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Funny you should say this as my copy of Volume 4 just arrived today! Oh glorious Space Mutiny, oh horrid Overdrawn, oh wretched Girl In Gold Boots, oh murky Hamlet, how I love thee.

As for which one, well, if she's a fan of the later seasons when Pearl was in charge, then definitely number 4 (and as it is I think all four of those episodes are among their finest). Volume 1 is mostly Mike as opposed to Joel (if that matters), who just does Catalina Caper, but that and Skydivers are both great, Creeping Terror not far off. But all that said, I'd go with volume 2 for starters -- a fantastic Mike episode, two of Joel's best and some of the best shorts they did. No Mr. B Natural though, which is a crime. (Volume 3 I'd get last -- good episodes but none that immediately standout as spectacular, a couple of the shorts aside).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yes, and definitely get Manos for an individual one -- after that, either Mitchell, Eegah or Red Zone Cuba.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I got Vol. 4 for Xmas from my bf and I haven't seen any of these episodes yet. "Overdrawn" and "Hamlet" sound especially nice.

"Catalina Caper" is a must.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

my sister bought me Mitchell for Christmas!

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

and now that I have an iBook G4 to watch them on . . . [[rubs hands together, cackles gleefully]]

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Volume 4, if just for "Space Mutiny". That one's hilarious. As for the show itself, absolutely, postitively CLASSIC. I doubt there's any other show I've spent as much time watching as MST3k, except for maybe the Simpsons.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

if just for "Space Mutiny". That one's hilarious.

Space Mutiny, fucking Space Mutiny. I have been present to see three or four board regulars see that for The First Time Ever and their glee was uncontrolled. My god, so bad, so wonderfully wonderfully bad. I think I'll watch that one first!

"Whaddaya got me, Rick Astley?"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I especially love the scene in the "futuristic" night club. "She's presentin' like a mandrill!"

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway, as long as this has been revived -- anyone in SF should try and get to the Mike Nelson/Kevin Murphy/Bill Corbett symposium this Sunday at SF Sketchfest, while, in a moment of truly inspired, delicious madness, Mike is providing commentary to a rerelease of Reefer Madness! He's apparently supposed to be doing other commentaries for the company behind this, Legend Films.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

(Actually the quote on my part was '...got FOR me, Rick Astley?' Makes more sense that way.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

The more I think about it the more I think that episode was their ultimate eighties riff/reference show.

"The death of Rick Springfield."

"Shake it Ralph Macchio!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to agree with Ned and say get Vol. 2. Pod People and Cave Dwellers are 'canonical' episodes, Angel's Revenge isn't as highly rated by the fans, but damnit I like it and the movie itself is a great 70's jigglefest camp. Plus, the shorts are pretty solid from what I remember.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

The shorts on volume 2 include:

"The Home Economics Story"
"Junior Rodeo Daredevils"
"Body Care & Grooming"
"Cheating"
"A Date With Your Family"
"Why Study Industrial Arts?"
"Chicken of Tomorrow"

A fine selection (even if two of them unfortunately recur from episodes also on DVD).

Angel's Revenge is just insane, especially thanks to the 'special guest stars.' Jack Palance, Peter Lawford, Pat Buttram, Alan Hale, Jim Backus, Arthur Godfrey! What the fuck!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

We've since watched "Space Mutiny" and "Overdrawn" -- "Space Mutiny" was kind of a let down and blah (the hula hoop scene was great, everything else was a snore) but "Overdrawn" was fantastic. I had read a lot about what a terrible movie it was, but if you ignore Standard Confusing And Arbitrary Sci-Fi Plot #54, the visual style and music were terrific and the acting was, you know, not painfully awful. And the jokes were great. Plus the sketches weren't nearly as dire as most of the Sci Fi era shows I've seen.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 10 January 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"Space Mutiny" was kind of a let down and blah (the hula hoop scene was great, everything else was a snore)

You are dead to me.

"Overdrawn" was fantastic

You live again!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 January 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"Overdrawn" is HILARIOUS, but not as hilarious as "The Girl With Gold Boots".

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 10 January 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I HAVE INTERFAAAAAAAAACED!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 10 January 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

It's time for your dopple, Fingal.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 10 January 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

What is this?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 10 January 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't want to bingle or bobble the Fingal dopple.

