# MST3K memories **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 21, 2001, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-memories/88679 "2001-10-21T04:59:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-memories/88679/61 "2001-10-28T16:16:15Z")
My favorite quote is from “The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy”… > [@](#): > > Narrator: How far can the mind of man penetrate the mysteries of the great beyond? > > Crow: 13 feet, 7 inches. 1960 Mexico City Olympics. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Damage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@Mister\_Damage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Damage)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-memories/88679/62 "2001-10-29T01:43:43Z")
I never watched MST3K that much, but one of my favorite TV moments came watching it - it’s story that I never tire of telling …although my friends probably tire of hearing it :\>) (in fact, I told this story on these boards once before, in this thread: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=51770&pagenumber=2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=51770&pagenumber=2)) I don’t know what movie they were doing - all I can remember is that it was a black and white movie, and that featured Edward Platt (the Chief from Get Smart). The movie opened with a pan shot across a beatnik club, and as the camera panned over the band one of the robots (I don’t remember which) said “…and looking very relaxed, Adolf Hitler on vibes.” This completely floored me, because it’s a quote from an obscure song by an obscure band - it’s from “The Intro and The Outro” by The Bonzo Dog Band, during which the singer is introducing the real band members, as well as various bogus ones, like this one. I felt like I was probably one of three people watching who got the reference. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2001, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-memories/88679/63 "2001-10-29T02:01:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cliffy \* > but my very favorite was **Space Odyssey** , > > –Cliffy That’s Space _Mutiny_. Yeah, a good episode! Hehe… But it gets funnier each time you watch it. The first time I saw it, the movie was incredibly painful. And I really think they should have mentioned that the one Balarian Chick looked like Dana Plato. ---
**Author:** ![twit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twit)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-memories/88679/64 "2001-10-29T03:25:56Z")
This weekend, I downloaded 14 of the short films that the cast lambasted in various shows. They are: Johnny At the Fair Hired! Pt.1 (haven’t found pt. 2 yet) Home Economics Story Mr. B Natural (scaaaarrry!!!) Here Comes the Circus X Marks the Spot What to Do On a Date The Truck Farmer A Date With the Family Catching Trouble Body Care and Grooming Using Your Voice Circus On Ice Aquatic Wizards If anyone wants to download these, you can usually find them at MusicCity/Kazaa/Grokster.com (they’re all the same thing). My PC usually stays on. Also, I am in possession of the MST3K Amazing Colossal Episode Guide which happens to be autographed, back when Trace Beaulieu was still part of the show. Finally, I had over 150 episodes on tape (mostly the Joel and early Mike episodes)but I gave them to a mutual MSTie. Wonder why I did that… ---
**Author:** ![tom\_servo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@tom\_servo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tom_servo)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-memories/88679/65 "2001-10-29T07:08:33Z")
“hot merging action!” ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-memories/88679/66 "2001-10-29T07:24:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Cliffy \* > > but my very favorite was **Space Odyssey** , > > > > –Cliffy > > That’s Space _Mutiny_. Yeah, a good episode! Hehe… \*\* “Ha ha – good. Back to the rusting septic system of this _FUTURISTIC SPACESHIP!_” “Crud Bonemeal!” “Passed from editor to editor in a desperate attempt to save it.” “Get me my warrior mumu.” “It’s like getting a table dance from Trent Lott.” “So in the future there is absolutely no shame.” “Haven’t you heard of the ‘Getting Some’ clause?” ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-memories/88679/67 "2001-10-29T07:43:55Z")
anyone remeber comedy centrals “turkey day” marathon ? It was my whole point for bothering wiht thanksgiving really other than eating Ironically I always thought most of the skits were dumb between the movie and was worse when they moved from the sci-fi channel Althouhgh if i ever meet roger corman I do want to ask what he thought of most of his early movies being paraodied onthe show ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-memories/88679/68 "2001-10-30T17:52:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > **That’s Space _Mutiny_.** Fudge! My apologies both to David Bowie and also the South African Council of Film and the Arts. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![SaxFace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SaxFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaxFace)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-memories/88679/69 "2001-10-30T19:11:35Z")
Favorite moment: In the “Girl with the Gold Boots” when the guy teleports into the booth (result of bad or no editing). I laughed until it hurt. ---
**Author:** ![tom\_servo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@tom\_servo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tom_servo)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-memories/88679/70 "2001-10-30T21:01:06Z")
yeah and when he teleports mike’s like “i’m back!” also in the same movie, when the 2 guys are sitting together on the beach while the girl is in the buggy, and tom servo’s says “we’re thinking of adopting” hehe and when mike is singing along to the theme song: “hey girl…just keep your gold boots moving or your silver ones we don’t mean to discriminate against those other boots” that one is probably the best post trace beaulieu episode. ---
