The guy gave a really funny example of blurting some catchphrase in the middle of…I can’t remember, maybe a classroom or an meeting at work, and getting some very strange looks.
My apologies to whoever sent the e-mail.
So since I can’t remember his story, I’ll tell you one of mine.
I was visiting some friends of my wife’s and a football game was on, and a beer commercial came on featuring a very shapely young lady. Without even thinking, I muttered “Oh, I hate to shoot a butt like that!” It got very quiet. I think some of her relatives still talk about that.
Ever have any experience like that?
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A few years ago, a local radio DJ shouted out “hikeeba!” while introducing a song.
And a friend of mine quipped “they listen to a lot of Yes on this planet,” when we were both viewing a tv shot of sunrise fog over Chicago, which resembled the planet from MST3K: TM.
Whenever I go to a pond or a big lake, I say to a friend, as I point to it and say: “This is where the fish live!” From The Touch Of Satan. And he’s like say-what? One of our supervisers we work for talks just like Barbara Hale from Giant Spider Invasion and I blurt out almost every line from her character in the movie when our boss speaks. (VAAAANNCCE!!) And when we watch those lame-ass reality audition shows, I blurt out “…And The Crowd Goes Wild!!” from the short “Junior Rodeo Daredevils”
Once my wife jokingly asked me what was wrong with me and before I realized it I blurted out “that I was abused as a zygote!” I know it came from MST3K and Crow but not sure what episode.
When I was an assistant teacher with some special needs kids, one of the ‘regular’ students was bullying one of mine and got sent to the office. Someone actually said they felt bad for the bully, so I said ‘It’s HER dishwashing liquid, let her soak in it!’ Two teachers stared at me, a third shrieked ‘WHAT?!’ and wondered aloud if I was speaking ‘in Internet.’
…oh, one more thing. Lately I have seen a lot of heavy set guys who look a lot like the dope smoking cop from Laserblast. And all I can say is: “Are You Ready For Some FOOTBALL???!!!)
#9 ME TOO, Brandon!
When I’m drinking, I like to say “oh, take me to the sweet mushroom palace, my good friend Booze.”
At any quite moment or lull in coversation in a group , I will yell” Packers Woo Go Packers, Packers, Woo!!!” ( I live in Chicago) I get the evil eye a lot for that! My Dad and I do the Krankor laugh (heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh) a lot when we are responding to bad jokes at family parties. No one gets it
Just this past Thanksgiving, I was alone and decided to fix myself a modest T-day dinner consisting of sweet-potato pancakes with turkey-bacon and baked apples (pretty clever eh?). I had some friends in a neighboring town who said they might pay me a visit if they could get away from their festivities. I was half-way through my MST3K T-day marathon and had just finished viewing #505 “The Magical Voyage of Sinbad”. I was a little tipsy from bourbon and wee-heavy ale, and as I prepared to start on the pancakes, I heard some whistling and shouting out front (kitchen was way far back of the house). Thinking they were my good friends, I opened the door while blurting out crow’s line from said episode “WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS?!”. It turned out to be some conservative neighbors (who knew I was spending the holidays alone) bringing me a plate of their holiday dinner to me. Blank stares would be an understatement.
“These kids today – with their hula hoops and fax machines…”
I say this whenever there is a mention in the news of people in car crashes using cell phones or texting; or when people ask “What’s facebook or twitter? Why do they use it?”.
The response is always “What?”
I forgot what episode it was from.
#15 Steve: Sorry Steve! I lost your e-mail. My bad. Thanks for suggesting the topic!
Shouting “I regret nothing!” in hazardous situations usually gets a laugh.
“AHHHH ham, I love it” works nearly every Sunday or holiday dinner! Thank you Great Vorelli!
I was helping box up archive files at work a couple of weeks ago. We were going through a long, long list of names, noting if the file was present, and boxing it up if it was. We were in the “S” section when we came across the name “Springs.” I called it; my co-worker checked the shelf and came up empty handed, telling me the file wasn’t there.
Before I could stop myself, I blurted, in perfect Coily-fashion, “No Springs!”
I had to do a little explaining to do.
BebopKate- did you do the little noise after “No Springs”?
Um…yes. :oops:
I think that actually required more of the explanation than the funny voice…
BOLD ! HELL YES IT’S BOLD !
