Story
According to the show's storyline, as part of an experiment to see how bad movies affected a person's mind, mad scientists Dr. Clayton Forrester and Dr. Laurence Erhardt (aka "The Mads") kidnap Joel, place him on the Satellite of Love, and shoot him into space. In order to keep from going mad himself, Joel builds his robot friends from parts of the spacecraft — namely the controls used to begin and end the movie. Eventually, Gypsy incorrectly overhears that the Mads are finished with Joel, and plan to kill him, even though they really plan to kill their new temp, Mike Nelson. With the help of Mike, who discovers an escape pod in a box of "Hamdingers" after reading the SOL's manual, Gypsy forces Joel into it. Joel managed to safely return to Earth, where he crash-lands in the Australian Outback and eventually resumes his normal life. In response, the Mads kidnap Mike and send him up to the Satellite of Love to take Joel's place.
At the end of season 10, the Satellite is deorbited and crash-lands near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mike and the Bots move into an apartment nearby, and are last seen starting to watch and riff The Crawling Eye, the movie which provided the first nationally broadcast episode of the series. Gypsy founds an international conglomerate, ConGypsCo.
In the unaired pilot, series creator Joel Hodgson (not yet using his character name "Joel Robinson") claims to have designed the Satellite of Love himself. This was changed by the first aired episode to the more familiar storyline. The Satellite of Love during the KTMA era was also noticeably different from the version shown during the show's official run, built on a very low budget and not featuring the iconic "doggy-bone" shape.
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