Brandon writes:
Sure, they may be a low form of comedy, but many of them were clever on the show. Here’s my favorite word pun joke they did on MST3K was from 518- The Atomic Brain, when towards the end of the movie, the scientist looks through a circular-shaped window, and Crow remarks, “In a cameo appearance.”
Patricia also wrote to suggest a thread like this, citing…
Catalina Caper’s “Uh…tanks!” and “He’s in-de-pendant” from Time of the Apes
I’ve noticed a couple in the last few eps I’ve watched for the episode guide updates. In “Kitten with a Whip,” the camera is panning around David’s living room and Tom says he thinks he sees a salad bar. The camera pans over some lattice work and Mike says “…and there’s the LATTICE for the salad bar.”
And in last week’s episode, “Racket Girls,” there’s “Peaches is getting clingy!”
What are your favorites?
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Boggy Creek 2
“Yes, these river bottoms…”
#48
It’s great to see the group BLACK OAK ARKANSAS’S Jim Handy riff was picked up by people. When I heard it I wondered how many people knew about that group, over the years they seemed to have slipped through the cracks. And I remember telling someone that David Lee Roth’s whole look seemed to be a copy of the
B.O.A. lead singer Jim Dandy. All I got was ” Who’s BLACK OAK ARKANSAS??? ” But now thanks to the internet and YOU TUBE people can see footage of the band
at The California Jam doing the song Jim Dandy to the Rescue.
There are so many worth mentioning but here are just a few from Jack Frost since I just watched it.
When the witch’s cat is in front of a web, ‘how do you like my website?’
After Ivan’s transformation into a werebear: Am I unBEARable?
I don’t know if this is technically a pun, but a line in Devilfish has to be mentioned: “We’re having tentacle difficulties”.
Having read Irregular Webcomic I welcome puns no matter how good or bad.
I’m awfully partial to “Where Beagles Dare” from The Painted Hills, but that’s mostly because it reminds me of my own beloved dog.
Nobody has mentioned Tom’s poorly received Catfish Hunter line from Blood Waters of Dr Z.
M&tB re-riffing The Crawling Eye at the end of Danger: Diabolik (in a prophetic scene of RiffTrax’s future ;) ):
“Forrest Tucker, he’s the guy who puts the trees to bed.”
“I’ll see you on the Dark Side of Raul!” – Overdrawn (Plus: “I thought Raul Julia was Puerto Rican – I didn’t know he was Cuban!”
“Oh, so she’s a Ouija broad!” Thing That Wouldn’t Die
“HARM stands for Hot and Ready, Man!”
Warren @53: You reminded me of another great one in “Devil Fish”, when Tom says “That’s so big, it’s an eleventacle!” Cracks me up everytime. And until reading this discussion thread, I didn’t realize just how many puns they had done.
“They’re not dead, just metaphysically challenged”.-The Magic Sword
“I’m tired of the whole sworded affair”.-Ditto
“Everyone evacuate. We already have sir!”-numerous episodes
@ #33: That’s more of a Freudian slip.
Commando Cody Part 6:
Tom: “It’s kinda hypnotic, isn’t it?”
Crow: “Hip? NOT! Ick!”
Robot Monster:
Lame Scientist Guy: “You’re so bossy you oughta be milked before you come home every night!”
Tom: “That’s utterly ridiculous.”
Crow: “Cow can you say that?”
Tom: “Are we gonna milk this line for all it’s worth?”
:)
“Aaaaaand sooo youuuu seeee… wheeeen yoouuuur ouuut oof sliits… yoouuuur ouuut oof piieeer…”
All the bread puns from “Out of This World” and all the eye puns from “Attack of The The Eye Creatures”.
A couple that came to mind, first from THE CRAWLING HAND, as the swedish girl is disrobing behind a rock at the beach.
Crow: “Hey, why is she wearing a codpiece?”
Tom: “Oh, just for the halibut.”
