I lose it in a different scene: the shot of the spaceship’s bridge, with the throne-like pilot’s chair set by itself in the middle. “Hey…why’d they put the toilet in the middle of the room?”
And the “normal view…NORMAL VIEW…NORMAL VIEWWWW!!!” music.
My personal favorite: “I’d like to thank me for flying Me Airways.”
I occasionally quote that bit spontaneously. It’s just perfectly done.
Whereas whenever something goes wrong in my day-to-day existence, I say “Oh, we can’t have nice things.”
“Hey, is this metal? I’ve got a bet with Joe.”
“NORMAL VIEWWWWW!” also is my favorite part.
But I also liked “Cal, You bitch.”
And
“Here’s something my wife could use around the house” “A man?”
“Industry. Science! Technology.” “Big men, putting screwdrivers into things - turning them, and ad-justing them.”
That reminds me. Was part of the interociter scene cut from the flick? It seems like there’s a discontinuity.
Also, in UHF, Milo the station engineer is building an Interociter when he asks Weird Al to hold the electrodes.
There are a number of trims in TIE to make it fit in the running time they wanted. Part of the interocitor scene may well have been cut.
MST3K 7.01 - Night of the Blood Beast
Shown with Short, Once Upon a Honeymoon.
Just in time for Thanksgiving! The show’s seventh season kicked off with the Turkey Day spectacular, Night of the Blood Beast, with special Thanksgiving-themed host segments. Then, they re-filmed new host segments, and showed that version on all subsequent occasions! The episode debuts the new opening and theme song, adjusted for Frank’s absence. Dr. F’s mom returns. As for the movie, a woefully underfunded NASA-alike recovers the crashed remnants of one of their rockets, and an apparently dead body of thier pilot and friend - and encounters the strangely parrot-like ‘Blood Beast’.
The short is one of the kookiest Mike and the Bots ever did, and must be seen. A guardian angel helps a frustrated songwriter squeeze out a tune so he and his wife can take a Honeymoon.
[Thanksgiving Version]
Intro : Mike and the Bots chat about “the game” and mix sports metaphors. Dr. F is stuck hosting Thanksgiving dinner with a bunch of guests Frank invited last April. Pearl calls Crow ‘Art’, and thoughtfully provides the movie for the experiment. Guests include Jack Perkins, Pitch, and Mr. B Natural. Host Segments : Stuffing vs. Potatoes; Pearl and Crow chat while Jack gushes about Mr. B Natural; Prepping for dinner on the SOL, but Crow’s down in Deep 13 with the others - everyone describes something they’re thankful for. Finale : Tom hates Mincemeat pies; Pearl poisons the guests with Turkey Surprise.
[Regular]
Intro : Crow and Tom taser Mike… Dr. F is forced to give a trombone recital by Pearl, but Crow outdoes him. Host Segments : Mike struggles to compose while Tom and Crow grant Gypsy’s wishes; Dr. F is forced by Pearl to apologize for an unidentified incident; Crow pretends to be pregnant by the Blood Beast to get a slice of that sweet pregnancy sympathy pie. Finale : Crow rants about babies.
Signature Riffs:
<Crow, singing> “Springtime, for Hitler, and Germany…”
<Tom> “Hey, now they get ‘immaculate reception.’”
<Mike, as composer> “What would Liberace do? Oh, I better not do that.”
<Crow> “That’s her ‘come-wither’ look.”
<Mike> “This has been thoroughly Cormanized.”
(regarding a running gag about everyone being named ‘Steve’)
<Crow> “Oh, Steve’s name is Johnny!”
<Tom, as Johnny> “You think I’m Steve, don’t you?!?”
<Crow> “Wow, he’s loaded with shrimp!”
<Steve> “How about a Molotov Cocktail?”
<Mike, as Other Steve> “Well, it’s pretty early.”
MST3K 7.02 - The Brute Man
Shown with Short, The Chicken of Tomorrow.
A depressingly dark film about a man, disfigured in a horrible accident, who stalks and kills those who once brought him pain. As with any Frankenstein analogue, there’s a blind girl who temporarily befriends him. The short is about chickens. And eggs. And how they’re grown.
Yeah. Worth watching for the incredibly hostile, abusive grocery man who berates his delivery boy so drastically that Mike cracks up for a solid minute.
Intro : Tom’s ordering a condo. Pearl has a date, and leaves Crow in charge. Host Segments : Tom’s in an egg; Mike calls his ex to try and arrange an escape; Crow stretches a flimsy premise to the breaking point for a filk song - Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dewey. Finale : Servo’s newfound Landlord duties overwhelm him - Dr. F transforms Pearl’s date into a chicken.
Signature Riffs:
<Crow> “These are your chickens on drugs.”
<Mike> “Eggs are complicated. They should cost, like, $100 each.”
<Crow> “Et tu, Brute Man?”
<Tom> “It’s nice to know Noel Coward’s in charge of the police force.”
<Mike> “C’mon… Creep, or get off the pot!”
(in reference to the repeatedly-used title for the serial killer)
<Mike> “Why didn’t they just call this movie ‘The Creeper’?”
Next : 7.03 - Deathstalker. The first MST I ever saw, and still my favorite.
<Crow> Build your own ATOM STORAGE BOX!
Regarding DVD Collection Vol. 10, which appears to be in doubt: I ordered it from Amazon on Nov 3. Since I took free shipping (dummy), they promised delivery sometime between 11/5 and 11/20. Well, Nov 20 came & went, with no shipping.
