So this week’s question from me is: What bits, songs, chunks of episodes or entire episodes do you have memorized? And are there any stories that go with why you’ve committed them to memory?
Me personally, there are big chunks of “Manos” I know by heart — and how sad is that?? And I know the words to a LOT of the songs by heart, largely because in the ’90s I had a set of cassette tapes I’d thrown together that contained songs and musical sections from the movies, that I played in my car constantly.
What about you?
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EEGAH, I Accuse My Parents, The Undead and Wild Rebels.
I have huge chunks of entire episodes memorized – usually ones that me and my wife watch together. These include: Eegah, Manos, Boggy Creek 2, and Incredibly Strange Creatures That Stopped Living ect…. Not to mention all the music ^^
I Accuse My Parents tends to pop up frequently in my mind, especially the bit where Joel analyses the bots. Girl in Gold Boots is another one that I’ve watched so often I could probably recite whole parts of it (especially the “Christmas in LA” song). Then there’s the Industrial Arts short. “I can’t get this thing back in my pants, Earl”, will just pop out of nowhere.
California Lady from Track of the Moon Beast. I just really like that song and I could sing all of it from memory, although I should know better.
The Hike Up your Pants song,Fire Maidens from Outer Space,Eegah;just to name a few..
I’m a guitarist, and I have performed the Hike Your Pants Up Song and the Sidehackers Song in public….
The. Whole. Damn. MST3K Movie.
On long car trips we can recite 90%+ of the movie.
“And if your hands were made of metal…” is a standard family response to . . . well, everything.
Hmmmm….
Most of “Pod People.”
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Don C.
I have big chunks of Manos, Mr. B, Revenge of the Creature and (of course) Danger! Death Ray memorized. But mostly I try not to watch my MST3K videos these days so that when I do watch them I can still keep them fresh and be present enough to notice nuances that I didn’t before. It’s a bizarre form of tough love I admit, but it works. I also have a similar embargo going with Mr. Show.
“I’m A danger to myself and others.” From ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES.
Soultaker, Skydivers, Angels Revenge, Eegah, Manos, and parts of Touch of Satan. Plus there are lots of random riffs that come to mind (and sometimes out of my mouth) at appropriate moments. And sometimes we sing parts of Patrick Swayze Christmas and When I Held Your Brain in My Arms, when we’re in the right mood.
Is it wrong that when either my wife or I have 50 dollars on us, the other says “We got dune buggy rides all week!”?
He learned almost too late that man is a feeling creature…
I’ve memorized much of Joel and the bots’ color sidehacking commentary (“Uh-oh, here comes Nutsy, the Sidehacking Clown, performing his famous Tension Envelope routine…!”)
Patrick Swayze Christma and The Cheating Saga.
The Canada song from “Final Sacrifice.” Anytime Canada is mentioned around the house, we start singing. And we also like to say, “Mustn’t hate!” “At least so overtly.”
I can pretty much recite the riffs from Space Mutiny, The Touch of Satan, Mitchell, and Werewolf verbatim, with or without the movie playing.
What this says about me I don’t know.
I knew that a friend and I were destined to be friends for life when, upon hearing the word “pants,” we both simultaneously began to sing, “Sing the praises of pants!” with no prior planning. =)
“When I Held Your Brain in My Arms, The Starfighters Song, Godzilla Geneaology Bop, and most of The Final Sacrifice, by now. My friend and I have whole conversations that trade off lines from episodes we both know.
What else but…
http://youtu.be/Tv0S2gzcEeU
PU-MA-MAN! he flies like a mo-ron!
For a while, the only access to MST3K I had was the Rhino VHS versions of Cave Dwellers and Wild Wild World of Batwoman (I had other tapes, but, for a variety of reasons, they weren’t out where I could get to them). I also didn’t have cable at the time, so these two tapes got played – a lot. My memory has faded somewhat since then – I don’t think I can recite either episode verbatim anymore – but queue one up and I’ll be able to keep up.
