Let's set a new response record!
Date: 08/25/2001
From: A_Judas_Rimmer
Back on our archived board SirSlush2 made a post which now sits at #47 asking people to set a response record. Alas, that board has been closed off and it will forever sit at a whopping 6507 replies. In memory of it, let's try it again. Let's try to set a new record (without spamming) under the same standards that SirSlush2 set: Replies should be about MST3K in some way.
Here are some examples of what you may want to discuss...
The first time you saw MST3K
Definitively name you favorite riff, episode, host segment and so on
Proclaim your love for a character on the show
Discuss a movie in depth
Use your imagination!
Replies begin NOW!
Replies
#1
Yipppeee! Invader Zim!
Date: 08/25/2001
From: Skreaming_Warlock
I've always wanted to talk about this but I never thought it was worth wasting a post over. Now I can say it guilt free. I love Invader Zim. It's the new cartoon on Nickelodeon co-written by TV's Frank. He's always with the Sci Fi, oy!
#2
"The Hills Are Alive..."
Date: 08/25/2001
From: suomitriplets
A favourite continual theme in MST is the obsession the writers have had with "The Sound Of Music"... I got to fully appreciate this when I was recently in London.... Near the Strand, there are twice weekly "Rocky Horror"-style screenings of "Sing Along With The Sound of Music" in which people come dressed as nuns, nazis, Gretels, Liesles, etc, etc... it's truly LIVE MST in action. I went and I felt as if I was in a 3-D version of an MST episode, particularly during one moment when Maria is seeking the help of the Abbey's reverent Mother... Maria says "I can't face....." and Mother replies "What is it you can't face?" Now say that sentence again in a very upper-crusty British accent... in fact, say it a few times, and soon you'll realize you're saying something extremely dirty. Tom hit on this same phenomenon in "The Projected Man" when the female researcher says "But Chris, you can't!" (in that same British accent) and Tom replies "What did she call him???
Wow, I live for little beautiful moments like that....
--John
#3
That is funny, suomitriplets!
Date: 08/25/2001
From: Skreaming_Warlock
I'd love to see that show just for that line.
I love the Rocky Horror Picture Show jokes that crop up in MST3K.
#4
Why doesn't someone try again?
Date: 08/25/2001
From: noexit
Joel did it with a tiny budget. Why isn't someone smart enough to try it again. With the way the nedia is nowadays they could advertise it twice and then it would 'promote' itself!. I mean, come on, if Charlies Angels got brought back from the dead, why not THIS series. If Sarah Michelle Geller got a $40,000.00 *gift basket* from FOX (UPN maybe? I tried to forget because of what it said about our culture. A culture where THAT happens, yet TEACHERS have to get second jobs to make ends meet) then OBVIOUSLY *someone* has a pile of money to piss away! I say 'piss' on lousy movies. The world needs the laugh.
David
Do you hear that? its the sound of a ton of people about to tell the realities of my idea.
#5
I'm watching 'The Black Scorpion' on AMC
Date: 08/25/2001
From: DblPlusUngood
I don't know if it was ever MSTed, but if ever a movie screamed for it, it is this gem of filmdoms "embarrassed-to-see-your-name-in-the-credits" SHAME CLUB.
I would get up and see if it was MSTed but what do you think?! that I'm not lazy? Besides, if you were listening, The Black Scorpion is on. And to think these *actors* actually looked themselves in the mirror in the morning upon waking up and before going to bed and said either "I am in The Black Scorpion"(yay!) or " I am in The Black Scorpion" ( I want to kill myself).
Who Ya Gonna Call??? *Career-Busters!!!!*
#6
<Cheek skis through post!> Whoohoo! n/t
Date: 08/25/2001
From: The_Alien_Abductor
Hey, it's related to MST. Watch Devilfish.
#7
The first time...
Date: 08/25/2001
From: grandmapa
Ah, the memories! It was in the April of '99, and I was just flipping through the channels one ordinary Saturday morning, when I came to what else but the Sci-Fi Channel. Now normally, I never watched the Sci-Fi Channel, since I just thought all of their programming was very weird and impossible to comprehend, so I would have just changed channels.
