I’ve been thinking about this one for a while, but with this week’s episode guide entry it’s never been more relevant:
What’s your favorite credit sequence? It’s a real credit (ba-dum-ting!) to the Brains that there are so many hilarious sequences from the show that revolve around . . . words on a screen set to music.
So what’s everyone’s favorite? It can be an opening or closing sequence. For me, it’s obviously Werewolf’s closing credits. “TUSK!”
My pick would probably be the discussion of who loves femmy movies the most in episode 516- Alien from L.A.
What’s yours?
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Favorite end credits?
Servo’s Journey jam (with Crow on guitar) at the end of “Escape 2000” is hilarious – but then again, so is the “tooty toot toot toot” vocalizations (complete with “Safety Dance” lyrics) at the end of “Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell.”
The “Werewolf” medley is pretty sharp writing/riffing, too.
And for the riffing alone, I love the end credits of “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.”
Favorite opening credits?
The gossip page-style riffing in “The Unearthly.”
As was mentioned above, the singing along with the theme song for “Operation Double 007.” The ‘Turner and Hooch’ line kills me each time.
Joel and the ‘Bots dancing to the funky main theme from “Moon Zero Two.”
Mike sneaks in some contraband popcorn for “The Wild Wild World of Batwoman.”
All the riffing for “Red Zone Cuba” over John Carradine’s theme song – perfection.
Was amused by Tom and Crow pondering the lyrics of the bad rock song in ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST. “So he’s angry because he always loses but that’s the way he likes it?” “Well, good! Then it all works out!”
Another vote for TOUCH OF SATAN. “Well, he is the master of torture, he would have a really long credit sequence…”
And I guess someone has to mention Mike going off to get popcorn and then the group of them talking amongst themselves and completely ignoring the movie until someone points out, “Aren’t we supposed to be watching this?” in WILD WORLD OF BATWOMAN.
Oh yeh, and the riffing on ‘Night Train’ at the beginning of RED ZONE CUBA. “Ah, to be blessed with an instrument like that…
I’ve always liked Forrester’s riff on Alber Glasser’s credit in Last of the Wild Horses: “Albert Glasser, the man who holds you down and pummels you with music.”
The fact that Forrester and Frank get to do this one makes it a favorite sequence of mine.
Also there is FUTURE WAX! Never fails to get me giggling
The obscure video to the credits in Cave Dwellers:
“Hey, hey chicken head.”
“Who said that?”
That movie would have likely proven good fodder for MST3k too.
And speaking of music, #52 Flying Saucers Over Oz, that “bad rock song in ZOMBIE [NIGHTMARE]” is “Ace of Spades” by Motorhead. A classic.
How about the credit sequence at the end of Daddy-O? It starts and stops about ten times due to Frank-caused malfunctions involving the Miracle Growth Baby. Also I love the credit sequence from “Being From another Planet”, when Joel and Crow torture Tom with examples of previous experiments that might just be worse than the movie they just watched.
Far and away, the song at the beginning of Double 007. “Hi-i-i-is favorite movie is Turner and Hooch!” “This guy can’t possibly live up to the song they wrote about him.”
All these people who’ve only seen the Sci-Fi episodes need to see this one.
#6 I’m with you bro, I found Hobgoblins to have the best end credits because of an interview with the director, Rick Sloane, telling how big of a retard he is. It makes me laugh every ti me.
Note: I actually watched Hobgoblins this morning, it was great.
Crow pitching “The Final Sacrifice: the Series” to Mike always makes me laugh, especially the final lines:
“But what about Rowsdawer?”
“A big, hairy girl!”
For me its basically a three-way-tie between Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, Hobgoblins, and Laserblast.
Runner-up is Being from Another Planet where they go through most of their previous bad movies before Servo finally says Castle of Fu Manchu is just as bad as BFAP.
Two words: Forced Perspective. Future War had hands down the funniest in movie credit riff. One of the funniest moments in TV history.
The Sci-Fi episodes really win the prize here. I can think of few outstanding credits sequences–I mean, where they turn the end credits into a whole routine–in Comedy Central episodes. A few have been named already. One that hasn’t is at the end of Bride of the Monster where Tom Servo chants, “Loser…loser…loser…Harvey B. Loser…George Bec-Loser…” and so on, ending with a thoroughly disgusted, “For cryin’ out loud,” as they leave. “But Ben Frommer was good!”
