I was amused to read an article in Weird NJ magazine long ago about this movie; some scenes were actually filmed here in NJ, and what's more, the beach band playing at intervals where a real group called The Dynamic Del Airs, and they served as character witnesses during one of the most infamous mafia murder-trials in NJ's history.
I love how antagonistic the two are in the opening scene. They clearly hate each other, and yet they both thought "Hey, you know what would be great today? The beach!"
Seriously, it's like they forgot they rode to the beach together and then decided to bring up old shit to fight about like they just happened to run into each other there after a long time apart. XD
Some couples like to keep things fresh by hating each other in a variety of locales. Plus, it always spices things up to inflict your unhappiness on an unwilling audience, preferably of friends.
I could never . . . . . . never . . . . . yea, all that griping they did at the beginning was to try to establish young tension between the guy and the girl, but it went a bit too fast. But when I tried watching this thing, I couldn't get through all the msuic and . . . dancing there at the beginning, then Tina is killed and the other woman, Elaine, shows up. Hank actually was hardly shown. Either 'Tina' didn't want to do it anymore, or they decided she wasn't 'pretty' enough, so she was killed off. I just now watched the whole thing, mainly to see if Hank was still around. Yea, he held out til the end.Just showed a lot of stuff that didn't seem to matter to the movie. Yea, I know movies would show singing and dancing, but all thatt guff really drives you away from the movie, don't it?
Not if it's part of a genre and you know what you're going in for. It's a sub, sub genre, the Beach blanket Bingo mixed with the Muck monster was perfect for drive- in theaters. According to a lot of people in the comments, this band did have some notoriety. So you go to see bikini babes and muscle beach guys, listen to that cool music, move in on your date when the monster attacks start and pretty much ignore the scientist stuff. That's why they kept it simple. Sodium. O.K. even the distracted teens will temember that. Nowadays it's infamous, for it's ridiculousness and that makes it perfect fodder, for Mike, Crow and Servo!!! They serve up A-1 material in this one and manage to still roll with the film. I wouldn't watch the film-minus the Riffing, unless it's at a drive in, then I'd reconsider, maybe.... I never thought I'd find myself defending, one of the worst films in history. But every movie can provide entertainment, if your willing to find it's perfect position. Take Care, Cheers from Canada
"Chances arrrrrre... that I'll kick your scrawny ass...." ROFLMAO... I actually spit my soda on that one. This is definitely one of the best MST3K episodes.
I saw this celluloid shuck when it first showed at a local drive in. Man, I can't believe that I actually remember this thing. I love what Mike and The Bots did to this one!
This one was my very first taste of MST3K! I remember it so well even though it's been well over two decades ago -- sitting at my SIL's house while hubby, SIL & BIL, and friends played D&D in the next room. I didn't care for D&D so I was the designated babysitter and would play on the computer or flip channels after the kids had gone to bed. I stumbled across this insanely cheesy movie made hilarious by these shadowed figures talking throughout the entire thing, and when later I described it to hubby he said I must have found MST3K. I was a die hard fan after that! Even spent countless hours playing Caption This! at night on the sci fi channel website, anyone else remember that? Good times, good times.
That's a cute story for your introduction to MST3K! My first episode was Touch of Satan and my best friend had told me about this show numerous time before and this one night he finally decided it was time to enlighten me and we watched it on Netflix and I'm so grateful he did! And I know, my story isn't very special nor unique but oh well, I'm glad it happened! Haha
Agreed! Funny, when you get stuck sitting behind wisecrackers in a movie theater, you keep telling them to shut up and they ruin your night. And yet that's precisely why we watched MST3K. Ironic.
@@MelodyMeanFace MST3K is full carefully crafted jokes by their whole team as they rewatched these movies ad nauseum to come up with choice joke material (and sometimes even dropping movies because not enough material could be crafted around them to make it worth it.) A bunch of wisecrackers making jokes off the cuff as a new movie is playing is not the same.
"She could use a few inhibitions..." The Jean Paul Sartre Existential Bike Gang and on and on. This is my FAVE MST3000 This is a classic from the Golden Turkey Award. It was filmed on the beautiful and lust drenched beaches of Connecticut. I love when the hero is trying to find 'sodium' (as in table salt...road salt etc.) and will have to go all the way to New York to get some.