But, something caught my eye. I knew it was just another bad Sci-Fi movie, but it was different. A gumball machine thingy, a man, and something resemling a bunch of sticks glued together were at the bottom of my T.V. screen laughing, talking, and making fun of everything they saw. I had tuned in right as a girl was undressing to take a bath as someone resembing here mother looked on. As I watched trying to figure out what I had found, the little stick man shouted, "Arrrrg! I've got something in my eye!" at which point he ran off the screen trying to get it out and constanly asking "Is she naked yet?" I was laughing so hard I could hardly breathe!
I watched the rest of the show, and laughed all the way through it. Then, near the end, I saw the people that were at the bottom of my screen in this spaceship-like thing talking to this other guy in a red jumpsuit. He was talking about fixing stuff, so I just figured he was just an ordinary repairman there to fix stuff, so I didn't give him much thought. Then, it cut to a guy with a single blonde curl on his forehead, some woman who resembled Mimi on The Drew Carey Show, a talking gorilla, and a very white gothic clown. They were all in a castle talking about souls and playing ring-toss with one. I did not pay much attention to this, either. All I could think of was, "When is it on next week? I've gotta see it again!"
That episode was Soultaker, and I am very proud to say that my first episode was a piece of history. At that time, I had no idea what I was partaking in, but now I realize how important that episode was, and that I should be proud.
Now I can tell you, with pride, that's Mike, Tom, Crow, Joel, TV's Frank, Pearl, Bobo, and the Observer a.k.a. Brain Guy. Ah, the memories!
magrandpa?
grandmapa!, sch.
The Elderly Gender-Bender!
Vice-Prez of the I Hate Riddler Club!
President of the I Hate Hamburlgar Club!
11:22 A.M. CST!
#8
Hey, it's Mickey..
Date: 08/25/2001
From: MickeyTheGardener
And he's wearing pants today.
If I win Powerball tonight, I'm getting the Best Brains gang back together. And then, I'm going to buy NBC, and I'm going to put the new MST#K on Must See Thursdays. I'd also like a puppy.
#9
well, watching Assignment Venezuela
Date: 08/25/2001
From: MrBoj
I can see why this short was reluctantly not aired. There is a lot of laughing, and some "poopies" in there. But it is real fun! Fun! FUN!!!!!! HAAAAhehehahahHEHEHhoohoohahoHOHOHSTEWYEWYEW.
Although that clock is kind of annoying.
"I saw a nude midget circus..."
MrBoj< BIG ISIL< THE BARKING PUMPKIN
#10
/a streaks this post!
Date: 08/25/2001
From: wurwolf
Whoohoo!!! This isn't spamming!
wurwolf
Bonhead #3
fs!!
#11
This is taking forever!
Date: 08/25/2001
From: Carmelita9000
We'll never break 4000 at this rate! It could take years! It's been hours already and we don't even have the most posts since they started archiving this stuff! Aaaaah!
Oh, and while I'm here, isn't Tom Servo just the most darling little thing when he dresses up? Whenever I see Tom in costume, I have ever so much trouble resisting the urge to climb through the TV screen, give Tom a big hug, and talk to him in baby talk. Probably the only thing that stops me is the desire not to be cut by huge shards of broken glass from the screen (I'd have to break it to get through), or electricuted by all the many wires in my TV.
Tom is so cute!
Lita
I'm the birthday girl!
#12
This should get us at least 25 more!
Date: 08/25/2001
From: grandmapa
It's the ABC's of MST3k! I'll start by naming a character from one of the movies, starting with the letter A. Then, the next character has to start with B, then C, and so on until we get to Z, then it starts over! (if everyone isn't bored out of their minds by then)
Okay, I'll start: Ator! Remember, next reply starts with B!
magrandpa?
grandmapa!, sch.
The Elderly Gender-Bender!
Vice-Prez of the I Hate Riddler Club!
President of the I Hate Hamburglar Club!
Drunk Birthday Girl's cohort, Captain Hangover!
5:05 P.M. CST!
#13
Here grandmapa: Bees, as in Deadly! n/t
Date: 08/25/2001
From: Skreaming_Warlock
h
#14
C is for cookie... and Carmelita and...
Date: 08/25/2001
From: reubair
cheek ski!!!!!! I'm with ya on that one!
#15
D is for Devil Doll...
