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Weekend Discussion Thread: Riff or Line as a SloganYes, it’s another topic from Sue:
I’m expanding this to include anything they said on the show, including during host segments. Mine, for a long time, has been: “I’ve undergone a complex personal evolution wherein painful confusion has given way to what I like to think of as some degree of wisdom culminating in my current Zarasthustrian sense of self. Is that it?” What’s yours? 151 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: Riff or Line as a Slogan”Commenting at Satellite News
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“You know you want me, baby!”
Yeah, I get slapped a lot, but it is a philosophical slogan.
I don’t know if I’d call it a slogan or a personal mantra, but the line from Merlin’s Shop seems to sum up many situations: “I’ll give you a cookie if you shut up.”
And I would, too.
“Only the good die young.”
Servo: Most of us are morally ambiguous, which explains our random dying patterns.
I cant remember what episode it’s from but Crow is being weird and going on and on and a fragment of his speech is “RUB VANILLA BEHIND YOUR EAR AND SMELL LIKE A COOKIE ALL DAY” and I think of it all the time like “hey thats a good idea” LMAO so I guess that line really struck a chord in my soul maybe in another life I was cookies
The ultimate call to action: “Fetch me my warrior muumuu.”
“Yeah, here I go, vroooooom”
Granted, it’s gotten me into trouble a few times…
Ba da ba da da da…ding…bapadapadapadada
“Just repeat to yourself, it’s just a ________, I should really just relax.”
“I want to decide who lives and who dies.”
“Judy! What am I doing?”
There’s only one word I need for this one:
“HI-KEEBA!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Mine have to do with my wonderful wife:
1. Whenever we are disagreeing/arguing/fighting I go for a line from “Leech Woman”: “This is the 1950s. Why am I arguing with a woman? Get in the car”.
2. And whenever she corrects me or makes suggestions about my activities, I go for “The Beatniks”: “Shut up, Iris.”
“It stinks!”
Stemlo.
“I miss my pretty mind!”
But really, it’s “Nobody [gets me]. I’m the wind, baby!”
“When’s Jell-O?”
Push the button, Frank.
To really aggravate people, followed by,
I will push the button.
I WILL push the button.
I will push the BUTTON.
I will PUSH the button.
I often do or say things that result in people saying they don’t get me. So for years I’ve been using “Nobody does; I’m the wind, baby!” as my own.
The Coleman Credo:
“Robbing people, killing people, hopping trains is fun!”
Let’s not do that again.
I’ve gotten into a habit of following up pretty much every sentence with “… won’t you?”. More of a bad habit than a philosophical statement, but there it is…
“Whoop-de-$h!#.”
And on other days, “Solipsism is it’s own reward.”
‘life’s so hard when you’re stupid.’
Although I’m Sue and already have my #1 choice in the intro to this discussion (hope people don’t think I suggest too many WDTs), I’d also like to add that I say, “If you’re like me, and I know I am….” far too often. Most people just go, “Huh???”
“Lucky guy – he’s about to find out I’m Ben Murphy.”
I probably say this once a week and I think two people have ever gotten the reference. If anything, that just means I should say it more often.
#24: Your WDTS’s are consistently excellent, and I regularly say “If you’re like me, and I know I am” to my students in class, which sometimes leaves them a little puzzled (“did he just say…?”), and yet I teach quite a few Misties, so there it is.
What would Liberace do? Nah, better not do that.
Not actually an MST quote, but they did popularize it:
“Do what I dooooo!”
For years when parting company I’ve said “May the dark lord hold your soul in his clutch–I mean, uh, safe trip.”
I don’t know how much it applies to me (often, mine would just be the sound Crow and Tom make when bawling over a particularly awful movie), but there is something that’d make a fine slogan, though it’s a bit long. It starts, “He learned to late that man is a feeling creature….”
One phrase comes to mind…’WATCH OUT FOR SNAKES!”
“Touch a button. Things happen.” (You must be drunk or very, very tired to truly appreciate its profundity.)
“Boy, I sure hope he said ‘peanuts’.”
I did it for the kicks…..
#4 – That’s from Crow’s post-“X Marks the Spot” monologue in King Dinosaur, that is a great line indeed!
I’d have to go with “You (fill in the blank) it, I’m bitter.” Although traditionally only “do” or “look at” go into the blank, you can really customize it for any situation and it’s just so delightful.
“Whaddaya got for me, Rick Astley?” (from ‘Space Mutiny’)
I’ve trotted that one out even for people who are not fans. It’s so worth the confused looks!
The moment I saw this subject, I *immediately* thought of the Makonnen Credo from The Phantom Planet:
“Every year of my life, I grow more and more convinced that the wisest and best is to fix our attention on the good and the beautiful – if you’ll just take the time to look at it.”
Which, as I’ve just learned (thanks to the internet!), is a variation on a quote from a clergyman named Richard Cecil:
“Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.”
(…and as a clergyman, he almost certainly drew inspiration for this quote from Philippians 4:8.)
The way this line comes *completely* out of nowhere in The Phantom Planet definitely deserved the mockery and riffing M&tB gave it (and the direction Mike and Tom go with it in Segment 2 is amusing) – but as a slogan for a life philosophy, it’s not bad.
(…though simultaneously enjoying a show which features movies that are neither good nor beautiful *does* present some philosophical challenges!)
“Am I exploiting my core competencies?” … though admittedly most days it’s more like “I leave for twenty minutes and EvilCo is in shambles!”
#37
You’re quite a guy, Spade.
“Today is dedicated to Uranus!”
“That squares my breasts.” (From the Gumby short, Robot Rumpus)
“What kind of sin could a man commit in a single lifetime to bring this upon himself?”
Mine would have to be this one. It’s kinda Zen.
Hum da dee hee hee. Hoowa hoowa!
God is dead? Good!
“I don’t want to die, I just want to rule the world! Is that so wrong?”
-Pearl Forrester
Seriously though, despite me typically being an overly cautious person, I often find myself thinking this Crow quote from The Movie:
“I calculated the odds of this succeeding versus the odds that I was doing something incredibly stupid…and I went ahead and did it anyway.”
“My race are pacifists. We abhor violence and only kill out of personal spite.”
– Tao of Brainguy
#31 already beat me to it, but my personal slogan taken from MST3K (if you couldn’t guess) is definitely “WATCH OUT FOR SNAKES!”
I love it because it is a weird non-sequiter moment in Eegah, one of my favorite episodes, just one of those “HUH?” moments from a B-movie that sticks with you. Also, it’s a phrase that can be applied to many real-life situations. Going into a new job at a new company? WATCH OUT FOR SNAKES! Trying to decide who to vote for? WATCH OUT FOR SNAKES! Heading out to the casino? WATCH OUT FOR SNAKES! Having trust issues? WATCH OUT FOR SNAKES! Going out to the woods? WATCH OUT FOR SNAKES! Anytime somebody is doing anything and you want to warn them to be careful? WATCH OUT FOR SNAKES!! It’s fantastically multi-purpose!!
It’s perfect, it works in all situations and usually hits the nail on the head –
“And if your hands were made of metal that would mean something.”
I wish everybody had included the episode.
Mine is “I wish I had that pretty mind back” from Girl in Gold Boots.
My hubby’s would probably be “Your weapons are useless against me” from Prince of Space, I think.
See, we are both Christians, so your weapons are useless against me would be appropriate.
As far as “I wish I had that pretty mind back”, lets just say I’m no spring chicken and I’ve looked at life from both sides now.
Flying elves are back!
I actually DO say that all the time.