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Weekend Discussion Thread: Top 5 StingersPicking only five is going to be tough, but I never promised you a rose garden. My picks are: • 205- ROCKET ATTACK USA–Stinger: “Help me!” The very first stinger and still one of the best. • 310- FUGITIVE ALIEN–Stinger: “AHAHAHAHA….you’re STUCK HERE!” • 514- TEEN-AGE STRANGLER Stinger: “And he didn’t steal no bike neither…I did!” • 820- SPACE MUTINY Stinger: Our hero bravely screams like a girl and bails out. • 1003- MERLIN’S SHOP OF MYSTICAL WONDERS Stinger: “Rock ‘n’ roll martian…” What are yours? 89 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: Top 5 Stingers”Commenting at Satellite News
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OUTLAW–“Get out of here, you disgusting wwwooorrrmmm!”
WEREWOLF–“Dis iz obsullutely fussinating.”
TRACK OF THE MOON BEAST–“Moon rock? Oh, wow!”
THE VIOLENT YEARS–“So what?” *sob*
:mrgreen:
Squirm – “YOU gonna be da worm face!”
Time Chasers – “Matt, it’s time for you to decide if you’re going to be one of my team players or not.” (Text really doesn’t do this guy’s enunciation justice.)
Pod People – *OK sign* “It stinks.”
“Moon Rock, Oh WOW!” there are indeed so many and im gonna take one from season 10, too.
“Mom… M’I nuts?” from Overdrawn at the Memory Bank.
“Is that stud coming?” Dander: Diabolik
I’ll second Pod People and Space Mutiny, and I’ll add:
Secret Agent Super Dragon – Dragon is jumped to a suspense-killing xylophone glisando.
Radar Secret Service – Thankful maid.
Painted Hills – From the short. She’s so naughty! Naughty she is!
Oh, man, I narrowed it down as much as I could, but I couldn’t decide which of these to get rid of, so here’s my Top 6:
-Gamera: “Bye………………………..”
-Crash of the Moons: “Boopie!”
-Radar Secret Service: “THANK YOU!!!”
-Night of the Blood Beast: “A wounded animal that large isn’t good.” (I laughed typing that out just now.)
-Deathstalker: “POTATOES are what WE eat!”
-Overdrawn at the Memory Bank: “Mom, ‘m I nuts?”
I’ll have to go with Final Sacrifice’s “…..Rowsdower?”
Because you’ve all seemed to have pinned the best already, it’s a triple tie with me between J.K. Roberson, Rock n’ Roll martian, andDavid Ryder’s AAAAAARGH! *hops* *rolls*
Pod People – “It Stinks!”
Track of the Moon Beast – “Space rock, oh wow!”
Werewolf – “Its absolutely fascinating.”
Final Sacrifice – “Rowsdower?”
Mitchell – Joe Don Baker argues with the kid
Master Ninja II – *Cleef fondles hamster*
Teenagers From Outer Space – “The high court may well sentence you to TORCHA!”
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank – “Mom. My nuts?”
Rocket Attack USA – “Help me!”
Diabolik – “Is that stud coming?”
Angel’s Revenge – Horse-face sings “Shine your Love”
The Unearthly – Tor Johnson sez “Time a go to bed!”
1. Mitchell – “I SAID BUZZ OFF, KID!”
2. The Sinister Urge – “Dirk? Nuh-uh. No. That can’t be Dirk. Nuh-uh. No way.”
3. Parts – The Clonus Horror – “Sure!”
4. Werewolf – “Dis is absolutely fussinading.”
5. Devil Fish – “It’s right underneath us!” “I KNOWWWWWWWWW!!!”
Also I’d like to add four stingers that SHOULD have been, but weren’t (but who am I to second guess BBI?):
1. The Incredible Melting Man – “Otchka!”
2. Escape 2000 – “No sugar! How many times must I tell you NO SUGAR! It makes me CRAZY!”
3. The Thing That Couldn’t Die – “You’re all horrible! I hope a TREE falls on you!”
4. Time Chasers – “We know you’re planning to use the transport as a weapon.” “I AM NOT!”
When the show was in first-run episodes and I was watching them with a friend(s), we would try to guess what the stinger would be. Anyone else ever play that game? What other MST3K games have people played?
