Why I Might Stop Watching TV (Soon, Really Soon)

Lastly, I suggest a lesson in television from the geniusly perverted minds of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 gang. The main reason MST3K is such useful cultural commentary, is because it lays bare the mountainous icebergs of propaganda present in popular culture, exposing the withered fingers of control that television stabs into our unwashed masses. It is always easier to see the propaganda of a previous generation, because we live within its consequences. Wading the eight seasons of MST3K has learned me the true tales of the crushing white patriarchy, the endless anti-communist fear mongering drivel, and the pervasively stifling influence of despicable Christianity and its consumerist armies.

from Brain Box

ah, too true. Read the article - it's good.