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Weekend Discussion Thread: Sleeping Pill Episodes

This one’s going to be a little different. Which episodes put you to sleep and why?
Here’s my list and I have to say I got a little drowsy just compiling it.
For this, I picked one from each season.

• 103- MAD MONSTER (with short: COMMANDO CODY PT 2)–I think it’s just the bad print, the dark, gray scenes and the slow pace. I’m usually snoring by the second host segment.
• 209- THE HELLCATS–I’m not sure why this one puts me out. Maybe it’s the dull sameness of the movie.
• 303- POD PEOPLE–It one may surprise some people, but this is my all-time No. 1 sleeping pill. I don’t think I’ve ever made it all the way through without falling asleep. The host segments are terrific, but the movie, ugh. Maybe it’s the new age music and all the fog, but I’m snoring in no time.
• 413- MANHUNT IN SPACE (with short: GENERAL HOSPITAL PT 1)–The short’s pretty sleepy all by itself, and the movie is just gray and dull, with endless takeoffs and landings and long conversations. Zzzz…
• 508- OPERATION DOUBLE 007–I think this may have more to do with the fact that I can’t follow the plot. My mind wanders and the next thing I’m curled up on the couch.
• 624- SAMSON VS. THE VAMPIRE WOMEN–This one starts well, and of course the segments, with Frank’s departure, are memorable. But the movie just drags.
• 705- ESCAPE 2000–Another movie i can’t make head or tail of, and soon I’m in dreamland. And believe me, you don’t want this movie playing while you’re half asleep…
• 807- TERROR FROM THE YEAR 5000–Talky, gray and tiresome.
• 908- THE TOUCH OF SATAN–Another movie with a very leisurely pace. Just doesn’t hold my interest.
• 1009- HAMLET–I like this episode more than a lot of people do, but the static filming and the dark, blank sets make my eyes droop.

I need a cup of coffee. What are yours?

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  1. Professor Gunther says:

    This might sound odd, but there are episodes my wife and I watch when we _know_ that we’re likely to fall asleep but that it won’t matter if we do. Hmmmm. Does that, then, answer the question?

    1) “Monster A Go-Go.” Don’t get me wrong, the _episode_ is a classic. But I’m almost _never_ awake in time to hear that there “was no monster.”

    2) “Prince of Space.” Another of my favourites. But the second half of this one drags and drags. And the constant chicken sounds only fuel my desire to snooze.

    3) “The Beginning of the End.” Yet another of my favourites. But the last part of this movie is boring, even if I always do laugh watching the grasshoppers scurry around on the postcards.

    4) “The Deadly Mantis.” _Is_ this my very favourite episode? Possibly. By the time the Mantis is in the tunnel, though, I’m out like a light.

    Okay, I find it odd that some of my/our favourite episodes induce so much sleep. But I judge an episode (usually) on the strength of the riffing and host segments (in combination with the movie–okay, it’s a little complicated). The fact that I have seen “Monster A Go-Go” more times than I have seen Bergman’s “Wild Strawberries” worries me a little, but there it is. I blame the geniuses who came up with this show!

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  2. jessiethegeek says:

    ah well let me see
    Manos-while i didnt fall asleep(i couldnt tear away from the car wreckness)but my eyes sort of glazed over in horror
    spider invasion-the movie just seemed so boring
    crqap,i cannot remember what its called,its an ed wood jr film about the smut trade.its when frank is gonna bomb deep 13.i cannot watch thatg episode it is sooooo boring.its grey,and plotless and gahh :shock:
    parts a clonus horror-this is jsut a sleppy colored episode.dull color mmisty,mysterious :???:
    killer shrew-again i dont fall asleep,but my mind wanders and i usualy cant finish it.i have ot turn it off.i guess because theirs so little movement
    (“they’re glued to the floor,just like in th emovie.they dont move at all.*sob*)
    but theres several episodes where we could watch forever… :smile:
    Now thehost segments in these are great.

