# What is "MST3King"??? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 15, 2002, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-mst3king/142905 "2002-12-15T16:40:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-mst3king/142905/21 "2002-12-16T17:35:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Philster \* > \*\*The worst is sitting in a room with someone who doesn’t ‘get it’. \*\* I suspect the guy who doesn’t ‘get it’ thinks the worst is sitting in a room with someone who does. I like some MST3Ks but the majority of the ones I’ve seen aren’t as side-splitting hilarious as a lot of the fans think they are. A friend of mine sent me loads of videotapes filled with MST3Ks, and after I watched several duds, I asked, somewhere (I don’t think it was on here) which ones were worth watching. The answer I got was “all of them”. I chose “no more” and have been re-using the tapes. To get back to the OP in a way, I also kind of resent what the show has done to [a large portion of the movie viewing audience](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=111313), especially the geek portion. I realize that the show has no control over how goofballs react, but I still don’t like it. ---
**Author:** ![tramp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@tramp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tramp)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-mst3king/142905/22 "2002-12-16T17:49:42Z")
How much Keefe is in this movie anyway? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-mst3king/142905/23 "2002-12-16T18:04:19Z")
People actually do that in the theatre? That’s nuts! I thought MST3King was writing your own episode and posting it on the Internet! ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-mst3king/142905/24 "2002-12-16T18:23:44Z")
What’s insanely fun, at least in my little corner of reality, is MiSTing nature programs - making the animals say stuff. Like watching a killer whale do a serious number on a seal, tossing him around like a five-hundred pound football… and make the seal say “Wheeeeeeeee!” Best of all, I don’t even need an audience to get laughs. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-mst3king/142905/25 "2002-12-16T18:27:10Z")
How much Keefe? _Miiiiiiiiiiiiles_ o’ keefe. My favorite MST3K bit was the segment they did after the short _Catching Trouble_, which is a horrible little movie about a supposed wildlife expert who goes out and torments innocent animals in the name of science. My group was bellowing in outrage as we watched this dude trying to whack a bear cub out of a tree with a stick, or whatever it was. Joel and the bots are expressing similar sentiments, and apologizing on behalf of humanity. Then they come out for the host sequence, which involves putting an action figure representing the wildlife expert into a canvas sack and pounding him with a mallet, or other similar abuse. My group just _howled_ with laughter, screaming, whistling, falling off the couch, rolling on the floor. A couple of people had to run to the bathroom before it was over lest they piss themselves. Oh, and Crowe’s “waffles” schtick was pretty funny. My brother and I still occasionally bring it up. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-mst3king/142905/26 "2002-12-16T19:21:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Philster \* > \*\*Sorry for the extra post: Anyone know the Gamara theme…the unofficial MST3K Gamara theme? \*\* You mean: Hirohito Gamara, Hirohito Gamara? and Gamara is really neat Gamara is turtle meat We all love you, GA-MA-RAAAAA! ? I like MST3k. Heehee. Patrick Swayze Christmas is the best Christmas carol EVAR. ---
**Author:** ![Kwyjibo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@Kwyjibo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kwyjibo)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-mst3king/142905/27 "2002-12-16T19:26:38Z")
Gamara? Patrick Swayze Christmas?? **Stamps feet** \*\*STOP HAVING FUN WITHOUT ME!!! \*\* :: pout :: ---
**Author:** ![saraphin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@saraphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saraphin)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-mst3king/142905/28 "2002-12-16T19:51:25Z")
When I was a wee lass, my uncle would take me, along with his friends, to films at his University. One time, we went to “Godzilla vs King Kong”, and they riffed it the entire time. Ever since, I’ve had an appreciation for what I consider to be doubling the entertainment value of a film or tv show by clever comentary. When I first saw MST3K back in 1990 (Comedy Central, “Robotman vs Aztec Mummy”), I was absolutely hooked. But living in Canada (like the OP’er), it was impossible to get my hands on the tapes. That was before the www and Rhino. And without MST3k, I never would have found out about the genius that is Colman Francis, or knew what a sidehack was, or have been entranced by the haunting Torgo theme. A funny thing; I went to an IMAX showing of MST3K: The Movie in Winnipeg, MB (and everyone there was a fan, there’s so few Canadian fans: I’ve been explaining to my fellow countrymen this show for over a decade), and the entire audience was making riffs to top the riffs onscreen! ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-mst3king/142905/29 "2002-12-16T23:31:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by saraphin \* > \*\*A funny thing; I went to an IMAX showing of MST3K: The Movie in Winnipeg, MB (and everyone there was a fan, there’s so few Canadian fans: I’ve been explaining to my fellow countrymen this show for over a decade), and the entire audience was making riffs to top the riffs onscreen! \*\* Unfortunately, this may have been partly because Grammercy Pictures, the prople that produced _MST3K: The Movie_, insisted that Best Brains take many of the riffs **out** of the movie. This was done because (A) Grammercy wanted more time for the laughter to die down between the jokes, and (B) Grammercy’s test audience consisted of drooling idiots who didn’t “get” most of the jokes, thereby requiring the existing jokes to be dumbed down. ---