I only have one: the silent creep of the old man down the tunnel in Hercules Against the Moon Men where he becomes impaled by the spike trap. The timing is so wonderful that I used to rewind it and watch it over and over again.
Mitchell – mitchell having a screaming match with the little boy
Unearthly – Tor saying “time for go to bed”
Riding with death – “WOW”
The Touch of Satan – “this is where the fish lives”
Space Mutiny – dave ryder screaming (duh)
and seriously people, can anyone else not stand the “My my my my mitchell” song?
In no particular order:
Outlaw: “…you dissguussting woooorrrrmm!”
Hobgoblins: The Hobgoblins truckin’ …well, kartin’ anyway.
Space Mutiny: “AAAUUUUGGGHHH!” *pause* *clambers out of Zamboni*
Laserblast: “Faaaaaaar out!”
Riding with Death: “WAAAOOOWW HOO HOO! WOAH!”
I like pretty much all of the stingers but here’s the ones that stand out for me:
Cave Dwellers: “Dong, the fish is ready!”
The Unearthly: “Time for go to bed.”
Manos: The Hands of Fate: “Why don’t you guys leave us alone?”
The Wild Wild World of Batwoman: Guy screams while our Batgirl sinks her teath in his arm.
The Phantom Planet: “You know, Captain? Every year of my life…”
Pod people: “It stinks”
Ring of Terror “Wierd I guess that is the word for it, Wierd”
Teenagers from outer space: “TOTCHA”
Phantom planet: The good and the beutiful speech
Mitchell: “BUZZ OFF KID”
Least favorite: The Hobgoblins. So many funny lines and they choose a shot of the hobgoblins in a go cart :???: .
Rocket Attack USA: “Help me!” I can see why this inspired the Brains to do stingers in the first place. I love that bizarre line delivery. Over-acted, or just weirdly-delivered, lines became kind of a stock in trade for the stingers. Some other memorable ones: The Rebel Set (“I am bugged!”), Eegah! (“Fake it.” “That’s what I’ve BEEN doing! Now I’m getting siiick.”), The Brain that Wouldn’t Die (“Who’s to tell me to blow if I don’t want to?”), Time Chasers (“Matt, it’s time for you to decide if you’re gonna be one of my team players or nauut.”), and Diabolik (“Is that stud coming?”).
It Conquered the World: “He learned too late that man is a feeling creature…” Coming right after they’ve run the whole speech three times, it never fails to get a laugh from me. It’s the tipping point into complete absurdity.
Teenage Caveman: Watch out for that tree. A bit with unintentionally hilarious comic timing.
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank: “Mom… ‘m I nuts?” Unwitting double entendre AND comic timing.
Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders: “Rock ‘n’ roll Martian… rock ‘n’ roll Martian…” As Mary Jo says, it’s “a pure kid moment.” And maybe the one genuinely amusing thing in the movie.
1-Help Me from Rocket Attack USA
2-Old Man impaled Herc Against the Moon Men
3-That guy who yells “HERCULES” and Hercules’ goofy look from Hercules and the Captive Women
4-Youre Stuck Her – Fugitive Alien
5-Sneak Attack/Jumping – Secret Agent Super Dragon
Another one that should have been a stinger but wasn’t: “STAAAAAAYYY!!!” from The Undead. Instead, we get a shot of the Observers? How disappointing.
Yeah, those 4 or five episodes without stingers? Just hurtful, that’s what that was.
What, no mention yet of 905 – THE DEADLY BEES? (“The dogs meat! Have you seen it?”)
Also, 913 – QUEST OF THE DELTA KNIGHTS (“I’m Comiiiiiiing!”)