I love the moment during the fight scene when the biker gang picks up the guy and rams him into the other guy. It was quite possibly the most hilarious thing that wasn't a riff. 19:55
the old "teenager" somewhat sexual moans at 1:22:02 always make me laugh as mike and the bots suddenly get uncomfortable, and servo's mimicking it always makes me smile
one of the benefits of mst3k being actually funny is that you don't need to smoke anything to make it enjoyable. Which gives it a leg up on the music of Dave Mathews.
I love seeing new people come back to these classic masterpieces. This is one of my favorite. I think it's the Nair side girl, but also the riffs just kick butt.
"My plastic hair is furious!" is one of many sentences with which I've gleefully confused people. Over the years I think I've developed MST3K tourettes. :)
Thank you, it's great to have a name for my condition; thought I suffered alone! EDIT: I would like your comment, but it's a perfect number of likes at the moment.
1:04:15 "The Monsters Win the Pennant" , "The Monsters Win the Pennant" To be fair the Green Monsters did have a Good team that year. They deserve it. They deserve it. Go Packers!! Okay, I'm done. I forgot how good this episode was! LoL
U kidding? Dr. Gavin does EVERYTHING in this from researching how to kill then killing the monsters. He disabused Eulabelle of her irrational fear-mongering in a calm, plain-spoken manner. Dr. Gavin taught his daughter the value of courtesy and RSVP’ing. Eulabelle ruined the only sample they had for which to do testing due to her wildly hysterical behavior. Much fuss was made by the bots demanding that the protagonists use Sodium but How does one locate them in the first place to actually implement the sodium? Do you have enough of the sodium ? The monsters appeared randomly: beach, sorority house, woods, and even a quarry! So Dr. Gavin researched radioactivity levels in local bodies of water and Hank went to NYC to get as much Sodium as he could. All the While eulabelle tried to derail the momentum with her Voodoo idiocy. Constructive criticism is not racism. It toughens ppl up and makes them better in the long run. Saying Eulabelle’s the hero just because she knocked over a beaker reeks of the bigotry of low expectations(BLE).
Something i noticed only today : the roman noble guy is called Callipyge , which is a latinization of the greek kallipygos, which means "nice butt" (or beautiful buttocks to be more precise). Just a little detail that made me smile
Yeah i like that they have multiple levels of jokes or riffs: they have the lavatory humor,the pop culture references,the political satire( not so strong but if you read among the lines there is a fair amount of it) and the "clever" references for the nerds. I love love love joel but mike era was wilder ,they tried to push the limits more. Just imho
The late-1990s/early-2000s on Sci-Fi were great. But it started going downhill with the WWE Friday night fights. The mainstream success of Battlestar Galactica was the final nail in the coffin.
I recall seeing the ad for this bomb in the paper. It was playing at a local drive-in. Yeah, I checked it out (haw!). I love what MST3 did with this one.
And while voodoo is superstitious nonsense, radiation causing skeletons to join with marine animals and goo to create amphibious bloodsucking monsters is SCIENCE! Between 1950s horror movie "science" and voodoo, I'll go with Baron Samedi: he makes more sense.
I regret that I have but one like to leave this movie... @09:00"200 million flushes." @32:25 "that's not how you make sun tea..." @50:30 "you are a summer sausage..." Brilliant!
This bomb was famously shot by director Del Tenney and co. in two weeks on a $50,000 budget. The best parts include kids dancing to a party band on the beach. The band, The Del-Aires featured Ronnie Linares (guitar); Gary Jones (bassist); Bobby Osborne (saxophone); John Becker (drums) From the late 1950s-1960s the Del-Aires were a New Jersey band that played clubs in the Patterson, NJ area.
This one very quickly hits a lot of spots on MST3K Bingo: Rebellious teens - check, dopey monster suit - check, boring extended music sequences - check. All we need is a Sandy Frank or a Roger Corman in the credits.
Lightly rebellious 35-year-old "teens", but, yeah. I think even Corman might consider this one beneath him. I mean, they screwed up the basic "reveal to character and audience the "sleeping" character is actually dead" gag by forgetting that you have to align the audience's POV with the discovering character's. A child could see the problem there. Say what you will about ol' Rog, but he's usually at least competent.
