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Weekend Discussion Thread: Best One- or Two-Word Riffs

Alert reader Ken is concise:

Best one or two word riffs.

My nomination: “ENNNNNNNND!!!!!”

Yours?

127 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: Best One- or Two-Word Riffs”

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  1. Steve K says:

    Murdock Hauser:
    It stinks! “Pod People” and “Mr.B”.

    …Wait — are we still doing “summing up the movie?”

       6 likes

  2. hortense says:

    From Hamlet – “Whatever!”

       5 likes

  3. Geoff says:

    From Blood Waters Of Dr. Z:

    Black Cop: “Well, in your language…”
    Mike: “Honkien”
    Black Cop: “…Pollution.”

       5 likes

  4. eegah says:

    lllladies…

       9 likes

  5. Dr. Erickson says:

    From Outlaw:
    Cabot: I care for her and she cares for me and we’re free to express it.
    Crow: Naked.

       4 likes

  6. EricJ says:

    Posture Pals
    Narrator: “Even Bombo reminds her.”
    Servo: “…’Bombo’??”

    Jungle Goddess
    Radio news: “Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, and I quote his exact words:”
    All: “‘HELLLLLLLP!'”

    War of the Colossal Beast, as Mrs. Manning tries to reawaken Glen:
    “Remember THESE?”

       6 likes

  7. David Mello says:

    Someone mentioned “The Day The Earth Froze”, and I was reminded of this riff:
    The witch sees Lenonkeinen about to split when she says, “Ah there he is…”
    Joel: Miss America

    Looking at Arch Hall Jr in “Eegah!”
    Crow: Johnny Quest

    Or how about Catalina Caper, when Servo went nuts for “Creepy Girl”

       3 likes

  8. Blowie the Dolphin says:

    During the public speaking short, when the narrator advises the rather severe looking woman to keep her ankles together, Crow responds ” ’nuff said”.

       3 likes

  9. fatbarkeep says:

    Any slightly sexual innuendo from any movie gets a sleepy/high response from Joel, “Oh, wow!”

       13 likes

  10. eegah says:

    badum-tish!

       3 likes

  11. Dr. Erickson says:

    From the opening shot of Why Study Industrial Arts:
    Crow: “Depressed yet?”

    From Young Man’s Fancy:
    Judy (stuffing her face with pork): “I just love bacon when it’s crunchy like this.”
    Mike: “Evidently.”

       15 likes

  12. Dr. Science says:

    My personal favorite is from Mitchell. There’s a moment during the scene between Mitchell and the kid where Servo just starts screaming. A close second would be Crow’s “TALK. FASTER.” from The Touch of Satan.

       8 likes

  13. Edwin B says:

    How about the hysterical laugh from Crow when Santo makes his first appearance in Samson vs the Vampire Women?

       4 likes

  14. Mills says:

    FOR TORCHA’!

       12 likes

  15. ready4sumfootball says:

    “…Line?”

    Great for those awkward silent spots. Now I know Rifftrax has used this a lot in their riff of Twilight, but didn’t it start with MST3K? I want to think I’ve heard it somewhere else, but I can’t figure out the episode.

       5 likes

  16. From several movies, usually said when someone is suddenly woken up: “Football practice!”

       9 likes

  17. Dad? Daad?

       4 likes

  18. Abrabra Navelnite says:

    Mr. Beardsley?!

       13 likes

  19. Remmie Barrow says:

    I know it is not really part of a riff… but…

    DEEP HURTING!!!!

       6 likes

  20. Flying Saucers Over Oz says:

    From LAST CLEAR CHANCE: “Ask anyone who’s ever lived through a train crash and they’ll say…” Tom, I Think: “EEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAARRGH!”

       4 likes

  21. Castleton Snob says:

    “…Goldberg.”

    (See Hackers, Side.)

       1 likes

  22. XZB says:

    *bang* Rowsdower!

    Crow: Johnny Longbone?

    T: Athena!
    Mike: b..b..breasts!

       3 likes

  23. Terry the Sensitive Knight says:

    KILL HIM!!!

       5 likes

  24. pondoscp says:

    Hi-Cuba

    Waffles!

