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Weekend Discussion Thread: Stranded with a MSTed Movie CharacterAlert reader Charlie suggests:
Well, I’d say the answer to the second question is Gary from “Horrors of Spider Island.” 143 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: Stranded with a MSTed Movie Character”Commenting at Satellite News
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I’d like to be standed with the monster from Boggy Creek. Seems like he’s pretty peaceful as long as you don’t steal the little creature.
Wouldn’t want to be stranded with Vorelli from Devil Doll. I’d Probably end up with the body of a coconut.
#51 Of course he might ask if you
want to see the little creature.
Being stranded with Vorelli could be tricky, since there would
probably be a big fight over the luncheon meats. Mmm, ham.
Stuck with: Mushroom guy. We could play hide and seek. Or Allison Hayes (the hot witch from The Undead) for obvious reasons. Gamera would be all right, and a convenient way off the island.
Not: Really any of the annoying sidekick characters best epitomized by Troy from “The Final Sacrifice.” Also, not Godzilla. He’s radioactive, and radiation sickness is a REALLY unpleasant way to die. No smug characters please (Ben Murphy, John Agar, Adam Chance, etc.)
Would not mind: little sister Terry from Giant Spider Invasion, for being both showered and dressed for the occasion.
Would mind: the mincing little co-pilot from Phantom Planet. His flowery prose would prove fatal.
Most like to – Raul Julia from Overdrawn at the Memory Bank. Not now though, of course, he’s dead.
Least like to – the guy from Quest of the Delta Knights that swings through the trees yelling, “I’m coming”. pass the ear plugs, please.
#39 I watched Arch Hall Jr. in Wild Guitar last week on On Demand. Did not care for him in Eegah or the song, but liked Wild Guitar and when he sang “Vicki” it was so good, I backed it up and listened to it again. it did not seem like the same song. and that sexy way he looked into the camera when he began singing the word “Vicki”. *swoon*
I might choose Shep from The Painted Hills. On a desert island there is going to be sand and I’ll no doubt need the dog to dig me out once in a while.
Or possibly Mr. B Natural. This may sound like a bad idea at first, but it really isn’t. You’d want another guy to help pull the weight in a survival situation. Then, Mr. B is hot, I mean, for a guy. And with some bamboo and coconuts, we could put together a little band. With some good music and Mr. B’s unrelenting enthusiasm, your spirits would never be low.
I think Kolos, or diet Kolos, from The Human Duplicators, would be a bad choice. We would run out of conversation in the first five minutes.
Nor would I want to be stuck with master Zigra from Gamera vs Zigra. He seems like a terrible housekeeper.
If I had to be stranded on a desert island, I’d choose to be with either Sinbad (who’s not Sinbad) because he’s pals with Neptune’s daughter and could probably get us all kinds of help or at least a lot of fish to eat. Failing that, I’d go with Bobby from the ROCKY JONES movies so I could finally have an excuse to kill and partially eat him.
Ironically, NOT “And The Rest” from Space Children because his boozes would just keep his sitting remaining out of control,hence no helpful solutions. On the other hand, Dr. Woman (Uncle Baldo) from the same movie would be a great brainstormer to collaborate with to hopefully help come up with ideas for getting us off the island quicker as would possibly the guy from Spider Island who preferred to take his fight with Bobby, indoors.
Either one of mixed-up Zombies’ Angela or Cindy “Room-Clearer” Larsen’s hair would make for a great lookout post. Final Justice’s bar dancers could help keep an eye out for passing ships from two different directions.
Since most of the characters of my choice have been chosen (I think), I’ll keep it simple… both from the same movie “Werewolf”
With: the no pants lady (I’m a leg man) :-))
Not with: the annoying hot tempered guy with the ever-changing hairdo (he has no class) :pain:
Stranded with: Vidino (sp?), he’s really good at saving the asses of worthless white guys and if any elderly British actors would turn up he’d use his dynamite vest to get them to back off.
No stranded with: Doctor Whatley Smith. God damn I hate him and I’ve only seen Outlaw once.
Leave me on the island with either Gail Gerber, or Joy Harmon from ‘Village of the Giants.’ Gail had a cute, innocent look about her, while Joy seemed a little…’softer.’ :P
As for negatives, I’d hate to be on an island with either Moon from ‘The Beatniks,’ or J.C. from ‘Sidehackers.’
