# Mystery Science Theater 3000 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 20, 2003, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478 "2003-10-20T07:27:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Adamcomic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/977dab/32.png) [@Adamcomic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adamcomic)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/41 "2003-10-20T23:23:15Z")
My favorite is still Manos, the Hands of Fate. When Torgo is trying to touch the mother and Crow pops up with, “When carnies flirt!” ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/42 "2003-10-20T23:36:46Z")
I’ve been buying the DVD sets as they come out and I am a huge fan. My favorite line is the “Schhhhhhhmucker’s Raspberry Preserves”, which I think is from the Trumpy episode. Joel ruled, though. Not that I don’t love Mike. But Joel ruled. I still have my Info Club card around somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/43 "2003-10-20T23:59:36Z")
The Bots would do a riff somthing like, “This is just like _Star Wars_, except it’s not very good” or “This is just like two thousand one…needles jammed into my eyes.” ---
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/44 "2003-10-21T00:25:11Z")
I love Manos: The Hands of Fate and Mitchell, myself. “Mitchell… Mitchell… Mitchell… Eye on the sammitch!” However, I never was able to watch it very consistently (by the time we had Comedy Central, it was off, and by the time we had Sci-Fi, they’d stopped making new episodes), so I have no opinion on when it died. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/45 "2003-10-21T00:36:03Z")
_He tried to kill me with a forklift!_ ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/46 "2003-10-21T01:26:17Z")
I so remember discovering that show, after working late in the clinic, getting home at 10:30 or so at night, reheating dinner, and channel surfing. It hit me right between the eyes with the humor! The first one I remember seeing was one of the ones with George Reeves in it, with the white jungle queen. Priceless. I laughed so hard I nearly aspirated! My goal is to get the short with “Mr. B Natural” in it on either tape or DVD. That brief film was just so wonderfully wrong in so many ways. I’ve been unable to get a copy so far. “Ken! Ken! Ken!” “Oh, great, a planet of Judy Garland impersonators!” ---
**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 21, 2003, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/47 "2003-10-21T02:04:25Z")
I didn’t start watching until Sci-Fi, and then only pretty late, so Mike is my favorite. But I love them all. There’s enough variety in the show, but the premise never truly changed. I have a ton of sound clips. Mike Nelson came to Pittsburgh a few years ago, and I didn’t learn until the last minute and I wasn’t able to go and see him. I cried myself to sleep that night. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/48 "2003-10-21T02:12:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Qadgop the Mercotan \* > \*\*My goal is to get the short with “Mr. B Natural” in it on either tape or DVD. That brief film was just so wonderfully wrong in so many ways. I’ve been unable to get a copy so far. \*\* [Your wish is my command, sort of](http://www.mst3kinfo.com/satnews/catalog/Basement.htm) Scroll down to “Mr. B’s Lost Shorts”. This is currently the only way to get an official copy. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/49 "2003-10-21T03:23:28Z")
Oooh, are we going to start sharing MST First Time stories? Mine was when I was flipping channels and saw a Godzilla movie! Cool! And then…there were these guys down in front making fun of the Godzilla movie and they were funny as hell. I spent all summer watching it. I was like 15, 16. It was in the Comedy Central days. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/50 "2003-10-21T05:30:08Z")
My favorites were always the shorts. The best was Circus on Ice. Tom [singing]: These two girls are quite a pair they come from your worst nightmare no whenever you see pink you’ll think we’re doomed They are agents of Satan… Joel: Tom… ---
**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:** [October 21, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/51 "2003-10-21T05:51:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rabid Child \* > \*\*My favorite has always been **Pod People**. > > “Trumpy, you can do stupid things!” > “What gives? I’m on the milk carton” > > \*\* My favorite part of this episode was the song: “With a pickle mind We get the nipple beer Steady as she goes We’re flying over trout Ghetto down the highway At the speed of light All I want to feel now Is the wind in my eyes Sack o’monkeys in my pocket My sister’s ready to go… Hear the engines roar, now!” And Joel’s great line, “This song needs a hook.” ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/52 "2003-10-21T07:37:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GMRyujin \* > \*\*Oooh, are we going to start sharing MST First Time stories? Mine was when I was flipping channels and saw a Godzilla movie! Cool! And then…there were these guys down in front making fun of the Godzilla movie and they were funny as hell. I spent all summer watching it. I was like 15, 16. It was in the Comedy Central days. \*\* I was flipping through the channels, stopped on The Comedy Channel and was surprised to see a movie playing. This was back when all their programming was two-hour blocks of mostly stand-up. It was some color post-apocalyptic movie very very much from the mid-80’s (I think it was _Robot Holocaust_). At one point, two young women run out of the bushes to attack our heroes; they’re both wearing tights and leg-warmers and headbands and ripped Flashdance-style shirts. Crow says, “Um… are you Wendy, or Lisa?” And I thought Joel and Mike were both great (Mike was the head writer during Joel’s years) but I have to say I did like Joel’s delivery better. I stopped watching when they switched to the Sci-Fi Channel, but only because I’ve never lived anywhere that gets Sci-Fi. I thought the show held up really, really well with all the departures, until Trace Beaulieu left. The new guy Bill Corbett did a fine job with Crow’s voice, but he had really really tough shoes to fill. One of my favorite episodes ever is the aforementioned Vahrvulf, and it was well into the sci-fi years. “He’s must be circling that gas station because it’s the weakest in the herd.” Now I’ve just got to stop quoting the show at random in everyday conversation. “Vhat you and your friends are doing is incradabul.” “I’m HUGE!” “This movie’s really not very good!” “Hmmm… little potatoes.” “Is there anything I can’t conquer? Hot damn!” “Well, I can see how you’d say tha… HEY!” ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/53 "2003-10-21T14:14:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Superdude \* > \*\*My favorite part of this episode was the song: > > “With a pickle mind > We get the nipple beer > Steady as she goes > We’re flying over trout > Ghetto down the highway > At the speed of light > All I want to feel now > Is the wind in my eyes > Sack o’monkeys in my pocket > My sister’s ready to go… > Hear the engines roar, now!” > > And Joel’s great line, “This song needs a hook.” \*\* “It STINKS!” And you have to love that character in the recording studio wearing the “I Am a Virgin” t-shirt. “Good? They’re the BEST!” “Quick, let’s fold her.” “Stop the madness!” ---
**Author:** ![Gotterfunken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@Gotterfunken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gotterfunken)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/54 "2003-10-21T14:33:27Z")
My first MST3K was “Wild Rebels” (from the second season, when it was still the “Comedy Channel.” BTW, a good episode guide can be found here: [http://www.mst3kinfo.com/episodes/](http://www.mst3kinfo.com/episodes/)). I came across it while channel-surfing, too, back in the summer of '91 (since the original airing was Nov. of 1990, I must have been watching a repeat). I probably caught it halfway into the show, but was so fascinated with it that I decided that I’d watch every week. From then on, I set aside every Saturday evening from 6-8pm to watch it. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/55 "2003-10-21T14:50:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SolGrundy \* > **Now I’ve just got to stop quoting the show at random in everyday conversation…** When watching a “normal” movie that seems to stop dead–black screen, or desolate landscape; no characters, no dialog–just say in a querying, timorous voice: “he-- hello?? movie??” ---
**Author:** ![Gotterfunken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@Gotterfunken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gotterfunken)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/56 "2003-10-21T14:52:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rabid Child \* > \*\*“It STINKS!” > > And you have to love that character in the recording studio wearing the “I Am a Virgin” t-shirt. “Good? They’re the BEST!” > \*\* The best part was when they did the host segment with Joel and the bots performing that scene, and TV’s Frank was wearing the “virgin” shirt. One of my favorite host segments was the [“Patrick Swayze Christmas”](http://www.d.umn.edu/~molson2/mst3k/patsxmas.html) song (inspired by “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians”). For several Christmases thereafter, my brother and I would remember the show by reciting the lyrics (if not by actually watching his videotape of that particular show). ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/57 "2003-10-21T15:17:41Z")
I’m a Joelist. Mike’s okay though. I think the hardest I ever laughed at MST3K was during the Failure song from _The Day The Earth Froze_. “Are you with the Bride… or the _FAILURE?_” ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/58 "2003-10-21T15:26:13Z")
Another one that you still see on Sci-Fi is “Track of the Moon Beast,” which has that incredibly absurd scene where they try to scare the hero with some incan ceremonial mask but he’s such a lame actor he just kind of looks around. Then the woman is so apologetic you’d think she ran over his dog. I think it’s that episode with the hilarious host segment on The Band That Played California Lady. –Cliffy P.S. IT’S SODIUM!!! ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/59 "2003-10-21T16:16:11Z")
The first MST3K I ever saw was the _The Thing That Couldn’t Die_. I knew I was a fan when I literally hyperventilated from laughing. “Thank you, chastity amulet!” ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/60 "2003-10-21T17:01:35Z")
My first experience was _Sidehackers_. I was hooked forever. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478.md?page=4)