I can do EEGAH and The Touch of Satan in my SLEEP! Eegah was the first episode I ever saw, and remains my favorite to this day, I think largely due to that reason. Of course I know the movie by heart, my favorite things to say are the unison answers given before the experiment (Did you all, you know, GO? “Yeeesss..” Because I don’t wanna have to stop the movie for, you know. “You won’t…”) and “Normal View”. I can sing “My My My My Mitchell” and my favorite song is Tom and Crow’s version of “Here We Come A-Wassailing”. :heart:
I could probably recite Final Sacrifice from memory if I had to. Yes, the entire movie! I also know big chunks of The Undead and The Deadly Mantis. Recently, I watched Prince of Space and Invasion of the Neptune Men quite a bit in an effort to tell them apart, and now I know big chunks of those, too.
Let’s see if I can do this.
It’s breastical, boobical, chestical, mammical, panular, globular fun!
“Fleshical, ogleral, mondular, scoopular?” Right-o, that’s the one!
“Is it glutial-maximal, tushical-crackular, funular-morning-till-night?”
Well, you’re absotu-glandular, fanny-fantastical, mastular, fleshular right!
It’s an areological, autoerotical, toobular, boobular joy,
An expoliar-regional, batchical, pouchilar fun for girl and boy,
A liticimal-dorsical, hung-like-a-horsical, calabaligical* ball!
The most bunular, funular!
Fruit of the loomular!
Frenchical tongular!
What but a boobular-
MOVIE OF THEM ALL!
*What might this be; I probably heard it wrong. Correct any other possible spelling errors too, please.
Oh! I’ve got another!
Oh, I wish I was back in old Canada,
a land which I never shall lampoon!
How I pine for the loveliness of Lake Manitoba
and the beauty that is Saskatoon!
Oh, I wish I was up in the hills of Alberta
drinking beer with some big, dumb guy trapping furs!
I we’d talk and he’d chisel all the moose-dung off his boots,
I would learn that he’s the prime minister!
Oh, I wish I was in the land that gave us Peter Jennings,
Alanis Morrisette, Mike Myers, too!
No, I take that back; I wouldn’t go there even if you paid me!
Oh, Canada you’re a place I must askew!
Oh, I wish I was blowing up Prince Edward Island,
and going on to bomb Ontario!
The destruction of Canada and all of its culture
is by far my favorite scenario!
Just where the hell does Canada get off sharing a border
with countries far superior to it?
Why, you lousy, stinkin’, Franco, phony, bacon-loving bastards!
Your country’s just a giant piece of-!
Not usin’ a single transcript!
In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve got a pretty good memory.
By the way, did you know that the world’s longest name is Adolf Blaine Charles Daivid Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irving John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft Sr?
Many of the lines from episode 1009 – Hamlet. that’s probably because it’s Shakespeare. And the song Tom Servo sings in Catalina Caper, “Creepy Girl”. C- is for that feeling of unCertainty in not quite knowing what ethnic group you are from, R is for the gift you give me, every time you smile…”
Much of Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, especially When Loving Lovers Love. Other episodes that I’ve got bouncing around in my noggin:
Creeping Terror
Eegah!
Horror of Party Beach
I Accuse My Parents
Touch of Satan
Mitchell
Creeping Terror
I suppose I have several memorized and I don’t even realize it but my fave is the jingle from “Clay and Lar’s Flesh Barn” From Women of the Prehistoric Planet.
If you’re tired of the same old fare
You’ve got a friend in Clay and Lar
All our meat is guaranteed rare!
Because we don’t cook it…
I love that one.
After only a few airings I could sing the entire Hired! musical. It didn’t see it again until the Bride of the Monster episode came out on DVD years later and I was amazed that it was exactly how I remembered.
MASTER NINJA THEME SONG !!!
It took me a long time to master, but I finally memorized all the lyrics to “The Lord Said ‘Laugh Children Laugh'” from The Giant Gila Monster.
Like most folk on here, it’s the musical sketches (and musical theater bits like the “Failure” song from When the Earth Froze and “He Tried to Kill Me With a Forklift/I Love Ken” from Fugitive Alien) that stick with me the best.
Following that, I could probably recite most of the “unhappy meals” invention exchange, and both “they just didn’t care” moments from Cave Dwellers and Attack of the the Eye Creatures.
I know every episode and its production number by heart.
