Favorite FReepers...

You just have to remember that the movies they show are really -supposed- to be very, very bad. The enjoyment comes from listening to the brutal jokes made at the expense of the actors, writers, producers, directors, etc. And jeeze...some of the films are really, incredibly bad. Most folks don't even know they exist. For example...

Manos: The Hands of Fate (generally regarded as the worst of the worst)
Robot Monster vs. the Aztec Mummy
The Giant Spider Invasion
The Wild World of Batwoman
The Viking Women and the Sea Serpent
The Killer Shrews
Robot Monster
And so on. :) But then again, sometimes they riff on a not-half-bad flick, like a couple of Godzilla films, Marooned (an Oscar winner), The Deadly Mantis, Beginning of the End, Revenge of the Creature, etc. There are about 25 or 30 eps that have been commercially released by Rhino Home Video. I'd suggest starting off with Beginning of the End, Catalina Caper, and/or The Creeping Terror. If you like them, go to ebay and buy some taped eps that haven't been released commercially, like Killer Shrews, Jungle Goddess, The Lost Continent, Earth vs. the Spider, and Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster (worth it just for the "Godzilla Geneaology Bop") Yes, technically it is illegal to do so. However, Best Brains, inc. (the creators of the show) are fan-friendly. The do realize that the fans are very loyal and have said publicly they will "look the other way" when it comes to selling/trading eps as long as 1) prices are reasonable, and 2) commercially available eps are not copied.

1,361 posted on 04/12/2004 7:14:56 PM PDT by TheBigB ("She undercut the subtle nuance of my wiener joke." - Crow T. Robot)

1,362 posted on 04/12/2004 7:15:40 PM PDT by Jen

I have a Favorite Freeper Friend,
the first one that I met.
Was it just a year ago?
It's gone so fast and yet
I haven't found a single soul
more poignant, kind and and true.
In fact I think He broke the mold
dear Babe,
when He made you!

Ruth-less

1,363 posted on 04/12/2004 7:22:30 PM PDT by b9

1,364 posted on 04/12/2004 7:23:36 PM PDT by Riley

You gave us a huge scare last week Riley! So glad you are OK!!!

1,365 posted on 04/12/2004 7:25:56 PM PDT by Jen

Thank you, girlie painter pal
I'm honored to the core...
Looking forward to the time
I'll get to know you more!

1,366 posted on 04/12/2004 7:28:05 PM PDT by b9

How was your Easter?

1,367 posted on 04/12/2004 7:43:50 PM PDT by Pippin (Each day is a gift from God. ---That's why it's called the PRESENT!)

Spent the day with my mom at her house in AL. Went shopping at the new Super WalMart that just opened in the bigger 'little' town near hers. hahahaha Exciting stuff! ;-)

1,368 posted on 04/12/2004 7:51:14 PM PDT by Jen

Awwwwwww, thanks.

Ditto.
Kiddo.

:)

1,369 posted on 04/12/2004 7:52:07 PM PDT by Jen

1,370 posted on 04/12/2004 7:56:26 PM PDT by Pippin (Each day is a gift from God. ---That's why it's called the PRESENT!)

I'm alright. I've been through this before- I'll be OK.

When I was lying on my back, looking up at the monitors at a surgeon working inside my heart, I am awake and we're discussing...scotch. If you have to have your ticker worked on, there are worse ways to go. :-)

Still have a really large colorful bruise from the cardiac catheter insertion, but I am OK.

1,371 posted on 04/12/2004 8:05:43 PM PDT by Riley

You sweetheart - back in the day, I always wrongly assumed you were a male (same with Sal and Mancini - both broads).

1,372 posted on 04/12/2004 8:07:42 PM PDT by Senator Pardek

To: sweetliberty

LOL!!!

