Mike Nelson

Mike Nelson was the second human protagonist of Mystery Science Theater 3000. He was working as a temp worker for Dr. Clayton Forrester and TV's Frank when they decided to send him into space to watch bad movies after their previous test subject, Joel Robinson, had escaped.

On board the Satellite of Love, Mike watches the movies while making jokes with the help of two robots built by Joel, Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo. During his time aboard the satellite, Mike made many attempts to escape to no avail.

At the end of the tenth season, the Satellite of Love crashed on Earth, but Mike and his robot friends survived and moved into a one-bedroom apartment. The last thing they did on the show as watch The Crawling Eye, the first movie riffed on the series.