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Long Weekend Discussion Thread: Best Memories Connected to Watching MST3KI’m going to springboard off an email I got from alert reader Timmy who, in suggesting a slightly different topic (that we’ve already done), recalled his family viewings:
That made me think back fondly to my mom (who passed away this week at the age of 87). Every Sunday afternoon for years we would watch a different episode — we got through all 10 seasons, and many of the comments that are in the episode guide originated as notes I took during those viewings. She loved the show and loved to hear her laugh uproariously at it. What is your most pleasant memory of watching MST3K? 69 Replies to “Long Weekend Discussion Thread: Best Memories Connected to Watching MST3K”Commenting at Satellite News
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I have two. The first is when I walked into our living room once in the early 90’s, still in high school, and hearing my father say “Have you ever watched this!?” The episode was Time of the Apes, and I haven’t been the same since. Thank you Dad!
The second memory is when my wife and I got married in 1997. We got our first place together, which coincided with season 8 premiering on Sci-Fi. I was so excited to check out the new Crow, and Corbett didn’t disappoint.
I have many memories of watching MST3K and laughing so hard that my sides hurt.
One time in particular was when the show was on Sci-fi Channel. Remember when it aired on like Saturdays at 10? Or maybe it was like Midnight… In any case, I was the only one still awake and the episode was “Overdrawn at the Memory Bank.” First time I’d seen it.
I was laughing pretty hard all along, but when Servo is doing that several minutes long bit where he’s imitating the fat chairman breathing heavy and farting, I was laughing so hard I couldn’t breathe myself and I woke my parents up.
First, my condolences, Sampo.
Second, referring to Eric’s post, I remember when my sides literally hurt watching the show. I’d been in the hospital for a month for surgery and other complications. I was finally home and watching “The Unearthly”. The shorts had mne laughing so much it pulled on my surgical scar, but I didn’t mind. I was home and watching MST; all was right with the world.
The first time I caught MST3K by accident the week we got Comedy Channel on our cable system during what turned out to be season two and being very intrigued, then trying to catch it from the beginning all weekend. When I finally did on Sunday I was even more intrigued and got hooked very quickly and got my wife into watching it too.
Going to the two Conventio-Cons in Minneapolis and totally immersing ourselves in the show for whole weekends with fellow fans, plus the cast and crew.
Getting a friend hooked on the show decades ago. In the early years of the show a friend of mine used to come over to play Warhammer 40,000 with me, then watch the MST3K episodes I recorded with me, sometimes recorded while we played our game.
I actually shared a couple on another thread, but here’s one more. I live several states away from the rest of my family and don’t see them much, and several of my brothers and sisters are fellow MSTies. Years ago on a summer trip out, I remember a bunch of us packed into my parent’s house watching “Werewolf” and just roaring. By the time, late in the film, when they do several quick cuts to the open-mouthed Yanaglatchi bones and Servo does the operatic “Aaaaah” every time, it felt like the house was actually shaking with laughter. What’s great is the show is still making nice memories for me. My teenage kids have become fans, and we recently did a family movie night with “Manos” that had my own house shaking.
For me it was back in 93 when I used to get my daughter every Saturday and we would watch it while having lunch.I remember we were watching OUTLAW and she laughed when Crow said “Ok,I’ll follow your butt”.
There are so many- but, when my sons were growing up in the leafy suburbs, we’d meet every Friday and Saturday night at 11 to watch an episode. This went on for nearly six years until the older ones went off to college. Recently, I enjoy popping an episode in late and my GF goes to sleep on the couch and laughs during her sleep. On another note, yesterday, I wore my vintage MST 1998 shirt to visit my niece. She was impressed.
After a couple of Army enlistments, I was working late nights in the mid-90s and attending days college in NJ. When I got home late night, my young son would get up and watch some rerun MST playing on a local channel with me before I went to bed (possibly MST-hour episodes?). At one point he put together a board game for one of the episodes. He’s off and married now, but we still share many MST memories. Thanks MST guys!
My dad never got the show (though he did know some of the crew involved), but once, when I was watching Pod People, he happened to walk in the room right as Tom Servo was doing his “potatoes” bit, and my father immediately started laughing and saying things like “He’s calling the rabbit a potato!” He sat down and watched the rest of the episode, and it’s the only episode he’s we’ve ever watched together.
