But of course some of you are suggesting topics we’ve already done. And it’s completely understandable: We’ve done hundreds and you can’t be expected to remember them all.
So here’s an updated list (and I go with the idea somebody had: adding this list to Ward E for easy access.)
Your First Time (i.e. the your first episode experience)
Your Desert Island Episode
Favorite Host Segments–KTMA and Season 1
Fave Season 2 Host Segments
Season THREE Host Segments
Fave Season Four Host Segments
Top 12 Season 5 Host Segments
Fave Season Six Host Segments
Favorite Season Seven Segments
Fave Season 8 Host Segments
Favorite Season 9 Host Segments
Favorite Season 10 Host Segments
Top 15 Funniest Shorts
Favorite Songs
Top 5 “Actual Songs from the Actual Movies”
Introductory Movies
Top 5 Stingers
Lamest Heroes in a MSTed Movie
Favorite Inventions
Most-Used Catchphrases
Top 12 “Guest Starring Roles”
The Episodes for the 20th Anniversary Collection Are…
Goofiest Monster in a MSTed Movie
Memorable Dance Numbers
Top 10 Most Memorable Villains
Most Memorable Movie Theme Songs
Memorable ‘Bot Alterations
Fill In the Missing Stingers
Hotties/Hunks from MSTed Movies
Most Disgusting Movie Moments
Sleeping Pill Episodes
Two-Part Mike Discussion
Favorite Joel Moments
Favorite Trace Moments
Favorite Kevin Moments
Favorite Mary Jo Pehl Moments
Favorite Josh “J. Elvis” Weinstein Moments
Favorite Paul Chaplin Moments
Why MST3K Matters
Catchphrase T-Shirts Update
“Personal Riffs”
Christmas Movies that SHOULD Be Riffed
Best RiffTrax of 2008
Questions for Joel
The Grand Convergence
Shorts That Should Be Riffed
Joel Answers Your Questions
UnMSTed MST Movies You Own
Worst MSTed Movie
Mike’s Bacon “Stupidity”
Worst Performances
Worst Performance by an Actor
Worst Director
MST3K Viewing Habits
Favorite MSTed Movie Genre
Most Ridiculous Scene
Questions for Jordan Fields of Shout! Factory
Riffs that Got Run Into the Ground
Worst Ensemble Cast
The Taxonomy of Riffs
Your MST3K Projects
Riffs You Use in Daily Conversation
Most Annoying Movie Character
Episode Watching Memories
Favorite Callback
The Un-Sexiest Moment in a MSTed Movie
Favorite Farewells
“MST3K The Movie 2″–What Movie Would You Choose?
Your First “MST3K: The Movie” Experience
Best Pearl Moments
Drab and Dreary Movies
What’s Funny to You?
Lame Science
Favorite DVD Set
Episodes That Cheer You Up
Your Sci-Fi Channel “They’re Gonna Be Okay” Moment
MSTed Movies that Could Be Remade into GOOD Movies
Most Memorable Crow Moments
Instructional Shorts that Were Actually Informative
What Do We Do?
Your Favorite Rhino Extra
GOOD Performances by Actors in MSTed Movies
GOOD Performances by Actresses in MSTed Movies
Best WRITTEN MSTed movie
Alternate Actors in MSTed Movies?
Which Is the Best of the Russo-Finnish Quartet?
Roger Corman, bane or boon?
Ideas for Future Shout Factory Sets
Best Spy/Secret Agent Movies
Your Turkey Day Traditions
Worst Attitudes Toward Women in MSTed Movies
Blurting Out MST3Kisms
What’dja Get?
A Better Final Movie?
