How about a topic on things that remind you of MST3K. i live near a busy airport in the dc area and i see planes take off ever so often. i always say once a day, “john sununu goes for a haircut” when i see a plane takeoff. also some news things i see i say mst3k lines. there was a story about a man getting bit by a snake, i said, “watch out for snakes”.
When I see a plane taking off, I tend to hum the Starfighters music: o/` “Laaa, da-da-daaaa…” o/`
What examples can you think of from your life?
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Why every time I go to SLEEEEEEP.
Whenever i hear the name Debbie,i hear Crow crying it for his imaginary ex girlfriend.
Whenever I see someone with a mullet–a sight common in the Midwest–I reflexively mutter, “Rowsdower.” My wife will, on occasion, blurt “Mitchell” when she sees a police officer.
And every day, I drive past a college campus, and any time the track teams are running on the sidewalks during rush hour, I think, of course, of Parts: The Clonus Horror.
Whenever I’m in Sam’s Club and I see a worker moving things around with their electric lifting vehicles, I gotta sing (quietly) “He tried to kill me with a forklift!” Then the shame sets in.
I work at an airport, and on really foggy mornings looking out at the runway, I can’t help but say. ” Not even a moth equipped with a lightning bug could get in here.” And if someone does land. ” Hey, it’s a moth equipped with a lightning bug!”
I actually saw a ‘Watch out for snakes!’ sign this week, and did my best Arch Hall, Sr., but alas, my traveling companion isn’t a MSTie.
Whenever I do something dumb or short sighted, I remember Mitchell’s famous advice, “Why did I do that?” And in another Joe Don moment, a friend was harried last week when he said he needed to be in two places at the same time. “That’s hard to do!”
There’s a certain riff which has made me wish there really was such a thing as Brain Bleach. Of course I’m talking about the one in Castle of Fu Manchu when Joel says, “I didn’t mean to but, uh, the new seat covers.” Hearing the word “come” now brings this to mind. It’s especially awkward at church when the Our Father is recited. Thanks a lot, Joel.
At work, when having a failed dialogue with a co-worker who just doesn’t get it. I’m constantly replaying the Joe Don vs. kid argument from ‘Mitchell!’ and Tom’s reaction to it in my mind.
Every time my wife and/or I do something where we ignored common sense, the comment of “Good one, Nelson!” manages to escape our lips. So then everyday we are reminded of MST!
Also when driving somewhere and we pass a Quonset hut, which there are many of in Wisconsin, inevitably I will quote Assignment: Venezuela and say “But nothing’s as nice as our Quonset hut.”
The show is very ingrained in me so there are many, many moments that remind me and my family of MST, but without fail every single time I eat a waffle or waffles are even mentioned.
Waffles.
Why don’t they look? at every railroad crossing…
Ohhhhhhhh this is a great topic!!!! I quote this show in my life so often that I could never list it all out. The art of using lines from the show pretty much every day has just become natural to me! Here are a few examples…
Pretty much any time I see a girl in something a little too tight walking away from me, I go “eeeeeeee eeeeeeee eeeeeeee eeeeeeee” like the guys do! That is going to get me in trouble one day.
Whenever I see something big, dopey and hairy walking around, I always sing to myself “Peekin’ through the knotthole in grandma’s woodin’ leg…” :)
Of course, there are the moments when I just can’t keep my mouth shut in the presence if beefy guys… “Crunch Buttsteak!” “Slab Squatthrust!” “Punch Rockgroin!”
Also, I agree about the usefulness of the Mitchell line “Why did I do that?”
Pretty much any moment when I hear someone say the word “no”, out comes Ator’s “NOOOO!”. I have no filtering system.
GF sings Gamera song to Cats. Or the Mitchell theme. When I see a musket I think of Time Chasers. When I see an accident I think of Joe Dokes. When I see the Detroit Red Wings play at Joe Louis Arena I think of Joe hitting up Johnny for spare change. I tell GF she is a virgin goddess who is private stock :). Last time I went to Arizona I thought of Rock Climbing. When I see a forklift, well.. we know the drill.
Anytime it is foggy (we had quite a few foggy mornings this spring), in my masterful English accent, I will shout “I say it’s foggy!”
When I am having a bad day I intone ‘What sin cold a man commit in a single lifetime to bring this on himself?’ from Amazing Colossal Man.
This is hardly all inclusive, but here are a few. If someone gives the “ok” sign with thumb and forefinger, I think “it stinks!”. If we’re discussing what to eat, especially simple food like burgers I say, “I could sure go for a nice hamburger and some french fried potatoes”. Any news from NASA about Mars or mention of it in films, etc. around my house is often met with, “Mars, extending us a welcome”. When someone is highly annoying due to intense focus on doing something that is abrasive the phrase, “That guy needs a hobby” will often be used or at least spring to mind. Of course, unusual gloves or hand coverings evoke, “Why is he wearing oven mitts?”. Snakes and forklifts tend to generate phrases already mentioned here, even my teenage son has used “Watch out for snakes!” once in the past year. Turtles tend to generate Gamera related comments. And if I see someone do something repeatedly that’s not a good idea I say, “Maybe you shouldn’t do that, Gamera”. Oh, and if someone offers someone else in the family some food, occasionally you’ll hear the phrase, “Want some?” though no one actually knocks the food across the room.
