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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When the TV news is showing someone at a press conference, saying something really dull, I can seldom resist calling out, “Get off the stage! You’re not funny!”
Riffs I’ve blurted out.
At the high school, I work at as a Teacher’s aid.
“Is it ok if I pay you in Tic-Tacs?”
While playing an Monopoly mixed with Life like budget game.
“What? blessed are the Cheese Makers ?”
When the daily PA announcements are hard to understand.
“Another thing Spawned from Hell, Japanimation.”
At different meetings of the Anime Club that I run at the High School.
“Good Old Fashion Fuel.”
countless times.
Outside of work.
I’ve used a mixture of the potato riffs from Pod People, Deathstalker, Beast of Yucca Flats and Skydivers at different family get togethers. Plus, the Squerrial Pudding remark will come up too.
I’ve actually done the whole ” Farmer Tom ,crazy Mike, llama Crow” part from the Auntie McFrank Skit when I’ve been around a llama.
“Look at all these Gordita wrappers, What have I been doing with myself?” Taco Bell Workers really hate that line, Nuff said.
“Ok so there’s an Anime Convention going on so things are things are going to be a little weird.” (par-phasing the similar line in MST3K:Movie)
I said this to some random business man walking into the Hyatt in Rosemount, IL. during Anime Central 2009.
“Well either it’s Santa Claus conquers the Martian or Roadhouse.” Countless movies.
This is a GREAT discussion thread. I’ve discussed this before with a friend and it’s interesting to note all the MSTisms that permeate our daily language use. There are countless saying and riffs that I, and I’m sure some of you do too, use on a weekly basis. “Good ol’ fashioned nightmare fuel” and “Who put sodey pop in my sodey pop?” are two that spring to mind.
Lately, for no reason, I will randomly say, “I’m not a small, I’m a petite,” which out of context usually get a small laugh or a nervous look, or both.
Every time I go to the woods I say, “Watch out for snakes,” but that’s just really good advice.
After this weeks LIVE Rifftrax, the “I’m small, and of no account,” riff has been tossed about regularly.
MST also gives you good zingers to throw out there too. EX: My girlfriend was driving, I in the passenger seat, and she revs the engine and said, “Vroom! Just like Mad Max!”, to which I reply, “more like SAD Max.” She broke out into hysterics followed by a sad face. It was great.
Oh yeah, I’m sitting here watching football, and it reminded me that every time I watch sports I will usually at some point blurt out (in Joel’s announcer voice from ‘Junior Rodeo Daredevils’) “And the crowd goes wild” followed by my own lazy “yay.”
What fun!!
I also enjoy using “Why don’t they look?” at the slightest little accident.
During news programs concerning Gitmo and the CIA secret prisons, I have been know to blurt out “They sentenced him (them) to torture!” I don’t care who around me gets it. It’s just for me.
Randy
I have this uncontrollable reaction whenever I hear someone say “I wonder”.
(singing) I wah-wah-wah-wah wonder!
Ok, post #102 reminded me of the common phrase that Trace was fond of about “llamas.” So, being a star wars miniature fan, I decided to go with it.
So, for your perusal:
Star Wars “Llama Skit”
http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75862/19453618/SW_Minis_Thread_of_Captions?post_id=331017438#331017438
I sneak in a sad “I just don’t think you guys are ready for some football….” from Laserblast anywhere I can in football discussions I’m near (and never usually in, not being someone that keeps up with it).
AND Eddie Deezen’s “Looklooklooklooklooklooklooklooklooklooklooklook!!!”, also from Laserblast…..
“As you get older you realize that people don’t mean to be obnoxious, it’s just that they’re all screwed up inside”.
This is actually quite profound.
When dealing with obnoxious people and who hasn’t.
When someone suggests doing something I’m indifferent about. I break into my best Johnny voice and exclaim “I don’t care, I don’t care ”
Also any time my wife gives into one of our girls I give her the Ol’ “You’re a tower of Jello”. :smile:
“You think he likes ham! Wait til you see me like ham!”
Oh, I’m glad to know I’m not the only one to do this! My favorites are “I like it very much!” and “they’re sensing I’m Peter Graves”. I generally mistie any and every movie that I see, much to the chagrin of my girlfriend lol. I also say “one plus one is…hmpf” from the short A Date with the family” whenever I see something stupid.
