I’ve been thinking about this one for a while, but with this week’s episode guide entry it’s never been more relevant:
What’s your favorite credit sequence? It’s a real credit (ba-dum-ting!) to the Brains that there are so many hilarious sequences from the show that revolve around . . . words on a screen set to music.
So what’s everyone’s favorite? It can be an opening or closing sequence. For me, it’s obviously Werewolf’s closing credits. “TUSK!”
My pick would probably be the discussion of who loves femmy movies the most in episode 516- Alien from L.A.
What’s yours?
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I LOVE THE CREDITS FROM” THE MOVIE” VERY AWSOME!!!!! :lol:
RUNNER UP , ” OVERDRAWN AT THE MEMORY BANK” :mrgreen:
ANYONE AGREE? :?:
HOW ABOUT ” CAVE DWELLERS” TOO? :razz:
How about the ending of Time Chasers, including
Tom Servo’s rant against the citizens and officials
of Rutland, Vermont? Against whom he apparently has
long standing issues. :lol:
Wow I’ve got to give props to the credits during Hobgoblins, which are often overlooked due to how absurd the movie itself is. The interview with the films director (Can’t remember his name,) is hilarious.
The gluttony song they sing over the credits to ‘Final Justice’ makes my brother and I laugh every damn time!
Crow: “Take the roast and wrap it in bacon!”
Tom: “There’s potatoes on the side!”
Mike: “You know, maybe we should lay off the food jokes guys.”
Tom: “MEATBALLS FRIED IN LAARRRRRD!”
Tom and Crow: “Eat, eat, eat, eat. Munch, munch, munch, munch. Chew, chew, chew, chew. Gorge, gorge, gorge, gorge. Burp, burp, burp, burp.”
Tom: “Pork chops, cream puffs, candy bars.”
Crow: “Meat sauce, cheetos, mallomars.”
Tom: “Hey baby, you gonna finish that?”
Overdrawn at the memory bank – “Movie tech support” that is soooooooo funny!!!!! I also think the opening credits to cave dwellers where a ton o fun too. Especially the skit joe and the bots do later, ” amore lucid version of the opening credits! Ha! Oh, and if you listen real close you can hear an older dub of a girl reading the credits out loud in the background while the prance around in their costumes. Anyone one else catch that?
While Werewolf is still my absolute favorite, some other personal favorites would have to be:
1) The song they sing during the opening credits to The Girl in Lover’s Lane. It’s just so catchy! “Stars Jack Elam, not Jack LaLanne!”
2) The “interview” with Rick Sloane during the credits of Hobgoblins.
3) The bots claiming that Mike was personally to blame for everything wrong about the 80s (and the ensuing fight) during the credits of Space Mutiny.
Servo singing Journey’s Separate Ways during the credits of Escape 2000 gets me every time.
“Warwilf”–hands down.
“Outlaw”–Mike and the bots make up names for cheeseball erotic thrillers made for the USA Network (“Murder Most Moist”, “The Hawaii Edible Underwear Murders”) and they all star Jeff Conaway. Hilarious! :mrgreen:
For me, it’s the rant against the ’70s after Soultaker. And you got punched out by the first trombone player in the marching band! How pathetic!
My favorite is probably the discussion during Soultaker’s end credits about how the hero would whiz the happy ending down his leg…and how the girl would break up with him in the drive-up lane at Hardee’s.
Second choice is definitely the Alien from LA femmy movie competition.
I love both routines (Servo’s lyrics, and Crow’s pitching it as a show to Mike) at the end of The Final Sacrifice.
Sadly, there’s just too much funny to quote it without missing the good bits.
For quotes, I’ll go to the first credit sequence bit that floored me — from Manos, the Hands of Fate:
Crow: “Crew!? They had a crew? I do NOT believe they had a crew!”
Joel: “Ok, whoah, everbody pick out someone you wanna punch.”
Oh, and arch hall 3, there’s a little button on the left edge of your keyboard, right about in the middle. It’s called “Caps Lock”, and I think you’ll find the light is on. Be a dear and push that button, won’t you? :grin:
Warwilf is easily at the top of my list, but Space Mutiny is a close second. The song is so generically 80’s almost any other 80’s song can be plugged into the tune and work :mrgreen:
Werewolf, Final Justice and Space Mutiny are my top three, but another I love for being short and sweet is Touch of Satan, when the credits do a backwards skip “AHH! The Devil!” and they go running.