Today, I received an e-mail from Amazon, saying that unexpected delays from their supplier will force them to postpone shipment until sometime between Dec 28 and Jan 25. They wanted to make sure that I realized that I wouldn’t get it by christmas, and asked for my approval.
But notice that they didn’t cancel the order…just delayed it.
Interesting. I also have it on order from Amazon, but haven’t gotten an e-mail yet.
This led to one of my favorite MST moments that wasn’t actually something that happened in an MST show.
My last job, we were working overtime, and one of the other guys set up his laptop so we could all watch DVDs while we worked. One night it was MST3K: The Movie. Of the four people in the room, three of us were die-hard Misties, and one had never seen the show before. When the normal view scene came on, us three fans sang out “Normal view!” along with the film. And the one guy who had never seen the show looked at us in absolute terror. The expression on his face was easily as funny as anything I’ve ever seen in an actual MST episode.
I really like the MST movie, though. There’re a lot of great lines.
“The pages aren’t paper. They’re some kind of metal!”
“No, that’s just paper, Cal.”
“Do you boys have any girls up there?”
“No.”
“Are you boys making an Interociter?”
“No!”
“And if your hands were made of metal, that would mean something.”
(I know someone else already quoted that. It deserves to be quoted again.)
Also, one of the bots making crunching noises while Cal walks carefully around the room full of Interociter parts.
Good times. Good times. Glad I got the DVD while it was available.
I only remember two things about “Bloodbeast,” the fact that NASA was reduced to using a dilapidated pickup and the monster jumping into the bushes while the bots yell, “I regret nothing!”
Haven’t seen “Brute Man.”
Which episode had a Lon Cheney flick that ended with a romp through the sewers? Apparently, Cheney played a serial killer who had been executed and re-animated.
You’ll be wanting <a href=“Indestructible Man (1956) - IMDb”>The Indestructible Man.</a>
Ah thanks. Once I knew that, I looked it up in this thread and saw that I had already posted then what I wanted to post here.
Darn.
Last night my husband found the Volume 10 DVDs, so he picked those up and we canceled the delayed Amazon order. Buying them from brick and mortar retailers might be the only way to get them. I just wish I knew why they are being pulled.
Inspired by this thread, I popped MST3K:TM in on Sat night. This scene had me in hysterics…especially as it comes after female lead is struggling with the Mu-tant, and Servo says “c’mon…give your Uncle Scro-tor a hug”. (the mu-tant’s heads are rather testicular in appearance).
MST3K 7.03 - Deathstalker and the Warriors From Hell
As I said, this episode holds a special place in my heart. A beat-up VHS copy was my first exposure to the wonderful world of MST. It’s a cheesy B fantasy movie - third in a series of cheesy B fantasy movies, in fact. Our hero, Deathstalker, encounters evil wizardry and a pair of princesses in a quest for a lost jeweled city. Don’t miss the man in the incredible bat-helmet! Don’t miss the Potato Sketch!
And my God, is this episode hilarious. There’re still a few riffs, referring to specific people, that I don’t get, but pound for pound, this is up there with their best material. I think the frustration of producing the movie really made them jazzed to get back to their little TV show.
Intro : Crow has a technoweave - as well as calf and hinder implants. Demands to be called Escobar. Pearl is ill. The SOL crew screws with Dr. F’s head using a fast food sketch. Host Segments : The Bots throw a ren-fet on the SOL to fleece Mike out of money; The renfest is over, but Mike wants more; Crow reads to Pearl from ‘Love’s Sweet Throbbing Gondola’. Finale : Tom forges a Ring of Power.
Signature Riffs:
<Mike> “What kinda made-up font is this?”
<Tom> “I think they call it ‘Extra Stuff Germanic.’”
<Crow> “A heavy font like this needs to double-brace the ‘H’.”
<Crow> “Looks like his rubberband snapped!”
<Crow> “Mike, were there crackers in the Middle Ages?”
<Tom> “You know, each Warrior from Hell eats six pounds of mosquitos a night…”
<Mike, as DS> “If I knew you, or anything about you, this would be very sad.”
<Mike, as Bat-Man> “Squeak. Squeak.”
<Crow, as DS> “Huzzah! My invisi-blanket.”
<Tom> “Modak, are you talkin to the toilet again?”
<Old Woman> “There’s only one thing a man like that wants.”
<Crow, as Woman> “Sour cream with Chives!”
<Evil Lady, as she tortures Deathstalker> “Don’t change the subject.”
<Crow, as Lady> “It alters the meaning of the sentence.”
<WarriorsFromHell> “Who are you?”
<Deathstalker> “Smelled your food.”
<Crow? as Warrior> “That was the last guy’s name!”
<Mike> “This is one of the most ambitiously bad movies we have ever done.”
<Mike, as Troxartas> “Ohhh, you clever bastard. So the editor’s working with you…”
<Crow> “It was a good idea to film the walkthrough.”
<Tom> “Fight choreography by Moe Howard…”
<Mike, as DS> “Well, I have to say - she was all-righta.”
<Mike> “They need a smug bastard in the next village.”
<Tom> “Never before has an entire medieval city thrown up at the same moment.”
<Mike, reading the credits> “Music by … a total spaz.”
<Crow> “I’d like to shoot everybody in this movie entirely in Mexico.”
I am loving this thread. Every year for the Holidays I hand paint glass ornaments to the warm glow of MST3K. I always play the Santa episodes, but this is such a great way to pick others. I have done some of my best work to some of the world’s worst movies. Gamera, have you tried Rifftrax? How do they compare?