Guilty pleasure joke or episode, i.e., the joke or episode you felt was the weakest that still made you laugh.
You can also include movie moments, because my pick, no question is: “Today is dedicated to Uranus!”
What’s your pick?
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McCloud! It shouldn’t make me laugh that much…
:laugh:
One guilty pleasure is laughing at Catching Trouble. It is one where you laugh, cry, laugh and are disgusted at the same time. Or is it just me?
A Date with your Family is my guilty pleasure. When the narrator is discussing where everyone should sit and what dish is passed, Mike chimes in with “Let’s go to the flow chart”. All in all a great short, one of the bests.
Werewolf: Paul is writhing on the bed, gripping the bedframe and looking as if he’s going to howl. Crow’s riff: “Oh if I could just fart.” The fact that Paul looks horrifically constipated who would receive great relief from passing gas just made me laugh myself off the couch again and again.
Two guilty pleasures are the Joey the Lemur and the Urkel sketches. I know they’re terrible but by going on and on they just become hilarious.
Mine comes from a host segment at the beginning of the Teenage Caveman episode. Frank and Forrester are fighting furiously (alliteration!), when the good Doctor finishes his lackey off with a cattle prod. As he then introduces the movie, he accidentally slaps his own hand with the prod (ZAP!). A really stupid gag, but it always makes me laugh….
For me, it is a guilty pleasure whenever they make a drug reference (because of a sometimes misspent youth on my part, but it is also makes me think maybe some of the Best Brains did the same). Some examples:
In “Ring of Terror”, a character is referred to as always being on the dot, and Servo says “Yeah, purple microdot!” And another one (maybe it was later in “The Phantom Creeps” short”) we see a flaming Bunsen burner or something, and Servo says “Are you getting a good draw off that?”, and makes that bubbling sound when a bong gets puffed on.
When introducing “Future War”, Pearl refers to it as a “little tab of orange sunshine” after conducting her LSD experiment on the ‘bots.
During “Invasion of the Neptune Men” (I think), the kids are standing in some tall grass and Servo says, very quietly, “Legalize it”.
During the short “Johnny at the Fair”, Johnny visits “The Chemical Wonderland” exhibit, and Joel comments “Oh, we’ve all been there before”.
And there are many others that never fail to make me laugh when they pop up.
Also, similar to the Uranus jokes, I always laugh out loud when Dr. Forrester describes a movie as a “flaming sack of dog poopie”, or a “stinky cinematic suppository”. Very descriptive and clever!
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All the fart jokes in Hamlet. One of my favorite episodes. Everyone thinks it’s highbrow, but it’s rather crass and juvenile.
C’mon guys, can’t we just get BEYOND Thunderdome?
Maybe the line from ‘Skydivers’ where there’s a shot of the heroine and Crow casually comments “Her beauty has leveled off.” That is SO cruel and SO hilarious…
Good grief, When Loving Lovers Love cracks me up no matter how many times I hear it. Even though I have the CD and I’ve listened to the song countless times, the “I know a couple…guys” “They really do like pie” exchange gets me every single time.
I always liked the bit in Ring of Terror when J+TB are worried that the gate will hit them as it opens on Mr. Dobson’s cemetary. It’s easy humor, but it still works. And yes, the Joe Don Baker stuff is so mean but I still laugh a little too guiltily at it.
@ 40 – I absolutely agree that beeps are so much funnier than swearing. For example, the Jim Backus routine The Dirty Old Man. Or on the Simpsons episode where they beeped out someone saying ‘what the fudge’ just to be funny.
Has anybody mentioned: “I thought you were Dale.” yet?
Every “Rowsdower!” and Larry Csonka reference in The Final Sacrifice. I suppose it does seem like lazy writing after a while, but the guys nail each one so well that they crack me up no end. Like the Big McLargeHuge gag, which I also could have stood another twenty variations of.
Yeah. Crow and Mike’s ruining Tom Servo’s planetarium show
with their Uranus jokes was terrible. :rotfl:
Then there’s Mike driving Servo and Crow crazy with Noh Theater.
And Crow and Servo’s lack of respect for puppet Mike.
(Good thing Joel kept his creations in line). :hypnotized:
Oh, and that child Muzz teleporting into the
diner in The Girl in Gold Boots (presumably
simply some sort of editing or lost film goof) is always weird
and good for a cheap laugh.