But best of all HAS to be:
HEH…HEH….HEH…. HEH…HEH…HEH…
If you don’t know it, you don’t know MST3k.
I find it so hard to pick just five, that I think I’ll pick a top five, followed by five honorable mentions
1) Soultaker: Zoom in on smiling creepy mom. One of those moments that’s easy to miss in the episode proper (especially since the classic “partial nudity” bit is going on when the moment happens, but is funny when highlighted in the stinger. Then you remember the context of the moment, and it becomes hilarious.
2) Ring of Terror: “Weird. Yeah, I guess that is the word for it. Weird.” What a wonderful line of cheesy dialog.
3) Horror of Party Beach: Beach dance excerpt. How many people even notice the true star of this shot the first time they see this?
4) Hercules Against the Moon Men: Old guy gets skewered. As Bat Masterson pointed out, the comic timing here is wonderful (and Hercules’ reaction, in the background, is awesome).
5) The Final Sacrifice: “Rowsdower…” The long silence before this line is spoken makes this moment perfect.
Honorable Mentions:
Hercules and the Captive Women: “Hercules! Help me!” Hercules’ expression at the end is priceless
Michell: “I said BUZZ OFF, KID!” What an odd scene, and Joe Don Baker looks so genuinely angry.
Jack Frost: Clap, clap, clap. “Bring on my fiancé!” A terrific moment that well-represents a truly bizarre movie.
The Phantom Planet: The “Good and Beautiful” speech. I love that they not only included the entire monologue, but included the captain’s eye-roll of a response: “You’re some guy, Makonnen”
It Lives By Night: Our hero swarmily says “Well?” then has a seizure. Once again, a case of excellent comic timing.
Least favorite: The singer from “Hecules Unchained.” This movie is filled with so many goofy moments (particularly Ulysses flying across the room to knock away the Water of Forgetfulness away from Herc) that the relatively staid shot of the queen mourning her loss feels disappointing.
LOL! So many good ones.
My favorites, from most recent memory.
1. Cave Dwellers: “Thong, the fish is ready.”
To hear such an ordinary, domestic phrase come out of Ator after so much noble posturing is funny.
2. Master Ninja II: The Master holding the hamster. Or is it a gerbil?
Anyway, whether it’s because a badass ninja is caressing a small rodent or for some other, less wholesome reason, it’s funny.
3. Deathstalker: “Potatoes are what we eat!”
Militant vegetarianism? After I watch the whole episode, I always watch that entire scene over again.
4. Werewolf: “This is absolutely fascinating.”
An entire movie’s worth of bad acting summed up in one line. Perfect.
5. Puma Man: Vadinho shoves Puma Man out of a window just so that he can see if he’ll land on his feet.
The scene is so awkward and poorly done and it just makes you go, “huh?”
My vote for best line that wasn’t a stinger that could have been one had their not been a better one in the same episode was “You’re Welcome” from Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders.
ralph c- the show ran thru my college and grad school years so we had a pretty good drinking game for the show. ahhhh beery memories :grin:
I’m surprised some enterprising MSTie on YouTube hasn’t made a stinger montage. Anyway, the ones that always amuse me for some reason:
The creepy laughing reindeer from 521 Santa Claus
The invisible guinea pig from 623 The Amazing Transparent Man
“Are you waiting for a bus?” from 509 The Girl in Lover’s Lane
Moon get hysterical from 415 The Beatniks
“It stinks!” from 303 Pod People
And three honorable mentions:
Ann-Margret’s tantrum in 615 Kitten With a Whip
“Bye…” in 302 Gamera
And the now classic “Help me” from 205 Rocket Attack U.S.A
Fire Maidens From Outer Space – Guy looks around for something to throw, decides on a chair, and does just that!
I doubt I’ll be able to get down to five. I got it down to seventeen. So bite me. You don’t tell me what to do, Sampo!
303 – Pod People: “It Stinks!” – It perfectly sums up the Pod People experience.