Excellent additions.

redrock

1,373 posted on 04/12/2004 8:10:16 PM PDT by redrock ("One man with courage....makes a majority"---Andrew Jackson)

To: stainlessbanner; TheBigB; 4mycountry; Owl_Eagle

Blast Hardcheese!
Tom Servo: Fridge Largemeat!
Mike: Punt Speedchunk!
Crow: Butch Deadlift!
Mike: Flint Ironstag!
Crow: Bolt Vanderhuge!
Servo: Trunk Slamchest!
Crow: Fist Rockbone!
Mike: Stump Beefknob!
Servo: Smash Lampjaw!
Crow: Punch Rockgroin!
Mike: Buck Plankchest!
Crow: Stump Chunkman!
Servo: Dirk Hardpeck!
Mike: Rip Steakface!
Crow: Slate Slabrock!
Servo: Crud Bonemeal!
Mike: Brick Hardmeat!
Crow: Rip Slagcheek!
Servo: Punch Sideiron!
Mike: Gristle McThornbody!
Crow: Slake Fistcrunch!
Mike: Buff Hardback!
Servo: Bob Johnson! Oh, wait...Lump Beefbroth!
Crow: Touch Rustrod!
Mike: Reef Blastbody!
Big McLargehuge!
Smoke Manmuscle!
Roll Fizzlebeef!"

"Let's crap in our hands and throw it at people! Heh heh... You know, no matter how much you evolve, that's still damn funny."

1,374 posted on 04/12/2004 8:14:25 PM PDT by TomServo ("He's my mentor..he taught me how to truly love a woman..from across the street..through a telescope)

To: trussell; FR_addict; varina davis; Palladin; cherry; Neenah

To the best of the best....& I'm sure to have forgotten so many more.

Alamo Girl said it better than I could. Thank you for sharing your insights and wit and information and joys and frustrations and encouragements!

It is an honor to stand shoulder to shoulder with all of you!

1,375 posted on 04/12/2004 8:16:05 PM PDT by lakey

Isn't he still posting?

1,376 posted on 04/12/2004 8:20:03 PM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them, or they like us?)

Possibly the funniest guy on FR.

Thanks - ya wouldn't know it by all of the Seinfeld wannabees that haunt this joint lately.

1,377 posted on 04/12/2004 8:22:01 PM PDT by Senator Pardek

And you are one of my faves too!

I just *knew* I'd forget some people from my list, and I'm sorry I didn't remember you on there the other night. :(

1,378 posted on 04/12/2004 8:28:25 PM PDT by NYC GOP Chick ("If I could shoot like that, I would still be in the NBA" -- Bill Clinton, circa 1995)

To: TomServo; stainlessbanner; Owl_Eagle; 4mycountry

Tom Servo: What do you think the lesson of the movie was?
Crow: Don't watch it.

Mike Nelson: All right, now watch how a MAN screams in horror.

Tom Servo: You know, beer and porn DO make the shift go faster.

Joel Robinson: "Mitchell". Even his NAME says "Is that a beer?"

Dr. Forrester: Frank, I'm going to start slapping you now and I may never stop.

Crow: "How Do Animals Learn?" Well, as long as they learn to taste good, I don't really care.

Crow: Can we agree that from now on, films have to be made by FILMMAKERS?

Crow: Does just walking through it make you want to kill yourself? Then it's a HIGH SCHOOL.

Tom Servo: If you only see 10,000 movies this year, make sure this isn't one of them.

Tom Servo: Thoughts of sex distracted me and now I have to immolate myself to subdue the buzzing in my head.

Crow: It's hard to be menacing when you're dressed like Maude.

Joel Robinson: Iowa State College... the high school after high school.

Crow: What's the point of a helmet in skydiving, in case you land on your head?

Crow: No fair. You can't flash back to stuff we saw ten seconds ago.

Tom Servo: Emby Mellay? That's not a name, it's a bad Scrabble hand.

Mike Nelson: Wench-jacking was a big problem in the Middle Ages.

Mike Nelson: Man, infants are such babies.

Mike Nelson: In the future, geese will be rocket-powered.

Crow: Thrill as they listen really hard.
Tom Servo: Marvel as they listen even harder.

Crow: Is the first stage of grief pure unbridled joy?

Mike Nelson: Get the holy drippings and make the sacred gravy.

Tom Servo: I see the movie has finally thrown up its hands and said, "I just don't know."

Crow: I want to hurt this movie, but I can never hurt it like it hurt me.

