It's hard for me to choose a "top #" list, I'd have to do a tier list but this would be S tier for me. I definitely can't think of 100 episodes that are better.
For me, this episode is the pinnacle of Joel-era content, if not the height of MST's entire run. It has the goofy, good-natured cluelessness of Joel, the exceptional puppet work and inflections of Trace, and of course, the lovely singing and impeccable timing of Mr Kevin Murphy. The ease with which Joel, Kevin and Trace nail their riffs even manages to surpass such episodes as Eegah and Manos, making this a timeless episodes that gets even better with repeated viewings.
I think as the series went along, they got a LOT better at picking source movies... I think that's the main strength of the Mike era. But Joel had that laid back, good natured vibe and overall chemistry with his robot 'children' that is just so damn charming.
Pretty sure the screenwriter fir this, Jo Heims, also did the screenplay for Play Misty For Me and came up with the idea for the Dirty Harry. She also wrote the screenplay for The Devil's Hand, my favorite Rifftrax!
Thank you so much for uploading these, analogkid! I've been home sick as a dog, and MST3K has really helped me through it. Poor Carrie! She's in love with a closeted gay hobo and is being stalked by a creep with a lazy eye. Gotta love 50s melodrama, it was just so realistic. ;-)
Agreed. For me, this is THE perfect episode. The riffs, host segments, Train Song, ending rewrite... "I am... The E-Lam". Hilarious beginning to end, and never misses a beat.
I could see that for the men, but the women of this time all kind of look the same. Drab and uninteresting, but I guess they’re thin? Idk. There isn’t really much to say when they thought that hairstyle worked… 🤢 Glad to know someone liked something back then
I hope the actor playing big stupid had a modicum of success, at least on TV or something. He's not amazing but he carries this B movie completely on his own.
Brett Halsey (Big Stupid) has actually had a staggeringly long and prolific acting career, and he still puts in an appearance now and again, even now that he's in his '80s.
Crow's part of the Train song was a reference to an actual incident that happened in Wisconsin- In 1992, a train coming over the Neamdji river from Duluth derailed and caused a massive chemical spill, creating a huge cloud of benzene gas that forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate from the town of Superior.
I feel that way from around the end of Season 3 up until the Sci Fi years, it's one of those shows where you can really clearly define the rise and fall in quality. but even a "bad" episode of MST3K is still most comedy's best.
It wasn't as bad as the other movies they've watched, but the heartbreaking/murder of Keri completely ruined it. I recall reading in the MST3K guide that the staff really were ticked off by that more than anything else they've seen in a movie.
@@jeremyleveille1532 Sidehackers was more disturbing rather than "ticked off"-worthy. They went in expecting a stupid sports movie and got a rape scene intermingled with children playing that ends with the victim murdered.
@@jeremyleveille1532that one is extremely difficult for me. If you’re a newbie and you watch that episode without ANY knowledge of what happened to Rita, you’ll probably be fine. However watching the episode with Full Knowledge of the cut scenes casts a dark morbid shadow on the entire film. The frolicking scenes at the beginning of the film are the ones that are most affected by it.
I had to watch this about 4 times before I was able to focus on the riffs - which were really good! Earlier, I was too busy following the "plot." At times I was suspecting Big Stupid and Danny would eventually head off to SF (hence Big Stupid's standoffishness to that girl. It WAS 1959, you know (there was such a thing, then).
"He's not the harmless idiot everyone thinks he is....." "I am". Brilliant. I know Big Stupid dominates the screen, but Wormy's delivery of lines like these are the backdrop against which Big Stupid shines. Hats off Danny
"To... live... like... the Elam..." "Crow Elam" is one of my all-time favorite bits. Between it and "the Train Song" this episode has two of the best host segments in the whole season.
The best thing about watching these old movies with Joel, Tom Servo and Crow is that there's so much dead space in the films that they fill with subtext that isn't supposed to be there but makes watching the movie funny as heck
It's a great episode, and I actually like this movie. I wish the ending wasn't so sad but it's a rare thing in a MST'ed movie that I actually care what happens to the characters.
