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Weekend Discussion Thread: Least Memorable EpisodesAlert regular Jenny (a LONGtime MSTie) writes:
For me, it’s RADAR SECRET SERVICE. Classic short and the segment that goes with it, but the rest of it is all gray men in suits and hats who all look alike. How about you? 142 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: Least Memorable Episodes”Commenting at Satellite News
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There are a few (Mighty Jack is among mine as well), but for me the main example is Castle of Fu Manchu. It’s hard to hear, hard to see, and completely impossible to know what’s going on. The movie just sort of “exists,” and the riffing doesn’t have any memorable moments, either. And I can’t remember any of the host segments off the top of my head (even though I’ve seen Manchu a few times…).
For me it would have to be the three biker movies Sidehackers, Wild Rebels, and Hellcats. I remember bikes, fights, a fat guy gets shot and not much else :|
I offer that least memorable = worse for those who have seen all of the episodes, so for me it would be anything from Season One and “Girls’ Town”. A lot of people really like that one, but I’ve never gotten into it.
If I understand this thread correctly, I would have to say The Slime People. This movie had more smoke than a wild fire. Sure, the plot is easy to follow but the ‘action’ scenes were all within the confines of billowing clouds. The only action one saw was at the end when the sun came out and the lumpy guys would pitch forward and roll down a hill.
I’ll throw in Lost Continent also for the never ending ROCK CLIMBING. I get a headache just thinking about the wing tip climbing shoes and the clothes line ropes they used.
The Unearthly. All I can remember is Tor Johnson.
Starfighters hands down. The only thing I remember from this is planes refueling over and over. I have no desire to rewatch this one.
I’d say… ummm… you know, that one…. what was it again….?
Oh, yeah. High School Big Shot. Seen it a few times, remember none of it.
Given the high volume of episodes it’s tough for me to name just one. So, season by season, here’s my least memorable.
1. The Black Scorpion.
2. King Dinosaur.
3. Fugitive Alien.
4. The Rebel Set.
5. Teenage Crime Wave.
6. Kitten with a Whip.
7. The Incredible Melting Man.
8. The She Creature.
9. Space Children.
10. It Lives By Night.
Like you said, these aren’t the worse ones, just those which are least memorable and which I have no desire to see.
Last of the Wild Horses
Colossus and the Headhunters
Ring of Terror
Don’t remember anything about them and have no desire to go back and see if I missed anything.
I’m not sure why, but it has to be”Tormented”. It’s so forgettable, I actually had to look up the name of the movie; I couldn’t remember it on my own.
The only ones I can’t remember are the ones I only saw once(mostly season one). Everything else has stuck with me pretty well.
I don’t have much memory of 12 to the Moon. In fact, I can’t remember at all what happened, I’m assuming 12 bad actors were rocketed to the moon. I’ll have to catch this one again.
The Indestructable Man and Tormented. Not bad, just… meh.
I agree with Keith about Indestructible Man. I’ve seen it a couple of times, but it fails to stick in my mind.
Both Fugitive Alien episodes. Pure teflon, they slide right off my brain. And I don’t think I’ve ever gotten all the way thru Human Duplicators — I always fall asleep!
And I agree with Kitten With a Whip — it should be a great episode, it’s so ripe with promise, but I don’t remember a thing about it, except that it bores me.
I agree with droid about Starfighters and Saint Rude about Castle of Fu Manchu.
And to me, the only thing memorable about any of the first season episodes was how much I prefer Kevin Murphy as Servo.
Space Children and Indestructible Man for me. I couldn’t tell you what happens in the movies unless I went and looked it up. Not every episode can be a gem.
anything in black n white, didn’t like Fu Manchu either
I wouldn’t say they’re unmemorable, but none of the Hercules episodes stick in my mind. I remember Deep Hurting, of course, and Mike’s appearance as Steve Reeves, but for the life of me, I can’t remember which episodes they were in.
