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Weekend Discussion Thread: Favorite Drug RiffsOur pal Timmy suggests:
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Robot Monster – “I think everyone’s reported to the moon at one time or another”. (Tom)
Can’t beat Frank in the opening to The Violent Years
“You wake and bake every day. You are so high…..”
Before Dr.F cuts him off. Cracks me up every time.
I’d have to go with the classic from Hobgoblins — “It’s the ’80s! Do a lot of coke, and vote for Ronald Reagan!”
From Johnny at the Fair – “Oh, I think we’ve all visited the Chemical Wonderland!”
When Fingle makes it snow in ‘Overdrawn At The Memory Bank’, Mike quips “This is how much pure cocaine you’d need to enjoy this movie.”
You know, for the life of me I cannot think of a single ANTI DRUG riff in all of MSTdom. Surely there must have been some and don’t call me Shirley.
ONCE UPON A HONEYMOON Dorky Angel Wilbur sprinkles “Magic Dust” which filters down and covers the phone. Husband Jeff has been up all night smoking cigarettes non-stop. Wife Mary spots the dust and Trace/Crow riffs in Mary’s voice “Honey, you got your cocaine all over the phone.”
From STAR FORCE: FUGITIVE ALIEN II: https://youtu.be/UOZ1lMRX5GQ?t=9m11s
not a real anti drug but:
this is Sandy Frank, this is Sandy Frank on Drugs, any questions.
i have too (the real place) when i visited Toronto last year (see this)
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the first one that came to mind was Joel in Alphabet Antics at the letter S : “mmm, that’s good stuff, umhmm” . My favorites are the ones in Laserblast, “you may or may not believe this, but I grow my own Mary Jane”.
Everything about how Mr. Blatz Beer wasn’t really believable as someone wanting drugs.
“No, really, I’m very strung out, and would like some ‘Mary Jane’ or ‘reefer’!”
Arthur Godfrey in “Angels Revenge” – I’m peakin!
also from Angels Revenge:
I bet the phrase “where’s my cocaine” was heard a lot on this film.
“I’m so baked. You gotta listen to this Rush tape, man.”
-The Deadly Mantis
Teenagers from Outer Space, when Thor is getting medicated, and Joel sings Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
And earlier on, when Wilbur lands on the roof; Tom says “Oh no, Angel Dust!”
I always laugh out loud when any of them uses the voice of Johnny Carson’s character Floyd Turbo (wombspaceoxygenator noted one above), e.g. when they deposit the Creature from the Black Lagoon into the holding tank: “Mmm-Hmmm, that’s good chlorine!” There have been many instances through the show’s run; just something about that voice and delivery that cracks me up.
From The Girl in Gold Boots, “Suddenly I love the Allman Brothers.”
Love that bit, love when Dr. F goes all like “Frank what the hell is the matter with you???!…Wake and bake….”
Didn’t that start the whole “Nelstone” thing?
We’re getting a lot..ahem…MORE of them in Rifftrax, now that MK&B smell they have a “built-in” cash-cult audience for Reefer Madness: Live.
But I can’t quote riffs from their average movies where a character looks at a clock–“Look, it’s 4:20!”–since the thread is for favorite riffs, not for sad, cynical, cringeworthy facepalm ones.
Ie., Frank’s reaction to Joel’s “Super Freakout” invention-exchange, from Hercules Against the Moon Men:
“Push the button, Frank:”
“I AM the button…”
(You can trust a drug riff from a comic who’s already been through twelve-step…Safety-approved.)
I thought Jerry Garcia was Father Mushroom! – #813, Jack Frost
The best thing about forwarding your calls?
“You can go off with your DRINKING and your PILL POPPING!”
“Century 21 Calling”
I forget which episode, Joel’s responds to a line “I didn’t know you were holding my compadre!”
Yeah, Rifftrax’s awesome.
Isn’t it, though? I love Rifftrax. One of their recent riffs, “Sherlock Holmes and the Woman in Green,” has quite a few drug references. When Bridget is speed-talking the fake bazillion side effects of Sherlock taking the cannabis I really cracked up.
from The Creeping Terror:
its a good thing drugs came along.
AUGH! Not Floyd Turbo, he was the guy in the North Woods rig doing the public citizen’s rebuttal to a recent TV station editorial. You’re thinking Art Fern, the sleazy afternoon movie host, in which Carson was channeling Jackie Gleason’s Reggie van Gleason the Third. If you don’t remember Floyd R. Turbo, he lives all over YouTube, and it’s both hilarious and terrifying…
My favorite has to be in Teenagers from Outer Space when Our hero is examining the small broken piece of the disintegrater ray and a riffer says, “There’s a lot of seeds in this stuff”. It’s a subtle riff that’s easy to miss and many people wouldn’t even understand it was a drug reference. And it just so happens there’s a lot of seeds in the stuff I’ve got now.
So, how do you feel MK&B could best exploit and develop this new changing target audience from here on in, who don’t really care what they get rage-issues angry at, as long as somebody at some point mentions cannabis?–Get James Franco in on a riff of “Big Lebowski”?