Going to see the “MST3K the Movie”. It was surreal and super fun to watch an MST3K in a movie theater. For sports fans it was like the “rarefied air” of playoff game.
I have 2. One would be the fact that my Dad and I would always sit down when I was a kid and watch the show. The other one is when my friend and I would stay up late and write/ record music all night and wake up Saturday mornings at 10 AM to catch the Sci Fi replays. Miss those days.
My condolences, Sampo; my mother passed away this last July (at the age of 76).
It is very hard for me to isolate memories, simply because MST3K is such a part of our daily life, but I will concentrate on one–when our friend, Tim (fellow graduate student in English), recommended that we (that is, my wife and myself) watch something called MST3K: the Movie. He explained the concept of the show, and my wife and I rented it from our local Blockbuster. We had never seen anything so funny in all our lives! We were hooked, and when we moved back to Canada a year or so later it just so happened that another good friend of ours had some tapes of the show, which she promptly gave to us. The first actual episode we watched was Horror of Party Beach, and to this day it is perhaps our all-time favourite episode (although it is _so_ hard to choose, and fortunately I don’t have to).
In any event, I love thinking back to my graduate school days (and I am happy to be a professor now–and talk MST3K with my students any chance I get), and I love the fact that MST3K became an integral part of them.
One Thanksgiving I came down with a wicked flu — the fatigue one, not the messy one — and opted out of the trip to NC to my in-laws. My folks watched one dog, my neighbors watched the other; I had no appetite and had only water, tea and toast. I literally lay in bed and wallowed in comforters and watched episode after episode, sometimes drifting in and out of a deep and restful sleep. They all agreed, it was the best Thanksgiving ever!
I’m very sorry for your loss, Sampo, but it’s great to hear how much your mother loved MST. Professor Gunther, I’m sorry about your mother too.
Anyway, my best memories are the years when the show would air on Saturday mornings. After our two sons were stuffed full of pancakes made by their dad, the boys and I would ignore weekend chores for a couple of hours and spend time laughing together over the latest inanities of MST3K. Good times. I really think it helped develop their great senses of humor.
Now I make new memories by asking for a new DVD set from Santa every Christmas, then on Christmas night we all watch one of them. :-D
Definitely discovering MST3K on syndication in the 1995-1996 with my dad. I was ten years old. I couldn’t say which episode drew us in. A handful of the earliest episodes I saw (Pod People, Cave Dwellers, The Giant Gila Monster, Teenagers from Outer Space) all run together in my mind as potentially the first one. If I had to venture a guess, my dad stumbled upon Teenagers from Outer Space and remembered it from his childhood. I would argue he’s a notorious channel surfer when he doesn’t think there’s anything on. (He never thinks there’s anything on). He stopped on it long enough to place where he had seen the movie before, and wound up laughing at some pithy remark. Naturally I zoomed in on it because there was space and puppets and monsters.
My dad isn’t the die hard fan that I am, but I’ll still get asked once or twice a year if the episode where Joel is wearing the drum machine (Rocketship X-M) has been released yet. While I live in a different part of the country now, I would say that most if not all Christmases since Rhino started releasing episodes have had a MST showing – the adult version of playing with the gift found under the tree. The old man usually falls asleep about a half hour in. ;)
No specific memory of what I was doing while watching the show, although I liked it when the guys turned “The Creeping Terror” into a sex ed movie.
Sometimes while watching musicals (or any pompous movies) I do what Joel/Mike and the ‘bots do. One of my proudest moments was during “Show Boat” while the guy’s singing “Ol’ Man River”. When he sings “There’s an old man called the Mississippi”, I said “Then shouldn’t it be the Mister Sippi?”
I’ll have more to add later.
First I want to say sorry for you loss Sampo. You sure have been fortunate to have shared this show with someone
who like all of us are the right ones who get it.
Now I’m off to a wedding of a friend who I turned onto the show when he was real young. He also went to the first
CT show with us and even got water spit on him by Joel when the “N” bomb was dropped.
Ah now one can take away those precious memories.
My condolences, Sampo.
Best memory for me is when I finally started watching the show during the summer of 1993. I was 17 years old and been aware of the show for several years but had never watched. That’s when I became a fan and got hooked on the show.