I love that Eulabelle is able to use sodium as the creature's weakness before the white characters and she tells "Hardware" Hank to check those last couple of numbers in the phone book so he found the sodium. She is the real hero!
"White characters". Stop sullying this community with identity politics. This is one of the last clean spaces , void of race baiting, left on the Internet.
"I never needed you and I never will."
Servo: "They wrote their own vows."
Highlight for me is the newspaper headline that reads “Monsters Strike Again” and Mike saying “president orders monsters to go back to work”
@Jimmy L Needham is it kosher?
Got any anti-paysto around?
Look Polish 😂😂😂
I was amused to read an article in Weird NJ magazine long ago about this movie; some scenes were actually filmed here in NJ, and what's more, the beach band playing at intervals where a real group called The Dynamic Del Airs, and they served as character witnesses during one of the most infamous mafia murder-trials in NJ's history.
Wow cool fact
I kinda liked the band. They were pretty good for what they were. Shame they were being that in this movie.
@@michaelccozens I agree. This band is kind of alright at this pre Beach Boys beach music. It could be A LOT worse.🤷♂️
What trail?
Yes the Del-Airs band
If you listen to some of their tunes you probably know some depending on your age but I remember this band growing up
I love how antagonistic the two are in the opening scene. They clearly hate each other, and yet they both thought "Hey, you know what would be great today? The beach!"
Seriously, it's like they forgot they rode to the beach together and then decided to bring up old shit to fight about like they just happened to run into each other there after a long time apart. XD
Some couples like to keep things fresh by hating each other in a variety of locales. Plus, it always spices things up to inflict your unhappiness on an unwilling audience, preferably of friends.
I could never . . . . . . never . . . . . yea, all that griping they did at the beginning was to try to establish young tension between the guy and the girl, but it went a bit too fast. But when I tried watching this thing, I couldn't get through all the msuic and . . . dancing there at the beginning, then Tina is killed and the other woman, Elaine, shows up.
Hank actually was hardly shown.
Either 'Tina' didn't want to do it anymore, or they decided she wasn't 'pretty' enough, so she was killed off.
I just now watched the whole thing, mainly to see if Hank was still around. Yea, he held out til the end.Just showed a lot of stuff that didn't seem to matter to the movie. Yea, I know movies would show singing and dancing, but all thatt guff really drives you away from the movie, don't it?
And don't forget, the most important thing to talk about with your beach beau is their "experiments" in that "laboratory".
Not if it's part of a genre and you know what you're going in for.
It's a sub, sub genre, the Beach blanket Bingo mixed with the Muck monster was perfect for drive- in theaters.
According to a lot of people in the comments, this band did have some notoriety. So you go to see bikini babes and muscle beach guys, listen to that cool music, move in on your date when the monster attacks start and pretty much ignore the scientist stuff. That's why they kept it simple. Sodium. O.K. even the distracted teens will temember that.
Nowadays it's infamous, for it's ridiculousness and that makes it perfect fodder, for Mike, Crow and Servo!!!
They serve up A-1 material in this one and manage to still roll with the film.
I wouldn't watch the film-minus the Riffing, unless it's at a drive in, then I'd reconsider, maybe....
I never thought I'd find myself defending, one of the worst films in history.
But every movie can provide entertainment, if your willing to find it's perfect position.
Take Care,
Cheers from Canada
Tom: We'll be right back
Crow: Part of me will never be back. Part of me is gone forever
😂😂😂
"Chances arrrrrre... that I'll kick your scrawny ass...."
ROFLMAO... I actually spit my soda on that one. This is definitely one of the best MST3K episodes.
Lame af
That line always cracks me up! Whenever I get drunk I sing it to whoever is unlucky enough to be near me. 😋
This is their second movie with a Johnny Mathis lookalike. The first was Mitchell!
Agreed
"I'd say something, but the guy who dubs me is on break..." XD hilarious.
Servo's self-harmonisation at the beginning is still one of my favourite MST3k moments. Bless Kevin Murphy and his amazing voice!
He trained in opera?
He has a beautiful singing voice I've noticed that on many episodes. He must have trained as a singer.