Or just a few more dozen riffs of Star Wars Holiday Special, especially since we don’t remember the last one too clearly? ;)
Yawn.
Oh, you are wrong, Marijuana-breath! (Laserblast)
Th entirety of Mighty Jack, the single most pot jokes in an episode. Love it. “I’ll roll us a doob. Put on some Allman Bros, Eat A Peach album” Which is hysterical because Eat A Peach features the 34 minute “Mountain Jam”
“I need a lid for the weekend!” – Kitten With A Whip
As a drug joke, this may seem like a real stretch: every time they do a “Centerville, a real nice place to raise your kids up” riff. CheezyFlix’s site counts six specific Centerville references.
But if you go to YouTube and search for “200 Motels Centerville” and watch the clip–oh, yeah, yeah, THAT’S a drug riff.
peteplumsdriverslicense: Augh! You are exactly right! Man, my memory…have to blame the…DRUGS! Thank you for straightening me out!
Thank you, I did rather suspect the Fern/Turbo confusion and was about to comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksd-eUzIq_M
Fern was the Reggie van Gleason imitation, and Turbo was the Tommy Smothers imitation.
(See, that’s how legalizationists duck the question of public disapproval, by lapsing into narcotic stupors…) ;)
Please enlighten us about this ‘public disapproval’of which you speak. As far as I can see, you’re the only one that keeps regurgitating the same tired, old schtick.
As I’ve reminded you in the past, Mike, Kevin and Bill are making a good living doing what they’re doing. And they’re not making said living as a result of the disapproval of their audience. They’re quite successful, and with good reason. You, meanwhile, are you. And you are stunningly boring.
Apropos of nothing, this just happened to occur to me. Out of nowhere.
In “Swamp Diamonds” (Joel-era), when Crow pretty much just repeats the title of “The Gun in Mary Lou’s Handbag” and Servo gives an annoyed reaction…was that clever? Did that go anywhere? Or was it just an example of thinking that if one repeats something enough times, it somehow becomes funny?
MST3K: The Movie/This Island Earth:
(As the ship enters the smoky planet Metaluna) “Hey, they’re landing in Tommy Chong’s back yard!”
From Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders:
(during the “Balloonland” cartoon) “Brought to you by LSD.”
I think (I’m not sure) this was in Screaming; Skull-“Nice Pot”. The guy on the beach in Future War-I figured the riff “Tull, Man!” was referring to a stoner at a Jethro Tull concert. Mike Pipper’s pipe-That’s good dope. Two from SCCTM-when Santa has trouble remembering the names of his reindeer, I think it was Tom Servo who said “What’s in the Pipe, Santa?”. Pills for dinner, what are we, Judy Garland?
I don’t remember which episode, but when Tom asks Joel why he always looks so sleepy, and Joel just grins.
Just ignore the troll. Whenever I see his posts, I just hit the X next to his name.
From This Island Earth, “Whoa, are the walls melting for you, too?”
Also, from Projected Man, a police officer is shown smoking and Servo says “Righto, legalize it, then.”
Ha, ha, yes! Also: “Excuse me young man, could I get a fix?”
And in between, when Jeffery gets the order to rewrite the melody and slinks to his piano: “And me completely outta blow!” And then lights his first of 50 cigarettes: “‘Scuse me while I light my spleef . . . “
A real pisser for him.
In the opening segment of “Future War” Pearl conducts “secret” LSD experiments on M&tb using vegetables, video equipment and music from the band “Narcotic Casserole”.
Before it was a Milky Way, now it’s a Snickers!
Brain Guy channeling Hendrix by burning his guitar is the best!
Mr. Krasker & The Original EricJ
It is obvious to the rest of us that you are in LOVE with each other and don’t know how to express it.
Please take your issues to Dr. Phil and stop harshen the buzz for the rest (or Many) of us.
Followed by Bobo roasting marshmallows over the burning guitar.
One that occurs to me was from the appearance Mike, Kevin, Trace & Jim made at the Museum of TV & Radio in L.A., between seasons 6 & 7. At one point, during the Q&A, someone asked Mike some rather arcane question about the show (I can’t remember exactly what). Mike answered, “Yes, that’s a very interesting idea,” then mimed taking a huge toke.
I’ll have to head over to the Paley Center and watch that one again.
When Ken hallucinates Rita in the desert in “Fugitive Alien”: “I gotta lay off the shrooms.”
My two favorites:
HIRED! (Part 1): Dad is lighting his pipe, and Joel “puffs”, stifles some coughs, then comments “nice night for it!”
The Beatniks: the record producer tells Eddie to take a break while they check the levels, and Crow riffs “it’s ‘snowing’ backstage, Eddie, heh heh!”
Sweet Jesus. You know that you’re singlelhandedly responsible for any uptick in sales to RT by simple virtue of the fact that people support them just to spite you? What exactly is your goal here? How can you be so inept at reading the room? What is your purpose? What do you hope to accomplish? I mean, I’ve made it my life’s mission to belittle and berate you at my leisure (it was the Bruce J. Mitchell obit that finally gave me that clarity of purpose, by the way–congratulations!). Seriously, **** off already.