Thanks to alert reader Ted, whose suggestion for a thread got me to thinking, which led me to this idea:

Give me a fond or strange or in some way memorable memory about watching an MST3K episode.

I’ll give you mine, for “Manos: The Hands of Fate.” I immediately think of the MSTieween gathering, footage of which was later shown on Turkey Day 1993. We were all sitting around in Debbie Tobin’s basement waiting for the shooting to start. Somebody put that episode in, and as we started watching “Hired, Pt.2,” people handed out paper napkins. For a moment I didn’t understand why, but then the crazy old grandpa put the handkerchief on his head, and everybody put them on.

There I was, in a basement with about 35 adults, all sitting on the floor with napkins on their heads. MSTies are weird.