As Mystery Science Theater 3000 returns, let’s take some time and think about the older series. There were 199 episodes, counting the KTMA season and the movie, but not the pilot/promo. But, for our purposes, we’ll not count the pilot/promo nor the KTMA season, okay?
So, here’s today’s question: Which song performed by the MST3K crew is your favorite?
For me, there are too many to list. I’ve always enjoyed “Tubular Boobular Joy,” “Hired! The Musical,” and “Where, O Werewolf.” But, it’s probably gotta be “Loving Lovers Love.” But what’s your favorite?
United Servo Academy Men’s Chorus Hymn sung by 10 Tom Servos in perfect harmony.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ree220FiOEg
All the really bad ones.
Off topic (sort of).
Instapundit put this up. This is SO bad… it’s good. Here’s a link to it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pRmy2NktRc (TV series “UFO”)
Its music theme follows the first video. Really Bad, BAD!
has to be The Canada Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgKwPrm7DYQ
The Canada Song is one of my favorite comedy bits of all time. I still laugh out loud, even knowing what’s coming. D@mn near wet myself the first time I heard it.
Pants!
Hey Basil, for someone new to MST3K what Netflix episode would you suggest beginning with
I’m not Basil, but:
You can’t go wrong with any single one.
I’m guessing that most fans, unlike Basil, haven’t seen all episodes.
But, the most common currency — the two-bit-coin, if you will — of most MST3K viewers has to be “Manos: The Hands of Fate.”
It’s the lingua francanstein of the genre.
IMH(A)O.
“You can’t go wrong with any single one.” — Now that I think it over, how many shows can that truly be said about?
The Killer Shrews
The Giant Leeches
Eegah!
All good starting points in my opinion.
Just reading the title “Eegah!” makes me laugh, thinking about both the movie and the MST3K spoof.
Watch out for the snakes!
Gosh, that’s a hard one. If I was going to introduce someone to MST3K, I’d first find out if they had seen any of the movies. For example, I’d seen the Amazing Colossal Man, Earth vs the Spider, Beginning of the End, Revenge of the Creature — though none of these are currently on Netflix — and a whole lot more in my youth. Any movie that someone’s seen will reduce the time spent following the movie and increase the time spent listening the riffs.
Pick something with a short, if possible, although that’s not a must-have. It simply gives a newbie an overall sample of more aspects of the show.
Stay away from Seasons One and Two — particularly Season One — because the pacing isn’t quite up to that of the rest of the series. Still, there are some fantastic episodes in those years, particularly Robot Monster (though that’s not currently on Netflix).
Let me offer something you didn’t ask for: If you have a Roku or Apple TV, try adding the Shout Factory TV app. They carry 68 episodes of MST3K — free, but with commercials at the breaks — which is over 1/3 of the entire library, and over three times what Netflix carries.
Another good streaming app is Pluto TV. They have an MST3K channel that you just tune to and join the stream in progress. Commercials play, but it’s free.
Boobular Toobular Joy.
I was in the “I can’t breathe” laughing zone when I first hear that one.
Here’s a way to get the episodes that are not in Netflix or in the collections.
http://cheesyflix.com/store/