Overdrawn at the Memory Bank is probably my favorite. The Girl in Lovers Lane has the my boyfriend’s favorite quote (the one he will play over and over until I threaten his life): “Camera 3 get off the track, CAMERA 3 GET OFF THE TRACK, AAAAAHHHHHHHGGGGHHHH”. I find it amusing too but I think you have to work in TV to find it as funny as he does.
“The Army of the Potomac has us on the run, sweetie.” It’s the old-man voice they use that totally breaks me up.
By the way, here is a site you can use if you do not get a reference made by one of the robots or Joel/Mike.
everybody sing! “We’re WIIIIIIIIIILD REBELS! Crunchy, fruity rebels!”
I can’t remember the name of it, but one movie had an endless mountain climbing scene that must have gone on at least 15 minutes. I don’t know how they kept coming up with enough jokes to fill that one.
I’m also fond of the last episode (Danger: Diabolik) because every goddamn Christmas my brother-in-law would hog the TV remote and click back and forth between the 24 hour James Bond marathon and the 24 hour “A Chrismas Story” marathon and loudly riffing on the whole evil mastermind/loose women spy genre was the only thing that kept me sane. Plus I thought the ending was very appropriate. (I personally think that “A Christmas Story” has its own private circle of hell reseved for it, but that’s me)
I’m completely astonished that people think this. Overdrawn is one of my all-time favorite episodes; I’m in stitches throughout. I still say “I bet nobody ever scrolls up this cinema” about bad movies.
Aside from that, my favorites are Hobgoblins, Werewolf, and Space Mutiny. Also, Horror at Party Beach. When Crow starts screaming at the characters to remember that they discovered that sodium kills the monsters, I just lose it. At one point he sing-songs “SooOOOOdium!”, which I still quote for no reason.
I also really like the Gumby short they did – “Robot Rumpus” or something? At the end, Gumby defeats the robots and mounts one of their heads over his garage, and Crow and Servo start screaming in horror.
There are a ton of episodes up on Netflix Instant Watch. I’ve been able to see a lot of the pre-Sci-Fi Channel episodes, which I hadn’t. I prefer Mike to Joel, but the older episodes are fun.
I agree. The film makers aimed so high and fell so short of their goal that it’s hard not to laugh even without the riffing. And the riffs were soooo on target. I’m still waiting for an excuse to say, “I didn’t want to bumble of bobble the Fingal-Dopple” in polite conversation.
Killer Shrews with Jr Rodeo short
I’m 80% through it on MST3K, but the movie doesn’t seem entirely bad. I get what they were going for and it just mis-fired tremendously. Honestly, it’s one of the better movies they have reviewed(not saying much).
On the same topic then, what are the best movies they have reviewed? I think of what I’ve seen Overdrawn at Memory Bank is probably the best, while Manos and Skydivers are probably the worst.
They riffed on a version of Hamlet, the worst fault of which was that it was deadly dull.
Yeah, one can see what they were trying. But they made it look like a 1984/ 4th Doctor Who crossover.
One of their best to me was This Island Earth. The Black Scorpion was good too.
One movie they did, Space Travelers, actually won an Oscar for Visual Effects in 1970. It stars Gregory Peck, Gene Hackman, and Richard Crenna, not that that’s necessarily a stamp of excellence. It’s probably one of the better movies they’ve done, but of course that’s comparing it against stuff like Red Zone Cuba and The Last Sacrifice.
I must say, most of the Russo-Finnish “epics” they’ve done are actually kinda neat. That’d be The Sword and the Dragon, The Day The Earth Froze, The Magic Voyage of Sinbad, and Jack Frost. So much fun to watch, and some of the special effects are pretty good, considering the budget. I would’ve loved them as a kid.
And then there are the several Godzilla and Gamera movies. It’s hard to find much that’s especially awful about them that doesn’t also exist in every other giant monster movie.
Space Travelers was released as Marooned based on a book by Martin Caidin which wasn’t half bad. The original book had the astronaut going up alone in an early Gemini capsule to rescue the astronaut in a Mercury capsule. He rewrote it and out another edition with the hardware shown in the movie. I agree, though, not nearly as cheesy as some (and not nearly my favorite MST3K episode.)
I thought Parts: The Clonus Horror was better than most.
I’ve only seen the Gamera ones back when Comedy Central did its “Gamera Camera” marathon. 
I thought Diabolik was kind of cool, at least visually. I could see myself watching it without the MST3K treatment.
Apropos of nothing, does anybody else really like those little cartoon images of Crow and Servo they use for the movies on Netflix? This is an example.
The Amazing Colossal Man remains my favorite. The movie itself really isn’t that bad (“What kind of sin must a man commit…” – I really felt for Glen there!), and the host bits are hilarious. You have to love seeing a bald shirtless Mike standing on earth and snacking on cows.
My favorite short film is “A Date With Your Family”. “Emotions are for ethnic people!” My God, what an oppressive time…
Prince of Space is great! We like it very much!
Watching it now. It is pretty funny. I am reading that it is a student film, so it really isn’t that bad, considering.
I don’t think it’s been mentioned yet, but my personal favorite is The Mole People.
The concept had potential. It might have made a halfway decent sci-fi TV series. It suffers mainly from not aging well and poor casting for the younger actors.
Moon Zero Two is the same way. The basic premise is solid and the FX are par for the era. But it’s just too late 60’s/early 70’s. I like that the lead also starred in The Andromeda Strain.