In my earliest memory, I’d been wanting to start getting into dorky B movies for a short while by 1991, but didn’t know how to go about it in those pre-internet days. Not long later, Comedy Central finally started on our cable system (I’d actually called a year earlier to try to get HA! on our cable for the SNL reruns. Not Comedy Channel, but HA!), and that’s the first I’d heard of MST3K. That was perfect, especially coming just 2 weeks before the 1991 Turkey Day marathon. It became one of my all-time favorite shows immediately.
Those days also remind me of when I used to love Comedy Central, Penn Gillett’s v-o’s notwithstanding.
More memories later…
My fond memory of discovering the show in the first place – it was in my freshman year of college, ’round late 2004 or early 2005, when my roommate went across the hall to a friend’s dorm room to watch something on his computer. He kept calling across the hall, saying “C’mon, join in! You’ll like this!” Finally, after about half an hour, I acquiesced…and joined “Space Mutiny” already in progress. The first thing I heard?
“Listen, lady!”
“That’s ‘doctor’!”
“Doctor!”
“Doctor Lady!”
That sealed the deal. I was hooked in an instant.
Other pleasant memories include my Halloween 2008 marathon of Torgo episodes (Manos, Operation Double 007, Village of the Giants, San Francisco International, and Danger!! Death Ray) which I watched with a buddy of mine. He laughed the hardest at “Danger!! Death Ray”, especially “We’re looking for a man” “Are you him?” and “Put it on the table” “Then put you on the me.”
Also, I watched “Eegah” with a girl I was dating at the time, since she was really into trippy off-beat 1960s movies and I figured she’d get a kick out of it. About twenty minutes in, we just started making out, and kept going for the whole episode :D
1) Threw a Thanksgiving dinner party for a bunch of friends. Yes, I had Turkey Day on, and turned them ALL into fans. Thanks to Pod People and Cave Dwellers.
2) Visiting my parents, and turning on Earth vs. The Spider, and hearing Mom & Dad joining in with me laughing very, very hard!
I forgot one key part of my introduction to MST3K. I’d already enjoyed Joel alot on his SNL appearences, both when the shows aired live and in reruns on, you guessed it, Comedy Central. So it was really cool to discover Joel was the host of my new favorite show!
This doesn’t mean I didn’t/don’t enjoy Mike as host alot, too, but the early connection was really great.
@Dan..Don’t want to sound picky,but it was Crow that was doing the “potatoes” bit..
I remember when our area first got cable, and surfing reruns (yes! Cable channels still showed reruns and old movies back then!) was itself an adventure for Friday and Saturday late-nights. I’d heard of the show on TV Guide–listing them next to the other Comedy Channel hosts, Rachel Sweet and Tommy Sledge–but CC was some bizarre backwater thing where you could turn it on at any hour, and you wouldn’t know which channel you were watching, since they’d either be showing Abbott & Costello or the same Beetlejuice clip. So, when I was clicking around midnight and happened upon the Robot Holocaust wanderers still looking for that city, it was the one thing to stop and be amazed by. :)
It was all frontier days for cable, back then, where you didn’t know where the channels GOT half the stuff they showed. (Usually Canada.)
I remember when the Saturday 10am rerun ended at noon, just in time for USA Network to show Commander USA’s Groovie Movies as the second half of the “double feature”. (Whoa-oaa, holy cats!)
I remember when you actually HAD to Keep Circulating the Tapes, because half the audience didn’t have cable yet, and only watched it on friends’ tapes. (This was also back in the early mid-90’s days of Anime, when all the good stuff was on secret VHS tapes that seemed to have come from Videodrome.)
I remember bringing some tapes out to my dad, every time I visited for holidays, and some of our best TV-bonding time was watching himself laugh silly discovering the Eye Creatures or Batwoman for the first time.
When we first got netflix, my dad and i were flipping through the comedy section and dad was vetoing everything. When we get to MST3K: the movie, I ask dad if we should watch it, and he said “OOH! Put it on, I loved that show.” Of course I loved the movie and so now my dad and i are watching every episode
So many… including realizing my ex bro-in-law was even a bigger fan than me. I miss my bro-in-law. You know, they never think about the brother left behind, just themselves or the stupid kids! :*( (joke) Anyway, we’d watch it together off and on in the 1990s. A good friend until he moved away after the div…well, you know.