Sometimes when a MSTied movie come on TV, I watch and try to insert where the riffs went. I can practically riff ‘Manos’ single-handedly.
I know every riff in WHY STUDY INDUSTRIAL ARTS? short, which is without a doubt, my favorite short MST3K ever did. “I’m making this for the Grand Wizard.”
Also,
since I watch SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS every year for Christmas, I got that whole dang thing almost memorized. “Lentils..”
Hey Sampo. I had an idea for a weekend thread. Take an invention by Joel, Mike or the Mads and repurpose it. For instance, the Steve-O-Meter from ‘Hercules Unchained’ is now the Simpson-O-Meter. It tells you if your idea has already been used on an episode of ‘The Simpsons’. This is in response to the increasingly irritating “Simpsons did it” meme.
Ah Mike, the stories I could tell of . . . exotic dancers jumping out of cakes, sounds exciting? Sure. But then, it’s 3 o’clock in the morning and you’re stuck with a fake cake you can’t eat and a stripper named Mindy who has to drive her babysitter home. And what’ve you got? Nothing.
#38 – Yes, I love that one, too, although the main character always makes me think of Kenyon Clutter, the boy who was killed as dramatized in “In Cold Blood” so it’s a little depressing. Plus, the first time I saw it I came close to choking to death on a piece of popcorn.
By the way:
HE JOCK IT MADE OF STEEL
EATS SUSHI FROM A PAIL
JET JAGUAR? JET JAGUAR!
HE MOTHER NEVER REALLY LOVE HIM
HE CRIMEFIGHTING COVERS UP A BASIC INSECURITY
HIS DICKEY COVERS UP AN ADAMS APPLE THE SIZE OF A TOYOTA
HE BASICALLY GOOD-HEARTED THOUGH HE’D LIKE TO SMASH THAT KID AGAINST A ROCK
KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!
WHO’S THERE?
HIS HEAD LOOKS LIKE JACK NICHOLSON
DON’T SMILE LIKE THAT, IT WILL STAY THAT WAY
YAMMMMAOAUGH!
DON’T TOUCH MY BAGS IF YOU PLEASE, MR. CUSTOMS MAN
The “Godzilla Geneaology Bop” from “Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster” because I’m a Godzilla fan and also because the tune is simple but somehow weirdly catchy.
I have memorized chunks of so many episodes that my brain is a kind of MST3K succotash. But if I narrow the field to the parts which haunt the chambers of my mind most frequently, Red Zone Cuba takes the prize:
“If you see anything, film it, we’ll put it in.”
“She’s wed to the devil.”
“My mother was a wood duck, my father was a can opener.”
“So where in Cuba are they?”
“Tab Hunter lives here.”
“Location, location, location.”
“I can’t stop thinking of those tasty frog legs.”
“The pie doesn’t make you wanna throw up.”
“I’m Cherokee Jack.”
And so on.
Randy
Manos and the movie for me.
What’s fun are the times I didn’t know I memorized something. Have you guys ever been watching an episode, heard a riff and thought, “Oh, that’s why I say that all the time”?
#25, cambottalks, I think the word is something like, “callipyligical,” a play on “callipygian” which means “beautiful buttocks.” It (callipygian) was also the name of Kevin’s character in Roman Times.
Oops, “Callipygeas” was the name of Kevin’s character!
I did neglect to mention Skydivers as well. That one plays over and over and over in my head. Makes me want to jump out of a plane with a parachute impregnated with acid…
“Did they drive to old Tijuana for acid?”
“Sex for sundries is fun, hey! Sex for sundries is fun!”
“Can I have some…aycid?”
“Oh, well I, oh my yes, Ohoh!”
Mike’s version of The Gamera Song in Deep 13, for sure. When I was losing my job at the end of last year and would have a sad moment I would just look this up on You Tube and instantly feel better. So basically I watched it many, many times.
“And I don’t need to tell YOU gentlemen that American musical theater was never the same!”
Eegah, Manos, Mitchell, Werewolf, Teenagers From Outer Space….
And I have every single song ripped from the dvd’s and on my phone that I can use as an MP3 player. Makes driving to and from work a happy experience when I’m not yelling at other drivers. :-D