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Weekend Discussion Thread: Favorite Credit SequencesAlert reader Ken writes:
You can talk about opening or closing credits and you can discuss the credit sequence itself or the riffing thereof. As for me, I can give my answer with one word: “Tusk!” What’s your pick? 109 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: Favorite Credit Sequences”Commenting at Satellite News
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Don’t know if this has been mentioned but Tom and Crows “impromptu” song during the end credits of Final Justice is good stuff.
It’s the Space Munity one for me. It’s towards the end when the ‘Bots unjust mocking is finally called and Mike proceeds to fight them. And then they realize what they’re doing and my part kicks in:
Mike: Wait, wait! This isn’t us, man…
Servo: Yes it is, you hair-feathering freak!
Crow: No, Servo, he’s right, he’s right! This movie has us turning on each other!
One of my faves was at the end of Alien From LA with the back-and-forth about sensitive men and Mike and Crow going on about what the other was watching. ‘Advantage McEnCrow!’
“Night Train to Mundo Fine!”
Whoa, we are rocking now with John Carradine, the inspiration for the lead singer of Crashtest Dummies.
And the Francis Coleman as Curly Howard references are always good for me.
(From “Red Zone Cuba”, of course)
If we had to have painfully forced (ahemspacemutiny) sketches to cover long contemporary-movie credits, so that M&tB could prove We’re Doing Comedy, I’ll also shout “Tusk!”
It was the rule of what actually worked in the Mike era when it did: Keep It About The Movie, Stupid. :)
(Although the Rick Sloane “interview” was only funny if you knew that Sloane had sent them his own movie himself, to be cult-clever about it…Happy now, Rick?)
As for the Joel era, we have The Fan Sketch (ladies and gentlemen) from “Bride of the Monster”, and the Norwegian Sketch from “Day the Earth Froze”, but at least they were fourth-wall polite enough to joke about their being forced time-filler sketches.
No one seems to have mentioned the Yellow Submarine jokes from “Moon Zero-Two”, or the incredible melting credits from “Incredibly Strange Creatures” silently setting themselves up as a M&tB target. (“Hear Libby Quinn play the organ with her feet.”)
It was amusing how they riffed the credits to MST3K the Movie. In The Screaming Skull Tom sings the credits along with the score. TISCWSLABMUZ credits were kind of memorable. They all pretty much pale in comparison to the riffing on the credits for Werewolf, though.
The wakacha-wakacha bit from “Mitchell” was pretty good, as well as the comment “And Mitchell’s one baaad mother-” “Hey! Shut your mouth!”. Also, the line from “Giant Gila Monster,” when the name “Ray Kellogg” comes on the screen and Servo says darkly “Tonight: K-E-Double-L-O-Double-DEAD”. Anyone else remember the Kellogg commercials from the 60’s?
The Werewolf song medley is always a good credit sequence. The song and then the “Final Sacrifice: The Series” pitch during Final Sacrifice is great. The Alien from LA femmy movie sequence is great.
My favorites:
Mike and the bots accuse each other of liking femmy movies in ‘Alien From L.A.’.
The eating song at the end of ‘Final Justice’. “MEATBALLS FRIED IN LARRRRRRD!”
Which movies was ‘Castle Of Fu Manchu’ worse than.
Movies Leonard Maltan gave 3 stars to in ‘Laserblast’.
Interview with Rick Sloane in ‘Hobgoblins’.
I have a few favorites.
The opening credits to Operation Double 007 are fun because of the added theme song lyrics. “Heeeeeee likes to wear mittens!”
The Devil Fish end credits are great because of that eerie laughter over the freeze frame.
The Laserblast end credits (with the Maltin film guide) are in a league of their own, just like the chick flick showdown over Alien From L.A.’s end credits.
The Werewolf end credits song medley was hilarious.
The “I learned that…” summary over the Incredible Melting Man end credits was a lot of fun.