Action Figures
“Funny All By Itself” Movie Moments
Best Episodes for Kids
Deleted Scenes
Favorite Movie Sidekicks
Favorite Credit Sequences
Episodes That Grew on You
Favorite MST3K-Related Web Sites
Overrated/Underrated Episodes
Romance and MST3K
Good Host Segments/Not So Good Riffing (or vice versa)
Your Favorite Wimp
Riffing When You Shouldn’t
Worst Body of Work Among MSTed Producers
Continuity Errors in MSTed Movies
The Amazing Colossal Episode Guide
Favorite Frank Moments
Least Memorable Episodes
MSTed Movies That Would Have Worked Better on ‘LOST’
Your Collection
Worst Special Effects/Make-Up
Best and Worst Cops in MSTed Movies
Favorite Naughty Riffs
MSTed Movies You’d Like to See Redone
Movies They SHOULD Have Riffed
Worst Commercials
Worst/Dumbest Plan by a Hero or Villain in a MSTed Movie
Most Memorable Pesky Kid
Movie Posters
Most Memorable or Painful Deaths
Dumbest Comment You’ve Ever Heard about the Show
Sell Tape Scenes
Joel/Mike Double Features
Most Memorable Cinematic Titanic Moments So Far
Remembrances of the KTMA Days
Riffback!
Worst Comic Relief in a MSTed Movie
Remakes and Recastings
Least-Convincing Teenagers in a Movie or Short
Toughest Tough Guy/Gal in MSTed Movies
MST3K/RiffTrax/CT-related Things You’ve Made/Discovered
You Know You’re a MSTie When…
The Prop Auction–What Did You Get? What Did You Want?
Which Characters Would You Invite for Thanksgiving?
MSTed Movie Character Blind Dates
Best/Worst Bands in MSTed Movies
Riffable Holiday Specials
What Would You Get a Character in a MSTed Movie for Christmas?
What’dja Get?
Hall of Fame Inductees
Best/Worst KTMA Episode
Your Favorite Obscure Riff
Episodes You Just Can’t Sit Through
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And for your convenience, here’s the same list alphabetically. Note, Turkey Day Traditions was my suggestion back around Thanksgiving 2009. Thanks for using it. I’m going to be hard-pressed to come up with another one that’s never been used now after seeing this list.
A Better Final Movie?
Action Figures
Alternate Actors in MSTed Movies?
Best and Worst Cops in MSTed Movies
Best Episodes for Kids
Best Pearl Moments
Best RiffTrax of 2008
Best Spy/Secret Agent Movies
Best WRITTEN MSTed movie
Best/Worst Bands in MSTed Movies
Best/Worst KTMA Episode
Blurting Out MST3Kisms
Catchphrase T-Shirts Update
Christmas Movies that SHOULD Be Riffed
Continuity Errors in MSTed Movies
Deleted Scenes
Drab and Dreary Movies
Dumbest Comment You’ve Ever Heard about the Show
Episode Watching Memories
Episodes That Cheer You Up
Episodes That Grew on You
Episodes You Just Can’t Sit Through
Fave Season 2 Host Segments
Fave Season 8 Host Segments
Fave Season Four Host Segments
Fave Season Six Host Segments
Favorite Callback
Favorite Credit Sequences
Favorite DVD Set
Favorite Farewells
Favorite Frank Moments
Favorite Host Segments–KTMA and Season 1
Favorite Inventions
Favorite Joel Moments
Favorite Josh “J. Elvis” Weinstein Moments
Favorite Kevin Moments
Favorite Mary Jo Pehl Moments
Favorite Movie Sidekicks
Favorite MST3K-Related Web Sites
Favorite MSTed Movie Genre
Favorite Naughty Riffs
Favorite Paul Chaplin Moments
Favorite Season 10 Host Segments
Favorite Season 9 Host Segments
Favorite Season Seven Segments
Favorite Songs
Favorite Trace Moments
Fill In the Missing Stingers
Funny All By Itself Movie Moments
Good Host Segments/Not So Good Riffing (or vice versa)
GOOD Performances by Actors in MSTed Movies
GOOD Performances by Actresses in MSTed Movies
Goofiest Monster in a MSTed Movie
Hall of Fame Inductees
Hotties/Hunks from MSTed Movies
Ideas for Future Shout Factory Sets
Instructional Shorts that Were Actually Informative
Introductory Movies
Joel Answers Your Questions
Joel/Mike Double Features
Lame Science
Lamest Heroes in a MSTed Movie
Least Memorable Episodes
Least-Convincing Teenagers in a Movie or Short
Memorable ‘Bot Alterations
Memorable Dance Numbers
Mike’s Bacon “Stupidity”
Most Annoying Movie Character
Most Disgusting Movie Moments
Most Memorable Cinematic Titanic Moments So Far
Most Memorable Crow Moments
Most Memorable Movie Theme Songs
Most Memorable or Painful Deaths
Most Memorable Pesky Kid
Most Ridiculous Scene
Most-Used Catchphrases
Movie Posters
Movies They SHOULD Have Riffed
MST3K The Movie 2?–What Movie Would You Choose?