I remember watching one of the Poopie reels with my mom and niece (niece was already a fan thanks to intro’ing her to the show with Alien from LA, something very sneaky anybody can do to create instant fans of girls in their family.. hee hee).. but the Poopie Reel had mom saying “I didn’t know they did this kind of stuff too” between fits of uncontrollable laughing at everything from “Fabio!” to anything Dr. F and TV’s Frank were doing (messing up on). It was nice to see her realize why I’ve loved the show for so long. Luckily, my mother beat cancer last year and she’s still around doing very well. But when she is gone she’ll be tied to MST3K in a good way.
We did not have cable, so the only time I got to watch MST3K during the Comedy Central years was when I would stay at my grandparent’s house for one week in the summer. A stumbled across Warrior Of The Lost World one afternoon and just happened to hear them mention ‘the Paper Chase guy.’ I recognized the phrase because a friend of mine had spent an evening trying to convince a group of us to watch this show that she taped with robots talking (“like Beavis and Butthead” – No Thanks!) and the Paper Chase guy.
Well, I instantly loved it! I loved Crow! I loved “Any fruit to declare?” I loved MegaWeapon! I loved Tom Servo rapidfire naming of everyone in the stadium!
And my favorite memory is that my Grandma didn’t understand the show, but she would chuckle watching me laughing at the show. She still mentions “the show with the little robots” that made me laugh so much.
I also remember the joy of finding Rhino’s videocassettes at Barnes & Noble’s. It was the only place in my town that sold them. Gee, they were expensive!
I only just got into MST3K earlier this year, so I’m not sure I’ve made many “memories”, at least not yet. Though I guess I could recall my first real exposure to it, wouldn’t that count?
It was sometime around February this year and was going through the videos they had on Amazon Instant Video on my Kindle Fire. I felt like watching a sci-fi or comedy movie or something and came across the MST3K episodes they had there. While I had seen some bits of the show back then they had reruns on the Sci-Fi channel, I didn’t care too much for it at the time, perhaps because I was trying to concentrate more on the movie itself rather than the riffing. Don’t really know why I did that, I was a kid back then so maybe I just didn’t really “get it” then. Though even several years ago I saw some clips of the show on Youtube, I still didn’t quite get it. And when I came across the MST3K stuff on Amazon, somehow I thought, “Maybe I should give this show another chance.”
Soultaker was the one I picked first and the first whole episode I watched. The host segments might’ve been a bit confusing to me, since I wasn’t too familiar with Mike nor Joel then, but the way Mike and the bots heckled the movie was pretty dang funny now for some reason. “That was great!”, I thought, “I should check out more of these soon.”
Then I watched The Final Sacrifice and Werewolf, and later Pod People and Cave Dwellers. After watching these, I knew I had found something special. The movie riffing was hilarious for sure, but I was also enjoying all the goofy host segments they would do during the show. There was some sort of charm seeing Joel/Mike interacting with these little robots and these crazy mad scientists. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, but something kept me wanting more. I starting watching all the Prime episodes they had on Amazon, each episode making me like the show more and more.
And by the time I got to Hercules Against The Moon Men, I knew I had found true love. :heart:
I don’t know exactly how I wasn’t into this getting into this show before, but now that I have I don’t think my life has been quite the same, or ever will be. :-)
like i emailed sampo, we used to watch MST3K and have dinner, mostly hamburgers and hot dogs that my father made on the andrew lloyd webber grill, and we had fun family bonding time.
Sounds like your mom was a wonderful lady Sampo.
My favorite thing about watching MST3K was just relaxing on Saturday nights and watching a marathon of taped episodes. The great thing is, with all the episodes on DVD, I can still do this.
Though I love the show and it really makes me laugh no matter how cranky I am, my memory’s a bit peripheral to MST3K: When I was very young, probably around seven or eight, I distinctly remember seeing SANTA CLAUS at a special children’s matinee event, with ‘Santa’ giving away bags of candy afterward.
It was… sort of a pleasent memory, but I was so relieved when MST3K found the film and aired it, reassuring me I hadn’t completely imagined it: “So the Devil has trapped Santa in a tree and if someone sees him he’ll lose his magic powers….?”
Sorry for everyone’s losses — at my age it’s just a fact of life that we lose both our friends and family far quicker than we can imagine or want.