Crow: “Stop it, you’re giving me a haddock!”
Tom: “You’re a pain in the bass!”
Crow: “You’ve got no sole!”
Later, when Paul returns to the beach to collect the hand,
Tom: “Gotta hand it to him.”
Crow: “Really went out on a limb with that one.”
Joel: “Good thing he brought that freezer wrap along.”
Tom: “I don’t think that’s freezer wrap, I think it’s a hand bag!”
Finally, from the “Appreciating Our Parents” short in THE UNEARTHLY:
Narrator: “There was the bed to be made…”
Joel: “And the maid to be bedded.”
“How much Keefe is in this movie, anyway?”
“Miles O’Keefe.”
The brains even groan as they say it…
How about a “Tributary to the Amazon River” from REVENGE OF THE CREATURE.
“How much Keefe is in this movie, anyway?”
“Miles O’Keefe.”
The Phantom Creeps: “What kind of director? Oh, the Goodkind.”
Callypygeus: “Are you enjoying the wine? It’s from Gaul, you know. You might say it’s made from conquered grapes!”
Observer: “Whew. Open a window.”
Terror from the Year 5000
Guy: See for yourself. They’re radiation burns.
Mike: That proves he threw a radiator at me.
Hamlet (during the duel scene)
Crow: So when do they start selling stolen merchandise?
Mike: That’s a different kind of fencing!
Fugitive Alien
Ken: (sees spaceship) Nobody around, but how do I get aboard?
Servo: Go to the lumber yard.
@44 I second that idea! :-D :laugh:
#48
Before they really hit it big, Black Oak Arkansas was doing a gig in my home town, Long Beach Mississippi, in a place called the Lobe Theatre. The theatre was owned by one of my friends family. They were known as “The Black Rainbow” back then.
Captn Ross, you’re right, Jim Handy was the prototype for David Lee Roth. I saw Black Oak in Mobile in 73′, with a triple-bill with Faces (yes, with ROD STEWART as lead singer) and Brownsville Station (Smokin’ In The Boys Room). Jim Handy and Black Oak put on an awesome show, ending with two guitars being smashed together.
Riding w/ Death:
Via Abby – She’s half in the bag.
WEREWOLF
Tom: I don’t know. You had him last.
Crow: You can’t say that. You’re gonna get in trouble. That’s a really stupid joke and I’m gonna tell Mike.
From The Human Duplicators: “It’s the Hunan Duplicators!”
From the Rocky Jones pictures (at least once, though I seem to remember twice)
Rocky: Professor Newton?
Servo: How are the fig cookies coming?
I think this was in the Aztec Mummy movie, after the bad guy gets thrown into the fireplace or something.
Crow: Well, immolation is the sincerest form of flattery!
And speaking of the Aztec Mummy, we must give Joel the punishment he deserves for this one. The villain is named Dr Krupp, after all.
Crow: [The robot] has a coffee maker for a head!
Joel: Krupp’s coffee maker?
Crow: Oh no!
Joel: Sorry.
RE: #76
Oh, I remember now. Later, Rocky is giving orders, I don’t recall what all of them were, but Joel does have a second to slip in, “Professor, you make cookies.”
After the guy riding in the back of the shuttle loses his head in a UFO related accident in Hangar 18, Crow says “He’s an astro-not”.
You guys have taken my favorites from MST episodes, so I’ll share my favorites from the spin-off projects.
From CT: In The Doomsday Machine, the characters are being briefed by a slide show that starts with a picture of a switch, and Josh says, “Oh, there’s a switch!”
And from the Rifftrax of 300: Bill, “THIS! IS! SPART OF A BALANCED BREAKFAST!”
I’m glad to see many people on this forum have learned
the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
“I’ve really got to hand it to you.”
—Tom Servo (last host segment of Secret Agent Super Dragon)
I’m known locally as “the lightning punster” I am fast at constructing a pun at a moment’s notice and doing it for just about anything and I do it frequently. I can’t choose! But my favorite reaction to a pun in the show is from Time Chasers.