What's sad is this movie had a really great setup in the beginning: two strangers traveling by stowing away on a train together. They could go anywhere or do anything and then the plot gets weird and stupid.
TheTwitSkits Oh, there's a plot, it just tells it with so little energy you don't notice first time around. Some rich kid decides to run away, and meets professional vagrant Big Stupid, who takes him under his dumb wing. They both end up in this small town where the hot ingenue is so lonely she falls in love with Big Stupid because he's vaguely dangerous. Unfortunately Big Stupid is such a tosser he won't stay with her on general stupid principles. So he dumps the best thing he ever had and is about to leave when she gets nonspecifically murdered by her stalker Jack Elam. Being a shady drifter, Big Stupid gets the blame and the town almost beats him to death before the rich kid saves him. Everyone is miserable except the one nice character, who is dead. Big Stupid is stupid. The end.
Never seen this before, and yeah, it might be one of the best episodes. Usually, the talky juvenile delinquent movies drag for me even in MST3K form. But Joel and the bots are really on fire here with the dialogue. Probably helps that the movie itself it one of the less bad I've seen them do.
"And I've got about 20 minutes to kill, so it's a good job I bought some maga-ZINES." Quite a sweet tribute to the American rail system, with a Mary Jo-approved Circle Pines reference as well.
Been bingeing on these in quarantine. This is one of my five favorite episodes. I watched one of the new ones on Netflix (only because I actually saw the movie they riffed, Killer Fish, on TV when I was a kid), but it doesn't have the same appeal. To me, MST3K will always be Joel/Mike, Trace, Frank, and Kevin.
Joel's humor is more creative. Mike's humor is typically at the expense of others. Not really adorable in that sense. I can see what you mean in a physical sense.
I find these JD (Juvenile Delinquent) movies pretty depressing. Similar MST offerings include The Beatniks, Girl in Gold Boots, Kitten with a Whip, Girls Town, and Teenage Crime Wave. They capitalize on fantasies of youth freedom and empowerment, but portray it only negatively through troubled teens who are irredeemable. A few wholesome, good natured but unlucky characters are always on hand to serve as contrasts, but they just get stomped on throughout the movie as it tries to drive home its monotone theme that bad kids are bad. They purport to be moral cautionary tales responding to a perceived decline in societal values, but are actually cheap exploitation pieces targeting a youth audience and reveling in crime waves that they are making up or exaggerating.
Yeah theyre totally repressed cautionary tales , written to scare teens into behaving in the accepted repressed 50s way. Lol like "teenage crimewave" . "Don't date boys.. or even concede you are attracted to them , much less have sexual desires, or else you will wind up DEAD!!" But you're right- they sensationalize and exploit it to sell the movie.
The reverse psychology tactic is at it's most extreme in "The violent years". Near the end, when the judge gets judgemental (with people (read = one of the girl's parents) who literally can't be put on trial, easily setting himself up to be overturned on appeal), he just falls in love with his own voice.
They both highlight the end product of the problems while being oblivious to the underlying factors causing them. Western society has a long history of treating humans like assembly-line products. Supposedly a fall-out from the Industrial Revolution, but that doesn't matter. We treat every aspect of growing up like a product & an investment in it. One can't know what the end result will be with any child. But all the adults in Western society act like they're owed their ideal, perfect child. Then blame the child for not living down to this infantile fantasy. Western society is all infantile fantasy. Any adult can see that voting *for* a _candidate_ isn't voting on issues. You give *infants* a choice between two crappy things to make them feel like they have agency. They don't know they're being played. "Our" politicians *openly accept payoffs* from corporations. We act like infants & lie to ourselves that this somehow doesn't affect their decision-making. That's a hefty non-infantile level of denial though.
The actress playing Kerry is actually likable and sympathetic and the guys playing Danny and Big Stupid are pretty convincing as accidental friends. I'd never pay money to see this movie but it could've been a lot worse. Joel and the bots still do an A+ job of skewering it.