My own favorite memory is similar to Sampo’s, except in the opposite direction. When our daughter was turning into an adult (about 17-18) we used to spend every Saturday morning having pancakes and watching MST3K, which was rerun at that time. It was a real joy as she was as hip as her parents and got ALL the references, even those way before her time (because the ones she didn’t she would ask us about).
She’s a grown woman with four children of her own that are just reaching the age where they would understand the show, but her life has taken a sad turn (with divorce and the hardships that accompany it). When my wife and I watch our weekly episode I often think of those happier times and wish I could go back again and experience that great, pure joy.
Another memory, from 1999.
Our family went to Myrtle Beach for a week of vacation. One of the places we went there was Planet Hollywood for dinner, which was cool enough. But I’d noticed, among Hollywood memorabilia – encased in glass or plastic in this instance with other items – one of the Crows used in the MST3K Movie! I even took a picture of it.
Crow T. Robot – upstaging all of Hollywood! (well, some of it)
Mst3k is the only program that my father, younger brother and I all loved. We would constantly watch episodes that I would tape (back in the day) and we would quote from them for days. When my father got very sick and was dying we would stay with my dad and watch episodes (his favs were Red Zone Cuba, Screaming Skull, and Riding with Death). The last thing we did together was watch MST3K.
My brother and I will still randomly text each other MST3K lines when we miss each other or are thinking of dad.
Sorry for your loss, Sampo.
I don’t have many complete memories of MST3K, just snippets:
– Idley shooting pool in my grandparents basement (circa 1992) while watching Killer Shrews, Swamp Diamonds, Pod People, and such
– Singing “He tried to kill me with a forklift!!!” with my college roommate (1995 ish).
– Watching a late night rerun with the same roommate during one of my early experiment with inebriation. We where so enthralled that our front teeth went numb…
So sorry to hear of your loss–you’re in my thoughts and prayers.
I’ve mentioned before my first memory of watching it with my very-cool friend Trista, but even better are my memories of watching it with my sister Hilary. We had all these weird traditions and rituals; we each had our spots on the couch, we played this odd game called “MST-Ball” which was sort of like Calvinball with MST3K references and rules. It’s all so silly to look back on, but of all my childhood memories with her, those are my favorite.
I just gave her daughter Lucy her first step into the MST3K world; for Christmas, I made her a chicken puppet exactly like Crow’s. Maybe next time I’m over there, I’ll teach her to play “Where’s my chicken puppet?”
Yes, Sampo, I’m sorry and I hope for comfort for you.
I think my best memory is from a convention I went to in 1997, I think it was; there was an MST3K room party, dozens of people crammed into one room with two beds, while an 89-th generation copy of “Cosmic Princess” played — my first KTMA episode, for that matter, I think my first pre-season-4 episode of all time — and then went into that fan-made MiSTing of Highlander II and, well, it was a convention, it was a huge crowd, it was new-to-me stuff, it was just a peak viewing experience.
Sorry for your loss Sampo but I’m glad your mother had a long life. I’ve got lots of favorite memories as I’ve been a fan since ’93 but I’ll go with a more recent one. My parents and I live about 200 miles now from where we grew up and we all live together. I’m not married yet and wouldn’t want to live by myself and with the rest of our family so far away it’s nice not to be alone. We sold our last house and moved into a rent house while our new bigger house was being built a few months ago. We called our rent house ‘the crap house’ because it was a crappy house (pet urine stains and dirty walls – yuck!). Instead of having my own separate living room like before I just had a bedroom so all my electronics were in there. It was an older house and the wiring couldn’t take it when I had my computer and the DVD player on at the same time. I’m also taking online courses so my PC was on practically all the time but during the last month of our three month stay there I found a whole mess of episodes on Amazon’s Prime service and I did the free month trial. So for the last month I was able to watch the episodes without tripping the breaker and shutting everything in my room down. Mike/Joel and the bots made the nasty place feel a little more like home and I’m glad it’s now just a distant memory!
Chris-
I’m very sorry to hear about your mom, but what a great, great reminiscence of the fun you two spent together! Brilliant! For me, I remember how MST got me through so many late night freelance jobs- VHS tape after VHS tape till the early morning when the family would awake and the kids would get ready for school. Once our kids were old enough to begin to understand humor- it became my job to educate them in comedy and MST was most certainly on the syllabus! I realized the circle was complete when after a date night out, my wife and I returned to our growing kids and their friends watching MST3K on their own! Huzzah!
