Favorie line: From Catalina Caper. Guy throwing up over rail of boat. Guy with transister radio bumps into him.
“Hey, you puke on my radio”.
“Yeah, well you got radio in my puke”.
My favorite episode is probably that Scadinavian produced medieval fantasy whose name I forget ("Let’s go surfin’ now, even Sven is learnin’ how’).
Another hilarious moment was from the Japanese Planet of the Apes ripoff. The camera is panning up from the floor, showing a girl’s shapely legs and miniskirt. The bots are going “Ah?..Ahhhh?” then “Awwwww…” when she’s shown to be a girl of about 12.
Personal anecdote: MST3K was taped in Eden Prarie, MN where I am right now. A friend of mine, Tim Scott, worked backstage as a technical supervisor (as opposed to a supervising technician). He’s kind of pudgy, and one day when he came in with a new haircut, someone said, “You look like a big baby” so they put him in a sketch as TV’s Frank’s baby. He also did some other on-camera work, operating props or being inside a bug costume of something.
for those of you’s confuddled by the Digital Archive Project, there’s gotta be at least 30 or so episodes (from KTMA to Sci Fi) available on Kazaa Lite http://www.k-lite.tk/ …
I just remembered one of the funniest skits EVER. I don’t remember the ep it was from, but, good GOD did I laugh:
“A Joke, by Ingmar Bergman”
Shot in black and white. Sloooooow pacing. Expressionist/avant garde framing and acting. Starring Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo. Moody Northern-lattitudes music. An occasional gull cry and dog bark in the background.
The joke is about counting the slits and the planks in a pier.
Sweet mother, did I laugh. Especially because the skit was, I swear, 10 minutes long.
RawkStah, did you ever see the promos they did for the MST3K “Death and Taxes” marathon on Comedy Central? It was all black and white. Crow facing the camera, motionless, Tom Servo in profile. Joel was standing in the center, dressed as The Grim Reaper. Crow and Tom Servo spoke in mock-Swedish, with English subtitles.
Everytime they showed it, it nearly had me in tears – in the middle of one of Crow’s lines, Tom Servo just does this dramatic, horrified gasp that’s a total non-sequitur. Joel is silent throughout, looking menacing and occasionally nonchalantly taking a bite out of an apple. The last line is Tom Servo saying (in mock Swedish) “I weep for the death of the shadow of the soul,” to which Death replies (in English) “Tell me about it.”
A stinger is the brief 3-5 second clip on the end of the episode after the credits. The stinger for Jack Frost was, IIRC, a clip of the bizzarre slapping incident that involved Nastinka’s sister and a giant lollipop.
Now that I think about it, that might be one of my favorites.
I gotta say Mike. Maybe it’s because I started out with Mike, and nly saw Joel later on, I dunno. Mike just seems funnier to me (although there are exceptions, of course).
Sometimes they’re hilarious, sometimes just stupid. It varies.
sigh I just blanked on the title of the movie, but it had my favorite Stinger. “This is where the fish live.”
Of course, it’s my favorite becaues later in the movie Crow says “The fish moved away and didn’t leave a forwarding address.”
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Didn’t have Comedy Central when they still showed MST3K. But, it sounds like an identical setup, minus Joel. The face/profile framing is EXACTLY what they did in “A Joke, by Ingmar Bergman”. The dumbest thing ever, and one of the funniest.