At work, whenever I have to go to the bathroom, I usually announce to those around me “I’m off to make the lagoon a little blacker” (Revenge of the Creature).
While I was in the Navy about 15 years ago, the Armed Forces Radio & Television Network (AFRTS) was airing an episode of “Baywatch,” in which the main characters went on some sort of camping trip. In a scene where Pam Anderson and the Hoff’ look down into some sort of well (in which the camera angle’s looking out from the top of it), in my best Alan Hale Jr., voice I shout “Are you down there little buddy?”
In a secondary plot in the same episode, in what would be a great scenario for a telepic to air on Lifetime, a woman and her young daughter are trying to escape the estranged man in their lives who’s in the process of trying to ram rod a Winnebago over the side of an ocean view cliff (which I though might be impossible, but this is “Baywatch,”) with your ordinary vehicle. As the Winnie dangles and the rammer gets free, I say in my Shatner voice, “Tonight on Rescue 9-1-1 (add pauses) you’ll see … dramatic… footage… of… an… R… V… being… saved… from… a…. fatal… plunge!” Soon after a uniformed policeman shows up in which I respond in the same voice “But first… I arrive on scene as T… J…. Hooker!” Soon after, I wasn’t asked to leave the area, but told too amid hysterical laughter.
I never saw the remainder of the episode, but I now that I think of it of the episode having the dangling Winnie, I’m sure I could have used all kinds of references to Billy Batson, Captain Marvel and Mentor in all things “Shazam!”
Whenever someone mentions that (fill in the blank) sounded like a good idea, me and my wife, without looking at each other, will immediately chime in “At first!” in unison….
When I’m driving through an intersection, I generally yell out “SLEEP!” to other cars stopped at red lights. The other day, while looking at Christmas lights, I yelled “SLEEP! IN HEAVENLY PEACE!”
My wife and daughters have started doing it, too.
Also, at least once a holiday, I comment on the ham. “You think he likes ham? Wait ’til you see me like ham.”
I use “…won’t you?” too. And the occasional “Push the button, Frank.”
And when the mail comes and we have to go meet the truck at the gate, I often say “We’ve got movie sign.”
A friend of mine has reported that he routinely and randomly says “I’m gonna sink this bitch” at work.
In college, a friend and I got into the habit of randomly shouting out “Mitchell!” Turns out there was a guy in my dorm named Mitchell. We didn’t know him, and he didn’t know us, but after a few days of “Mitchell!” in the dining hall he stood up and shouted “Who keeps calling out my name???” He was pretty aggravated.
I use, “I like pie” when I run out of conversation topics. This really annoys my mother for some reason, so she usually retorts “But you don’t eat pie and you shouldn’t eat it anyway.” I have tried substituting “I eat biscuits”, but it is just not the same. There is a line from “The Begining of the End” about setting off the locust (criket?) alarm and Mike’s line about “Guys, this is SO not Illinois.” I use the “Guys, this is so not _________.” when watching films with questionable shooting locations.
I love this thread, and I have so many lines rattling around in my head all the time that a few are bound to pop out of my mouth:
“They just didn’t care” (“Attack of the The Eye Creatures”) as a comment on sloppy work sure gets a lot of good mileage, amuses me, and is usually an appropriate comment.
“We can’t have nice things!” (MST3K:TM) works great around the home or office when something gets broken or soiled.
And whenever spotting someone being pulled over by a cop: “What’ve we got? Another citizen who isn’t READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL!” (“Laserblast”)
I like to use “wide awake nightmare” whenever possible. Also, whenever I or someone else is breathing heavily I like to say “by this time his lungs were aching for air” in by best Peter Graves voice. Everyone is pretty confused.
Oh yeah! I use “we can’t have nice things” all the time!
@Kay: “I like pie!” is also one of my all-time, oft-used faves! The beauty part is mixing it up with “I like mittens!” and “I like potatoes!” (the latter spoken in the voice also used by Bill in the toy-making-toys short in the Live Xmas show: “I’m a good helper!”)