Great topic! I tend to say certain phrases in unison with my grown and equally goofy kids, whom I raised on a diet of Saturday morning MST3K:
“It’s HUGE!!” and “It stinks!” and “Railing kill !”
On a hot summer day when downing a brew, “I wonder if there’s beer on the sun?”
I used to work in the backroom of a retail store and every time a truck would arrive at the back a series of buzzing lights would go off. I would say “We’ve got movie sign” quietly to myself, but on occasion I would say it loud enough for everyone to hear. “WE’VE GOT MOVIE SIGN!”
Oh, the looks! :silly:
Recently, I was in a Burger King finishing up my meal and the Tina Turner version of Proud Mary played in the dining room. I then got the urge to go home and watch Laserblast, which I did. That isn’t weird is it? :-))
I work in a warehouse that uses forklifts so of course I’m reminded of the “He Tried to Kill Me With a Forklift” song.
At a recent Earth Day clean up one person ran into some Copperheads so I let out a couple of “Watch out for snakes!”riffs. I even put a link to that scene on her Facebook page later on!
Not so pleasant at first: My mother’s aunt died a few weeks ago and in between the two viewings her son invited us over to his house for lunch. At one point his wife told us that a neighbor who lived across the street was a bee keeper. Every once in a while the guy could be seen with his protective headgear and it was VERY tempting for me to shout “THE DOG’S MEAT. HAVE YOU SEEN IT?”
My husband and I are fond of ‘why don’t they look?’
And my sister and I are always saying one of the following: ‘he tried to kill me with a forklift!’, ‘Mitchell!’, ‘yes, it’s Manos, the hands of fate!’, ‘you just didn’t care, did you?’,and the bittersweet, haunting Failure song from ‘The Day the Earth Froze.’
We also like to torment our dad with the ‘Hello! Thank you!’ bit from ‘Gamera Vs Guiron.’ It drives him (and my husband) crazy. ;-)
Oh, and I often quote Crow’s ‘I’d eat my own head in drawn butter’ whilst at seafood restaurants.
Now that I think about it, I spend all day, every day quoting this show. :o
#18, chinderwear model: ‘Laserblast’ forever ruined that song for me. I always sing along in my best Janeway falsetto.
#22
It was an odd moment for me to hear “Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on a river” and be picturing that Mike Janeway shudder dance while taking my last bite. I almost choked while laughing to myself!
At times, I’ve had to lug heavy boxes in or out of the front door at work. As a result, I’ve had to kick the button to open the automatic doors. And whenever I do, I go “Hiiiiikeeba!” under my breath.
And I’m sure I’m not the only one to go to a movie theater and say, “We’ve got movie sign!” when the lights go down.
MST3K has altered my behavior in normal, everyday situations. I riff the commercials and previews of coming attractions at the movie theater. I only do it loud enough for my family to hear, but occasionally I am louder than I realize, and get a laugh from someone else.
I was at a technical conference a few weeks ago, and during the beginning of someone’s presentation, he had a slide that looked like the opening of Star Wars with the moving text scrolling up the screen. Without thinking, I started singing the Star Wars theme, and got several chuckles in my vicinity.
Every time we go on trip in the car and get on the highway it is time for “Hot, merging action!”
Whenever I hear someone honk their horn I recite: “I got a new bathing suit” from Eegah!
I read this topic (great one, by the way) this morning in an airport shuttle van heading from Santa Fe to Albuquerque through the bleak New Mexico landscape, just as I was envisioning Tor Johnson lumbering toward the highway. (“Flag on the moon.”) I also used the phrase “Watch out for snakes” rather a lot this week–sage advice more than an MST reference!
Whenever someone clears off a desk or table or other piece of furniture by just pushing stuff, I always think “I had a pretty miiiiiiiiiiiiiind” from Blood Waters of Dr. Z. I don’t relate that line to The Girl in Gold Boots, because I don’t know anyone who looks in a mirror and reflects on their wasted life and drug usage.
And every summer, I have to go to a golf tournament and always drive a cart. Naturally, “Put your helmet on–we’ll be reaching speeds of three!” and “Push on, mighty Cushman!” are said in earnest.
Our local weather babe usually delivers her report with a most memorable profile. As Crow said,”She enters a room before she enters a room!”
Hmmm…so many choices…
The Janeway/Tina Turner bit from “Laserblast” has been brought up several times, but for me, the lead-in is what sparks my memory, i.e. when Janeway starts changing and says stuff like “hard is the only way we do it”, I think of Tina doing that in the film “Gimme Shelter”, when Ike and Tina were opening for the Stones in England. Very hot, which makes Mike’s imitation all the funnier.
When my wife is irritating me, I’ll say “You is a jerk!” Also from “Werewolf”, when I see a really boring person or situation on TV, I’ll say “This is ahbsolootly fahcinating”.
