What would it be? It would not only have to be a great episode but it would have to be one that would be good on repeat viewings.
Mine may surprise you: It’s episode 610- THE VIOLENT YEARS
(with short: “YOUNG MAN’S FANCY”)
To me, it just has everything an MST3K episode should have. Every single host segment is great (though the “Star is Born” thing Tom does is probably the least funny), the short is weird, the movie was written by Ed Wood and features the classic “lady violating the poor defenseless guy” scene, and the riffing is top-notch throughout. They are just firing on all cylinders.
That’s mine. What’s yours?
This topic is certain to demonstrate the truth of what has come to be known as “Sampo’s Theorem” which states: “For every MSTie who believes a given episode is the worst thing they ever did, there is another who believes it is their finest hour.”
Oh, and I will allow honorable mentions, but only one. Mine would be episode 416- FIRE MAIDENS OF OUTER SPACE.
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Which episode would I want to have if stuck on a deserted island? And I can pick only one? Damn. That’s hard.
I’m going to have to say Hobgoblins.
When it comes to the MST3K episodes I like best it’s the later seasons with Bill Corbet playing Crow.
Firstly, I like the Mike/Kevin/Bill dynamic. Sure the riffs get a little more mean-spirited, but I always liked that over the obscure pop-culture references. Plus in defense of Mike and the bots, when you’ve been up in space for almost 10 years watching bad movies, you’re bound to start getting a little mean ;)
But my runner up is the Joel episode “I Accuse my Parents” (With the short “The Truck Famer”)
mine would have to be 813-jack frost. it’s soooooo impossible to choose. there should be a top 10 list. :cry:
or Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, or Riding with Death, or Eegah.. see there i go again.
i agree with the Mike, Kevin, and Bill comment Nick-O they click together soooo well. their film crew riffin is da ****. :lol:
Tough choice.
Most likely my favorite, since it embodies everything I love about the show and the kinds of movies they show…
306. TIME OF THE APES.
Second choice…
303. POD PEOPLE.
I agree with Steph, this should be a Top 10 list instead.
Gonna have to go with The Final Sacrifice, as the Mike episode of choice. As for Joel episode, I’d have to go with Manos: The Hands of Fate, but that’d be my second choice. As a side note, I have no plans of leaving the continental United States anytime in the next two decades, so this possibility of me being stuck on a desert island with just one episode is completely absurd.
What the hell!
3rd choice. Probably 516 Alien from LA.
At the moment (aren’t all our choices just the ones we’d make right this moment, and we’d pick something else tomorrow?), I’d have to say Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders. I love that Ernest Borgnine is in it. I love that it’s a “children’s movie” in which two beloved household pets are set on fire. I love that it features a scene in which a man dressed as a wizard walks around a park asking strangers, “Have you seen my monkey?” (And then holding up a picture of a toy monkey with cymbals.) I love that the second half obviously takes place in a different decade than the first half. I love the fact that the whole thing seems like a tax writeoff.
But I am more of a Joel person than a Mike person, ultimately, so I’d have to say my second choice is Pod People. Mainly for the “It stinks!” sketch.
Mine would have to be 404-Teenagers From Outer Space….2nd would be 810=Jack Frost…
This Island Earth. Failing that, Prince of Space.
Gotta be “Danger! Death Ray!” That bup-ba-da-da-da-da song and the riffs that go with it always crack me up, plus there’s all of the cheap special effects and bad editing. The host segments are strong too, such as TV’s Frank’s stint as an agent (with Torgo as a client), Servo’s death ray that’s for peaceful purposes only, and Crow’s line of womanly sunglasses for men.
Space Mutiny. No, wait, Diabolik. Mitchell!
No, Godzilla vs. Guiron! No, Space Mutiny.
Hercules and the Captive Women, with the Human Duplicators as a runner up.
My favorite episode ever since the first time I saw it is “Teenagers From Outer Space”. I still laugh out loud at the “That’s not Sparky…he had skin” comment! Honorable mention is a tough one, but I’ll go with “The Deadly Mantis”, because I love the old Universal sci-fi flicks from the fifties, and the Planet of the Apes-themed host segments were hilarious!
Deathstalker
Potatoes are what we eat.
I would have to go with Girl in Gold Boots.
but really its so hard to choose.
No one said it?The amazing colossal man.
My favorite episode has always been (and continues to be) Cave Dwellers. I’ve got a thing for Conan rip-offs – don’t know why.
Runner up: Sidehackers. I also have a thing for biker flicks – oh, well.
“Mitchell.” Joe Don Baker, Linda Evans, a Hoyt Axton Song, baby oil, and Schlitz–my idea of paradise.
Night Of The Blood Beast or The Starfighters as episodes that never fail to make me laugh.
In fact forget that, The Magic Voyage Of Sinbad!
‘Pod People’.
Three words: Idiot. Control. Now.
Night of the Blood Beast. I don’t think “Steve?!” would ever stop being funny.
Escape 2000 in a close second.
Angel’s Revenge. One of the best, if not the best, MST3K episode ever. This would be one of the episodes I would show someone who hasn’t seen the show before. You got 70s goofiness, “Charlie’s Angels” rip-off, Alan Hale, Arthur Godfrey, Jack Palance, Peter Lawford and, well, if you’re going to be all alone on a desert island, you might as well have something sexy to look at (if you like that sort of thing!).
Initially, I wasn’t a huge fan of the Sci-Fi era of episodes. Then I saw 910 – THE FINAL SACRIFICE. That episode is pure gold in my opinion, and I’d never tire of watching it.
Runner-up: MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: THE MOVIE. That was my first MST3K experience. I used to be able to recite the riffs from This Island Earth from memory. ^__^
All time favorite: The Touch of Satan. Runner up (at this moment, this one always changes): The Thing That Couldn’t Die.
