Whereas now the performers don't write any of the lines, they record their parts separately and the riffs are just put together in the edit.īasically, I think it's lost the sense of camaraderie where you knew these guys had suffered through these terrible films multiple times in order to try and mine gold out of shit. What used to happen was the performers would spend ages work on the script together with the other writers, and they'd record the riffs together "as live" on the theatre set.
It should also be pointed out the way the show is written and performed is very different in the Netflix seasons. Not substandard, just different people wearing the same clothes and playing a bit of a different tune. The new ones aren't written or performed by anyone involved with the originals, outside of some cameos, so the comparison should be to a version of Monty Python that was revived without Cleese, Palin, et al. So is Overdrawn at the Memory Bank and San Francisco International. 'He'll never touch you, Terry, you're dirt.' Teenagers from Outer Space is another corker.īrute Man is wonderful, especially when Mike breaks character and can't stop laughing. Mr Attila's gateway episode was Riding with Death.Īnother overlooked gem is Teenaged Crimewave - perfect for Thanksgiving. I regret that we didn't capture any of them before they were summarily disappeared, as we'd been slowly working our way through them. I was gutted that GaryinMotion's gorgeours cinematic versions were all removed from YouTube and that over the summer, after someone interviewed him about how he put them together.
Rifftrax, which sells a lot of the original episodes, has also pulled it from their catalog because of this guy's complaints. Head's up: Final Sacrifice is getting harder and harder to find online as the guy who wrote/directed it is laying claim to the MST'd version of the show, and having it scrubbed off the usual places.
So many good ones here - Manos is the most infamous, but as noted above, it's not the best one to start with. A little corner of my library are various books about and published by various people who worked on the show. Long time MST3K fan here (I was living in Mpls when it started, huzzah!) (& I still have loads of the old MST3K Info Club newsletters, which didn't get printed often, but were silly surreal nonsense). Fortunately, it seems like most of it is freely available on YouTube, so if you lovely folk could point me in the direction of the primo shit-hot material (that is, the funniest episodes, not the shittiest movies being riffed on) I'd greatly appreciate it! I'm pretty sure I've only ever seen Joel episodes as a "stick with who you know" logic, and so I really need my horizons broadening with the show, because this format of comedy is incredible when it's done right and I currently have woefully little of it in my life. I have a strong distrust for anthology list websites and it's harder for me to invest my time on a random choice of episode of something when said episode is around 90 mins long.
Space mutiny mst3k quotes archive#
This is because of two factors: Firstly, it makes me laugh harder than most other things I've seen (honestly, I have tears in my eyes for most of it, especially Torgo's lines), and secondly, because the MST3K archive is so vast that I'm intimidated by where to go next.
I've seen it a bunch of times before but I just had to see it again. My partner and I couldn't settle on watching a genuinely good horror film last night after the shite lockdown news, so we opted for something stupid: "Manos": The Hands of Fate.