Catching part of a later Turkey Day Marathon while at my dad’s (“I Accuse My Parents”), it was clear that most of my family didn’t get MST3K (one of those things where perfectly good people refer to a smart show as “stupid” – same with “Arrested Development”), esp. my dad and sister. My mom isn’t a fan, either.
Fast forward to a couple/few years ago… I’m at my sister’s and they let me watch MST3K on their Netflix (“Zombie Nightmare”). For a little while, my brother-in-law and a couple of my nephews were watching with me and they laughed at alot of the riffs before their attention drifted elsewhere. I really liked that.
I have two memories: First, our cable system did not carry Comedy Central, but a friend did have CC on her system. So I asked her to record some episodes for us. My friend, who had never heard of MST3K before, told me later that I had made MSTies out of her whole family!!
The other MST memory: we were having a party and needed some after dinner entertainment. So, I pulled out an episode (I think it was War of the Colossal Beast) and our guests were soon rolling on the floor with laughter!
First, my thoughts and prayers go out to you for your loss.
For this topic, I will go with the very first time that I watched the show. It took forever for me to actually stop flipping channels and watch it, and I regret that I didn’t stop by earlier. This was at the beginning of the SciFi era, and when bored, I would check SciFi to see what was on because I liked a lot of their shows at that time.
How many times I would see an old movie playing with strange creatures and a guy sitting there in theater seats. I didn’t know what it was, so I would flip the channel (stupid!). This happened so many times, and I kept thinking ‘What the heck is this weird show?’ But unfortunately, I wouldn’t stick around long enough to actually see what it was about, I would just flip the channel!
Finally, one day out of complete boredom, not being able to find anything else on TV, I stayed on SciFi, which had ‘that show’ on again. Well…. after a few giggles, which turned into hearty laughs, I realized this was actually funny. Very funny!
I don’t remember what episode was on, but that was a life-changing day for me. I remember yelling at my sister in the next room and saying something like ‘Hey, you know that show we always flip past with the weird creatures in the theater? It’s actually really funny!’.
I checked the guide to find out when it would be on again, and I was hooked from that time on.
That is my best memory… so far…
When I first met my wife, she lived in a different town and had a different cable provider than me, and her’s had Comedy Central (or whatever the network was named at that time) and I first caught the show at her place. When we got married and moved, our local cable provider didn’t have Comedy Central (or Ha!, or the Comedy Channel, or whatever), so I lost track of the show for a time. But we did have the Sc-Fi channel, and low and behold, MTS3K began running there in 1997, and I’ve been hooked ever since.
My fondest memory had to be the day I saw the regular MST show at home, then head to my local theater to see the movie version. That was a fun day. It’s too bad it was the beginning of the end…and we don’t mean the one that Bert I. Gordon made.
I’ve been a fan since ’93 or so when I was in high school. I remember when I first saw what is probably my all-time favorite host segment. It’s in Operation Double 007 and Joel fully commits to re-enacting the antics of the portly, grope-happy, cigar-smoking villain with the exasperated bots as his all-lady crew. I was laughing harder and harder with each “I know” and loud blast of the goofy 60s theme music that my mom came in the living room to see what was going on. Good times.
New memories: a triple feature yesterday: Werewolf, Prince of Space, and, The Indestructible Man. Labor Day weekend made sweeter in 2013!
Being hungover laying on the basement floor, while the Saturday morning Sci Fi MST3K played in the foreground.
Every Saturday, my family would gather around the TV and watch MST3K as it aired. I was somewhat late in seeing MST3K(season 9), but really enjoyed it and have since seen almost every episode.
I remember a summer writing camp I went to back in the mid 90s–strangely chock-full of the beautiful, acne-free children of privilege. However, while they were effervescing about more topical fare (read: the Grease remaster, the latest Seal album, Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible), the rest of us “good personalities” grouped together under the protective awning of the MST3K marathon playing that weekend. I remember Teenagers from Outer Space particularly vividly, and to this day it has a special place in my heart. Nothing like knowing you’re not alone, whether teenager or alien.
Torchah!