# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2000, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/81 "2000-09-01T09:04:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*Another MST3K line that I use in real life (as today, when I read a Times story about scientists building “smart” robots), from, I think, “Bride of the Monster”— > > “He peppered in God’s lo mein.” > \*\* God, Bride of the Monster was great! Or rather, terrible! I first read about the movie in The Golden Turkey Awards. The description of the totally irrelevant mushroom cloud was classic (apparently, Ed Wood’s financier included, as a condition, that the film star his son, and that the movie make a statement against nuclear holocaust). Also the description of Wood having to use a non motorized, rubber octopus for Bela Lugosi’s character’s demise–Bela had to act like the octupus was strangling him while **pulling the rubber octupus on top of him**! > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mrblue92 \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > “Coily the Spring Sprite”? “No springs”? > > DRY: These are both from the short _A Case of Spring Fever_, which was used as a lead in the killer worm movie, _Squirm_ (the next to last episode of the series). The “plot” of the short was that this wormy guy working on his sofa gets frustrated and wishes he would “never see another spring as long as he lived.” Well, Coily the Sprite Sprite, AKA Lord of Darkness, magically appears and grants the moron’s request. Then everytime our doofus tries to operate a device with springs, it fails, and Coily pops up and evilly exclaims, “No springs!”. > \*\* Thanks, mrblue92–no wonder I never saw it–I lost access to MST3K when it moved from Comedy Central to Sci-Fi. My cable provider didn’t carry Sci-Fi at the time. :mad: sk8rixtx–Monster a Go-Go, I think, is the one where some poor crew member has to try to imitate the sound of a phone ringing because they forgot to dub in the ringing sound. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2000, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/82 "2000-09-01T15:33:22Z")
DRY: The list of episodes for seasons 8, 9, and 10 can be found at [http://www.scifi.com/mst3000/experiments/](http://www.scifi.com/mst3000/experiments/) (I’m not sure if the “Colossal Episode Guide” had season 7 or not, but I got my copy from Amazon a month ago, so it’s probably still available. I think it had at least the first six.) The Bela Lugosi vs. Octopus scene sounds like the Hobgoblins scene where the kids are being “attacked” by puppets. Or, more accurately, attacking themselves with puppets. Servo says something like, “If they’d just let them go, they’d fall to the floor.” ---
**Author:** ![Scribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Scribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribe)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2000, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/83 "2000-09-01T17:52:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tracer \* > \*\*Whooo my, it looks like we have quite a large number of RATMMers (or closet RATMMers) here on the SDMB… \*\* RATTMMer…what’s that stand for? (The only thread this term is in, is this one.) ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Creant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Miss\_Creant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Creant)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2000, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/84 "2000-09-01T20:31:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JosephFinn \* > \*\*My favorite short is the one entitled “Are You Ready FOr Marriage,” with a weird-ass psychologist explaining with string the level of commitment needed for marriage. > > My favorite invention has to be the Mad’s invention of a hercules action figure that you had to buy _every piece seperately_. EVIL! \*\* I’m not even half way through this thread but in case its not mentioned again, I don’t want to forget. My favorite line from this short was when the ‘pegs’ or whatever it was representing the happy couple stretched their rubber bands too fast and they went flying, to which Servo yelled, "OH MY GOD! WE’RE GONNA DIE!! I have to finish reading now ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Creant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Miss\_Creant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Creant)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2000, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/85 "2000-09-01T20:47:31Z")
Ok, someone did mention it, but now I have thought of so many more. I think my favorite moment was in one of the Hercules movies during a battle you see two guys carry a ‘wounded’ soldier off the field and Servo yells, IXII, IXII! I can’t believe no one mentioned Ring of Terror with the worlds oldest living college students. Whenever my friend and I are looking for each other we call,“Puma? Puma?” There was one movie, I think it was the one in which it was a post apocolypse (sp?) world and everything depended on these idiots on motorcycles. There was a shot of a cow hide on the barn that just killed me. Joel, during the Snow/winter short, about ski is pronounced ‘skit’ Fav 'bot is the one and only Mr. Tom Servo! My ex got me a tiny little gumball machine in honor of him. It was the only smart thing he ever did. I can’t believe I don’t know Mitchell. I must have seen it. Will someone sum up for me? ---
