# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![ChaosGod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@ChaosGod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChaosGod)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/141 "2003-10-27T03:35:26Z")
Hi there, I’ve only had the opportunity to see half of just one episode. Laughed for a month. My cable stopped showing it since then. It just kills me to see you guys quoting the show, while all I can do is envy you lucky bastards. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/142 "2003-10-27T05:09:57Z")
Time for more envy: Never saw the episode, but in a promo there was a scene were some soldiers in a Godzila/Gamera kind of movie are with weapons around a device: one of them tells the operator of the device: “Set it on ‘Nuclear’, that way it will destroy the whole base!” Crow: Oh great, what was it on before? ‘Defrost’? While checking for that quote, (could not find the movie) I also found this exchange somewhere in IMDB, I almost died laughing when I read it: “Mike Nelson: Hi, folks. Mike Nelson here. Crow and Servo are about to help me with the annual Satellite of Love safety check. You guys ready? Crow: Roger. Tom Servo: Ramjet. Mike Nelson: Fire extinguisher? Tom Servo: Empty. Crow: Shot it off in your face. Next. Mike Nelson: Okay. Flare gun? Tom Servo: Did it. Crow: Shot it off in your face. Next. Mike Nelson: First aid kit? Tom Servo: Used it to treat your flare burns. Mike Nelson: Right. Parachute? Crow: Gym class. Mike Nelson: Life vest? Tom Servo: Faulty. Mike Nelson: Ham radio? Crow: Mistook it for an actual ham. Mike Nelson: There, the Satellite of Love is completely unsafe. Hey, does anything work? Tom Servo: Yeah, the toaster over. We used it to bake the ham radio. Mmmm. Mike Nelson: Oh, OK, well then. We’re dead. We’ll be right back Crow: Come on, Mike, we’re gonna go stick our heads in the towel dispenser. Tom Servo: Weeee!” ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/143 "2003-10-27T07:15:25Z")
Watching _Pod People_ again made me realize how much I missed Joel’s interacting with the screen. Like when the “Huzzah!” guy (“This guy has ‘Renaissance Fair’ written all over him!”) bent down behind the white-haired guy and Joel leans up like he’s going to push the white-haired guy over…cracks me up every time. ---
**Author:** ![Adamcomic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/977dab/32.png) [@Adamcomic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adamcomic)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/144 "2003-10-27T09:13:41Z")
Aside from the fact that I’ll never again experience joy in my life, I don’t think Red Zone Cuba had any negative effect on me at all. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/145 "2003-10-27T12:02:05Z")
A) My first episode was Joel’s last, which made a weird introduction to the show. B) Mike and Joel are both great, but early Joel is iffy as is mid-Mike (end of season 6 and most of season 7…but that was when Comedy Central was screwing with the show, IIRC) C) The funniest single laugh so hard it hurts, pee-my-pants, can’t breath funny moment was during the short Circus On Ice–the dance number that **Odin** mentioned is either followed or preceeded by an “ice ballet” of “Evening of A Murder Of A Faun” (or somesuch) and the dancer pantomimes being gutshot. “She’s been gutshot” intones Tom “The meat will not be good.” She then sort-of stumbles and Crow says “Eew. She just skated over her own intestines.” Bwah-ha-ha! 😃 D) The funniest episodes (to me) tend to be the Teensploitation movies: Girl’s Town, I Accuse My Parents, The Wild Rebels and the ever classic The Girl In Lover’s Lane, to name just a few. The next best “group” of episodes are those bizarre Finnish (?) fantasy movies “The Day The Earth Froze”, etc. The horror and science fiction ones can be good or bad, but the teensploitation and Russian(?) fantasy movies are almost always good. E) Anyone have a vote for worst post-season 3 episode? (Because season 2 back, they’re still learning). For me, it’s “The Wild World of Batwoman”. The movie is so bad that I’ve never made it all the way through an episode. Fenris ---
**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 27, 2003, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/146 "2003-10-27T14:40:01Z")
I liked during _The Girl in Gold Boots_, when Mike picked up the pool cue from the floor and started “playing” with the pool table on the screen. “Uh, Mike, how long have you been saving that sight gag?” “Oh, seven years.” ---
**Author:** ![Adamcomic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/977dab/32.png) [@Adamcomic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adamcomic)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/147 "2003-10-28T12:52:44Z")
So, any nominations for current movies to get the MSTified? I would vote for Pirates of the Caribbean. ---
**Author:** ![tramp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@tramp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tramp)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/148 "2003-10-28T14:42:40Z")
They laughed at me when I accused my parents, looooooooooooooooooooooooooook who’s laughing now ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/149 "2003-10-28T14:46:06Z")
In the grand tradition of “keep on circulating the tapes” is there anyone out there who I could pay to dub me some tapes? Not the ones that have been released, obviously, but the vast majority haven’t, and the Sci Fi channel only reruns the ones that ran originally on the Sci Fi channel… _sniff_ ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/150 "2003-10-28T15:36:33Z")