MST3K Viewing Habits
MST3K/RiffTrax/CT-related Things You’ve Made/Discovered
MSTed Movie Character Blind Dates
MSTed Movies that Could Be Remade into GOOD Movies
MSTed Movies That Would Have Worked Better on ‘LOST’
MSTed Movies You’d Like to See Redone
Overrated/Underrated Episodes
Personal Riffs
Questions for Joel
Questions for Jordan Fields of Shout! Factory
Remakes and Recastings
Remembrances of the KTMA Days
Riffable Holiday Specials
Riffback!
Riffing When You Shouldn’t
Riffs that Got Run Into the Ground
Riffs You Use in Daily Conversation
Roger Corman, bane or boon?
Romance and MST3K
Season THREE Host Segments
Sell Tape Scenes
Shorts That Should Be Riffed
Sleeping Pill Episodes
The Amazing Colossal Episode Guide
The Episodes for the 20th Anniversary Collection Are…
The Grand Convergence
The Prop Auction–What Did You Get? What Did You Want?
The Taxonomy of Riffs
The Un-Sexiest Moment in a MSTed Movie
Top 10 Most Memorable Villains
Top 12 “Guest Starring Roles”
Top 12 Season 5 Host Segments
Top 15 Funniest Shorts
Top 5 “Actual Songs from the Actual Movies”
Top 5 Stingers
Toughest Tough Guy/Gal in MSTed Movies
Two-Part Mike Discussion
UnMSTed MST Movies You Own
What Do We Do?
What Would You Get a Character in a MSTed Movie for Christmas?
What’dja Get?
What’dja Get?
What’s Funny to You?
Which Characters Would You Invite for Thanksgiving?
Which Is the Best of the Russo-Finnish Quartet?
Why MST3K Matters
Worst Attitudes Toward Women in MSTed Movies
Worst Body of Work Among MSTed Producers
Worst Comic Relief in a MSTed Movie
Worst Commercials
Worst Director
Worst Ensemble Cast
Worst MSTed Movie
Worst Performance by an Actor
Worst Performances
Worst Special Effects/Make-Up
Worst/Dumbest Plan by a Hero or Villain in a MSTed Movie
You Know You’re a MSTie When…
Your Collection
Your Desert Island Episode
Your Favorite Obscure Riff
Your Favorite Rhino Extra
Your Favorite Wimp
Your First “MST3K: The Movie” Experience
Your First Time (i.e. the your first episode experience)
Your MST3K Projects
Your Sci-Fi Channel “They’re Gonna Be Okay” Moment
Your Turkey Day Traditions
Still haven’t done Favorite Bill Moments. There’s Crow, but that could be either Trace or Bill; still no stand alone Bill. (Unless Sampo just forgot to list it, but I don’t recall a Bill one).
How about doing something involving The Film Crew. I know
there’s only four (I have them all) but they are interesting
especially the later Rue McClanahan
Golden Girls one (Hollywood After Dark).
