MST3K is also the best hangover remedy. I remember waking up early after a night of revelry and watching, bleary-eyed, some episode about a monkey clapping cymbals. I remember it had a cat catching on fire and running around which was the funniest thing I’d ever seen. Can’t remember the title of the movie. But my hangover was gone!
Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders starring Ernest Borgnine as a man with a sea turtle up his vest.
Some of my favorite interlude bits…
The “Sidehackers” play-by-play announcing
The Kim Catrall song, “She’s cute, she’s rooty toot toot. I bet she smells like Juicy Fruit…”
And my all time favorite crack-up moment was during an interlude, I think for Hercules, when Joel asked a question about Steve Reeves and Gypsy says, “He’s shiny!”.
Was in a Q&A session with TV’s Frank at a convention in Dallas.
My friend asks “So, what’s the origin of Poopie?”
TV’s Frank : "Well, first you eat something, then…
Brought down the house. Friend felt silly.
“Couldn’t die, or wouldn’t die?”
And I’ll leave you with this from “Master Ninja I”:
“I found myself in Japan after the war with a ticket home and nowhere to go.”
“Why didn’t you go home?”
“I just fell in love with the place. Something about… the tranquility of it.”
“The tranquility of post-war Japan?!?”
Joel: “But if you lower his temperature to absolute zero you’ll start a chain reaction which will end up destroying the Universe as we know it!”
CTR: “Yeah, that’s kind of how we figured it, too.”
[pause]
CTR, TS, and Joel: “Whaaaaaa…!!!” :eek:
That was “Ode to Estelle” from The Magic Sword. It had that memorable bit:
Joel: I’m sure that she seems nice.
But I bet she’s more than twice your age.
And with your love it might not matter–
Tom: But can she control her bladder?
“Idiot control now.
Hideous control now.”
You weren’t that guy on rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc who posted that “MARY JO BLOWS GOATS!!!” thread, were you? :eek:
The first MST3K episode I saw all the way through was none other than Hobgoblins, in a hotel room in Houghton, Michigan (very boring trip, really). I laughed myself sick. 
And I still think that’s one of the best episodes I’ve seen.
As far as the Joel/Mike thing goes, I think people invariably prefer the one they saw first. Feel free to prove me wrong, though.
Oh, and since people have invoked shorts, my personal favorite is the truly demented “A Case of Spring Fever,” featuring the terrifying imp Coily the Spring Sprite.
“You’ll be the first to die!”
Those shorts were priceless!
Paraphrase ahead: “It’s spelled Skiing but it’s pronouced Sheeing!” “Oh yeah? Well,you’re full of skit!”
:eek:
NO! I mean, I don’t especially like her, but I don’t not like her THAT much!
Industrial Arts!
I think my favorite short was “A Date With Your Family”, an instructional film which repeatedly cautions against showing any emotion in front of your loved ones… ever. That, and the accompanying movie, Invasion USA (in which the US is overrun by Russian Commies because, I kid you not, the Pentagon can’t get any factories to accept military contracts) gave a really disturbing picture of America in the 1950’s.
The last season was CLASSIC. Especially when they did a second Joe Don Baker movie, Final Justice. After Mitchell, it was pretty much confirmed that Baker hated them and wants to kick their asses. So they REALLY did a number on him in this one. It was hysterical. They were SO MEAN!!!
Especially the song that Crow and Tom sing to the end credits.
Then the Merlin one, “Rock and roll martian!”
And then there was The Girl in Gold Boots, with Brain Guy dancing around in a gold mini dress and boots, and when Crow was dancing and stripping and Servo was throwing money at him!
BTW, am I the only one who has huge crush on both Mike and Joel?
I’m watching Boggy Creek right now.
I couldn’t say what my first MST was. I never saw it, because I never had cable, but my roommate has a bunch of them on tape and DVD, and I gradually started watching bits and pieces, and then longer stretches, and then whole movies, as I gradually became hooked.
“How much Keefe is in this movie?” “Miles O’Keefe!”
“Joe Don Baker is Mittens! He’s a cop.”
I liked the trip to Uncle Jim’s dairy farm short.
Boggy Creek!!! That was another good one! Especially because Sci-Fi forgot to totally muff the word “Shit” when the bearded guy swears!
“Oh no, the South is gonna do it again!”
My favorite part was when the greasy thug suddenly appears in the booth in the diner.
Nah, man…The Home Economics Story.
“Kay thought that she would enjoy that…”
Joel: Kay was wrong!
The best part of that, of course, is when someone - I think Joel - says, as someone comes down the stairs, “Oh, hello, Opal!”
I liked the Chevy salesman instructional movies from the 30s.