My favorite quote is from “The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy”…
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)
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.
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.
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…
“hot merging action!”
“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?”
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
Fudge! My apologies both to David Bowie and also the South African Council of Film and the Arts.
–Cliffy
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.
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.
From Time Bandits
“General Washington, your plane has landed”
dead0man
Space Mutiny.
Is that the one where the exterior shots of the ship and some of the effects are clips taken from Battlestar Galactica?
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.
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…
Rock climbing, Joel. ROCK CLIMBING!
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.”
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.
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
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 the official MST3K webpage
“Do you realize a robot just sang a love song about a turtle?”
…
(.....*watch out for snakes!*)Damnit…I thought this was a new thread, and nearly blasted my pants when I read:
And to get the obvious joke out of the way – Best BRAAAAAAAAIIIIINS!