My pick: The melodious “Starfighters” theme.
What’s yours?
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Weekend Discussion Thread: Favorite CallbackOne of the mainstays of MST3K is references to previous episodes. Which one(s) really tickle you?
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“SSSSLLLLEEEEEEEPPPPPP!!!”
and
“Old Time Bus Driver/Gymnast/etc. Billy Slater”
“Hikeeba!”
“____, you’re the laziest man on Mars!”
“It stinks!”
Hi-Keeba! and Watch out for snakes.
They even used “Watch out for snakes” in one of the live Cinematic Titanic shows and got a great response.
“Hi-keeba!”
“I sing whenever I sing, whenever I siiinnnggg…”
“Glen was over 50 feet tall!”
“Knew your father, I did!”
“Puma?”
“It stinks!”
Another funny Rifftrax callback to MST3K was in Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull. In one scene, Shia LeBouf calls Indy “Daddy-O”, and Kevin chimes in with “Want some?”
I can’t believe it took so long for anyone to say “Hikeeba”!
Oh, and Torgo’s Theme.
Also, “The Master wouldn’t approve…” Really, Torgo in general.
I distinctly remember the first callback I actually got: “Trumpy, you’re killing me!” in Hercules Against The Moon Men. But as much as I love Pod People, that’s not quite my favorite. And it might have been, “…hurting me!” anyway.
I just watched Invasion Of The Neptune Men for the first time in 8 years, and forgot just how touching all the callbacks to Prince of Space were once they culminated in Krankor’s only revisit to the SOL, making them realize just how good the previous film was in relative terms, and giving them the fortitude to survive perhaps the most grueling final quarter of any movie they’d done.
But I guess that’s not exactly a specific callback, so…
My alltime favorite callback is in The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies, as the bizarre diagonal train pulls through the “Zombie-Western music” segment, and Servo (I think) sings “Night Train, To Mundo Fine”. It links my 2 all-time favorite experiments from the 2 Mike eras, appropriate because they’re both from the mid-60s and have comparable feels due to being made oily producer/directors who liked pointing the cameras at themselves. For a solid decade I assumed there was no connection beyond that…
…until the death of Ray Dennis Steckler, when someone posted that story about him spotting a down-on-his-luck, drunk-on-his-ass Coleman Francis and offered him a bit part in his most recent film as a favor. Now I know that my two favorite experiments by my two favorite MSTed directors are linked by more than just a callback, and that really means something. Something badly framed and improperly dubbed, but something.
Movie character quote callbacks:
“Watch out for snakes!”
“Hikeeba!”
“Flag on the moon…how did it get there?”
“Suddenly, there was no monster.”
“He realized too late that man was a feeling creature.”
“Shut up Iris!”
“I don’t care!” (From “Time of the Apes”)
“The master would not approve!”
“You can do magic Trumpy!”
MST3K cast quote callbacks:
“Everything you touch you destroy.”
“Not with radar!”
“SLEEEEEEEEP!!”
“Hum ba deekee kee, hoo-ah hoo-ah.”
“(Insert nouns) of the old west.”
“HE’S GOT A GUN!!”
“Jim Henson’s (Insert noun) Babies.”
“Zack Norman is Sammy in Cheif Zabu.”
“Turn it off! TURN IT OFF!!”
Favorite callbacks:
It stinks!
Chili peppers burn my gut.
By this time my lungs were aching for air.
Hi-keeba!
Glen was 50 ft. tall.
The driver is either gone or he’s missing.
Any reference to Mr. B Natural in later episodes, such as “Mr. B Natural practice” is mentioned in Magic Voyage of Sinbad.
I love all the references to Jungle Goddess in Lost Continent, “Don’t shoot anything unless you’re sure you don’t understand it.” Both these episodes are favorites of mine. Lost Continent even has a reference to, “cleaning fluid in the fuel line”, from SST-Death Flight in Season K.
“It stinks!” is heard from me at least once a day, complete with hand gesture. And now that at least one of my employees is hip to where I got it from, we do it even more, even when it doesn’t “STINK”.
HI-Keeba!