I like to use that one.
#53 It was at the beginning of I Accuse My Parents
I too like “The hell?”
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“What happa?” But alas I have had to tame the near constant flow of MST3K ruining through my head from running out my mouth as I am in the Army and I don’t fit in. I learned sometime back that I have no hope of fitting in so the best that I can do is simply be quite. I goes the other way when people get into a conversation about what ever the latest thing is that they are into and I’m usually oblivious at best or saddened by the low brow level of humor being expressed.
If my jokes and comments don’t get groans they get blank stares. I get a lot of both at work. I don’t have any good shocked reaction stories though ’cause I resist my quipping urges when speaking with customers. But my coworkers are used to not having any idea what I’m saying. I especially like to use “kids these days with their . . .”, “oh, for fun!”, “gentle pressure”, “why don’t they look?”, “he learned too late . . .”, “he tampered in god’s domain”, and “guh’YUK guh’YEE!” But no one tends to notice. If anyone questions me I’ve created a catchphrase of my own: “Life is just a bad movie for me to riff on.”
#59 Bluebird, yours is my favorite story so far.
When I’m watching TV or a movie, and something sexy, risque, or a pretty woman appears on screen, I’ll let out a big “Saaayyy!” Or, when somebody falls down or gets hurt, I’ll exclaim “Ow! My spine!”, like the MST3K gang did with the Japanese kids in the Sandy Frank movies.
I used to do TV’s Frank’s “Hyuck-Geuu!” sound in public a lot. That would earn me a lot of confused stares.
I asked a guy once if he was acquainted with the night. He got angry.
I try to keep it to a minimum but one good opportunity came when speaking with another chemist about various carbohydrates, when she mentioned “Mannose,” to which i of course replied, “…the hands of fate?”
# 69 Rasom, ditto for me… I’m in the Marine reserves and already have a bit of a reputation as kind of a dork… It would be five times worse if I indulged in all the MST quotes I’d like to throw around.
I’ve had to explain “You know…sausage” more than once.
I love your story #50. I’m still laughing.
I don’t remember the episode (Hell, maybe it wasn’t even MST3K, but I think it is), but my son and I were watching some movie at the Smithsonian in which a young woman had slipped into another dimension and was trying to find her father. She kept yelling “Dad?” and he would call back “Christy?”. “Dad?” “Christy?” “Dad?” “Christy?”… It went on and on, and eventually I just had to blurt out “McCloud!”
I was hoping somebody in the crowd would be a fan, but alas, no.
Whenever we get some odd children at work, I’ll usually bust out with a “ah, general psychosis and freakiness all around!” which is always met with blank stares. Which makes it even more enjoyable for me.
Much more livelier when I visit my parents house, as it’s only a matter of time before one of them randomly blurts out “SODIUM!” or “Fall INTO the blast…”
And among my friends, there is usually some sort of reference to the elusiveness of one Robert Denby…
“What a turkey” doesn’t typically get the weird looks, but I always use a Ben Murphyesque voice.
Also, when we’re driving around, my wife and I often have to switch radio stations. We have a couple jazz stations programmed, and it’s fairly often that a “Manos” will come from one of us, with quote bunnies, of course.. Yes, it’s one of the few episodes she really likes.
Here’s another – I work for a pharmaceutical company that is developing drugs to fight Hepatitis C. As part of a recent National Liver Awareness week promotion, each of is in the company was given a figurine of an anthropormorphized liver with bendable posable arms and legs. I drew a face on mine that looked the Master’s and put up a sign that says “HEPATOS – The Liver of Fate”.
Cue the sound of crickets….
Well, my life is pretty much an endless stream of MST references met with blank stares, but you’d be surprised how many times I’ve managed to work in “He tried to kill me with a fork lift!” :grin:
Years ago I was at the movie theater with some friends, waiting on line to buy snacks. For some reason I blurted out, “We are candy coated peanuts, popcorn and a prize!” from Attack of the the Eye Creatures. Nothin but confused stares were my replies.