Come to think of it, the movie’s opening credits are pretty awesome too, “What do you get when you fall from Grace/You only get cast into Perdition…” LOL :lol:
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Man… this is a tough one. I’m gonna have to list a few. Most of my favorites have been mentioned already…
1. The TUSK sequence from Warwilf is definitely a classic.
2. The story of Mike from Soultaker.
3. The Final Sacrifice pitch from the movie of the same name (“Rowsdower saves us and saves all the wooorrrrlllddd!”)
4. The Tech Support skit from Overdrawn and the Memory Bank.
5. Interviewing Rick Sloane.
I would also throw this one on there.
1. The rockin’ Leave Bronx song from Escape 2000, complete with Crow smacking Mike in the head with a guitar.
Final Justice, Space Mutiny and Hobgoblins are definite some of my favorites, though I also enjoyed the Leonard Maltin book reading at the end of Laserblast. Amazing how many good films were ranked equal or worse than it.
The closing credits to Squirm:
Singer: How can I ever hold you long enough?
Tom: Time yourself with a stopwatch.
Singer: When nights together go so fast.
Mike: Well, now your winter nights are longer.
Singer: Have we the time to make it strong enough, strong enough to last?
Tom: Eh, no.
Mike: Do we have to sing the answers?
Singer: How can I make the memory real enough?
Tom: Try a camcorder.
Plenty of good riffing on the opening credits of The Phantom Planet. In particular, “Attack of the killer peanut brittle” always makes laugh.
Likewise for the closing credits of Cave Dwellers, in which footage (from a completely different movie!) is shown of two shirtless guys (“James Caan and Billy Dee Williams”) poking around in a dungeon until they find this young sidekick type imprisoned there. Riff: “Chad and Trevor have finally found each other”
I may be alone on this one, but I love the animated opening credits to “Catalina Caper.” It’s so dopey and poorly drawn, and Joel & the ‘bots seem disdainful and intrigued and genuinely befuddled by it, all at once. Pretty much every line has entered the lexicon of inside jokes between my wife and me, especially “he’s gonna play a trick on that fish!”
It’s pretty short, maybe only about 30 seconds, but I love in The Day the Earth Froze when the narrator is saying the actors’ names and at one point Crow says, “If you see any of these people, please, for their own sakes, turn them in!” And Joel goes, “Well said.” HILARIOUS. Gets me everytime.
In addition to the ones listed, I liked Joel & the ‘bots alternate lyrics to the title song from “Operation Double 007”. (“HIIIIIIS favorite movie is ‘Turner and Hooooooch’!”)
I personally loved the opening credits to Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster. I mean there were so many great riffs from those opening credits that it’s really hard for me to choose one.
Okay seriously one of my favorites is the Future War end credits where Mike is trying his hardest to impress the bots with his forced perspective tricks and then Giant Servo comes out and scares everyone.
Space Mutiny, mainly for the meaty *thwack* one of the boys deals. Then there’s City Limits. “Bleah! Bleah! Ohhhhhh!!”
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A lot of really good closing-credits favorites have been mentioned, but a bit lower on my list there’s also “Devil Fish” where Crow and Servo just keep laughing and laughing as the time-frozen pair of Floripeans are stuck on screen.
I love how that bit starts out fun, then gets awkward, but then becomes hilarious as they *just keep laughing.*
I’m gonna have to go with the closing credits of “Laserblast”, mostly because they made me question why I even had a Leonard Maltin review book in the first place.
I liked the closing credits to Being From Another Planet, where Tom says it’s the worst movie they’ve ever seen. Crow and Joel proceed to list every movie they’ve ever seen and Tom says “WORSE” to each of them. It ends with Crow mentioning Castle of Fu Manchu, and Tom concedes that “Castle of Fu Manchu was just as bad, but we’ve never seen a worse movie.” (I disagree, BTW.) Of course, Manos and Monster A-Go-Go were still to come. :grin:
Although the closing credits of Werewolf (TUSK!) is the best – (still cracks me up every time), I love the half-screen interruption during the closing credits of “Time Chasers” with “Observer Eyewitness News” – “Which Is Witch” would definitely be must-see-TV. This would also count as my favorite Brain Guy skit.
