Jonah riffs that "North by Northwest (1959) from the plane's point of view just got funded on Kickstarter." This revival was funded on Kickstarter.
In a host segment, the bots grill Jonah about the existence of giant monsters (also known as "kaiju") in countries other than Japan. Baron Vaughn, the voice of Tom Servo, had a small role in Cloverfield (2008), an American kaiju movie.
The MST3K Series was bought back with a kickstarter that independently produced the episodes. Once funded Netflix picked up the show.
The stinger is Petersen being shocked by the electric eel.
The first episode of the rebooted MST3K series on Netflix.