310 – Fugitive Alien: “Ha ha ha ha ha… YOU’RE STUCK HERE!” – Such a manic mood swing from boozy brawler Cap’n Joe.
512 – Mitchell: “Buzz off, kid!” – It’s always good to have your hero verbally abuse children.
514 – Teen-age Strangler: “He didn’t steal no bike, neither!” – Just brilliant, moving delivery. We love Mikey.
520 – Radar Secret Service: “Thank you!” – The ridiculous maid, probably the director’s niece or something, over-reacts to a dead body. Beats out the creepy screaming woman from 608 – Code Name Diamond Head.
521 – Santa Claus: Evil Reindeer – Beating out Sinbad for the creepiest laughing horse moment.
602 – Invasion, USA: “Extra, paper…” – the very definition of a “walk-on.”
613 – The Sinister Urge: “Dirk? Nuh. That’s can’t be Dirk. Nuh-uh, nah, that’s not Dirk, nuh-uh.” – Self-explanatory. This is how you react to the wrong dead body? Nuh-uh!?
616 – Racket Girls: “It’s gone! Where’d it go!?” – Some people just find rubber bands evil and magic.
702 – The Brute Man: “Creeper, creeper, creeper – you give me the creeps!” – The angry old man hates his help. Why wasn’t this movie called “The Creeper?”
704 – The Incredible Melting Man: “Let’s get out of here, Harold!” – The odd old person interlude in graphic detail.
822 – Overdrawn at the Memory Bank: “Mom… m’I nuts?” – Poor Raul Julia. Get back to good movies.
905 – The Deadly Bees: “The dog’s meat; have you seen it?” – The most disgusting conversation ever.
913 – Quest of the Delta Knights: “I’m Coming!” – Even Prince Jub Jubs is embarrased.
1003 – Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders: “Rock’N’Roll Martian!” – Again, speaks for itself. Although, as Redwine said above, the “You’re Welcome!” would have been great too.
1004 – Future War: Headbutt knocks off a shirt. – One of the more inexplicable things I’ve seen in these movies.
1011 – Squirm: “You gonna be da worm face!” No, you’re going to be the worm face.
As far as the four episodes lacking stingers, my choices:
805 – The Thing That Couldn’t Die: “I have my hands. My hands are strong.” …either that or any moment with the head in the hatbox.
806 – The Undead: “STAAAAY!” (of course)
807 – Terror from the Year 5000: Our hero does his hilarious impression outside the theater.
808 – The She Creature: The glasses fly off and on the man’s face. (I do have the right movie, right?
Finally, one I would have picked different: I just rewatched 617 – The Sword and the Dragon, and I don’t really like the stinger of the wind demon being knocked out of the tree. My favorite moment of the film is when one warrior runs up to the camera during the dragon fight and shouts “WATER!” He is then hit with two bucket-fulls from off left and right. It think it might be Crow’s riff of “Not me!” that makes it.
Magicvoice, you’re thinking of Manhunt in Space. And then they use the exact same stinger (kind of) for The Screaming Skull. Throw a chair!
Also, why wasn’t “I KILLED THAT FAT BARKEEP!” the stinger for Beatniks?
Definitely the insanely cackling reindeer from “Santa Claus”. I don’t know whether it’s one of the funniest things ever, or the creepiest.
Incredibly Strang Creatures: “GETYOURTICKETSHERE…”
Boggy Creek II: “I saw the little creature.”
Yowch, choosing only 5 is tough, but I’ll try…only because I’m such a nice person (and many people have already mentioned many of my faves):
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians – Voldar’s evil laugh (abruptly cut off) is a perfect choice for a stinger to this cheesefest.
Gamera vs. Zigra – how weird was the whole fish monologue? Glad they highlighted it.
Time of the Apes – Johnny just doesn’t care…the little twerp.
Mighty Jack – the villain getting intimate with his briefcase; I have a hard time watching this ep, but the stinger makes up for a lot.
Invasion of the Neptune Men – poor little Piggy: “Augghh! What’s that!?”