Date: 08/25/2001
From: KingBoodozer
and Duh'minion.
and D'oh!
and 'dozer
and that's it, because I am snowballing this post!
KingBoodozer
The nasty little man, with a snowball in hand.
KING!!
#16
E is for TV's Frank! Oh wait....
Date: 08/25/2001
From: wurwolf
Hell, I screwed up the game.
Wait, I know! E is for EEGAH! Or Egah, if you're a putz.
wurwolf
Bonhead #3
fs!1
#17
I got a fever...
Date: 08/25/2001
From: Dumbschmoe
And the only prescription is Fingal! I could have used a little more Fingal!
fw!!
no socks!
#18
gypsy, gorgo, gunslinger...
Date: 08/25/2001
From: suomitriplets
Giant (spider invasion), (everlasting) Gobstopper, Girl/Gold boots, the Great one (dull old guy courtesy of Cave dwellers), German-expressionist date (HS big shot), Giant Grasshoppers, Arlene Galonka, Glenn Manning (Glenn was over 50 feet tall...), Gerry! (protagonist of the mixed-up zombies)... ah, the G forces are running low...
-J
suomitriplets
#19
The name's Hodgson...
Date: 08/26/2001
From: SqueakyPineapple
...Joel Hodgson. Also:
Hellcats, Hugo (the dummy),(Ross) Hagen, Harold (P. Warren), and (Alan) Hale.
-/\/\ichelle
"Did I mention that I cried?"
#20
Ivanushka!
Date: 08/26/2001
From: Dumbschmoe
What's an ushka? And how do you get one?
fw!!
no socks
#21
J=Jam Handy!
Date: 08/26/2001
From: grandmapa
For without him, our favorite shorts would not exist.
Keep it moving! 21 replies down, 6,487 more to break the record!
magrandpa?
grandmapa!, sch.
The Elderly Gender-Bender!
Vice-Prez of the I Hate Riddler Club!
President of the I Hate Hamburglar Club!
#22
K is For
Date: 08/26/2001
From: h_wood
Krankor... Phantom of Krankor.
h_wood
"Heh, Heh, Heh..."
BTW:
F is for Flashbacks, to the alphabet short-
Well all be lucky not to end up in court!
#23
L is for Laserblast
Date: 08/26/2001
From: Big_Jim_Slade
and LEONARD Maltin who gave it 2 1/2 stars, the same as Unforgiven, A Fish Called Wanda, Marathon Man, etc.
Big Jim
only 6485 to go!!!
#24
Manos:The Hands of Fate
Date: 08/26/2001
From: pjTen
what can i say. its my favorite episode
pjten
#25
N is for...
Date: 08/26/2001
From: Big_Jim_Slade
Neptune Men, who blew up the Hitler building.
Big Jim
6423
#26
O is for Observer
Date: 08/26/2001
From: Big_Jim_Slade
the brain guy and also Overdrawn at the Memory Banks.
I forgot Robert Lippert for the L's, damn.
Big Jim
6482
#27
P is for the Packers!!!
Date: 08/26/2001
From: Big_Jim_Slade
Go Packers!!! WOOOOOO!!! It is also for Pumaman, Phantom Planet, the Projected Man, and Charles B. Pierce. I just HAD to get to this one as I am an actual cheesehead.
Big Jim
done for the night
6481 to go
#28
So Q has eveyone stumped?
Date: 08/26/2001
From: A_Judas_Rimmer
Me too. MST history must have a queen in it somewhere, right?
A_Judas_Rimmer
-I've just seen Black Adder's Nob and NNobility! LOL!
#29
R is ROWSDOWER!!!! n/t
Date: 08/26/2001
From: Maniac4insanity
Maniac4insanity
"That's because it's fly soup sir"
#30
I'll take S---- SOULTAKER!!!!! n/t
Date: 08/26/2001
From: A_Judas_Rimmer
f
#31
And T--- Tina the loveable Townstripper!
Date: 08/26/2001
From: A_Judas_Rimmer
Any other T's I'm missing?
#32
Umbrella!
Date: 08/26/2001
From: wurwolf
Like the one Joel was trying to open in City Limits, blocking the shot of the naked girl in the water tower.
wurwolf
Bonhead #3
fs!!