I also like its persistent suggestion that there was a sleazy underbelly of boredom, drinking, sex, and delinquency in small town America in the early "60s. Feels both exploitative and plausible.
God I love Carrie!! Much like the bots, I just cannot except the fact that she's dead! And I even more can't except the fact that in "The Brain From Planet Arous" she's married to John Agar!!
*Spoilers* about a black n' white movie that was riffed in the 90's So no one in the town even suspected the guy who had been acting as a giant creep to the girl? Did no one ever pick up on him ? REALLY?????
53:42 - "Stop the music my eggs are cold." By far my favorite riff in this one. I anxiously await it every viewing. That has to be Jimmy Durante at the counter, right?
Bix explains why he missed his date with Carrie: "Something came up out of nowhere, and it got all over his face." And to think some people claim this movie has a homoerotic subtext.
I love Servo's opening theme for the movie! X>D The train song was awesome, too. "I can't talk to boys the way you do." Probably because she's 40 years old.
I like the episodes where they mispronounce stupid character names, like calling Maciste “My Cheese Steak” in “Colossus and the Headhunters” and Toblone “Toblerone” in “Escape 2000”.
Uhhhhhhhh, it's more than just Big and Danny walking down the street. It's about Big rescuing Danny from one heterosexual experience after another, and about Big going home with Danny at the end. This movie had repressed homosexuality oozing out of every frame like so much santorum.
One of the funniest episodes, with a film I was already familiar with. Thanks for sharing these classics! Starting to sing the first word of THE BEATNIKS theme lmao. Ironically enough I'm watching the day after Jack Elam's birthday, but it's after midnight before it en ded so looks like 2 days, born Nov. 13, 1920. RIP.
I actually think that this wasn't so bad for a MST3K movie. The only real problem with it was that sad ending which the entire tone of the film wasn't really set up for. If the woman had survived, it would have been a passable movie. However, I can see why it was chosen for MST3K - the Danny character alone was just ripe for the riffing.
This movie was evidently a race against the budget clock. "We're out of money! Kill her off! Make the Elam character admit guilt for no reason! Have the kid suddenly decide calling his dad is the right to do! Hurry! HURRY!"
Oh, I get it now. Bix and Danny are George and Lennie, Jesse is Curley, Carrie is Curley's wife; it's obviously based on the famous book, Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? All that's missing is the proverbial line "But you ARE in the chair, Baby Jane!"
1:10:20 Big Stupid to the rescue! I said the same thing essentially before they did and cheered haha Eh this kind of reminds me of a little less funny "I accuse my Parents" but overall it was a pretty entertaining riff and the source material was good enough to work with. (ie it never really was boring).
As a life-long Phillies fan the 'peppermint schnapps/tire iron double hitter night' would come in real handy on many a frustrating evenings through any given season.
I have no idea why this one doesn't end up on the "100 Best Episodes" lists. It's freaking hilarious throughout.
It's hard for me to choose a "top #" list, I'd have to do a tier list but this would be S tier for me. I definitely can't think of 100 episodes that are better.
For me, this episode is the pinnacle of Joel-era content, if not the height of MST's entire run. It has the goofy, good-natured cluelessness of Joel, the exceptional puppet work and inflections of Trace, and of course, the lovely singing and impeccable timing of Mr Kevin Murphy. The ease with which Joel, Kevin and Trace nail their riffs even manages to surpass such episodes as Eegah and Manos, making this a timeless episodes that gets even better with repeated viewings.
I think as the series went along, they got a LOT better at picking source movies... I think that's the main strength of the Mike era. But Joel had that laid back, good natured vibe and overall chemistry with his robot 'children' that is just so damn charming.
The early show had way too many old bad monster films for my liking. I did appreciate the more lighthearted humor though.
The Painted Hills is a great one, too!
The song over the credits is perfectly timed and the lyrics are a riot. To actually work the film "Shane" into it... great stuff!
