“You Know You’re A MSTie When…” Just a prompt for crazy things that people have done in the name of MST3K.
I’ll start: … when you can’t look at a forklift without giggling and humming to yourself.
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Weekend Discussion Thread: You Know You’re a MSTie When…Alert reader Laura suggests:
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Whenever someone asks you a question beginning with “Are you sure you didn’t just…” you already know that your response is going to be a resounding “I wish!”
Whenever you reply to someone on Twitter with an MST3K reference. I just had the following exchange with Paul F. Tompkins:
PFTompkins @kwmurphy Are you going Cajun? I’ll go Cajun! Yes ondeed! cc@emilyvolman
GunarmDyne @PFTompkins I’ll forgo going Cajun in order to Look Polish. #mst3k
Bonus points for whoever names the episode that comes from.
Another one to add to #197
…when you can tell which era the episode comes from before the theme song has even finished saying, “In the not too distant future.”
@170 – I’ve used “Put your shoes on we’re at Grandma’s” house many many times. It’s surprising how applicable it has been in my life.
Although not quite as universally metaphorical as “It’s no FUN going to Grandma’s anymore! :( ” can be under the right circumstances…
@174 – When you see someone using a flashlight you instinctively call out
“NBC Sunday Night Mystery Movie.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaWuXHMrwXo , you mean?
(And no mention so far of how evocative “Hyuck-EEWW!” can be of other people’s attempt to be entertaining?)
Three things that have proven my devoted Mstie status as of late:
–Saying “You’re welcome”, repeatedly, in the goofy Merlin voice
–Saying “The master wouldn’t approve” when a random guy tried to hit on me
–Waking up on a very uncomfortable sofa bed, about the curse the awful springs in the mattress, but actually stopping yourself from saying anything just in case…
“–Saying “The master wouldn’t approve” when a random guy tried to hit on me”
Leslie !!!!! That was YOU ???
Sorry about that…… :-D
@201
“Bonus points for whoever names the episode that comes from.”
#817, Horror of Party Beach.
Mmm . . . points.
Whenever anyone touches you, you say, “Bad Touch!” Then laugh like a mental patient. (Note: I’ve learned that this one is especially bad on first dates.)
When you’re watching the opening credits of a movie, see a credit that has an ‘as {character name}’ suffix, and immediately give it the old ‘Ah, that’s who’s playing {John Hiller} this time …’ riff.
When you refer to your ‘shorts’ as your ‘little pants.’ Occasionally, you’ll sing the pants song once you put them on.
@200 I think most of us assumed that there is another Laura in the MST universe. Your Karma is safe.
When you see someone where a catchphrase shirt… and you get it.
wear… not where.
sheesh.
Uh, SAMPO ????? Not sure, but with all these posts it looks like you’re gonna need a bigger boat…………..uh, board… ;-)
@ Saint Stryfe:
…you bought a copy of Roadhouse before RiffTrax was created.
MSTie life.
Any time someone’s coming in the screen door and it sticks a bit, for fear of them crashing through instead—“It’s open!”
Any time something especially good happens—“Let’s go to Jack Taylor’s and celebrate!”
Leaving any house, building, etc. after having communicated with other people—“What the hell was THAT?”
Listening to tales of woe—“Was it more of a shooting or stabbing noise?”
And about ninety percent of everything else written on this board….
@200
It was a great idea, Laura. Put yourself down for a honey-glazed ham and a box of steaks.
When your friends and family use lines every single day even though only a few of us have actually watched the show. “Push the button, Frank” and “Watch out for snakes” and “We apologize to anyone we have not offended” are the most commonly used. Even though the last one isn’t an exact quote, but…
When you’ve gone as Dr. Clayton Forrester for Halloween one year, even though you’re a girl. Mustache and everything.
Forgot that we also use “The High Council may very well sentence you to… TORCHA!!!!” and “Time for go to bed.”
When you see a woman with a bad hair-do, and think to yourself:
“Oooooh, she’s lost control of her hair……..she let the hair play her…” (802-The Leech Woman)
or,
(again, from Leech Woman ) when life is looking particularly dire, find yourself thinking;
“Oh damn, rummy quick-sand……well…….chin up, and let’s have a sing-song…… “,
in, of course, a British accent (that is, if it’s actually possible to “think” with a British accent!!!)……. :-D
When even watching your priest delivering a sermon starts to look like a good occasion for riffing.
When you wonder how you can work the term “snarf farm” into daily conversation.
Hi guys,
I’m Laura. My handle here is CG (it’s a nickname that some of my friends call me; long story.) Sampo can verify that I emailed him the topic. Sorry about the confusion.
I am REALLY glad that you guys liked this topic so much. (And thanks, Dirk Squarejaw @ 156!) It warms my heart to see all of the great responses…especially those that ring a little close to home!
My own “You know you’re a Mstie…?” Well, I could repeat many of the ones mentioned above, but I’ll relate a story from this summer, when I visited the Pensacola Naval Museum. (It’s wonderful, BTW; you should go.) Along with the old planes and other exhibits, they also have a beautiful art gallery of various Naval airplanes.
One lovely painting, about 8 x 6 feet, displays large, graphic refueling.
And it’s even more intimate than “The Starfighters.” If such a thing is possible.
I grabbed my sister (who’s also a MSTie) and dragged her over there so she could see it. We HOWLED.
