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Weekend Discussion Thread: Favorite Bill Corbett MomentsEvery time we post an updated list of all the discussion topics we’ve done, alert regular “Crowschmoe” complains that we’ve somehow missed doing a “Favorite Bill Corbett moments” thread. Well, let’s rectify that!
As Crow, one of my favorite bits of his is in episode 902- PHANTOM PLANET, in which Crow expresses his outrage and dismay that he has dressed himself like a Solarite. It’s vintage Crow 2.0. But I think my favorite moment is Bill as Leonardo “goodfella” DaVinci. What’s your pick? 164 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: Favorite Bill Corbett Moments”Commenting at Satellite News
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Bear and dog.
Brain Guy’s Flashdance-style audition from “Spider Island;” and his over-the-top “Good luck, you guys!” before the auditions. As Bill has commented in interviews, Brain Guy just got more & more effeminate as time went on. But then again, there was Brain Guy with a backwards baseball cap playing the man’s man when Pearl was away: “Ask you girlfriend, she’ll tell you, buddy boy!”
Three-eyed Crow: (paraphrasing) “Oh, sure, radioactive equals BAD to you!”
And all of the ones mentioned already, of course.
If I have to pick, Bill may be my favorite Rifftraxer, too — there’s something just so wonderfully twisted about his humor that I really love.
My favorite: the loner Crow.
“To have said good bye to things!”
future war:
nun writes abc on chalkboard
tom: as-, assho-
crow: its not even ass, servo!
delivery is perfect
My favorite is his delivery in Soultaker: “Man, that guy’s got a small face!”
I think my favorite is in Quest of the Delta Knights during the massive tree fort scene. Crow’s impersonation of man who’s “COMING!” is dead on. His line “You know, unless I’m mistaken, I’m fairly sure that that one guy is COMING” makes me die laughing no matter how many times I watch it.
Lots of really great moments from Bill, both as Crow and as Brain Guy. My favorite Brain Guy line ever was “My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We only kill out of personal spite.”
Lots of great ones mentioned here already. The video deposition (which is definitely funnier bleeped). The extra rage Bill brought to Crow was always great.
“He was fun to observe.”
Nice, “WeatherServo9” (#44)…… :yes:
As sad as this is to admit, even though I was a (relatively) big fan of the show back in the day (which, obviously, continues to this day!), at the time I was completely unaware of the ‘behind the scenes’ goings-on, and the fact that Trace had left the show after season 7……these days I find it painfully hard to believe I didn’t pick-up on the change in Crow’s voice as soon as Bill took over the reins, and that it took a few episodes of season 8 to pass before I FINALLY started picking up on the whole “Gee Crow, your voice sure seems different…….” commenting.
I know, I know………not the sharpest pencil in the box…… :drool:
Wow… Where to start? How about when Pearl had her wacky costumes idea, and it turned out Brain Guy’s costume was no costume at all, leaving Pearl and Bobo to ‘never find anything funny ever again’? Or Crow as a Balerian? And the unforgettable Bear and Dog (I will use ‘Sea Lion and Squirrel’ on my kids someday).
My other favourite Bill Corbett moment was all of DragonCon 2010.
“… and I’m Crow T. Robot, SPACE CHILD! HI!!”
Good topic, so many funny moments to choose from.
I’ll pick one for Crow and one for Brain Guy
Crow: I’m torn between His profanity bleeped deposition in Agent for H.A.R.M and his own version of the Dr Z narration in Blood Waters of Dr.Z. I’ll give it to the Dr.Z, but just barely. “Shoe Polish! The cleaning agent of deciet!”
Brain Guy: Him vs Steffi the babysitter in Touch of Satan.
Other favorites:
-Crow’s “Let’s Talk Women!” documentary in Hobgoblins
-Crow as Turkey Volume Guessing Man in Riding With Death
-The “Dog and Bear” game with Servo in Prince of Space
-Crow working with Pitch in Devil Doll
-Crow’s time travel adventues in Time Chasers
-Crow’s report on Malta and it’s men in Final Justice
-Bill as Krankor in Prince of Space and Invasion of the Neptune Men
-Brain Guy having his own party with friends to watch Sliders in Puma Man
I agree with the general sentiment that Bill’s delivery is the best of the three at Rifftrax. Just brilliant.
Somebody mentioned Brain Guy’s back and forth between guy’s guy and questionably effeminate . . . here’s another for the guy side:
“A chili dog is one thing, but to then put cheese *inside* the dog . . .”
Yup, I have to second Danny Kay. Crows’ (Bill) obscenity laced video deposition in “Agent for H.A.R.M.” had me laughing so hard the first time I heard it, and it still makes me laugh. And as for Bill’s non-crow performance, I’d also say the mobbed-up DaVinci from “Delta Knights” was a great choice. “What, you been talkin’ to people?! Why shouldn’t I be alive?!” Just right off the bat with Tom.