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  3. Kasha says:

    Love all the eps to death but…
    The Dead Talk Back -Uuuuugh, cannot keep my eyes open.
    The Beast of Yucca Flats- Cannot stay up through. Can. Not.
    The Girl in Gold Boots- Eyes get heavy just thinkin’ about it.

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  4. Zach says:

    Well, as I have fallen asleep to the show literally every single night of the year for almost a decade, it’s pretty hard to say.

    That being said, outside of the ones you mentioned, “Creeping Terror” & “Monster A Go-Go” work pretty well because of the long stretches of silence and/or music.

    Or pretty much anything with a lot of narration, come to think of it.

    I can tell you the worst one to fall asleep to is “The Violent Years” which is pretty calm until Tom Servo does his Star is Born shtick and bamn, good old fashioned nightmare fuel.

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  5. adoptadog says:

    A good question, Sampo. I too love all the eps, but there ARE some where I find it hard to keep my eyes open:

    *Amazing Transparent Man, despite the great short, is just too much for me.

    *Indestructible Man, ditto.

    *Rocketship X-M; no matter how I enjoy watching the host segments, the movie is too dreary even for me.

    *Fugitive Alien; I really like this ep, the “Ha ha ha…you’re stuck here!” and all the riffs, but…it’s like a fine sedative, and I drift in & out.

    *Master Ninja: because it’s just combined episodes from a bland 70s tv show, that’s snooze material right there.

    *Gorgo; again, I actually like all the “Dorkin” in this ep, and the buildings being crushed. Still, I tend to fall asleep.

    *Brute Man; this one is just too dark and dull anyhow. I think it would be my first choice for background noise if I wanted a good nap.

    Of course, I can fall asleep during many of the eps, not because they are necessarily “snooze-worthy” but because they are familiar and comforting.

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  6. Pete says:

    STARFIGHTERS – because nothing happens. I’m out after the 3rd refuling scene and always miss POOPIE SUIT. The poster had the biggest lie ever printed in movie advertising: “The blazing adventure of the men and planes who rocket to the very edge of outer space!”

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  7. Invader Pet says:

    The Crawling Eye and Hamlet are the only episodes of MST3K that have put me out like a light.

    I really like Pod People actually. One of season 3’s funniest.

    “Even the movie The Fog, didn’t have this much fog!”

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  8. underwoc says:

    For me, the worst has to be RED ZONE CUBA. “Night Train to Mundo Fine” hits me about like swilling a bottle of Night Train – not only do I pass out, but I wake up with a splitting headache and the flavor of discarded carpet padding left in a San Francisco alleyway in my mouth.

    MIGHTY JACK, THE ATOMIC BRAIN and HAMLET are pretty snoozy, too. And I remember getting pretty bored of Gamera flicks the first time around. I’m not too big on the Phantom Creeps shorts, either.

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  9. Nicolletta says:

    Blood Waters of Dr. Z–and…at just the right moment…ZZzzzzzzzzz

    Mitchell–Boring beyond words

    Hamlet–see “Mitchell”

    The Touch of Satan–yak yak yak Witch yak yak yak Lucinda yak yak yak yak Satan yak yak yak…

    The Atomic Brain–the cure for insomnia has been found!

    The Unearthly–“Time for go to bed.” Sounds like a good idea to me.

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  10. Thunder Dan says:

    The Screaming Skull.

    /topic

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  11. Holly says:

    Boggy Creek 2- It’s just so dull, I’m out well before they find the guy in the ape suit, I mean the “creature.”

    Hamlet- another dull one.

    My husband falls asleep during any of the Coleman Francis movies. I actually like Red Zone Cuba and Beast of Yucca Flats, but for some reason Skydivers puts me out.

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  12. Steve says:

    I’ve lost track of all the ones that put me to sleep–none of them stick out as knocker-outers to me, though. The main problem for me is that I end up watching them later at night, usually somewhere comfortable, and I just doze off. I think it was The Mole People that did it last. Any of the Hercules movies, too. I’m not sure if I’ve ever really finished any of them because I missed to much from passing out; then I’m too lazy to find the last part I remember and start it up again.

