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Post by Bad Touch on Jun 21, 2012 19:53:25 GMT -5
After that I made the reruns on Saturday morning (the show had just ended its run) a weekly appointment. Yes! I used to have to wake up at 6AM on Saturday mornings to catch re-runs after SciFi finally pulled the plug. It was my weekly appointment too. ;D Nothing cures a hangover better IMO. I Accuse My Parents. At the time, it just tickled me, and I was hooked.
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Post by kjb1985 on Jul 26, 2012 10:05:08 GMT -5
Mine was the unearthly, been a fan ever since.
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Post by bawoman on Jul 26, 2012 22:40:50 GMT -5
"Teenagers from outer space" was the first episode I watched.I remember watching it with my older brother after getting home from the beach in the summer of 92. I was 12.
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Jul 28, 2012 12:15:50 GMT -5
Well, I'm just now finally getting reacquainted -- via YouTube and RapidShare -- after not having seen it for far too long, so my original viewing memories are a bit dim.
I was hipped to it by a bootleg tape-trading buddy in the old rec.music.gdead newsgroup on Usenet around late '91. The guy's nickname on the newsgroup was "Tom Servo", and I wrote to him and asked how he came up with such a cool nickname, and he wrote back telling me about this weird-assed TV show where they mock bad old movies.
The earliest episode I remember seeing in its first run was The Pod People, and even then I barely remembered any of the movie at all. The thing I remember most about that episode was a host segment mocking the music in the movie; it featured Joel with a giant prop synthesizer keyboard wrapping all the way around him, on which he demonstrates how to compose and perform New Age music, with an emphasis on Yanni, and also mocking the Hearts Of Space radio show.
The rest of it is pretty much a blur of heavy riffing and bunches of my favorite bad old horror/sci-fi fliicks I first saw on the old Count Gore DeVol's Saturday Chiller back in high school. So, I can't really pick one specific episode, as the whole idea of the show totally hooked me, as I was already one of those kind of guys who used to love sitting up late with his friends watching bad movies and making up our own dialogue.
I've been spending the past nine months or so getting reaquainted. I'd spent the previous couple of years rooting around on RapidShare and archive.org, downloading copies of all those great old crappy movies I remembered from my high school days. I found a copy of The Creeping Terror on archive.org and, not having seen it in over thirty years, downloaded a copy to see if it was as bad -- and therefore hilarious -- as I remembered it being when I was seventeen. As I scrolled down the comment thread, I spotted a post by one guy commenting that "if you think this flick is a scream, you've gotta see the MST3K version", and I thought "whoa! Man, I really miss MST3K! How long has it been since I've seen that?"
So, after viewing the original Creeping Terror for the first time since high school and finding it just as funny as I remembered, I found and downloaded a copy of MST3K Experiment 606 and, to my delight, found it also just as funny as I remembered it. That was last September; I've been going on a real tear on YouTube and RapidShare nabbing the best .avi and mp4 rips I could find out there, and have a stash of over a hundred episodes. This is the biggest collecting frenzy I've been since I started collecting bootleg Grateful Dead concert footage -- and taping shows myself -- back in the mid '80s.
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Post by mnenoch on Jul 31, 2012 8:48:03 GMT -5
I actually got into MST3K through my brother. I remember it was March 1997 and I was out of town for a week with my mom and my brother had stayed home with my dad. My brother called me and told me he found this funny show where a guy and robots watch movies and make fun of them.
When I got back the next week he wanted to show it to me so we sat down and it was Revenge of the Creature. I was instantly hooked. I loved the quirky segments and the riffs (of course I had no clue why they were saying Crow's voice changed). It really helped that it was a movie I had already seen. I remember loving the black lagoon creature movies when I was younger.
What is amazing to me though is without any knowledge of the show my brother and I decided to start taping MST3K with that first episode we watched. We ended up taping all the sci fi shows together. Of course soon after seeing episodes on sci fi we started seeing other episodes for rent. I remember the first Joel episode we watched was Cave Dwellers and it was such a trip. Different host, the mads and different voice for Crow but it was just as funny as the sci fi episodes.
March 1997 - the month my oddessy with MST3K began. 15 years later still watch with my brother and still love it.
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Post by frankenforcer on Jul 31, 2012 14:18:05 GMT -5
that's easy, the first episode I ever saw them in "The Amazing Collossal Man" Instant love at first riff.
