So, what IS the best Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

:shrug:

[Phillycat]

1. Mitchell! (pardon me) Mitchell!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

9. Ahhhh

[Phillycat]

69. "Mitchell, honey, put your shoes on, we're home..."

[AIJ Alom]

2. Gamarra !!!! Gamarra is really neat, Gamarra is full of turtle meat, we

love Gamara !!!

[helnwhls]

6. We've been eating Gamera!

[trotsky]

3. "I'm not touching you, does this bother you?"

TORGO!!!

[helnwhls]

4. Manos Hands of Fate

But really anything with Dr. F and Frank.

Please let me be frank about Frank, I LOVE Frank!

[trotsky]

14. TV's Frank!

I really feel like MST3K jumped the shark when he left.

[helnwhls]

20. You may well be right

I have learned to tolerate Pearl. At first I hated Mike.

Best Pearl episode was when she went up to the SOL and sat with the bots to watch the movie.

[trotsky]

23. There's a good reason to hate Mike.

He's a freeper. Can't remember where I read it, but he clearly came out in support of Repukes.

[helnwhls]

27. I know, I know

I had just learned to tolerate him and I learned he was a homeschooling Xtain freeper:puke:

[LeftyMom]

79. WTF does homeschooling have to do with it? nt

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

28. Mike Nelson IS a Freeper - oh SHIT!!!

http://www.biggerboat.net/archives/2004/june/dear_mike_nelson_i_will_no_longer_defend_you/

"Interviewer: Believe it or not, there have actually been discussions on our discussion board about whether or not you are independent, republican or democrat. Paul Chaplin and Kevin Murphy have often shared their political views with the world. So what are yours? Are you an elephant, a donkey, or neither?

Mike Nelson: Well, let me say this, I read the National Review cover to cover. Check in at Townhall.com every day. Check the Washington Times daily. Listen to Dennis Prager and Michael Medved on a regular basis. Read Mark Steyn with regularity. Read the Weekly Standard. So, yes, I do vote Republican. As the pundit Hugh Hewitt has observed, there are indeed two Americas: Serious America and Silly America. The Democrats seem bent on turning this into Silly America, so I stick with those who wish this to remain Serious America.

Of course, in addition, as angry as it makes me, I check in with the monolithic press: the NY Times, the L.A. Times, the Boston Globe. One thing I can’t do, that makes me just insanely angry, is read my local paper, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, known to many as the Star and Sickle, or the Red Star Tribune."

[Torgo Johnson]

48. What a ignorant asswipe.

I am ashamed to say I bought his movie review book. There wasn't really anything political in it. This does explain his irrational hatred of Garrison Keillor though.


I just realized his wife, Bridget Jones, is probably one of them too. We still have Frank and Paul and I am pretty sure, Joel and Kevin on our side.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

73. I feel slightly ill.

I think I threw up a little. (Or was that the acid reflux?)

What an ignorant asswipe.
What a fucking ignorant asswipe. I seriously think I can't watch a single Mike episode of MST3K ever again.

(And my vote for best ep goes to "Cave Dwellers" I don't know why, but I nearly die from laughter every single time I watch that episode.)

[lazarus]

92. I'll give him this

He never, that I could tell, let his politics show in his humour.

[Dastard Stepchild]

93. Well... I just never would have guessed...

I'd be mildly fine with him as a Republican, but his choice of reading material leaves me a bit saddened.

[yardwork]

97. Maybe chimpy changed his mind? A lot of repukes are voting blue this year

If not, this is a serious blow to my appreciation of MST.

[MnFats]

5. "Cave Dwellers"

"How much Keefe is in this movie?"
"Miles O'Keefe."


also:

"Henry Kissinger says 'Merry Christmas.'"

[4_Legs_Good]

7. I liked Sidehackers

I can't remember why, though. There's a hilarious song in it.

Oooh boy!

david

[tridim]

16. Jiffy pop hats!

Sidehackers is my fave too. :)

"Side hackin is the thing to do, and it doesn't hurt to have a low IQ"

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

18. Sidehackin' is the thing to do

And it doesn't hurt to have a low IQ

All the lyrics here:
http://www.mst3kinfo.com/ward_e/Song202a.html

Or maybe you mean "Only Love Pads the Film":
http://www.mst3kinfo.com/ward_e/Song202b.html

I'm torn between Sidehackers and Manos. TV's Frank as Torgo is priceless, but the songs in the Sidehackers bumpers are soooo great.

[tridim]

21. Mike played Torgo

"Let.. me.. get your... complimentary... crazy bread."

Doo do do dee, doo do do dee...

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

36. Thanks for the correction

Now Side Hackers definitely gets my vote. :)

[4_Legs_Good]

59. Oh man! I forgot about "only love pads the film"

What a great freaking song!

Ahhhhhh, gotta tear through my MST3K library again! It's been a while

david

[Patiod]

8. (wacka-chucka wacka-chucka) Mitchell!

Livin high....on the samich

MITCHELL!

[Phillycat]

13. LOL!

These guys couldn't shake a trolley!