The opening credits riffs for Mitchell set the perfect tone for the episode.
I like how everyone danced over the Moon Zero Two opening credits.
Lots of great choices.
Opening credits: ‘The Girl in Lovers’ Lane’ is my fave, Tom’s singing voice is lovely.
Closing credits: Gotta go with ‘Laserblast.’
Call me crazy, but didn’t we already do this discussion or at least a similar one?
I’ll have to go with the opening credits for BLOOD WATERS OF DOCTOR Z (“He doesn’t inspire this kind of music…”) and the no-credits closing of WILD WILD WORLD OF BATWOMAN (“EEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNDDDDDDDD!!!!! EEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDD!!!!”). Wish I could remember the movie where Servo testily snaps, “It’s not ending enough! End more!”.
I like in Boggy Creek 2 when they do the voice of the little creature like a kid talking to his mom.
“And then, you know what else? There was a big blue reindeer and he was nice to me and he gave me all the presents in the world. His name was…Snow…head…and he lived in a big house with a million other reindeer where they ate cookies.”
“Uh huh, what kind of cookies, honey?”
“…Chocolate…”
For me, the credit sequence to “Werewolf” for the wonderful musical montage by Mike and the ‘Bots is my favorite. Runners-up: Mike and Crow engaging in their insult-fest over who watches the most chick flicks at the end of “Alien from L.A.”, and Tom and Crow singing their touching tribute to Joe Don Baker at the end of “Final Justice”.
#62: If I remember correctly, that’s from Horror of Party Beach, and it occurs just as “The End” flashes on the screen. I want to think Mike says that, but I might be wrong, and for all I know a variation of it occurs in other epsisodes as well. It’s such a perfect statement, though!
For me, the credit sequence to “Werewolf” with the wonderful musical montage by Mike and the ‘Bots is my favorite. Runners-up: Mike and Crow engaging in their insult-fest over who watches the most chick flicks at the end of “Alien from L.A.”, and Tom and Crow singing their touching tribute to Joe Don Baker at the end of “Final Justice”.
From the opening credits of Horror of Party Beach:
Crow: “Yeah, the horror at party beach is Cindy’s cheese dip.”
Mike: “So what is additional dialogue?” Crow: “Oh, things like ‘hey you,’ ‘get off that,’ and ‘why not.'”
Crow: “Original soundtrack not available. You’ll thank us.”
Mike: “Nude driving–a new fad among the teens.” :-)
Sampo, we did this one already. Back-to-back weeks of repeat discussions…
https://www.mst3kinfo.com/?cat=25&paged=11
Feb 13, 2010.
For opening credits, I’ll go along with “Operation Double 007”. Actually, Joel & the ‘bots’ verrsion sounds better than some legit Bond theme songs.
For closing credits, it’s a tough call, but I’ll go with riffing their own credis on MST3K-TM, with the pitch session during “Final Sacrifice” a close second.
This week’s discussion thread was “my” idea, so I apologize for not realizing that it had been done already.
Nevertheless, I’ve enjoyed reading everyone’s contributions! :-)
AH-HA! So I’m not crazy. We HAVE done this discussion before.
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We should have a Weekend Discussion on what our favorite Weekend Discussion Threads are.
There’s nothing wrong with a repeat. Many people miss out on the first time around. And new folks join in with new ideas.
My favorite ending is in “The Touch of Satan” where at the very end the film jump cuts and crow says ” AHH the Devil!!! and they all run away… :-)
Without a doubt, the ending to Werewolf. It’s just priceless. If I had to choose another, I’d say Overdrawn at the Memory Bank also turned into a very fun ending sketch….
I’m pretty sure that was the the multi-talented Beez as the Overdrawn Tech Support operator. Beez is awesome. The Devil Fish ending also has to get honorable mention because it made my wife crack up. For intro credits, I like the Touch of Satan for all the driving and devil references “Sightsee on your own time, Man-goat!”