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Do you have a favorite Brain Guy moment? That would count as a Bill moment. Also, I don’t remember my first time with MST3K :( I think it was “The Amazing Colossal Man”. My first Mike Nelson moment was the Movie. And I didn’t know about Mike until I started getting Satellite News in the mail. I didn’t have Comedy Central then.
I vote for favourite Brain Guy moment! An excellent idea for a thread!
To bad we can’t revisit some of these at some point in the future.
How bout “Your favorite decade of movies”? I always liked movies set during the 70’s just for all the hate Mike would inevitably get such as the great episode “Touch of Satan”.
Thanks for once again updating this list, it’s a very helpful resource for us regular users. Until Sampo adds this to Ward-E (with links to each discussion, I presume) one can enter these titles into the “Search” field to find the original threads.
I am honored to have had a few of my suggestions discussed here (Roger Corman, Favorite MST web sites, Ideas for future sets, Overrated/Underated episodes) and to have contributed comments to many more. But I admit that I have not offered any new topics recently. Credit to everyone here who still cares about this show.
How about “Fantasy Reunion Scenario”
How would you script a MST3K “Movie of the Week” if you could get everyone back together For example: Have Pearl find and release Dr F, Frank and Erhardt from a Phantom Zone like prison where they join up with Bobo and Brain Guy. They then recapture their old experiments Joel, Mike and the bots and then….well you get the idea.
I guess this is like Fan Fic! What do you think, sirs?
How about a favorite Paul Chaplin moment?
Here’s stuff we aint done and should –
Top 5 or 10 favorite episodes (or even 25, so based on how many we have seen – if you’ve seen them all, feel free to rank every one of them.)
This would best be broken down into two different discussions by having a top 5 or 10 Joel era episodes and a top 5 or 10 Mike era episodes.
This works good because it splits the show’s run pretty close to the middle.
It could even be done in three discussions wih the final one being an overall ranking combining the two hosts.
This is something that should be done yearly, because we always are changing. I know that my own top 10 shows right now aren’t the same as they were a year ago.
Also, I think if people want to rank the other two entities – Rifftrax/Film Crew and Cinematic Titanic, we can do another thread for those. Maybe more of a top 5 though since there arent as many episodes to rank (especially for CT).
Though I think we could do a whole thread on the rifftrax shorts alone, being that there is over a hundred now.
A favorite Brain Guy discussion would be interesting.
I can immediately come up with 5-6 right away.
And how about most disturbing non-movie bit
(for starters Crow’s and Brain Guy’s dances).
#6 Why can’t we?
But anyways, I don’t see “Invention Exchange inventions that were actually GOOD ideas” on the list. I vote for the Hobby Hogs. I go to craft festivals every year and figure that SOMEONE would have thought to actually start making these for kids. Well, I guess if you want something done right…
#10: “Favorite Paul Chaplin Moments” is on the list.
Maybe I’ll submit this formally someday, but what about “Your Ideal Vision of MST3k?” If you could choose the perfect manifestation of the show’s run, what would it be?
For me, trying not to get too extravagant and sticking close-ish to what actually happened, it would be twelve seasons, each with 24 episodes, split exactly between Joel and Mike at 144 episodes each. TV’s Frank would be there from Season 2 through Season 8, Dr. Forrester/Trace’s Crow would be there up through Season 9, Bill’s Crow and the whole Sci-fi-era premise would start with Season 10, etc. I think you get the idea.
I would have them pick whatever movies seem suitable. I don’t need to insist on specific titles.
Assuming 90 minutes each, that’s 432 hours of MST3k. You could have a two-and-a-half-week-straight marathon.
Poring over the list it looks like everyone in the cast/writing staff got a “favorite moments” and since Bill Corbett/Brain Guy/Crow 2.0 was mentioned that should be about it. WAITAMINUTE! I didn’t spy “favorite MIKE moments” in that list… I think that might bear looking into.