Dan is right about The Girl With Gold Boots just being plain nuts. I'm trying to dig up this brilliant picture from the film that was from a scene *cut* from the MST3K version of all things...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 January 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

We should have a MST FAP at EAT.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 10 January 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, here -- I understand why it wasn't allowed in for time reasons, but this image:

http://www.jabootu.com/images/ggbundercover.JPG

(Stolen from Jabootu.com's brilliant review of the whole ridiculous thing.)

EAT, I'm afraid, does not excite my palate. But they do have tacos.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 January 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the editing mistake where dude teleports into the booth in the restaurant.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 10 January 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

"I'M BACK!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 January 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

(Jabootu's take on that is worthy of note:

Suddenly, due to an apparent splice in the master print from which this video was taken, Buz magically appears at the table in the middle of the conversation. (This kind of stuff never happens when they transfer Martin Scorsese’s films to video.) )

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 January 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

MY MIND! I USED TO HAVE A BEAUTIFUL MIND!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 10 January 2004 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"Nice PANTS."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 January 2004 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Final Justice was on Sci-Fi this morning.

"Hey Malta... GET A TREE!"

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 10 January 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Last one I watched was Squirm.

"oh come on, nobody's THAT Southern!"

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 10 January 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Snarf.

The final final ever TV broadcast of a MST episode is later this month -- The Screaming Skull of all things, but it does have that great Gumby short to go with it. Sci-Fi Channel decided not to renew the repeat contract alas, so after five years of a half-life the show will be permanently a tape/filetrade/DVD experience.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 January 2004 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

ohhh fuck! I should have been taping more! FUCK FUCK FUCKKKK! *cries*

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 10 January 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

karmically this is what I get for not being a dilligent enough MST fan. Fuck, I haven't even bought Side Hackers like I've been promising myself for ages. GOOCH!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 10 January 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

TSK. Well, check the file trade networks as mentioned, pretty much everything is encoded now aside from the absolute earliest of the KTMAs.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 January 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

this is awful! all i have is the boxsets and i feel so incomplete. :(

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Saturday, 10 January 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

COUGH(S**ls*ek)COUGHCOUGH(Ebay).

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 10 January 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

ebay?? hmmm....

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Saturday, 10 January 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

(Use "mst3k" in your ebay searches rather than "mystery science theater.")

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 10 January 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

"junior rodeo daredevils" is some kind of peak of human endeavor

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 10 January 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"next week...geriatric rodeo"

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 10 January 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"the home economics story" too.

"hey look, it's lou costello in drag."

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 10 January 2004 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"Tool operator... tooooooool operatoooooor..."

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Saturday, 10 January 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

My sisters were really nice to me and bought me bootleg tapes of four episodes, covering many of my favorites: Racket Girls, Village of the Giants, Girls' Town, and the Colossal Beast one with "Mr. B Natural" on it.

Rodeo Daredevils:
"You should see the boys with her at the dances."
CROW: "Yeah, they buck her off right away."

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 10 January 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Search: Creeping Terror's dance sequence ("here comes some juicy rump, a little more rump here, a little more rump there...") and their use of the lame music in the next skit for about nine hours or so.

Destroy: MST3K: The Movie. I'll take their claims that it basically halted their momentum cold at face value. And it's really not even a very funny episode. If it was in with the rest of the magnificent season six it would easily be the worst in the bunch.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 10 January 2004 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Search: San Francisco International, really one of my two or three favorite episodes ever...

"Ah yes, the opulently appointed San Francisco International"

"Ditch him at the gate."

"That bitch, I'm the hostage!"

"I made-for-TV love you."

"Meet the new boss."

"The parents of the Beatles!"

... and that magnificent run of jokes at the expense of the kid whose mom is trying to let him down gently.

Mom: I'm going to try to explain this to you again, Jimmie.
SERVO: You're a loser and we're sending you away.
Mom: It's just that sometimes married couples need to spend some time away.
SERVO: Apart from their kids, I mean.
Jimmie: You're going to get a divorce, aren't you?
SERVO: Yes, and I don't want custody.

I could go on all day with this episode.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 10 January 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"I'm going to miss my neo-Renaissance lifestyle...and my green jacket."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 10 January 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"...my WINDBREAKER." < / pedant >

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 January 2004 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn, yes, I knew that line was wrong.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 11 January 2004 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"junior rodeo daredevils" is some kind of peak of human endeavor

Old timer Billy Slater seems like he would be an unfortunate person to encounter.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 January 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I love you windbreaker. Do you love me?

Perhaps if we had a child.

Insert Tab A into B movie.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 11 January 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"Dig ME!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 January 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

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