@ sCOTt (#122): “I like to say ‘by this time his lungs were aching for air’ in by best Peter Graves voice.”
That’s Lloyd Bridges in “Sea Hunt” (as the character of Mike Nelson, btw).
Possibly the ONLY thing I will say aloud in a theatre during a movie (or a church service, or any other chance I get) is “Don’t say penetrate…” whenever the word is used.
To be honest, it’s a force of habit now. I usually don’t realise I’ve said it til half-way through.
To get my point across I sometimes say “guns ah blazin'”.
Per my moniker I’ve been known to break into a resounding chorus of “Normal view, Normal view, normal VIEEEEWWWWW” (MTS3K:TM) as well as throwing out “There goes a stupid, stupid man”.
And I desperately await the proper moment to use, “It Stinks!” accompanied by the A-OK sign from “Pod People”
I also just used “Keep your freak flag flyin'” in the intro to a book project I’m working on. If it gets published is Frank going to sue me?
Oh man, I end up quoting MST3K quite a bit. At home, it’s not a big deal because my wife is a fan and we entertain ourselves with “Push the button Frank.” “Keep your eye on the sammich.”, “We can’t have nice things.” and “I regret nothing!” when the cat decides to leap anywhere.
But at work it’s a different story. I often have to keep the comment internalized. But there have been moments when it doesn’t quite work out well.
For about two and a half years, my team would have a monthly movie and lunch. I would bring in a MST3K and we’d have a great time. Now, one of the first I brought in was “Pod People”.
Well during a meeting which comprised about half of my group and half another group, there was discussion about low training test scores. Someone asked, “What do the scores tell us about the training material?” Unable to contain myself I made the A-OK gesture and said, “It stinks!”
My half of the room cracked up. The other side of the room just gave me blank stares and even a “This isn’t a joke.” I apologized and said something about an inside joke. But in a way it was a great tension breaker, even if I got dirty looks. :)
On May 9 there was a similar discussion thread (MSTisms in daily conversation.) Here is my quote from that day:
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Different riffs get used with different friends for me. Among those commonly used:
(During a movie with a scene that drags) “Nobody will be seated during the gripping [FILL IN THE BLANK] scene!”
Also popular in a movie: “Looks like the montage blew over.”
“Emotions are for ethnic people,” is a particular hit with my Native American former neighbor.
Some of my friends frequently talk about their “Twenty-year plan.”
At my old job working at a campus computer lab, I would sometimes say, “I look after the place while the master’s away.” Lots of confused looks.
“I accuse my parents” (although not a riff) is popular for me and my brothers.
While I’m on the topic of family, “Accept your fate, Ron,” is a favorite from my mom whenever something bad (or merely inconvenient) happens to someone she doesn’t know.
Whenever a big event or announcement ends up being really disappointing out comes the line, “Trumpy, you can do stupid things.” I used this line when one of the U.S. presidential candidates announced his running mate. (The sad thing is that that line could apply to either candidate, depending on your political persuasion.)
So many useful riffs…
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Besides these, I frequently use MSTisms in my Facebook statuses:
I have used “The Creeping Terror . . .”
“. . . used those special parts to make his robot friends.”
“. . . has your grandma-daughter!”
“. . . is gonna buy himself a montage!”
“. . . will send him cheesy movies, the worst he can find. (La la la).”
“. . . accuses his parents.”
“. . . has movie sign!”
“. . . looks after the place while the master is away.”
“. . . demands a Sampo!”
“. . . tampered in God’s domain.”
“. . . thinks that infants are such babies.”
“. . . ‘s infantry needs more feathered boas!” (this is a RiffTrax quote).
“. . . is Overdrawn at the Memory Bank.”
“This is where the fish lives.”
“Cambot, give me rocket number nine!”
“Sometimes I worry that I’m not pretentious enough.” (A takeoff a riff from “Laserblast.”
“Pumaman! He flies like a moron.”
I now recall some that I use: from “Manos” I believe “my bladder has hit critical mass” and from Laserblast “look out thunder bucket” whenever I am going to use the facilities.
:oops: My husband will blurt out “Henry Kissinger says Merry Christmas!” when any bombing footage, real-world war or cinematic, comes on the screen. Last time was during the Vietnam sequence in Watchmen.
