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Super Bowl Weekend Discussion Thread: Your Favorite Sports-Related Riff or BitAlert reader “droid” writes:
I’m gonna go with Dr. F and Frank, dressed as ’70s relief pitchers Rollie Fingers and Tug McGraw, respectively, in episode 622- Angels’ Revenge. There’s just something so random about it. What’s your pick? 168 Replies to “Super Bowl Weekend Discussion Thread: Your Favorite Sports-Related Riff or Bit”Commenting at Satellite News
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Since “Packers!” was already taken, I guess I’ll have to settle for “Are you ready for some foootbaaaal?!!!” from Laserblast.
Anytime they yell “Packers!” and I get that they are talking about football is a big thrill for me. That’s the only reason I’m rooting for them this Sunday (my first Super Bowl party–it’s all about the food, right? football is secondary?).
My husband is cheering for the Steelers because he’s lactose intolerant.
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?!
(I just feel like you might not be ready for some football…)
In one episode there is a Fritz Crisler (the aging basketball arena for University of Michigan is named after him) riff. Another I recall on Boog Powell (big Baltimore Oriole first baseman from the 1960’s) and of course from Riding with Death something about Mickey Mantle’s liver. And, though not riffs, there’s Superdome with my all time favorite Michigan State Spartan Bubba Smith, and, The Incredible Melting Man having a bit part for 1968 World Series MVP Detroit Tiger Mickey Lolich who takes a shot at Ted Nelson while playing an inept Security Guard.
There’s a really quick one-liner in Boggy Creek 2 that always gets me, right after the deer swimming cuts to the kickoff:
“THEY’RE PUNTING THE DEER’S HEAD!!”
Obviously their man talk about “the game” on the Turkey Day broadcast of Night of the Blood Beast.
TAKE DOWN TAKE DOWN TWO POINTS!
“Say ir ain’t so, Joe!”
First thing that comes to mind is Touch of Satan’s flashback scene where the 1800s mob to kill the young Strickland sisters. “Go Packers!…but mostly burn the witch.”
All the Larry Czonka (sp?) riffs from Final sacrifice. Plus the mads as Billie Jean King and the other tennis pro I can’t remember, especial all the out takes of the scene from Poopie. “Aw you stupid woman.”
Maybe someone can help me with the name of the movie but there’s a scene where a little league baseball game is being played and Tom Servo says “Look, the Seattle Mariners are playing today”. I’m not sure what movie that’s from but it was pretty funny.
Klisch, it’s from Zombie Nightmare.
I would have to say….
“Who’s ready for some FOOOTBALLLLLLL” from Laserblast XD
It probably doesn’t technically qualify as a sports reference, but I’d love it whenever they’d throw in a reference to the old American Wrestling Association (which, naturally, was based out of Minneapolis) or their regular cast. I recall references to Wally Karbo, Baron Von Rashcke & Nick Bockwinkel.
“…..I’m Tug McGraw.” Though it’s more Frank’s totally apathetic delivery than the sports reference itself. But I have to go with Sampo here. There’s something pretty inspired about them choosing that idea, of all things, for their 70s nostalgia trip.
Thanks Grandma. You can always count on help here.
I’m not much of a sports fan, but for some reason the sports riffs always made me laugh. Perhaps it’s because they often came at seemingly random or arbitrary moments in a movie, adding to the humor because they were unexpected.
Anyway, one of my favorite sports riffs was during Monster A-Go Go. The scientist has a long, padded scene walking through a field with a device that looks a little like a radar gun and Joel and the ‘Bots fill up the dead space with lots of jokes. One of them is that he’s out there to clock Nolan Ryan’s fastball. Another joke I recall is where someone riffs (Servo?) “take the stroke” as if they’d lost their golf ball, again during a long walking scene that seemed to have no point during one of the movies.
The bicycling and “running” scenes in Parts: The Clonus Horror get me every time.
Manos the Hands of Fate.
Close up of the Master, Servo says: Bill Buckner!
Torgo laying down Crow says: He’s got Earl Campbell thighs.
@ klisch: There’s a similar riff in the short “Johnny at the Fair”, where Johnny can’t get a good look at the baseball game. Servo riffs “Besides, the Mariners are playing, so who cares?”
Speaking of bad baseball team riffs, there’s a great one in “Invasion USA” where an American soldier interrogates a guy who claims to be from Chicago but turns out to be a Soviet spy. He asks “Ever see the Cubs play?” and Servo responds “Yeah, they won — oh, damn!”
I’m gonna go with the guy(the mother of all comb-overs) from “SoulTaker”, who gets called out because he looks like “Jim McMahon”-funny every time.
I always liked the use of the name Fred Biletnikoff in “Ode on Estelle” as a person much better looking than Estelle. That song has just a host of great throwaway names in it.
The Skydivers… Tom Boerwinkle !
I seem to recall Servo saying, “Yeah, but the Mariners are playing, so who cares!?” during a character’s query to another in one of the movies. Again, the randomness of the venom in that comment always makes me laugh.
In the short “Snow Thrills” they riff winter sports saying “Even people with one foot in the grave can enjoy it.”
A couple from Beginning of the End:
1) At one of the times panicked people plow pusilanimously
plow past perils in Chicago Mike calls out
“The Cubs don’t win the pennant! The Cubs don’t win the pennant!”