But I’m with you, my favorite short is Young Man’s Fancy. I love Judy and her squishiness.
Yaay!
It’s cool to see someone else’s favorite episode is “A Touch Of Satan”, my all-time favorite.
“This is where my TONGUE lives”
“I’m going to time this pause: one, two, three,
four, five, six… wow!… seven…”
I barely have to think about this one: ‘The Day the Earth Froze.’ It’s got a hilarious short ‘Here Comes The Circus’, one of my favourites’, memorable host segments (I love Crow and Tom as the winds at the end), and great riffs (as the film features a close-up of a gnarled gnome, Tom quips ‘Ron Wood on any given morning’).
I think my runner-up would have to be ‘Santa Claus’, just for the international children scene at the beginning.
419 – The Rebel Set
It was the first episode I saw, I guess around Christmas of 1992 and it’s still my favorite.
Numero Uno (drumroll please):
“The Day the Earth Froze”
Runs the whole riff gamut, from Rocky and Bullwinkle, to Monty Python, to Dr. Smith from Lost in Space.
“So thats a sampo, huh?”
“Ray Nietschke?!?”
“Here’s your @#$% half and half.”
“Sampo means flavor”
This is a tough one. I guess I’ll go with Overdrawn at the Memory Bank. As for the runner up… wow this is hard to choose. Top ten list would be a good idea. I’ll go with Space Mutiny. I’ve always been a fan of Mike, although I would like to of choose an episode with Frank in it… I’m changing Space Mutiny to Skydivers, mostly because of the short. There.
-“I keep Popular Mechanics under my mattress!”
It would have to be Mitchell!!
“Joe Don Baker is Mittens”
“Now he looks like the wrathful Buddah”
“”Nope, still Johnny Mathis (It’s not for me to say…)”
“The declining years of Lee Majors”
Endless humor…. (Is that Andy Kaufman?) :)
Definitely “Space Mutiny” for me. Sure the host segments are crap, but the riffing is, IMO, the funniest they’ve ever done and the movie itself provides more laughs that most MST episodes. I’ve also found this one ages better than most episodes, so it’s an easy choice.
Runner up – Danger Death Ray! – I could watch the first 20 minutes of this one a million times and not get sick of it.
I think I’d go for “Girl in Gold Boots,” with “Touch of Satan” as backup. Generally, I prefer the Joel style of riffing, but these two have a heavy concentration of big laughs.
And “Boots” has my all-time favorite riff: “Hey, honey! Way to play harmonica with your ass!”
I would have to go with War of the Colossal Beast.
“This is stupid. There’s no ‘f’ in morphine!”
+the all time great Mr. B Natural
“No Jerry, you blow in the big end.”
Runner up: Any of the Colman Francis ‘films’.
“Flag on the moon…”
1. Fugitive Alien II Pants…too…tight…I’m…turning Japanese…
Cheap Japanese crap.
2. Pod People or Hercules vs. the Moon Men
A wing-ed potato.
421- Monster A-Go Go
My all time favorite episode is Agent for h.a.r.m., if i had to pick one episode to watch for the rest of my life it would be that one.
“Dad theres a man putting the squish squash to the old wind tube!”
1. Laserblast (Episode 706)
Runner Up: Pod People (Episode 303)
There’s just something about these two for me. Not sure what it is though.. sorta like that ‘being home’ feeling. They’re funny and at the same time they bring me back in time to another place.. ya know what I mean??
Most likely between “Hobgoblins” and “The Final Sacrifice”. I love the horribly cheap puppets in “Hobgoblins”, and I just can’t say “Rowsdower!” without laughing like an idiot.
“Riding With Death.” The seventies TV show pain is probably what would get me through the loneliness. ;)
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank for sure
The one episode I can watch over and over again is “Eegah”, so that may have to be my first choice. “Overdrawn at the Memory Bank” would have to be my runner-up, though “The Brain that Wouldn’t Die” and “Legend of Boggy Creek 2” come close. But, I do believe the quinessensial, perfect movie for riffing was “The Blood Waters of Dr Z” It had everything – brooding scientist, cheesy rubber monster suit, inept hero, redneck idiot sheriff, and an opening song that was annoyingly catchy. Oh well, just waiting for Gila Monster to come through the mail now…
I’d probalbly have to go with an episode thats really funny but one that i would not grow tired of. My favorite episode is pod people but i would’t want to watch it all the time. I’d probably pick Time Chasers.
“Squirm”, with short “A Case of Spring Fever” nothing like the most ridiculous short followed by a movie about killer worms.
Honorable mention goes to “Fugitive Alien”, the funniest damn Sandy Frank season 3 episode.
Easy, 1007 – Track of the Moon Beast, with the adventures of Paul, Kathy, and Johnny Longbow and his delicious stew!
I’ve transferred some of my vhs tapes to dvd and so I would take one of those. They have two movies on them, heh heh. Maybe Puma Man and Warewolf? Or is that cheating? :wink: Otherwise I’d have to be able to hear the jet jaguar song. Who isn’t able to watch a good Godzilla fight all day long? :smile:
903 – Puma Man!
A.K.A. – Semi Competent Aztec Man!!!
Honorable Mention: K21 – Legend of the Dinosaur
Do the Hustle!
Awww Sampo, how can i pick just one??? Like any junkie, i gotta have my MST, in copius amounts. That said, i think i’d go with Outlaw, Jack Palance is a sartorial fiasco, not to mention as wooden as Keanu Reeves. For a runner-up….have to go with Blood Waters of Doctor Z. I love the host segment with Crow in the rafters, taunting Mike, a la the voiceover in the film.