The end of Incredibly strange creatures where they proclaim “madison is madison”. Warwulf and Final justice also are quite grood.
Alien from L.A. Absolutely classic escalation of accusing each other of liking chickflicks.
There’s also The Movie, because A) they’re riffing their own credits “Puppets? There weren’t any puppets in this movie!” and also due to THE AMAZING RONDO!!!
Incredible Melting Man. The What I learned bit is one of the best they ever did.
“Oh hey, ‘Seven Samurai’, two stars.”
My favorite closing credits sequence is from Soultaker, where Crow and Tom explain how Zach wrecks his car and his relationship with Natalie after the movie ends. It’s so involved, I like to just take it as the truth.
As for opening credits, Space Mutiny is really good – “Passed from editor to editor in a desperate attempt to save it!”
I actually admire the look of some of the Corman films credit sequences, like Gunslinger or Swamp Diamonds. Sad that they overshadow the movies, though.
I agree with Stephen–#23–Catalina Caper’s opening credits. “Animated” runner-up: The Gunslinger.
You guys got it all wrong. The best credits sequence is the OPENING credits to ‘The Girl in Lovers’ Lane.’ Tom sings a little song about who’s not in the movie, rhyming names with ‘Lane,’ and it’s really great; it ends with Joel doing a whip-crack and Crow saying “The Girl in Lovers’ Lane” in a train-man’s voice. One of my favorite episodes ever.
Also, the ‘Laserblast’ Leonard Maltin “two-stars” bit is fairly hilarious too.
It’s just a riff but I like Prince of Space. THE END appears and M&TBs as giant baby scientists ” The end? Oh no! er..ah..No!”
Another vote for Touch of Space as cars pass Jody: Servo- Honk honk. Sight see on your own time Beezlebub! Crow- Get off the road Mangoat!
I love the end credit to Mst3k the movie. “Why do people leave during the credits?”
My favorite credits sequence is easily Final Justice. HE WON’T STOP TILL HE EATS IT ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also, I love the ending credits to The Leech Woman episode. JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Two that I love
1. Future War’s closing credits when Mike is demonstrating forced perspective.
2. This one is very short but it’s one of those things that cemented MST3K as my favourite show, at the end of Manos the Hands of Fate THE END? Joel “awww now I’ll always wonder” Short simple and brilliant.
“Some! Day! Love will fiiiiiiind you!”
Even though it’s not one of their most sophisticated, I agree with #29. I also love the Devil Fish credits. The laughing is contagious but it’s Tom’s “We’re from Europe” and his almost whispered “Mountains” that make it really fun. But Werewolf is the winner for me. I sometimes find myself singing the whole credit sequence if I hear even a snippet of one of the featured songs.
I have to say my favorite opening credits riffing is probably from “The Pod People”
Joel: Oh, see this is “The Swamp Thing” versus “The Sweet Thang!”
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Crow: I believe I’ll use my putter. Fore!
Tom: For what?
Crow: For…hittin’ things.
My favorite post-movie credits sequence is a tie. The first is Space Mutiny’s credits. They rip on the person in charge of continuity, make the ending theme even sound more generically 80s, the bots tell one of their several assumed stories about how much of a loser younger Mike was, and then end with a brawl.
Tied with that is the riffing on their own credits after the movie.
Crow: Puppets? There were no puppets in the movie!
Opening credits of “Moon Zero Two” from Season One.
Not so much for the riffing but the groovy music (Peculiar Clark?) and animation (Are those the Blue Meanies?).
Plus Joel gets up and go-go dances for a bit (Rock it, Joel!).
Joel: Is the whole movie like this you guys?
Crow: I hope not. I don’t think I can take 2 hours of this song…Cartoon’s cool though.
Favorite end credits: Hobgoblins, without a doubt. They were in prime form there.
Favorite opening credits: Cave Dwellers. So great, they made a host segment about it.
lot of good ones so far, and a propos this week’s episode, again I love the rhythmic song riffs that close Werewolf. But a propos next week’s movie, let me throw in The Deadly Bees, with the Bowler Hatted Man walking up to Hargrove’s farm under the closing credits.