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Weekend Discussion Thread: Best Eps for When You’re SickI’ve had a low-grade summer cold for about two weeks, and that has mutated into awful post-nasal drip that has given me a hacking cough for about a week. So I’m sick.
And it occurred to me that I’m constantly seeing tweets to the effect of: “I’m sick, so I’m curling up in bed with MST3K.” So what is your favorite episode to watch when you feel crappy? Me, I gotta go with “Daddy-O.” All the energy and music, it takes my mind off my ills. What’s your pick? 68 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: Best Eps for When You’re Sick”Commenting at Satellite News
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hellokittee says:
September 28, 2014 at 2:43 am
I know this is an odd choice (I don’t think anyone else has mentioned it) but my under the weather/mood altering go-to is “Tormented”. I have no idea why.
I have an afternoon’s worth of episodes — all kind of grayish and quiet, just a bit gloomy — including Tormented, in a VLC playlist entitled “Dreary Rainy Mix”.
ck says:
September 28, 2014 at 8:41 am
I see KTMA and Cinematic Titanic have been alluded to. Why not include the 4 Film Crew movies? Not the uber depressing Golden Girl stripper film (which makes the post World War II
Italian cine The Bicycle Thief seem cheery)
…and that’s just why I dig Hollywood After Dark on a dreary gray day, or if I’m sick in bed with the laptop. “Y’know what’d cheer this movie up? A suicide!” It was trying to be so “noir” and ended up just being hilarious, especially those scenes with Rue twitching and spazzing arhythmically onstage.
I was sick all last week, sounds like Sampo’s illness, even though I’m on the other side of the country.
Usually when I’m really sick, I can’t watch MST or anything funny, it just doesn’t agree with me. For some odd reason, I just like to sit and stare at a drama when I’m sick (or no tv at all).
Once, I watched Assignment Venezuela when I was really ill, and it was so the wrong choice. Every time Servo did his Minnie Pearl impersonations, the sheer volume of his voice cut through me like a knife. I still have difficulty watching that one, after that experience lol.
So good to not be sick anymore
I get six paid sick days per year and they don’t expire. I always have a lot, since I rarely call in sick. I am allowed to cash them in at any time.
Every time an MST3K box set is released and has made it into my grubby hands, I take the day after receipt as a sick day.
I stay up late that night, the day of receipt, and binge watch the whole damn set (sometimes twice) including all the extras and sleep in the next day on my “sick day.”
(The Gamera set was like a blurry hypnotic marathon with that extra fifth disc. I watched the set twice that night/morning.)
One of these days, when I am actually sick, I’m going to watch Ishtar.
I reach for the MST when I`m sick or depressed; and my go-to selection generally leads off with the HERCULES series if I am just feeling down, and cheesy crime flicks if I`m sick… ‘Beatniks’, ‘Wild Rebels’ and ‘Hellcats’ lead the charge.
P.S.– The Change of Seasons gets me discombobulated a bit, ala` allergies…Mayhap it`s getting to you as well?
Regardless of root cause—-I HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER!
–Pal.
In the past I would default to Red Zone Cuba, The Beginning of the End, Eegah or I Accuse My Parents (laughing at every repeated reference to shoes, essays and birthdays). These days I would be more drawn to Sci-Fi channel era stuff. Revenge of the Creature, Werewolf, Time Chasers and Phantom Planet all come to mind.
For me it’s got to be Pod People. All that mellow new age music and fog makes me sleepy.
Untamed Youth.
@tarlcabot (#36)–Thank you so much for tracking that down and posting the link. That was fascinating! So interesting to read these kinds of time capsules (e.g. “They’re G-rated with an edge, that’s exactly who we are at HBO”…how long did it take them to go from that to The Sopranos and True Blood???) The financial details were very interesting too, how much they each owned of Best Brains. But also, how sad that they were planning to expand by making more original shows, specifically one for Trace! I wonder what they would have come up with. And a foreshadowing of the personality clashes that would lead to Joel leaving–good for them for trying the business mediation in the beginning, though. Thanks for that @tarlcabot !