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  13. MeMyselfandI says:

    I’m surprised at alot of Sampo’s choices. Eps I have a hard time keeping my eyelids open for are:

    1) The Dead Talk Back
    2) Hamlet
    3) The Gunslinger
    4) Invasion of the Neptune Men
    5) The Corpe Vanishes

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  14. soundandvision says:

    This is a great topic!

    I agree with you Sampo, I have always felt pretty much the same about POD PEOPLE. Great host segments, extremely clever and then the movie is like diphenhydramine…

    Here’s my list:

    203 JUNGLE GODDESS – The best part of this episode is the short. “How fortunate, this will simplify everthing”. Once the plane crashes in the movie, yikes…my eye lids feel like they have weights on them.

    305 STRANDED IN SPACE – I haven’t seen this episode in years, probably since the mid-90s and I still distinctly remember fighting to stay awake and tape this one and edit out commercials. Yeesh. Half of my tape had commercials edited…half didn’t.

    306 TIME OF THE APES – It just never did anything for me. But I’m not much of a Planet of the Apes fan anyway, could explain that.

    323 CASTLE OF FU MANCHU – I don’t remember much about this one either, just the colors, and how the movie looked. And Joel’s famously dirty line about the seat covers. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz

    405 BEING FROM ANOTHER PLANET – It’s perhaps unfair to pick on this episode because it’s notoriously not “good”. Another snoozer..

    I’ll stop at 5.

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  15. daffyphack says:

    I also gotta agree with Pod People. It has amazing moments, but the bulk of it is just so hard to watch.

    But Creeping Terror is definitely the number 1. I’ll give them credit for trying, but its really hard to riff a movie where NOTHING EVER HAPPENS.

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  16. Bat Masterson says:

    I can and do fall asleep to any episode.

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  17. Invader Pet says:

    Stuff does happen in Creeping Terror! A big carpet monster goes around looking for food, and humans voluntarily climb into its mouth! How do you call that stuff not happening?

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  18. Mark says:

    Gotta go with Hamlet. That version would put Shakespeare to sleep.
    Also, GORGO. There’s some nice action, but their accents are so strong, the movie needs subtitles.

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  19. bigdaddy320 says:

    It doesn’t really matter which ep i watch. They all put me to sleep at some point. I think that my brain is conditioned to fall asleep for this show because I used to struggle to stay awake for so many years watching the show the first time around. But, the ep’s that have me out before the first host segment have always been “Hamlet” and “Overdrawn at the memory bank”.

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  20. Rex Dart, Eskimo Spy says:

    I would have to say that any of the Japanese movies during the Joel era tend to put me to sleep, mostly because they are so repetitive and incoherent.

    Actually, as much as I love Joel, he tends to make me drowsy all by himself, what with his droopy lids and sleepy voice. “Hi everyone, welcome to the Satellite-a-luv.” Very soothing!

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  21. Vornoff says:

    Pretty much only the KTMA episodes put me out. There’s just so many long lulls in the riffing, you have to actually be interested in the movie to get through it.

    With that in mind, I’d vote for “The Million Eyes of Sumaru” and the KTMA versions of “Mighty Jack” and “Time of the Apes.”

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  22. Queen Shadowrama says:

    I tried watching The Indestructible Man last night, and ended up falling asleep. I can’t think of any others specifically, but if I want to be sure that I can stay awake during a late-night episode viewing, I’m going the fare a lot better with a color film. The black and white films, no matter how good the riffing is, put me in la-la land all the time if I’m watching at night.

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  23. outmywindow says:

    The only episode I”ve ever literally fallen asleep to was ‘Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.’ Then again, I’d been awake for about 35 hours when I started watching it. I rewatched ll of it about a week later and found that it’s the only episode I don’t think I’ll ever watch again, simply because of how goddamn annoying Droppo is.

    Other eps that cause me to glaze over and lose interest:
    – ‘Prince of Space’ (for some reason, I have a hard time getting into the Japanese flicks)
    – ‘The Unearthly’ the first time around, though on subsequent viewings I’ve enjoyed it.

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  24. Tony says:

    “Monster a Go-Go” is one of the worst offenders for me.