#33
V is for Voracious
Date: 08/26/2001
From: HenryX
As in "The Killer Shrew", which had a voracious appetite.
See, most people think this is just a silly movie with an attractive font used in the opening credits, with dogs dressed up like giant shrews. Actually, it's a thoughtful study on the perils of overpopulation, and how the inevitable result of unlimited population growth combined with a finite food supply is extinction. Thomas Malthus (no, not the one at the Sliders Board) would be proud.
#34
W is for wizard!
Date: 08/26/2001
From: grandmapa
As in Merlin, the evil old coot!
magrandpa?
grandmapa!, sch.
The Elderly Gender-Bender!
Vice-Prez of the I Hate Riddler Club!
President of the I Hate Hamburglar Club!
12:47 P.M. CST!
#35
X is for X-mas!
Date: 08/26/2001
From: grandmapa
Such as ones including Patrick Swayze!
magrandpa?
grandmapa!, sch.
The Elderly Gender-Bender!
Vice-Prez of the I Hate Riddler Club!
President of the I Hate Hamburglar Club!
12:54 P.M. CST!
#36
Y is for Yamoglanche...
Date: 08/26/2001
From: Dumbschmoe
Or yalloglanchie or yalaglochie or tallahassee or however way that wacky word is spelled. In other words, it's a wurwolf!!
fw!!
no socks
#37
If I'm spelling it right there's Ziox.
Date: 08/26/2001
From: reubair
You know, Ziox. The mighty civilization that once thrived in the deep woods of Canada according to "Final Sacrifice." If not then wasn't the chick in "Phantom Planet" named Zetha? If I am still mistaken there is always Zack from "Soultaker." Maybe Zzzzzzzzzzzzz is the sound we would make if we had to watch these movies unMSTed.
reubair/reburial
#38
Now what do we do?
Date: 08/26/2001
From: wurwolf
Read any good books lately?
And oh you, you're cute!!! :o)
wurwolf
Bonhead #3
fs!!
#39
Back 2 the 1st Episode Thread...
Date: 08/26/2001
From: h_wood
I've been watching so long that I'm not sure exactly which episode was first, but like I said before, I think it was somewhere in season three, or possibly four. For some reason Teenagers From Outer Space sticks out in my mind, so that very well could have been #1 for me. The confusing thing is I think I started watching the late night reruns before I knew when the first run shows were on!
h_wood
"But what about the TORCHAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!"
#40
Here's a serious discussion question...
Date: 08/26/2001
From: Nydia
What do you think flavo-fives taste like? (Flavo-fives are the potato chip thingies from Overdrawn at the Memory Bank.)Are they potato chips or are they from a different source? And what makes them so flavorful? The lady eating them in the movie mentions getting fat on them but don't you think food would be healthier in the future?
#41
I'm pretty sure...
Date: 08/26/2001
From: Carmelita9000
A Flav-O-Five would taste kind of minty. You know, like an after dinner mint, but with a lighter, less noticable taste. Nothing tastes *really* good in the B-movie future, see, because all our resources are used up. I definitely don't think it would taste like a potato chip. Did we ever actually *see* one in the movie? Because I don't remember what they look like.
Lita
#42
My first ep....
Date: 08/26/2001
From: wurwolf
I think it was Sidehackers. Maybe. I know it was a Joel ep, and I'm pretty sure there was a guy riding down a road on a motorcycle. I do remember the feeling I first had when I was watching it, like wow, this is great! What a funny show! I had been watching Mad Movies (I think that's what it was called), where a bunch of people take a movie, condense it to a half hour, take out all the dialogue and put in their own. I also like What's Up Tiger Lily, so I was a big fan of the genre. And then I found MST3k and I was hooked!
And I think flavo-fives are pretty damn tasteless. It seems like everything else in the future is dull and boring, why not the food.
wurwolf
Bonhead #3
fs!!
#43
My flav-o-guess
Date: 08/26/2001
From: MickeyTheGardener
They probably taste like styrofoam, not because all our resources and flavor is gone, but because in the bleek, horrible future that is "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank", flavor, much like cinemas, is considered a form of pleasure (Is it...sexy?).
