I just met a girl named Creepy Girl.
Mitchell has a special place in my heart, not just because its one of the best episodes ever, but because I first saw it at the Memorial Union Theater in Madison. Kevin, Mike, and producer Jim Mallon (University of Wisconsin alumni) did a very cool Q&A after the show. They even did a bit on stage with Servo after setting up a curtain.
Madison had a terrible cable system at the time and didn’t have room for Comedy Central, so I didn’t get to see the show much from 92 through 96, but that more than made up for it.
Hot merging action!
Another personal favorite moment from the show, Gypsy’s only joke in the theater: “They’re steam cleaning the horses!”
Soooo. Do you comtemplate suicide on a daily basis and wear super tight Hagar slacks without a shirt?
My first exposure to the show was on syndication on some crappy network that is now off the air. “Hercules and the Captive Women.” I then started watching it on Sci Fi.
I recently discovered the Joel era episode “Master Ninja I.” People call the Mike era harsh? Man, they worked over everyone in the episode from Lee Van Queff’s gut and rodentesque face to Claude Akin’s butt. Actually, that was a complement on Claude’s butt, still, ouch.
More favorite moments of mine:The hang gliding sequence from “Cave Dwellers”: “Now let’s see, he kills and skins a deer, tans and stretches the hide, learns how to weld and extrude aluminum, AND masters flight!” Leech Woman: “Neil…NEIL!!!” Village of the Giants–TOM(reacting to the giant ducks at the dance): “Now, this is just ridiculous! First of all, how did they pay the cover charge?”; MIKE: “Well, they just put it on their bill!” Laserblast–(seeing the burning '55 Chevy) “Hey, I really like the way you painted the flames on your…OHHHHH!” Trivia question: What is the only movie MST did that was nominated for an Academy Award? Aprevious post stated that he never saw an episode he didn’t like. Sadly I can name one (for me, anyhoo): the German TV version of Hamlet. The jokes were kinda lame, and few and far between. I guess it’s hard to riff on Shakespeare. But there was one aspect of it they never even mentioned: one of the dubbed voices was Ricardo Montalban! My kingdom for just one Corinthian leather joke!
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is part of my regular holiday movie watching. I lurve that movie.
Rats – I wish I had some others that I could go and watch right now.
And I liked Joel best too.
The Brute Man: the only episode I can think of where the host (Mike) loses it during the movie; he shakes and laughs uncontrollably during the scene where the crotchety shopkeeper harangues his delivery boy (Piss off! I hope you die!!).
Let us now honor Coleman Francis:
Red Zone Cuba:
“Your everyday annoyances shouldn’t be filmed!”
The Skydivers:
“Whoever edited this must’ve had attention defecit disorder!”
Who is this gentle stranger with pecs like melons and knees of fringe?
Also, it should be noted for posterity that Cave Dwellers was the origin of Crow’s famous line, “I’m HUGE!”
“How much Keefe?”
“MILES o’ Keefe!”
Sorry. I’ll stop now…
A bunch of people from church just watched that episode. When Creepy Girl borrows the jacket from the dorky kid to cover her top and runs behind the rock, Crow says, “He’s between a rock and a hard place.” I almost had some sort of attack.
I’ve never even seen that episode and reading it in these threads makes me laugh.
I agree about the spoilered scene in Ator. I nearly died. Another of my favorites is Jack Frost, a Scandanavian treat. “Look, it’s Bella Abzug!”
Marley23: Jack Frost was Russo-Finnish. And awesome.
CandidGamera: Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell is, in my opinion, one of the best ones I’ve ever seen. When the camera cut to the undead warrior with mysterious goo in his beard and Crow says “Guess what I’ve been doing?” in that sing-song voice, I nearly died.
I love Jack Frost, and Mitchell. They are my favorite episodes, along with The Crawling Hand. Although, my favorites seem to rotate with time.
My favorite musical bit is when Joel, Crow, Tom Servo, and Gypsy recreate “Are You Happy In Your Work” from I Accuse My Parents. I was rolling! The expressions… just thinking about it makes me laugh. They did it perfectly.
Oh, and the nanobots were toooooo cute! 
I adore MST3K.
I think my favourite might be The Horror of Party Beach.
It contains:
- A monster who looks like he has a pack of hot dogs hanging out of his mouth
- Girls who look and sound way older than they are supposed to be, one of whom appears dubbed
- Lots of people dancing badly in bathingsuits
- During a very choreographed fight: “Pardon me while I toss a gay man at you!”
- singing along with the band in the movie “We lipsynch reee-al bad!”
- A sign says “LOOK POLISH”. They say: “Look Polish?” “Maybe it’s Look! Polish!”
- Later: “They’re coming! Look Polish everyone!”
- SOOOOOOOOOOODIUM!
And the Sodium song at the end. I have a wav of this.
Though I also love Final Sacrifice. (Rowsdower!)
I think **Final Sacrifice ** is one of the very best they’ve done, and when introducing people to the show, I use it or Space Mutiny, because the riffs are so thick and so spot-on.
I haven’t gotten to move on to #1.02 yet, I plan to watch it Saturday, but on an MST3K related note - Michael Bay’s new project, The Island, appears from early reports to be essentially a remake of parts : the clonus horror.
Hehe, this is one of the very first episodes I saw. It had me at, “how much Keefe is in this movie anyway?”
ee cummings wrote it…
“Lyle Wagner’s a total jerk,
Second only to Tommy Kirk.
Could you find it in your heart to love a bot like Me-ee-ee”
Creepy Girl was the bestest best ever. But can anyone remember for me which one had “ow, my spine.” and all the moving people with spine injury cracks? That line has stuck in my head for 12 13 years now.
I can’t believe I forgot to mention the scene in Eegah where the moth flies right into someone’s head. That was the reason I was replying in the first place!
“BONK!”
And I laugh and laugh and choke and die.
Which reminds me of my favorite Gypsy moment. The host segment in “I Accuse My Parents” where she re-enacts the lounge song. Cracks me right up.
Attack of the the Eye People - They just stopped caring
Hired! - hard to believe a short like this was actually made, but the SOL crew hits never to be repeated highs in this
Eegah - suddenly, a Disney type narrator yells out, “Watch out for snakes!” In the movie itself, not a joking rip of it.
Crow and Tom trying to bring Crow’s temp to Absolute Zero. Joel: “But if you do that, molecular motion will come to a halt, causing a chain reaction which will lead to the end of the Universe as we know it!” Crow: “Yeah. That’s kinda how we figured it, too. Hey, wait a minute…!” The visuals were pricelesss.
Marrooned - a highly acclaimed, but slow ass movie that gets ripped to holy hell. These guys really are geniuses of a very high order. Crow as Gregory Peck was a hoot and a half.
Any time Tom Servo gets to sing.
Toxic spill throw pillows from an Invention Exchange. TV’s Frank: “I don’t feel so good.” Dr. Forestor (taunting Frank): “What are you, a big baby? You big baby!”
Gypsy joining them in the movie room and saying: “I don’t get it.”
Crow’s evil spectre friend Timmy.
::nostalgic sigh::