# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/141 "2004-07-16T15:03:02Z")
probably not an exact quote, as it’s been years since I’ve seen it, but I love the song they did after the movie said that Gamara is a friend of children. :dubious: Kids love Gamara! Gamara is good to eat! Gamara’s a tasty treat! Gamara is full of meat! You get the idea… ---
**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, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/142 "2004-07-16T15:14:11Z")
> [@Mockingbird](#): > > It’s Shorts Vol 1 I looked at my copy to check… maybe it was dark. :smack: ---
**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, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/143 "2004-07-16T19:05:05Z")
> [@Nonsuch](#): > > 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? “Alice was really going to town on her biology homework…” “Go, Alice, Go!” “Hmmm… let’s see… _Our Bodies, Ourselves_… _The Bell Jar_… oh, here it is! _Ghetto Freaks_!” “This is phlegm… this is mucous.” [after putting testing probes into an iron] “Okay, now cough.” “And taking classes in quantity cookery…” “For quality cookery, try the makery bakery.” “Five-pound potty? She must’ve had a big breakfast!” ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/144 "2004-07-16T21:13:50Z")
> [@](#): > > Gamara is good to eat! > > Gamara’s a tasty treat! > > Gamara is full of meat! Damn its been along time since I’ve seen the show. This damn song is going to be in my head all day. :mad: ---
**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, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/145 "2004-07-16T21:33:58Z")
> [@Rabid Child](#): > > 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!” I loved both of those. “Did little Johnny make a bad choice or is he just pure evil?” ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/146 "2004-07-16T21:52:46Z")
☹ The worst or best episode, depending on your viewpoint was the Japanese monster movies starring Gamera. Forever in my brain resides that ditty which I will place, for mercy’s sake in a spoiler box. Gamera is really neat! He is made of turle meat! :eek: :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/147 "2004-07-16T22:17:00Z")
We can’t forget _Attack of the the Eye Creatures:_ “The night the eye creatures spearheaded their bone-chilling assault on Earth was actually quite a lovely day.” “Smoochers!” “Candy… it would be just… dandy…” ---
**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, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/148 "2004-07-16T22:17:25Z")
From #423 - The Day the Earth Froze comes this exchange between Dr. F and TV’s Frank. Dr. F took all of Frank’s money and invested it in “Unhappy Meals” without getting a buyer first. Frank gets increasingly upset as Dr. F threatens him to calm down and push the button: Dr. F: “Push the button, Frank” TVsF: “No, I want my money back.” Dr. F: “Forceps, Frank! Pain!” TVsF: “I don’t care. I want my money!” Dr. F: “Electroshock, Frank!!” TVsF: “NO! NO!” Dr. F:" PUSH THE BUTTON! PUSH THE BUTTON!!" TVsF: “NO ! NO!” Dr. F: “THE BOX, FRANK!” TVsF (in a kind sweet voice): “Pushing the button!” The short was “Here Comes the Circus” (which features several inexplicable shots of Emmett Kelly eating): Crow: “Heeeeeeeere comes the Devil!” Tom: “Hey, it’s Beezlebub the Clown!” Crow: “Now make way for the Ku Klux Klowns!” Crow: “It’s Ezekiel, the Amish clown. Ha ha, no buttons!” Tom: “Oh no! They’re doing it clown style!!” Tom: “Fellows, this is just wrong.” Joel: “A rogue elephant snaps its tether and kills a Coolie.” Bots: “Oh, now who’s getting dark?” ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/149 "2004-07-16T22:41:56Z")
> [@Fish](#): > > We can’t forget _Attack of the the Eye Creatures_ They just stopped caring. ---
**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, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/150 "2004-07-16T22:47:24Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > They just stopped caring. If for no other reason than the greasy guy in the multi-colored sweater dress. ---
**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, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/151 "2004-07-16T23:45:56Z")
I mentioned this before, but _Overdrawn at the Memory Bank_ has quite a few quotes that I love. Crow: It’s a Raul-ubex Cube! Appolonia: …I felt like I had lost my mind. Crow: Which wasn’t a big loss at the time, but, still, it was pretty annoying. Mike: Days of Mahuba Fruit and Roses. (not even sure of the correct name of the fruit) “Would you like some Pringles, Fingal?” Fingal: Go to work? Crow: But I’m an actor! Plus, the movie’s slam on ant-eaters was bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/152 "2004-07-17T05:54:52Z")