**Author:** ![alexandria2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@alexandria2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alexandria2000)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-mst3king/142905/30 "2002-12-16T23:32:14Z")
Favorite line EVER, although it was in awful taste. From Rocketship X-M, my favorite MSTing ever. Shortly after the main characters have passed out from the increase in gravity (???) in the rocketship and are all lying on the floor as if dead… Tom Servo: All right, who made the Kool-Aid? Particularly hysterical because I had just begun college in Jim Jones’s Indiana hometown, and there were many allusions to him during quite a few of the Orientation Week skits. And then of course the “Ho-ho, HO.” line in Space Mutiny… -snickering still A2K ---
**Author:** ![Vanyel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Vanyel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vanyel)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-mst3king/142905/31 "2002-12-17T02:55:17Z")
mmm, this is some good Kppl-Aid! ---
**Author:** ![Vanyel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Vanyel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vanyel)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-mst3king/142905/32 "2002-12-17T02:57:53Z")
so good, in fact, that I can’t hit the right keys when typing… [Joel] MMM, that’s good booze!! [/Joel] ---
**Author:** ![ILENSER](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/977dab/32.png) [@ILENSER](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ILENSER)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-mst3king/142905/33 "2002-12-17T03:22:50Z")
My My Mitchell ! ---
**Author:** ![Vanyel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Vanyel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vanyel)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-mst3king/142905/34 "2002-12-17T03:31:02Z")
\ So, eight 5¼ floppies hold the keys to time travel? (821 - Time Chasers) ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-mst3king/142905/35 "2002-12-17T03:37:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Skeezix \* > \*\*My question was actually, “is it Rhino that’s doing this, or some other distributor?” \*\* Yeah, it’s Rhino. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-mst3king/142905/36 "2002-12-17T03:39:03Z")
[from _Teenagers from Outer Space_]: SCENE: The bad guy alien points his zapper ray at somebody in a swimming pool and fires. The water suddenly turns into boiling bubbles, and the person who was swimming is now only a skeleton sinking back into the water. TOM: “Wow, too much chlorine?” CROW: “Another Jenny Craig success story!” ---
**Author:** ![Vanyel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Vanyel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vanyel)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-mst3king/142905/37 "2002-12-17T03:52:33Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by jenex \* > SPACE MUTINY: “Big McLarhuge.”_\* [27:30]\ Slab Bulkhead! [36:26]\ Fridge Largemeat! \ Punt Speedchunk! \ Butch Deadlift! [38:56]\ Bold Bigflank! \ Splint Chesthair! [45:30]\ Flint Ironstag! \ Bolt Vanderhuge! [45:51]\ Thick McRunfast! [48:33]\ We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese! [49:07]\ Buff Drinklots! [54:50]\ Trunk Slamchest! \ Fist Rockbone! \ Stump Beefknob! \ Smash Lampjaw! [57:39]\ Punch Rockgroin! [57:51]\ Buck Plankchest! \ Stump Chunkman! \ Dirk Hardpec! \ Rip Steakface! \ Slate Slabrock! \ Crud Bonemeal! [58:08]\ Brick Hardmeat! [59:53]\ Whip Slabcheek! \ Punch Sideiron! \ Gristle McThornbody! [1:00:41]\ Slake Fistcrunch! \ Buff Hardback! \ Bob Johnson!..oh, wait [1:02:02]\ Blast Thickneck! \ Crunch Buttsteak! \ Slab Squatthrust! [1:02:22]\ Rawhide…Rawhide [1:02:45]\ Lump Beefbroth! [1:08:00]\ Touch Rustrod! \ Reef Blastbody! [1:08:24]\ Big McLargehuge! [1:11:22]\ Smoke Manmuscle! [1:13:08]\ Beat Punchbeef! [1:13:57]\ Hack Blowfist! [1:19:32]\ Roll Fizzlebeef! Huzzah! Total geekage! ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-mst3king/142905/38 "2002-12-17T04:59:56Z")
BTW, addressing the OP, this term is also used to refer to people who apply the treatment to any other medium, including the written word. You can find many websites out there, especially ones affiliated with the MST3K Usenet news groups, that collect these efforts (which include bad fanfic and spam). Oh, and by the way: PAUL: You’re a hustler. TOM SERVO (as Natalie): No, I vas **een** Hustler. ---
**Author:** ![Vanyel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Vanyel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vanyel)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-mst3king/142905/39 "2002-12-17T05:02:24Z")
\ A waarwilf? ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-mst3king/142905/40 "2002-12-17T06:16:58Z")
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