And, that’s fair: Our first weekend discussion thread was posted on March 1, 2008. We can’t expect you to be keeping track of every topic we have done in the 15 months since.
So, FYI, we have discussed the following topics.
Your First Time (i.e. the your first episode experience)
Your Desert Island Episode
Favorite Host Segments–KTMA and Season 1
Fave Season 2 Host Segments
Season THREE Host Segments
Fave Season Four Host Segments
Top 12 Season 5 Host Segments
Fave Season Six Host Segments
Favorite Season Seven Segments
Fave Season 8 Host Segments
Favorite Season 9 Host Segments
Favorite Season 10 Host Segments
Top 15 Funniest Shorts
Favorite Songs
Top 5 “Actual Songs from the Actual Movies”
Introductory Movies
Top 5 Stingers
Lamest Heroes in a MSTed Movie
Long Favorite Inventions
Most-Used Catchphrases
Top 12 “Guest Starring Roles”
The Episodes for the 20th Anniversary Collection Are…
Goofiest Monster in a MSTed Movie
Memorable Dance Numbers
Top 10 Most Memorable Villains
Most Memorable Movie Theme Songs
Memorable ‘Bot Alterations
Fill In the Missing Stingers
Hotties/Hunks from MSTed Movies
Most Disgusting Movie Moments
Sleeping Pill Episodes
Two-Part Mike Discussion
Favorite Joel Moments
Favorite Trace Moments
Favorite Kevin Moments
Favorite Mary Jo Pehl Moments
Favorite Josh “J. Elvis” Weinstein Moments
Favorite Paul Chaplin Moments
Why MST3K Matters
Catchphrase T-Shirts Update
“Personal Riffs”
Christmas Movies that SHOULD Be Riffed
Long Best RiffTrax of 2008
Questions for Joel
The Grand Convergence
Shorts That Should Be Riffed
Joel Answers Your Questions
UnMSTed MST Movies You Own
Worst MSTed Movie
Mike’s Bacon “Stupidity”
Worst Performances
Worst Performance by an Actor
Worst Director
MST3K Viewing Habits
Favorite MSTed Movie Genre
Most Ridiculous Scene
Questions for Jordan Fields of Shout! Factory
Riffs that Got Run Into the Ground
Worst Ensemble Cast
The Taxonomy of Riffs
Your MST3K Projects
Riffs You Use in Daily Conversation
Most Annoying Movie Character
Episode Watching Memories
Favorite Callback
The Un-Sexiest Moment in a MSTed Movie
Favorite Farewells
“MST3K The Movie 2″–What Movie Would You Choose?
Your First “MST3K: The Movie” Experience
Best Pearl Moments
Drab and Dreary Movies
What’s Funny to You?
Lame Science
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How about Most Desired Pre MST appearence. I have seen Joel on a rerun of the HBO young comedians special. He has appeared on Saturday Night Live. SNL is currently releasing season sets, although who knows if they will get to early 80s, considered by most to be the worst, but if they do, Joel would be on there. Then there is what appears on the MST3K.com page: “The Wall”. If someone had recorded any of the Brains comedy sets in the 80s/90s (Joel, Mike, Frank, Josh, Trace, Paul or Mary Jo) I’d love to see those.
We missed Favorite Bridget Moments. She had a lot of fun appearances on the show.
Another suggestion: Has your favorite band or musical artist been referenced by MST3K?
Whether it’s Servo belting out “The South’s Gonna Do It Again”, Bobo playing “Only Time Will Tell” on his trumpet, or Lorenzo Lomas in the Gino Vanelli Story, have J/M&tB’s mentioned your favorite musical act?
How about BEST acting in a MST Movie? James earl Joen was good in city Limts. And Barba (I cnat remeber her last name ) was REal Good in It conqered the world. When she yelled at that thing SHe ment it.
How about… Favorite Kevin’s Fart Jokes?
How about:
1) Best Bobo bit
2) Favorite Brain Guy bit
3) Sexiest scene/performance (including Crow’s striptease?)
Other suggestions for future Weekend Discussion Topics:
1.) Favorite riffs that haven’t aged well
2.) Riffs/references that have taken on a whole new meaning since their respective episodes
3.) Stingers for unMSTed movies
4.) Favorite literary references
5.) Favorite sports references
6.) Favorite political references
7.) Favorite heroes from MSTed movies
8.) Favorite action sequences from MSTed movies
9.) Horror movies that should be riffed
10.) Most desired MST3K props
11.) Most desired special features for future MST3K DVD releases
12.) Fan stories from live MST events (the ConventioCon ExpoFest-A-Ramas, college tours, MST Alive, Comic-Con, tours of Best Brains HQ, live RiffTrax/Cinematic Titanic events, chance meetings)
13.) Favorite fights from MSTed movies
14.) Characters from ComedyCentral-era movies that you would have liked to have seen in SciFiChannel-era host segments (Torgo, Toblerone, etc.)
15.) Favorite music scores from MSTed movies
16.) Favorite death scenes from MSTed movies
I’d like to offer “Oh, I Get It NOW!” Basically, it amounts to your favorite riff you didn’t understand then, but ended up learning more about later which made it funny.
I get a lot more MST references now then I did as a teen, mostly because I’ve learned a lot more about culture since then. I still have moments where I go, “Where have I heard that before…oh yeah!”
#4 – It was Beverly Garland.
Hey, how come no favorite Frank or Bill moments?
How about alternate stingers? Not to say that the original stingers were bad, but to pick some other stinger-worthy moments that didn’t make the cut.