Yes! Has a great voice!!♥️
Most of us are born with one special talent.
Kevin has 10, maybe more. I still love him because he doesn't take himself too seriously.
Cheers.
I saw this celluloid shuck when it first showed at a local drive in. Man, I can't believe that I actually remember this thing. I love what Mike and The Bots did to this one!
This one was my very first taste of MST3K! I remember it so well even though it's been well over two decades ago -- sitting at my SIL's house while hubby, SIL & BIL, and friends played D&D in the next room. I didn't care for D&D so I was the designated babysitter and would play on the computer or flip channels after the kids had gone to bed. I stumbled across this insanely cheesy movie made hilarious by these shadowed figures talking throughout the entire thing, and when later I described it to hubby he said I must have found MST3K. I was a die hard fan after that! Even spent countless hours playing Caption This! at night on the sci fi channel website, anyone else remember that? Good times, good times.
That's a cute story for your introduction to MST3K! My first episode was Touch of Satan and my best friend had told me about this show numerous time before and this one night he finally decided it was time to enlighten me and we watched it on Netflix and I'm so grateful he did! And I know, my story isn't very special nor unique but oh well, I'm glad it happened! Haha
@@minxstole93 Touch of Satan is one of my most rewatched! Hubby and I quote it all the time. "Sightsee on your own time, Beelzebub!" 😂
"fight direction by William Shatner" ........Thats beautiful.
*Tears shirt*
*Falls down dramatically*
As someone old enough to remember those commercials, I really enjoyed the "Beef, it's what's for dinner" musical skit.
"Serpentine!"
I can still hear Peter Falk yelling it at Alan Arkin in 'The In-Laws', 1979. Hysterical scene!
“I’m sure there’s some perfectly nice Tiger sharks that’d be willing to eat these people.” 😂
Yeah that got me too😂
Best show ever. Period.
Durn right!
Agreed! Funny, when you get stuck sitting behind wisecrackers in a movie theater, you keep telling them to shut up and they ruin your night. And yet that's precisely why we watched MST3K. Ironic.
Clay Dude paragraph. (Codename diamondhead)
@@MelodyMeanFace MST3K is full carefully crafted jokes by their whole team as they rewatched these movies ad nauseum to come up with choice joke material (and sometimes even dropping movies because not enough material could be crafted around them to make it worth it.)
A bunch of wisecrackers making jokes off the cuff as a new movie is playing is not the same.
@@CrAzYpotpie The fact that they timed jokes to the second is artful unto itself.
Hahaha the line "End more! It's not ending enough!" makes me laugh more than it probably should.
"She could use a few inhibitions..." The Jean Paul Sartre Existential Bike Gang and on and on. This is my FAVE MST3000
This is a classic from the Golden Turkey Award. It was filmed on the beautiful and lust drenched beaches of Connecticut. I love when the hero is trying to find 'sodium' (as in table salt...road salt etc.) and will have to go all the way to New York to get some.
Eulabelle steals the show!
"Ain't no monsters gonna get in here tonight!"
The line that always makes me laugh the most. "Why am I dubbed?"
She was the best actor of the bunch, with an actual Broadway career.
"MOVE YOUR FEET, YA LOAD!"
I love the moment during the fight scene when the biker gang picks up the guy and rams him into the other guy. It was quite possibly the most hilarious thing that wasn't a riff. 19:55
I'm just glad it has a biker gang for a few minutes. That's about its only connection to the obvious beach movies, the "Frankie and Annette" ones.
Do they still do that at beach party's. It.s back in style.
Yeah that whole fight scene was...comical 😆
Whoever did the dance choreography apparently choreographed the big fight also.
"Batchman!"
“Why am I dubbed?” Idk why, but that just sent me hahaha
25:06 "And all the flesh slipped off my skullllll...." lolololol one of my favorite lines
I'd never seen this one before somehow. I'm 10 minutes in and hysterically laughing -- this may be one of my new favorites.
It's amazing they can get such rich sound without plugging in their instruments.
So, you take a skeleton, apply radioactive waste, and wind up with Cookie Monster with a six pack of hotdogs shoved in its mouth. I can see that...
"Do farts have lumps?" I literally had to stop and rewind after that line, I laughed so hard.