[Cush]

10. any ep with old Japanese Sci-Fi

Prince Of Space, Gamera flicks, Invasion of the Neptune Men, etc

[tridim]

All of them

But there's something about "Side Hackers" that makes it special. "Number 8!", "Rommel, you magnificent bastard", "My own mother I don't like better", "Oh Ma-ma".

Edit: I have side hackers burned to a CD, so I can listen in the car on long trips.

[asthmaticeog]

11. Eegah

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

31. Oh, I'm a Eegahfied one!

[asthmaticeog]

39. WATCH OUT FOR SNAKES!

[mac56]

12. "Daddy-O".

"I want answers, dammit!"

[helnwhls]

22. Want Some

[Cush]

15. best short: "Mr B Natural"

[MnFats]

19. Best short was winter sports....

'Ski Whoring?"

[Cush]

40. "oh yeah, well you're full of skit!"

[alvis]

26. A Case of Spring Fever

Cracks me up every time.

[Phillycat]

29. No way! A Day At The Circus RULES!

[Cush]

35. Oh no, they're doing it clown style!

[Phillycat]

67. LOL!

Exactly. :)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

32. I'm fond of THE TRUCKFARMER!

[Cush]

37. Hail truck farmer, hail truck farmer!

[EarlG]

17. The Mole People

With Alfred the butler from the original Batman TV series as the high priest.

"Oh yeah, work it baby. That's it, shake your money-maker."

And let us not forget "The Load."

There are just too many great quotes in The Mole People.

[helnwhls]

24. Coleman Francis

[alvis]

25. Space Mutiny

My personal favorite. Mike and the bots just ripping on that guy mercilessly. Lump Beefbroth! Butch Deadlift! Big MclargeHuge! Also Tom Servo putting in railings all over the SOL, esepecially around the rug.

"Wall mounted keyboards. It must be the future."

The Final Sacrifice is a close second too. "Is there beer on the sun?"

[disgruntled_goat]

34. good call

space mutiny almost had me collapsing a lung from laughing so hard.
"starring Run GoFast"

joy

[Cush]

38. onward mighty Cushman!

"Me, take me away"

[BigMcLargehuge]

42. Another vote for Space Mutiny

Music that means, means, means, nothing at all, all, all...

[Aristus]

76. "Hey everyone! Way to look alive!

(oh, sorry, Susan!)

[Emboldened Chimp]

80. "My Buns of Steel videos, no!"

[Qutzupalotl]

30. San Francisco International

and Angels' Revenge

"Hey, you're giving away the plot!"

[zbdent]

33. I loved the one with the giant spiders

where every time the "angry mob scene" would show, Tom & Crow would be shouting "Packers!"

[hiphopnation]

41. Anyone remember the one where Tom Servo sang "Creepy Girl"

That one was f'in hilarious. The movie was some beach thriller. Damn that was hilarious.

Also loved the invention segmant when joel made the "wearable drumset" so the drummer could be mobile. Don't remember the movie they watched that time, but that was hilarious. Joel was brilliant! So sorry to have had him leave!

of course "Manos: The Hands of Fate" is up there with "torgo" the assistant with unusually large thighs, to which Crow quips, "Looks like Torgo's been hittin that thigh-master!" LMAO!!

Damn that was a funny show.

"Sidehackers", OH OH OH OH!! And what about SAMPO!!!

Anyone remember "Sampo" the Norwegien film from the 50's? OMG that one probably takes the cake. Friggin hilarious. Thanks for this thread, it's bringing it all back! :thumbsup:

[hiphopnation]

44. I just found out that movie

"The Day the Earth Froze" Absolutely hysterical.

http://www.axis-of-aevil.net/archives/2004/09/the_day_the_ear.html

[jpak]

75. I remember seeing Sampo as a kid

Strange as shit it was....

<<<<<SAAAAAAMMMMPPPOOOO>>>>>

[Cornjob]

89. I believe the movie was Catalina Caper!

Complete with a stoned-out, deck-side song by none other than Little Richard.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

43. PRINCE OF SPACE!!!

[DrWeird]

45. PAGING MR. HERMAN:

lol

[Cush]

51. Krankor!

Ba-Kawk!

Your weapons have no effect on me!

[helnwhls]

52. Your weapons are useless against me!

Ha..Ha..Ha..

[MacGregor]

46. What, no love for "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians"?

So eminently quotable (Santa: "On no, we're going out the old-fashioned way..." Crow: "Guns a-blazin'!"). And "Let's Have a Patrick Swayze Christmas" is my new favorite holiday carol.

The Day the Earth Froze is great too: "It's a bag of Homer Simpson!"

[hiphopnation]

53. Sampo!

Hilarious.

[Phillycat]

63. Kids come runnin' for sampo!

My 2nd fave after Mitchell.

[DrWeird]

47. Personally, I liked Pod People.

Kind of slow, but that one intermission was great.

[redqueen]

49. What was the one with the Interferometer? or Interometer?

Also night of the lepus. Liked that one.

Manos and the Japanese monster flicks are shoo ins of course.

