Favorite Letters Read on the Show.
It might be a limited topic, but it could involve any letter or post card and they don’t even have to be read on the air. Sometimes Joel or Mike get interrupted by something or someone during the letters segment.
My favorite is the postcard read in episode 507: I Accuse My Parents, featuring the Barcorammer, “The perfect date for Tom or Crow.”
I enjoyed the letter read by Mike as Glenn Manning in episode 319- WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST. “‘He sleeps during the movies.’ Who can blame him?” The reading glasses are a great touch.
What’s your pick?
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They said they stopped doing letters because they were tough to write around. Whatever that means.
“They said they stopped doing letters because they were tough to write around. Whatever that means.”
If I can take a stab at it, it could mean they had a hard time writing a sketch for the final host segment while integrating a letter into it.
I think the contest “winning” letter from “Women of the Prehistoric Planet” rates as my favorite.
My favorite is the one my young daughter wrote to say how much she liked Tom and Crow. :heart:
The letter reading fit more with Joel’s Captain Kangaroo-ish style than Mike’s more blatant sarcasm, but other than the obvious choice of Jason of the Salt Right of Fun, my favorite Mike moments were:
1) Showing a picture a kid drew and pointing out each of the robots, then naming the human in the picture as Boyd Gaines from the old “One Day at a Time Show” and
2) When a kid wrote in and asked “If Gypsy flies the ship, why doesn’t she fly back to Earth?”, Mike hesitated, looked into the camera, and responded with “That’s a good question… a good question, but there’s no easy answers.”
A bonus for Mike’s first episode when the ‘bots tell them how reading the letters will cheer him up and Mike realizes none of them are addressed to him.
@52 I think another key thing that led to the letters portion being dropped was the show moving from Comedy Central to Sci Fi Channel, especially given how in Season 8:
1. Sci Fi wanted MST3K to have story arcs involving Pearl chasing Mike and the ‘Bots throughout the universe (with the show returning to “mostly normal” once Season 9 started);
2. Most of the season took place in the 2525.
My favorite letter is the typed letter politely addressed to MST:
Please include me in the MST 3000 Information Club.
Servo: “I like it; concise.”
@ Big61al – did that letter get read on air, on which show?
One word sums it up: Art.
I don’t remember what episode it was, but I love the letter that Joel read: “My whole family loves your show, except my mom. She hates the jokes you make.” Great, and the way Joel read it was hilarious.
@58 No, this was late in the series and I am sure they were getting a flood of kid’s letters by then. It’s just a special thing between me and my daughter that ties us to the show.
I can’t remember what episode it was,but Joel was reading this letter this kid wrote and he had 2 jokes.The first joke Joel asked Crow was point to your head and say the abbreviation for mountain.And Joel said M T,which made Crow(or Trace)laugh.The second joke Joel asked Tom was “What do you say to a 2 headed giant?” Tom didn’t know the answer and Joel said “Hi!Hi!” Does anyone know what episode it was? Thanks!!
I always enjoyed when Crow would get a bit too snarky and Joel would have to punish him. (Save a leg for me!) I think that happened for at least one letter.
I never got a letter read on the air, but the year Comedy Central had that dealee where you could write in and vote for episodes- and they would count down the results in PLAY MST FOR ME- some of the letters ended up in the interstitials. I must’ve sent in at least 25 postcards, requesting all the episodes I desperately needed to complete my collection. My little brother- who was like six or seven at the time, can’t remember exactly- sent ONE letter. His was featured during the screening of TIME OF THE APES- credited as “Nate ‘TV’ Smith”. No idea where Comedy Central got the ‘TV’, it wasn’t on anything we sent.
It was cool for him, but boy was I steamed at the time that his name was on TV during MST3K and mine wasn’t!
That’s hilarious Zee, and now it’s immortalized on the DAP-DVD copy I have. It aired during the Summer 1995 countdown.
That little tale reminds me of the Peanuts strip where Charlie Brown buys a whole bunch of baseball card packets hoping to get one of his favorite player. None of them are it. Then Lucy goes and buys one packet and, what do you know, it has the one Charlie Brown was looking for.