Hey laura/CG, glad we got that figured out. I think the other laura was going insane not remembering if she sent in the topic! Just wondering are you {or any other folks on this site} in florida? I’m down in ft. lauderdale. It would be cool to maybe hook up w/other misties have a drink and some laughs about our favorite episodes! Anyone in the area let me know. And one last one from me…I REGRET NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!
… when you find yourself pronouncing “roof” like Trace does even though you never did before. I guess I just expected you to go through the ruff, is all.
Sampo, is this a record for most replies to a post? Should we expect balloons and confetti to drop?
@224: Only if we can have a Tom Servo root beer pony keg!
When you change the sounds on your PC to MST soundbites. When I get an error message, my PC says, “Mitchell!” as Joel and the Bots. When I print, it says, “Ow. Over.” as Mike from “Parts…”
and so on.
you see a plane and the first thing you say is “John Sanunu goes for a haircut” in your best kevin Murphy.
…when you realize that two of your favorite series of all time have major plot points around pushing a button (MST3K and Lost).
When you live in Ct. and you seriously think of building a vacation around the various points in and around Stamford, where “The Horror of Party Beach” was filmed.
I know it’s a rifftrax remark but.
If you will randomly remark, “Get Charlie some more Beans.” when either eating baked beans.
Oh come on Laura.
Just fess up.
Stop being so modest.
We ALL know it was you who came up with this great idea.
Now get off to Oslo and pick up your Nobel Prize. :yes: :yes:
…you laugh out loud at a riff you’ve seen and heard 100+ times because it lives at the intersection of Comfort and Timeless.
This is the best thread yet and I’m in the middle of watching Cave Dwellers.
Not that anyone is reading at this point, but almost every day I use Mike’s “dah DAH DAH” (from the short where the camera zooms in on the shampoo bottle in the little boy’s shower to prove the cap IS on the bottle) to put emphasis on some grave statement (such as “That’s when I realized I had forgotten my wallet– dah DAH DAH!”). Sounds goofy, I know, but everyone I work with now does it as well, and they have no idea where it comes from. Seems almost viral, now that I think of it…
You know you’re a mystie when…
You find yourself humming songs from the show(Now when you think Pink, you’re gonna think We’re doomed)
You constantly riff movies in the style of the show
You know the exact episode the Great Host Divide began.
You know who Joe Don Baker is.
You call it MST3K not mystery science theatre 3000
You go “AGGHH” when scary people appear from nowhere in movies.
You know who Steve Reeves is.
You own a Santa claus vs the aztec mummy shirt and have come to accept the odd stares and questions.
Just the phrase”Push the Button” sends you into giggles
When someone references the two things sure in life, you start saying Deathu and Tackxes.
this is probably the most hilarious thread ever on this board and that’s saying something! I’m not even half way through and I am nearly crying with laughter.
“stephy the babysitter says:
November 6, 2010 at 5:50 pm
…when you bust out laughing for no reason – after having one of the riffs pop into your head and it’s easier to just not explain to anyone why you were laughing…cuz no one will get it.”
i do that all the time. makes you feel really weird,
my “tell” is everytime I need tools, hardware, etc. I think “it’s a giant spider invasion of savings at MENARDS!”
When you sit down at thanksgiving dinner and say, “Ah, ham. I love it.” Then your friend says, “You think HE likes ham, wait until you see ME like ham.”
while driving through the barren wasteland that is nebraska you fight off thoughts of suicide by picturing hordes of giant grasshoppers rampaging across the landscape.
… When hearing or just thinking the name ‘Mitchell’ :
1. …sends you into a giggle(till-your-eyes-water)fit
-and/or-
2. …makes you cringe from the highly disturbing memories and trauma.
…When Coffee is suddenly the most important character -and/or- plot in a movie.
(“But what about the COFFEE!?!” )
..when you find you have a healthy fear of springs.
….when you giggle under your breath whenever making up a batch of brownies or a batch of cookies.
….when family members regularly acknowledge eachother by saying “Mitchell!” or “Manos!” or simply “Zaa!”
….when you hum gentle strains of refueling music whenever military aircraft flies over the house.
….when your elderly mother refers to her post-knee-replacement-surgery walk as “Torgoesque.”
…When you take people on tours, you lead them to random ponds and announce, “This is where the fish lives.”
…When you discover the spirit of music is alive in you.
…You walk out of your local theater because someone ISN’T talking all the way through the movie.
…You actually believe the heart is one huge cell.
…You’ve read this thread all the way through and get every single joke.
Any slightly prolonged scene of a car driving,and “I know a weiner man, he has a hot dog stand…” starts playing in your head.
After nearly 20 years I am converting my VHS collection to DVD. Finally.
…Whenever you touch something hot and yell, “ATCHKA!”
…When you respond with “I knoooow” to everything.
…When you try to recreate the exact look of the original Rhino DVD covers of their single MST3K releases for your personal DVD copies that you burned from VHS.
…When you say “It’s sassy, it’s brassy, it’s a musical humdinger” whenever you describe something.
…When you come to Satellite News every day looking for the latest news on the most recent Shout Factory! MST3K volume set releases!!!
The 70s, when the Roman Empire still reigned supreme, is still your favorite decade.
You know a fistful of sawdust is a janitor’s essential tool.