# Favorite episode of MST3K **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 30, 2000, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292 "2000-08-30T03:36:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/1 "2000-08-30T03:36:17Z")
So, as the subject says, now that the show has been over for a year, what was your favorite episode of MST3K… As I think about it, Manos just doesn’t fit the bill, nor does the Girl in the Gold Boots… Mitchell was special, but that really doesn’t cover it. I’ll have to go with The Brain That Wouldn’t Die. Jan in the Pan has a special place in my dessicated heart. ---
**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/2 "2000-08-30T04:06:04Z")
The first one I saw was “the Clonus Horror” at my sister’s house. I laughed so hard I hurt myself! Hopefully the sci-fi channel will keep it in reruns for a while. ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/3 "2000-08-30T04:07:23Z")
_Mitchell_…need I say more? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/4 "2000-08-30T04:12:57Z")
Jack Frost. My first episode ever seen, so it has sentimental value, plus the fact that Russian history is my major. And of course, Boggy Creek 2: and the Legend Continues… A Touch of Satan was pretty funny too. Mike Nelson and Joel Hodgeson are soooo sexy…in fact, that’s why I’m co-prez and founder of the Mike/Joel Estrogen Brigade for us hormone-crazed MSTie chicks… ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/5 "2000-08-30T05:26:16Z")
For me, it’s a tie between “Puma Man” and that one beach horror movie with the typical swamp monster. ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/6 "2000-08-30T05:35:16Z")
“The Brain That Wouldn’t Die” was pretty darn funny. I haven’t seen a lot of them, but of those that I have, I liked that one. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/7 "2000-08-30T06:01:05Z")
Manos-Hand of Fate will always occupy a special place in my lower intestine. ---
**Author:** ![Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trout_Mask_Replica)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/8 "2000-08-30T06:22:02Z")
I gotta pick just one? Screw that. 🙂 Manos Pod People Warrior of the Lost World Teenagers from Outer Space Hercules vs. the Moon Men Mitchell! ---
**Author:** ![Scribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Scribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribe)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/9 "2000-08-30T06:37:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kasuo \* > \*\*For me, it’s a tie between “Puma Man” and that one beach horror movie with the typical swamp monster. \*\* You mean The Horror of Party Beach? One of my faves too. “Everbody do the Zommmbie stomp, do do do do…” Oh geez, what a hard question…it’s my very favorite TV show, and I have over 70 episodes. (Not bad, considering that I live in Canada, and have never had direct access to Sci-Fi or Comedy Central.) I’ll narrow it to my very favorite ten, in no particular order: 1. Prince of Space 2. The Amazing Colossal Man 3. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians 4. Hercules Unchained 5. The Horror of Party Beach 6. I Accuse My Parents 7. The Leech Woman 8. The Rebel Set 9. Teenagers From Outer Space 10. Space Travelers and a lot of honourable mentions “Watch out for snakes!” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/10 "2000-08-30T07:51:31Z")
Daddy-O (“Hike your pants up! Hike Hike your pants up! Hike your trousers! Hike hike your trousers!”) with Mitchell a close second. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/11 "2000-08-30T08:04:23Z")
Being a huge Replacements fan, I like the episode which features the line “Paul Westerberg to the rescue!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/12 "2000-08-30T08:21:35Z")
‘Hercules Unchained’, and of course ‘This Island Earth’. ‘Manos’ was too bad to even make fun of. ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/13 "2000-08-30T08:26:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by capacitor \* > \*\*_Mitchell_…need I say more? \*\* Another vote for Mitchell. Manos has to be one of the next ones, as is Bride of the Monster (I think that was the title), and also the one where Lee Van Cleef befriends a pickle from outer space (don’t remember the name of the movie, but I do recall that a very pretty Beverly Garland played his wife). Guinastasia, what was Jack Frost about? I liked Russian History (but don’t know as much as you do about it), but haven’t seen this one. Probably my favorite moment in MST3K was when, in one of the films, they forgot to dub in a phone ringing and one of the actors has to make a totally lame imitation of the sound of a phone ringing. 😃 I confess that I actually like the “shorts” more than the movies: The General Hospital ones, the one on “Cheating”, and two driving related ones (one was titled “Last Clear Chance”, don’t recall the name of the other). Favorite MST3K skit is the easiest to answer. Definitely the Orville Redenbacher skit!! 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SSgtBaloo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@SSgtBaloo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSgtBaloo)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/14 "2000-08-30T08:39:38Z")
