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Weekend Discussion Thread: Your Favorite Misheard/Misread LineAlert regular MSTie suggests:
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In Golzilla vs Megalon when the kid us on that lousy dolphin..
“Roxon!”
“You don’t have to wear that dress tonight!”
“I thought you were Dale” is some sort of convolutedly misheard/misremembered mondegreen, isn’t it?
That, my friend, is answered on this very site!
https://www.mst3kinfo.com/mstfaq/subtle.html
And yes, it’s two commercials mixed.
The kid’s singsong line from Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders, which I always heard as “F***in’ robot, yeah! F***in’ robot, yeah!”
Has anyone ever found out if “Idiot Control Now” in Pod People is what the the words really are? Since the movie was dubbed it might be a mistake in the English version.
It took me long time before I realized that Frank was saying, “I don’t fink on soul brothers.” And that’s before seeing the outtakes of him laughing during every other take.
From Creeping Terror – the line was probably that they would use grenades against the creature, but Mike says “Renee, who’s she”?
I love in The Girl in Lover’s Lane when they call Bix Dugan Big Stupid. It makes the episode.
but there was no monster..
i thought, wait, there was no monster, what a jip.
http://forrestcrow.proboards.com/thread/22772/pod-people-soundtrack
Disappointed to see that “sacks of monkeys” in your pocket are actually “stacks of money.” Much more practical, but way less fun.
Monster-A-Go-Go
Either I misheard a telephone “ring” that sounded like some guy TRYING to sound like an actual telephone ring or an actor misread his script and thought it was his dialogue.
Can’t remember the episode, but “the parrots must be eliminated”.
Just remembered – it was from Escape 2000 and it’s “the parrots are to be eliminated”.
I noticed at the bottom of the FAQ are references to several predecessors of MST3K that involved riffing. One that was not included was a show very much like MST3K called “Disasterpiece Theater”. It was produced by, and shown on, a local San Diego channel back in the early 1980s. The host was “Sal U. Lloyd”. Instead of spoken riffs, they ran text riffs across the bottom of the screen.
And I’ve given up YouTube-searching for the only pilot episode of “Cinema Veri-Bad” from USA Network Up All Night, almost a year before MST3K first hit the Comedy Channel–Which only riffed B-trailers, but I can still recite the riffing.
(And what was the name of that two-guys “Drive-In” show that was so bad it was thrown off of TCC after half a season?)
Space Children: Where one army guy says to another, “Call the depot” and it sound like, “Call the Devil”. If someone told me to call the Devil I’d want to know why this person thought I would have the Devil’s phone number, and assuming I did have it what good calling the Devil would do? Wouldn’t that just make things worse.
A long, agonizing segment of dull scientist maw-flapping in “Monster A-Go Go” is done without microphones, much like the majority of the cursed film. Tom’s attempts to construe it (“Washington’s radioactive?”), while not entirely funny, go on for so long that it really drives home the point of how clumsily made the movie is.
well thank you i am flattered.
Exactly!! When I was a kid, I thought my favorite show was trying to send me disturbing subliminal messages. I don’t think it was until the Sci-Fi era where I could understand what ANY of them were saying in the theme song. I still think of “bat guano” when I hear “that’s one o,” and I don’t think I ever misconstrued Gypsy’s “Hi from me,” I just always thought it was total gibberish.
In “Last of the Wild Horses”, they mishear Cooper’s name as “Pooper”, then have fun with the subsequent montage of headlines. “Pooper held as probe widens!”
Also, I don’t remember which episode it was but a newspaper is shown, and below the main headline there’s a small headline, “Philanthropist laid to rest.”
“Philanthropist laid? It’s always rock stars and philanthropists!”
My name is Cornjob!!
His green pants meant a lot to him.
Anything the foreign guy says in The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?
“This is where the fish lives.”
The script probably had ‘live” but bad sound or the actor’s slip-up made it sound like “lives.”