"Danny should come with his own tote!" I laughed out loud. Love MST3k
One of my favorite lines too!
Every single thing they make Danny say is amazing.
No bones, he's all cartilage
Sigh.... shut up, Danny.
Big Stupid joins Corn Job as one of my favorite "misheard-name-that-persists-through-the-entire-movie" characters.
Don't forget Pile-On Pete!
@@control_the_pet_populationI was just about to say that.
I like "My Cheesesteak" (Colossus and the Headhunters).
Johnny Longbone?
@@aedwardsss Johnny Longbone?
"Oh, wow!" 😃
Crow’s proclivity to become characters from the movies is a source of endless wonderment, but his Jack Elam puts me in tears every time.
Absolutely!
The best. Elam was so good in every movie he made.
The bouncing thing reminded me of Peter Breck in The Beatniks movie.
I remember seeing this episode as a kid, and when Crow came out with his eyes all wonky, I immediately got the joke and laughed.
Pretty sure the screenwriter fir this, Jo Heims, also did the screenplay for Play Misty For Me and came up with the idea for the Dirty Harry. She also wrote the screenplay for The Devil's Hand, my favorite Rifftrax!
Also, *You'll Like My Mother* .
I can't believe I've never seen this one before. An unseen MST3k episode is traysure, maysure for maysure.
A surprise to be sure but a welcome one.
Was watching this way back in the comedy channel days, but I missed this one. Finally youtube delivers some garbage I can respect! Great episode
Thank you so much for uploading these, analogkid! I've been home sick as a dog, and MST3K has really helped me through it. Poor Carrie! She's in love with a closeted gay hobo and is being stalked by a creep with a lazy eye. Gotta love 50s melodrama, it was just so realistic. ;-)
This is one of my favorite episodes. The movie isn't boring and the jokes are great.
Agreed. For me, this is THE perfect episode. The riffs, host segments, Train Song, ending rewrite... "I am... The E-Lam". Hilarious beginning to end, and never misses a beat.
Yeah I actually adore this film. I've seen it many times un riffed, and Jake Elam was a good actor. Trace wasn't bullshitting when he said that.
Amen
Same ^^ I feel like that with "I Accuse My Parents" and "Girls Town" also. Where I was enjoying the movie just as much as the riffs
The jokes are actually pretty lame and forced.
15:03 "Camera 3, get off the track. Camera 3--OH GOOOODDDDDD!!!!!"
That's my favorite line! It kills me every time I watch this episode. 😂
Literally just got to this part lmao
17:03: "That's real nice Ma'am, but you're still under arrest" lmao 😂
"See that...." (Big Stupid points up) " Thats the boom mike, picks up everything we say." 😂
Laura Petrie, no! Laura Petrie, YES!
Big Stupid is ridiculously attractive. I have to keep reminding myself he's the same age as my grandpa now.
Heyy I liked the women I the tub, who cares its a movie. 😅
I could see that for the men, but the women of this time all kind of look the same. Drab and uninteresting, but I guess they’re thin? Idk. There isn’t really much to say when they thought that hairstyle worked… 🤢
Glad to know someone liked something back then
I hope the actor playing big stupid had a modicum of success, at least on TV or something. He's not amazing but he carries this B movie completely on his own.
Brett Halsey (Big Stupid) has actually had a staggeringly long and prolific acting career, and he still puts in an appearance now and again, even now that he's in his '80s.
MST Season 8- He's in Revenge of the Creature. The 'rising fastball' scene.
@@minxstole93 agreed. I had the confusing hots for him since the first time I saw this movie lol
As of 2021 he's still alive and his most recent credit is _Risk Factor_ (2015) made when he was 82.
@@dlxmarks That's great to hear! I hope I live to 88...
"Big Stupid, should I have put my head in the drivers lap? Was that wrong?" "Shut up, Danny."
"Oh."
that was hysterical
Servo's singing during the title sequence is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard.
