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For me, Its probably "Track of the moonbeast". Mike and the bots do a masterfull job of chainsawing this movie apart! Other faves include "Touch of Satan" and "Time chasers"

So much to choose from...
GORGO, THE CREEPING TERROR, THE BEGINNING OF THE END, GODZILLA VS. THE SEA MONSTER, GODZILLA VS. MEGALON, MIGHTY JACK, THE DEADLY MANTIS, THE BLACK SCORPION...
How does one choose?
Why, the Hercules flicks alone are a genre unto them selves! Pizza,pizza!

MANOS (of course), THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE, SANTA CLAUS v. THE MARTIANS and THE WILD WORLD OF BATWOMAN stand out in my mind.  I also have a fondness for CATALINA CAPER and I ACCUSE MY PARENTS, because I like it when they tackle non-horror/sci-fi stuff.

I think the funniest thing they ever did, without question, was the MR. B-NATURAL short from episode 319 (WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST).   

Personal favs: Mitchell, Riding With Death, Space Mutiny, The Incredible Melting Man, and Giant Spider Invasion

That's a tough question, but I think I'll have to go with Pod People.

"Little winged potatoes"

My kinda thread!

Since I own ALL of 'em, I can honestly say my faves are:

Attack of the the Eye Creatures
The Beast of Yucca Flats
Being from Another Planet
City on Fire
The Creeping Terror
Danger!! Death Ray
The Dead Talk back
Eegah
Future War
Gamera Vs. Guiron
Gamera Vs. Zigra
Godzilla Vs. Megalon
Hercules Against the Moon Men
* Humanoid Woman
Invasion of the Neptune Men
Manos: The Hands Of Fate
Monster a Go-Go
Operation Double 007
Pod People
Prince of Space
The Puma Man
Red Zone Cuba
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
The Skydivers
Space Mutiny
Superdome
Time of the Apes
Track of the Moon Beast

...see?  I told you this was my kind of thread!

* = This was my very first Season Zero (aka: KTMA) episode and, nostalgically, watch it just to feel the vibe of on-the-spot riffing that all of Season Zero seemed to emanate.  Besides, deride it if you will, but I like it.   :twirl:

Do you prefer Mike or Joel Episodes? Personally, I prefer Mike Nelson over Joel any day, of course I am sure I will get shouted down..

Not at all ELO, I'm a supporter of the Mike camp myself. I prefer his wacky, over-the-top, self-deprecating style as opposed to Joel's desert dry wit and frequent use of movie and TV references that are too obscure for me to pick up on. Joel's great and you can't deny he's the reason the show exists, but I'm sorry to say that sometimes Joel episodes put me to sleep. More than likely, the guy's just too damn smart for stupid ol' me.  :tongueout:

Actually, I like both guys - they both have their good and bad episodes but overall, it's like asking me which of my children I prefer.

I...just can't choose.   :buggedout:

Space Mutiny and Boggy Creek 2:  The Legend Continues are my fave's.  Honorable mention to Prince of Space.

I used to simply hate this show completely, as the stupid comments would frequently obscure the stupid real dialogue of the actual film --
However, someone showed me the Mystery Science version of The Wild World of Batwoman, and I did appreciate the commentary --
However, I'm still p.o'd at them for talking over EEEGAAH!
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In general, I would say that the funny dialogue of a bad film should stand or fall on its own merit. 
I did used to enjoy the LA Connection, whose deal was to substitue their own dialogue for bad films.  Ditto my Dear Friends, The Firesign Theater, and their G-Men stuff, etc.  Dialogue substitution, to me, takes wit -- something I find the whole Mystery Science people lacking in. 
Smart remarks are sort of something one used to do to pass the time in Social Studies in High School -- it's not as if you're actually writing something of merit --
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And would some fan of Mystery Science please tell me what the attraction is in the endless, pointless, interminable "skits", so called, that go on forever before they get to the actual films? 
And the "break" skits??? -- Wherein some painfully unfunny business based upon the film being screened is driven into the dirt?  This brings back my GERD . . .
These things are painful to watch -- Really poor/bad skits . . . something that would not have passed muster on 1947 Television, which would show anything.  Who cares a rat's posterior for who put them in a satellite or why they're being "tortured", or what?? 
This is Captain Kangaroo time, people -- NO, I take that back:  Captain Kangaroo actually can amuse 5-year-olds.  The white-haired whoever-she-is at the beginning of the Mystery Science things is not even as pleasant as drying paint . . . And we get SO MUCH of her!!! Aren't we lucky??
No, I DID try to be polite, but I simply STILL can't abide the driods or crow or whoever these people are.  I'm very happy that they found a way to make a living doing substandard comedy -- Somewhere, some town in Iowa is missing a taxi driver -- but I find little or no joy in them --
peter curmudgeon/denny can't go on . . .

Wow...really? I love the host segments. It gives us a chance to see and hear Mike and the bots without the movie interrupting.

I'm just assuming we all hate Pearl here am i right?



greatwhitedope-  when you say season zero, are those the ones from the original public acces tv show?  those are not commercially available are they?


also-  my favorite non movie skit is definately "peter graves goees to University of Minnesota" 15 act play from begining of the end  :cheers:

P.J. : Fair enough. I can only say it works for me.
Some films can only be improved with riffing. I can see your point about letting bad duologue be its own reward..."Well, Inspector Clay is dead. Murdered. And Somebody is responsable"...but I have fun when a film gets he nuclear scale wedgie it deserves.

For me it would have to be Eegah followed closely by The Brain That Wouldn't Die.  Of course I've only seen these two, so it's an easy choice.   :teddyr:

PRINCE OF SPACE!


"Has anyone seen my record?"