Plus honorable mentions to some already listed, but which are spot-on – Brute Man’s “Creeper, creeper, creeper!”, the very disturbing laughing reindeer from Santa Claus, the head bash in Teenage Caveman, and the incredible “TORCHA!” scene from Teenagers from Outer Space.
And, which bit from Catalina Caper would have been the best stinger? I suppose the creepy girl talking about her fish might have done it.
Out of the episodes I’ve seen, I’d have to pick these ones (not a top five but I have too many I love. In order of broadcast):
“Weird. I guess that IS the word for it. Weird.” (from Ring of Terror):
This is the earliest episode with a stinger I’ve seen and it’s definitely a favorite. The line is goofy enough as-is but the delivery seals it for me.
“It stinks!” (from Pod People):
One of the greatest MST3K movie lines of all time, and something I’ve found myself doing sometimes.
“Time for go to bed.” (from Unearthly):
The episode itself isn’t so great, but this line kills me. Oh Tor Johnson. You should’ve been immortal.
“TORCHA!!!” (from Teenagers from Outer Space):
It always amazed me just how into it he seemed to be about that whole torture thing.
Old guy gets skewered (from Hercules Against the Moon Men)
I don’t know why I love this one so much. I think it’s a combination of how amazingly fakey it looks combined with the even faker-sounding scream.
“Why don’t you guys just leave us alone?” (from Manos):
Honestly after watching this episode this is usually what I want to ask the movie itself.
The amazing jump kick with xylophone accompiament (from Secret Agent Super Dragon):
This should win a lifetime achievment award for most inappropriate action scene sound effect.
“Fake it!” (from Eegah!):
Roxie just sounds so miserable in this stinger, and there’s also the obvious double entendre nature of her subsequent line.
“BUZZ OFF KID!!!” (from Mitchell):
I have to agree with a previous poster regarding Joe Don Baker’s performance here. What did that kid do to get him so pissed off?
“What do you think we came here for? To eat?” (from The Incredibly Strange…):
Ethnic friend’s out-of-control accent kills me every time. It’s as simple as that.
Krankor’s laugh (from Prince of Space):
I really can’t describe this better than Bridget herself did in the Sci-Fi ACEG. It’s hilarious.
Our brave hero screaming like a girl (from Space Mutiny):
Again, I’m not sure what I can add to this one. It’s just great.
“Mom? ‘m I nuts.” (from Overdrawn at the Memory Bank):
Poor Raul Julia for being forced to deliver this line. Hooray MST3K for pointing out how hilarious it is regardless.
“Every year I grow more and more convinced…” (from Phantom Planet):
This has to be my favorite of all time. The monologue itself is just so ridiculous and lame (and completely out of nowhere), and the captain’s response to it is even better.
“This is where the fish lives” (from Touch of Satan):
This still remains one of the most compeltely non-sequitur lines in the history of the series, which is what makes it so great.
“Rock ‘n roll martian…” (from Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders):
How can you not love this song? As has been said before, this is totally a little kid moment and easily the best thing in the episode, if not one of the best things in the entire series. Definitely my second favorite of all the stingers.
The girls screaming from the bizarre black space (from Horrors of Spider Island):
This is just so inexplicable which is why I had to mention it. The airplane crash looks cheap enough, but intercutting the girls screaming from a black sound stage in the middle of nowhere makes it look even cheaper, as well as really bizarre (and not to mention hilarious).
Oh yeah, and as for episodes that didn’t have stingers but should have, I haven’t seen very many of those episodes but these are what I’d choose:
“AND DON’T EVER COME BACK!!!” (from Crawling Hand):
At first I wanted to choose “No dancing. Not allowed” from the diner just because of the old man’s delivery. Then I realized that Paul’s extreme overacting when he’s telling his hot Swedish girlfriend to GET OUT!!!! of the house is so hilarious that it deserves to be preserved for all time.