The Little Creature from Boggy Creek telling his mom about how much fun he had being held captive by a hillbilly.
Without reading anything, Soultaker, hands down. “This is your eighties, Mike.”
Oops, the seventies.
The Final Sacrifice is by far the best! Whenever I need to be inspired by a true hero, I sing:
He comes to save the day in a broken truck,
with a stinky denim jacket on his back…
Comic gold!
All you guys that nominated Final Sac, I just watched it again and yeah, the closing credits bit is excellent. Now I have to go, Gutenberg’s people are calling.
Personally, I loved the credits for Parts-the Clonus Horror. The whole “Biography” bit just makes me laugh harder every time I see it.
My favorite riffing on the credits has to be the opening credits on Boggy Creek II: The Legend Continues.
“The Little Creature from Boggy Creek telling his mom about how much fun he had being held captive by a hillbilly.”
I am remiss.
“Uh-huh. And what was his name?”
“Snow . . . head.”
I enjoy that the Gorgo opening credits offer:
Servo’s excellent “Oh Danny Boy” tune with Gorgo-fied lyrics.
Mike’s equally excellent, Paul Robeson-y, “Down With The Old Folks At Home” inspired by the orchestra’s inadvertent lead-in.
Crow’s Day Of The Dolphin quote, “Fa love Pa” was hilarious as Cinematographer F.A. Young’s credit appears on screen.
Crow acting surprised that the movie would be named, “KING BROTHERS” based upon its enormous block font worthy of being a movie’s title size.
Quite nicely done orchestrated music throughout the opening made it a good time as well.
I didn’t have to think long about it. My favorite is Escape 2000 with Servo singing Journey’s Seperate Ways over the “Leave Bronx” credits. Classic!
As a native Minnesotan, I enjoy the “Scandabouvian” sketch in the opening credits for “the Day the Earth Froze.”
Soultaker’s end credits, where the Bots insist that there’s only happy-sappy fairy tale endings or drinking wood grain alcohol in a back alley, with no middle ground, in response to the movie’s “drive into the sunset” ending. There’s something so dark and bitter about it and Mike’s flummoxed reaction just makes it great for me.
Close second is the rant against Mike and “his” music as Space Mutiny’s bad hair band sings, with it turning into a long diss against Mike (high school aged Mike, but Mike nonetheless). I just like with the Bots go off on these weirdly angry tangents.
Mike’s first episode, The Brain That Wouldn’t Die, had the funny bit where Crow explains to him how he has to carry Tom in because of the air vent.
And as mentioned, the Wild Wild World of Batwomen for Mike getting the popcorn. I love when he comes in asks “What did I miss?” and Crow says, “Only the best credits ever!”
Here’s another vote for the Soul Taker end credits.
“And there’s nothing in between. It’s either grain alcohol in back alleys or a happy world of rodents and feetie pajamas.”
There are too many good ones,so I’m going to go with LASERBLAST.I like it when they read from Leonard Maltin’s book and name other movies he gave 2 stars to or 3 stars to compared to the 2 and a half stars he gave for Laserblast..
So many classic moments already mentioned…absolutely love Tom telling the residents of Rutland VT to go to Hell at the end of TIME CHASERS. Nice.
Ah, so many great ones.
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians: (‘You spell it S-A-T-A-N’)
Space Mutiny (as the first trombone in my school band, this touched me deeply)
Parts: The Clonus Horror (‘Often, James Arness’ mother would remark to friends that she loved her son Peter Graves so very, very much; while she hated James Arness and cursed the day her womb had been blighted with such a creature’.)
The Skydivers (‘I guess this is an “I can’t pay you, but I’ll put you in the credits” cast list’)
The Touch of Satan (‘Emby Mellay? That’s not a name, it’s a bad Scrabble hand’)
Four words …. Master Ninja Theme Song. :grin:
About TS’s negative critique of the citizens and officals
of Rutland, Vermont, if he had to choose would he diss
Rutland, Vermonters or Canadians? Of course, Mike and
Crow deserve much of the responsibility for weening Tom
away from his initial admiration of the peoples of the
Great White North. Eh?
