I did NOT get R&GaD. Maybe I have an engineer’s soul.
The version of Hamlet that the MST3K crew got their hands on was a 1961 German production. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053888/) Black-and-white, minimal sets, very...German. I’d actually have watched it without MiSTing though - somehow, it worked.
The whole movie was a feast of bizarre inside jokes such as Newtonian physics, DaVinci inventions, laws of probability, etc.
Guildenstern is driven to distraction by Rosencrantz, who is constantly, inadvertently making these “discoveries” along the way, even though he is cast as the fool of the pair.
It’s almost absurdist but with a wry, dry wit.
Even Dreyfuss is brilliant as the eccentric Player and his traveling tragedians are a delight.
Give it another shot and really *watch* ~everything~.
The Hamlet ep is one of my favorite MSTK3s.
Another is The Final Sacrifice, partly because of the over the top corniness and Zap: “It’s A Cult.”’ Crow: “They worship Blue Oysters”
:)