“He tampered in God’s domain” will always be my favorite callback.
Ooh…forgot about “the driver is either missing or he’s dead” usually said in Ronald Regan voice.
“I’m Cherokee Jack”
Hi-keeba. I think in the episode Return of the Creature they said ‘Arf-Keeba’ when the dog ran out to attack the creature.
It Stinks!
Watch out for snakes
And he didn’t steal no bike, either
No, Lupita
Time for go to bed
Flag on the Moon
Leave the Bronx
One of the all time best: When Mike mentions Jet Jaguar in an episode and Crow says ‘You aren’t supposed to know that!’ since it was a Joel episode!
ForkLiftKiller – I agree about ‘Ya got me’ always cracks me up!
My absolute favorites are SLEEEEEP! and I Sing Whatever I Sing, which I tend to sing at random moments while doing things.
“Noooo Lupita!”
“I don’t care, I don’t care” Time of the Apes
“I’d really like a hamburger and some french fried potatoes” Jungle Godess.
“Puma, Puuuma” Ring of Terror
“By this time my lungs were aching for air”and one of my Favs that I haven’t seen mentioned yet. In the whiniest voisce possible…”but I’m a Grimwold Wariior”
sorry it’s late typing errors above. should be voice, and warrior. thanks and may God Bless :oops:
its not too funny but the first callback i ever heard was.. this nose wheel feels mushy
“This is just like Gamera vs. Zigra, but with cowboys.” From Last of the Wild Horses.
“AAH! Its a salute to Mr. B Natural!” From the Nuveena short.
Also, I have to agree with the others who mentioned the “I’ve…heard…them…talk…so much…about…late…ly.”
My favorite was always from I believe Crow when he would often say in response to some character or narrator stating an action od some kind. Crow would blurt out
“You do it, I’m Bitter”.
Some of my others have been,
“It stinks”
Starfighters “Song”
“He’s A Woozle”
Frank’s Noise that he make, I wouldn’t even know how to spell it.
Gamera song… He’s Full of Meat.
“The Wheel’s Feel Mushy”
“”Hi- Keeba!”
and of course “Sampo!”
“I killed that fat barkeep!”
“Coffee? I like coffee.”
“Yew und yor doughter er deumed.”
“Mars extending us a welcome.”
“I thought you were Dale.”
One quote that’s always stumped me is “Do you want to go faster? Raise your hand if you want to go faster.” Can anyone tell me where that’s from?
I LIKE IT VERY MUCH!
Do all the Wizard of Oz, Joel era especially, count?
I say “STAAAAAYYYY!!” at least once a day to my dogs.
Also, “Watch out for snakes!” comes up pretty randomly. It’s good anytime!
“Like father, like son… think about, won’t you… thank you”
“You been hittin’ the booze, again?”
Called back only once, in A Touch of Satan, originally a line from Robert Easton in Giant Spider Invasion.
I remember hearing about Hi-Keeba, but it wasn’t until the DVD of WOTPP came out that I was finally able to fully grasp it.
Hi-Keeba is now my “motto” on Xbox Live.
#57 – “giving them the fortitude to survive perhaps the most grueling final quarter of any movie they’d done.”
There we go! A good idea for next week’s MST3Kinfo Weekend Discussion Thread: Favorite Final Quarter/Movie Climax of the series. I suggest it.
I’m surprised nobody mentioned the “Yaniglonchi” callback from ‘Soultaker’. One of my favorites :)
“Why don’t they look?”
and of course, “Puma? Puma? Puma!”
#74 courteous martian: “Raise your hands if you want to go faster” always makes me think of a line spoken in a lull in They Might Be Giants’s self-titled song on the album “Flood” (1990), where a narrator starts talking and somehow sort of cuts himself off twice:
“To make the merry-go-round go faster–
–So that everyone needs to hold onnn-tighter–
–Just to keep from being thrown to the wolves”
But that’s probably not it, since the only definite reference to TMBG was Joel saying, “There MIGHT be giants”, in The Giant Gila Monster. That references page Sampo often links to for the ep. guide doesn’t have Prince of Space yet, and I can’t recall which other episodes had “Does anyone want to go faster?…”
Maybe another good discussion thread would be: Throw out a riff you don’t get and hope someone who knows the answer responds. That might get a tad to chaotic though, since everyone here probably has at least 3 or 4 they don’t get, so maybe it should be phrased another way.