Mickey (Still a poor, MST3K-less shlub living in New Hampshire)
#44
Flavo-Fives
Date: 08/26/2001
From: h_wood
I think the flavo-fives probably would be like our modern potato chips. They'd come in all sorts of flavors, some familiar like barbecue or sour cream & onion (of course treny future citizens would go for the hint-o-lime flavo-fives). Of course future residents will undoubtably come up with their own flavors, possibly lazy baboon and Steeenkeeng Anteater.
h_wood
"Godzilla? A Tree? That's not like you!"
#45
Let's use Grandmapa's Idea!
Date: 08/26/2001
From: ZekeThePlumber
Start the alphabet over!
#46
h_wood, Steeekeeng anteater?
Date: 08/26/2001
From: Skreaming_Warlock
Does that mean it tastes like chicken? Really steeenky chicken.
I'm thinking along the same lines that Carmelita did. Flav-O Fives are probably a product of something that's none food because in the future we will have depleted our food resources. They'll probably have never even seen a real potato in the future. (That was an amazing and probably wrong future/past tense sentence!) They will probably use something for Flav-O Fives that there will be plenty of like recycled newspapers from old garbage dumps.
Flavors? SynthoSourcream and Onions. FauxFrenchFry. SoClose to Cheddar. Stuff like that.
#47
Well, now it's a tie.
Date: 08/26/2001
From: chumpmonkey
Can we do it?!
#48
Having Never Eaten An Anteater...
Date: 08/27/2001
From: h_wood
I wouldn't know. However, since _everything_ tastes like chicken, I'm willing to admit it's a possibility. On the other hand, the lazy baboon flavored Flavo-Fives would naturally taste like duck.
I dunno, I guess I was just struck by the fact that the scriptwriters of Overdrawn had such an odd fixation on anteaters & baboons. I mean, why those two animals? Wouldn't sending Raul on a week long holiday in an Aardvark be just as demeaning? Or why not condemn the boss to a life as a Three Toed Sloth? Oh wait, baboons are what they had stock footage of. My bad. Please ignore the last paragraph!
Ciao for now,
h_wood
"My other tree's a redwood."
#49
oh no... THE HORRID FLAVO TRUTH!
Date: 08/27/2001
From: thedeadoutkast
I know what Flavo fives are.
Think about it... Arim Fingle was a person who (allegedly) thought outside of the box. he could see past the whole Flavo five green color and find the ingredients.
in the meantime, he had other problems. The horrid aspect of being doppled into an anteater was plaging him every minute. But, why?
Then it dawned on me. A horrid truth. Flavo-fives ARE anteaters! Fingle realized this, and didnt want the last thing he saw to be some Pat Benatar impersonator shoving him down her throat.
My god! so the whole slam on anteaters was actually some morbid futuristic reference about a future where anteaters are processed into bite-sized morsels. My god!
FLAVO-FIVES are ANTEATERS!
FLAVO-FIVES are ANTEATERS!
#50
Thissong is for a very special Prop Diva
Date: 08/27/2001
From: thedeadoutkast
Well, ever since i saw you...
playing it as Steffi...
i couldnt think of anything else
Beez... this is for you
COME ON BEEZ!
(sung to the tune of "Come on Eileen" by Dexy's midnight runners)
cute Little Prop Diva
Saw you hittin bobo
Told brain guy needed to stay cool
In Pearls place.
Called crow, cow instead!
You sew
you woo...
Now i need you more than ever.
Tom servo Cow Robot, and MIIIIKE
They'll riff all day for you!!!!
<chorus
Cmon Beez!
Himm up that shirt for me!
Play a part
instead of an extra
Need you to dress
For a roman mess
your every part!
Cmon beez!
Look great as a tourist
even a late florist (it rhymes)
Your hairs like...
Natalie Imbruglia!
<end chorus>
Beez, please be a roman!
Stand next to pearl
ask if shes a god...
That a toga!
Looks good on ya!
Brain guyius got crush on ya!
Oh beez, oh please,get me that prop!
<chorus, again>
Yah! cmon!
Beez, your my dream now
Hey! cmon!
Beez your a cutie!
Yah! cmon!
Beez please do a part now
oh yeah! cmon!
<chorus, yet again>
What do you think, sirs.
BOBO: Please dont treat me like this, in a distinguished professor of anthropology from a future where apes evolve from man!