The ending credits for a b-movie should be short, beacuse little effort or crew was required; that makes it all the more funny when cheap piece of cheez like Quest of the Delta Knights has a credit sequence a mile long. I appreciated when Pearl visited the theater with Mr Eggleston (“call me Eggs.”)to measure the pain leakage (“Pain-motivated subjects in a theater-type environment”) and Mike tries to plan lunch during the lull, and Pearl angrily hits him, and after all that. . . the credits are still rolling!
Can we broaden this to include Rifftrax? If so, I’d throw in the credits of “Road House”, where Mike recounts how pretty much everybody in the movie DIED in increasingly outlandish ways.
A few favorites are the end credits to Soultaker.
Servo: So, poodle hair and rubber lips drive off into the sunset and it’s sunshine and roses ever after, eh?
Mike: Uh, You seem dubious.
Servo: Yeah Mike. I am dubious. I’m dubious. My guess is that on the way home scrawny boy there leans over to rub his carnauba wax lips on his little honey and ends up ditching that sweet ride of his!
…another one is the end credits of Horrors of Spider Island when Mike goes into doing Woody Allen and the the screen abruptly goes to black…
Mike: So, anyway, that was my experience on the island with the girls when I became a spider. Did it teach me anything? Maybe not. But really, in the end……HEY!
Servo: So, you want to end your movie that way? OK, get bent.
Master Ninja Theee-me Song!
Soultaker – Just the way Tom and Crow just destroy that happy ending just makes me chuckle every single time. I think I almost got the entire thing memorized.
I’m torn in a three-way tie between Werewolf (Tusk!), Hobgoblins (Yes, I was doing quite a bit of crack that day,) and Parts (James Arness – ugly and stupid. Tonight on Biography.) Runners-up include Final Justice, Final Sacrifice and the Movie. Outlaw is the only one that ever actually bothered me – too much of what seemed like forced laughter for two minutes’ worth of parody titles for bad USA shows like “Silk Stalkings_ – and Jeff Conaway as the star of so many of them! The hell?!?
“So, the dead never did talk back.”
End credits everyone has mentioned that I love:
Parts:The Clonus Horror
Soultaker
Master Ninja theme song
Tusk
Hobgoblins
but my fave is Devil Fish closing credits (we are from Europe)…
Can’t stop laughing….
I’m also on the wagon with Devil Fish.
Can’t recall anything about Devil Fish, I’ll definitely be queuing that one up tonight!
Can’t. Remember. Alzheimers. :(
But a few have stuck: the one I always think of are the ones with the songs. Tom’s “Leave the Bronx” is the #1 for me. And the Sandy Frank stuff, including the ones where they say the foreign names like they’re ordering from a menu. Love that. SantaConqMartins: this is the worst animation ever. …
Me too likes “Final Justice” end credits too.
“You know, this music makes me want to put a triangle on my privates and squirm around.”
“Oh, yeah, like in the movie.”
“Like what? What the hell are you talking about?”
“Now come on, you guys prepared that!”
But “Space Mutiny” takes a very close second in my book.
“A retarded jellyfish could make a better movie than this!”
“A severely impaired box turtle with? a very busy schedule, just give him a camera for a day, he’d come up with something better than this!”
“You and your Eighties!”
No one mentioned the ending credits to Squirm. Not only with M&TB trying to answer the questions, test-style, but they fact that they’re cheating off of each other. “I got … 35”. “How did you get 35, I got Reykjavik.” And then there’s my favorite “Wait, Filmed in Georgia?! Well, there’s your problem!”
Alien From LA…..THE moment, as a huge Joel fan, that I realized the Mike era was going to be awesome in it’s own right.
It’s hard to beat the relentless character assassination of Joe Don Baker @ the beginning of “Mitchell”, tho “Tusk” is a definite favorite. The credits for some of the Hercules movies are downright bizarre.