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  25. Green Switch says:

    It’s the oddest thing, really.

    MST3K *does* put me to sleep, but not because the featured movie is boring or anything. It’s because some episodes are so entertaining and funny that they put me in a relaxed state. Under those circumstances, it would be easy for me to get some shuteye.

    I remember a number of occasions where I fell asleep during “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.” This has nothing to do with the movie being boring or the jokes ineffective, not at all. It’s funny as hell, one of the strongest episodes of Season 3. I just get in a zone of some kind as I watch it and I end up conking out, waking up in time to catch the end credits.

    It happened a few times while I was taping episodes of “The Mystery Science Theater Hour” way back in the day. That had more to do with the local TV station playing the episodes at 2 AM (back when I was still in junior high and not at all prepared for such a late night haul).

    If it comes to leisurely/boring episodes that get me zonked… hmmmm… I can recall falling asleep in front of “The Hellcats” and “The She Creature” fairly recently.

    The thing is, that never happened to me with “Hamlet.” Strangely enough, it’s one of my favorite episodes from Season 10. Go figure.

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  26. Diamond Joe says:

    The ultimate sleeping pill for me is “Humanoid Woman” (K12). I think I’ve seen that episode three times, but even when I broke up my viewing into several installments, I still never managed to get through it without falling asleep. (The KTMA “Gamera” also put me to sleep once.)

    Continuing in Sampo’s one-per-season mode:

    113- The Black Scorpion: I was teetering on the edge of sleep all through this one, and remember pretty much nothing.

    206- Ring of Terror: Thrill as an old guy looks for his cat for five minutes!

    305- Stranded in Space: It’s no wonder this pilot went unsold. This is some seriously uninvolving stuff. Guys in suits standing around. And this was what was supposed to hook the viewers for the season?

    416- Fire Maidens from Outer Space: It’s a bad sign when I can remember almost nothing about an episode. Here, it’s astronauts standing around in a room. The rest is a blur.

    520- Radar Secret Service: “Last Clear Chance” is great, but the movie put me to sleep. At least “Batwoman” had some WTF and, ultimately, annoyance factor.

    602- Invasion U.S.A.: “A Date with Your Family” is one of their very best shorts, but that movie…! When you fall asleep during the destruction of America…

    704- The Incredible Melting Man: Perhaps the brownest movie they ever did. I find Season 7 easily their dullest year, with only “Laserblast” having much repeat value for me. Even the sketches in this one are more “amusing if you know the story behind them” than “ha ha.”

    806- The Undead: This is kind of a tough decision. The endless dogfight in “Neptune Men” is easily the most boring sequence of the season (perhaps of the series), but “Undead,” like most Corman films, manages to never quite kick into first, coasting the whole way on idle.

    909- Gorgo: It’s partly the terrible, dark print, but mostly that it never even begins to have any interest on the human or visceral levels. This is “The Giant Behemoth” with the volume turned down to “1.”

    1008- Final Justice: Season 10 doesn’t have any truly boring episodes, but I think this one comes closest. Nothing new, performed with no urgency. I probably see this one least often of this season.

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  27. Luke says:

    I always thought that any MST3K has the potential to induce sleep. I mean, think about it… your basically watching a movie while also listening/paying attention to the riffers so their thing. Splitting your attention like that can make your brain tired. Or for new viewers, it can make them bored because they cant keep up on both ends.

    I also feel that that’s one of the reasons MST3K isn’t mainstream. It takes alot of involvement with it to get something out of it. Many people just dont know/care enough to do that.

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  28. Cabbage Patch Elvis says:

    I think narration may play a part in these films for me…

    Atomic Brain: Kind of slow, with the lumbering oboe music, and of course the gentle tone of the narrator.

    Creeping Terror: Same sort of idea. Da-da-dadadada-da piano, and the narrator. One of my fave eps though.

    Monster-a-go-go: a pattern has formed.

    Starfighters: A departure for me, but cripse, that is one dull movie!!!

    Ring of Terror: I think it’s that all the actors are so elderly, it makes me feel nappy.