The best Bill Corbett moment was during Raw when someone asked him if he was going to put Observer on his resume.
Well I broke into my own room and made away with my tv.
From the final sacrifice opening looting scene.
My favorite Bill moment is a tie between the Hank Brain-Guy Jr bit from Boggy Creek 2 and Crow’s “I’ve got something in my eye!” routine from Soultaker.
I love this topic – My favorite Crow moment is 100% Bill!
Devil Doll – “oh you’re an ugly little dummy aren’t you Mike-o?…Stuffed with sawdust, a dummy who will never have ham…Why? Because luncheon meats make the sawdust in your stomach explode!”
Then when he shouts “WHAT??!” at Mike it cracks me up every time – pure Bill Corbett rage! …which, actually, I’m not sure why that makes me so happy to hear…
“I wonder if there’s beer on the sun?”
There are sooooo many favorite Bill moments, it’s hard to pick just one. So I’ll pick two!!
Whenever he’s a bear. Hilarious!
Also, the part where after Mike blows up Observers planet, and Brain Guy, Bobo, and Pearl are all trying to sing a round of Row-Row-Row Your Boat… everytime Bill bursts into fits of crying, I burst into fits of laughter.
I <3 Bill Corbett so!!
My favorite MST3k moment.
One of the earlier episodes:
“DO SOMETHING!!!!”
LMAO
The flash dance observe will never get out my head no matter hard I try.
Same with Brain Guy in Gold Boots.
Oh and my number #2 favorite Crow moment is in Neptune Men with the suggestion box!
Crow: Luxembourg, please get down on your bony European knees and thank your lucky stars everyday that you’re not Japan!
Mike: CROW! Now —
Crow: Hey, are you Luxembourg?
Mike: No…
Crow: THEN *SHUT UP*!
My girlfriend has a crush on Crow. There, I said it. So let me ask her what her favorite Bill Corbett moments are, and maybe we can all understand.
Crow dressed as a bear.
Crow dressed as a Bellarian
“You Know You Want Me Baby!”
And, of course, Turkey Volume Guessing Man.
So there you go. My most quoted Bill Corbett moment is “Puma Man, He Flies like a Moron!” I’ve gotten a lot of use out of that one over the years.
Oh man, I love all of these! I have a few faves…
In Dr Z, Mike shining his shoes, Crow is perfect. Sargassum…
Bill as Krank-whore
Jack Frost when Brain Guy and Bobo start the bonding process over a much needed shower
When crow dresses up and starts questioning his identity. I think its Space Mutiny? Or Phantom Planet?
And Dropy the water droplet. Funny, yet informative.
I love Bill. I love Trace-as-Crow best, so I can only echo what most of you have already said in re: Bill-as-Crow.
“Which one of you is…[checking list] Cow?”
Brain-Guy was dead-on at all times.
“Packers won the Super Bowl!”
“Oh Canada you are a place I must eschew…”
One great moment not mentioned is when Bobo calls him on the phone during Hobgoblins to confess that Bobo is in love with a chimp named Emily. The delivery of “Ugh! Why are you calling me, you freak?!” always cracks me up…
I don’t know if this has been mentioned yet, but I’ve always loved Crow’s ode to the “cigarette hag” in THE DEADLY BEES.
Ones already mentioned: Crow’s obscenity-laden deposition in AGENT FOR H.A.R.M. and Brain Guy interrupting the end credits to TIME CHASERS to promote “Which is Witch”, and then apologize in utter embarrassment.
It’s a toss-up between these two:
“Sweet hot pad love!”
~and~
“Ahhh, yes! My friend the squeegee. I love you!”
Love Bill as Leonardo the Goodfella, and as Krankor, but of course all my favorite Bill moments were when he played “Brain Guy”. He did a good job running “Crow” but I always preferred Trace’s version to Bill’s. Not a knock against him, just that Trace was a better puppeteer, though Bill got better as time went on. My favorite “Crow” moment of Bill’s was when Crow was chewing tobacco and trying (and mostly failing) to spit into the empty pop cans.
I love when Steffi asks which one is Cow and Crow says completely matter-of-factly “And I’m Cow.” And then he calls Mike a great feeb for correcting him.
And also when Flavia calls him a Golden Spider Duck and he gets really offended and right before Movie Sign, he’s roughing up the camera (Cambot!) and going, “Golden spider duck! How about “lean and virile bull” or “slender love machine,” Lady?!” And then he falls backward.
“Sar-Gasim! The weed of deceit.” or “Ah yes, my friend the squeegee…I love you.”. Crow T. from ZaAt or The Blood Waters of Dr Z. My absolute all time favorite.