STEFFI:........(heres the kicker) NO CHEW! NO!
man, theres hair everywhere!
#51
New discussion.
Date: 08/27/2001
From: A_Judas_Rimmer
Does anyone else have a topic we could talk about?
I can start us off, I guess. (If anyone else wants to weigh in on Nydia's question about Flav-O Fives go right ahead. I'm just picking a new topic.)
Is Rowsdower's name actually Zap? If it is,why do you suppose his parents named him that and if it's a nickname, how do you think he earned it?
#52
I think you've all missed something.
Date: 08/27/2001
From: PharaohMobius
Flavo-fives (fibes?) were made in a slightly dystopian future, right? One where megacorps ruled the world? Think about how products get co-opted when the company that produces them gets bought out. Many times, the new owners just change the name and the packaging and sell essentially the same product to people who don't know the difference (for example, this happened to Pop Rocks). Therefore, I reason that the Nirvana corporation bought out a little food-processng company that produced a food loved by all (except for Charlton Heston): Soylent Green.
Yes, you all know what that means...
FLAVO-FIVES ARE MADE OF PEOPLE!!! *PEOPLE*!!!!!!!
TmPM
Sarcophagus!
#53
My theory on Rowsdower:
Date: 08/27/2001
From: PharaohMobius
I think that Rowsdower got the moniker "Zap" late one night at a little tavern he loved to frequent. He sat there drinking, alone and bitter, until last call. After being forcibly removed from the tavern, he decided he *really* had to take a leak. He went around to the back of the tavern, unzipped and let it all go. What he didn't take into consideration is that this tavern was right next dor to a cattle farm. More specifically, it was directly adjacent to the farm's electrified fence...
And that night, he became known as *Zap* Rowsdower.
TmPM
Sarcophagus!
#54
Eww! Pharoah! A genital zap?
Date: 08/27/2001
From: phigment
Have you no shame?
Of course I had the same thing in mind only a different set of circumstances... er... circumcision! Zap's doctor (not rabbi because I don't think Zap is jewish) was experimenting with lazer circumcision and Zap was so named for the resulting accident thus making Zap a drunken cultist.
#55
My much simpler Rowsdower theory.
Date: 08/27/2001
From: Carmelita9000
Clearly, Rowsdower's parents were immigrants from... wherever the hell they came from. Zap is a shortening of Rowsdower's real name, Z'apadoszdarrsallarilajjallah. Duh.
I still stand by my original flav-o-five theory too. (And let's face it, the "o" in flav-o-five has to be separate. That's much more processed-food-product sounding. Like Bit O' Honey.) Of course, I see no reason why flav-o-five's can't be minty, *and* be made from people (or anteaters, if you prefer, maybe both!).
Lita
maybe Zap is a common Xiox name
like Bob or John
#56
My first MST episode...
Date: 08/27/2001
From: Carmelita9000
...was actually the home game.
For those of you who don't know what this was, Sci-fi put it on maybe once or twice to kind of promote the real MST coming to their channel. This was back in the day when TV people were just finding out what the internet was (about 10,000 years after everybody else) and just about every show you turned on (especially MTV) had some dumb little chat going on at the bottom. Like if you turned on The Real World, and felt like doing lots of reading, you'd see stuff like this scrolling across the bottom:
wayzgoose51: FLORA IS SUCH A BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
josie9835390: dont call women bitches you ass
steve: those to guys are gay that is so gay
godboy316: When God made ppl He mad adam and eve not adam and steve!!!!!!!!!!
batgrrl: your such an intolerent idiot godboy! my best friend is gay!
godboy316: your best friend is a sinner!!!!!!!!!
wayzgoose51: ABORTION IS MURDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Etc. It just went on and on like that for hours on end, only I'm pretty sure the people were stupider. Anyway, the home game was just like that, only, the people who played weren't there to argue incoherently about the issues of the day, they were there to make fun of some Corman flick, the title escapes me at the moment. M&TB weren't there. There were the seats and everything, but nobody was sitting in them. Instead, the whole chat thing scrolled by under the seats, and you could read all the riffs that the people at home made. I don't remember much about the movie or the riffs, except that they spent a lot of time making fun of the old prospector and his mule, and the curtains in this one house.