It kills me every time I watch this one
My all time favorite riff 🤣🤣
Mine do!
Horror of party beach. How could I not pick this episode with a title like that?
"And all the flesh slipped off my skuuulllll~!"
It's the SELKIE CHILDREN! They're ATTACKIN'!!! (man, this is such a quotable episode)
You know it. Don’t bother trying to take a selkie skin in Los Angeles...the selkies got guns!
the old "teenager" somewhat sexual moans at 1:22:02 always make me laugh as mike and the bots suddenly get uncomfortable, and servo's mimicking it always makes me smile
That was seriously funny.
*somewhat?*
the awkward silence is what gets me
Actual sex scenes are less awkward than that lmao
This is my favorite episode of all of mst3k that i have seen
Hank's only heroism was making phone calls, driving around, and throwing rocks.
I still can't get over that he was out partying with another chick the day after his girlfriend was murdered.
OUR HERO
@@VC-xj1fs what a chad
More than I can do honestly
I'm old. I saw The Horror of Party Beach at the drive-in. One of the best of the worst.
drive ins should still play stuff like The Horror of Party Beach.
@ 34:50 at the smells like dead fish comment crow turns and says "Mike" cuz you know he was going there lol
oh the other one that cracks me up: "lets see here, how to kill that spark of life, chapter one, joy, who needs it?"
Page vi of Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals."
"You know, they stole this music from black people... but black people were gonna throw it away anyway!"
LMFFAO
There are so many great riffs in this episode lol.
The scene where the maid warns him about voo-doo was actually really good.
Del Tenney died last week, he was 82.
He got back into making movies in recent years.
RIP, Del.
HAHAHAHAHA!!!
Doctor: "is it a plant or an animal?"
CROW: "it's a Plan-a-mal"
"Six miles out & I still hear that awful music."
50:32
Singer : youuuu are not a summer love
Crow : you are a summer sausage
My sides are in orbit
" I never needed you , and I never will "
Tom Servo : They wrote their own vows 😆
OH NO Run ted kennedy is driving home, That alone made me fav this one!
one of the benefits of mst3k being actually funny is that you don't need to smoke anything to make it enjoyable. Which gives it a leg up on the music of Dave Mathews.
I love seeing new people come back to these classic masterpieces.
This is one of my favorite. I think it's the Nair side girl, but also the riffs just kick butt.
I'm addicted to MST3K
I'm also hooked
If there is one addiction that is perfectly fine to have it's MST3K. Definitely nothing wrong with that since I'm in the same boat 😂
Rejoice! The official MST3K account is now posting good clean HD versions of episodes!
Fingal's Quarry, you say? Well, don't even bother with the sodium, just have Raul Julia scream at them that he is interfaced.
Lousy quarry though. Barely suitable for a stupid, repulsive anteater.
Let's never scroll that cinema.
Sodium makes him fingal his dopple
I wonder if it has stereocats?
I see we're going with the Fight Pure Ugly with Pure Beauty Initiative
"It's an Exxon training film" "I had a generally positive impression of white people before this movie" "My Richard Pryor impression." - classic
"Oh, I'm sorry, Dr. Gavin."/"Is the little baby gonna CRY?" XD
They determined the radioactivity of a tissue sample with a Ham Radio receiver! Maybe these guys are smarter than we thought...😂
"My plastic hair is furious!" is one of many sentences with which I've gleefully confused people. Over the years I think I've developed MST3K tourettes. :)
I too am afflicted with this and pythonisms.
Mst3k tourettes is definitely a thing and both my dad and myself have it, we constantly drop references and jokes and nobody ever gets it! 😂
@@JackedThor-so I speak “Skin Puppy” as well.
My favorite is: "Thinkaboutitwon'tyou?Thankyou."
Thank you, it's great to have a name for my condition; thought I suffered alone! EDIT: I would like your comment, but it's a perfect number of likes at the moment.
I lost it on"my plastic hair is furious!"
everybody's doin' it doin' it doin' it, pick their nose and chewin' it chewin' it chewin' it
"She thinks I'm average looking. :)"
-Mike
Oh, Mike...only you could be proud of that statement.
And that comment was directed at him by Mike's real life wife.