These days I often use “Whahappa?” “FOOTBALL PRACTICE!” “Ooooh, for fun!” “Why don’t they look?” and several others. Despite some of my friends being fans of the series, they rarely get the references specifically. On the bright side, they just laugh rather than stare. ;)
Oh, and I find myself often quoting the Star Wars rifftrax (since my friends are also fans of Star Wars), mostly “The Gillian of Jedi will save him,” and “Jedi can not only be incredibly brave but also bone-shatteringly stupid.”
Also, my boyfriend works in a shoe store… At least two or three times he’s come home with a story about using “this says your feet don’t exist!” when measuring someone’s size.
Well, my wife uses “Kitty!” a lot, often in the company of non-MSTies. But usually that just adds to her cool factor.
I’ve gotten more than a few odd looks when, talking about a good show/restaraunt/etc, I blurt out “I LIKE IT VERY MUCH”…
And recently, I’ve been adding “…slathered in sauce, Texas style” at very inappropriate times. Sometimes, I catch myself in time. Sometimes.
I’m in the army and when we do first aid training I like to scream out “Live Dammit Live!!!” to Resusca Annie. Which is funny in itself because I would love to do Dr. Forrester’s bit with Resusca Annie too.
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I like to use “The Hell!” also
I’ve found that saying, “I had no preconceptions”, as Tom did regarding Doctor Bradford’s age, is useful. And it sounds enough like a joke on its own that it’s amusing even for people who have no idea what I’m referencing.
“You do it, I’m bitter.”
That comment comes in handy for all kinds of situations.
Or rather, “You do it. I’m bitter.”
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D’oh!
i was at a rest stop in new mexico on a drive across the country and i saw a sign that said “Watch out for snakes.” nobody understood why i couldn’t stop laughing at that.
“That’s an odd taste”
‘Ruff-a-roo.’
“Kitty ! “
Once at my job, a co-worker named Mark hijacked a friendly sports trivia contest that was being enjoyed by all with incessant, annoying NASCAR-related queries when he was the only one who cared about the “sport.” I shut him down and brought the house down with the quip, “Let’s all chip in and buy Mark a life.” (Paraphrasing one of my favorite riffs from Terror From the Year 5000, “Let’s all chip in and buy this movie a light.”)
Far… far too many to count.
So far, much to the chagrin of others:
“That’s good ol’ fashioned nightmare fuel” when witnessing an innocent but creepy sign or piece of carnival signage.
“I like it very much.” is something that I got a friend to start saying when someone pesters her about something she could care less about. Her favorite ep is “Space Mutiny” but “Prince of Space” is the one she quotes from.
“Wha’ happa?” and “The Hell?” are the most flexible ones.
I have watched way too much of the show and I know it. I have even had dreams about it and that’s the scary part.
So far, my friends have taken to saying “That’s what happens when you bob for french fries” from Operation Double O 007 although not fully correct it’s obviously a remark when someone does something stupid.
Another one I should add is from “Overdrawn at the Memory Bank.” When I see someone who looks like they’ve been drinking out in public, I like to say in my best Fingal voice “He looks DRUNK to me!”
I use many quotes from MST3k and a lot from Rifftrax on a daily basis. *I am small and of no account* has popped up at least once every day since Wednesday. My old 1990 Saturn is covered in the MST quote bumper stickers. I had come from the movies and someone left a simple note on my windshild. It said HI-KEEBA! I have had those stickers on the car since 1999 and no one has ever done that before. Now I really thought that was cool. :smile:
Not a quote from the riffers, but I have been known, when someone asks me if I’m ready to do something, to reply with, “Swingin’.”
(It says a lot about the number of blank stares I’ve gotten that I feel the need, even here, to explain that it’s from “The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies”.)
“I don’t fink on soul brother.”
I heard Frank utter that a hundred times on “Poopie!” and only just now found out what the heck he was saying. Of course out of context it makes no sense.
thedumpster #60: It was from Pod People, when Dr. F. and Frank are introducing their Public Domain Karioke Machine.
“As elusive as Robert Denby” often comes up, because… well, things can be hard to find.
Two faves:
“Push the button Frank!” I live with two other Geeks, they get it. :)
Being 52, when someone has a new toy (I’m a systems analyst) I come out with “These kids today – with their hula hoops and fax machines and 8-track tapes…”
I do this more than I can count, but as far as odd reactions, let me just say this – most NJ natives don’t really ‘get’ Minnewegian jokes, dontchaknow.