What would it be? It would not only have to be a great episode but it would have to be one that would be good on repeat viewings.
Mine may surprise you: It’s episode 610- THE VIOLENT YEARS
(with short: “YOUNG MAN’S FANCY”)
To me, it just has everything an MST3K episode should have. Every single host segment is great (though the “Star is Born” thing Tom does is probably the least funny), the short is weird, the movie was written by Ed Wood and features the classic “lady violating the poor defenseless guy” scene, and the riffing is top-notch throughout. They are just firing on all cylinders.
That’s mine. What’s yours?
This topic is certain to demonstrate the truth of what has come to be known as “Sampo’s Theorem” which states: “For every MSTie who believes a given episode is the worst thing they ever did, there is another who believes it is their finest hour.”
Oh, and I will allow honorable mentions, but only one. Mine would be episode 416- FIRE MAIDENS OF OUTER SPACE.
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No question… The day the earth froze.
-look at me I’m a moose!
My all time favorite will always be “Red Zone Cuba”, but I’ve seen that one so many times it’s practically commited to memory.
So I’d go with my favorite SciFi episode, “The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Then Became Mixed-Up Zombies”, with “Pod People” as my runner-up. They both give me the comfortable “home” feeling that Prof. mentioned.
One thing all three of these eps share is that they never completely make sense, no matter how many hundreds of times I see them, so they’d never get boring!
The Final Sacrifice was by far the peak of the Sci-Fi channel years, and maybe of the entire series. No episode comes nearly close in my heart.
The Magic Voyage of Sinbad. Runner up, Santa Claus
Yes, season 5 is my favorite. Why do you ask? :smile:
Withoout a doubt Pod People. It’s got my all-time favorite lines in it. “Wow, Trumpy can do stupid things!” As my runner up, though, I’d have to Godzilla vs. Megalon. I’d morn not being able to have Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, The Magic Sword, Hobogoblins, THe Killer Shrews, and the list just goes on, but I got the most joy out of Trumpy and Godzilla I must say. “You reckon? Your Japanese ib son!”
#1: The Skydivers, with Why Study Industrial Arts? A classic short! Anthony Cordoza! Kevin Casey’s a woman! ADD editing! The temptress who looks like Michael Landon! Take me to Uranus! Thank you Coleman Francis for making us laugh about love…again.
Runner up: The Giant Spider Invasion. A little reminder of where I grew up, and suddenly, a desert island isn’t so bad! (Filmed in Gleason and Merrill, Wisconsin, a hop skip and jump from my hometown of Tomahawk, hence all the (well-deserved) cheesehead jokes.) Go Packers!
Werewolf. Definitely Werewolf.
“This is absolutely fascinating…Right?”
“Those caribou don’t stand a chance now that I’m driving.”
“A warwilf?…”
Bride of the Monster w/Hired pt 1. Great short, great sketches, Ed Wood, and its the episode that just “feels” like MST3K to me.
Honorable mention? Hmm…. Fugitive Alien. Cause it’s mid-form Joel and it’s a movie I actually… Kinda… Like.
Either “Cave Dwellers” or “Overdrawn at the Memory Bank” or “Magic Voyage of Sinbad”. (Too greedy?)
All three are solid episodes with decent helpings of B-barrel cheesiness and non-stop jokes. I’ve never gotten tired of them.
However, without a doubt, the only episode I would rather break than watch again is Sidehackers. I watched it once–never again. Too painful.
“Riding with Death” for my must have. Either “Werewolf” or Horror of Party Beach”.
…Either “Werewolf” or Horror of Party Beach” as my alternate.
Guess I shoulda used that Preview button first, huh?
Oh, it’s like choosing between my children. If I had some.
I can watch I Accuse My Parents over and over I always laugh. Plus, I love those late forties/early fifties “social hygiene” type films, so this one has it all for me. And the art therapy sketch – love it!
Honorable mention: The Brain That Wouldn’t Die – just a terrible film with fiercely mediocre acting and the sleaziest sleazy mad doctor ever. And Mike’s debut where he defiantly calling the Mads and learns about their domestic routine. So much love there.