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Jul 31, 2012 14:47:27 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 started watching somewhere around Season 3-ish, but out of all of it, I only remember one episode: The Pod People, and I didn't even remember the movie; my sole memory of that episode is a host segment that mocked New Age music and the Hearts Of Space radio show. I never got to watch as often as I wanted; the "main TV" at our house -- the one that the satellite box is hooked up to -- is in the bedroom, and my wife controls the remote with an iron hand. I had to whine, beg and plead -- not always successfully -- for two lousy hours to watch MST3K every week. So, like you, I'm in the process of reacquainting myself. For the past nine months or so, I've been on a binge of downloading and building a collection, finally getting to re-view all those episodes I only saw once or twice and don't remember, and to see all the episodes I missed for the first time. When I downloaded the first episode of my collection, The Creeping Terror, I rediscovered it largely by accident, after downloading a copy of the original (unriffed) version at archive.org and a poster in the comments heartily suggested the MST3K version. I suddenly realized how long it had been since I'd seen an episode of MST3K. When they were cancelled, streaming video wasn't widely available on the Internet, DVDs were just emerging, and none of the MST3K material was available on home video yet, so there was this huge gap of ten or twelve years where I hadn't seen any MST3K at all. So, discovering all the episodes on YouTube, and the availability of bootleg downloads from places like the MST3K Digital Archive Project, and the release of episodes on DVD, was like having Santa Claus show up with everything I wanted for Christmas.
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Post by mattperiolat on Aug 2, 2012 18:37:07 GMT -5
I caught Amazing Colossal Man on The MST Hour late one Friday night which got me interested, but seeing the movie (in theaters, thank you indie theaters of So. Cal!) was what cemented it for me. Unfortunately, The MST Hour got cancelled and I did not get Comedy Central so that looked like the end. Then came Rhino's tapes followed by getting the Sci Fi Channel on my cable system in time to start with The Undead and I've been going strong ever since. The best part? I still have not seen them all so most of the DVD releases are all new episodes to me. Sometimes treasure (The Girl on Lovers Lane and Zombie Nightmare) sometimes not, but always entertaining.
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Post by ratherdashing on Aug 2, 2012 19:32:16 GMT -5
I was pretty much hooked from the time I heard the premise. I saw a date with your family on youtube. then, on Christmas day 2009, I watched the MST3K the Movie. the next day, I bought Volume 14. Mad Monster caused me to waver slightly. A rough movie with sparse riffing. I just wasn't ready. Then I watched Final Justice. Everything has been great ever since.
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Post by Enoch on Aug 26, 2012 16:22:38 GMT -5
The show was already off the air so I fist saw a compleat one "Sampson vrs the Vampire Woman " on a friends tape. was not hooked until Puma Man.... "pumas are known for their flying"
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Aug 26, 2012 21:28:22 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. Oh, man, yeah. Sewer jokes, cop'n'doughnut jokes, and one of my favorite MST3K riffs of all time, from Tom Servo: "I gotta take a big indestructible whiz!" I remember not being too sure about Godzilla Vs Megalon -- I was already a total hardcore by the time that one aired -- until the end, when I damn' near wet myself watching the English-captioned version of "The Jet Jaguar Song".
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Post by ArtCrow on Aug 26, 2012 22:54:49 GMT -5
The first episode I saw, Pod People, got me hooked.
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Post by SOL Stowaway on Aug 27, 2012 1:18:57 GMT -5
Jack Frost. LOVED it!
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Post by The Mad Plumber on Aug 27, 2012 2:21:10 GMT -5
I couldn't say what episode got me hooked as I was a kid in the 1990s and I can't really recall what the first episode was that I watched. I have memories of some of the episodes I watched which I later discover were segments from "Torments", "Hercules Unchained", and so forth. However, I really couldn't say that a particular episode hooked me. Rather, I was hooked by the overall concept of the show.
I would later rediscover the show when my sister revealed to me at the nearby Media Play that Rhino was releasing MST3K on VHS tape. She even bought me the first video for my collection, "Sidehackers" ... which really wouldn't do the job for me, but it's certainly appreciated. I would build on my collection and my love for the show would be renewed with episodes like "Cave Dwellers" and "Skydivers".
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Post by michaeljgleason96 on Aug 27, 2012 6:34:40 GMT -5
My MST-ory is a bit confusing, I got into it from the people in the TGWTG Year IV group on facebook, they started making references, and put the seasons 2-5 theme song, to help the uninitiated, after watching every theme song for MST3K there was, I turned on Netflix and watched the movie. So technically the movie hooked me onto this wonderful show.
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