@ #39 – When I did an IMDB search of Cabbage Patch Elvis’s career and saw Wild Guitar I also thought it should have been misted! Another one is from the producers of Girl’s Town called The Big Operator. It has practically the same cast as Girl’s Town, Mamie Van Doren, Mel Torme, Ray Anthony, plus get these guys: Mickey Rooney, Jim Backus (Thurston Howel from Gilligan’s Island), Jackie Coogan (Uncle Fester from the Addamms Family), Vampira (!), Jay North (Dennis the Menace)! Maybe they thought these were too much like the movies they already did.
Who I wouldn’t want to be stranded with would be the ventriloquist from devil doll.
Who I would want to be stranded with is any one of the creepy monkey bicyclers from the short “one got fat”
Ha the monkeys would just die off anyway like they did in the short.
I’d love to be stranded with Ann Margaret from KITTEN WITH A WHIP! Just make sure you don’t piss her off.
Would not want Gary from HORROR OF SPIDER ISLAND…he would just go off and get bit my a mutant spider and then try to kill me.
Least like:
*Lucinda from Touch of Satan as she would likely start trying to kill me right out of the gates.
*Any John Agar character.
*Jonathan from Merlin’s because I would tire of being constantly reviewed.
Most like:
*Merlin, because despite his creepiness his powers would be very useful and could possibly get us home.
*Rocky Jones because he could fly for help.
Demi Moore. Crenshaw. You figure out which answer goes where.
Maybe I’d wanna be stranded with the bathtub lady from “Girl from Lover’s Lane.” She seems like a fun type.
I would NOT wanna be stranded with Hi-Keeba Man from “Prehistoric Planet.”
I want to be abandoned with Kim Cattrall because she brings out the Jack Burton in me.
I wouldn’t want to be paired with Captain Joe because he’d constantly remind me YOU’RE STUCK HERE!!!
My deserted island dream date with have to be Big Stupid. I don’t normally like the “bad boys” but for some reason I have a soft spot for good looking homeless bum type characters. He’s a hottie and he was sweet to Carrie. The only drawback would be if he kept calling me kid and trying to take me home since we wouldn’t really have one and wandering around the island all night could get boring :yawn: . Also I hope he wouldn’t try and save me from a heterosexual experience like he did with his pal Danny – ha! :kissing:
I would not want to be stuck with J.C. from Sidehackers. He was a terrible dude and a bad dresser.
:hugleft: #66
But why would you want to be stranded with Crenshaw
when Torgo :fighterm: and the I Accuse My parents mum is available? :fighterf:
The guy in me wants to be stuck on the island with Daphne from Hobgoblins. She knows what a guy wants, even if she spurns kindness from friends. That or Nan Grayson from Attack of the Giant Leeches, who will always provide coffee in a moment of need.
Least want to be stuck with? Critter from The Girl in Gold Boots. I’d go crazy with his hardened criminal talk about dodging the draft he isn’t even due to show up for yet.
Did they ever do BLOODRAYNE? Because if they did…..BLOODRAYNE.
For me,I’d go with the women from Angel’s Revenge,but would NOT want to be stuck with Watney Smith from OUTLAW.I would have Keiko or one of the other Angels finish him off!
@Don..Is there anyone in BLOODRAYNE that you’d want to be stuck with or not stuck with on an island? You don’t know if MST3K ever did that movie?? Shame on you.. :doh:
Who would I like to be stuck with on an Island?
Baba Yaga’s chicken-legged house from JACK FROST. Hooray for mobile home!
Not like?
Any of the cast from HOBGOBLINS.
MAMIE VAN DOREN MAMIE VAN DOREN MAMIE VAN DOREN MAMIE VAN DOREN MAMIE VAN DOREN MAMIE VAN DOREN MAMIE VAN DOREN MAMIE VAN DOREN MAMIE VAN DOREN MAMIE VAN DOREN, OH YES, MAMIE VAN DOREN
ANY QUESTIONS?
MAMIE VAN DOREN MAMIE VAN DOREN MAMIE VAN DOREN MAMIE VAN DOREN MAMIE VAN DOREN MAMIE VAN DOREN MAMIE VAN DOREN MAMIE VAN DOREN MAMIE VAN DOREN MAMIE VAN DOREN, OH YES, MAMIE VAN DOREN
ANY QUESTIONS?