“I didn’t want to bungle or bobble the Fingle dopple.” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/153 "2004-07-17T07:38:40Z")
> [@Rabid Child](#): > > “Would you like some Pringles, Fingal?” Oh lord, that’s right… Aram Fingal… 😛 By the way, my DVDs say “Shorts, Vol. 1” on the front. On the side, where I looked last night, it says “Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection Volume 2.” Hence the confusion - I wrote Volume One at first and then changed it. This could’ve been more clear. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/154 "2004-07-17T13:24:44Z")
I’ve seen 7 episodes so far, 3 because of the thread, 2 I got before I started it and 1 that had Dinosaur in the title and had to be downloaded). All the suggestions are making my decisions so much easier about what to waste my precious precious gigs on. 😉 I have to say so far that the best movie I’d see without the MST3K treatment, heck the only one, is _King Dinosaur_. The jokes write themselves! From the inappropriate stock footage to the Tyrannosaurus Rex that is actually an Iguana with a fin glued on to the inexplicable decision to nuke the planet to the hilariously over the top 50’s style sexism… it’s just too unintentionally funny! ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/155 "2004-07-17T17:36:38Z")
I originally saw **Overdrawn at the Memory Bank** in 1983 when I was home sick with the flu and couldn’t get to sleep. I remembered being VERY bored by it back then and only watching it because there was nothing on and I was too weak to hold a book. Had it not been for the fact that I had already counted the ceiling tiles in my bedroom, I’d wouldn’t have watched it. ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/156 "2004-07-20T16:29:30Z")
I watched _Laserblast_ a couple of days ago, and I have to say it may be one of the funniest I’ve seen. I think that honor still goes to _Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell_ - so, so incredibly cheezy. Or maybe it’s _Warrior of the Lost World_, featuring Persis Kambhatta and… uh… the Paper Chase guy. A word of caution, however, for those of you downloading movies from BitTorrent or KaZaA or whatever you use. Things may not always be what they seem. _San Francisco International_ turned out all right, and _Laserblast_ was funny, but I just finished downloading what was supposed to be _Hercules Unchained_… I started closing other applications so I could watch it when, all of a sudden, there was this odd moaning coming from my speakers. It seems instead of Joel and the Bots I have _Bring 'Um [sic] Young #1_. Decidedly cheezy, I’m sure, but I don’t think this one ever got MST3K’d. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![laceroonie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/58956e/32.png) [@laceroonie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/laceroonie)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/157 "2010-09-20T00:48:41Z")
We believe in GAMARA!! ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/158 "2010-09-20T01:27:12Z")
I myself love Devil Doll, the evil ventriloquist dummy story never gets old! (“no ham for you, Hugo, no, nor boloney, nor cotto salami”). Just yesterday I bought a box set of 3 videos - one of MST3K outtakes, Gunslinger, and the infamous Manos: Hands of Fate. For $1. woo-hoo! We still miss that show so much. Saturday mornings have never been the same. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/159 "2010-09-20T03:58:12Z")
My favorite was **Zombie Nightmare** … Not really. But now I want to watch “Overdrawn at the Memory Bank” again. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670/160 "2010-09-20T05:23:18Z")
As much as I love MST there are quite a few I’ve not seen; thanks to this thread I watched **Last Sacrifice** earlier tonight and laughed my ass off. I have a very soft spot for **Cave Dwellers** , as when I watched it with my dad way back when I ended up on the floor laughing so hard I couldn’t breathe at one particular point. It’s a favorite memory of mine. I have no idea why I like **Fire Maidens** as much as I do; the movie itself is boring as hell. They must have just been really on, writing-wise, that week. And the fight in the theater is awesome. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-mst3k-episode/254670.md?page=9)