# Favorite Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 29, 2010, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-mystery-science-theater-3000-episodes/565672 "2010-12-29T02:00:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-mystery-science-theater-3000-episodes/565672/21 "2010-12-29T14:26:51Z")
There are so many listed here that I love. Final Sacrifice, Space Mutiny, Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, TISCTSLABMUZ, Cave Dwellers, Pod People… They’re all my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-mystery-science-theater-3000-episodes/565672/22 "2010-12-29T14:41:50Z")
All time favorite for me is “Time of the Apes”. It is fast paced humor at its finest. “Oh I’ve got a screwdriver in my back pocket”-_Welcome to plot convenience playhouse_. “Easy…”-(Lifting the boy through the air duct)…_Harder_. (Panning around a tree where the humans are tied up and the apes enter with the leader with a riding crop). _C’mon girls, we’re gonna give em a makeover they won’t believe_. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-mystery-science-theater-3000-episodes/565672/23 "2010-12-30T02:33:49Z")
I have always loved _Time Chasers_. That was the one from the 80s/90s with the airplane as the time machine and the dork who wore a “Castleton” sweatshirt the whole time. My best friend went there and I’d visit a lot and so it made it extra funny. As it was one of the rarer modern movie, it’s special just for that, but it truly is an awful movie with, for me, lots of familiar sites. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-mystery-science-theater-3000-episodes/565672/24 "2010-12-30T02:48:01Z")
I think my top five are Werewolf, Space Mutiny, The Girl in Lovers’ Lane, Tormented, and Overdrawn at the Memory Bank. I think I’ll watch some MST3K tonight actually. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-mystery-science-theater-3000-episodes/565672/25 "2010-12-30T03:24:44Z")
Many of my favorites have already been mentioned, but not _Future War_…which is not set in the future and does not involve a war. It does, however, have a hooker-turned-nun heroine, forced-perspective dinosaur puppets, and one of my all-time favorite bad movie lines: “There’s monsters in the hood.” I don’t know that I’d call this one a _favorite_, but an episode that sticks in my mind is _The Creeping Terror_. The movie featured in this episode was badly made even by the standards of MST3K movies, with a monster that looked like a futon cover and much of the dialogue handled by a narrator. No, really. Instead of having the actors speak their own lines, or even having them dubbed in later, we often see the actors talking but only hear the narrator say things like “Bob told Fred to go to hell!” Legend has it that during production of the movie the audio equipment fell into a lake so the filmmakers were forced to shoot a largely silent movie. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-mystery-science-theater-3000-episodes/565672/26 "2010-12-30T04:15:44Z")
Deathstalker, Final Sacrifice, Space Mutiny, Operation Double 007, Santa Claus, Roger Corman’s The Undead… Jack Frost… Secret Agent Super Dragon… ---
**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-mystery-science-theater-3000-episodes/565672/27 "2010-12-30T04:59:01Z")
The guys from MS3000 have launched [rifftrax](http://www.rifftrax.com/). You can download these audio tracks and sync them with your favorite movies and expand your Mystery Science library! ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-mystery-science-theater-3000-episodes/565672/28 "2010-12-30T05:02:33Z")
Well, some of them are on Rifftrax. The others launched [Cinematic Titanic](http://www.cinematictitanic.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-mystery-science-theater-3000-episodes/565672/29 "2010-12-30T16:37:45Z")
Santa Claus “Nice aria Santa” Outlaw “Buffalo shots” Pod People “It stinks” ---
**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:** [December 30, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-mystery-science-theater-3000-episodes/565672/30 "2010-12-30T17:31:49Z")
One of my favorites seems to be little-known, and I don’t think it’s been put out for home video: **The Dead Talk Back**. So awful, yet so funny. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-mystery-science-theater-3000-episodes/565672/31 "2010-12-30T17:57:19Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > The Day the Earth Froze, about one man’s quest for the Sampo. There’s a part where he fails to get the Sampo, comes back to his village, and everyone greets him with a rousing folk dance, to which Joel and the bots sing “you failed! you failed! you failed!”. My dad and I nearly died of laughter. > > …it may not be as funny described here. It is. That is my all time favorite comedy DVD. When fake snow (that looks suspiciously like confetti) blows into the room, and the guys yell “hey, Rip Taylor’s here”. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-mystery-science-theater-3000-episodes/565672/32 "2010-12-30T20:45:20Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > 1. Santa Claus vs. the Martians - I had forgotten the racist opening segment with Christmas around the world. Nit, the racist opening came from the Mexican movie _Santa Claus_, _Santa Claus vs. the Martians_ had no racist images AFAIK, but it has a Polar bear that was so ridiculous that the polar bears did sue for defamation of character. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-mystery-science-theater-3000-episodes/565672/33 "2010-12-30T21:26:27Z")