I like the one from each season idea. Each season has at least 1 unmemorable episode. Here’s mine:
1. Haven’t seen all, but I’ll go with Mad Monster
2. Again, haven’t seen them all, but I’ll go with Rocket Attack USA
3. Mighty Jack
4. Space Travelers
5. Hercules
6. Code Name: Diamond Head
7. Eh – all pretty memorable
8. Revenge of the Creature
9. Space Children
10. all pretty memorable
The Indestructable Man.
Seen it maybe five times over the years….
Started writing points I remembered about it and
then realized those points were in The Brute Man.
Lon Chaney Jr. I can remember….
I find the Japanese ‘Something vs. something else’ movies all pretty forgettable.
I agree with Castle of Fu Manchu. It puts me to sleep every time. Its a bad movie and not even salvagable by professional riffing.
Stranded in Space and Gorgo.
“It’s the forgotten MST3K episode. Nobody ever talks about it. Nobody cares about it. I don’t think I ever saw one letter during my five years at Best Brains that addressed Stranded in Space” – Frank Conniff on Episode 305
For me, all of the late 70’s/80’s movies in color from Sci-Fi blend into one.
I’m also going to say Unearthly. For me I think it is just a poor title. It sounds like a zombie movie which of course it isn’t in the least. (Unless you count Tor.) Then whenever I do rewatch it I always remember “oh yeah, I love this episode.”
Have to agree with Starfighters. A great title but then…
When the most memorable moment is the woman in the bar’s
fetish with garnishes for her drink…
For me, I found The Unearthly just plan bad, and without the shorts it probably would be the most forgotten mst3k.
I almost couldn’t get through Tormented, taking a one year break then to come back and finish it.
The Hercules movies were too hard for me to watch without falling asleep.
Surprisingly, I loved the Indestructible Man, enjoyed that and the short.
screaming skull, bleh. I think Scifi kept repeating when ever I was near a TV on early saturday mornings (or kiturnsday, whatever awkward time it was slotted) when living on the west coast. I think I distanced myself from the show for a short while due to that episode, which I’m not proud of.
Definitely all of Season One. I thought I hadn’t seen any of them at all, but as I watch them again, I do remember some host segments or scenes in a movie and the riffs. It’s weird, I had no memory of Dr. Erhardt at all, even though some of his lines and some of the host segments I *know* I’ve seen/heard before.
Before I turn my Mac off, I would like to share some good bad news.
Shout! Factory has acquired the rights from Kadokwa Pictures, not Sandy Frank to distribute the uncut versions of these Gamera films. Not the mst3k ones. They have no plan to release the mst3k ones for a while.
The only episode I have never been able to watch from start to finish without falling asleep is Hamlet…the movie is absolutely unwatchable
Resources used: Travis Hosey’s incredible list of the likelihood that mst3k episodes will be released and WIkipedia
For me it’s ‘I Accuse My Parents.’ I have never successfully been able to watch this episode all the way through. The ONLY memory I have of it is one of the trio shouting “We have title!!” when the main character says it. The rest is a blur.
If Frank took part in this thread, I bet he’d pick STRANDED IN SPACE.
For me, yeah It Lives By Night is pretty forgettable. I’ve seen the episode twice (though not recently), and I don’t remember what the plot was, any riffs, what the segments were about, nothing.
I’d have to go with Attack of the Giant Leeches, Castle of Fu-Manchu, and Stranded In Space.
HAMLET. Hamlet is a blank slate for me; it seems like everytime I try and watch it I enter with no expectations and stop without those expectations being met. The movie is just . . . . dull.
I would say The Crawling Hand, Red Zone Cuba, The Leech Woman, and anything from season 1 or the KTMA season
There’s a difference between “boring” and “not memorable.” I was going to nominate “Humanoid Woman,” but I realized that I remember a lot about it, even though I had to watch it in installments because it kept putting me to sleep.
I agree with Manny, Moe and/or Jack (#19) about the Hercules films. A few things stick out– Herc’s super-cute wife, the waters of forgetfulness, the day dedicated to Uranus –but not many, and I can’t remember which belongs to which film.