“Hai-keeba!” (from Women of the Prehistoric Planet):
It couldn’t be anything else. It just couldn’t.
The beach bunnies slapping the beach bums and storming off (from Catalina Caper):
I had a hard time with Catalina Caper. Creepy girl’s fish monologue seemed like a likely candidate, along with a lot of the undercover cop’s dopey pratfalls, and the famous “You know how to whistle, don’t you? Just put your lips together and cut to the boat.” The part where all the girls decide to just storm off the beach just feels like it encapsulates the movie, though.
Banjo freaks out after reading the newspaper (from Wild Rebels):
Most any scene featuring Banjo’s weird little vocalizations would probably work but this is the obvious standout. You can only watch this and think to yourself “the hell?”
I can’t figure out one for Sidehackers, though.
My favorite has to be when John Cameron Swayze intercepts the watch falling into the pool in 620: Danger!! Death Ray.
“I’m scared! Let’s get the hell out of here!” — The old lady in The Incredible Melting Man
“Matt, It’s time for you to decide if you’re going to be one of my team players or not” — My namesake
“Alright men, into the woods!” — military guy in The Beginning of the End
“Chief! I saw two corpses in the garden!” — Cop from Samson Vs. The Vampire Women
The goofy assembled multitudes send us off –The First Spaceship on Venus
a lot of my faves have been mentioned, so- here goes:
The [the] Eye Creatures: exponentially oily and creepy roommate in striped sleeping dress slowly hanging up the phone. time itself seems to stop in horror at the sight and sound of this tableau.
Alien From L.A.: Kathy saying ‘yuck’. although a far more disturbing stinger would have been any of the inexplicable extreme close-ups of her luridly lit, rolling, vacant eyes.
Girl’s Town: the nightmare aunt screeching out her window. for some reason the scene in which Mamie Van Doren ‘scats’ over the hymn, enraging the nun, horrifies me more, and could have been another choice.
The Creeping Terror: ‘my god, what is it?!’ yes- what is it indeed…
another stinger for this one could be the rotund grandpa cheeping ‘Bob-by’. the Bobby fishing with grandpa scene is one of my very favorites in all the MST3K canon. ‘Morey Firestein- Kosher Game Warden!’ ‘swim! let the current take you away!’ and Mike’s last teeny little ‘bobby?’ this sequence kills me, every time.
Beast of Yucca Flats: Tor Johnson hurling the boulder and howling the Beast’s warbling cry of rage. there will never be an equal to the one and only Tor Johnson. rest in peace, friend.
Giant Spider Invasion: creepy Cousin Billy delivers a horrendously juicy raspberry. now we know what Charles Manson is like in a jocular mood. [shudder]
The Space Children: the newly-departed Professor’s mind-wiped, bottomless stare. incredible. ‘his sitting had gotten out of control, by the end.’
Girl in Gold Boots: ‘oh god- I wish- I had that- pretty- mind- back…’ this is SUCH a disturbing scene. for me, it is because one somehow senses that the actress painfully delivering this immortal sentence, who is portraying a washed-up at 31, strung-out exotic dancer/softcore porn extra with an aforementioned destroyed brain is, in fact, herself a– washed-up at 31, strung-out, exotic dancer softcore porn extra- with a mostly destroyed brain. oh, I could be TOTALLY wrong; she could be the wife of a successful entertainment industry lawyer with a big house in Palos Verdes and a passel of shiny-faced, dark haired kids. or she owns a cute little boutique on Sunset, and makes a good living selling sand candles and knitted go-go dresses. but then again…perhaps not. the expression on ‘Michelle’ sitting next to her is a cine-verite combination of barely repressed laughter mixed with pity and disgust. again, shudder. a possible other stinger for this episode could be the magical materialization of Buzz in the diner.
stingers that could have been:
Robot Monster: Ro-Man lurking ridiculously in his cave entrance
Lost Continent: Cesar Romero smiling at overladen comic relief guy’s pulpy white butt cheeks
Aww, come on! Nobody mentions Girl in Gold Boots?