    Hamlet: Takes the cake for me. Is hamlet the german term for Nytol?

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  29. mike says:

    Going through the episodes I have arrived at:
    110 – Robot Holocaust – After a while, who cares who wins.
    113 – The Black Scorpion – Although I like the movie, there are times I cant get through it with nodding off.
    203 – Jungle Goddess – Not much happens
    206 – The Ring of Terror – Fear not – Nap time is coming
    304 – Gammera vs. Baragon – Baragon has to go walkies, I have to go nappies.
    314 – Mighty Jack – Not being able to determine if there is a plot tends to make me lose interest.
    401 – Space Travelers – We watch all MSTIES at least once yearly, and I cannot even determine what this movie is. Must have slept through it every time.
    408 – Hercules Unchained – Herc sleeps through the whole movie and so do we.
    416 – Fire Maidens from Outer Space – The eye candy cannot overcome the night sounds of the Polotvetsian Dances.
    507 – I Accuse My Parents – Kitty puts me to sleep with her songs.
    510 – The Painted Hills – My Number 1 Snooze Flick. Uninteresting and slowly paced. The dog can have all of the snausages it wants, just somewhere else.
    520 – Radar Secret Service – Lulled to sleep by radar.
    612 – The Starfighters – No real reason for this movie to have been made. Good cure for insomnia.
    618 – High School Big Shot – Dreary, Depressing and causes drowsiness. Do not operate heavy machinery after watching this episode.
    701 – Night of the Blood Beast – I find myself nodding all the way through this one.
    805 – The Thing that Could not Die – The hypnotizing head does to me also.
    808 – The She Creature – Amazed that this has not been mentioned earlier. Carlos Lombardi puts everyone in a trance.
    814 – Riding with Death – Makes me terminally mellow.
    906 – The Space Children – Can we make all of the space children take a nap?
    912 – The Screaming Skull – So slow, that it’s hard to get through it in the evening.

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  30. MikeK says:

    1) Beast of Yucca Flats. Anything else on my list is not in any order, but this is the number one dull movie on MST3K. At least the Coleman Francis films are weird enough to be interesting, but this one causes a lot of pain.

    Hamlet. Grey, depressing, post-war German Hamlet. Ironically though, this proves how good Shakespeare’s play is, even the dullness of the production can’t kill the words.

    Pod People. We seem to be repeating ourselves. I do find myself not looking forward to watching this episode, even though the riffs and host segments are good. This movie is a quarter ET and three-quarters Alien.

    Invasion U.S.A. A movie about defense spending. Horray. William Shallert only appears as a tv newsman and he’s still the most interesting character in this movie. Oh, and where the heck was the comment on Dan O’Herlihy? It would have been nice if his role in the movie Robocop was mention.

    The Starfighters. A movie about how best to use the nation’s defense budget. Horray. It’s not even good recruiting film for the Airforce. It’s a total, dull failure.

    The Brute Man. I like this episode because of Paul Chaplin’s performance as “Sandy”, Pearl’s oily date. The movie itself is boring.

    Radar Secret Service. Precursor to the use of the Internet as a plot device in today’s movies, radar does not make a movie.

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  31. M "Not Gonna Get Replaced By A Pod" Sipher says:

    You know… I’ve never fallen asleep while viewing MST3K.

    Part of this is that… well, I don’t so much watch if anymore as listen to it, use it as background noise to keep my brain occupied while doing other things. It cuts down on how much I’m multitaking at any given time.

    Hell, I have audio recordings of eps I don’t have on DVD sepcifically for my laptop at work… pop in the headphones and listen just to keep myself amused so I don’t get too distracted from what they’re paying me to do.

    But if we’re talking “losing interest”… I hate to say it, but a lot of season 3 makes me lose interest midway through. Especially the Sandy Frank stuff. And most of the Hercules films.

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  32. outmywindow says:

    I agree that as a film, ‘Starfighters’ is ridiculous and dull, but as an episode, it’s one of my favorites! The riffing is so sharp! I don’t know how you guys can call it snooze-worthy.