Oh, and that child Buzz teleporting into the
diner in The Girl in Gold Boots (presumably
simply some sort of editing or lost film goof) is always weird
and good for a cheap laugh.
Mike: But the trees can’t help their feeling if they like the way they’re made…
Crow: Mike! Stop it now!
MST3K + Rush should count doubly for guilty pleasure points.
The Beatniks, All the way…
I know I stand alone on this one, but I always get a kick out of the Commando Cody serial. What I enjoyed most was;
the improbable(impossible) sciene,
vigorous and well corrdinated bare knuckle brawls, great chapter titles,
car chases and plywood golf cart chases,
Heat rays that could ot be seen but Heard as blaring Chevy horns, even on the airless moon,
Good to great riffing despite the repeated scenes inherent in a serial.
I have one more, the Bela Lugosi impressions, love them.
I know I stand alone on this one, but I always get a kick out of the Commando Cody serial. What I enjoyed most was;
the improbable(impossible) sciene,
vigorous and well corrdinated bare knuckle brawls, great chapter titles,
car chases and plywood golf cart chases,
Heat rays that could ot be seen but Heard as blaring Chevy horns, even on the airless moon,
Good to great riffing despite the repeated scenes inherent in a serial.
I have one more, the Bela Lugosi impressions, love them.
It struck me that this list should include the “I’m Rose Kennedy” line (while a mummy appears onscreen) from the titles to ‘Eegah!’ I seem to recall that it was mentioned in the ACEG by Best Brains that this line may be considered in bad taste, but that Rose was a fan of the show. So that line was probably her guilty pleasure.
Just a thought… :-)
#70: Nipple nipple, tweak, tweak, fly!
WINDOW!
WI~INDOW!
My suit’s more comfortable,and I’m willing to fight about it!
And the woman will clean up, how progressive…
#2, I am with you there. Even though I was born just before MST began it’s second season, I have always felt (and my parents feel this way too) that I was born in the wrong decade.
As far as my guilty pleasure episode, it’s “The Starfighters.” All the sexual innuendo, plus Crow’s computer trouble and the pitch for “COWBOY MIKE’S OWN ORIGINAL RED-HOT RICOCHEEEEEEEET BARBEQUE SAUCE!!” always kills me!
Oh shoot, forgot to put the *bang!* after “RICOCHEEEEEEEET”.
I like the fart noises and brown pants jokes in Time Chasers.
two thing always crack me up….whenever the sol is set on fire or crow is horribly mangled or burned……funny as all hell:)
I’ll let this riff about Lara from Outlaw speak for me:
“I live to serve you, your legginess.”
From “The Deadly Mantis”: “But I’ve got a mantis in my pantis!”
“By this time my lungs were aching for air.”
POOPIE SUIT! POOPIE SUIT! TEE HEE HEE!
I liked alot of the rather sexual-related jokes in ‘Village of the Giants’:
“Couldn’t they have used this time to show their discontent with society’s morays?”
“Well, they at least got alot of wet boob shots in.”
“Well you know, girls at that age grow very quickly.”
“Well, she’s got her hands full.”
“Whoa! One of ‘those’ could take out the whole town.”
“Hey, you could probably stick your head right in her navel!”
“Oh, don’t think I haven’t thought about that.”
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of the breasts,!-”
“Oh, I went down 400 cup sizes!”
(I just realized this posting makes me sound like a total pervert…but this movie and MST3K truly warped me in unimaginable ways)
From Boggy Creek II:
“Something thats always intrigued me…seeing those underpants.”
From Future War:
“a half-way house for really big guys.”
From Giant Spider Invasion:
“Ready for some muskrat-lovin!”
I get a kick out of those monotonous and repetitive movie songs, like in Creeping Terror.
My guilty pleasure is Assignment: Venezuela. The short is such a risible piece of commercial propaganda; it’s just begging to be made fun of. But there are underlying issues of American provincialism and cultural/international relations raised by both the short and the riffing. E.g:
“BAG-O IN CAR-O!”
Highlights many Americans’ inability to communicate in any other language, but cracks me up every time!
@eegah #84: I hear if you play it through a high-end audio component system, that song really comes to life!
Well, I suppose the entire episode of “Mitchell” is a guilty pleasure. Joe Don Baker is just so sweaty and gross and disgusting.
