Favorite episode of MST3K

In My Humble Opinion
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Mitchell, without a doubt. It has two of the lines I quote most often, both by Crow: (already quoted) “My, my, my, my God!” and, “Joel–why would anybody do that with Mitchell?”

Of the shorts, I love Mr. B Natural, the one with the circus (At the Circus?–“Emmet Kelly’s still eating, and it’s still funny!”), and the one explaining how kids should behave when daddy comes home, because he’s had a rough day at the office (“Only ethnic people have emotions.”)

Man, I’m having trouble with names of movies today. There’s the Bela Lugosi one, I think, The Phantom Creeps, where Bela keeps saying, “Thees weel seemplify everting.”

My two most favorite inventions are the Tough Love Seat and Johnny LongTorso. Any song by Tom Servo is worth listening to, as is Crow’s “Patrick Swayze Christmas.”

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In no special order,
[ul]
[li]Pod People[/li][li]The Deadly Mantis[/li][li]The Brain That Wouldn’t Die[/li][li]Red Zone Cuba[/li][/ul]
and the one where Tom Servo sings a love song to his pet turtle, Tibby.

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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!

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I’ve just GOTTA see Mr. B Natural one of these days! Will they ever release it? I’m a music minor! It’d be educational! :slight_smile:

Let’s see…my vote for the most revolting movie they ever did is Manos; every time I watch it I immediately go and take a shower afterwards. Ewwwww.

I have to admit that my favorite non-icky movie is Cave Dwellers, because I still remember the first time I saw it, and…well, I hate to give it away, but there is a scene about 3/4 of the way through the movie that had me actually on the floor laughing so hard I couldn’t breathe, and my poor father had to go out to the car to retrieve his inhaler because he laughed so hard he had an asthma attack.

And I must say that I think they did one of their best jobs on any movie with Fire Maidens. I mean, the movie itself was pretty bad, but they just ripped it a new one. The writers were in really good form that week.

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I can’t believe no one has mentioned Human Duplicators yet!! Richard Keil (Jaws from the old James Bond movies) as an alien invader, and Ward Cleaver as the head of the CIA! The intercom scene made me laugh so hard I almost peed my pants the first time I saw it. Definitely my favorite.

Other excellent episodes:

The Violent Years: Ed Wood tackels juvenile deliquency. At one point, four high school girls rape some guy.

Mitchell: A nasty, lazy slob is the action hero. Classic!

Girl’s Town: Filled with classic 50’s teen stars and nuns. “We’re married now, right?”

The Day the Earth Froze: Just yesterday I was laughing about the line Joel delivered as a bunch of long-haired Swedish lumberjacks are walking onto the screen: “Hey, it’s David Lee Roth!, and Van Halen!, and Sammy Hagar!, and…Santa?”

Now I’m getting all nostalgic – I’m going home to watch some MST3K right now!

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I’ve got to go with Space Mutiny. The old daughter posing as a babe, the reappearance of a character killed five minutes before, the “Big McLargehuge!” jokes, and the floor-waxer chase add up to one stinky movie. I never fail to laugh when the hero screams, then calmly gets off his floor-waxer. Oh, and Tom’s ankle-high safety railing!

No Springs! Is my favorite short. Whenever hubby and I are out of something we’ll say, “No ____, wa-wa.” A local clerk’s office has an antique scale that says “NO SPRINGS.” I almost died laughing - very unprofessional.

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You can get Mr. B Natural direct from Best Brains @ the Sattelite News website: http://www.mst3kinfo.com/satnews/catalog/Catalog1.htm

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Oh lord, don’t get me started on the inventions! My all time fave was “Junk Drawer Helper” which was a baggie with like a business card, half a yo-yo, a popsicle stick and a broken pingpong ball. Joel dumped it in an empty drawer, opened it back up and it was overflowing with crap! That cracked me up!

I’m gonna spend the rest of the day watching my tapes too, lol…AND I’m gonna dig out my newsletter and break down and buy the shorts tapes. :wink:

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“Ow! Right in the Winky!”

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My all-time favorite vote goes to one that hasn’t yet been mentioned, Teenage Caveman. Oh, so many priceless one-liners…“He’s got a shaggy diaper that leaks!” gets me every time. The Catching Trouble short (that reprehensible one mentioned before, with hunter Ross raping nature, catching bear cubs, snakes, and wildcats) is before Teenage Caveman. Crow does an excellent impression of Emo Phillips during that short.

Another favorite is Robot Monster, from the first season, the episode that nearly killed me. I had just popped a Butter Rum Life Saver into my mouth when, over a scene of long grass waving in a field, Tom said, “Sorghum! Nature’s bounty!” in his best documentary voice-over. I swallowed that sucker whole and damn near choked.