MAMIE VAN DOREN MAMIE VAN DOREN MAMIE VAN DOREN MAMIE VAN DOREN MAMIE VAN DOREN MAMIE VAN DOREN MAMIE VAN DOREN MAMIE VAN DOREN MAMIE VAN DOREN MAMIE VAN DOREN, OH YES, MAMIE VAN DOREN
ANY QUESTIONS?
Most like: Natalie from Werewolf. She knows science.
Least like: Vorelli from Devil Doll. He would taunt you the entire time about not being able to eat ham.
Oh yeah, I second anyone who has mentioned Kim Cattrall! A good choice for someone who would come in handy from a protection/survival standpoint would be Clint Eastwood from “Revenge of the Creature”. Sure his character was a goofy lab assistant, but he soon would become the stone cold, tough as nails killer that would be very reassuring to have around.
@55: Glad you liked “Wild Guitar”- personally I was fascinated by its utter lack of competence. Please rest assured, the song “Vicki” is the same one he sang at poolside to his girlfriend (yes, also named Vicki) in “Eegah!” Trust me, I have watched that episode many times, and pay particular attention to the music, being a musician.
@62: I’ll have to watch out for that one on demand- there are several selections from some group called “Something Weird”, looks mostly like bad exploitation flicks from the 1960s. Thanks for the tip!
@80..I thought Arch Hall’s girlfriend’s name was Roxy and not Vicki? Or did you mean the song?
Not want: Trish from ANGELS REVENGE. Teenage sidekicks serve no purpose but to annoy 24/7.
Want: CAVE DWELLERS’ own Ator. If he can build a modern hang glider from cowhides or whatever, dude can surely whip up a raft.
@Fathermushroom (67) You stole my gal! I didn’t think anyone else would remember or mention her. For being on screen for about 10 seconds she made quite an impression on me. She’s still the one I’m going with.
As for Not Wanting: Most any kid from a Japenese monster/sci-fi movie. Always annoying and bossing others around and getting into some kind of way out trouble. Inevitably drawing in some ding dang monster or alien threat to deal with, in addition to the being stranded on an island, would just make a bad situation even worse.
I want to be stuck with Cornjob from “Gamera vs. Guiron.” Why? So, I can’t keep shooting his scarf.
My 13 year old votes for being stuck with Gamera, so she can get him to fly her back home. Makes sense!
The person I would NOT want to be stuck on a desert island with is Father Mushroom. It would get real annoying always being turned into a bear every time I annoyed him, or being annoyed all the time with this “can’t catch me” schtick! That would be hell!
Topping the list, getting stranded with “Creepy Girl” from Catalina Caper would be making the best of a bad situation. Would not want to be stranded with The Beast Of Yucca Flats.
I’d most like to be stuck with Keiko from “Angels Revenge,” expecially in that bikini… Ggggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Or Rowsdower. Plenty of beer.
I’m most HATE to be stuck with Troy. Made in the image of an egg noodle, he would not be useful for lifting heavy things. Plus, I’d want to strangle him every time he’d play the Name Game. Or the “cop a feel” guy from “Agent from h.a.r.m.” or Mitchell or Torgo, for obvious reasons.
Yes: Babs
No: Russell Johnson from “This Island Earth.” He would never get us off the island.
Too many people with sexual motivations for their choices here. Now I’m not beyond that. I’m just weirder. Let me get stuck with Lodac’s two-headed dragon from The Magic Sword and the 3-headed dragon from The Sword and the Dragon. You know what they say, a two or three-headed dragon by itself is no one’s friend, but a two and three-headed dragon TOGETHER is something special indeed.
I do not want to be stuck with The Master of Manos, doubtless none of his wives would survive the arrival on the island, thus he would be stuck with me and I am no evil diety’s bride to be. I’m just not that kind of man.
Stranded with – Toss up between Tandra from Samson vs the Vampire Women and Ann Margaret
Not stranded with – Watney Smith from Outlaw. I would kill him.
With: kathy(ireland),kitten:ann margaret,niece ava-barbara bouchet from Agent From Harm.