I was hooked. And I had no idea that this wasn't how the show was usually done. When I saw my first actual episode, with Mike, Crow, and Servo, I was *really* confused. But only for, like, a couple of seconds. Because then things started getting really funny, and I was laughing too hard to stay confused. My first real episode was either Deadly Mantis or Revenge of the Creature. I don't remember for sure, but my money is on Revenge, because that was the first Sci-Fi ep. (right?)
Anyway, my road to full fledged MSTiedom continued from there. But that story shall be saved for another reply, later on.
Lita
President of the I Hate The Riddler Club
Vice-Prez of the I Hate Hamburglar Club
#57
PEEK!!!
Date: 08/27/2001
From: BAND_OF_GYPSYS
PEEK!!!
#58
PINK UNDIES!!!!111!!!
Date: 08/27/2001
From: A_Judas_Rimmer
Give me something to peek at, baby! Wooooo!
#59
o/` La la la la la la la....
Date: 08/27/2001
From: PharaohMobius
...Crow.
La la la la la la la la... Crow.
La la la la la la la la... Crow. o/`
Thankyew, that was the "Crow Theme Song", from way back in the CC days, sometime.
Anyone else want to karaoke? Another character's theme song, perhaps? Or just some other song (either from a host segment or from a movie) that you're itchin' to sing? Now's the time, I've got the karaoke function set on the Really Big Sound SystemŽ!
The mad Pharaoh Mobius
Sarcophagus!
#60
I know what let's do!
Date: 08/27/2001
From: A_Judas_Rimmer
If you've ever seen "Whose Line is it Anyway?" you'll see that they have a game where they are only allowed to ask questions during a conversation. Let's have a conversation that's strictly riffs and see how long we can carry it out.
To make this conversation work I have the following rules:
1. The quoted riff must be in the reply title.
2. Start each reply title that is a riff with an asterick so people can easily separate the riff conversation from other replies.
ex: *Jam Handy reminds you to keep your jams handy!
3. The riff won't always fit in the title and that's okay if it runs over into the body of the reply. I would ask that you name the MST3K movie that the riff came from in the body of the reply.
4. The conversation doesn't have to make sense. Chances are it will be quite surreal so it's all for fun.
I'll go first. Hang on...
#61
*Okay, I'll accept a little sex from you
Date: 08/27/2001
From: A_Judas_Rimmer
*from Devilfish
If you skipped my reply before this go read it now.
Thanks!
#62
MST3K sampler tapes that I make
Date: 08/27/2001
From: bobdenby
Since this dumb computer is loading incredibly slow today,
I am unable to read any of the neat replies.
I will have to go back when this thing decides to speed up a bit.
So forgive me if I am breaking up the continuity of any topic that you guys are currently on.
In the meantime I thought I would discuss one of my MST3K hobbies.
I like to edit my own "sampler" tapes.These are 2 hour SP tapes that consist of cut after cut of my favorible material.
I recently made two volumes of great stuff-each one containing at least 75 different movies or shorts,with close to a hundred different scenes.
they are great to watch when I don't feel like focusing
in on one entire episode,like if I'm just cleaning or doing paper work and I want something decent on to look up at every once in a while.
Plus they are hilarious.
The first two volumes were very hard to edit.Its really hard to know exactly where to pause and drop in the next bit,and sometimes it takes many re-do's.
I used to have a decent but cheap, mono Sharp VCR that made it easier to pinpoint the exact cut-in point, but it died half way through the second volume.
So I searched for a new one and bought and returned three successive VCR's.I couldn't find one that met all my needs.
Finally I discovered a great one on sale at Crutchfield's website,a JVC S-VHS with a flying erase head (Woooo!) for only $170.00.
So I bought that.Its better than the kind without a flying erase head because you don't have that annoying 'rainbow' effect in between cuts.It really cleans up the edits nicely.
but its still hard to pinpoint exact edit points.
When you pause, you have to bump the shuttle back 3 seconds.
Then when you hit record you have to wait three seconds before what you are dubbing begins to record, so you have to factor all that in to get precise edits.
It can be frustrating sometimes,and other times its a breeze.As long as I follow my "3" factor, it works fine.
I just completed my first hour on my third volume and its going pretty well.It is different from the first two volumes because it doesn't have that annoying 'rainbow' effect between edits.