There are several episodes where Bridget’s character negs Mike. It’s a great running gag.
@@jonahfalcon1970So that’s why she said she was ‘familiar’ with him-
"She called you a crimson pig!... HEY!"
🎶 Guy without a face
Got no human traits 🎶
"Don't even know what panties are yet they feel compelled to raid"
lol, my favorite line
This episode and Girls Town are the episodes I use to get MST3000 virgins hooked!!
"Chances are, that i'll kick your scrawny ass." I'll sing that when i'm about to get in a fight lol
This is goin' straight up my nose!
Watching this now, as a long-time MST3K fan and a Nerdfighter, it's weird to remember that the hero of this movie is also Hank Green.
"Look out! Ted Kennedy's driving home!"
Servo so nails my beloved dark, dry humour in this episode - literally laughed till it hurt at quip about Richard Pryor impression!
"I believe in the existential outlaw as hero; that is why I travel with these men"
"I cant touch you, you're a lady!!" and "a part of me will never be back, a part of me is gone forever" both make me laugh every time i see this.
It's hard to believe this was a whole non-comedy film!
"so, radiation has a sense of humor..."
Oh my god I was dying at 19:20! "Chances are that I'll kick your scrawny ass."
DAMN! This MST3K episode is HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!
Starting at 1:21:53
That women and those noises WOW.
Mike is trying not to laugh.
It's exactly like when I watch porn and it goes out of sync like wtf
Servo's continuation followed by Mike's quiet admonishment was wonderful.
Apparently, the actress doesn't know the difference between groaning and moaning
@@alexiaNBC that's rather sad.
"Mike, are we being punished?" XD
Fun fact, Producer/Director Del Tenney cameo'd as the gormless gas station attendant.
"He's cute, isn't he?" "No." "No."
THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING. no it doesn't
*and* he's the gormless guy in the car wearing glasses that picks up the two girls in the 'look . . . polish' scene
1:04:15
"The Monsters Win the Pennant" , "The Monsters Win the Pennant"
To be fair the Green Monsters did have a Good team that year.
They deserve it.
They deserve it.
Go Packers!!
Okay, I'm done. I forgot how good this episode was! LoL
I count myself as a fan, but the guys are on firewith this one... Thanks to all:-)
Mark Harmon on drums
MY SKULL!
LOL
It's pleasing because he speaks in low, full tones, with plenty of lip and tongue action. And you should see his wire rack!
Ha! the guy shows up at a party after 20 plus young girls in town died and says "so it's pretty dead around here tonight" lol
"So Radiation has a sense of humor" LOL
I learned a lot about sodium from this episode.
Eulabelle is the best character in the movie.
Smartest one too.
She's actually the most notable actress in the film.
U kidding? Dr. Gavin does EVERYTHING in this from researching how to kill then killing the monsters. He disabused Eulabelle of her irrational fear-mongering in a calm, plain-spoken manner. Dr. Gavin taught his daughter the value of courtesy and RSVP’ing. Eulabelle ruined the only sample they had for which to do testing due to her wildly hysterical behavior.
Much fuss was made by the bots demanding that the protagonists use Sodium but How does one locate them in the first place to actually implement the sodium? Do you have enough of the sodium ? The monsters appeared randomly: beach, sorority house, woods, and even a quarry! So Dr. Gavin researched radioactivity levels in local bodies of water and Hank went to NYC to get as much Sodium as he could. All the While eulabelle tried to derail the momentum with her Voodoo idiocy. Constructive criticism is not racism. It toughens ppl up and makes them better in the long run. Saying Eulabelle’s the hero just because she knocked over a beaker reeks of the bigotry of low expectations(BLE).
@@Swybryd-Nation Maybe, but Eulabelle had a whole lot more personality than him. Or anyone in this movie, really.
@@Swybryd-Nation She had the most personality as opposed to all the other characters.
"The Ipswich Women's Club" Lovecraft reference. That was a good laugh.
Ipswich is a real town in Massachusetts. You're thinking of Innsmouth.
"Oohh, I betcha that would be good with drawn butter! Of course, I'd eat my own head with drawn butter." - Damn, Crow!
25:14"Ladies and gentlemen,Scott Scrawny.......and The Hardgainers”,hahaha!