When I see someone acting loopy or stupid (including myself), I’ll say “I wish I had my pretty mind back…!”
Ok one more that I use on my wife: when she asks me to do some chores, or go to a family function I really don’t want to, I will say “…but why?” or (the already mentioned) “Nooooo…!”
Whenever I hear “all over the world” I have to say loudly and quickly “ALL OVER THE WORLD”
fyi from Santa Clause vs. the Martians
Impossible to order ham without imitating Hugo the ventriloquist dummy.
“Time for go to bed”, is common parlance in our house. So much so that we don’t even associate it with Tor Johnson anymore.
“Coffee? I like coffee,” is pretty common, too.
And occasionally I will greet certain friends of mine with, “Who is this gentle stranger with pecs like melons and knees of fringe?” Few, if any, get it.
When that movie Femme Fatale came to video stores, I must have said, “Ah, the femmy fatally” a few dozen times. And believe me, there are so many times in life that make you think, “Hi, I’m Bob Jackass.” Occasionally when saying it won’t get you fired.
When I hear a long winded person, I think…”Stop talking Johnny Longbow!”
Every night I used to tell my cat (recently deceased) “Time for to go to bed.”
And more recently I have begun to mutter at anyone who irritates me in the slightest, “God, I hate you!”
And I “Hi-Keeba” whenever I exert myself. It really irritates people and that makes it even more fun!
I also throw in a smattering of “I don’t care!” and “Coffee? I like coffee!”
Hicgooya!
In total agreement with lennonsghost up there at #2: I cannot hear the name “Debbie” and not think of Crow bellowing that name like a drunken frat boy (#818 Devil Doll). “Debbie, I punched a window in for you baby.” In fact, that is my favorite name to scream out in moments of frustration. I once worked with a woman named Debbie. I found it very difficult to NOT yell her name when I spoke to or about her. (ps: she wasn’t the kind of Debbie you’d punch a window out for).
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Whenever I’m at a bar or a party and I see someone take a drink or a shot of alcohol and make one of those “that’s a strong drink” faces, I always think to myself, “Oooooooo, that’s good booze!”
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Anytime I hurt myself or fall down at all I usually cry out “ah, my spine!”
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I also like to yell out, at completely random moments, “WATCH OUT FOR SNAKES!” (because of course I do)
Thank you Tom Servo, and, The Space Children:
http://youtu.be/F_vy-eWGKSk
Whenever my wife is tired (which happens often) I say to her “You look as though you could sleep for at least a thousand years” and after she replies I say “But then you’d miss observing our approach to Metaluna”.
I can’t look at small planes without thinking of Petey the Plane.
Whenever Malta is mentioned I think of Goosio.
Either myself or my husband nearly every night will say “time to go for bed”. I dont even actually stop and think about it being an MST reference anymore, it’s just something we say.
One of my current earworms (The Truth) has a line “ask questions later” – every time, I sing along “Ask Christian Slater,” the way Coleman Francis taught me. Fortunately, this hasn’t happened when someone else was in the car with me.
Yet.
I watch a lot of Japanese programming online, and there have been moments in the most recent Sentai and Kamen Rider series that prompt me to say “Scientists labor to find out what the hell is the deal with Japan”.
Unlike most people, the line “I know what you’re thinking…” doesn’t automatically bring up “Did I fire 6 shots or only 5?” for me.
It brings up “I’m boring and my slideshow eats.”
Ha! What a great topic.
When I was last at my brother’s house, I remarked that there had been a beetle in the toilet and that I’d flushed it down, naturally. Somehow, I thought of Crow and the “Merlin” monkey, post-kill. With my most sarcastic tone of voice, I told them, “Oh, I’m so sorry for your loss.” Everyone laughed, though they did not know the context.
I’ve used “the hoary netherworld” in conversations, too.
Yesterday in the store my wife said, “we need ham.” I replied, “I am Ilya Muromets.” Can’t help it.
My name is Mike, so I often receive from my son, “Good one, Mike!”
Every time I heard of a car crash, which in Argentina is always, I said to myself “Why don’t they look?”
When I see someone doing something stupid I think: “Trumpy, you can do magic!”
Any time I pass near a policeman I can’t avoid singing to myself “Meatballs fried in laaaard!” (Policemen here are often a bit overweight.)
Any buff guy I see on the streets reminds me of Blast Hardcheese. And when a gal isn’t behaving properly, I think: “Did you see my butt?”
I never heard the expression before I heard it on MST3K but I use it alot now I’ll say ‘He was dumber than a bag of hammers’
thanks sampo for choosing this topic for this weekend.
when i see a cat, i say “kitties, meow” and if i see clowns “here comes the devil” and the United Servo Academy Chorus comes to mind too when i see planes flying. every christmas, i say, “santa claus killed in vietnam”.
also got a friend hooked on mst3k too. i said to her, kitties and she says meow.
also the line tom said in alien from la
“oh i get it it’s abel gance’s napoleon” comes to mind when i am watching abel gance’s napoleon (which i have an old vhs copy of the film). off topic but i did meet kevin brownlow the person who helped restore the film in 2011.