Not "commercially", no.  But...they are available. 

nudge nudge, wink wink

I like Pearl.
My fave skits include the "lets play the practical joke on Mike that they did in "Track of the moonbeast". and "Meeting Servos gandma" on "touch of Satan"

"My baby sun hat and smock will protect me!"

 :teddyr:

I see that Space Mutiny has come up a lot here: that was produced by friends of mine who are blissfully unaware that it has been riffed on MST3K.  :lookingup:

I'm with Peter/Denny on this one. Meddling robots.... :hatred:

Well, most of mine have been covered already (Teenage Caveman for the win!).  Here's a slightly different one, what's everyone's favorite MST3K short, apart from Mr. B Natural of course?  For me, the two circus shorts, Circus on Ice and Here Comes the Circus, are about the funniest twenty minutes ever!

Girl in the gold boots---that movie definately deserved to be riffed!

Speaking of shorts, there's one I just can't place.  I think it's a short exalting the virtues of a home economics education for today's modern woman.  There's a line where the narrator says something along the lines of "What will Susie's dorm room look like?  Will she get along with her new roommates?" and Tom jumps in to add, "Will she smoke thin black cigarettes and reject the tripartite God?"  Karma for anybody remember what the short is, and from which episode.  The line has stuck with me through all these years.

I also dig "THE CREEPING TERROR"


"This is my torso. lalalalala, this is my torso!"

It was terrible.  But it made a good ep.

Re : Shorts...
"No springs!"
and, a Mike era one about chicken farming...no, really!

slightly ot-   but if you enjoy sitting around with your friends making wise cracks at movies a la MST3K I'd highly recommend any of the Christiano brand christian films ( pamela's prayer, senior year), regardless of yuor religious persuasion.  They are so bad and over the top you can like almost HEAR the robots.  it's uncanny.  I've never experienced anything like it. 

warning :the comments tend toward the blasphemous/ scatalogical.

I have to remember titles, oh noes. Let's see.

Soultaker
Squirm
Prince of Space
The Horror of Party Beach
Robot Rumpus
Santa Clause Conquers the Martians
Giant Gila Monster
Gamera
Whatever "Rousdower" is from
Whichver one contains "Big McLarge-Huge" Rips off Battlestar?

Uh... bad memory  :question:

That would The Final Sacrifice my friend, a classic episode.  :thumbup:


And that would be Space Mutiny, another personal classic.  :thumbup: :thumbup:

Oh, easy: The Home Economics Story - it was the short they showed before Viking Women Vs. the Sea Serpent (ep. 317) and it was also on their first "Shorts" collection.

Ilike the short one where they do a Gumby episode.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M4_XZ3FLHw

Thanks, karma awarded!  But, when you say it was on the first Shorts collection, do you mean a different one than the disc called "Shorts Vol. 1" that came in the Volume 2 collection?  (I think I would have noticed if "Home Econ." was there, though I can't check because the Russian movers I hired 'lost' the box with Vols. 2-7 in it :hatred:) .  I always assumed that one was the same as the first "Shorts" that was released on VHS---was the lineup different?

Thanks a bunch, Anubis!. What a great go-cart chase, good times, good times. :smile:

I have the DVD- lemme check.

...

Okay,  I'm back.   :teddyr: 

Yes, it was the first short in the DVD of "Shorts: Volume 1" that was in the Volume 2 collection.  As far as I know, the disc and the tape have the same lineup, Rev.

Thank God for internal genetailia!

Ah, I remember now.  My "Shorts Vol. 1" disc cracked the first tiem I tried to take it out of the package, and I never sent it back for a replacement.  If I'd realized that short I remembered was on there, I would have!  Oh, well, I'll just replace it. 

I have Hired part 2 on one disc.  Anyone know if there's a Hired Part 1, and which disc set it's on?

"Hired Part 1" was on ep. 423, BRIDE OF THE MONSTER.  I don't think the episode was ever released on DVD or made part of a collection.  But, the short appears in MR. B'S LOST SHORTS, part of the Volume 6 collection.

Thanks.  I'll have to look for it.  I wanna get some more of the dvd's.  Only issue I have is they're expensive.

Of course, there are people who sell em cheap, especially eps that are not available commercially...

I have about 90% of the series.
My favorite is probably Ed Wood's "The Sinister Urge".
But my username suggests "The Girl in Lover's Lane".

The MST3k Discussion Board has lead me to THIS board, BTW...

MY faves-santa claus(the mexican movie with lupita)and pumaman
hubby,who also posts here occasionally-ring of terror and manos
best friend,who makes comments i have to post for him-hamlet and fu manchu

fave shorts for all of us-mr.b,of course,circus on ice,design for dreaming,what to do on a date,and once upon a honeymoon

we got lucky when we bought the essentials,i bought it from a guy on ebay who i'd bought from before.he knew we already had manos,so he swapped that disc out for shorts volume 2 ,at no extra cost,and included a bday card for me!

MANOS!

Hmm... that's a toughie for me *ponders* I guess I'm have to go with The Brain That Wouldn't (Couldn't, Didn't, whatever...) Die. I remember the first time I saw it that I laughed so much by the time it was over, my sides hurt. The joke about the armchair literally had me rolling on the floor.

Other faves:
The Incredible Melting Man
Laserblast
Space Mutiny
Bloodlust
The Giant Spider Invasion
The Amazing Colossal Man
The Mole People
Zombie Nightmare
Cave Dwellers
Pod People
Horror At Party Beach
Attack of the Giant Leeches
Devil Doll
Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster
War of the Colossal Beast
Hercules
The Rebel Set
The Dead Talk Back
Hercules Against The Moonmen
The Amazing Transparent Man

Wild World of Batwoman, SkyDivers, and Jack Frost.

Just recently saw "Prince of space". It was ok, not as good as "Track of the moonbeast" though.