Wow, tough one! All the Coleman Francis movies are so weird, and Crow’s “It’s the KGB, Mr. Benny!” is maybe one of my all-time favorite riffs. But if there can be only one, then maybe The Creeping Terror, which is so perfectly inept, and with music to haunt your dreams. Runner-up, Pod People (with even better music!)
Ring of Terror. I just LOVE the old jokes.
2nd choice would be Giant Gila Monster
1st Choice: Prince of Space
2nd Choice: Red Zone Cuba
I’m a glutton for punishment.
Randy
So hard to choose just one…
I’ll go with “Final Justice”.
It gives Joe Don Baker good reason to dislike MST3K. :cool:
:oops: I misspelled. Should be Werewolf. Can I take my MST book with me, then I can read about the episodes I don’t have with me. :wink:
@MLD
As if Mitchell didn’t? lol Baker earned every shot he took i think.
There are many to choose from, but I’ll go with Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell. I have always been partial to newer movies on MST3K. No matter how lousy a b-movie from the ’50s is, there is something about any b-movie from the ’80s-’90s that will always seem even worse to me.
Thom Christopher, the villain Carlo Hesser from the ABC soap opera from One Life to Live, is a delight to watch as he plays Troxartis.
My honorable mention will be Hobgoblins.
I had to get 40 some responses in to see my pick.
1. Time Chasers (“I’ll have a Scotch with a Time Chaser”)
Hon. Mention- Manos: The Hands of Fate
Mine’d definitely be “The Beast of Yucca Flats.” I mean, c’mon – TWO really funny shorts, and a dreary Coleman Francis epic with TOR JOHNSON. The Puerto Rico short with that painting in the art gallery – “I’m not thpeaking to you…” makes me laugh so hard every time. Honorable mention – “It Conquered the Word” with the “Winter Sports Cavalcade” short is a really really close second. My favorite 50’s sci-fi movie, even on its own, and then the whole “she-ing” thing in the short.
I just thought of at least four, but I’ll pick one that I’m surprised hasn’t been mentioned yet.
808 – The Undead
STAY!
806, rather. I’ll also add that this episode has some of my favorite host segments of the Sci Fi years. Any time Mike gets lost in his depressing memories is a good time.
I have to say Zombie Nightmare, followed by Time Chasers.
Although I lost my virginity to Riding with Death, and it will always have a special place in my heart.
Mine would probably be “The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies”, since it’s always been my favorite. “The Leech Woman” is probably my second choice.
I’ll skip the so hard to choose nonsense (you all know how, um, hard it is) and cut to chase.
I’ll pick Horror of Party Beach (just barely nudging out Red Zone Cuba) because of the solid riffing and the fact that the movie itself is quintissential (ay, where’s the spell check button when lazy me needs it)late night monster movie fodder.
Runner up would be Joel era–my still much beloved Manos. I mean, Diane Mahree (sp?) would be much needed company on a desert island. :wink:
Space Mutiny or Night of the Blood Beast (Turkey Day version). Probably Time of the Apes third.
Then again if we’ve just supposin’ how about Invaders from the Deep and Revenge of the Mysterons From Mars?
Pod People.
It was the first episode I watched after I rediscovered the series on VHS in the 2000s, after enjoying it in my early childhood. Besides that, I prefer the somewhat rare instances where they riff movies from the 80s or even more recent. To me, bad 80s movies have a certain something that all other eras of bad movies don’t. The host segments are all hilarious (especially the recreation of the “Idiots In Control Now!” song with Gypsy more than half a beat late), the movie has the wonderful, goofy 80s charm of E.T. mixed awkwardly with a slasher film, the somewhat obscure location of the character’s adventures, the Casio forest music, and of course, top-notch riffing throughout. “Little wing-ed potatoes!”
My runner ups would be Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders and Manos: Hands of Fate, though I’m not sure which is in 2nd and which is in 3rd place.
I agree though, this out to be a top 10 list.
BEGINNING OF THE END is a sure-fire laugh getter for me at every viewing. Runner up would be FUTURE WAR.
Catalina Capers!
It’s the one that made me fall in love with MST3K again.
:mrgreen:
My favorite is usually one of the ones I saw most recently, so it depends when the question is asked. Today my first choice would be HUMAN DUPLICATORS. For runner-up I’ll go with an early favorite that I don’t think has been mentioned, JUNGLE GODDESS.