**Author:** ![rottenbrain138](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bbce88/32.png) [@rottenbrain138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rottenbrain138)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2000, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/86 "2000-09-01T21:38:27Z")
my favorites are probably Pod People (also the first one i saw while channel flipping, lucky me) Space Mutiny, and Mitchell. Other memorable ones have been Hercules Unchained, Agent for HARM, This Island Earth (which i was lucky enough to see in the theater). yah, mst3k is good stuff. too bad it got cancelled. i cried. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2000, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/87 "2000-09-01T21:39:37Z")
Basically, Michell is a spectaculary repulsive cop who spends an entire movie wandering around, harrassing suspects, sleeping with a prostitute sent to him as a bribe, then arresting her, getting into screaming matches with 8 year olds, participating in 12 mile an hour car chases and occasionaly shooting people. It’s impossible to describe just how disgusting Joe Don Baker was in this movie. To say nothing about the shot where he grabs a sixpack with his toes while sliding his doughy face across his bribe girl. A man of class and impecable taste, our Michell is. He makes the disgusting “You’re hittin’ the BOOZE again” hillbilly in Giant Spider Invasion look like James freaking Bond. If you asked Dworkin to describe the worst man in the world, you might get something like Michell, though less repulsive, and smarter. The amazing thing is that the writer and director obviously want us to sympathise with Michell. Even love him. And the REALLY trippy folksy themesong didn’t help. In Final Justice, JDB plays a racist, casualy murdering, oafish ugly-american bully who threatens women with coat hangers. And that character is FAR more appealing than Michell. Great episode, though. It’s also Joel’s last. – “You don’t have to be a pig for the rest of your life, Michell!” Actually, he kind of does. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2000, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/88 "2000-09-01T23:32:15Z")
Scribe wrote: > [@](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by tracer \* > > \*\*Whooo my, it looks like we have quite a large number of RATMMers (or closet RATMMers) here on the SDMB… \*\* > > RATTMMer…what’s that stand for? > > (The only thread this term is in, is this one.) Why, it’s the initials of the late, lamented, heavily-off-topic _Mystery Science Theater 3000_ UseNet newsgroup: **rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc** The ueber-fan Chris Cornell, who nicknamed himself “Sampo” in honor of the gizmo from _The Day the Earth Froze_, was a regular there from time to time. As was T-Bone, Big Rob the Midnight Rambler, Mellie, OdiePal, Tammy Stephanie Davis, Noah Singman and his wife the Jungle Goddess, Jess “I am a big femme” Nevins, Julia Sober, Clarinda Carrington, Christine “Indestructable Gouda Llama Woman” Malcom, Mike Czaplinski, and of course myself. Most of the conversation quickly devolved into either flirtation, cascades, or vehemently defending MST3K against those scum who thought it wasn’t perfect. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2000, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/89 "2000-09-01T23:34:52Z")
Oh, I forgot to mention: Another favorite pasttime on RATMM was “Mystery Usenet Theater 3000”, which was when one or more of the posters did a MSTings of a really bad UseNet post (a rant, a hairbrained theory, _Star Trek_ fanfiction, etc.). Most of these UseNet MSTings are archived at [http://pinky.wtower.com/mst3k/mistings.shtml](http://pinky.wtower.com/mst3k/mistings.shtml). ---
**Author:** ![EnochF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/779978/32.png) [@EnochF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnochF)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2000, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/90 "2000-09-02T11:50:27Z")
I was also a RATMMer (1995-1998). I posted as Enoch Forrester. I did _Voyager_ MSTings every week with some friends of mine when I was still in college. We’d watch the show, heckle it, write down what we said (as best we could), edit a little, and post it on the newsgroup. I was _very_ briefly listed in the RATMM FAQ. (Once I was egosurfing on Altavista, and I found something called the “Enoch Forrester Memorial Page,” but sadly there was nothing in it.) ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2000, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/91 "2000-09-02T20:38:47Z")
Leafed through my _Amazing Colossal Episode Guide_ last night and came across one I’d completely forgotten: _The Dead Talk Back_. Hilariously bad movie, great quips by Mike and the bots, a short about freezer space with a freaky non-speaking woman, AND a great host segment with Crow doing a Jerry Garcia-esque endless, meandering guitar solo. OH, what a show… ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2000, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/92 "2000-09-02T20:50:23Z")
Apropos of nothing, I thought I’d share a whimsical moment from the first ConventioCon ExpoFest-A-Rama: Oddly enough, there was a MENSA convention being held at the same time, and the hotel’s bulletin board had the lists of upcoming MENSA activities and lectures. In the bottom corner of one of the boards someone had posted a notecard reading: WANTED: One Sampo Will trade one box of Hamdingers 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2000, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/93 "2000-09-02T21:52:04Z")