We also will randomly say to each other “How much O’Keefe is in this movie? Miles O’Keefe!”, which can be embarassing around other people.
Here’s one that always gets stares, and people thinking I’m a bit daft:
“Santa’s laughter mocks the poor”
When I’m unsure of something, I often blurt out “its befuddling my dumb-cracker mind”, in that wonderful redneck accent!
I was talking to a guy about mst3k recently and I said, “I’ll be flying over trout tonight, if you know what I mean,” (meaning I was going to watch Pod People). Turned out he’d never seen it, and looked at me like I was nuts.
I don’t say this out loud, but whenever I’m having gastrointestinal distress I think, “Ahh! If I could just fart!” (Werewolf).
“We can’t have nice things” is probably something I’ll be saying until the day I die.
How could I have forgotten “By this time my lungs were aching for air” I utter it constantly. :oops:
When my child gets out of the bathtub, I always tell her, “Hit the button Frank!”
I caught myself singing “California graaaaavy, adds flavor to my meat!” the other night. I realized it was because I had gravy with my chicken. That put the song in my head.
The guys I work with like their heavy metal – Crüe, Maiden,King Diamond, etc. Ample opportunities for “Whooo! Who took my purse!”
Sometimes I find myself saying “They took my thumb, Charlie!” just for the hell of it.
When anyone on the news makes a declarative statements, anything like “we’re going to ….”
it earns a “Oh, do you DARE?”
Ever since we saw the Rifftrax for Firewall, at least twice a week I stop at the door before leaving for work, grimace at my family and “I like you all very much!”
When there’s a lull in conversation at the dinner table, someone usually asks, “Whose day was most pleasant?” And then we all argue about it for a little while (Date with Your Family).
Whenever I’m at the mall, and they have out their giant floor cleaners, I say “I’ve got my dad’s enforcer for the weekend!” (Space Mutiny)
My mom and I also say “We laugh a lot, you and me” from Space Mutiny.
“It stinks!” is another common one.
We talk about the “five-pound potty” from Home Economics Story a lot. And “Kay lacked basic motor skills.” Before I went to college, we repeated the whole speech: “Who will be her friends? Who will be her blood enemies?” etc.
Around this time of year, we often repeat “Ho ho ho, Christmas comes to Santa!”
And “Give George some more beans!” from the Rifftrax shorts.
Yeah, I’ve been using the “Smut,I’ll show you smut” line a lot here lately whenever dirt or something dirty is said.But “Watch out for snakes” has got to be my most used line.
Anytime someone says to me “Do you always (fill in the blank)?” I very quickly reply “YEP! Love it!”. This was a Crow riff from the scene in The Horror Of Party Beach when Elaine startles Hank and he asks her if she always goes around sneaking up on people.
Whenever someone mentions ‘only the good die young,’ or something like that, I say ‘the rest of us are morally ambiguos, which explains our random dying patterns.’
Others I’ve gotten use of:
‘If you’re like me, and I know I am…’
‘come out, varmit!’
“we can’t have nice things.’
‘…the hell?’
‘Oh, I can see how- WHAT?”
‘That’s it. Spankings all around than.’
‘If you lived here, you’d be in hell by now.’
‘Kids today, with their hoola hoops and fax machines.’
‘Kids worship the darndest things.’
‘I guess my brain will never work right. Oh well, at least I’m pretty.’
You can see why nobody gets me.
There have been times when walkathons were mentioned and I would bring up HELPING CHILDREN THROUGH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.
I’ve done riffs & movie lines all my life, not just from mst3k, in public situations. Most of the time the surrounding people don’t have a clue what I’m saying. It’s only a rare occasion that anyone knows what I’m talking about…but that’s true of just about everything I say.
I recall once when I was eating a meal with people and nobody was talking at all and to break the long silence I blurted out “I saw a robin today!” in the same excited manner spoken in ‘The Touch of Satan’ of Jody in the same situation. Not one person knew I was just being sarcastic, they all though I was really excited about seeing a robin.
That’s pretty typical, but as long as I have amused myself, it’s worth it whether anyone gets it or not.
When watching a comic magician, like Penn & Teller:
“Trumpy, you can do magic!”