Santa and the ice cream bunny, that’s my go to when I’m sick. For some reason it just feels right, maybe it’s the whole tone of the film, it feels like it could all be a fever dream.
Well, this discussion topic must have jinxed me … because now I’m sick! Thanks, guys!
I might as well take the opportunity to try out a new batch of “sick day” episodes.
Somebody mentioned The Film Crew earlier, and I can heartily recommend “Killers From Space” for those who aren’t feeling well. The movie is so goofy, and Mike and Co. did such as good job with it (especially the “Robichet” sketch at the end), that as lousy as I’m feeling now, it put a smile on my face. This is definitely one of those movies that MST3K should have done.
Cool question, and an easy answer for me. I was knocked out with the Beijing Flu in 1993 for about three days straight. I was at my parents’ house recovering, with no tapes except the newest. I watched Outlaw, the newest episode then, a dozen times. I still value that episode as one of the best. Jack Palance impressions, the little silver-haired guy, the oodles and oodles of flesh and the music hall song about it… big win for Mike and the bots.
I have a great obsession with San Francisco International, always a favorite to watch when I just need that comfort food experience.
Something else that’s great is when you’ve been up way past the time to go to sleep and find everything too hilarious. I was breathless watching RiffTrax’s take on The Last Slumber Party a few weeks ago. Being up late helped, but there are some great lines in that one.
Any of the Gameras, Godzilla vs. Megalon, Prince of Space, Invasion of the Neptune Men, Mighty Jack, the Fugitive Alien flicks (I dare you to be sad when hearing the forklift song reprises)Time of the Apes
Personally, there’s just something deeply therapeutic about Japanese people in space helmets shooting ray guns at plastic models
Wow, MST3K “comfort food”… never thought of it that way.
In that case, if it’s one of those chilly gray late fall or winter days when you just need “comfort food” but aren’t necessarily sick, then it opens up a whole new area of episodes which are comfortably familiar and “work” every time for me — Project Moonbase, King Dinosaur, Gamera Vs Guiron, Manos, Mighty Jack, Hercules, Sinister Urge, Night Of The Blood Beast, Leech Woman, Screaming Skull, Blood Waters Of Dr. Z, Horrors Of Spider Island…
Don’t watch Red Zone Cuba if sick. That movie has been scientifically proven to lower the immune system significantly. I can feel my white blood cells exploding within my body like microscopic Pop Rocks when I watch that episode.
Manos Hands of Fate is also one I stay away from when sick. Why add to my already weird recurring sick dreams of cupcakes with legs in an infinite line kicking up their gams like the Rockettes? The cupcake dream is disturbing yet arousing at the same time. Manos? Just disturbing. If someone finds anything arousing in that movie besides Torgo’s sexy limp-walk-shuffle and his “talk to me dirty” kind of voice, then they have serious issues.
I love Red Zone Cuba! (I wish I were joking.) It would probably be unbearable without the commentary, but I am fascinated by its patchwork feel, half-hearted characters, and many odd performances.
Great list of choices, Mike Flugennock. I have a long list of comfort food MST3K episodes scattered throughout the series. Very few I don’t like to watch again, I admit.
I remember watching the series during its first (non-KTMA) season and feeling like I alone had discovered the coolest thing in the universe. But Season 2 also holds a special place in my heart. I seem to recall seeing the Sidehackers as it first aired and it was, if I remember right, the first week of my senior year of high school coming up. Those opening segments with the bots in their jammies, staying up to watch the movie, funny how I felt like that at the time–even if I was too old for jammies. Those early Season 2 episodes all feel that way to me now.
After the flu symptoms began I recall watching Teenagers from Outer Space and curling up on the couch just like Gramps Morgan for a little down time. Too bad I didn’t have a nurse Betty to tend to me.