# What's the best MST3K episode? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2004, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670 "2004-07-12T05:39:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![ThatDuckIsEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@ThatDuckIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThatDuckIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/121 "2004-07-15T19:06:08Z")
My SO had the following ditty on his answering machine for nearly two years: “Rowzdower, Rowzdower, rowza rowza Rowzdower, bibbity bobbity bowz-dower, sippity soppity sowz-dower, hippity hoppity Rowz…dower.” (beeep!) 🙂 **Final Sacrifice** is the S\*\*T! ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/122 "2004-07-15T20:52:07Z")
> [@ThatDuckIsEvil](#): > > My SO had the following ditty on his answering machine for nearly two years: > > “Rowzdower, Rowzdower, rowza rowza Rowzdower, bibbity bobbity bowz-dower, sippity soppity sowz-dower, hippity hoppity Rowz…dower.” (beeep!) > > 🙂 > > **Final Sacrifice** is the S\*\*T! It certainly is. It _really_ takes off when they meet up with the archaeologist who talks like Yosemite Sam, and Mike & the bots start throwing in “consarn it”, “varmint” and “ah hates that rabbit” at random. Of the 50-odd eps from the SciFi years (where I’m qualified to comment), my faves are: Space Mutiny Prince of Space Final Sacrifice Touch of Satan (this is where the fish lives) Leech Woman (Neil!) parts: the clonus horror (the best part is the end credits, with “James Arness: Ugly and Stupid…next, on Biography”) Werewolf Incredibly Strange…Zombies Giant Spider Invasion (Packers! Woo!) ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/123 "2004-07-15T23:24:47Z")
I would like to nominate _The Giant Gila Monster_ (“I sing whenever I sing whenever I sing…”) _Master Ninja 2_ (“Now I want you to remember… nobody ever wub a wah by dying foh hih cubbady. He won it… by making the other poor dumb babbister die foh hih cubbady.”) _Ee-gah_ (“Watch out for snakes!”) _Home Economics_ (“Here, Jane makes black tar heroin…”) _Circus On Ice_ (“Unshaven, stinky, and boozed up on Rumplemintz, the hunters spray bullets into the woods.”) _Gamera_ (“Here at Exxon, we take the greatest precautions to preserve our fragile ecology.”) _The Human Duplicators_ (“Does she ever greet me the door wearing Saran Wrap and stiletto heels? No!”) _Bride of the Monster_ ("‘Get out of the car, look around. Remember, you’re German.’ _Ach!_ Jes, I’m Cherman. Cherman az I can be, jes.") ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/124 "2004-07-15T23:30:18Z")
Two more excellent episodes I forgot to mention: **Girls’ Town** (excellent nun jokes) **The Day the Earth Froze** ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/125 "2004-07-16T00:28:23Z")
> [@Fish](#): > > _The Giant Gila Monster_ (“I sing whenever I sing whenever I sing…”) Singer: “And the Lord said laugh, children, laugh, the Lord said laugh, children, laugh, the Lord said laugh, children, laugh, the Lord said laugh, laugh, laugh…” Joel: “What I want to know is did the Lord say it this many times?” Crow: “Yeah, that’s why Deuteronomy is so long.” > [@Fish](#): > > _Master Ninja 2_ (“Now I want you to remember… nobody ever wub a wah by dying foh hih cubbady. He won it… by making the other poor dumb babbister die foh hih cubbady.”) Joel-as-Crystal-Bernard: “They VARnished mah house!” Crow-as-Crystal-Bernard: “They disconnected mah cable and hooked up mah stereo wrong!” > [@Fish](#): > > _Home Economics_ (“Here, Jane makes black tar heroin…”) “What are you going to take, Jane?” “I’m going to take Bob for all he’s worth!” _and_ “Oh, hi, Opal!” ---
**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:** [July 16, 2004, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/126 "2004-07-16T00:30:58Z")
How about the “stinger” from Diabolik: “Is that stud…coming?” ---
**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:** [July 16, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/127 "2004-07-16T03:32:29Z")
Or what about the stinger from _Overdrawn at the Memory Bank_? Raul Julia: “M’um…'my nuts?” Does anyone have the CDs? I have the first one that a friend sent me for Xmas one year. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/128 "2004-07-16T05:40:56Z")
Ah, _The Home Economics Story_… My ex-husband’s previous boyfriend went to that college. It was the ONLY MST3K thing we ever watched that he liked and laughed his ass off through. There is a moment where all together Joel and the Bots do an insane girlish laugh which still makes me giggle. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/129 "2004-07-16T06:16:32Z")
I’m going to have to go with: Outlaw of Gor (Toobular boobular joy!) Space Mutiny (“She’s presenting like a Mandrill!” and … railings.) Prince of Space (He’s a wispy bachelor!) Devil Fish (Italian florida) and the Delta Knights (she grew a butt on her chest!) But all of them are fun to watch with the possible exception of “Hamlet” which was just too stinking awful even for the Misties. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/130 "2004-07-16T06:20:58Z")