According to the CLASSIFIED MST3000 Fan Club Material, the line is, “I’m Not Ready.”
So the real words are “Hear the engines roar now” not “Idiot Control Now.” I’m sorry I asked, I liked idiot control now better.
I still hear “Bat Guano” during the credit sequence. I figured it was a Dr. Strangelove reference.
from Gorgo:
something about a knish?
How ’bout the wimpy college kid introduced as “Butt Healer” by Johnny Longbone in “Track of the Moon Beast”? And let’s not forget Colossus (“My Cheesesteak”) telling the beautiful queen, “Delay the ceremony as long as possible. The breast is up to me.” Lord, I know there are a thousand more I’m going to remember the minute I send this off . . . :rotfl:
Love all of the ones already mentioned: “making wappits”, “snarf farm”, Cornjob, Longbone, Toblerone, etc. I, too, always hear Crow saying “bat guano” during the song
There’s the classic one from the Joel-era theme song:
“….But his bosses didn’t like him
So they shot him in the face!”
No, don’t feel bad, the real lyrics are exactly as Joel sang them. Some “prankster” apparently thought it would be funny to post a “corrected” version. Just ignore it. Sit back … relax … feel the wind in your eyes ….
Does the un-decipherable line from Hellcats count? “I’ll bet all of you are only children’?
Maybe more on point is the line from Prince of Space ‘I’ll kill the differen’
And anything Eegah or Max Keller says :-X
That’s what he’s saying?? Wow. I’ve tried and tried and never could distinguish a single recognizable word!
My mom thought the Hellcat’s outburst was, “I’ll have you know I’m only human”.
Yes, every time I listen to the “Hellcats” stinger, I hear “[gargle][gibberish] … only human!”
Sure enough, I thought of a couple more: from “Outlaw”–the elder: “I needed you sooner, but my plans were not in order” Crow (I think): “Your PANTS?” And in the short “Hired!”: “my prospects” gets misheard as “my prostate”.
“Joe Don Baker IS Mittens! He’s a cop!”
Track of the Moon Beast: “Butt Healer??!”
alright a sex film (when ESSEX ENTERPRISESis shown)
In one of the Gamera movies (Gamera vs Gaos, if I had to guess) there’s a scene where some of the characters are discussing the volcano, and one of them says something about “another eruption,” to which Crow then adds, “on my face?”
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Ha, yeah, definitely an odd one there.
Funny, I’d brought that up before too–thought it was “Butt Wheeler” …then someone here corrected me, it’s Butt FEELER, ha (if that’s what Mike says?) which should’ve been obvious, although for whatever reason when I saw it, and my recollection of it (Track of The Moon Beast) the obvious escaped me.
Part of the problem is the funny moniker is never repeated throughout the rest of the experiment, such as “Big Stupid,” or “Cornjob,” et al …so the viewer has just that one jab at that character’s ‘riffed’ name to decipher or recall it.
Johnny Longbow being misheard as Johnny Longbone was great in “Track of the Moonbeast”
“Stop talking, Johnny Longbone!”
Acne joke, I’m guessing. (Similar to the Clearasil-ad parody ref when the girls run away from the monster, in Monster-a-Go-Go.)
—SHADDUP!! ;)
Digilicious!
Mort Saul?
;0 “if that really is your name…!”
btw i think upstream someone mentioned the “piz-za!” thing during the door sequence; i always wondered what that was about that too… maybe it’s what i always heard as the doorbell-sounding chime at door #5 in the joel-era sequence; that seems louder during the “exit-out” than on “going-in”. (it’s subtle and just a synthesizer-sounding thing, but it’s kinda like a “diiing-dooong!” like a doorbell. is that what others mean when they think, “peeetss-saahh!” maybe?)
https://vimeo.com/74504707
In Attack of the Giant Leeches, where the name Cal was heard as “cow”
I’m sure this has been mentioned many times in this thread, but “making woppets” from Space Mutiny is my all-time fave.
Diabolik to his girlfriend, “You look weathered”.