I never saw it very often, but was always a bit surprised when they came up with something I hadn’t seen before. **Jack Frost** was definitely not the usual. My sisters and I were doing the MST3K thing from about 1962 to the present day. We always looked for the schlockiest movies on Saturday afternoons. My favorite line from MST3K was during a scene from **Black Scorpion**. The giant scorpions have escaped from their underground cavern and derail a train. As they start chasing down the passengers and eating them, someone (I think it was Crow) shouts:[ul] **“_Don’t run! Just look unappetizing!_”** [/ul]Cracks me up just remembering it. ~~Baloo ---
**Author:** ![EnochF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/779978/32.png) [@EnochF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnochF)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/15 "2000-08-30T10:03:29Z")
I’d probably choose “War of the Colossal Beast” as my all-time fave, partly for the “Mr. B Natural” short and partly because there are a bunch of cool lines in the actual movie. But “Mitchell” and “Cave Dwellers” and “Fire Maidens of Outer Space” are all five-star eps… Come to think of it, _MST3K_ is like sex. Even when it’s bad, it’s still pretty good… Keep in mind Sampo’s Theorem, however: “For every MSTie who thinks a particular episode is the worst work BBI has ever done, there is another who thinks it is their finest hour.” ---
**Author:** ![Erroneous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71c47a/32.png) [@Erroneous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erroneous)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/16 "2000-08-30T12:06:02Z")
This is a valuable little thread for me. I heard about MST3K on the internet and it appealed to me, and it turns out my cousin in Alabama is a big fan, so she told me some good episodes and I ordered a few videos from [amazon.com](http://amazon.com), because I figure there’s zero chance of any of them ever been screened/released on video in Australia. I’ve got Mitchell, Pod People, and Shorts Volume Two. The shorts one is probably my favourite, because I can show it to people who have no idea what MST3K is (which is pretty much everyone over here) and it’s still funny - I think the ‘host segments’ are a little weird if you’ve never seen or heard of it before. When I watched mitchell for the first time and there was the cheesy opening and the mad scientists and flimsy sets, I wondered if I’d made a terrible mistake. So yes…keep the recommendations coming. Does anyone have the outtakes tape (‘Poopie!’) or the Shorts Volume One tape? They both had pretty good reviews on [amazon.com](http://amazon.com), but I dunno if I’d enjoy an outtakes tape since I’ve only seen two real episodes of it. ---
**Author:** ![Ura-Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/51bf81/32.png) [@Ura-Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ura-Maru)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/17 "2000-08-30T12:15:11Z")
_The Final Sacrifice,_ I think. Though _Space Mutinty,_ _Jack Frost,_ and _Puma Man_ all come very, very close. With _Giant Spider Invasion_, _Hobgoblins_ and _The Deadly Mantis_ coming up behind them. Of the Joel era, proably _The Cave Dwellers_ or _Gunslingers_, with an honorable mention for _Manos_ and _Mitchell._ But I still haven’t seen most of the earlier episodes. ☹ I think they tend to work the best when you get that perfect combination of pretention and cheesyness. And when they’re enjoying themselves. When they really really hate a movie (like, Invasion of the Neptune Men) they tend to be meaner, but less funny. The best two back to back episodes were proably either Final Sacrifice and Touch of Satan, or Michell and The Brain that Wouldn’t Die. Manos was actually the first episode I saw, at three in the morning, wondering what the hell this show was. God was that a bad movie. – “My-My-My-My GOD!” ---
**Author:** ![Ura-Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/51bf81/32.png) [@Ura-Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ura-Maru)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/18 "2000-08-30T12:23:42Z")
I don’t own it, but I have seen the Shorts tape. It’s pretty good. The first one (an add for a women’s college is pretty weak, but the others are all hysterical. Especially “The Chicken of Tomorrow” and “Junior Rodio.” Didn’t include my favorate short, though. The Truck Farmer. Though Coily the Spring Sprite was bizaare and disturbing enough to get the silver. – “How does Coily fit into God’s plan?” ---
**Author:** ![Lnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/fbc32d/32.png) [@Lnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lnix)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/19 "2000-08-30T12:44:32Z")
Master Ninja! We still walk around the house singing _Master Ninja theme song. Cuz those Van Pattens are so headstrong_ Also Side Hackers. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/20 "2000-08-30T14:19:21Z")
_The Day the Earth Froze_ You know, “You must bring me the Sampo!” (What the hell is a sampo?). I have this one on tape. It reduces me to being unable to breathe, from laughing so hard. In fact, because of this thread, I am inspired to watch it again when I get home this evening. [singing] "Didn’t get the Sampo. Such a loser! [/singing] [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292.md?page=2)