       1 likes

  25. some guy says:

    CHAWMP!

       5 likes

  26. Blowie the Dolphin says:

    From “Hired”, part two: Father; “the first thing Harry drove into you…”, Crow, “…was Harry.”

       12 likes

  27. From REVENGE OF THE CREATURE;

    “I QUIT!”

       2 likes

  28. Cornjob says:

    “TOR-CHA!!”

       3 likes

  29. Saherrin says:

    Thought of one more…..

    …at first….

       4 likes

  30. Danzilla "Cornjob" McLargehuge, Student of Kaijuology says:

    “Those… n-nose!”

       1 likes

  31. Ian L. says:

    Some more:

    The Leech Woman:

    “Neil!” (repeated ad nauseum)

    MST3K The Movie:

    (some random guy passes by)
    “Heil HITLER!”

    From the same movie:

    “Whoopty ****.”

       3 likes

  32. Troy says:

    One of my all-time favorite “dirty” riffs:

    Servo’s enthusiastic “Can do!” in Santa Claus, after Santa reads the letter from the child asking for a little brother.

       6 likes

  33. Fart Bargo says:

    VARIOUS

    Chief McCloud!

       4 likes

  34. Triple_sSs says:

    Look Polish!

    SODIUM!

       9 likes

  35. jaybird3rd says:

    “Bragger …”

    (from “War of the Colossal Beast”)

    Of course, there’s always the reliable:

    “Hi-Keeba!”

    “Gymkata!”

       0 likes

  36. radioman970 says:

    the various NOOOOOOOOOO
    like Boggy Creek “i’ve seen the little creature” that had a few in Cavedwellers that I watched yesterday. neeeeehhh oooooooh… :D

       2 likes

  37. goalieboy82 says:

    What’s Vietnam?

       4 likes

  38. goalieboy82 says:

    Baby Oil!

       3 likes

  39. TurkeyVolumeGuessingGal says:

    MOVIE-SIDE! :-P :-P :-P

       1 likes

  40. pirengle says:

    Devil Fish: I KNOW!

    Movies with rockets/missiles moving into “up” position: Good morning!

       6 likes

  41. “And Beck!”

       4 likes

  42. uhhh... says:

    This was in a couple, but in DtEF, a bird lands on the girls’ finger and someone says (in a Sylvester voice) “Hello Breakfast!”

       0 likes

  43. A Flat Minor, Mr. B's cousin says:

    ‘Girl in Lover’s Lane’ when Big Stupid goes to the whore house and sees the hooker, I think it was Mike who says “Danny?”

       0 likes

  44. Ang says:

    Mine is from Bloodlust near the beginning when they are on the boat and Mr. Brady asks the captain to take them to the island they just spotted. The camera cuts to the captain passed out drunk and Mike (I think) shouts out ‘Can do!’ I use that one a lot, usually when my boss asks me to do something. I explained to her what it’s from and she thinks it’s funny. At least I guess she does, I haven’t been fired yet – ha!

       3 likes

  45. Son of Peanut says:

    In response to Tor’s classic “Time for go to bed” from The Unearthly…

    Joel – “Well said.”

       4 likes

  46. “Rocky Graziano!”
    –Tom Servo, The Brain That Wouldn’t Die

    “Sausage!”
    –Mike Nelson, Out Of This World

    “Well said!”
    –Joel Robinson, The Unearthly

       1 likes

  47. School Marm says:

    Lots of good ones already mentioned. I’ll add…

    “Dibs!” (In reference to foxy heroines in THE UNEARTHLY, MST3K: THE MOVIE)

    “It’s incrawdible!” (WEREWOLF)

    And not really a riff, but I always love when Joel tells one of the bots, “Honey, don’t.”

       3 likes

  48. Ian L.:
    MST3K The Movie:

    (some random guy passes by)
    “Heil HITLER!”

    What really made that riff funny was that it was delivered in a perfect Colonel Klink voice.

       3 likes

  49. drbippie says:

    The Touch of Satan:

    [when Grandma Dried-Apple-Head crashes through screen door]

    “It’s open.”

       6 likes

  50. Professor Gunther says:

    From The Movie: “Scram, Lumpy.”

       1 likes

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