TiVo records it for me so I didn’t watch it until just now… what the HELL was going on with that old guy’s VOICE??? What was the actor (and director) thinking!!! They nailed it with the Yosemite Sam jokes!
We had to pause it because we were laughing so hard we were wheezing.
Joel: Every frame of this movie looks like someone’s last known photograph.
From “Manos: The Hands of Fate”
I’m not all that good at remembering the quotes, but I do know this is about the only show that I laugh out loud at.
After my friend and I saw that episode for the first time, from there on out, whenever we went somewhere together and got split up, we’d run around calling “Puma? PUMA”
Granted, we got some seriously weird looks in the ladies room but who cares.
GOD I MISS THAT SHOW!
Fav line- during a Herules/Roman battle some guy is getting carried off the field on a litter, and Servo yells “call IXII, IXII!”
Holy cow. I think this might be my most successful thread ever. I thought for sure it would do like the others and quietly sink into obscurity.
As for songs, one of my favorites was the Canada song, off this same episode. If I ever do name my self Zap Rowsdower, my sig will be “You lousy stinkin’ Francophonic bacon-lovin’ bastards!”
I’ve also started using a quote from one of the shorts from the '50s. Some lady starts singing about how she wants a new kitchen, and Mike comes out with “Well, wish in one hand and crap in the other, and see which piles up quicker.” The contrast in tone had me gasping for air.
CROW: Remember, if you die of boredom, you do not get a free coffin. Sorry! - The Screaming Skull
I’ve learned so much from this show. I know where the Devil’s office is, and you never shake tripolotine, and how to treat Rogy-Panty Complex, and you always thank mushrooms when they help you, and that a good ventriloquist’s assistant displays 90% of her butt at all times!
And I’ve even used this as my sig at another board:
TOM SERVO: All this pageantry can’t hide then fact that there’s no stripping! - The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
“Tang, you beautiful big breakfast drink, I love you!”
–Joel (but I don’t remember the name of the movie–it was in color, some futuristic/alternate universe Japanese space travel thing. Tang was a “caveboy.”)
MSTK is an integral part of the culture at our house. Hardly a day goes by without a “Puma!”, “Master Ninja Theme Song,” or “This is the song written for the train chase. this is the song, Rocky and Ken. He tried to kill me with a forklift. Ole!” We also often can be heard to say, “scare me? scare me?” (Crow in response to a scarecrow song in one of the movies) for no apparent reason.
Mr. Witch and I have spent altogether too much of our lives giggling with Joel or Mike and the 'bots.
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.”
But really, for non-stop one liner fun, the best short is “Winter Sports Cavalcade”
Narrator: Look at this man go!
Tom Servo: To hell
Shot of man ski jumping
Tom Servo: And this palooka now sells pencils on third avenue!
Narrator: Snow! Ice! Fun!
Tom Servo: Blood! Flesh! Entrails! The contents of a human spill!
Narrator: And Shiing, I’m told, is the correct pronounciation.
Joel: Oh yeah? Well you’re full of skit!
jarbaby
DAMMIT JARBABY you beat me to it. That one of my all time favorite lines.
Does anyone remeber the short where the couple want to get married and they go see some guy who shows them some pegboard and rubber bands? At one point the rubber band flys off and one of the bots yells out “We’re gonna die!!!”
Watch out for snakes!!
I loved Mike’s comment following this one:
“I have mixed feelings about this documentary in that it provided a lot of valuable safety information and yet it also made me want to kill myself.”
“They blew up the Hitler building!”
“What’s he got, Jimmy?”
“Boogie Fever”
“Does anyone know an songs of stock fotage that will get us through this?”
“It stinks!”
“And no redemption either, by the way!”
I love that short! So much so that I’ve perfected the Coily voice and now use it to annoy people for fun and profit…well, for fun, anyway.
“You’ll be the first to die!”
I just wish I could see some of the Comedy Central eps – I didn’t get CC until after it had stopped running MST3K.
“WORK THE LUMPS, MIKE!” (from the host sketch where the Bots try to work through Gumby-inflicted trauma by making their own clay-based show)
“I dreamt I was stuck in the woods with some chunky backwoods loser named Rowsdow-AHHHH!!!”
“And God bless Mommy, and Daddy, and Grampa, and all my evil henchmen…”
“You brought the face mask, you nut.”
“You know if you hit a Rowsdower, you get to keep it.” “The meat’s a bit gamey, but it’s good for sausage.”
“You knew my father? What happened to him?”
“I Jerked him!”
As an aside to this episode, a guy I worked with went to school with Larry Zonka’s kid.
“There is no way out of here, it will be dark soon”
-Manos the Hands of Fate-
Fortunately I have all of them on tape, except for most of the first season on CC, but the few I have are not up to the standards of season 2 on.
My claim to fame:
Winter Sports Cavalcade was filmed, in part, in my hometown: Newburgh, New York. Who wants to touch me? I could show you the lake they’re skating on and you’d recognize some of the scenery on opposite corners and in the background. And my grandma used to skate, so I’ve always kinda wondered if she was there (maybe not that particular day, but you know…).
When all the speed skaters take off and one of the MST gang yells, “Run! It’s a mugger!” I always think, “Ah, how very true.”
One of my other favorite lines in that one is when the narrator is describing ski jumping (or is it shi jumping…) as something like “the greatest one-man thrill there is,” and Joel responds with, “I can think of a better one.” The “class action suit coming 'round the corner” is hysterical too.
Oops, forgot!
How 'bout the short film singing the praises of wood shop?
Dorky Future Serial Killer: “I like the smell of fresh wood chips.”
Servo: “I put them in my underwear.”
DFSK waxes poetic about the materials he likes to use. Servo adds, “Skin, if I can get it.”
And in Human Duplicators: Very oddly dressed blind damsel leads hulking Richard Kiel through the house.
BD: “I know every inch of this house.”
Crow: “Oops! New inch!”
“This guy has “Renaissance Festival” written all over him!”
“Huzzah!”
The other one I liked was in the movie when they were watching the credits and saw “Eastman:”
“Eastman! He came out of the East to do battle with… the amazing Rando!”
Pete
Take off every .sig for great justice!!
psiekier, you beat me to one of my quotes. I LOVE the Eastman quote!
Others on my list:
“By the stubbing of my thumbs, something STUPID this way comes!”
“It’s the amazing technocolor CHEESE WEDGE!”
“You all know what I stand for…”
“BIOGRAPHY!”
(This one’s from Parts: The Clonus Horror, or something like that, and it’s my FAVORITE episode…)
“Into the Weenie Mobile… Weenie Man aaaawaaay!”
Onscreene char. mentions something about the dangers of the outside world…
The MiST? “Yeah. Like when I got my butt caught in the toaster…”
“My hat looks like a muffin. Over.”
Okie doke. I’m done!
Megaweapon…MEGAweapon…MEGAWEAPON!!!
I also love Tom’s ode to Creepy Girl from Catalina Caper!
I could literally go on for days on this show…I love it!