**Author:** ![dead0man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@dead0man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dead0man)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-memories/88679/71 "2001-10-31T08:02:40Z")
From Time Bandits “General Washington, your plane has landed” dead0man ---
**Author:** ![Deptford](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Deptford](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deptford)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-memories/88679/72 "2001-10-31T13:31:05Z")
Space Mutiny. Is that the one where the exterior shots of the ship and some of the effects are clips taken from Battlestar Galactica? ---
**Author:** ![Servo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@Servo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Servo)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-memories/88679/73 "2001-10-31T14:35:06Z")
Space Mutiny has to be one of the best post-Mitchel episodes. The “Santa Claus Captain”: “But what about the little children and their toys?” The actress who dies, and then is back on the bridge in the next scene. The fights scenes: “Railing death!” and “We rented this air catapult and, damn it, we’re going to use it.” The final scene where the camera is panning across the wreckage and comes upon the bad guy who looks like he’s dead (paraphrasing here): “And…his eyes open!” “His eyes open.” “Go ahead, open your eyes.” ::Bad guy opens his eyes:: “Ahh, thank you.” But the one scene I can watch over and over again, and still fall of the couch, is that golf cart chase. I can’t remember much of what’s said (something about accelerating to “three,” and the explosion at the end, “probably shouldn’t have been carrying all of that nitro glycerin around”) but, oh man, I’m in tears just thinking about it. I think I’m going to watch it again tonight. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-memories/88679/74 "2001-10-31T15:04:10Z")
My favorite is from “Teenage Werewolf” where they carry on about the character’s irrational hatred of milk. Oh, and “deeeeeep huuurrtttinngg” gets used a lot when I’m watching bad movies with friends… ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-memories/88679/75 "2001-10-31T16:16:52Z")
Rock climbing, Joel. ROCK CLIMBING! ---
**Author:** ![SolomonGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SolomonGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolomonGrundy)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-memories/88679/76 "2001-10-31T17:15:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mister Damage \* > \*\*This completely floored me, because it’s a quote from an obscure song by an obscure band […] I felt like I was probably one of three people watching who got the reference. \*\* Not nearly as obscure, but two of my favorite bits in the series were song references; both times I saw the episode I started laughing and nobody else got the reference, which made me feel inexplicably cultured. One was in **Catalina Capers** , when they’re going over the plot of the movie and keep riffing on the evil Greek tycoon’s name: “…with Mr. Popadopolous. Do the worm on necropolis. Slam dance cosmopolis.” (from “Ghetto Defendant” by the Clash.) The other was in **Fire Maidens from Outer Space** , when Joel’s demonstrating the lever that can do anything: “It can control the tenperature, it controls the pitch and yaw, it can turn you into a nine-year-old Hindu boy…” (references to “Fugitive Alien,” an earlier episode; “Step Right Up” by Tom Waits; and indirectly to Jonny Quest, getting them a triple-word score.) And somebody mentioned the Turkey Day marathons; I never saw my family because I was obsessively taping the entire thing, editing out commercials, making sure to get the host segments and all. Michael Nelson’s Jack Perkins is incredible. “Joyce Carol Oates will be here to read from her first novel in well over a month. And next, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy will share with us their poignant stories of what it’s like to be really, really old.” ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-memories/88679/77 "2001-10-31T17:28:11Z")
I love this thread. Each post makes my laugh out loud. God I love that show. My own personal favorite short is Home Economics short from Iowa State University. She prepared for the most important job of all…Mrs. Bill Johnson. I still use that on my wife. ---
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-memories/88679/78 "2001-11-01T15:23:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hastur \* > \*\*I wonder if the Misties on here would like to start a tape trade ala the White Elephant? We could all get lists, connect with those we wish to trade with, and then complete our collections of NON-Rhino releases. I have some KTMA episodes… \*\* We got 'em all - no guarantees on quality, but most are pretty good. Also made our own shorts tape “Eat My Shorts”. I can highly recommend the “Poopie” tapes still available from the MST3K Info club: [http://www.mst3kinfo.com/satnews/catalog/Catalog1.htm](http://www.mst3kinfo.com/satnews/catalog/Catalog1.htm) Will trade for Weird Al Show (Sat morning show, ran a few yrs ago) or Enterprise (UPN isn’t on DirectTV/TIVO & dopey me can’t remember to set the VCR) [Satellite News](http://www.mst3kinfo.com/) the official MST3K webpage “Do you realize a robot just sang a love song about a turtle?” ---
**Author:** ![mnahttt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@mnahttt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnahttt)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-memories/88679/79 "2009-10-15T17:35:20Z")
… ``` (.....*watch out for snakes!*) ``` ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-memories/88679/80 "2009-10-15T17:46:20Z")
Damnit…I thought this was a new thread, and nearly blasted my pants when I read: > [@Smeghead](#): > > I still tape it every Saturday morning on the Sci-fi channel. And to get the obvious joke out of the way – Best BRAAAAAAAAIIIIINS! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-memories/88679.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-memories/88679.md?page=5)