# I almost want to change my name, or, today's MST3K

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 15, 2001, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-almost-want-to-change-my-name-or-todays-mst3k/72557 "2001-07-15T06:29:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2001, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-almost-want-to-change-my-name-or-todays-mst3k/72557/41 "2001-07-17T17:28:44Z")

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Hey, **Hamlet** , you ever see the MST3K Hamlet episode? It was German, and looked like Sprockets from SNL!  
Crow: This has taught me not to kill any of your fathers and marry your mothers!

and here is a link [Unofficial Quote List](http://linuxsavvy.com/staff/jgotts/mst3k/mst3k-quotes.html) But it hasn’t been updated for a few years.

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**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:** [July 17, 2001, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-almost-want-to-change-my-name-or-todays-mst3k/72557/42 "2001-07-17T17:38:04Z")

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Dude, has anyone see the 10th premiere, Soultaker? The guy who played Brad-the dude who became a soultaker and helps the John Stamos guy, is now on Young and the Restless!

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**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2001, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-almost-want-to-change-my-name-or-todays-mst3k/72557/43 "2001-07-17T20:04:19Z")

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> \*Originally posted by The Witch \*  
> \*\*Oooh, I forgot. And just yesterday, I was watching the Iowa State Home Ec short. Ooof! Was that hilarious.
> 
> “And Kay prepared for the most important job of all. Mrs.  
> Bob Johnson.” \*\*

“Kay was sitting in Study Hall…”  
_Crow:_ “With a loaded gun.”

I actually own _Pod People_. The MST version. I think my favorite line is “Meanwhile, in a completely DIFFERENT movie.”

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**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-almost-want-to-change-my-name-or-todays-mst3k/72557/44 "2001-07-18T02:39:12Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Tars Tarkas \*  
> \*\*Hey, **Hamlet** , you ever see the MST3K Hamlet episode? It was German, and looked like Sprockets from SNL!  
> \*\*

I saw that one. It was weird.  
“Lame-aertes!” “Craplet!”

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**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-almost-want-to-change-my-name-or-todays-mst3k/72557/45 "2001-07-18T04:20:57Z")

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“‘Cut his throat in a church’…why, I oughta smack him…”

I _also_ love that one, hopeless Shakespeare junkie that I am. MST3K _and_ Shakespeare was something of a dream come true…

Of course, the host sketches weren’t all that great, except for the ending with Fortinbras. “What am I to do? Force myself on another play? Am I to waltz up to _American Buffalo_ and say ‘Hello! Have you a need for a Norwegian nobleman to wait for bodies to be carted out?’ I don’t think I’m being unreasonable here.”

(BTW, was that _really_ Ricardo Montalban dubbing Claudius’ voice?)

Hamlet: “To be, or not to be…”  
Mike: “The literary equivalent of ‘Da-da-da-DAAAH!’” [i.e. Beethoven’s Fifth…that doesn’t work so well in text.]

“Famous rapper Notorious K.I.N.G.”

Claudius: “Now the king drinks to Hamlet!”  
Servo: “Hell, the king drinks to ANYTHING!”

“Check out our Pieta impression!”

Horatio: “Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”  
Mike: “Unfortunately, they’re Northwest flights of angels, so they’ll be late.”

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