KEVIN HAS A VERY BEAUTIFUL AND MOVING VOICE
Crow's part of the Train song was a reference to an actual incident that happened in Wisconsin- In 1992, a train coming over the Neamdji river from Duluth derailed and caused a massive chemical spill, creating a huge cloud of benzene gas that forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate from the town of Superior.
God, this show had gotten so great and consistent by season 5. Even an average episode like this is full of great stuff.
I feel that way from around the end of Season 3 up until the Sci Fi years, it's one of those shows where you can really clearly define the rise and fall in quality. but even a "bad" episode of MST3K is still most comedy's best.
Some of their best stuff happened not long before Hodgson's departure: when he and Mallon were supposedly at each other's throats a lot. Go figure.
It wasn't as bad as the other movies they've watched, but the heartbreaking/murder of Keri completely ruined it. I recall reading in the MST3K guide that the staff really were ticked off by that more than anything else they've seen in a movie.
Yeah, what about Side Hackers?
@@HenryvKeiper Hey, it got me too!
This is still one of my favorite, most consistently funny episodes. This and Final sacrifice are my 2 faves.
@@jeremyleveille1532 Sidehackers was more disturbing rather than "ticked off"-worthy. They went in expecting a stupid sports movie and got a rape scene intermingled with children playing that ends with the victim murdered.
@@jeremyleveille1532that one is extremely difficult for me.
If you’re a newbie and you watch that episode without ANY knowledge of what happened to Rita, you’ll probably be fine.
However watching the episode with Full Knowledge of the cut scenes casts a dark morbid shadow on the entire film. The frolicking scenes at the beginning of the film are the ones that are most affected by it.
Fun fact: The screenwriter, Joyce “Jo” Heims, collaborated on the story for “Dirty Harry,” and wrote an episode of “The Fugitive.”
It's as though Ed Wood tried to direct "Picnic"
This holds up as some of their best riffing material!
I had to watch this about 4 times before I was able to focus on the riffs - which were really good! Earlier, I was too busy following the "plot." At times I was suspecting Big Stupid and Danny would eventually head off to SF (hence Big Stupid's standoffishness to that girl. It WAS 1959, you know (there was such a thing, then).
OMG SERVOS SONG AT THE CREDITS....i died laughing
BrutoDaBurlyGoon rip
1:04:41 - The best and most extemporaneous line I think that Crow ever uttered. "PERVERT...burger..."
Easily one of my favorite episodes.
That killer is as elusive as Robert Denby
Leave Robert Denby alone!
@@stirnersretrowave5094 - You LIKE Robert Denby !?
My dogs name is Denby
HE'S SO ELUSIVE!
15:03 Rest in peace, Camera 3.
Don't you mean pieces?
lol
Marilyn Newman Yeah, among other things...
"He's not the harmless idiot everyone thinks he is....." "I am". Brilliant. I know Big Stupid dominates the screen, but Wormy's delivery of lines like these are the backdrop against which Big Stupid shines. Hats off Danny
None of the choices that anybody makes in this make any sense at all.
i wish u woulda said nobody in your comment so i coulda said “anybody” LOL
They do once you realize Big Stupid and the Kid are gay
"Garrison Keillor was shunned by his friends"
Evil, but funny 😆😅😅🤣
"To... live... like... the Elam..."
"Crow Elam" is one of my all-time favorite bits. Between it and "the Train Song" this episode has two of the best host segments in the whole season.
Anybody notice there were no strings on Joel's guitar?
LMAO at Crow as Jack Elam "here are the goods you ordered"
The best thing about watching these old movies with Joel, Tom Servo and Crow is that there's so much dead space in the films that they fill with subtext that isn't supposed to be there but makes watching the movie funny as heck
"How do you like my theme music!" LOL this episode is one of their best collections of riffs in my opinion.
In terms of just how good the riffs are I'd say it's this episode, I accuse my parents and Time Chasers top 3
"What's your name, kid?"
"Sex poodle."
It's a great episode, and I actually like this movie. I wish the ending wasn't so sad but it's a rare thing in a MST'ed movie that I actually care what happens to the characters.