> [@Mockingbird](#): > > Ah, _The Home Economics Story_… > > My ex-husband’s previous boyfriend went to that college. It was the ONLY MST3K thing we ever watched that he liked and laughed his ass off through. You mean Iowa State College, “The High School After High School?” > [@Mockingbird](#): > > There is a moment where all together Joel and the Bots do an insane girlish laugh which still makes me giggle. “Kay got a real thrill when she dropped her application in the mailbox.” “WHOOEEEEEGGHHGHHHAEEEEEHEEEHEEE!” Narrator: “This assembly was for the girls only…” Bots: “Ohhhhhh…” Male MC: “Your Period and Mine: A Lecture.” > [@Guinistasia](#): > > Does anyone have the CDs? I have the first one that a friend sent me for Xmas one year. CDs? Was ist das? Do you mean the DVDs? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/131 "2004-07-16T06:28:36Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#): > > “Kay got a real thrill when she dropped her application in the mailbox.” > “WHOOEEEEEGGHHGHHHAEEEEEHEEEHEEE!” [The response letter arrives] “Oh shoot, I mailed it to myself!” The Economics short is great. For those who haven’t seen it, it’s on Shorts, Vol. Two. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/132 "2004-07-16T07:00:37Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#): > > You mean Iowa State College, “The High School After High School?” > “Kay got a real thrill when she dropped her application in the mailbox.” > “WHOOEEEEEGGHHGHHHAEEEEEHEEEHEEE!” Yup. And just reading your text of it made me laugh. Time to get out the first box set and watch that one. I need a refresher on making black tar heroin anyways. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/133 "2004-07-16T07:06:33Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > [The response letter arrives] > “Oh shoot, I mailed it to myself!” > > The Economics short is great. For those who haven’t seen it, it’s on Shorts, Vol. Two. It’s Shorts Vol 1 ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/134 "2004-07-16T07:15:59Z")
“She was eating cubes of mesacline jell-o.” ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/135 "2004-07-16T07:22:14Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > I’m going to have to go with: > Devil Fish (Italian florida) Man the coast guard will do anything. Do you think they’ll come to my niece’s birthday party? ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/136 "2004-07-16T07:25:54Z")
“Look, look, look at my crotch!” ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/137 "2004-07-16T07:57:32Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#): > > CDs? Was ist das? Do you mean the DVDs? No, they released two audio CDs of some of the songs and just general host bits they did over the years - obviously tending toward stuff that works in a non-visual sense. They have the Patrick Swayze Christmas song, the Tubular Boobular song (their best song ever, IMHO), the walkathon bit, the Canada song, etc, etc. They used to be for sale on [mst3kinfo.com](http://mst3kinfo.com), but poking around there now, they don’t appear to be selling them any more. Maybe they ran out of stock. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/138 "2004-07-16T10:06:22Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > No, they released two audio CDs of some of the songs and just general host bits they did over the years - obviously tending toward stuff that works in a non-visual sense. They have the Patrick Swayze Christmas song, the Tubular Boobular song (their best song ever, IMHO), the walkathon bit, the Canada song, etc, etc. > > They used to be for sale on [mst3kinfo.com](http://mst3kinfo.com), but poking around there now, they don’t appear to be selling them any more. Maybe they ran out of stock. Clowns In The Sky 1 & 2 [http://www.mst3kinfo.com/satnews/catalog/Basement.htm](http://www.mst3kinfo.com/satnews/catalog/Basement.htm) They’re listed at the bottom of the page. ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/139 "2004-07-16T13:24:30Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > [The response letter arrives] > “Oh shoot, I mailed it to myself!” > > The Economics short is great. For those who haven’t seen it, it’s on Shorts, Vol. Two. The original is available as a [free download](http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=00028a) from the Prelinger archives. It’s several minutes longer than the MST version, which is cool because I’ve seen that one so many times I actually sort of _like_ Kay now. I root for her, and I wonder about her choices. Will she choose to major in Teaching or Institutional Dining? Who would her friends be? Who would her roommate be? What secret societies would she join? Would she smoke thin black cigarettes and reject the triune god? ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/140 "2004-07-16T14:29:03Z")
I also like the “Cheating” short. “There weren’t enough bell towers in the world for Johnny.” Or the “Body Care & Grooming”. “I’m off to my Hitler Youth Meeting!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670.md?page=8)