I agree with Spector (#8) about The Black Scorpion. I remember a cave, and… that’s pretty much it.
I once started watching The Indestructible Man unriffed, and got half an hour in before I realized I’d seen it on MST3K. It’s just THAT unmemorable.
I remember laughing a lot at all the Coleman Francis episodes, but for the life of me I can barely remember a scene out of them. I remember Curly running, Curly shooting..but if I were to watch them again I think it would be like new (which I think I’ll do right now…)
Sampo, You are wrong about Blood Waters of Dr. Z. It’s one of the best episodes from the final season. The one I wish I could forget is Hamlet. I can’t believe the show sunk low enough to put that one out. It was so bad it made Manos look like oddly enough like Shakespear.
• I like all the Hercules films though would probably fail a test on what happens in each one. It’s Colossus v. Headhunters that escapes me. What with Film Crew later doing Giant of Marathon and Wild Women of Wongo, it’s hard to keep all these warring tribes straight.
• Dip @ #20. Space Travelers is not a real movie title. You made that up… Oh, you mean “Marooned.” I remember that one.
Being From Another Planet (or, Ben Murphy Meets the Mummy) is another title I have to think about, as it could also describe Stranded In Space, which would have actually been a more apt title for Space Travelers.
• The Slime People. Throw that one at me and I have a hard time recalling the movie. Giant Leeches, Creeping Terrors, Crawling Hand/Eye/She-Creatures? But when you mention “fog” I can picture it (barely).
• Mighty Jack and the two Fugitive Aliens are an indistinct blur to me. Something about a forklift?
Irony is asking people to remember a least memorable episode.
wow, there are a lot of eps on people’s list that I really find memorable like Radar Secret Service and It Live by Night.
But here is mine:
Blood Waters of Dr. Z: after the first funny half hour it is as if I have amensia. What happens in the rest of the film.
Human Duplicators: I watched this several times and haven’t a memory of anything but some dungeon steps.
Code Name Diamond Head: an island, a priest, a skinny woman…what happens?
Danger Death Ray!: a spy movie….but what happens?
Terror from the Year 5000: a similar problem but I quite like this ep
Least memorable might not mean the episode is one of the worst, but if you can’t remember anything about it, it must have not been very good.
My list are all 1.5 to 2 star episodes for me. Blah.
Colossus and the Headhunters
The Castle of Fu Manchu
Indestructible Man
Stranded in Space
Mighty Jack
First Spaceship on Venus
Coleman Francis Movies
Being From Another Planet (I LOVE Riding With Death, and I wanted to like this Ben Murphy episode but I rated it at 2 stars and I can’t remember a thing about it).
Danger Death Ray! can be remembered by a toy helicopter landing on a toy submarine in some kid’s toilet bowl. That’s how I always remember it.
Yeah. An episode that’s a person doesn’t like is often one they don’t often watch. So if they don’t watch it often, how could they remember any of it?
I think “most dreary” might be the descriptor you’re looking for. Trouble is, a lot of my favorite episodes are extremely dreary. The The Undead and The Incredible Melting Man were forgettable episodes for me in the beginning, now I cherish them. Some dreary movies I loved right away for some reason, like Manos and The Dead Talk Back. Some movies are dreary and the riffing is flat, like Ring of Terror. Those just all-around suck. I think a lot of what people are calling forgettable they just haven’t watched in the right mindset, yet. And I like the part in Radar Secret Service where this waitress is deep-kissing her boyfriend at a table and their lovemaking is interrupted when some patrons come into the diner and sit down.
“I’ll have the tongue sandwich!”
“I’ll have the french dip!”
That’s actually a pretty rememberable episode with the all the “Radar!” and the “Am I the bad guy, or are you? * I’m not sure, either.”
I can’t remember.
Least memorable for me would have to be any of the Season 9 British episodes like The Projected Man, Gorgo, and The Deadly Bees. I might even lump in Devil Doll from 8 as well. I mean the Gameras and the Hercules flicks kind of blend into each other for me, but that English epoch was rather “eh, whatever” for me.