Mike offers Crow some help with his shaky credit nausea:
“Some Saltines and 7-up, honey? How about some warm pork? I’m sorry, I’m sorry!”
(Might that have been Beginning of the End?)
Crow during Future Wax:
“I’m just gonna ignore this credit. I’ll just look away until it’s gone.” (Mike: “Still there.”)
Servo on behalf of Time Chasers:
“R-I’m R-Alfred R-Hitchcock ..”
I like so many it’s hard to narrow it down.
I guess the opening credits to Diabolik have to be high on my list for the riffing and the music.
Also in my favorites are The Touch of Satan, The Projected Man, Red Zone Cuba, Operation Double 007, Last of the Wild Horses (because it’s TV’s Frank & Dr. Forrester), Future War, Wild Rebels, Squirm, Final Justice, The Final Sacrifice, Riding with Death… oh this is getting ridiculous. I can’t narrow it down to one.
Then there are the many on liners that I love, like the end of Boggy Creek when it says ‘Mad Dog provided by’ and Crow says “Hey! mad dog provided by? Mike, you told me there was no place we could could get a mad dog when I asked you, Remember?”
Or Phantom Planet when Mike says “thats the guy who wrote The Messiah” and Servo says “Fred Gebhardt wrote The Messiah?”
or The She Creature when Servo says “Samuel Z Weinerhead”, or Track of the Moon Beast (Crow: “Please put your Dick Asche out in the ashtray”).
I guess it would be easier to list the ones with no good credit sequences.
One thing I must add and I’ve said this before, it is too bad that the sound mixers for Rhino & Shout Factory never watched MST3K when it was on TV, otherwise they would know that the movie and the riffing were always equal in volume for the sound mix, and loud enough to here both equally well.
This is why I much prefer to watch my own videos taped off of TV when it comes to wanting to here the movie dialogue or soundtrack.
I watched Wild Rebels last night and quickly took out the dvd and switched to my video and the music was WAY louder.
The odd thing is, the riffing is equally loud on my video, even moreso than the dvd as well.
I guess they just didn’t watch it when it was on TV and arent aware of what a tv broadcast sounded like. They definitely were never as quiet as they have the movie sounding on the dvds.
Doh! ‘Hear’, not ‘here’.
And was it Bride of the Monster that had Servo’s little high-school Kevin-catharsis?:
“Loser…Loser…Harvey B. Loser…George Bec-loser…Special LOSER Effects…”
From Final Justice:
Eat eat eat eat
Eat eat eat eat
Munch munch munch munch
Chew chew chew chew
Gorge gorge gorge gorge
Burp burp burp burp
Stuff lots of food in your meat-baby face.
As for Rifftrax, I’d definitely have to go with the the Tooth Truth short, in which either Michael or Bill (I think it’s Michael) spends the entire closing credits imitating Marv’s laugh from the end of the short.
#90:
Crow: “He’s got a bucket of croch-flavored Pop Corn.”
Mike: “Must you lash-out so early?”
No mention yet of The Unearthly, which gave us the fanzine sketch.
TOM: You are watching Commando Cody
And it’s a new character from Republic.
He gets in trouble every week
But he’s saved by editing.
Just a tweak of the nipple sends him on his way
A pumpkin head and a rocket-pack, he’ll save the day.
JOEL: His laboratory is a boxing ring.
When bad guys come to mix it up,
Somebody always gets kidnapped,
And Cody has to fix it up.
He drinks his tea at Al’s cafe’
And flies along on wires.
He beats up crooks and flies with hooks
And puts out forest fires.
CROW: Bad guys beware, Cody is there.
You’ll like his hair, it’s under his helmet ’cause we couldn’t think of a good rhyme
And that’s the end of the Commando Cody theme song,
So sit right back (and) with a will of granite
And watch chapter 8 “The Enemy Planet
Count me among the Final Sacrifice fans.
Best Opening Titles: The Day The Earth Froze
Best Closing Titles: Space Mutiny