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Post by DieHardMST3KFan on Dec 6, 2003 6:15:35 GMT -5
What was the exact Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode that made you into a fan? The episode that made you say "I have to watch this show again and again!"
For me, I have to say Devil Fish. I had caught Phantom Planet on the Sci-Fi Channel a few weeks earlier while I was channel surfing, and thought it was a hilarious episode, but it wasn't until Devil Fish that I became an actual fan of the show. That whole movie was hilarious to me. The movie was great, the horrible edits, the bad dubbing, the music. And the riffs were just excellent. I laughed every minute of that episode. The scene that clinched it for me was the scene where that ugly guy was getting attacked by Devil Fish and the camera kept showing closeups of his butt. When Mike said "Did the director think this guy was hot?!" that was the exact moment I turned into a fan. I felt like I was going to explode from all the laughing I did in that episode. After Devil Fish was over, I remembered saying to myself, "Damn! This is a great show! I have to see it again and again!"
It wasn't until I saw Invasion of the Neptune Men, did I become a die-hard fan (or obsessive fan?) and consider MST3K to be the greatest show of all time, but Devil Fish was what got the ball rolling, so to speak.
So, what was that one episode, that one moment that turned into a MST3K fan 4 life?
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Dec 6, 2003 11:12:36 GMT -5
I couldn't pin down one ep. I started watching around season two, didn't have cable befor that. I remember at first I liked the movie parts but didn't care for the host segments. I thought they looked too much like a cheap kiddie show (which they do). But it didn't take too long for me to get used to the characters and clue in.
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Post by Skyroniter on Dec 6, 2003 11:25:21 GMT -5
The first one that really got me was 624 "Samson vs The Vampire Women." I lived a very sheltered life and had never seen a mexican wrestling movie before. After that I was hooked! On MST3K, not mexican wrestling movies.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Dec 6, 2003 14:01:08 GMT -5
I also started watching in season 2, when I was in high school. I had a tape with First Spaceship On Venus and Godzilla vs. Megalon on it that I watched over and over and over.
Then I went off to college and forgot about it (no cable). In the mid 90s, a friend brought over his collection of episodes from seasons 4-6. Manos, Starfighters, Kitten With a Whip, and Warrior of the Lost World are ones I remember distinctly.
But the one that made me a fan forever was Fire Maidens From Outer Space. The evil Crow was unforgettable. Years later, when my life settled down, that was the first episode I tracked down.
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Dec 6, 2003 15:27:39 GMT -5
Your so right sampo, I watched Fire Maidens again last night and evil Timmy is great. And my post was wrong, I think I got cable around season three.
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Post by Ator on Dec 6, 2003 15:54:46 GMT -5
Pod People definitely made me a true fan. MST3K: The Movie is the one that made me want to find more episodes.
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Post by Ator on Dec 6, 2003 16:07:37 GMT -5
Pod People is what made me into a casual fan, The Brain That Wouldn't Die made me a fan, and rewatching the Rhino Pod People VHS years later made me an obsessive fan. Pod People must have subliminal messages or something, because it seems it makes everyone an obsessive fan.
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Dec 6, 2003 16:23:58 GMT -5
And yet there are some who can't stand it. I'll have to watch it again for the subliminal messages.
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Post by GoldBootGirl on Dec 7, 2003 13:59:22 GMT -5
The Brain that Wouldn't Die was one of the first few episodes that I saw. And it was the one that got me hooked. It was part of my boyfriend's newly aquired DVD collection. I laughed so hard my throat started to hurt. And the movie on it's own is pretty entertaining.
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Dec 7, 2003 19:12:16 GMT -5
MST3K: The Movie is when I think I first became a fan (though I somehow knew about the show from previously).
I first became a big fan after watching either Phantom Planet or The Screaming Skull.
I think it was Prince Of Space that really pushed my to the rank of zealot.
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Post by JohnBlonn on Dec 7, 2003 20:27:39 GMT -5
parts: the clonus horror is the first episode I distinctly rememeber. There might have been an episode or two before that, but that one definitely stuck in my head.
I lost track of the show for a bit, then regained my love for it when the movie came out, and the sci-fi eps too.
Good timeses.
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Post by RocknRollMartian on Dec 8, 2003 0:09:36 GMT -5
Ironically, my first MST3K experience was with Manos. I caught the last 30 minutes of the episode during a free weekend preview of Comedy Central in the mid 1990s (back when CC was not carried by Direct TV). I remember laughing hard and trying to figure out what the hell I was watching.
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Dec 8, 2003 0:58:47 GMT -5
You know, for a person to just stumble into Manos of all things....riffed mercilessly by a guy and two puppets no less....weird.... So, did it convince you to purchase Comedy Central?
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Post by Gemini Man on Dec 8, 2003 12:55:34 GMT -5
Ironically, my first MST3K experience was with Manos. I caught the last 30 minutes of the episode during a free weekend preview of Comedy Central in the mid 1990s (back when CC was not carried by Direct TV). I remember laughing hard and trying to figure out what the hell I was watching. Same here! I caught it during an MST marathon about half way though the movie. I had heard about it but never saw it since we didn't have CC either. I just happen to come across it while staying at a hotel that night and have been hooked ever since.
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Post by Irvin700 on Dec 8, 2003 15:06:55 GMT -5
it was the mst3k movie that made me a fan, and it was on the starz channel....at first i never rellay liked mst3k at all cuz they showed one guy and 2 bots watching old movies. but when i seen it again on starz i gave it a chance. and the thing i never knew was that it was suppose to be a comedy type show that makes fun of movies.
this is the quote that made me a mst3k fan
"he got dry quick" and i think it was servo who said it
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