The old cheap Sharp was good in that sometimes it "forgot" to put that dumb 'rainbow' effect quite often,giving me better edits.It also didn't have to go back any seconds after it was paused-It held it perfectly at that point until the next record was done.But you still had to wait 3 or 4 seconds before beginning.
I originally got into doing these in the first place Because I buffer both ends of all my episode dubs (the ones I give to friends)with about ten minutes of those cuts at the beginning and about 20 minutes at the end in order to fill up and make the most of the tapes.
The ends of tapes are the most vulnerable to damage and thats why I never start any important recording without taping something less important for at least the first 5 minutes of every tape.
People always tell me those are some of their favorite things about the tapes I give and lend to them.
Some people say they just watch all the beginnings of all the tapes I have given them.
I like them too and I do that sometimes too.
So I decided to try to do a full 2 hours of it, and I have really enjoyed doing them.
This current volume that I am doing now will only have about 50 different episodes but it will give me time to more deeply explore particular parts that I really like alot.
For example last night I was bouncing between "The Skydivers", "San Francisco International", "Beginning Of The End", "War of The Colossal Beast", "The Starfighters", the short "The Home Economics Story", and "Track of The Moon Beast".
After I spend time working on these, I get those riffs and songs from the movies in my head for weeks and can't get them out, at least until I do a new batch of them.
It takes 3 or 4 weeks per tape at least.
So There!
The Elusive Robert Denby
Man answering phone: "I... don't know... that he's here.
Mike: "I admit its a convoluted way of saying it..."
#614, San Francisco International
#63
*I can't help but feel that was...
Date: 08/27/2001
From: PharaohMobius
...directed at me.
*From "She Creature", I think.
Fun!
TmPM
Sarcophagus!
#64
* I'm so naughty, naughty I am!
Date: 08/27/2001
From: HenryX
* I think this is from the short "Body Care and Grooming", shown with "Painted Hills".
#65
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Date: 08/27/2001
From: Mistyboy
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#66
*We have additional sex for you also.
Date: 08/27/2001
From: A_Judas_Rimmer
*Angels Revenge
As a side note I want to rethank Schmoe and wurwolf for sending that movie to me on my birthday! I LOVE IT!
#67
*Why its oily, sleazy talk!
Date: 08/27/2001
From: thedeadoutkast
CROW
Manos: hand of fate
#68
*Mom, my nuts...
Date: 08/27/2001
From: The_Alien_Abductor
*Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
#69
You want a song? You've got it!
Date: 08/27/2001
From: BAND_OF_GYPSYS
Ahem.....
#70
In the not to distant future...
Date: 08/27/2001
From: BAND_OF_GYPSYS
@
#71
Next Sunday A.D...
Date: 08/27/2001
From: BAND_OF_GYPSYS
@
#72
There was a guy named Joel.....
Date: 08/27/2001
From: BAND_OF_GYPSYS
@
#73
B.O.G.! Are you spamming me!?
Date: 08/27/2001
From: A_Judas_Rimmer
Well that's enough young man! No pink undies for a week! In fact, no undies for you at all, young man! You must prance around without undies until you learn respect for others!
#74
Not too different from you or me...
Date: 08/27/2001
From: BAND_OF_GYPSYS
@
#75
Hey, look at me! I'm naked!!!!!!!
Date: 08/27/2001
From: BAND_OF_GYPSYS
O.K. I'll quit making song posts. I'll finish it right here........
He worked at Gizmonic Institute...
Just another face in a red jumpsuit...
He did a good job claening up the place...
But his bosses didn't like him...
So they shot him into space...
We'll send him cheesy movies...
The worst we can find (la-la-la)...
He'll have to sit and watch them all...
And we'll monitor his mind (la-la-la)...
Now keep in mind Joel can't control...
Where the movies begin or end (la-la-la)...
Because he used those special parts...
To make his robot friends...
Robot roll call: (All right, let's go!)
Cambot! (Pan left!)
Gypsy! (Hi, girl!)
Tom Servo! (What a cool guy!)
Croooow! (He's a wisecracker.)
If you're wondering how he eats and breathes...
and other science facts (la-la-la)...
The repeat to yourself,"It's just a show,
I should really just relax...
For Mystery Science Theater 3000!"
twang!
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