MST3K...how many fans here on DU?

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

The "crap movie" thread reminded me...

My all time favorite show is MST3K...it was one of Comedy Central's first original programs and is credited for saving the network from becoming another Nick at Nite, rehashing old shows.

I really regret I didn't tape the seasons until after it went to SciFi channel. I have bought a lot of the old episodes sold through Rhino, and taped just about everything during the Mike years.

My absolute favorite..I'd have to say a tossup between Manos and Puma Man. Any other absolute favorites from the DU folks? MKJ

BTW..I have to add this...Al Gore once said that MST3K is his favorite show. (this was trumpeted on the MST3K website for quite a while)

Edited to add the Al Gore info.

[joeybee12]

1. "You're the guy with all the words!" That's from my new favorite MST3000

movie--"The Girl in Gold Boots." It's on their DVD collection #4. About go-go dancers in the 60's in L.A. Need I say more?????????

As for Manos, that movie is so bad I can't even watch the MST3000 wise-cracking version!!!!!!!!!!!

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

4. OMG, I forgot about that one...

That one is hysterical!!! MKJ

[joeybee12]

48. Obviously, if you want a flaming post, just mention MST3000 to these guys!

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

66. LOL, no kidding! At first I was surprised by the response...

But now realize that if one is a fan, one is REALLY a fan. MKJ

[joeybee12]

70. In the past I've been watching an MST3000 movie while posting about

it....people who aren't watching it keep quoting lines from it!!!!

[Chovexani]

5. Go-go dancers are cool!

Ever see the Wild, Wild World of Batwoman? It's got these girls who just break out in go-go dancing for no reason. It's like whenever the movie got slow, the director told them to dance.

Crow also said it was like 5 different movies were put in a blender. :D

[EstimatedProphet]

12. Oh God yes!

That was one of the best ones!
They were channelling some "spirit", and it kept breaking into Chinese for some reason. Weird!

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

16. LOL the "fake" Chinese which was appallingly over the top

MKJ

[Chovexani]

18. It was so freaking racist too

I mean, it was like Americans making fun of what they thought Chinese sounded like. It was so fucked up in that kind of way only cheesy movies from the '50s-'60s could be. Comedy gold.

I liked the recycling of the Mole People too hehe.

[Supply Side Jesus]

2. Download old episodes from

file sharing services. WINMX always has a great selection.

mst3k was probably the funniest show ever made. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall during their writing process.

The hardest one to watch was an odd Japanese crazyass teen rangers meet the Thunderbrids. It was so awful I shut it off.

[Chovexani]

20. Have you been to the Digital Archive Project?

http://mst3k.dapcentral.org/index.php

If you want to download eps it's a much better option than trying to go through WinMX/KazaaLite/etc. It's slightly more complicated and uses eDonkey (so you've got to deal with queues), but it's worth the extra hassle.

BitTorrent is also good for finding MST3k eps. Here's a link to get you started: http://mst3k.booyaka.com/bittorrent_guide.shtml

[EstimatedProphet]

25. Are either of them spyware fronts?

Cuz I just finally got rid of all my spyware...

[Chovexani]

32. Nope, they are totally legit.

Fan run enterprises. I believe DAP actually stops distributing eps once Rhino has released them.

I understand your paranoia though...I just went through hell trying to clean up my sister's computer. :scared:

[Supply Side Jesus]

26. ohhhh, thanks for the heads up!

I've seen those DAP stamps during some of the shows I've DL, always wondered what that was about.

[alvis]

38. Thank You!

I definitely need to get more episodes. I've only got the Sci-Fi Channel episodes, and haven't seen the Comedy Central episodes in years.

:toast:

[Chovexani]

41. You're welcome :)

Keep circulating the tapes...and files. :D

[EstimatedProphet]

42. The digital Archive Project is GREAT!

They have ALL the Tick episodes!
SPOOOOOOOONNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Chovexani]

43. LOL

Another reason I love that site. :)

[frylock]

53. i have about 70 eps burned to disc thanks to mst3kdap

[GiovanniC]

67. I Love That One

That, and the guy with the plane that goes back in time.

[Chovexani]

3. Mitchell!

That's one of my most quoted eps. It's given me one of my favorite riffs ever, "Our hero, ladies and gentlemen".

Horror at Party Beach was another hilarious one. "Eulabelle, you silly Negro!" I use "_____, you silly Negro!" so much with my family that I've gotten people who don't even watch MST3k saying it. :D

The old, really bad kaiju movies, Joe Don Baker movies, and the Steve Reeves Hercules movies are my favorite eps.

[Supply Side Jesus]

7. Dont forget the Master Ninja episodes.

TV show with some slobbering Van Patton, and an old guy who mysteriously loses 50 pounds everytime he dons his face covering head gear.

