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Post by Mr. Daniel Lumis on Sept 30, 2014 15:09:44 GMT -5
In late 1993 (or perhaps early 1994) I saw Alien From LA when it was broadcast on MTV. It was my first and, for the longest time, only episode of MST3K. Early on in the picture, when Kathy first gets to the underworld, Tom sings, "There's a world going on underground!" and hums a little tune. I never got it and never thought much about it. For some reason, I thought it had to do with the Rankin Bass version of The Hobbit.
I just now heard the Tom Waits song being referenced. So, roughly 20 years.
It was about 10 years between me seeing Screaming Skull for the first time and getting Tom's "butterflies are free" reference in the first host segment. The funny thing about that is that I heard the song on the way home from work and thought, "Oh that's what Tom was referring to. Now if only I could remember what episode it was from." Then I went inside and set my MST3k playlist to "random" and the first episode to come up was Screaming Skull. Freaky!
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Post by sol-survivor on Sept 30, 2014 16:38:00 GMT -5
I finally got around to watching Dr. Strangelove for the first time about five years ago. Suddenly a whole bunch of riffs I'd been wondering about since almost the beginning made sense.
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Post by kansas on Sept 30, 2014 18:25:22 GMT -5
In Hellcats, one of the bikers is referred to as "so mean, he once shot himself for snoring". It must of been at least 10 years later when I was looking through some old magazines and found an ad for Time Life series about the old west. It refers to Texas gunfighter John Wesley Hardin as being "so mean he once shot a man for snoring".
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Post by brandonakaxerxes on Sept 30, 2014 19:59:35 GMT -5
I *just now* got the "No tickee, no shirtee" riff from "This Island Earth".
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Post by RedTom on Oct 1, 2014 2:05:33 GMT -5
In Space Mutiny, when Mr. Skull-popper was planting the explosive, Crow says "He made a bomb out of soap and Paco Rabanne." I didn't get that until I did an inventory job at JC Penney and looked in their fragrance department about 4 years later.
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Oct 1, 2014 11:57:23 GMT -5
I went an embarassingly long time between the time I first heard the Berlin Alexanderplatz riffs and the time I had a proper Internet link and could go on Yahoo and run a search for it.
Same with the riffs name-checking Wally Shawn and Spalding Gray.
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Post by mrmeadows on Oct 1, 2014 19:48:23 GMT -5
In Hellcats, one of the bikers is referred to as "so mean, he once shot himself for snoring". It must of been at least 10 years later when I was looking through some old magazines and found an ad for Time Life series about the old west. It refers to Texas gunfighter John Wesley Hardin as being "so mean he once shot a man for snoring". Even better was the TV ad for these old Time-Life series. The narrator spoke in this kind of over the top Gabby Hayes/old prospector-like voice and really emphasized the "...just for SNORIN' TOO LOUD!" part. I wish I could find this on YouTube, but no luck. (Found an add with Jack Palance hawking the same series, but he doesn't overdo the snoring part like in the other ad I remember.) But yes, plenty of references that I didn't get until years later, although I'm hard pressed to think of any at the moment.
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Post by milospinstripe on Oct 1, 2014 19:54:01 GMT -5
I *just now* got the "No tickee, no shirtee" riff from "This Island Earth". What does it mean?
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Post by brandonakaxerxes on Oct 1, 2014 21:12:55 GMT -5
"No tickee, no shirtee" was some weird slogan used for dry cleaning businesses. If you couldn;t present your ticket number, or receipt, you won;t get your clothes back.
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Oct 1, 2014 22:21:13 GMT -5
In Hellcats, one of the bikers is referred to as "so mean, he once shot himself for snoring". It must of been at least 10 years later when I was looking through some old magazines and found an ad for Time Life series about the old west. It refers to Texas gunfighter John Wesley Hardin as being "so mean he once shot a man for snoring". Even better was the TV ad for these old Time-Life series. The narrator spoke in this kind of over the top Gabby Hayes/old prospector-like voice and really emphasized the "...just for SNORIN' TOO LOUD!" part. I wish I could find this on YouTube, but no luck. (Found an add with Jack Palance hawking the same series, but he doesn't overdo the snoring part like in the other ad I remember.) But yes, plenty of references that I didn't get until years later, although I'm hard pressed to think of any at the moment. Oh, jeezus, I remember those damn' commercials; they were all over the freakin' TV back in high school, like around '74ish, I want to say... even back then, it was already an underground legend, the way the voiceover made hugely intense statements like "...he shot a man just for snorin'!" in that stupid fake Old-Timer Billy Slater voice. So, when I heard my first reference to that old ad on MST3K, it was a really perverse -- in a good way -- generational touchstone kind of moment. And funnier'n hell, of course.
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Post by Mighty Jack on Oct 2, 2014 1:00:21 GMT -5
As a Hitchcock fan I am embarrassed to say that at first, I didn't get the 'Joel doing creepy voice' while saying "Lovely, lovely!" riff
I knew it was referencing something, but it didn't register completely until I had a Hitchcock marathon and saw Frenzy for the first time in over a decade. It's actually a pretty icky riff, as it's the thing the necktie killer says over and over as he strangles his victim. (Joel says it, for one example, in the Corpse Vanishes, when the big guy strokes a girls hair)
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Post by posturepal on Oct 2, 2014 11:45:57 GMT -5
I finally got around to watching Dr. Strangelove for the first time about five years ago. Suddenly a whole bunch of riffs I'd been wondering about since almost the beginning made sense. I had similar "aha" moments when I viewed 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time a couple months back. I mean I always assumed some of MST3K's jokes were made at that movie's expense, but seeing the movie, of course, made them funnier. For instance (though it's not a riff), when Mike is on the hamster wheel upside down exercising in MST3KTM. I'm guessing there must have been some 2001 jokes in Moon Zero Two and, of course, the Magic Sword. That will make them all the more fun upon re-viewing.
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Post by RedTom on Oct 2, 2014 17:19:09 GMT -5
Not to mention when they showed Merlin's shop of Mystical Wonders and the monkey was in the car "What are you doing Dave?"
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Post by deusexmachina on Oct 13, 2014 13:54:06 GMT -5
I just love that your pseudonym is Mr. Daniel Loomis. What a weird character from Dragnet!
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Oct 13, 2014 21:02:23 GMT -5
I finally got around to watching Dr. Strangelove for the first time about five years ago. Suddenly a whole bunch of riffs I'd been wondering about since almost the beginning made sense. I had similar "aha" moments when I viewed 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time a couple months back. I mean I always assumed some of MST3K's jokes were made at that movie's expense, but seeing the movie, of course, made them funnier. For instance (though it's not a riff), when Mike is on the hamster wheel upside down exercising in MST3KTM... God, I love that shot... it starts out as a rather sweet humorous 2001 tribute -- right down to Nelson mimicking Bowman's body language -- and then they pull back, and there's the giant hamster water bottle next to the desk. Beautiful, man, just friggin' sublime.
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