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Post by otrfan on Dec 23, 2003 17:59:23 GMT -5
Well I found it hilarious from the very moment I caught part of an episode at a friend's house and I've watched it ever since. If that constitutes making me a fan, then so be it.
Episode #513 - The Brain That Wouldn't Die
"Help! I'm in another dimension. Help!" That particular riff had me on the floor.
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JoeDonBaker
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Post by JoeDonBaker on Dec 30, 2003 11:12:50 GMT -5
HAMLET? You must have a great tolerance for bad/extremely boring movies. I was only listening to the 'bots and Mike for the whole time. But, then again, I could barely make good jokes for "Dreamcatcher", so. . .
Absolutely, the more mind numblingly bad the movie is, the easier it is to laugh at it. ;D
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Post by Esoteric on Jan 1, 2004 9:35:08 GMT -5
My first episode was the Season Four premiere, Space Travelers. I remember my dad handing the Tom Shales review of MST3K in the Washington Post that morning (Shales was an early booster of the show - he's perhaps the finest TV critic in America, to boot), and saying, "Jeff, we gotta watch this." I was 12 years old at the time, I believe (1992), and although I wasn't instantly hooked - Space Travelers has always been one of the weaker Joel eps - by the time of The Giant Gila Monster ("Hey Mr. Douglas, I got those bodies buried jest in tahm!," the constant Thing references every time a character would open and then shut a door, the "leg-up" sketch, etc.) and City Limits (I have warm fuzzy memories of the comic book sketches: "Really Deep Man: he's really deep, man.") I was hooked for life.
I really can't emphasize how fundamentally important MST3K was in shaping my basic mature personality and mindset. It hit me RIGHT at that really crucial adolescent period, helped me make sense of my own intelligence and obsessions, and generally helped me realize that yes, there ARE other people on this planet with the same twisted sense of humor. Next to my parents, it's probably the single greatest influence on my personality.
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