[MacGregor]

65. "This Island Earth"

It was used in MST3K: The Movie.

[redqueen]

66. THANK YOU!

That was really bugging me.

[Cush]

74. Mike broke the Hubble, Mike broke the Hubble!

[Cornjob]

90. Ah... the interrossiter!

Tom used his to make hot chocolate in his room.

[Torgo Johnson]

50. Hobgoblins

This, in spite of Mike Nelson. My favorite Joel ep would still be Manos.

[Cush]

55. "It's the 80's do a lot of coke and vote for Ronald Reagan"

"It's the 80's"

[Torgo Johnson]

57. It's hard to believe...

all the Reagan jokes they had on the show,especially considering the head writer's politics.

[hiphopnation]

58. I'll bite

I'm not aware of the head writer's politics. Are they conservatives?

[Torgo Johnson]

62. See post 28 by Chavez Speaks the Truth

[helnwhls]

86. never have 2 or 3 gels been used so well

[Gothic Sponge]

54. Manos, Mitchell, or Eegah.....

So many great ones!

[Red State Rebel]

56. A Touch of Satan

Look out, it's a walnut stampede!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

60. I Accuse My Parents and I killed them - let's see if they'll be laughing

now!

[telex54]

61. Either Godzilla vs. Megalon or

Secret Agent Super Dragon. I love those two. Cool to see some MST fans on here!:hi:

[Phillycat]

64. What's the one with Kathy Ireland?

Where they had the segment in between the movie, showed stills of her face and went through all her emotions: "Dull surprise. Look! Dull surprise. And...dull surprise!"

[MacGregor]

68. "Alien from L.A."

(Jeebus, I'm a nerd. *shakes fist impotently at my ages-ago fraternity brother who got me hooked on the stuff*)

That one may have been the first episode I ever saw (IIRC, one weekend in early 1994 MTV had an MST3K marathon that my roommate and I happened upon and couldn't turn away), and I may actually have that on my hard drive somewhere.

Other favorites: "Lost Continent," "Teenagers from Outer Space," "Fugitive Alien" and "Master Ninja."

If you ever want to blow your own mind, watch Ed Wood and the "Bride of the Monster" episode back-to-back.

Good times, good times...

[lazarus]

94. gods I love that one

That was my first one, too.

"I smell my eyes."

[Bluebear]

70. The Head that Wouldn't Die!

[derbstyron]

71. Eegah

How much O'Keefe you got in that movie?
Miles O' Keefe!

[Book Lover]

72. That's like picking your favorite child

I have been trying to reply to this thread for, no joke, days. I just can't pick one.

[m_welby]

77. there are so many, but i think the 1st one i saw

is the one i have to call my favorite only because it was my 1st.

I don't remember the name exactly, but it was one of the early episodes; mission to mars or something like that. I only remember it at all because the movie was written by Robert Heinlein.

after I saw it I bacme hooked and watched every episode with my sons (until my wife began screaming every time the theme song started).

[HawkerHurricane]

81. Written by R. Heinlein? Rocket Ship Galileo.

The only movie made of one of Heinlein's books while he was alive.

(The TV series 'Space Cadet' was also based on one of his books... which is why he never let Hollywood touch his stuff again. And seeing what they've done to his books since then, well...)

[m_welby]

85. ahh yes thank you.

I'd forgotten roket ship galileo. Of course its been over 30 (!) years since I read that, and space cadet for that matter. Those along with have space suit will travel, the rolling stones, and the green hills of earth were my earliest sci fi exposure.

coincidentally, I just picked up an old copy of methuselahs children recently and read that again for the first time in many years.

Always loved his stuff, too bad he was a huge conservative.

[HawkerHurricane]

87. Ah, but he was a honest conservative...

of the Libertarian, Ayn Rand-ian stripe... a better man than any in the Bushco administration!

[da_chimperor]

78. "Hmm, I seem to have become mint-flavored"

I'd have to say all of them. I honestly don't think I can pick the best.

[Clinton Crusader]

82. I Accuse My Parents - we have it taped and watch it constantly

even funnier after a few drinks ::hiccup::

"there's a six pack with my name all over it"

:kick:

[marigold20]

83. Son, whatever you do, DON"T LOOK UP!

It was some sort of Roman flick. The guys in their little tunics were climbing a rope.... I can't remember the name of the episode.

[liberalpragmatist]

84. MANOS!

"Hands of Fate"

[Cornjob]

88. Twelve to the Moon!

I still laugh out loud every time I think of the scene where the probe ship crashes to earth, followed by the African navigator's farewell of "sangay allai" to the two fallen space travellers. Crow then quips: that's foreign for "better them than me."

[Dastard Stepchild]

91. "Boggy Creek II: The Legend Continues"

This one is really, really, really good. As is "Mitchell."
"The Screaming Skull" is pretty good, too.

[Cornjob]

95. 'Whatever you do...

Don't let him show you the 'little creature'.

Boggy Creek is a truly great episode!

[Dastard Stepchild]

96. little Boggy Creek love for ya...

enjoy.....