You wanna talk great shorts, those Commando Cody “Radar Men From The Moon” shorts before the first-season movies are outrageously funny. “I’m a naughty little bunny, come find me!”

I dig all those Russo-Finnish movies, too, like Jack Frost, The Day The Earth Froze, and The Sword and the Dragon, no doubt the best version ever of the famous legend of Ilya Murametz.

Pod People is a lot of fun too, what with all those “searching” sequences. “This movie has more fog than the movie The Fog!” “Trumpy, you can do stupid things!”

I have dozens of tapes of MST episodes (I started saving them even before I heard Comedy Central was going to cancel the show), but I lack some key movies. I have only two from the first season, The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy and one whose name escapes me at the moment, and I’m missing the episode with Timmy, the black Crow (Fire Maidens from Outer Space IIRC). Still, I have a bunch. If anyone wants to trade episodes, let me know.

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No one’s mentioned Fugitive Alien yet?

Crusty captain, “My wife just died in my arms!”
Joel, “What are you talking about? You were over by the window!”

“I. . . Want . . . Your . . Wig!”

And who could forget the imortal forklift song?

I’m also fond of Daddy-0 “hey you lost a lot of…oh, wait, that’s a mop”.

Pod People is another classic. “She’s Zestfully Dead!”

Aw, there are too many good ones. I’m going to start collecting them if/when they’re ever released on DVD…

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“Imperial margarine presents… Kenquistador!”

Fugitive Alien has to be my favorite, closely followed by Puma Man, Time of the Apes, and all teh Hercules movies…
Still, the best MST3K tapes of all are the song compilations. “A Patrick Swayze Christmas” has to be my favorite, with “Sidehackin’” as the second-best.

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i haven’t had tv for 4 years, and MST3K is one of the only things I miss (weather channel).

A Day At the Fair short has one of my favorite quotable lines.
on screen: a cake
narrator: “And what’s this?”
Crow: “EVIL!”

other faves not mentioned
Operation Diamond Head
Double 007
the one with Rocky and the Orbitjet. space-this and space-that, plus cold light!
Gamera vs Zigara

i wish i had more than 6 episodes taped…

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Nobody has mentioned “It Conquered the World” yet, the one with the tepee-cuumber monster that released the bat-things, and with Peter Graves with a cameo by Jonathan Haze). I grew up watching that, but it was MST3K that made it LIVE. The quadruple repetition of Peter Graves’ closing speech (even running it over the closing credits) really did me in.

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MST3K was my favoritist show ever. I, too, started taping them before the show was dropped by Comedy Central-- used to record Turkey Day in its entirety, getting up at ungodly hours to shove fresh blank tapes in the VCR.

Some favorites, not in any order:
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[li]Human Duplicators: “Look! Hunan Barbie,” and “I know every inch of this house by heart <<BANG>> oops, new inch!”[/li][li]Pod People: “A little wing-ed po-ta-to.”[/li][li]The Snow Thrills short, if I remember the title correctly. The speed skating segment was filmed in the city I grew up in, and I recognize the neighborhood even though the film is from the 40s. The line “Run! It’s a mugger!” is now, sadly, very apt for the area.[/li][li]Santa Claus vs. The Martians: Crow: “I want to decide who lives and who dies.” Joel: “Oh, I don’t know…”[/li]
Oh, there’s so many more…

Wiiiild Rebels, Crunchy Chewy Rebels…

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From The Giant Spider Invasion:

Said as Barbara Hale looks at the Nasa Scientist:
“I’m going to put on a dashiki and blow his mind.”

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‘He triiied to kill me with a fork-lift!’

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Someone asked what a SAMPO was. I THINK it’s a miniature tv, but don’t quote me on this.
No one mentioned Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, which is a good one, “Mum, 'm nuts?” Servo: My NUTS?

Oh, and what’s everyone’s favorite MSTie song?
I like:
The Canada Song
The Janitor Song (does ANYONE have this on MP3 or Wav??)
Tubular Boobular
To Earth
WHen I Held Your Brain in My Arms
Pants
Gypsy Moons
Creepy Girl

“It’s an area-logical auto-erotical tubular boobular joy!”

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While this could better belong in the PIT for the reason… some SOB just BID SNIPED me on eBay for an MST3K auction that included the Amazing Colossal Man. I want him dead for this… dead. I’m telling Tom Servo and Crow he has a toothpick representation of Monticello in his stomach and sharpening their axes before they go to deal with him.

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Yeah! Do it, Hastur!
And while you’re at it, tell Gypsy he stole all her pictures of Richard Basehart!