And, that’s fair: Our first weekend discussion thread was posted on March 1, 2008. We can’t expect you to be keeping track of every topic we have done in more than two years.
So, FYI, we have discussed the following topics.
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
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I was just looking for this, thanks! Not to add to your in-basket, but can this be put into Ward e under the Lists or some other location?
I notice there was never any favorite Frank or favorite Bill moments. (I know fave Crow can fall into the Bill moments, but that doesn’t count Brain Guy).
I’ve got a couple.. what about the most obvious missed opportunities for riffing?
The most classic of course, would be the recycling of old Battlestar Galactica footage during Space Mutiny, but I know there have been plenty of times, especially during the early episodes, where a character says something bizarre or open-ended, leaving a perfect opportunity for a golden zinger, and Mike/Joel and the bots just let it ride on by.
Also, what is the most ill thought-out plan a villain/hero has come up with on MST3K?
Obviously, we can’t include any of Mike’s numerous attempts to escape the SOL. Also, this pre-supposes that the villain(s) of the film actually have a plan that doesn’t involve lumbering around, randomly killing people until they get shot/electrocuted/disappear for no reason.
My personal favorite is Q from Mighty Jack, with his evil torture box that can blind you… unless you keep your eyes closed. :)
Oh, another one would be: Which of the cast does the best _______ voice?
After recently rewatching the CT treatment of Wasp Woman, I’d have to say Joel is king of children, animal, and monster voices (bonus points if it’s an animal that’s just been shot up with some kind of drug), while Trace is definitely the best senile old man, God, generic announcer, and Minnesotan housewife.
How about..the least favorite host segment?? Or how about..the movie they should have done instead of _______??
I often wonder- what episodes, especially during the Sci-Fi days, could have used a short? Two episodes come to mind- “The Undead” and “Space Mutiny” both have way too much filler in the host segments IMO.
I saw the opening of an episode shown to me by my brother in law. I think it was Side Hackers. The tape was damaged so maybe twenty minutes or so.
Remember, the first one’s free.
Is there anyway to access these older discussion threads to
read them? Thanks
How about for all who still have unedited tapes…
WORST SPONSER OR COMMERCIAL YOU HAD TO SIT THRU…
Those Psycic Friends spots were TORCHA!
I know we did favorite inventions, but how about inventions that were actually good, feasible ideas?
The talk about the band in the “Girl in Gold Boots” thread makes me think: “best musical performance in a MSTed movie” (to be followed the next week with “worst…”). Candidates that leap to my mind are Little Richard’s number in “Catalina Caper” and the Night Jumpers’ performance in “The Skydivers.”
How about movies that should have been MSTed?
How did they not get around to these movies:
1. YOR: Hunter from the Future (Reb Brown’s Magnum Opus)
2. Starcrash: How can you go wrong with David Hasselhoff?
3. Santa with Muscles: A hilariously awful Hulk Hogan movie from 1996. Too recent? Werewolf also came out in 1996.
Go to the spoonyexperiment.com to check out his riffs on Yor and Santa with Muscles…you will not be dissappointed. Also check out Strike Commando and Robowar, which are two more Reb Brown classics. This is not meant to be an advertisement for The Spoony Experiment, but I can’t help it. MSTies need to check it out, just like they need to know about Cheap Seats. Great riffing is hard to come by.
To coincide with the Harry Potter theme park portion of Universal Studios, I would like to see a discussion of what would be at an MST3K theme park. What kind of rides would there be, what would be on the menu for food items, what other souvenirs could you buy and other stuff like that.
How about if you could pick your very own Shout! Factory DVD boxed set. You’d have to narrow it down to your favorite 4 movies of course. Tough.
How about Risque Comments/Skits?
For example, in Track of the Moon Beast:
Paul G. Carlson: “I’d like you to meet a friend of mine.”
Crow: “Could you at least kiss me first!”
And of course there’s Crows’s and Brain Guy’s performance art
in the Icky Elf Guy movie. :shock:
(Well, what can you expect of a movie that features
the band that played California Lady?)
Of course, in the above comment The Band That Played
California Lady was in TofMB.
How about movies that were given the Misty treatment, but shouldn’t have/did NOT deserve the rough treatment.
I can’t believe we haven’t done a weekend discussion thread about our favorite organ-related scenes in MST3K.
I’m thinking of course of John Carradine stopping the movie for an organ recital in The Unearthly. Or when Batwoman stops the movie for an organ recital in The Wild World of Batwoman. And then of course there’s The Amazing Transparent man where an organ is in almost every scene, and yet no one plays it. Santa plays an organ in the opening musical montage of Santa Claus, and an organ also makes a brief appearance in the short The Days of our Years. Lest I forget, Pearl also plays an organ in the castle from time to time.
Wait, I think I’ve just listed them all. Never mind.
Okay, for a real suggestion, I was thinking of something along the lines of our favorite moments in MST movies where the characters say or do something that is patently ridiculous, or something that just isn’t true, or something just obviously absurd happens, and yet everyone in the movie accepts it as perfectly normal. I don’t quite know if that’s the best way to phrase it, or if it’s perhaps too broad or undefinable a category to tackle. Some MST movies, after all, have aliens with vacuum cleaners for noses.
For example, I’m thinking of the moment in Agent From HARM where agent Chance off-handedly mentions the “judo range” and everyone in the movie accepts this as a normal thing. In real life, we would all say “WTF?” but in the movie’s universe people say “sure thing!” Another example might be, and now I am being serious, Batwoman holding an organ recital in the middle of the day for her minions in TWWOB. In real life we would all say “WTF?” but in the movie they seem to be perfectly fine with it. Or when Krankor in Prince of Space tells everybody to take a five-minute break in the middle of their crisis, and everyone says “sure thing Kranky baby.”
The reason this might be an impossible category is because you would have to exclude the obvious suspension of disbelief moments where people fly or turn invisible or turn into werewolves or whatever; things that of course would not happen in real life, but are different in kind from someone, say, asking if they can shave in the middle of a conversation (Agent From HARM again).
Anyway, to everyone reading this, if I forgot any organ-related moments or appearances, please list them.
I didn’t see anything along these lines: what you might call eye-opening obscure references. That is, the moment you heard them reference something that you had no idea anyone besides yourself could ever get, at which point you understood how special a show it was.
In my case, it was during “The Unearthly” when the incidental music included a short vibraphone passage, and Tom Servo said “Adolph Hitler on vibes”.
When I heard this, I thought, “Holy Cow! I didn’t know anyone besides me knew about the Bonzo Dog Band!”
Anyhow, has this topic been covered?
Perhaps favorite riff or vocal sound effect that intentionally and absurdly misrepresents a character or scene.
For example, Mike turning Screaming Skull’s socially lacking Mickey into a dashing and debonair man of the world (“Ahh. Bon Jour my sweet.”) or making the lady passenger sitting behind Bart Fargo turn into a stuffed-up-nosed fussy kid (“I doe doe”) when the stewardess asks if she’s feeling better, or turning Ortega into a marriage counselor during Jerry’s mental breakdown in “Mixed Up Zombies”: (“ya gotta tell her every day that ya love her”).
To include a sound effect example, Servo inserts a totally out of place, wicked lead guitar riff into John Agar’s love interest’s gentle “banjo” playing in Mole People.
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