#11 sjk says: “How about alternate stingers? Not to say that the original stingers were bad, but to pick some other stinger-worthy moments that didn’t make the cut.”
This is a pretty good idea, I think.
As someone who has only started posting in the last month or two I hope that some of these might be revisited in 2 or 3 years if there is enough new people to make it fresh.
Best/Worst Spy Related Stuff
Since there was a limited number of spy related movies, inventions and riffs (e.g. ‘Eskimo Spy’) this category would be open to actors, missions, equipement, theme songs, advesaries, henchman etc.
It might be a fun psychological experiment to ask:
“Which MST3K (host segment) Character Do You Most ‘Realte’ To and Why? (Tom, Crow, Joel, Gypsy, Forrester, Frank, Bobo, Erhardt … etc)”
Or
“If You Were An MST3K Character Which Would You Be & Why?”
#4 – It was Beverly Garland.
Hey, how come no favorite Frank or Bill moments?
It might be a fun psychological experiment to ask:
“Which MST3K (host segment) Character Do You Most ‘Realte’ To and Why? (Tom, Crow, Joel, Gypsy, Forrester, Frank, Bobo, Erhardt … etc)”
Or
“If You Were An MST3K Character Which Would You Be & Why?”
How about your favorite movie used by MST3K? Meaning a movie featured on an episode that you might actually watch without the riffing? Mine would have to be Time Chasers.
Best Supporting Character in a MSTed movie.
I agree with #18. Around Oscars time there were three weeks discussing “Worst” performances. I thought those were some of the most fun topics, and really promoted a ton of discussion. I’m also digging #17 Robert Denby’s idea, but I cannot see how ANYBODY would want to watch Time Chasers on it’s own. BOO. Just horrible.
All those discussions should be links. I tried to click on some of them and was disappointed, (Mainly disappointed that I’m such an idiot that I can’t tell the difference between a link and a non-link).
But really, if all those discussions are still posted on-line, it would be good to have a list like that which we can just click on & go right to it.
I like #20s idea of making discussion topics linkable. How about adding a separate click on the left for a weekend discussion archive? The real Manny Sanguillen would have gotten at least a RBI single clicking on those topics.
Hows about:
Best movie
Movies that actually could have been good
Best director
Etc.
I would like to suggest, “What have we learned from bad movies?” or words to that effect and “you can tell it’s a bad movie when ______ happens”. Missing an astronaut, dig out your trusty Geiger counter. (The Incredible Melting Man, Monster-a-Go-Go, etc.) The Dangers of Dancing. People who dance to fast music, such as rock and roll, are more likely to be attacked or killed and/or eaten by a monster than non-dancers.(Eaagh, Gila Monster, Creeping Terror) Folks who dance to slow music are less likely to be killed, but will probably be attacked. (Horror at Party Beach, Revenge of the Creature, etc.) (Horror – wild, fast-dancing girlfriend killed early in film, respectful slow-dancing, scientist’s daughter survives. I believe Joel once said, “you know it’s a low budget film when the cars don’t actually crash into one another.” (The Crawling Hand)
I always wanted to discuss movies that could be remade successfully. Kind of like what’s been done with Clonus, only successfully.
Mike’s Bacon “Stupidity”
Ah. I forgot about that one. That was an interesting discussion…
Oh, and put me down for a discussion of our favorite MST3K movies. I would love to see how many people on here actually enjoyed some of the films because I enjoy many of them (Time Chasers, Diabolik, Phase IV, The Beatniks, Kitten with a Whip…the list goes on.
best has to be your first MST3K experience!
How about “Most unconvincing villains”. I nominate the car-hating bureaucrat from The Last Chase”.
Maybe also Alpha from Operation Double 007. He’s unseen and unheard throughout the movie, does nothing discernable, and he lets a twit “dressed like a space angel” lead an insurrection against him.
Create your perfect MST 4 ep set. Could be fun to see who goes for favorites, who tries to balance out the different eras, etc. I imagie the creative could even design packaging.
#29
That’s easy: the four Russo-Finnish movies.
Two Joel episodes – The Day the Earth Froze & The Magic Voyage of Sinbad
Two Mike episodes – The Sword and the Dragon & Jack Frost (which would represent the Sci-Fi era, too)
Sorry if I missed this, but what about something related to the Amazing Colossal Episode Guide? I LOVE that book, and I love the writing. For example, each contributor has his or her own unique style (well, duh). I also LOVE how Paul and Mary Jo needle each other constantly thoughtout the book. :smile:
Aug 9th marks the 10 year anniversary of the airing of the final episode.
Maybe you could do something about that.
Well, since Season 8 is coming up, how about finding which episode it was when the Sci-Fi Channel finally clicked with you?
My first favorite episode was 804 – Deadly Mantis. Everything felt natural after a bit of jarring, and the riffing finally was making me laugh a lot more frequently. Plus, there’s just something about the casual “driving” theme in the host segments that just gelled with me. :smile:
Thanks, Sampo, for giving us this list! (And for making us laugh about love… again.) I missed the “Personal riffs” discussion when it started, but now that I know it’s there, I’ve shared a bunch of my own riffs (with the context, so you can find the scenes in the episodes) from my MST3K Quotes website.
A lot are from Invaders from the Deep (or, more accurately, from a Stingray episode that was part of IftD, since I’ve never seen this missing KTMA show). For anyone who hasn’t seen the Stingray episode, rent it from Netflix — it’s really goofy. It must have made great fodder for the Brains.
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