Posted on 12/08/2009 2:17:14 PM PST by WVKayaker
For 10 side-splitting seasons and one feature film, the crew of the Satellite of Love orbited Earth, faced with the arduous assignment of watching and lampooning only the most wretched movies ever made.
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Joel. Debate ends.
The best (and worst) MST3K.
The waffles segments were drawn from the “A Case of Spring Fever” short with Coily the Spring Sprite—a short that wouldn’t air until the end of the 10th season, and led to my personal favorite segment when the bots wonder what life would be like if they didn’t have Mike...as it turns out, nothing really changes.
A close second favorite segment is from “The Starfighters,” a tedious Air Force movie about an F-104 squadron. “Sir Thomas Neville ‘Bullhead’ Servo” and the Servo Academy Men’s Choir Hymn—just a bunch of Servos in pseudo-Air Force uniforms, and Kevin Murphy harmonizing with himself in a hilarious, yet oddly beautiful song! All the lyrics are lyrics from random, mostly flight-related songs. It’s on YouTube, well worth a watch or 10!
MST3K is one of my all-time favorite shows. I have most of the episodes on my computer from the MST3K Digital Archive Project. It’s pretty much all I have to watch here in Afghanistan, so it’s nice to have the variety of insanely bad movies and the myriad jokes associated with them.
Mike. (though Joel was great too.)
BUT, you left out the best episode. SPACE MUTINY!!!!
I have watched that one probably 100 times, and still laugh my a$$ off every time.
SM is followed by Manos (Worst. Movie. Ever.), Eegah, Violent Years (what a horrible way to die), Girl in the Gold Boots (One line makes me fall out of my chair laughing - "Whoop, I'm BACK!"), Hobgoblins, Santa vs. The Martians, Ator, Hercules (any of them), The Day the Earth Froze ("Bring me a SAMPO!"), Outlaw (Oh, it's breasticaboobicle chesticamammicle, areological fun!), etc, etc, I could go on all night...
If you guys haven't seen Space Mutiny, GET IT. It is seriously the best MST3K episode. I barely survived watching it the first time.
Also, if you are interested, Mike and the guys that played Tom and Crow are doing their own thing now called Rifftrax. Check them out at rifftrax.com. I have seen a few of those, and they are still hilarious. They charge like 3-5 bucks for an mp3 of the riff that they do, you just need to sync it up with a dvd. Oh, and these are mostly modern (and usually pretty good) movies. I am watching their riff on Star Trek (the new one) this weekend.
Joel and Trace (Dr. Forester) are doing their own thing, too, but it isn't as good.
Oh, and I am following 4 people on Twitter. One of them is Mike. It was 5 until a few minutes ago. I had to unfollow Adam Savage from Mythbusters. He keeps spouting liberal crap. Seems he is really happy about ACORN investigating itself and finding no illegal activity. Oh, brother...
>>>the Servo Academy Men’s Choir Hymn
A parody of NPR music shows and chorale groups, the song and “chorus” is introduced by Mike. The Chorus, directed by Thomas “Bullhead” Servo, consists of several Servo heads (presumably from his many clones) atop uniformed plastic bodies; Servo’s multitracked voice provides the melody and harmonies. At the end of the sketch, Mike thanks the chorus for their song, only for them to start up a more undignified, slightly naughty song for a finale.
Here’s to the guys and gals who like to fly
Flying so high with some guy in the sky
Sky rockets in flight, afternoon delight!
Captain High at your service
Would you like to fly in my beautiful balloon?
Take these broken wings and learn to fly me to the moon!
Sail on silver bird,
Have you ever heard that bird is the word?
In a big country, dreams stay with you
Come along with me Lucille in my merry Oldsmobile
We are kids for saving Earth
We are fans of Colin Firth
Off we go to yonder blue
We really move our tails for you!
Cross the wide Missouri!
“Ah, fentestic, fentestic, wait, what are you doing? Stop that this instent, I want you out!”
What is the song they start singing at the end? It sounds like some kind of drinking song or something.