Without: mean stepsister from Jack Frost she was awesome
You know, this has got to stop already.
I mean with the soccer team stuff about canibals.
From what I’ve read, it was a RUGBY team that went all canibalistic, not a soccer team.
Soccer gets a bad rap here, and I even hate soccer, so I’m not trying to defend them.
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Now, For getting stuck, I’d go with either the Jungle goddess from #203, or Mamie Van Doren, or Jessica from #805, or Babs from Spider Island.
Theres a few more decent ladies too, but I can’t be typing all day. I think Jungle goddess works best because headhunters seem to take a liking to her and that could help me stay alive.
From a more practical standpoint though, Glenn Manning would probably be good (provided that he liked me and wouldn’t squash me like a bug) because he could walk through the ocean back to civilization carrying me in his hand.
For not getting stuck with, just about all the above mentioned ones, and throw in Rowsdower, Coleman Francis, Roger from Squirm, and The icky elf from girl in gold boots. I didn’t get thru all the replies, so sorry if these were mentioned.
I think i’d most like to be stuck on an island with the hippie guy driving the van that picks up Billy in ‘Laserblast’. He’d keep me endlessly entertained with his bizarre rants and rambling stories… Plus, I assume he has plenty of pharmaceuticals to keep us going for a while.
I’d least like to be stuck with Ortega from ‘Incredibly Strange…’ as he seems like he would smell really really bad.
With: Kendra from Phase 4, I just love sweet, demure innocent types. Alternatively Jet Jaguar to give me a lift back home.
Without: Any of the oily pervs from Invasion of the Eye Eye Creatures, the gimp from Wild, Wild World of Batwoman (Heathcliff?), anyone involved with Hobgoblins, Torgo from Manos
Oh, add Watney from Outlaw to the without list. I’d kill him or myself within half an hour.
#92
About Icky Elf Guy. It should be pointed out he might be
able to teleport back to a diner on the mainland to get
help. Although he might get lost…being just a child.
@ #60 I completely forgot about him..yeah.
@ #84 I like your daughter’s thought process. Along the same lines, we could go with Mothra.
For sophmoric reasons, we could take the cast of Angel’s Revenge for their ability to cope and well, you know…
Changed my mind- I want Ophelia.
Who I don’t want- Ortega.
Nice one, Spofford. Mothra or Gamera would make it a non-issue. My first inclination (like many others) was to pick my favorite hottie and go with that, but deciding in the first five minutes of island life that you actually can’t stand one another would make life pretty damn rough. And starting to kick yourself in minute six for not going with Valeria, Cleolantha, Mila (Cave Dwellers), Terry (of Teenage Crime Wave), Charity Farrel (Super Dragon), etc… well, the whole thing just has too much Burgess-Meredith-in-the-library potential to make it worth the risk.
But if the flying monster route is too cheaty (and sorceress Estelle Winwood was also out– though she’d be a blast), maybe Griswold from Killer Shrews, who would at least be good company, or the gal from the grooming short. You know, a friendly and educated nonconformist, but not too talkative.
As for who NOT to be stranded with… well, that covers at least 90% of all characters in MSTed movies, for a variety of reasons. There’s Mr. B Natural, because you’d be driven insane by the constant, enforced cheerfulness. (“Now, no feeling sorry for yourself! Let’s see a happy smile!”) There’s Torgo, because you’d be (shudder) afraid to go to sleep. ‘Worm-face’ from Squirm, because of the dumb-and-violent combination, which also applies to the countless hoods, thugs, greasers, bikers, etc., who populate the movies. Or the self-righteous prats, which describes pretty much every protagonist ever featured and 6% of the remaining characters. Another 3% is filled with self-righteous, whiny, helpless girlfriends and the odd ‘ice queen’ thrown in for the protagonist to conquer. Ugh.
Yeah… this is a surprisingly tough one.
@81: Wow, do I have shaving cream all over my face! That’s right, her name was Roxy. Guess I have not watched that episode enough! But I do know it is the same song, yes, character misidentification notwithstanding. In fact, while watching “Wild Guitar” I found myself howling like Joel and the bots did in “Eegah”, when Arch vocalizes in a high register at one spot. Anyway, thanks for the reminder!
Good comments for this thread, by the way.