Opal, you could try this guy: [http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Rampart/6658/list.html](http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Rampart/6658/list.html) and I’m sure there are dozens of other tape trader web sites. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/151 "2003-10-28T19:50:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GIGObuster \* > \*\*Time for more envy: > > Never saw the episode, but in a promo there was a scene were some soldiers in a Godzila/Gamera kind of movie are with weapons around a device: one of them tells the operator of the device: > > “Set it on ‘Nuclear’, that way it will destroy the whole base!” > Crow: Oh great, what was it on before? ‘Defrost’? > > \*\* That’s from Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster, IIRC. I have it both in normal form and MSTied. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/152 "2003-10-29T02:27:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*Mmmmm…Mike Nelson…(drooling) > > He writes for TV Guide sometimes. I also have his first book, _Mike Nelson’s Movie Megacheese_. I have to get _Mind over Matter_. > > And I think Kevin Murphy has a book out too. \*\* Mike Nelson also has _Death Rat!_, a novel, which I bought but haven’t read yet. Kevin Murphy wrote _A Year at the Movies_, where he watched at least one movie (at a screening, not at home) every day for an entire year and then wrote about the experience. You probably want to check out the Ironminds website if you haven’t seen it already. There are articles by [Mike Nelson](http://www.ironminds.com/ironminds/issues/000207/dreams.shtml), [Mary Jo Pehl](http://www.ironminds.com/ironminds/issues/000817/dreams.shtml), and [Kevin Murphy](http://www.ironminds.com/ironminds/issues/000224/whimsy.shtml) that are old but very funny. “Crossing Bridges” by Mary Jo Pehl in particular. And there’s a lot more up-to-date info as to what’s going on with the cast at the [Sattelite News](http://www.mst3kinfo.com/) website. “Excuse me, sexless man-woman!” ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/153 "2003-10-29T05:36:50Z")
You know the movies that are just screaming for the MST3K treatment? Star Wars Episodes I and II. They’re bad, they’re bad sci-fi, and after the teen exploitation flicks, the bad sci-fis gave birth to some of the best MST3K episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/154 "2003-10-29T10:55:26Z")
Hey, does anyone remember which episode had the “Doughy guy” bit? ---
**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 29, 2003, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/155 "2003-10-29T12:26:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fenris \* > \*\*Hey, does anyone remember which episode had the “Doughy guy” bit? \*\* #522 - Teenage Crime Wave ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/156 "2003-10-29T14:10:36Z")
Here’s a question… My girlfriend swears she saw an episode once that made her laugh out loud, but she can’t figure out which one it is. She said she remembers a basement, an atomic explosion, and the line “All my ex’s live in Texas.” We watched “The Atomic Brain” and that wasn’t it. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Adamcomic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/977dab/32.png) [@Adamcomic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adamcomic)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/157 "2003-11-01T21:30:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SanibelMan \* > \*\*Here’s a question… > > My girlfriend swears she saw an episode once that made her laugh out loud, but she can’t figure out which one it is. She said she remembers a basement, an atomic explosion, and the line “All my ex’s live in Texas.” We watched “The Atomic Brain” and that wasn’t it. Any ideas? \*\* Hmmm… Not much to go on, but since you have eliminated one episode, I will watch all the rest and see if we can’t narrow it down a bit. ---
**Author:** ![the\_terminator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@the\_terminator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_terminator)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/158 "2003-11-01T21:59:38Z")
> [@](#): > > In the grand tradition of “keep on circulating the tapes” is there anyone out there who I could pay to dub me some tapes? Not the ones that have been released, obviously, but the vast majority haven’t, and the Sci Fi channel only reruns the ones that ran originally on the Sci Fi channel… _sniff_ You could try [www.mst3kvideos.com](http://www.mst3kvideos.com) . They sell practically every episode that is not already being sold on home video. They even have most of the KTMA episodes. ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/159 "2003-11-02T00:17:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Adamcomic \* > \*\*Hmmm… Not much to go on, but since you have eliminated one episode, I will watch all the rest and see if we can’t narrow it down a bit. \*\* Heh, thanks. I have a large selection of episodes, probably 40 in all, and we’ve watched them all together - it wasn’t any of them, and it isn’t something I can recall or that looks familiar in any of the episode guides. It’s possible that she made it up or was remembering “Atomic Brain,” which DOES involve a mad scientist setting off a nuclear bomb or something in the basement of a house to destroy evidence, but it doesn’t show a nuclear explosion or have the line about ex’s in Texas. Just thought I’d ask in case a better fan than I would know which one it was. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478/160 "2003-11-02T01:22:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SanibelMan \* > \*\*Here’s a question… > > My girlfriend swears she saw an episode once that made her laugh out loud, but she can’t figure out which one it is. She said she remembers a basement, an atomic explosion, and the line “All my ex’s live in Texas.” We watched “The Atomic Brain” and that wasn’t it. Any ideas? \*\* Giant Spider Invasion? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-science-theater-3000/208478.md?page=9)