Crow: The only response to this film is pure, unbridled hate.

Mike Nelson: You know, this movie can be used to induce vomiting.

Tom Servo: Ladies and gentlemen, the world's least successful werewolf.

[Tom's dressed as a candy-striper]
Tom Servo: Joel, this nurse's outfit makes me very self-conscious and embarrassed - and yet, I don't seem to mind.

Crow: Ooo. I bet that would taste great with drawn butter. Of course, I'd eat my own HEAD with drawn butter.

Crow: Men should NOT have bikini areas.

[The Horror of Party Beach is finally revealed]
Crow: A creature whose face is 80% eyebag.
Tom Servo: So, radiation has a sense of humor.

Tom Servo: You know, just because you CAN edit doesn't mean you SHOULD.

Tom Servo: Please, God, say "The End."

Crow: The ONLY end, my friend.
Mike Nelson: Ya, and the children are all insane, right?

Crow: They withheld all the interesting people 'till the end of the movie...

Tom Servo: [During the end credits of Hamlet] Hamlet will return in "Thunderball".

Crow: [amused] How many monsters movies end with a janitor scooping the monster into a garbage can.

Tom Servo: Gee, even the movie "The Fog" didn't have this much fog.

Crow: I have my doubts that this movie is actually "starring" anybody. More like "camera is generally pointed at."

Tom Servo: [upon seeing the credit "Brian Hamill - Still Photographer"] I'm glad Brian Hamill's still a photographer. I was afraid he'd be laid off.

Tom Servo: Uh-oh. Hilarity, guys. Not since the pie-fight scene in "The Great Race"...
Crow: Not since the mudslide scene in "McClintock"...
Joel Hodgson: Not since the wagon race scene in "The Hallelujah Trail"...
Crow: Not since the chess-playing scene in "The Seventh Seal"...
Tom Servo: Not since the orgy scene in "Caligula"...
Joel Hodgson: Huh?
Crow: What?
Tom Servo: Um... well, hilarity, anyway.

Crow: You're really stupid if you get hit by a car AFTER the Apocalypse.

Crow: That's it. I'm giving in and looking at the breasts.

Mike Nelson: I think controlling her will might involve a sloe gin and a Corvette.

[On the Malta police]
Mike Nelson: Stop or we'll surrender.

Tom Servo: He always offers me beef.

[Off to the left side of the screen, a car rolls off camera]
Tom Servo: Boy, the car will do anything to get out of the movie.

Mike Nelson: Okay, hold it. Everyone go up a shirt size.

Tom Servo: Well whaddaya know, a random citizen who can kick a werewolf's ass.

Tom Servo: Okay, what are we looking at and why are we looking at it?

Crow: So, the only effect of his complete immolation is... minor irritation and redness?

[The title "The Touch of Satan" appears]
Mike Nelson: The touch of Satan relaxes your hands while you do the dishes.

Crow: It wasn't amnesia I had... it was Ambrosia.
[sings]
Crow: Make a wish, baby...

TV's Frank: Face it, Nelson. Your ratings STINK. Sheesh, you bring in less ratings than reruns of "The Duck Factory."

Model: As easy as A, B, C.
Mike Nelson: She formed a sentence.

Crow: Oh great, the nutty birdman from apartment 4B is going to give us a religious insight.

[Watching Betty the acrobat swinging on a circus-swing]
Tom Servo: Yes, our Betty swings both ways.

Mike Nelson: You know guys, the whole situation, being stuck up here in space, forced to watched cheesy movies, interacting with other life forms... it kinda bites.
Crow: You're starting to catch on, Kimosabe.

[Crow is dressed as Mary Tyler Moore, but Mike "Ted Baxter" Nelson and Tom "Lou Grant" Servo refuse to treat him as Mary Richards]
Crow: [angrily] I can turn the world on with my stinkin' smile.

1,379 posted on 04/12/2004 8:29:23 PM PDT by TheBigB ("She undercut the subtle nuance of my wiener joke." - Crow T. Robot)

You are too kind. Thanks.

1,380 posted on 04/12/2004 8:31:25 PM PDT by Chong (God Bless and Protect our Troops.)

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