The Giant Gila Monster. “I sing whenever I sing…”
PARTS: The Clonus horror.
What’s a helmet?
I’d go with “The Atomic Brain”. It just has this interesting feel to it. (There’s a girl, on the roof, and she thinks, she’s a cat)Plus the short, “What about Juvenile Delinquency” is their best one.
Have to be The Incredibly Strange Creatures who stopped living and became mixed up zombies. It never gets old and after 35+ watches the shicth out of shape just always hits me. Course Werewolf is the rest of my crews fav. Coming in second for me would be Riding With Death. On the joel side Manos the hands of fate is the standard for me and the first joel episode I ever saw. Course Catalina Caper and Wild Rebels are two others that I happen to enjoy from the joel era.
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Mitchell was good, but it just didn’t seem as harsh against Joe Don as Final Justice was. Mitchell is still a great episode since it attacks Joe Don and is Joel’s final episode.
Yes, those bottomlands of — Boggy Creek II
“That’s it… no more corn liquor on my Total.”
I watch the bread short and Manos the most. Therefore I already know most of their lines, so I pick
Humanoid Woman.
I like things raw.
No contest, my choice(s):
910: The Final Sacrifice
Honorable Mention:
820: Space Mutiny
Come on, with a one-two punch featuring that “Bacon-y stink of Canada” (Sacrifice), and
a buffed male “hunk” that runs around screaming like a woman (Mutiny), how can one go wrong?
Oof, tough question. It’s hard for me to choose between Deathstalker (She runs like Natrone Means!), Escape 2000 (Toblerone makes me laugh everytime) and one other episode that I can’t believe no one on here has mentioned yet in Teenage Strangler (And he didn’t steal no bike neither!)
I’d probably choose Deathstalker, but it’d be tough.
“Soultaker” was so mint. Much love goes to “Final Sacrifice” and “Space Mutiny” as well. These three are in heavy viewing rotation in my house!
1. Time Chasers :grin:
2. Space Mutiny Stowing away :roll:
The final sacrifice going down with the ship :eek:
“Night of the Blood Beast. I don’t think “Steve?!” would ever stop being funny.”
Plus you have “Undercupping” YEAH!!!!!!!! :razz:
O my GAWD! Not fair! Well, I tend to prefer the Comedy Central eps, not so much because of Joel v. Mike – I like ’em both – but because I LOVE Trace and Frank. Having said that…# 1 for me is “Eegah”. It’s the first one I ever saw; when that dude said “Watch out for snakes”, I literally shot beer out my nose. The awful “song” by our intrepid hero, Roxy’s semi-incestuous relationship with her Pa..and the riffing is just golden. # 2 has to be “The Unearthly”, with 2 glorious shorts, “Posture Pals” and “Appreciating Your Parents”, both of which were apparently produced by the Nazi Party, what with the erect posture and the unquestioning obedience. Time for go to bed!
This is a tough one…
I’d have to go with…812 The Inredibly Strange Creatures. This episode will bring me out of a bad mood and no matter how many times I have seen it I still laugh my hinder off at many of the riffs in it.
“So Ray Denis Steckler filmed a open mike night and made it half his movie.”
“Hot dogs! Fresh roasted peanuts!”
“Buried with his donkey! He’s my favorite honkey!”
A close second is 814 Riding With Death.
I watch Catalina Caper almost every day when I do my music practice. It’s got a great look to it and the riffs are hilarious. But I can have it on and be comfortable practicing without distraction, so that would be my choice.
My runner up would be Daddy-O. If this episode had a short like Aquatic Wizards or Home Economics Story, it would get the nod. But since it has Alphabet Antics, it gets runner-up.
I think I’d have to go with Quest of the Delta Knights. “Sultans, pirates! After them!” The host segments are strong and I enjoy Pearl’s alternative riffing. Plus the guy from “Mad About You” is in it as incongruous comic relief.
Runner-up…I think I’m going to have to go with The Final Sacrifice…for, um, obvious reasons. I tend to prefer the Sci-Fi eps and the newer movies.
This is hard but I would have to say Attack of the Eye Creature, The Day the Earth Froze, and the Magic Sword. If I had to pick a short it would half to be hands down Mr. B Natural.
Always liked the brain that wouldn’t die.