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Post by nickservo on Jun 5, 2012 22:42:57 GMT -5
What episode got you hooked and made you a MSTie?
For me, it was Hobgoblins. ;D
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Post by oldmanmerton on Jun 5, 2012 23:03:39 GMT -5
203: Jungle Goddess.
It wasn't until 2 seasons later with Killer shrews that my hometown finally got CC, but I watched the show constantly when visiting family. Caught most of Season 3 spending a summer down in South Carolina.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Jun 6, 2012 0:09:19 GMT -5
First Spaceship on Venus, 1990.
15 years old, girlfriend had cable, got me hooked, etc. etc.
Still love the episode more than most.
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Post by oldmanmerton on Jun 6, 2012 0:22:14 GMT -5
I've always liked how supportive my parents were of my MST3k addiction. They didn't really "get" the show. My step-father laughed at riffs from time to time. But really, in retrospect it was kind of a weird show to watch as a 12 year old kid.
But to this day they always go on and on about how great it was to hear me laughing at it in the living room on Saturday mornings. And they never gave me crap about staying up all night for Turkey Day or other marathons.
I've got a lot of fond childhood memories of MST3k.
Man I hope I can get my kid into it. She's only going on 2 now though ;p
Thread poses a good question on how I should try to get her into it.
I figure the best plan is to not TRY to get her into it, but treat it as "something special for Dad, so don't bug him" as the years go by so that maybe she'll want to watch it just to feel included!
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Post by nickservo on Jun 6, 2012 1:50:41 GMT -5
My mom introduced me to MST3K when I was 10 years old (I'm 22 now). She showed me the MST3K Movie: This Island Earth. I FELL IN LOVE. It was totally my humor. There are so many great episodes, and being a MSTie, you cant help but watch a regular movie nowadays without saying something stupid at the screen. Now I watch the Syfy Channel every single Saturday and laugh and make fun of the horrible movies they air. I can't help but wish that I could have a Servo and a Crow sitting next to me for it. One of my other favorite episodes is Invasion of the Neptune Men. I was younger when I saw it and it was the first episode I watched that got me into the show.
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Post by oldmanmerton on Jun 6, 2012 1:58:54 GMT -5
Invasion of the Neptune Man is an episode that seems to get better with multiple viewings.
I was lukewarm to it originally and now I think it's excellent.
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Post by Torgo on Jun 6, 2012 3:06:58 GMT -5
I was hooked from my very first episode, which was the Deadly Mantis. I loved everything about it: the format, the puppets, and even the movie itself.
I remember the second episode I watched was Incredibly Strange Creatures because I was caught in this strange loop for a while where these were the only two episodes I could catch on TV when I had the time to watch it. Since I still find both the be two really strong episodes in the series, I thank them for not boring me during that period where a lesser episode might have.
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Post by Mighty Jack on Jun 6, 2012 5:28:49 GMT -5
I don't remember whether it was the Amazing Colossal Man or the movie - but either way I laughed like mad and was hooked immediately. I was so charged up about what I saw I felt the uncontrollable urge to write about it (which is how the Mighty Jacks reviews site was born, it's funny to remember what a crappy little webTV page that was when it started. HaHa)
My sister first told me about the show, said that I had to watch it, that it was custom made for my sense of humor. But my stupid town didn't carry it. So I had to wait. Thankfully my town did carry the sci-fi channel and that's when it became my weekly habit.
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Post by davidbeegah on Jun 6, 2012 10:20:03 GMT -5
I have been a fan since the Fall of 1991. The very first episode I watched Star Force Fugitive Alien II. I was trying to figure out what was going on but I was hooked after the black hole scene and the girl being "Spunky" or whatever Crow (I think) said afterwards.
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Post by Prime Minister Jim J. Bullock on Jun 6, 2012 10:24:53 GMT -5
Time of the Apes did it for me.
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Post by GodoHell on Jun 6, 2012 10:45:14 GMT -5
Ditto.
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Post by Mod City on Jun 6, 2012 12:24:59 GMT -5
I have to agree with oldmanmerton, Jungle Goddess was one of about three or four episodes that got me rolling on the show. If I had to pick one, that would be it. Rocketship XM and Catalina Caper would be two others.
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Post by nickservo on Jun 6, 2012 13:41:51 GMT -5
Another one of the greats is Squirm. It's truly impossible to not love Squirm
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Post by mrsphyllistorgo on Jun 6, 2012 13:58:00 GMT -5
I got hooked when I could afford cable in my own apartment.
I had watched it before, and borrowed some tapes, but it was the MST3K Theater Hour that really got me. I didn't know much about the show at the time and just loved Mike as that funny old guy introducing the shortened version.
It was on at 11:30 at night, and I had to be up early for work. So I'd go to bed early, get a couple hours of snoozing, and set the alarm to wake me up for the show.
I love the memory of sitting up alone, with only one small light on, laughing in the dark. It still feels like one of the best "grown up" moments in my life. The kind you fantasized about as a kid, about all the things you'd do when nobody could tell you what to do anymore, and you'd stay up all night and squeeze out a whole tube of toothpaste and eat ice cream for dinner...
I love you, MST. I just really, really do.
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Post by Hellcat on Jun 6, 2012 15:31:49 GMT -5
For me it was Parts: The Clonus Horror. It was January of 2002, we had just gotten cable, and MST3K was one of the first programs I taped. I'd heard of it and I just knew it was my kind of show. I watched the tape and was immediately hooked. I still have a fondness for that episode.
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