[Chovexani]

8. Master Ninja theme song!

Wha-wha-wha-wha-whaaa! *makes human beat box sounds*

[tridim]

9. Mitchell makes me sad..

Best last episode ever. Yes, I said last episode even though it actually wasn't. Joel was MST3K.

My my my my Mitchell!

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

14. Right, the Joel vs. Mike controversy..however, the bots made the show

Crow and Tom Servo were the ones who kept things going. MKJ

[Chovexani]

15. Admittedly I FF through the host segments on that

I like Joel and Mike equally. I used to prefer Joel but Mike grew on me, I think they are both funny in different ways. In my case I think I just had to get used to Mike, though I know others like you that don't watch anything with him in it.

I still skip past the host segments in the Mitchell episode though, it's just sad to see Joel go.

Funny ass movie though. "She was gonna end up smelling like beer anyway."

[tridim]

28. It's not that I don't like Mike

After all he was the head writer and played a killer Torgo- "Let ME get yOUR complentary craZY BREad". I didn't watch the post Joel episodes simply because I didn't get the Sci-Fi channel at the time.

[Chovexani]

37. Aw man that sucks.

What a bummer. :( Sci-Fi really jerked the show around, though. They were constantly changing its time slot so it was hard to find. IIRC they also had a rule that they had to riff strictly on sci-fi movies, which meant a lot of cheese classics fell through the cracks, and explains the dearth of shorts in the Sci-Fi channel period.

Sometimes I really hate Sci-Fi channel.

[TlalocW]

47. I recall hearing about the Sci-Fi movie rule

So how did Girl in Gold Boots slide through the cracks?

TlalocW

[Chovexani]

50. No clue.

There were a handful of things that slipped through. The German TV production of Hamlet was another one (I guess you could argue it had some supernatural elements to it, but that's a bit of a stretch).

I like to think they just relaxed it for some things. As crappy as the network generally is, they at least caved in to fan pressure and put their logo on the other side of the screen so it stopped covering up Crow.

[frylock]

54. they were encoded prior to release by rhino

[BlackVelvetElvis]

57. The shorts were like pearls.

I also hope they release Godzilla vs. Megalon soon.
I've never seen it or any of the zilla eps, for that matter.

[No2W2004]

34. "Stop, or I'll have a heart attack!"

Mitchell! is my favorite MST3K

[tridim]

6. Rommel, you magnificent bastard!

I loved him like a brother.. My own mother I didn't like better.
Ohhh Mom-ma.
Number twelve!
He's wearing a Jiffy Pop hat too.

All from my favorite episode, Side Hackers.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

10. What was the movie with the "wild hog callers"

This group from a very deep south university goes into the swampland to find some kind of monster...
The wild hog callers were the fans at the local football game. It's all coming back to me. MKJ

[TlalocW]

19. That one was

Legend of Boggy Swamp II.

TlalocW

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

21. Right!! thanks. We just moved and I haven't unpacked my tapes

yet. I haven't watched them in a while, time to break them out again. MKJ

[Supply Side Jesus]

22. Boggy Creek 2: The Legend Continues.

lmao....if I was from the south, i would be pissed after that movie. And Squirm was equally insulting....funny as hell though.

[EstimatedProphet]

11. Gammera!

Remember the kid who was obsessed with traffic accidents? That kept talking about how bad things are on Earth, and always brought up traffic accidents?

[tridim]

13. He also looked like a Fisher Price toy

Wasn't he named Itchy?

[LunaSea]

17. "my puzzler hurts"

was that from Sidehackers?
or a different biker flick?

[EstimatedProphet]

23. Radar Secret Service!

All these 40's sedans driving around with giant 8' diameter silver globes on top of them.
Cop #1: "We can find them with the radar!"
Cop #2: "I don't believe in radar!"
Joel & bots: "BLASPHEMER! KILL THE HERETIC!"
And then later in the movie, all the cops are out chasing the bad guys, and there's a scene of 20 or so cop cars speeding along the road:
Joel: "Calling all cars-be on the lookout for donuts. Investigate Winchell's"
God I love that one...

[Chovexani]

24. What about the shorts?

Sometimes I think the shorts were their best riffing work. The Cheating one was comedy gold.

"Fortunately, Johnny's mob ties will get him off!"

[Supply Side Jesus]

29. A Date with the Family

That one kilss, it kills!
"Dad feigns eating, drawing Jimmy out and disowns him!"

[Chovexani]

39. I LOVE that one!

"Father I had a feeling today."
"Well, don't, son."

[scarlet_owl]

27. I think I like Mitchell the best.

"It's almost time for Bozo."

[TlalocW]

30. I have seen all but 21 of the episodes

And am currently in various stages of downloading at least 10 more episodes (the people file sharing don't always have them available). Started watching in college. Bought the tapes; taped the Sci-Fi episodes, and then started downloading and burning the episodes onto CDs. If any episodes I've downloaded make it to DVD/VHS, I gladly buy that since the quality will be better.