    …Unless the music lulls you to sleep. “Daaaaaaahh da da duuuuuuuhhhh”

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  33. MikeK says:

    Yeah, I don’t care for the Hercules films either. I think I’ve only watched those episodes once on DVD.

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  34. ck says:

    Incredible how some people are bored with Prince of Space: I LIKE IT VERY MUCH!

    But it is a close call in boredom (the movies,
    not the riffing) between Hamlet and The
    Starfighters (even Mike and the bots ran out
    of double entendre refueling comments).
    Wait, make it Starfighters, at least Hamlet had early Mad Max and Bill’s prose.

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  35. BebopKate says:

    The Hercules movies are so slow even Hercules couldn’t stay awake. “I’m so sleepy, I can barely keep awake…”

    I find it pretty interesting a lot of us use MST3K to go to sleep or watch it late at night, myself included. Left over from when it was on at midnight? Old habits die hard, I suppose.

    That said, any Coleman Francis film they did. Bam…out like a light. “Mighty Jack” will also induce a similar stupor in me, as will “Castle of Fu Manchu”. I also went to sleep during “Hobgoblins” once, but I attribute that to the Martian Death Flu I had at the time.

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  36. crowschmo says:

    Though I liked Clonus and Timechasers, most of the Sci Fi eps I can barely sit through. Don’t so much fall asleep as turn it off. Movies are dull, so is the riffing, and the host segments are unwatchable. (Except maybe, “When Loving Lovers Love” and the one where they’re “driving” the SOL and all those weird country songs come on). Worst offenders are Hamlet and Overdrawn at the Memory Bank.

    Of the CC eps, I’d say I was bored by The Lost Continent (rock climbing, Joel), The Unearthly (Tor Johnson, Joel), the Masters Ninja (Timothy Van Patten, Joel), Space Travelers (though Hackman’s good in ANYTHING), Attacks of the Giant Leeches and the the Eye Creatures, the Hercules eps, (one would almost beleive I didn’t like this show at ALL), The Brain That Wouldn’t Die, The Wild World of Batwoman (our next discussion ep, oh, no!!), Alien from L.A. (that VOICE – aaaargh!), The Dead Talk Back, Zombie Nightmare (I’m BATMAN!), Angel’s Revenge, Samson Vs. the Vampire Women (El Santo!).

    Ugh. I guess that’s alot. Even though some of the host segments and riffing is enjoyable in some of these, the movies make it difficult to enjoy those parts.

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  37. erasmus hall says:

    Foo on Fu Manchu-I have no idea how it middles
    nevermind ends-Has anyone seen that film in one sitting in any version?straight or mistied?
    I remember enjoying Rocketship XM as a kid-maybe first film ever seen where everyone dies!
    Cannot believe now how boring it is-without Joel and bots.

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  38. The Painted Hills, that sweet Lassie just puts me to beddy-bie, Honk-Shoe, Honk Shoe….

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  39. Mike says:

    When I started watching MST3K, most of the black and white ones (“Creeping Terror”, “The Atomic Brain”, “Red Zone Cuba”; none had any discernable plot) would do the trick, but somehow, the colored movies from the 70’s and 80’s (“Parts”, “Boggy Creek”, “The Incredible Melting Man” still no plot, but in color) started to zonk me out too. But the two that really knock me cold late at night are “The Pod People” and “Cave Dwellers”. From the same crappy opening credit sequence, to the same crappy end credits, these two films just suck the desire to keep my eyes open out of my head. But I love watching them.

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  40. Bobo "BuckDat" Briggs says:

    Some episodes can be more sleep inducing than others but I find the show as a whole puts me into a relaxed state like other here.. I usually go for the older ones for that though. Season 2 and 3 episodes being my favorite are always best but any episode can work really. I stick it on when i’m ready to relax and go to bed and especially if it’s been a long or bad day. It’s something about the nature of b-movies along with the familiar voices riffing them that’s soothing.

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  41. Max says:

    The Fu Manchu one is ultra dull.