While it isn’t my favorite, the two minutes of European laughter over the Devil Fish credits floored me the first time I saw it.
Also, a small shout-out to Kevin’s Hi-Keeba rap over the Master Ninja music. “Hi-hi-keeba! Hi-hi-hi-keeba!” Love it.
Eegah!!!! Hey look! It’s scatogories! and there’s a demon flipping me off! Harriet the cattle are loose! Poppies makes you sleep! That pretty freakin’ classic to me. I also like where they say the sign is leaking?
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians had some pretty good line in it at the beginning and the end credits. I like where they get on Tom about being so dark.
Wild Rebels has a pretty good opening. Starring Steve A-Lame-O.
I’m surprised there isn’t more love for Outlaw’s end credit sequence. The list of all those very plausible mid-90s USA Network TV Movies just sends me into serious giggle fits every time.
JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!
For one of the movies, I definitely have to go with “Devilfish.”
For one of the episodes, the constant false starts at the end of “Daddy-O.”
Replaying Peter Graves’s speech from “It Conquered the World” is a good runner-up.
“Who’s the puffy guy that’s a big hairy sex-machine?”
“MITCHELL!”
“And Mitchell’s one bad mother-”
“Hey! Shut your mouth!”
“What? I’m just talkin’ ’bout Mitchell!”
and, of course,
“Hoyt! How could you?!”
Three-way tie!
1) “The Minnesota Sketch” during the opening credits of “The Day the Earth Froze” (my family is from Minnesota, and that totally could have been my relatives talking)
2) The femmy movie contest during the end credits of “Alien from L.A.”
3) Calling (and getting busted by) tech support for “Overdrawn at the Memory Bank”
It took until Flying Saucers at #52 to mention my new favorite, the opening credits of Zombie Nightmare. From the very funny gags about Thor being “fabulous” and Deathmask playing at Mike’s parents’ anniversary party, to the discussion of “Ace of Spades,” it all works by me.
Couple that with the first segment jokes (about the Seattle Mariners and the kid on the chain link fence), and this may be the strongest first segment of any MST3K episode I have ever seen.
Runner up is the end credits of Time Chasers. “Who was the movie supposed to be marketed to anyways? Elderly squirrels? The Germans?”
For me, it’s the closing credits for Incredible Melting Man:
“I learned never to scream ‘I’m Dr. Ted Nelson’ to a security guard.”
“I learned that half-eaten turkey legs make tepid ironic statements.”
“And we learned that some people can abuse spirit gum and latex.”
So many good ones. Also liked the end credits of Laserblast and the Overdrawn at the Memory Bank customer hotline.
“Four words …. Master Ninja Theme Song.”
I think you win the thread. :mrgreen:
Aside from all the previously mentioned classics, I love the non-credits in Horrors of Spider Island. The movie just abruptly ends, leaving Servo to remark “Oh, so you wanna end your movie that way, huh? Okay, get bent. We’re outta here.”
In no particular order:
Final Justice
Castle of Fu Manchu (really a sentimental favorite, but you gotta love the lyrics to the theme music “he’s that guy in the robe stands ’bout 7 foot two-oo-oo-oo…”).
Final Sacrifice
#64 You are right. This type of thing really was a sci-fi era Best Brains specialty. Makes me wonder why RiffTrax only did this once (that I’m aware of) as they usually cut out and sign off as the credits begin.
In a related note: Best alumni project credit sequence is Disembaudio’s rendition of “My Heart Will Go On” in Titanic
Oh, here’s one we all seem to have forgotten so far: The Incredible Melting Man (704)’s “What have we learned?” discusion.
#70, i’m with you, man. Now, when things get too quiet and normal, i imitate Crow’s imitation of Graves and say “Biography!”
While I have to agree that the “Werewolf” medley is the most laugh inducing, I have to give props to “Boggy Creek II” where the M&TB voice the Creature and the Lil’ Creature as a mother and son:
Lil’ Creature: …and then he gave me all the presents in the world.
Creature: Mm-Hmm. Anything else, hon?
Lil’ Creature: Um, yeah, then he gave me cookies.
Creature: What kind of cookies?
Lil’ Creature: Um, chocolate…