Yeah, why did they have to drive that spike into Frank's head?!
"This is a great date. I always wanted to be nuzzled by a hobo."
What's sad is this movie had a really great setup in the beginning: two strangers traveling by stowing away on a train together. They could go anywhere or do anything and then the plot gets weird and stupid.
What plot? I didn't even detect a plot.
TheTwitSkits Oh, there's a plot, it just tells it with so little energy you don't notice first time around. Some rich kid decides to run away, and meets professional vagrant Big Stupid, who takes him under his dumb wing. They both end up in this small town where the hot ingenue is so lonely she falls in love with Big Stupid because he's vaguely dangerous. Unfortunately Big Stupid is such a tosser he won't stay with her on general stupid principles. So he dumps the best thing he ever had and is about to leave when she gets nonspecifically murdered by her stalker Jack Elam. Being a shady drifter, Big Stupid gets the blame and the town almost beats him to death before the rich kid saves him. Everyone is miserable except the one nice character, who is dead. Big Stupid is stupid. The end.
The studio really dropped the ball with the talent of Big Stupid carrying the movie so hard.
Weird and stupid....... but if it's put to swanky jazz music, then it's a film.
Kirby Exmoor Ah, the story of a wimpy loser and a dumb jerk and their love triangle with a codependant airhead.
Never seen this before, and yeah, it might be one of the best episodes. Usually, the talky juvenile delinquent movies drag for me even in MST3K form. But Joel and the bots are really on fire here with the dialogue. Probably helps that the movie itself it one of the less bad I've seen them do.
"And I've got about 20 minutes to kill, so it's a good job I bought some maga-ZINES." Quite a sweet tribute to the American rail system, with a Mary Jo-approved Circle Pines reference as well.
It's like if John Steinbeck sucked at writing but tried to write Of Mice and Men anyway.
🤣
"Of Mice and Men", but it's written by Lenny.
Eight years old but a damned good comment
Been bingeing on these in quarantine. This is one of my five favorite episodes. I watched one of the new ones on Netflix (only because I actually saw the movie they riffed, Killer Fish, on TV when I was a kid), but it doesn't have the same appeal. To me, MST3K will always be Joel/Mike, Trace, Frank, and Kevin.
If you haven't experienced Josh then you don't know the real MST3K - Tom Servo was created becuz of Josh's ad-libbing skills.
Thank you so much for posting these. My kids grew up as Mysties. LOve it.
"Oh, you have your food already. How'd you do that?" :P
XD
"Danny should come with his own tote" lol
I was in love with Joel, then Mike came along and then I was in love with him. They're both so adorable! 💞 😝
Joel's humor is more creative. Mike's humor is typically at the expense of others. Not really adorable in that sense. I can see what you mean in a physical sense.
JOIKE 😁
That moment when you find yourself saying, "I'm serious, wake up and talk to me" to someone named Big Stupid...
I find these JD (Juvenile Delinquent) movies pretty depressing. Similar MST offerings include The Beatniks, Girl in Gold Boots, Kitten with a Whip, Girls Town, and Teenage Crime Wave. They capitalize on fantasies of youth freedom and empowerment, but portray it only negatively through troubled teens who are irredeemable. A few wholesome, good natured but unlucky characters are always on hand to serve as contrasts, but they just get stomped on throughout the movie as it tries to drive home its monotone theme that bad kids are bad. They purport to be moral cautionary tales responding to a perceived decline in societal values, but are actually cheap exploitation pieces targeting a youth audience and reveling in crime waves that they are making up or exaggerating.
Yeah theyre totally repressed cautionary tales , written to scare teens into behaving in the accepted repressed 50s way. Lol like "teenage crimewave" . "Don't date boys.. or even concede you are attracted to them , much less have sexual desires, or else you will wind up DEAD!!" But you're right- they sensationalize and exploit it to sell the movie.