I love when Kevin backhands Bridget in the 1st host segment. Great timing on both sides!
Eulabelle is the hero we need, but not one that we deserve.
Who would have thought the Mammy from Tom & Jerry is the true hero of this movie?
Okay, yes, parrot back the latest slang saying. So annoying.
I think you mean "THEY don't deserve"
She was smarter then all of them period
"Heh heh, this is going straight up my nose." I always quote or think of this when I see a character or person holding something small.
I don't know why, but "I think Lillian Gish can take this gang!!" gets me every time
Favorite line from Crow: "She swims like Luis Tiant!" (next line by Tom Servo: "She's actually going backwards!")
I just noticed that the credits list "lyric by Bill Corbett" for the sodium song at the end. *Lyric*, singular. Brilliant.
Something i noticed only today : the roman noble guy is called Callipyge , which is a latinization of the greek kallipygos, which means "nice butt" (or beautiful buttocks to be more precise). Just a little detail that made me smile
I love it when they do that. They've made Aristophanes references too
I bet that was Kevin Murphy's idea.
Yeah i like that they have multiple levels of jokes or riffs: they have the lavatory humor,the pop culture references,the political satire( not so strong but if you read among the lines there is a fair amount of it) and the "clever" references for the nerds. I love love love joel but mike era was wilder ,they tried to push the limits more. Just imho
Wow, thanks for that_ I guess the Slavic equivalent would be "Krasnoprdelnik."
When pearl and brainguy are playing fiddle did anyone notice Seasons in the Sun? 😂
Ah back when the Sci-Fi Channel had good shows.
The late-1990s/early-2000s on Sci-Fi were great. But it started going downhill with the WWE Friday night fights. The mainstream success of Battlestar Galactica was the final nail in the coffin.
When they changed the name to SyFy it was kind of like the end of an era.
I recall seeing the ad for this bomb in the paper. It was playing at a local drive-in. Yeah, I checked it out (haw!). I love what MST3 did with this one.
And while voodoo is superstitious nonsense, radiation causing skeletons to join with marine animals and goo to create amphibious bloodsucking monsters is SCIENCE! Between 1950s horror movie "science" and voodoo, I'll go with Baron Samedi: he makes more sense.
Baron Samedi's voodoo makes more sense than 50's movie science, and he's got better style than the average 50's movie scientist too.
Kill off the most interesting character in the opening 15 minutes. Nice work...
"We lip sync real bad."
"It's true, we suck."
"There are girls here and that's upsetting us!"
I regret that I have but one like to leave this movie...
@09:00"200 million flushes."
@32:25 "that's not how you make sun tea..."
@50:30 "you are a summer sausage..."
Brilliant!
"EXTRA! EXTRA!
"50'S EXTENDED INDIFFINETLY!!"
'PRESIDNET ORDERS MONSTERS BACK TO WORK"
This bomb was famously shot by director Del Tenney and co. in two weeks on a $50,000 budget. The best parts include kids dancing to a party band on the beach.
The band, The Del-Aires featured Ronnie Linares (guitar); Gary Jones (bassist); Bobby Osborne (saxophone); John Becker (drums) From the late 1950s-1960s the Del-Aires were a New Jersey band that played clubs in the Patterson, NJ area.
This one very quickly hits a lot of spots on MST3K Bingo: Rebellious teens - check, dopey monster suit - check, boring extended music sequences - check. All we need is a Sandy Frank or a Roger Corman in the credits.
Lightly rebellious 35-year-old "teens", but, yeah.
I think even Corman might consider this one beneath him. I mean, they screwed up the basic "reveal to character and audience the "sleeping" character is actually dead" gag by forgetting that you have to align the audience's POV with the discovering character's. A child could see the problem there. Say what you will about ol' Rog, but he's usually at least competent.
I love that Eulabelle is able to use sodium as the creature's weakness before the white characters and she tells "Hardware" Hank to check those last couple of numbers in the phone book so he found the sodium. She is the real hero!
"White characters". Stop sullying this community with identity politics. This is one of the last clean spaces , void of race baiting, left on the Internet.
"MOVE YOUR FEET, YA LOAD!" I nearly spewed cookies.