Not really MST3K riffs, but I loved the Star Trek callbacks.
“Help me Kirk.”
“I’m not going back, Jim.”
“Spooooooccccck!”
My favorite MST call backs have to be, “Hikeeba!” “MITCHELL!” and “VAAAAANNCCEE!”
RH
As a warning of the quality of the coming movie:
At opening credits of The Projected Man:
“Bryant Haliday. Isn’t he the Great Varelli?”
#74 (or anyone else) is “Do you want to go faster?” from “Something Wicked This Way Comes”? I thought I heard the guy in the movie say it to the kids on the merry-go-round. (Never read the book).
#65 – I think they also do “ArfKeeba” (along with GymCollie!) in “The Painted Hills” when Lassie’s out for blood.
One of my favorite callbacks is also possibly one of the most easily missed. In “Santa Claus,” Pitch is spying on Santa and pops his head above the chimney for a just a split second, to which Tom rapidly fires “Terpsichore!”
This is in reference to “The Human Duplicators” where the blind heroine pops her head above the railing in a similar manner, prompting the secret agent guy to dub her Terpischore. It took me forever to figure out what a Terpsichore was, but apparently she was one of the nine Muses and a goddess of dance.
Not sure why I like this callback so much; maybe because you really have to be on the ball to spot it, and because the reference is so incredibly obscure.
“Does this bug you? I’m not touching you.”
Raise your hand if you want to go faster is just a merry-go-round reference. In Prince of Space, Krankor has something spinning behind him that looks like one. Tom Servo provides the Calliope music too.
Also, I like the “TRUMPY! NOOO!” callback in the Chicken of Tomorrow short when they show the roasted chicken.
watch out for snakes!
You guys are pretty much right about the “Do you want to go faster” theories. However the Brains most likely got it from an amusement park out here in Minnesota called Valleyfair.
See, there’s this ride called the Catapillar that’s a group of compartment cars connected to form one big circle (like a catapillar, hi-yuk!). The conductor starts the ride up and the cars begin to go round and round. When it reaches a good enough speed, he asks the riders over the loudspeaker if they “wanna go faster?” to which they always do, so he cranks it up. Then he asks again, and again, and again until finally you feel like your teeth are in your feet.
The “wanna go faster?” has become such a slogan for the ride for the last 30 years that they even sell t-shirts of it.
So while I’m not 100% sure, it’d be a safe bet this is where the Brains picked it up from.
Hee…just remembered a great Trace one:
“Do you find me pleasing?”
“now that guy could use some chinderwear” — Mike’s What Not to Wear moment for Nick Miller of Time Chasers
Suggestions for future WDT topics (before I forget them again):
Favorite running gag in an episode.
Favorite non-verbal riffs (ie: scream, sound effect, sight gag).
Favorite outside references (to real life, other shows/movies, etc.)
Okay, if the callbacks also include riffs then I’m going with, “Kitty!” which I say constantly now, every time I see a cat.
Geez! NO ONE can remember that the laziest man on Mars is Droppo? :???: They even did the movie TWICE! And you call yourselves MSTies!
In one of the host segments, it’s when Frank is exercizing on the Squaremaster, he says: “The exercise really works, I can feel it here”
I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned:
“A girl?! But I’m a Grimald warrior!” :mrgreen:
I shout out “Watch out for snakes!” at various times and in various contexts. Nobody but me knows what it means, but it’s still extremely gratifying. Hearing it repeated on any MST episode makes me laugh out loud. Other than that, I would vote for:
“He tampered in God’s domain.”
“—- of the Old West.” [Favorite: “Buns of steel of the Old West” from “Gunslinger”.]
“Nooo, Lupita!”
Etc.
Brian O I did mention but I’m a grimwold warrior. see # 69.