“I wish I had my pretty mind back!”
1. Rocket Attack USA – Help me!
So funny! You can see why the tradition of stingers started.
2. Pod People – It stinks!
Great summation of the whole movie. I still use this catch phrase all the time when something goes wrong, with the OK sign!
3. Fugitive Alien – You’re stuck here!
Great example of Sandy Frank’s magic. Love the mood swing!
4. The Unearthly – Time for go to bed!
Tor’s delivery is fantastic!
5. Track of the Moonbeast – Moon rock, oh wow!
Great acting job!
I also would try to pick out the stinger whenever I watched an episode. I was pretty good at it. I still can’t believe the ‘Otcha!’ from the incredible Melting Man wasn’t used, I was so sure it was stinger-worthy.
Maybe that should be a thread, what SHOULD have been the stinger.
Hmmm…
Well, here are five from a whole bunch of favorites, and I think they’ve all been previously mentioned:
-“You know, Captain…” from Phantom Planet
-The heartbreak of extraterrestrial psoriosis from Being from Another Planet
-“TORCHA!” from Teenagers from Outer Space
-“‘m I nuts?” from Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
-“Dis iss absuldely fassinatin’.” from Werewolf
And, five choices for riffs that might’ve been…
-“That was number 5!” from Sidehackers
-“Charbroiled hamburger sandwiches…” from Jungle Goddess
-Giant leg roping from Village of the Giants
-The posessed astronaut with the heavy eyeliner getting blown up from Crawling Hand
-“Ruth! This is wonderful!” from This Island Earth
My faves are already listed in the comments (Outlaw, Werewolf, Squirm, etc.), so I won’t repeat them).
What would make good stingers for the episodes that didn’t have one (K04-205, 207), or had a stupid non-movie one (805-807)?
Here’s another one that shoulda been:
Robot Holocaust: “Yooo und your douwwterr ur deummed”
WILD REBELS also didn’t get a stringer. In that case, may I suggest…
“THAT SQUARE BUGS ME, HE REALLY BUGS ME!!!”
By the way, let me mention a couple of faves of my own.
CITY LIMITS: Bad guy screaming like a baby.
THE CREEPING TERROR: “MY GOD. WHAT IS IT!?”
TIME OF THE APES: “I don’t care.”
My personal list could go on and on.
[b]Final Justice[/b] – “Yew think yew kin take me? Go ‘head on. It’s yer move.”
[b]The Brain That Wouldn’t Die[/b] – “Who’s to tell me to blow if I don’t want to?”
[b]Teenagers From Outer Space[/b] – “When we return to our planet, the high court may well sentence you to TORTURE!!”
[b]Daddy-O[/b] – “Couldn’t help ya if I wanted to, fella. Gym policy.”
[b]Hamlet[/b] – Where the lush kind does a double take in silent. I don’t know why but that one always gets me.
So much for using HMTL to put the titles in bold. :mrgreen:
I have to say that I have no favorite stingers– I liked them all. Again, the fun I and my friends had with them was guessing what moment/scene/line would be the stinger. I am surprised people have favorites. I can understand favorite lines, which is what this is really about. I love the show very much (it is my favorite t.v. show of all-time) but this part of the show was neat to see. I think a better thread would be either pick a stinger for those shows that didn’t have one, or pick a better stinger than the ones the show chose, which some people have done here.
And I laughed when I saw the first stinger that showed the Observers. I found nothing wrong with them changing up the format.
It’s all groovy and stuff.
Matty-O — HTML uses < and > – not [ and ]
:idea: To bold text, use <b> and </b>
I liked – “It stinks” from Podpeople.
“Tom Stewart killed me, Tom Stewart killed me!” from Tormented.
“He learned too late that man was a feeling creature….” from It Conquered the World.
That whacked out horse from The Magic Voyage of Sinbad, kind of a tie with the reindeer from Santa Claus.
I’ll have to re-watch all these movies to remember the rest of them.