How about something along the lines of “SIX DEGREES OF MST3K”. I am constantly seeing familiar faces in real, actual movies of actors that appear in movies I see on MST3K.
Today I watched the 1956 serious movie “JULIUS Caeser” (starring Marlin Brando and James Mason etc) and one of the (Roman Senator type) guys was the sort of German/Nazi scientist from “LOST CONTINENT”.(A Direct link from MST to Marlon Brando,or vice versa)
It would be fun to track the familiar ,yet sort of unknown, faces to more famous and mainstream movies.
EXAMPLE:Richard Kiel; name “real” actors and mainstream movies the star of EEGAGH etc. appeared with. I think it would be a real good challenge and I think we could tie almost anyone in films today who is “important” to a MST performer,(writer director and so on for SERIOUS movie fans!)and movie!
THINK ABOUT IT! :)
Sorry Follow up:
Another example: In today’s “Notable Deaths”;
Guy Doleman: a Direct link to Sean Connery and James Bond (Thunderball) and The TV show “The Prisoner” (just think hard of the obscure riffs about that show) (Doleman was the very first “Number Two” to appear on that show)
Points Awarded for the most precise and obscure links!
We have the bots…so how about “What Collectable Would You Most Like To See Packaged In A Future Shout Factory Release!”
@14 I just now seen it..D’OH!!
How about Riffs They Missed or Riffs They Should’ve Done instead??
How about “Worst Injury during the viewing of a MST3K”?
I sent in a list of suggestions the day this topic was posted. Here’s what was on my list:
– Favorite costume worn by one of the robot pals in an episode. My favorite costume on a robot is the monkey mask Tom Servo is wearing during the Sandy Frank song. It makes me laugh every time I see it, every single time!
– Favorite Monty Python references in an episode of MST3K. There are tons of them. Example: “I’m not dead, I’m getting better.” during Teenagers From Outer Space
– Favorite Lord of the Rings references in an episode. Again, there are a lot of these over the years. Example, Torgo becomes Torgo the White as well as plenty of riffs about LotR during the actual movies in many episodes.
– Favorite references to MST3K in other shows. Some fun examples: MST3K is on the TV in Moe’s Tavern during the Who Shot Mr. Burns? episode of The Simpsons and there is Torgos Executive Powder in Futurama.
– Prettiest girl or nicest looking character in a MSTed movie. Or, the ugliest most physically disgusting or repulsive character (with or without a lot of makeup) in a MSTed movie.
– Guilty pleasure joke or episode, i.e., the joke or episode you felt was the weakest that still made you laugh.
How about Movie They Should’ve Done Instead Of________?
I have an idea for one: favorite Shout! Factory DVD menu. My choice would be “The Crawling Eye,” probably because I love the silly visuals mixed with the booming, dramatic score from the movie. A runner-up would be “Robot Monster.” I love that conversation the bots have that’s taken from riffs in the episode.
Other topic suggestions:
– Was there ever an episode you couldn’t watch all the way through even once because the movie was too bad, annoying, boring or upsetting to see all the way through? In other words, you either fell asleep or deliberately turned it off or walked out of the room on it while it was still playing and never watched it again, ever.
– Favorite episode that other fans don’t seem to like in large numbers? Or, your least favorite episode that gets a mostly positive response on fan sites like this one.
#21, The glaring Space Mutiny\Battlestar Galactica omission has been covered by Paul Chaplin somewhere on this site. Otherwise, I’d suggest death matches. But that’s just me.
I’d like to see one on alternate ideas for stingers. There have been a number of movies where I’ve thought “That would have been such a good stinger!” and I’m sure others have done the same.
What about a discussion thread on who’s better: Joel or Mike? Er… on second thought there is something in the back of my mind which says this may not be a good idea, though I can’t quite put my finger on why exactly. :)