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  42. lump516 says:

    Ever since my dad died some 11 years ago, I’ve found it necessary to have something on the television to help me get to sleep and to put me back to sleep should I wake up in the night. For years now, I’ve used episodes of MST3K–not because they’re boring, but because the riffing gets me in a good mood and lets me drift off. Some favorite episodes, in no particular order:

    JACK FROST–Love this one not just for the riffing, but the movie itself has some real moments of humor (particularly the scene involving the stepsister, the matchmaker, and idiot would-be husband who likes goose giblets). Also, if I can’t sleep, the film is pretty to look at (even in the sub-standard print that MST3K got their hands on).

    THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH–The gift that keeps on giving. The dialog is SO stupid, the hero and heroine are so obviously dubbed, and the guys dancing on the beach are so obviously Broadway pros on a busman’s holiday, that the silliness just keeps piling up. And it just kept the riffs flowing. Also, the songs by the Del-Aires were great and the period footage of Manhattan was kind of neat.

    WEREWOLF–Like PARTY BEACH, this film is of almost epic stupidity and incoherence, from the script, which is little more than random clumps of chat, to the oddball multi-national casting (Italian leading man, German leading lady, Mexican main villain, all of them directed by a guy from Iran). And of course, the dime-store make up and special effects and, most frightening of all, Joe Estevez, doing his best impression of an unhinged guinea pig . . .

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  43. Stacey says:

    I’d have to pick Starfighters as the most sleep inducing episode ever.

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  44. Smog Monster says:

    What happened to MST3K DVDs that have both the MST3K movie and the unriffed movie side by side? It is hard for me to fall asleep watching the MST3K movies, but the real movies… zzzzz.

    I did get real drowzy watching The Day The Earth Froze. Earth vs. Spider, too, but I didn’t like that episode. Also, I got up early to catch the episodes reaired early in the morning on Sci-Fi, and I miss an episode due to sleeping for two, when I went down to watch it but before the episode aired on another, and even in the second half of an episode, but I don’t remember which ones, even using the handy invComplete Schedules guide.

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  45. The Bolem says:

    I think the only movie I’ve ever fallen asleep during is Rear Window, and that’s just because of how tired I happened to be. I never fall asleep with a TV on, although sometimes my thoughts wander, requiring me to rewind. So this would be yet another weekend thread to which I have nothing to contribute, except…

    I’ve noticed an amazing phenomenon when watching “The Wild, Wild World of Batwoman” with other people: Guys always make it to the end, but every woman I’ve seen actually try to pay attention to it falls asleep right after the 4th host segment. Has anyone else noticed this, or could I just have been witnessing an amazing coincidence?

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  46. pumafan says:

    I’m fighting a bad case of the flu and MST has been a great sleep aid. Lately I reached for a dose of Secret Agent Super Dragon (Extra Strength), Ring of Terror, and Track of the Moon Beast. I agree with Green Switch — the movies aren’t dull per se but they put me in a very relaxed state. I’ve seen them so many times, esp. ones like Track, Screaming Skull, Satan, and Manos, they’re like a favorite lullaby or bedtime story.

    MST3K — ask your doctor.

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  47. Timber says:

    The only one that consistantly puts me asleep is “I Accuse My Parents,” I am not sure I have ever been able to watch all of it in one sitting, it’s just abysmally dull.

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  48. bartcow says:

    It’s good to see I’m not the only one out there who puts in a MSTie at bedtime.

    Time Chasers had the opposite effect one night. I was useless at work the next day.

    I have never made it all the way through Ring of Terror. One of these days, I will.

    Which brings me to the KTMA/Season 1 eps. Their rpms weren’t up to speed at that point, and all the dead space makes me pay attention to the movie, anzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

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  49. Keith says:

    Does “Doomsday Machine” count?

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  50. The Professor says:

    Wow. I’m really surprised that The Creeping Terror wasn’t mentioned by alot of people. That movie KILLS me. I truly believe that was the WORST movie they ever did (yes, including Manos).

    I’ve tried to show Red Zone Cuba to my friends one day and they made it through the short just fine. By the end of the movies’s theme song, though, they were out.

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