: Detective] is an [[Interactive Fiction]] example

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080804234959/http://clarenicholas.bravehost.com/mstdex.html This site], particularly [https://web.archive.org/web/20080518083502/http://clarenicholas.bravehost.com/pikaMST.html this mocked story], is a good example of how ''not'' to write an MST.

*** The meta-MST is just as unfunny as the MST. That's almost Zen.

**** Unfortunately it seems the meta-MST page isn't there anymore. You'll just have to take this page's word for it.

* [[Retsupurae]] is this for [[Let's Play|LPs]].

* A brand-new Pokémon community was just created recently. It goes by the rather unimaginative name "Sporkémon" and can be found [http://community.livejournal.com/sporkemon/profile here.]{{Dead link}}

== Web Comics ==

* ''[[The Way of the Metagamer]]'' includes a [[Fake Crossover]] with [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]], in which the comic MSTs ''itself''.

* A number of webcomics MSTed themselves in the 2001 [http://kankong.comicgenesis.com/mst3keen.html MST3Keen] event. (Note that most, if not all, of the links on that page are defunct.)

* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', Dirk [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006340 MSTs a Pony Pals book]. As the story goes on, he starts going [[Off the Rails]], blacking out and rewriting entire chapters, keeping only the chapter titles. According to Jane, it becomes 'a tough, emotionally draining read. But it's cathartic, in all the worst ways possible.'

== Western Animation ==

* The Bongo Comics ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons]]'' series had a B-story where Bart and his friends turn up for the latest in the ''Space Mutants'' franchise, only for the movie to put on an old Troy Maclure film called ''Gladys the Groovy Mule''. Bart and friends even cast distinctive silhouettes in the first row while they snark.

* When the [[Powerpuff Girls]] were reluctantly forced by the Professor to watch an old silent film in an old revival theater, they began to spout wisecracks and make fun of of the movie. They even sit in the same position at the same silhouette angle of ''MST3K''.

* The MSTing of the ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' [[Fanfic]] ''[[The Nowakverse|Under the Bridge]]'' is quite an unusual one. Not only is a very good and famous story MSTed, but one of the two writers of the MSTing is also the author of the story itself.

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