But for a single unfunny line that cracks me up every time, I’ll go with the “Hi, Grandma!” that Mike and the ‘bots say in unison when the gray-haired scientist guy walks into the laboratory in “Werewolf.” It’s just not funny. But I still laugh ’til I cry.
From The Home Economics Story, the shot of the cheerleaders doing their routine at the football game: “LOOK AT MY CROTCH! LOOK AT MY CROTCH! LOOK, LOOK, LOOK AT MY CROTCH! HEEEEYYYY…LOOK AT MY CROTCH!” So stupid but it kills me every time.
Another guilty pleasure is the general stupidity of people in
The Creeping Terror patiently helping the Terror. Worst/best
is probably the dance scene people lining up to be devoured,
el kabong attacking the Terror with his guitar, and generally
people crawling into the Terror. Hilariously dumb. :alien:
In addition to Rose Kennedy and cheerleader crotches, I can recall two times when a MSTie riff had me out of breath for two minutes:
One was the interruptus expression on the mating lizards from Eegah! (“WHAT? Can I HELP you??”)–
And the other was Joel’s Bela delivery from Bride of the Monster:
Bela: (gestures hypnotically) “Sleep…for the lovely young lady….”
Joel: (as Bela) “…of Shaaady Laaaane…”
(Although I’ll give BotM honorable mention for Bela’s Mister Rogers moment: “It’s a sinister day in the laboratory…”)
@25 – I thought The Painted Hills was kind of “meh” until that guy walked in and they introduced him as “Pile-On Pete.”
“Let’s go find Pete.”
“And pile on him.”
(Okay, three–In fact, I’d have to put Painted Hills up for Guilty episode, just for Joel and Crow’s Lassie-voice riffs.)
The joke from, “Time of the Apes,” where Joel says, “you might want to wash after shaking hands with me, that’s my throwing hand.”
From The Beast of Yucca Flats: when they show the lady with the rough face, “That’s a face that challenges you.” So mean yet so funny.
@29 – I totally agree
From “Mr. B Natural – “You know, I think Oscar Wilde only _wished_ he was this gay! (How did that get past the PC Gestapo?)
Any fart joke – “Hamlet”, “Final Justice”
“Final Sacrifice” – “Shoot, I’m in Canada.” I hear that in my head whenever I’m north of the border.
And oh yes, definitely “The Canada Song!”
Oh, by the way, “Ppppleasure!?”
From the movie:
“Bail out, Cal!”
“I can’t, I’m too low.”
Servo: I got the blues so bad…uh huh.”
From the series:
The Human Duplicators:
Woman in movie: “Well say something!”
Crow: “Something.”
Man in movie: “Something.”
Crow: “D’oh! Got riffed back on that one.”
Enhance your moody soundtrack with TINY FART SOUNDS! (pfft! plorp!)
Yeah, it’s all about pooping and farting with me… :eek:
First of all, I’m with Timber on “The Blood Waters of Dr. Z” song. It works for me somehow.
As for a cruel example, it’s hard to Crow’s line in “Bride of the Monster” after Dr Vornoff gets dosed with his own “superbeing” MacGuffin: “Oh, no, now he has the strength of twenty heroin addicts!”
Finally, I shouldn’t enjoy the constant references to the General Foods International Coffee ads — it’s a matter of taste if the riffs were funny in the early ’90s, but now that the commercials have been off the air for close to two decades . . . — but since Anthony Stewart Head was one of the leads in those ads (thus connecting MST3K indirectly to one of my other all-time favorite shows,”Buffy the Vampire Slayer”) the riffs now work for me.
Fish Picker!
I get a little tired of the guilt the Brains feel to have to apologize for white males. In movies made in the 50s, it’s normal for women to pour coffee.
I do feel some guilt over the cruelty heaped on certain actors just because their characters are stupid and unappealing, Troy from Final Sacrifice being a good example. It feels like high school and we’re picking on the nerd, and it feels soooooooo right. E.g. the various grunts whenever Troy grimaces or tries to lift a heavy object like a canteen.
I actually kinda like the songs in Deadly Bees. My favorite is the one where Vicki is listening to the radio at the bee farm and then Hargrove turns it off part way through because the volume is up very loud. It’s the one that goes, “yes I know that I’m not the girl you dream of”. Very catchy and I’ve tried to find out the name of it and who was singing it but I haven’t been able to.
Okay, I’m serious now. Everybody, we are going to have to get BEYOND Thunderdome.