My favorites are probably This Island Earth, Boggy Creek 2, and Pod People. My friends and I watched Pod People so many times as teenagers that I can recite that movie back and forth. Whenever we wanted to express some sarcastic appreciation for another’s accomplishment we would say, “Trumpy, you can do STUPID things!” ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-mystery-science-theater-3000-episodes/565672/34 "2010-12-30T21:33:19Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > I tend to prefer movies that were actually meant to be serious (at least at first) but either didn’t age well or just didn’t work. So, for instance, The Girl in Lover’s Lane, Samson vs. the Vampire Women, Swamp Women, The Beatniks, and Tormented. Those are the ones I like the least, because they’re so damn bleak and depressing. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-mystery-science-theater-3000-episodes/565672/35 "2010-12-30T21:44:32Z")
_The Screaming Skull_ - “Can we help you, movie lady? Do you need a push or something?” _Danger!! Deathray_ -“Special effects by …Billy!” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-mystery-science-theater-3000-episodes/565672/36 "2010-12-30T21:47:46Z")
> [@acsenray](#): > > Those are the ones I like the least, because they’re so damn bleak and depressing. That’s what makes the “Cheating” short so great. Servo asks if it’s one of the first movies Bergman made in the U.S. “A Case of Spring Fever” is another one of their best shorts. Aside from that, most of my favorite episodes have already been mentioned - Space Mutiny, Overdrawn, Prince of Space, etc. The Rifftrax treatment of “Reefer Madness” (or the DVD with just Mike handling commentary) is also great. Oh, and I added another “0” to the thread title to make it 3000. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-mystery-science-theater-3000-episodes/565672/37 "2010-12-30T21:48:44Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > “It’s a whaaarewuulfe!” That’s probably the one I’ve watched the most, with the Joe Don Baker movies coming in tied at 2nd. Joe Don was pissed after the first one, so they did another and ripped on him even worse! (Video, safe for work) [Space Mutiny!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHlJ2voJHY) And as is my custom in these threads(video, safe for work):[“I’m Rowsdower. Zap Rowsdower.”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6OPyfQxwDM) I need to find a good DIVX converter. I have a bunch of episodes I put in .avi format a long time back, but they won’t play on my Philips DVD player. Must be too old of a format. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-mystery-science-theater-3000-episodes/565672/38 "2010-12-31T01:37:56Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Nit, the racist opening came from the Mexican movie _Santa Claus_, _Santa Claus vs. the Martians_ had no racist images AFAIK, but it has a Polar bear that was so ridiculous that the polar bears did sue for defamation of character. 🙂 Wow, I just had it on and it began by showing Santa around the world, including Africa, China, and Japan and each one was stereotypical. The Africa one was downright racist. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-mystery-science-theater-3000-episodes/565672/39 "2010-12-31T06:07:55Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Wow, I just had it on and it began by showing Santa around the world, including Africa, China, and Japan and each one was stereotypical. The Africa one was downright racist. I loved the reactions the robots and Mike had, as soon as the kids in black face appeared. “Oh?!” “Booooo!” “Booooo!” “Must be from the Ted Danson school of acting!” Also when attempting to add baby Jesus, Santa and Satan in the movie I have to agree with the guys that the movie Santa Claus has “Very weird theology”. And I completely missed another nitpick, the other movie was \*Santa Claus \*\*Conquers \*_the Martians_ ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-mystery-science-theater-3000-episodes/565672/40 "2010-12-31T07:06:51Z")
I just re-watched that one tonight. I thought it was funny at the end with the guy playing Pitch and Kevin Murphy playing Santa, “I came here to kick ass and eat candy-canes. And I’m fresh out of candy canes.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-mystery-science-theater-3000-episodes/565672.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-mystery-science-theater-3000-episodes/565672.md?page=3)