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DVD art for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
RiffTrax is a web-original series of third-party commentaries typically starring Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett, formerly of the historic television series Mystery Science Theater 3000, which mocked notoriously bad films. To date, they have provided commentaries for every Harry Potter film, minus the Deathly Hallows, Part 2.
The premise of MST3K was about a man shot into space and forced to watch bad movies. In order to keep sanity, the human along with two robots would make jokes throughout the film. The show ran from 1988 to 1999. After the shows run, star Michael J. Nelson wanted to start riffing popular films. MST3K was able to show movies due to little to no copyright or they're rights were very cheap to purchase. To get around the rights, RiffTrax sells audio commentaries of the films and has the customer provide the actual movie themselves.
The Harry Potter rifftraxs have a lot of running gags that incorporate the series. The Riffers of Mike, Kevin, and Bill are well versed in the universe of Harry Potter like in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film): Harry Potter (Just arriving to 12 Grimmauld Place): "Ms. Weasley!" Kevin Murphy: "In 4 years, I'm gonna be doing your daughter! I mean- hi."