The Incredible Melting Man (MST3K fans)

ccarver30 · Aug 31, 2007

"I think it's starting to clear up a little!"

I love Mike. :ROFL:

Calla Lily · Aug 31, 2007

Haven't watched that one in awhile, so I can't come back with a riff.

But! I caught about half of 12 to the Moon (Mike's 1st season as host) yesterday, and they're trying out embryonic versions of the names they used for Mr. Beefcake in Space Mutiny! Woo-hoo! "Chunk Beefknob!"

The short--"Dreaming of the Future" or some such--was a truly nightmare-inducing GM car promo, with a woman in a white gown and a masked guy singing and dancing through all the new car models. In the host segments so far, Mike's wife (name?! The skinny dark-haried woman who played the snarky Roman matron in the 9th season) dresses up as her and dances around the SoL, with Mike singing back to her. It's hysteical.

ccarver30 · Aug 31, 2007

I need to get some more titles. They make me laugh over and over again. *love*

I have found love for the hideous Laserblast too. I hated it the first few times, but am now fond of it. LOL

My favorite line of all time though is from The Atomic Brain: El meow.

Calla Lily · Aug 31, 2007

Is Laserblast the one with the badly animated aliens and poor Keenan Wynn looking seedy? I liked that one from the start. Love the makeup on the "hero" when he goes all green.

Ooh, a favorite line... Very hard. A few that come to mind while at work:

Oh, you lovable trollop! (Space Mutiny--probably my all-time top MST3K)

I still want to know what "Flag on the moon" has to do with anything! (Beast of Yucca Flats)

Seen it! (Manos: The Hands of Fate--the umpteenth time the bad guy flings his snazzy robe at arms' width)

The "Failure" song from The Day the Earth Froze. And of course, the repetitions of "Sampo!"

Let's see how long these accents last. (Deathstalker)

Nope, I'm not addicted. I can stop watching any time. Really. See? Here I go. putting them away. Honest.

maxmordon · Aug 31, 2007

Santa Claus: There is a dollar in each letter, my chainmail scam works!

ccarver30 · Aug 31, 2007

I have Deathstalker in right now! LOL

The Santa Claus one is soooo bad!!

Calla Lily · Aug 31, 2007

Oh! Oh! I DO know my favorite line!

Mike: You see, when a monster and a little car love each other very much...

(From The Creeping Terror, when the 6 or 7 guys in the walking alien carpet costume start to, well, hump a compact parked in Lover's Lane to nosh on the teenagers inside.)

ccarver30 · Aug 31, 2007

He does that with another movie too! LOL

Mike: You see, when a man loves a car very much, he reclines the seat back and...

Calla Lily · Aug 31, 2007

LOL! Which movie?

ccarver30 · Aug 31, 2007

I think it is the short with the farming kid that just got his license and then his brother slams in to a train.

p.s. Yes, that's Laserblast! With the claymation space turtles!

Calla Lily · Aug 31, 2007

I don't have that short, alas.

My fave short used to be the "Summer on the farm" one, but that creepy "Dreaming of GM Cars" one yesterday is eclipsing it.

BTW, I've totally corrupted my kids with MST. I had to take the 15-y-o to a local production of Othello (advanced English class homework over the summer, blech). Not bad, but sooo needed to be edited. Plus they talked slower so the audience could try to understand Shakeapeare's English. At some point in act 4 someone was making a long speech, and we both leaned toward each other and whispered in our best Mike-&-the-Bots voices: "Shut up!"

jodiodi · Aug 31, 2007

Ah, the MST3K love ...

My husband had never seen it until we got married and now he and all 3 of his kids love it. We've got several of the sets, but need more ... much more.

The one my family keeps repeating is just the line: Mitchell!
Anytime something happens and we need a reaction, we just shout Mitchell!

underthecity · Aug 31, 2007

I don't have the time right now to watch entire episodes of MST3K, so I'm watching them in half-hour segments before I go to bed every night. I just rewatched Bride of the Monster (for the, I don't know, tenth time) and now I'm rewatching . . . .

Manos the Hands of Fate!

Oh, it's horrible. "Honey, why don't you visit with Torgo while I work on the car?"