Thank you 👨⚕️ doctor
yet the reverse psychology is strong in these movies
The reverse psychology tactic is at it's most extreme in "The violent years". Near the end, when the judge gets judgemental (with people (read = one of the girl's parents) who literally can't be put on trial, easily setting himself up to be overturned on appeal), he just falls in love with his own voice.
They both highlight the end product of the problems while being oblivious to the underlying factors causing them. Western society has a long history of treating humans like assembly-line products. Supposedly a fall-out from the Industrial Revolution, but that doesn't matter.
We treat every aspect of growing up like a product & an investment in it. One can't know what the end result will be with any child. But all the adults in Western society act like they're owed their ideal, perfect child. Then blame the child for not living down to this infantile fantasy.
Western society is all infantile fantasy. Any adult can see that voting *for* a _candidate_ isn't voting on issues. You give *infants* a choice between two crappy things to make them feel like they have agency. They don't know they're being played.
"Our" politicians *openly accept payoffs* from corporations. We act like infants & lie to ourselves that this somehow doesn't affect their decision-making.
That's a hefty non-infantile level of denial though.
Just as Danny has a Canadian relative hanging around with Zap Rowsdower.
"See that?"
"Boom mike. Picks up everything we say!"
LMAO.
Their made-up lyrics to movie theme music are always mint XD
Man that student loan bit gets more accurate every year
This film contains the most heavy handed Coca-Cola product placement I’ve ever seen in a B-movie.
and Chesterfield cigarettes
I always wanted to be nuzzled by a hobo...
Anyone else find it endearing that Joel calls Crow "honey'?
Joel would call the bots "sweetie" as well. Mike never achieved that level of intimacy with them.
It’s a Midwestern thing
My heart melts at the thought of Joel calling Crow, "Sweetie🍯."
@Robert Diotalevi
🚬🥃
Oh, I'm sorry. To hell with Crow, he is NOT a sweety. 😒
Well, he is kind of like their dad.
"Back then a dime was like having a thousand dollars."
I love Tom's voice while singing ^w^
Joel is playing a guitar with no strings. That's actually pretty funny.
Asa Maynor in the bathtub is the best bit on any MST3K
36:16 to be fair to Danny he did a good job taking that thug down and keeping him in a hammer lock while Big took on the other guy.
I found myself actually kinda enjoying this movie
Me too. It is actually a very watchable movie.
It was not formulaic.
The actress playing Kerry is actually likable and sympathetic and the guys playing Danny and Big Stupid are pretty convincing as accidental friends. I'd never pay money to see this movie but it could've been a lot worse. Joel and the bots still do an A+ job of skewering it.
I also like its persistent suggestion that there was a sleazy underbelly of boredom, drinking, sex, and delinquency in small town America in the early "60s. Feels both exploitative and plausible.
That's how I feel about I Accuse my Parents as well
“I’m trying not to look at anybody and I’m looking at everybody!”. 😂😂
God I love Carrie!! Much like the bots, I just cannot except the fact that she's dead! And I even more can't except the fact that in "The Brain From Planet Arous" she's married to John Agar!!
That's my favourite terrible sci-fi flick... the brains attacking at the end was just so hilarious.
I would never have watched that movie if it wasn't for this episode ... it's the best kind of bad
I’m saving myself for the right oily drifter... LMAO
*Spoilers* about a black n' white movie that was riffed in the 90's
So no one in the town even suspected the guy who had been acting as a giant creep to the girl? Did no one ever pick up on him ? REALLY?????
Her Dad did. Right from the get go. "You don't know anything about him". That's the warning right there. My Dad spoke that way.
53:42 - "Stop the music my eggs are cold."
By far my favorite riff in this one. I anxiously await it every viewing. That has to be Jimmy Durante at the counter, right?
15:00
Uh camera 3 get off the track.
Camera 3!
Oh dear God!
I hate it when bad movies have sad endings. Why waste tears on crap? Good thing the riffs here are top-notch or I would be pretty angry.
Crow's first appearance as Jack Elam gave me one of the loudest, most explosive laughs that this show has ever given me...
