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Post by mylungswereaching on Jun 6, 2012 15:57:27 GMT -5
Robot Monster. My cousin had the comedy channel and I didn't. I copied his year one episodes and watched them over and over. My cable system picked up cc during year 3.
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Post by Crowfan on Jun 6, 2012 16:38:10 GMT -5
Discovered it season one on Comedy Central. The first one I saw was "The Corpse Vanishes" but quickly caught them all and taped them. Sadly don't have a working VCR anymore so will buy those from our own Skyronitor, cause he's the best!!!
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Post by zombiewhacker on Jun 6, 2012 19:23:11 GMT -5
The Rhino Essentials collection was the one-two knockout punch for me.
I'd already been familiar with the show prior, having caught a few minutes of it here and there on Sci-Fi.
Then I rented the Essentials, for no other reason than to rewatch Santa Claus Conquers The Martians, a fave bad film of mine that I hadn't seen in years.
The clincher, though, was before I brought the DVD back to the library, I thought to myself, "Ah, what the heck, let me check out this other movie on disc 2. What's it called... Manos?"
Boom. Thud. TKO.
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Post by angilasman on Jun 6, 2012 19:33:18 GMT -5
I'd seen it channel surfing for practically my whole life (I was a '90s kid), but when I rented the movie on a whim it was the first time I watched one all-the-way through.
After that I made the reruns on Saturday morning (the show had just ended its run) a weekly appointment.
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Post by kalidor2000 on Jun 6, 2012 19:50:01 GMT -5
I'm a latecomer to this party. I was "aware" of mst3k when it was televised, but didn't have cable and never got around to faithfully veiwing them.
I "rediscovered" the show last August and the first was Touch of Satan.
I vividly recall laughing so hard at "When sore throat pain strikes" and "hahahahahahahahaha...and then he died!"
My wife and had to pause Netflix multiple times. We rewatched those riffs several times and continued with fits of laughter.
I've been a junkie, seriously collecting everything I can get my hands on, for the last ~10 months...
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Post by afriendlychicken on Jun 6, 2012 20:12:50 GMT -5
"Robot Holocaust" somewhere in December 1990. Then I saw "Sidehackers" not too long afterwards and was hooked, literally. Back then The Comedy Channel used fishing lures to keep their audience.
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Post by nickservo on Jun 6, 2012 22:23:47 GMT -5
Touch of Satan, great episode!!
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Post by Weirdo Writer on Jun 7, 2012 21:07:01 GMT -5
Warrior of the Lost World in April 1994. The first few episodes I saw all featured Hercules flicks, but it was Warrior that truly cemented my status as a fan of the show.
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Post by caucasoididiot on Jun 8, 2012 9:16:54 GMT -5
Then I saw "Sidehackers" not too long afterwards and was hooked, literally. Back then The Comedy Channel used fishing lures to keep their audience. And the chicken takes the triple-crown! \(^o^)/ I was hooked by the opening credits of Teenagers from Outer Space, which I'd tuned in just thinking to watch a cheesy movie. Shortly thereafter came that year's marathon, which was all it took to make me a lifer. Hard to remember specific eps from that, but the X Marks the Spot short (the Joe Doakes driver safety one) was probably its crowning jewel.
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Post by CBG on Jun 8, 2012 9:52:11 GMT -5
Yeppers...Time o' The Ape for me as well.
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Post by tokiyoke on Jun 8, 2012 18:12:44 GMT -5
It was Godzilla vs. Megalon for me, sometime in the early mid-nineties. I only caught about five minutes of it on my way out the door, but knew this was my kind of show.
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Post by Shep on Jun 9, 2012 5:24:57 GMT -5
My college days, early-mid 90s. We'd just come back to the dorm after a late night at the bars. Got about 2 and a half fuzzy channels with with the rabbit ears on my tv. Came across "Pod People," which made me come back for more. Then a week or so later "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" made me a fan for life.
"This place smells like the monkey house" and "Ho! Ho! Smoking is good for you" take me back to those days everytime.
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Post by siamesesin on Jun 9, 2012 13:56:14 GMT -5
"Gozilla Vs Megalon" lured me in-it was the first movie we bought when we got a VCR, so I am very attached to the movie, and I was thrilled to see it being aired. Then I heard the riffs and was intrigued, so I decided to tape it the next week. I was staying at my friend Sarah's and she indulged me and let me tape it while we went for a walk.
Then we came back and watched it-"The Indestructible Man". All it took was the sewer jokes and I was a goner.
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Post by continosbuckle on Jun 9, 2012 16:00:19 GMT -5
Time of the Apes. I was on location for a job and living in a hotel, and MST3k would be on roughly around the time when I'd be getting ready to go to bed, so when I was flipping on channels, I decided to watch it due to what I'd heard about MST3k in the news, and the fact that the Japanese rip-off of the Planet of the Apes looked amusing.
I ended up watching it every night I was there, but Time of the Apes was the first ep.
It was amusing how I ended up going several years without seeing those CC episodes after that Summer, but realizing midway through after getting a DVD that, hey, wait a minute, I've seen this. Josh's voice for Tom Servo was very familiar, even though I couldn't remember seeing a Season 1 episode, and I clearly remembered I Accuse My Parents' "baking an exotic dancer into a cake" segment, even though I remembered nothing else about that movie. (I was very disappointed that the dancer turned out to be male)
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Post by tharkun8 on Jun 21, 2012 14:24:31 GMT -5
For me it was the premiere of Rocketship-XM. I remember channel surfing and noticing what must have been season 1 eps being broadcast but I never really stopped to see what the show was about. Then i saw promos for the season 2 premiere and I thought Id check it out.
Was hooked in the first 10 mins and 22 years later Im still a huge fan. I grew up in Chicago and was going to college in MN at the time which means I fully 'got' the MN sensibility in the show. Talk about being in the right place at the right time.
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