But funny. And if you haven't read the wikipedia entry about it, you should.

allen

BTW, I have never seen The Incredible Melting Man. What season was that on?

allen

jodiodi · Aug 31, 2007

I remember reading an article in Entertainment Weekly or some such mag about Manos being the worst movie ever made (though Plan 9 From Outer Space also lays claim to that title). The fact that the writer/director/producer was a fertilizer salesman says a lot about Manos.

ccarver30 · Aug 31, 2007

It's season 7.

Tom said SHUT UP! today and I almost peed myself. LOL

maxmordon · Aug 31, 2007

I am watching The Undead right now

Everytime Crow screams SLEEP! During the hypnotism sesion I am closer and closer to pee my underpants

Mike: It's a brigade of 3 guys

Calla Lily · Sep 1, 2007

Ah, yes, The Undead.

Hey, I'm recombinin' DNA heah!

I strongly recommend 12 to the Moon. So many hilarious points to it. Tom Conway as an evil Russian. Francis X Bushman doing voice-overs. At the end, when his voice welcomes them back over the radio, Mike says, "He's still alive?!" And the short... Mike's wife, in the between-bits, uses Gypsy as a bread machine and Crow as electric beaters to make cookie dough. An unknown gem all around.

ccarver30 · Sep 4, 2007

Today we have Hamlet. 1960. German. English dubbed.

Calla Lily · Sep 4, 2007

Hamlet! Yes!

Hamlet: To be (hideously long pregnant pause)...or not to be.

Mike: The literary equivalent of [singing the opening to Beethoven's 5th symphony] Da-da-da-DUM.

Have you seen The Killer Shrews yet? Dogs dressed up it the lamest costume pieces.

larocca · Sep 4, 2007

Oh man, my little brother and I were like 9 and 10 years old or something when we talked Mom into taking us to the theater to see The Incredible Melting Man. We wanted to be scared witless, right? Not in this movie. Just some slow-moving dude leaving candle wax on the trees. But Mom was screaming in terror like every two minutes. Barry (little brother) and I laughed our butts off. Best ... movie ... ever. It was at least 5 years before she trusted us enough to go to a movie together again.

larocca · Sep 4, 2007

Hamlet. I haven't seen any of the films you're discussing, but you know I've never let ignorance stop me before.

I was working for Mom's cleaning service, and one customer had Fred the bird. He loved to whistle and call the dog, and she'd always come running. A black Great Dane. The dog, that is, not the bird. Since Fred spent some time at his owners' plumbing service, he recited entire one-sided phone calls about plumbing from memory. Be careful who you call with THAT bird around, eh?

So, Mom and I cleaned the house on the weekends. Nobody there but the two of us, the dog, and Fred. I decided to teach Fred Hamlet's soliloquy.

I can just picture the family sitting down to dinner when the bird starts rattling off "To be.....or not to be." And the people are all going, "Where in the hairy heck did he hear THAT?"

ccarver30 · Sep 4, 2007

LOL @ the bird story.

Crow: Please pray for me while I shower.

Calla Lily · Sep 4, 2007

GREAT bird story!

One of my few disappointments: The Starfighters. Long-winded, lame, boring, badly acted, scripted, directed piece of dreck about Air Force pilots in the 50s. Scene after scene of planes refueling in mid-air. Honest. Reminiscent of the pain of watching the landscape pass in Manos.

However, one of the in-between bits, Tom Servo and Crow, dressed as Generals, come marching on screen, complete with cadence jargon, and call in Mike.

Crow: Mike, you've been watching an hour of top-secred government information.
Mike: And?
Tom: That means it's time...to debrief you!

They pounce on him, there's a struggle, and Crow reappears with a pair of XXL Fruit of the Looms.

Mike: How did you get them off? My jumpsuit is still on!
Tom: That's classified.

Movie Sign blinks and they go into the theater.

Mike: Hey, guys, I want to thank you. This is really comfortable.

My DH thought that last line was great. Men.

ccarver30 · Sep 4, 2007

I have The Screaming Skull in now. This is one of my favorites. Crow has some great ones.

For some reason, I keep thinking of The Atomic Brain's :Alf, no!! (when the half dog/half man is attacknig one of the girls)

Shwebb · Sep 4, 2007

We watched the movie "300" last night, and I'm hoping that tonight we get to watch the Rifftrax version. I confess I was already riffing on the movie, in points. Decent movie--visuals were awesome! But definitely took itself too seriously, which makes it a perfect movie for these guys. If the sample on the site is anything like the rest of their soundtrack, it's gonna be a gutbusting laugh session.

Whee!

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