Bix explains why he missed his date with Carrie: "Something came up out of nowhere, and it got all over his face." And to think some people claim this movie has a homoerotic subtext.
LOL. Yeah, it has a Batman and Robin feel to it.
I love Servo's opening theme for the movie! X>D The train song was awesome, too.
"I can't talk to boys the way you do." Probably because she's 40 years old.
Crow being jack elam was priceless
“Leather coat....”I lost it at that ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
I like the episodes where they mispronounce stupid character names, like calling Maciste “My Cheese Steak” in “Colossus and the Headhunters” and Toblone “Toblerone” in “Escape 2000”.
"Big Stupid to the rescue!!"
The creepy dude (Jack Elam) looks like the first drummer for R.E.M., Bill Berry.
I laughed so hard when he said, "Sir can you change this back into a 50?"🤣🤣🤣🤣
btw GREAT quality. analogkid01, thank you so much for hosting some of my favorite mst episodes. I'd shake your hand if I could :)
"Christina's World" I nearly lost it when Tom Servo dropped an Andrew Wyeth reference!
Wyeth wouldn't he?
They've used that riff in at least one other episode. I can't remember which one, though.
love the hobo host segment. Especially Tom Servos solo: mmm this tuna melt sammich really tastes quite nice! (oh its got sesame seeds in the bun)
Uhhhhhhhh, it's more than just Big and Danny walking down the street. It's about Big rescuing Danny from one heterosexual experience after another, and about Big going home with Danny at the end. This movie had repressed homosexuality oozing out of every frame like so much santorum.
"Like so much Santorum." 👍👍😂😂😂😂
let's say "hobosexuality"
"Big, should I have not put my head on the driver's lap? Was that wrong?"
One of the funniest episodes, with a film I was already familiar with. Thanks for sharing these classics!
Starting to sing the first word of THE BEATNIKS theme lmao.
Ironically enough I'm watching the day after Jack Elam's birthday, but it's after midnight before it en ded so looks like 2 days, born Nov. 13, 1920. RIP.
I haven't seen characters so obsessed about such an inconsequential amount of money since "Raisin In The Sun."
That was a decade in which $80 a week was a decent starter wage.
'The Girl In Lover's Lane' is like 'Picnic' in that 'Picnic' is a classic, and 'The Girl In Lover's Lane' really sucks.
I like how when the real killer reveals himself, they just look at him.
The Garrison Keillor dig hits differently now.
I actually think that this wasn't so bad for a MST3K movie. The only real problem with it was that sad ending which the entire tone of the film wasn't really set up for. If the woman had survived, it would have been a passable movie. However, I can see why it was chosen for MST3K - the Danny character alone was just ripe for the riffing.
This movie was evidently a race against the budget clock. "We're out of money! Kill her off! Make the Elam character admit guilt for no reason! Have the kid suddenly decide calling his dad is the right to do! Hurry! HURRY!"
It did wrap up real quick! All in the last
23:50.... that train song makes this video worth it! Crow t. Robot everyone!!! Lol...
"Big Stupid to the rescue"
Love this one so much!
Oh, I get it now. Bix and Danny are George and Lennie, Jesse is Curley, Carrie is Curley's wife; it's obviously based on the famous book, Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? All that's missing is the proverbial line "But you ARE in the chair, Baby Jane!"
I watch the credit song every night
1:10:20 Big Stupid to the rescue! I said the same thing essentially before they did and cheered haha Eh this kind of reminds me of a little less funny "I accuse my Parents" but overall it was a pretty entertaining riff and the source material was good enough to work with. (ie it never really was boring).
"Ah, we've got movie sign!!!!"
Gotta go now! Bye, Gypsy! Catch ya later! See you around! Toodles!
As a life-long Phillies fan the 'peppermint schnapps/tire iron double hitter night' would come in real handy on many a frustrating evenings through any given season.
I would totally watch the further adventures of Bix and Danny on NBC.
-but then I also would have watched the further Adventures of Zap and Troy too.
One of my favorite MST’s