This is actually a Kevin-Bill moment, but over the Devil Fish credits, Crow and Tom do nothing but continue the laughing that the lady and the guy end the movie with over a not-funny-at-all joke. So it’s basically two minutes of nothing but sustained laughing on their part, but they time it so, so perfectly that I *always* end up doubled-over laughing myself. I’m giggling right now just thinking about it.
The moment Bill won me over was when he had crow say “There’s gonna be gowns in this movie, yaaay!” in revenge of the creature. It hit the character off with energy. I’d also say I liked the apathetic nature he puppetted Crow at the cheese factory in 1980s Wisconsin.
I enjoyed Brain Guys spats with Prof Bobo. On one occasion, not sure which show, his mounting frustration with Bobo’s dim arguments leads to Brain guy yelling
“I’m a dodo head? YOUR’E the dodo head!”
Excellent delivery by Bill.
Turkey Volume Guessing Man is my all-time favorite. The different emotions that Crow goes through in that sketch is a wonderful example of Bill’s spot-on delivery and impeccable comic timing. The video deposition is my second favorite. I have that on my iPod.
“Well huh-Tom, Why don’t you huh-lick me!”
About Crow’s oration on Maltese men, a critique-off between
that and Tom’s on Canadians would be a tough call (although
Servo was rather talked into it- he wasn’t initially a disgrace
to his uniform).
“Yayyy! Happy Music!”
The Pumaman
Bill/Crow had one of the best descriptions of a moment in a movie in “Parts: The Clonus Horror.” When the man gets out of the pool and walks to the table, the father says, “And you try to blind those who cannot see,” Crow replies, “With your shrink-wrapped batch.” Utterly perfect.
I think this one is also Bill’s: the girl from “Touch of Satan” holds out her arms to Jody at the end of the film, and Crow says, “Our next pause is going to be this big.”
Mine too, was a skit BoBo, Pearl, and Observer did in Riding With Death. The scene where Bill (Brain Guy) comes out dressed as a medic and says his people don’t believe in fighting war. Then a hand grenade is thrown behind them and BoBo throws Brain Guy down on top of it and it explodes. Brain Guy says something like, “That would hurt, if I had a body. Ughh.”
I have no favorite Bill Corbett moments: He riffs the same way he writes on the website–Desperate, scattered, high-school attention-deficited for cheap gags, and beating everyone else’s fan-riffs into the ground to be popular.
(First time I saw the Film Crew segments, I thought “This guy is OVER 30?? 0_0 “)
In terms of “moments”, however, I will say that say “Bill Corbett”, and for I’d wager at least half the fans, one immortal line from Werewolf will forever spring to mind:
“Hey, he’s going through the Attic…a, Attic-a!”
(Apropos of absolutely no context whatsoever…Dear gods, that summed up three seasons of his performance in one single moment. >_<)
I love Bill’s Crow as he introduces Mike to the “Tickle Me Carlo Lombardi” doll (SHE CREATURE).
I’m also very partial to the host segments that accompany HORROR OF PARTY BEACH. It was the first actual episode I saw after The Movie. I was so new to the show that I didn’t immediately recognize that Crow was different, but Brain Guy made me laugh immediately, even little things like, “I’ll save your bacon once again.”
I know there are those who don’t like Pearl, but I like Pearl (you rock, Mary Jo!), and her interactions with Brain Guy (and Bobo, of course; they really are a wonderful Trio of Dumb) provide some of the greatest moments on the show (IMO). Like when Brain Guy shows up in a nurse’s outfit (at the beginning of RIDING WITH DEATH); Pearl’s reaction is priceless!
I do another Crow moment, even though it’s with Servo also; I love when Crow talks about how about you get wassail anywhere (or something like that).
And during “Final Justice” with the riff “Do you know how harsh the toilet paper is over there?” when Palermo or the diplomat mentions Italy.
I always felt Brain Guy reminds me of Frasier Crane. The way they both get frustrated and tongue tied especially if their manhood is questioned!! You know their smart but when all around them is chaos they resort to saying things like “Dodo Head”!
@90
“Sky! There’s a place where there’s sky!”
@93
Then why did you waste your time posting to a thread called “Favorite Bill Corbett Moments?” Did you get confused or something?
Also, the rest of us are glad you’re in a tiny, bitter, tiny minority. One which doesn’t seem to know or care that the cast wrote and performed each others’ material collectively, not individually.
I also love Crow’s screams during the “Extreme” host segment at the beginning of AGENT fOR H.A.R.M. You can feel the roar of the Extreme Dude. :-)
I’ll second the “loaner Crow.” Bill-larious.
I haven’t seen Puma Man in a long time, but if I recall correctly, he had a little ditty sung to the tune of the theme to Greatest American Hero:
“Believe it or not, this crap is still on. It should have ended two hours a-go.”
Or something like that…