At The Circus(?) is my favorite short (“Heeere comes the Devil!” “They’re doing it clown style!”) Some of my favorite movies: Attack of the the Eye Creatures Fire Maidens Hobgoblins Space Mutiny (I liked the way that they didn’t even dignify the obviously stolen space fight scenes from Battlestar Galactica with a comment or joke) ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2000, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/94 "2000-09-02T22:18:25Z")
**voguevixen** , you went to the ConventioCon? Can I touch you? I wanted to go to that _so_ bad, but, alas, could find no one willing to travel to Minnesota with me. Would have gladly gone solo but lacked the cash to swing a hotel room by my lonesome at the time. Anyway, I would like to say that I have an autographed copy of the Amazing Colossal Episode guide. Ordered it from Best Brains shortly after it was released. I’m so proud. Favorite bot? Tommy! So suave, so dashing, and that voice! Who remembers the host segment where Tom and Crow told Joel they were running away? Magic Voice tracked their movements, and it went something like “They’re stopping… they’re arguing… Crow is hitting Tom… Tom is crying… they’re coming back.” The first episode I stumbled across, btw, was a prehistoric epic featuring miles and Miles O’Keefe-- _Cavedwellers_, I think. At the end, Joel and the bots pointed out several key continuity problems, such as a guy wearing sunglasses in the background of one scene. I was hooked from then on. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2000, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/95 "2000-09-03T01:14:34Z")
Did you guys know that Mike is married to Bridget Jones, aka Flavia, aka Mr. B Natural, aka Nuveena, Woman of the Future (I"ve ALWAYS wanted to see that last one!) ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/96 "2000-09-03T02:40:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rosebud \* > \*\ ***voguevixen** , you went to the ConventioCon? Can I touch you? \*\* Now now, don’t shove…you can ALL touch me! er…anyways, I just remembered another cool thing they had. There was a actual-size replica of the bridge of the SOL that you could pose on with the Bots. It was so fun to get right up to the giant pic and see if you could make out all the shapes on the back wall. (Some you can make out clear enough on the show…there’s an obvious Hungry Hungry Hippos game that always distracts me.) Cookie cutters, drawer dividers, those kidney-shaped hospital spit bowls, toy trumpets. What creativity went into this show! There was also a costume ball one night (we didn’t go because I had to appease hubby and go to an Indian Casino as a payoff for putting up with the whole thing.) Did see quite a few people with homemade Gizmonics jumpsuits and a couple of guys who had exact replicas of Tom and Crow. For the live show the next evening, we lucked out and got to sit in the third row right behind Mike and the Bots. They did a montage of songs and when Tom Servo burst into “Creepy Girl” I squealed with delight and my husband teased me about it for MONTHS! That was probably the highlight of my life, really. It’s all been downhill from there. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/97 "2000-09-03T04:55:41Z")
EnochF wrote: > [@](#): > > ]I was also a RATMMer (1995-1998). I posted as Enoch Forrester. I did _Voyager_ MSTings every week with some friends of mine when I was still in college. We’d watch the show, heckle it, write down what we said (as best we could), edit a little, and post it on the newsgroup. I was _very_ briefly listed in the RATMM FAQ. Yeah, but you didn’t advertise your breasts, so I didn’t notice you as much as I did Julia Sober. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2000, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/98 "2000-09-04T00:07:35Z")
Ok… do more of you have a favorite host segment or song? I love Creepy Girl and when Pearl was trying to be an accredited mad scientist. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2000, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/99 "2000-09-04T01:05:45Z")
And when Brain Guy started doing the Girl in Gold Boots dance! Teehee! Mike is SEXY, don’t you think? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2000, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292/100 "2000-09-04T19:33:58Z")
1st Season: Robot Holocaust (“The Dahg Won”) 2nd Season: The Side Hackers (the favorite sport of cheap white trash) 3rd Season: Pod People ("It stinks!) & Fugitive Alien (“Bwhahahahahaha YOU’RE STUCK HERE!!”) 4th Season: Teenagers From Outer Space (“TOR-CHA!!”) 5th Season w/Joel: I Accuse My Parents 5th Season w/Mike: Santa Claus 6th Season: Racket Girls 7th Season: Laserblast 8th Season: Jack Frost 9th Season: Werewolf (“If I could just fart, I’d feel so much better.”) 10th Season: The Girl in Gold Boots (best scene: when the guy suddenly appears in the diner. Love that editing!) Favorite shorts: “Mr. B Natural” (“Knew your father, I did!”),“Snow Thrills”; “Here Comes the Circus” (“Here comes the devil!!”); “Speech: Using Your Voice” (“Plenty of lip and tongue action”); “Circus on Ice” (“It’s prostitutes on ice!” “Hey!” “Well, in anice way.”) Favorite songs: “Tibby”; “If Chauffers Ruled the World”; “The Janitor Song”; “Let Me Frank about Frank”; “Hike Up Your Pants” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-episode-of-mst3k/31292.md?page=6)