Has there ever been a Weekend thread about favorite hexfield/Rocket #9 moments? These were always some of my favorite MST moments.
I gotta go with Kevin as Ilya Muromets at the Waffle House. “HAM!!”
What’s your pick?
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Winky from Rocky Jones was hilarious desperation and the Holoclowns were dark polarity. “Get on your orange and yellow knees and kiss my clown feet that I haven’t killed you!”
Also, as bittersweet as Joel’s exit was, the fact they were throwing stage snow to create static was just as much pure genius as it was low budget.
I have to go with Bill as Leonardo Da Vinci- makes me laugh as hard today as it did when I first saw it. Second place goes to Mike as Hugh Beaumont.
Well, there are so many great Hexfield/Rocket #9 skits that it would be really hard for me to narrow it down to one. Also, everyone’s pretty covered the best of them already…but nevertheless, here are a few of my faves:
Mobbed-up Da Vinci — “Hey! I do what I do. I’m in business!”
The Amazon Soccer Moms — “Oh, we only conquer men for charity these days.” (Not sure if that’s the exact quote.)
Jan in the Pan
Mike as the Colossal Man
The Holoclowns
The visit from Sori Andropoli — “We have to remember to pray for him.”
The dolphin’s warship attacks
Lots of great ones here but my vote goes to Mike as the gym manager from Daddy-O.
I’m joining the others who say Jan In the Pan. Brilliant stuff.
In Soviet Russia, EricJ loves Mike Nelson.
In Soviet Russia you always annoy MikeJ.
I have to admit that your quote above does contain a VERY excellent point about Joel knowing when things got “too formula[ic]”. I had always understood the “DON’T mail us in with what you think a Sampo is” was a dig by Joel at his own past tendencies, but I never thought of the Hexfield skeleton in the same vein. I always thought it was riff on the low-budgetedness of the target movie, and not the Hexfield itself, but looking at it in your light makes total sense.
I have to second the one from The Sidehackers, Mike as JC and Frank as Cooch/Gooch. I just watched this episode again recently and I forgot how funny they were. I also feel like I don’t remember Frank appearing in the Hexfield very often, so it’s nice to see him here.
BROOKS and DUNN?!?
hoooohhh noooo… but, yessss… i’m afraid that, yes, no, WAITiwannachangemyanswer! once again i might have to go to bat for EJ about tha yakov (“i’m not your buddeh, pal!” “well i’m not your pal, buddeh!”)
so, let’s bring up night court – not going to get into debate over whether or not this was any kind of worthy series tv (strikes me that it was the kind of role they might’ve proposed back to joel back in the day – either as judge or bailiff; “bull” might’ve been renamed after they cast the big guy in it – but harry anderson lately has his own worthy-ish wiki-bio to read if you bother looking for it). back in the day when i was still high-school livin’ with the folks, since “cheers” was on beforehand, that was kind of back in the day before they called it “must-see tv” (i believe the thursday 8pm order was “cosby show”, “family ties”, “cheers”, and then “night court”).
but the yakov episodes of “night court” were memorable and funny. he wasn’t -just- always “in sovieit union, fill-in-the-blank” all that much back then really, if you bothered to listen to his act. (although i feel prey to that stereotype myself, in our govt-surveillance overreach environment these days, i like update him to say, “in sovieit union, government spied on your phone calls with grandma! now in united freedom states of america – government spies on your phone calls with grandma!” it’s… obvious, i guess. but, still truthful…)
buckaroo banzai – if you’re a buckaroo banzai geek like i am, then you must acknowledge yakov’s brief appearance in it as one of the president’s advisors (as the president is strung up in a spine-arresting, gravity-defying medical bed). even using his real name; just one of those “blink and you missed it” that happen throughout that flick… just sayin’. not that it’s all that special, but still… it’s effin’ buckaroo banzai, man! (and by the way, did you know that the president is portrayed by the actor who performed “toht”, the infamous melting nazi of “raiders of the lost ark”? Ronald Lacey, RIP sadly, 1991.)
ben stiller show – going from memory, i think this was the only bit on the commentary track ben said “i shouldn’ta done this. it just got too dark, too personal…” (true, but so gut-bustingly awful really… it’s one of my favorite bits, i hate to have to admit from him show…)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1_-TlqdIvM
so, let’s get to the “proof in the pudding” moment of “tha yakov” thing (and i would have loved to see if he did that phrase in his routine once!)… supposedly his first major us appearance on carson…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pEApsuaa1o
it’s a shame the clip cuts off; i want to know what he and his parents said to each other afterwards, whether a “jokey” or not. those weren’t untrying times to be “sovieit defectors”, back in those days… the build-up was sweet and touching. (making what ben said before rather poig-net…)
sir yakov, really you are a truly american “sir”/knighted as one deserving, if we had such an english program in place. hats off to ya, “comrade!”
and a p.s. to happy anniversary, satnews! glad to see this is still a thriving hive of manic-depressive perverts… now go make like the naughty monkeys you are and spank yourselves. (preferably while the “nighty-fight” of the HD bluray of “manos” is playing.)
okay one more vanity P.S. NP: david bowie’s “bring me the disco king”