One of my favorites is from the Sci-Fi episodes - "Jack Frost" which was a Russo-Finnish production of some of their legends in their culture I'm guessing. It concerns a beautiful girl with a wicked step-mother and step-sister and some guy with incredible strength that pisses off a mushroom-wizard who turns his head into that of a bear, and their (pretty girl and strong guy's) whirlwind romance that culminates when Jack Frost (who's in charge of flocking trees with snow in the winter) accidentally kills her until she's awoken with a kiss from the strong guy who has now learned humility. I think I would actually enjoy the film by itself just because it's at least somewhat well put together and interesting, but Mike and the Bots make it that much better.

TlalocW

[tridim]

33. That was "Sampo" right?

It's been awhile since I've looked at my tapes.

[Chovexani]

44. Funny story

There's a brand of TVs called Sampo, and a friend of mine bought one. :silly:

Ok it was also really cheap, but the MST3k thing was the real reason he bought it.

[TlalocW]

46. No, this was different

Sampo was "The Day the Earth Froze" and was a Joel episode. "Jack Frost" was a Sci-Fi episode with Mike.

TlalocW

[Chovexani]

45. Jack Frost was a weird movie.

IIRC it was based on some kind of folktale. I love folktales so I probably could watch it without the riffing, but it was just...odd. I felt stoned after I saw it. :smoke:

[EstimatedProphet]

59. Yeah, that was a good one too

Based on a Russian folk tale. Truly weird.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

31. Ladies and Gentleman the rarely seen male camel toe...

OK, my tapes are packed, this was actually back to back 70's TV pilot episodes with Ben Murphy as a guy who can disappear...with a bizarre appearance by Jim Stafford. Anyway, this line came with a shot of Murphy in verry tight jeans...ROFLMAO! MKJ

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

35. Sidehackers!

Sidehackin' is the thing to do
if you're poor white trash with a low IQ

I also love Manos...

and - what was it? the Beast with a Million Eyes, or something?...

and Catalina Caper, the one with Creepy Girl.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

40. Oh yeah, Tom Servo wrote a song dedicated to Creepy Girl

I also liked his Sodium Chloride song...was that for Swamp Thing? MKJ

[TlalocW]

49. Let's see...

Creepy Girl was from Catalina Caper, which was a Joel episode.

Sodium was from The Horrors of Party Beach which was a Mike episode from the Sci-Fi era.

TlalocW

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

56. Seen them both...

I watched MST3K through the Joel and Mike years. Although, Crow's voice changed. MKJ

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

58. You can find em all on the best MST3K site online

http://www.mst3kinfo.com/

Click on the Ward E link to find lots of lyrics and transcripts of comedy bits.

Gamera is really sweet
He is filled with turtle meat
:D

[TlalocW]

36. Oh, and one of my favorite lines...

Was from the Invention Exchange between Dr. Forrester and Joel for "The Gunslinger" starring Beverly Garland.

"Ah, Joel... Say, do you want to make people's heads explode? Sure we all do!"

TlalocW

[jpgray]

51. Great show. 'This potato's got big ears'

:D

[Chovexani]

52. It stinks!

[frylock]

55. where's the love for rowsdower?

Dear Larry Csonka...

[LynzM]

60. I'm not quite so hardcore

As many here, but I do love to watch it when I get the chance!

"You're petulant" :)

[redstaterebel]

61. My favorite line

I wish I remembered the movie. It had some actor with the last name of Estevez.

"Don't tongue the reaper!"--referring to the grim reaper a woman is about to kiss.

My cheeks hurt for hours after that stupid line.

JK

[PittPoliSci]

62. a friend of mine saw a movie that should've been on there.

called "Trees" same plot as jaws, but instead of a great white shark, a great white pine.

[Caution]

63. Love it. Have a tone of eps on tape

including most of the original eps pre-comedy central

I think my favorite is still Mitchell

[daligirrl]

64. I am a big fan from day one. . .

I was a Joel fan from when he did stand-up. .. the old episodes are definitely the best. . .but Mike did grown on me. My favorite episode is still "Attack of the Giant Leeches".

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

65. Fan here.

:hi:

[bicentennial_baby]

68. I like it very much....bootblacking!

From the wondrous "Prince of Space"...hehe :silly:

[regularguy]

69. "ATTACK of THE EYE CREATURES"

"They're pooh-pooh-ing him to death"!

[RandomKoolzip]

71. Over here!

HUGe MST3k fan with HUGE collection of Comedy Dentral episodes on tape. I think I have evry one except 12 of them. I even have a few season one episodes (no KTMA episodes, though.).

I'd love to trade the CC episodes for some sci-fi channel episodes, seeing as the only ones I have dfrom the sci-fi channel days are the ones that were released on DVD. Can somebody help me out?

Oh, and my favorite MST 3K episode of all time? "The Starfighters."