Not contrarian at all, I firmly believe the show got REAL funny when Mike took over. I watched “Time of the Apes” a couple of weeks ago, and I was generally underwhelmed by Joel, though a lot of it had to do with the writing style of their jokes. By the time “Mitchell” came around they had refined it a bit, and Mike’s presence really improved their delivery. Plus the host segments were slightly less stream of consciousness as time went on (that was also partially due to SciFi channel in seasons 8-10, and their requirement for their to be some kind of overarching “plot” in each episode’s host segments).
With Trunk Slamchest, Buff Drinklots, Big McLargehuge, Gristle McThornbody, Roll Fizzlebeef, Crud Bonemeal, Bob Johnson...
Not to mention Sting, Debbie Reynolds, and God (aka Captain Santa Claus). And a host of Belareans...
I hadn't seen that one in years, and I've watched it twice in the last week. It is absolutely hilarious! That midget with the obnoxious voice that Crow perfectly imitates, the host segment with the book "Palance on Palance: Believe It or Not!" (ex: "Day 1: missed call; partied all night with that blonde midget fellow"), and of course the musical portion you referenced. Definitely a classic episode!
I will break with most here and say that "Manos" was far too tedious to be the best (worst?) MST3K movie done. If you as the viewer have to slog through it as well, it just isn't fun ("The Screaming Skull" is another, as is "Invasion of the Neptune Men"--pure pain, not a single fun thing about them). That's why I like "Hobgoblins" and "Deathstalker"--ambitiously bad, poorly conceived, terribly executed, insulting, with plenty of fodder for fun skewering. You come away with a feeling that you have watched an AWFUL movie, but you don't feel tired by it at the end.
yes.
The PS3 built-in wireless works great.
>>>What is the song they start singing at the end?
Never been able to make it out either.
>>>Outlaw (Oh, it’s breasticaboobicle chesticamammicle, areological fun!)
Tom: Say, fellas. There sure is a lot of skin in this movie, isn’t there?
Mike: There sure is!
Crow (as Jimmy Durante): Yet, despite all the acres of flesh, in this film I just can’t come up with a word to describes it.
Tom: Well, I can!
Mike: You can?
Tom: Why sure! (singing) It’s breastica-boob-ical, chestica-mamm-ical
Pendular, globular fun!
Mike: Flesh-ical, orbital, mound-ular, scoop-ular?
Tom: Right-o! That’s the one!
Crow: Is it glutial maximal, tush-ital, crack-ular, bun-ular, morning ‘til night?
Tom: Well, you’re abso-to-glandular fanny fantastical
Masta-ca-flesh-ular right!
All: It’s area-logical, auto-erotical, toobular, boob-ular joy!
An expose-ular regional, batch-ular pouch-ular fun for girl and boy!
A latisima-dorsical, hung-like-a-horse-ical, calipa-ligical ball!
Crow: A most bun-ular, fun-ular
Mike: Fruit of the Loom-ular
Crow: French-ical tongue-ular
Tom: Whop-ita boob-ular
Mike: Movie of them alllllllllll!!!!!
All: Hey!!!
Our favorites are, “The Thing That Couldn’t Die”, “The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies” and “Space Mutiny”. Just call me Crush Lampjaw.
We still rent MST3K on Netflix and enjoy them as a family greatly.
Here are the episodes on Hulu.com:
“The Starfighters” Season 6 : Ep. 12
“Secret Agent Super Dragon” Season 5 : Ep. 4
“Monster A-Go-Go” Season 4 : Ep. 21 (The cast voted this one the worst they’d ever seen.)
“The Rebel Set” Season 4 : Ep. 19
“The Giant Gila Monster” Season 4 : Ep. 2
And...
The trailer for MST3K: The Movie
One of the great things about it is that they have old shows that not even TV Land and Nick at Nite run, and you can watch them on your schedule. For example, when I was a kid I loved Adam-12 and Emergency, and I’ve been working my way through all those old episodes.
MST3K never jumped the shark.
Futurama...still kicking Simpson ass. :-)
I’d go with Joel, but...a shark jump? Heck no. MST3K never jumped.
I was lamenting that MST3K Thanksgiving Day marathons are a thing of the past. For a while that was my favorite part of Thanksgiving. Lots of great laughs!
Hobgoblins is great.
I love most of the episodes, it’s hard to pick a favorite. But the singing at the end of ‘Werewolf’ over the credits never fails to make me laugh hysterically. TUSK!
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