Eddie: “Hey, what’d I say about puns??”
Tom: “To to jam them up my…”
Eddie “That’s right!”
Darnit – people already mentioned ‘Carol’s Dad’s Caverns’! I wanted to get that one!
RE: #65
Finally, from the “Appreciating Our Parents” short in THE UNEARTHLY:
Narrator: “There was the bed to be made…”
Joel: “And the maid to be bedded.”
I didn’t remember that one, but Ouch, Joel! Didn’t Fred Allen say that those who make puns should be drawn and quoted?
I’m sure I’m overthinking this, but isn’t “bed to be made, maid to be bedded” more of a spoonerism, as opposed to a straight-up pun?
(and of course, we could degrade the conversation further by mentioning malapropisms, like when my iPad autocorrect tries to turn “overthinking” into “overt honking.”)
Hamlet
Claudius: Forgive me my foul murder.
Crow: It’s just that turkey was mouthing off to me and…
Lost Continent
Sergeant: Is your head clear?
Joel: No, it’s opaque.
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You know, I find this entire thread to be rather PUNishing.
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;-) :-P
Okay, I give up. How is “when you’re out of slits, you’re out of pier” a pun, or play on words of any kind? Be gentle, we don’t have Sven & Ole jokes in NY.
Re: #89
It’s from an old Schlitz Beer commercial: “When you’re out of Schlitz, you’re out of beer.” Still a lousy pun, though – the Brains ought to be ashamed of themselves. :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL7Uvk-RAkI
The song has GOT to be on YouTube somewhere.
The Home Economics Story
“Five pound potty?!? She must have had a big breakfast!”
ewww.
Prince of Space –
“Captain Manicotta!”-
I understand you’re stuffed with cheese!
and
“Professor Tannin!”-
Get out of my wine!
Thanks, Kali. Boy, that is one very Midwestern joke.
A little off topic but now I can’t stop thinking about it: From Stan Freberg’s Lone Ranger parody – the Lone Psychiatrist.
Announcer: The Lone Psychiatrist and his faithful companion press forward into the gathering twilight.
Lone Psychiatrist: Hurry, Pronto! Press forward into the gathering twilight! We have to get to the Wonderland Ranch to help Grandpa Schneider!
Pronto: What we do there?
Lone Psychiatrist: A little psychoanalysis in Wonderland!
Pronto: Ugh, lousy pun!
Of course, to really run it into the ground, his faithful companion should have been named Kimo Therapy. Hi Yo Silver!
I can’t believe I’ve seen Overdrawn at the Memory Bank brought up so many times without a mention of Crow’s “It’s a Raoulbik’s cube!”. Shameful!
I’ve always loved the way Joel delivered puns, even if doing so did make him a hypocrite. He was so innocent about it. It was more like he was just making an observation, totally unaware that it was a pun. And that’s just how he delivers the line after Santa’s elves get freeze-rayed by Martians:
“Oh, he stopped him short.”
@ #86: No, that is a pun. A Spoonerism is where you citch your swonsonants or swotch your viwels.
Oh no! Glen passed a truck on the highway!
No. He passed a truck on the highway! Wulp!
Final Sacrifice: When coming across a graveyard Mike offered “People are dying to get in there”. He was stopped with a stern “NO!” from Servo for going for maybe the most obvious pun ever.
Those cemetery jokes are so old they should be on display at the Natural History Museum, next to My dog has no nose… “Y’know how many people are buried in there? All of ’em! My dad, folks.” I first heard that one from my great-uncle.
Robot Holocaust
Andrew Howarth. Fine Howarth you?
Servo and Crow
DePaula good school. Great basketball team
Servo
Jennifer DeLora. She’s a DeLorean.
Crow
Future War
He’s boxed in. Well, I’m card-bored.
Mike and Crow
Just call me Bruce Box-liker.
Crow