Editing Mystery Science Theater 3000 (section)

===Other appearances===
In 1996, during promotion for the film, Nelson and the bots were interviewed in-character on [[MTV]], and seen in silhouettes heckling footage from [[MTV News]] featuring the band [[Radiohead]].<ref>{{cite web| url = https://vimeo.com/9259870| title = MST3K - MTV Week in Rock Appearance on Vimeo| access-date = January 8, 2020| archive-date = January 31, 2021| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210131053658/https://vimeo.com/9259870| url-status = live}}</ref> Also that year, Hodgson was a featured guest on [[Cartoon Network]]'s ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]''.

In 1997, the videogame magazine ''PlayStation Underground'' (Volume 2, Number 1) included a Best Brains-produced ''MST3K'' short on one of their promotional discs. The video opened with a host segment of Mike and the Bots playing some [[PlayStation (console)|PlayStation]] games, only to go into the theater to riff on some videos from the magazine's past. The feature is about seven minutes long. An [[Easter egg (virtual)|Easter egg]] on the disc has some behind-the-scenes footage of Best Brains filming the sequences.<ref name="psxunderground">{{cite web|url=http://www.game-rave.com/psx/playstation_perfect_guide/underground/ps_ug_21/index.html|title=PlayStation Perfect Guide|publisher=Game Rave|access-date=2007-06-02|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070708103954/http://www.game-rave.com/psx/playstation_perfect_guide/underground/ps_ug_21/index.html|archive-date=July 8, 2007}}</ref>

Nelson and the robot characters appeared in silhouette on an episode of ''[[Cheap Seats (TV series)|Cheap Seats]]'', a TV series in which the [[Sklar Brothers]] commented on clips of sporting events in a manner similar to MST3K.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mst3kinfo.com/cheap.html|title=MST3K on Cheap Seats|publisher=Satellite News|access-date=2020-03-19|archive-date=October 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029142629/http://www.mst3kinfo.com/cheap.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thetvdb.com/series/cheap-seats/episodes/436475|title=Cheap Seats - Creative Breaking Championships K-1 Fighting|publisher=TVDB|access-date=2020-03-19|archive-date=March 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200319202357/https://www.thetvdb.com/series/cheap-seats/episodes/436475|url-status=live}}</ref>

In May 2020, Hodgson announced a special ''Mystery Science Theater 3000 Live Riff-Along'' with a planned date of May 3; the show featured Hodgson along with Emily Marsh, Conor McGiffin, Nate Begle, and Yvonne Freese, who had joined him during the 2019 ''MST3K'' live tour riffing atop the ''MST3K'' season one episode featuring ''[[Moon Zero Two]]'' and then riffing to a new short "Circus Days".<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.avclub.com/exclusive-mystery-science-theater-3000-returns-for-soc-1843156549 | title = Exclusive: Mystery Science Theater 3000 returns for social-distancing Riff-Along special | first = Erik | last = Adams | date = April 29, 2020 | access-date = November 26, 2021 | work = [[The A.V. Club]] | archive-date = November 26, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211126154827/https://www.avclub.com/exclusive-mystery-science-theater-3000-returns-for-soc-1843156549 | url-status = live }}</ref> In another charitable event, Hodgson, alongside Weinstein and Corbett reprising their voice roles as Tom Servo and Crow, riffed two new shorts as part of a crowdfunded effort to support MIGIZI, a Native American youth non-profit group whose headquarters were destroyed during the [[George Floyd protests]] in May 2020.<ref name="ign migizi"/>