2) In Act IV of Crow’s gripping Peter Graves at The University of
Minnesota play:
Crow: “I’m Peter Graves and I was wondering if you could direct me to the
Natatorium as I’m attending a swim meet.
MIke: It’s that way.”
Crow: “Thank You. I’m Peter Graves.”
The song, “Sidehackin'” is one of their best sports based gags on the show. The lyrics just tear the “sport” of sidehacking apart.
Giant Spider Invasion, obviously, but I love the riff from the scene in Gleason at the softball game “And the score is 78 to 5…” Makes me laugh every time….
( Sampo: now THIS is a weekend discussion thread )
I remember them cheering on the Green Bay Packers alot during the MST3K years. I guess that was because they lived in the Mid West and did not have anyone else to cheer for, except maybe the Vikings…Maybe.
Gotta love all the sports references from the first scenes in Zombie Nightmare, ending with the awesome line, “A young Joe Pepitone ponders his fate.”
My personal favourite comes from the short “A Date with the Family”. The moment when Mike sounds like a sports announcer, and I believe the line goes like this:
“Dad feigns eating, draws Junior out, and disowns him!”
You may have to help me out with which episode but one of my faves is Joels’ “Looks like they’re tailgating, must be a Packer game.” I think it’s from Attack of the the Eye Creatures during that stupid external day for night scene with the teeners making out in their cars.
Joel is from Green Bay or it’s environs, isn’t he? I assumed that’s why they talked about the Packers so much.
I always go wild during the football scene in Boggy Creek 2, especially “We have attached out egos to you!”
Calling it like it is, for many people, anyways.
EDIT: *OUR egos.
too early to type
From the “Circus on Ice” short, with the deerhunting scene.
Narrater: “They shoot!”
Servo: “They score.”
I can’t think of nay others really.
There was a scene in The She Creature where the title monster had destroyed a room and murdered everyone in it.
While Lombardi looks around Mike says “The Dallas Cowboy training camp” or something to that effect.
I can think of three that I always enjoy.
City Limits, when The Ed Begley Jr. lookalike is being pummeled outside some big concrete structure and Crow says “let’s go in and watch the end of the Cubs game”
Being From Another Planet, where Tom points out a Wayne Gretzky lookalike in the background
And the host segment in “Warrior of the Lost World”, when Crow takes his slot car for a spin and then does a splendid Jackie Stewart impression, centered around negotiating the chicanes.
Another Mariners riff. In #601 Girls Town, Silver asks a nun about a statue. The nun says he is the saint of lost causes. Tom Servo then replies ” He’s with the Mariners.” This riff cracks me up every time.
When the giant appears in “Prince Of Space”: “Cecil Fielder!” (’cause it’s built like him, you see)
Here’s another personal favourite, this one from the Skydivers. When Suzy confronts Harry outside the bar, and she suddenly starts pummelling him, Mike starts sounding like Howard Cosell:
“Oh, she’s unleashing lefts and rights, he can’t get away! This…could be it!”
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die. Our hero has his fiance’s head cradled like a football and Mike says : “He’s at the 20, the 10, no one will stop him!”
Another one from The Brain That Wouldn’t Die:
“He’s either gonna win the Nobel Prize or the Heisman Trophy.”
In Project Moonbase, a plot point involves the Brooklyn Dodgers, and they riff that it’s the future where the Dodgers move back to Brooklyn.
And of course in Boggy Creek, when Doc announces they’re pulling up to Crenshaw’s, they riff “Careful, he might be practicing his short game!”
@31
Joel is from Stevens Point originally, and grew up in Ashwaubenon (subset of greater Green Bay). IIRC Mallon is from WI also, or at least went to school there; Mike is from Illinois but spent the greater part of his youth in Wisconsin, and most of the rest were Minnesotans and thus well aware of the great Packers-Vikings rivalry.
If the Packers actually win the Super Bowl this year, I don’t know that I can be held accountable for my actions. And it would have very little to do with any love of football on my part.
Boggy Creek II
“They’re calling insane hogs???”
Another from the Brain that wouldn’t Die- the monster reaches out of the food slot in his door with a heavily muscled arm and Tom riffs “Boog Powell!”.
In Red Zone Cuba when the recruits are clumsily training for the Bay of Pigs Mike riffs “It’s the Shining Path fantasy camp.” One of my favorite riffs, btw.
#17, also in Hercules and the Captive Women Joel comments the Herc “has Earl Campbell thighs” as the camera pans up on him.
As long as we are bashing the Mariners I’ll go with the host segment where Trace says: “I’m having a good day. The Mariners won and Frank died.” Obviously, a rare day.
From 423 Bride of the Monster:
[As Bela raises his crooked hand]
Tom: This is my forkball … really rolls off the table!
From 624 Samson vs. The Vampire Women:
Crow: The wresting program in hell? Second only to Iowa.
Already mentioned, but the “ready for some football” runner in Laserblast kills me . They must have come back to it a dozen times throughout the episode. Somehow it makes me laugh EVERY time – especially when they start really awkwardly trying to shoehorn it in.
Thanks Raptorial, I knew several of them were serious cheese-eaters. Like me!
Yeah, it’s going to be MENTAL around here if they win.
From Revenge of The Creature: “In the booth with me today: Burt Blyleven”
As a lifelong Red Sox fan, I always appreciated Crow’s mention of Fisk’s home run in ther 6th game of the 1975 Word Series when he had amnesia in the opening segment of Angels’ Revenge.