Favorite Movie on MST3K

[The Count]

Sure, it's no problem. Here you go.
Posted by WinslowLeech: "Mike expects Olivier or Branagh, but of course gets a murky dubbed version from the early 1960s starring Maximillian Schell..."
Hope this hlps.

 

[Winslow Leach]

Hi - sorry to pester everyone, but.. Count, maybe I'm blind *rubs eyes, disturbed*, but I didn't see info on the specific Hamlet movie used. Would someone mind posting the info again? *dives under a chair to avoid getting tomatoed*

The film lampooned is a ponderous, slow-moving and badly-dubbed made-for-German-TV production called Hamlet, Prinz Von Danemark, starring Maximilian Schell. It seems to be shot on a single set with black curtains. I read somewhere that this film, heavily edited to fit into a two-hour MST3K ep (or roughly under 100 minutes, without commercials), originally ran something like three hours! And it seems to go on forever in its heavily cut version!!

(and yes, I do enjoy Shakespeare, particularly Hamlet, but this one...)

BTW, this ep. is the one where Servo changes his name to "Htom Sirveaux."

One of the host segments is a game show spoof called Alas, Poor Who? in which you must identify someone by their bones.

The episode is included in the "Mystery Science Theater 3000 Volume 4" box set.

 

[dabauckham]

Awesome - thanks so much Winslow Leach and Count!

 

[The Count]

No worries...

*Mitchell.
Tom: Any movie with waka-cha-waka is OK by me.
Waka-cha-waka music plays on...
Tom: It was the 3rd of December.
A day I'll always remember!
Joel, watching Joe Don in the slo-mo intro: Why does it look like he's caught in a win tunnel?
All: Mit-mit-mittens?
Joel: Joe Don Baker is Mittens.
All: Mith... Mitch... Mitchell, oh, the Martha Mitchell story.
Joel: Joe Don Baker is Martha Mitchell.
All: Put em on your feet, give your dogs a treat... What a comfortable shoe!

*Zombie Nightmare.
Mike: Oh Badfinger, I saw them at myparents wedding when they opened for Fist.
Tom, as the lead hero (if he can be called that) is seen weeping at the cemetary at the end: You were the best Batman ever...
They just lambasted Adam West in that one.

 

[Winslow Leach]

From Wild Rebels:

Joel: Now, when you think of a macho writer who writes in a tense, hardboiled style, who do you think of?

Tom: Uh, Truman Capote?

 

[Winslow Leach]

Puma Man, with Donald Pleasence:

Mike (a closeup of Pleasence): He's basically an old baby.

Pleasence: Comb the area.
Crow: Donald's only use for the word "comb."

Mike: I am Pleasence, and I am funky.

Horrors of Spider Island:

Girl: I wonder where that peculiar hissing came from.
Tom: The audience! Hisssssssss!!

Tom (as Forrest Gump): Shrimp kabobs, shrimp gumbo, shrimp ice cream, shrimp-skin coats, shrimp hubcaps, shrimp contact lenses, shrimp-based religions...

Tom: So this is a sexy, spider-filled version of The Tempest.

Mike: You know, guys who play the muted trumpet love these movies, it's the only time they get work.

Posture Pals, a 1950s short about the importance of good posture:

Narrator: Now what gives Jane her worried frown?
Joel: Valium?
Narrator: Look at the board, it's plain to see that Jane must practice standing straight to grow up, like a lovely tree!
Tom: All of a sudden it's iambic pentameter here.

Narrator: Mary, with hollow chest and tired head...
Crow: She should just go home to bed!
Tom: D'oh!
Crow: Green Eggs and Ham.
Tom: Thank you, Sam I Am.

(three "posture pal" kids are shown wearing crowns and capes)

Joel: Their chances of being cool are ruined for life.

The Unearthly, with John Carradine...

Tom: Hey John, why the long face?

(Carradine at organ)

Crow: I'm sorry, I can't think of an ending.
Tom: I can't think of anything else.

(the above comes from the Marx Bros. film Animal Crackers, in which Chico keeps playing the same thing over and over again on the piano, much to the annoyance of Groucho)

Carradine: Suppose you could wake up every morning and see your face untouched by time?
Joel: Like Dick Clark?

(a character is injected with a needle)

Tom: Hey, Lenny Bruce!

Guy: Forever's a long time, doc.
Crow: Yeah, tell us about it, this movie's a long time!

Crow: Music by the Edgar Allan Poe Marching Band!

Riding with Death:

Mike (as a character is beat up): We'd like you to consider Scientology!

Crow: The 70s didn't deal well with stuff that wasn't mellow.

Mike: Peter Fonda is Richard Petty in The Marcel Marceau Story!

Tom: Not Gavin McLeod, but an incredible simulation.

Crow: Can you give me directions?

Mike: Yeah, you go around that turn and you go around that turn one more time, and you go around that turn there.

Parts: The Clonus Horror...

Crow (inaudible dialogue): I can't hear what they're saying, and frankly, I don't care!

Crow (referring to Dick Sargent): He looks like an adult fetus.

The best part of this episode though, is star Peter Graves. At the time of this episode, he was the host of the A&E series, "Biography." Throughout the show, whenever Graves appears onscreen, Mike and the 'Bots imitate Graves's voice, introducing each quip with "Tonight on 'Biography'"...

My favorite is "Tonight on 'Biography', huge lamps of the 70s!"

 

[Winslow Leach]

Hey Count, remember the "Creepy Girl" song?

 

[The Count]

Not rully... But I remember the Cathy Ireland sog.

 

[Winslow Leach]

Not rully... But I remember the Cathy Ireland sog.

You mean "My Wild Irish Ireland"?

 

[Winslow Leach]

"Creepy Girl" song from Catalina Caper, as sung by a smitten Tom Servo:

Lyle Waggoner's a total jerk,
Second only to Tommy Kirk.
Could you find it in your heart
To love a 'Bot like me?
That fishy story you tell
Always makes me sleepy,
But that's just what I get
For dating a girl that's creepy!
My creepy girl!

Oh, C is for that feeling of uncertainty for not knowing what ethnic group you're from. R is for the gifts you give me every time you smile. The first E is for--uh, well, uh, I don't really know. But the second E is really a grammatical thing, 'cause otherwise it would be "Crepy Girl," and where would that leave us? The P is definitely not for "platonic." And Y? Because I love you!

My creepy girl!

Oh, what are you creepy girl? Are you French, Italian, or one of those swarthy Gypsy types? Well, your accent suggests a romance language, but I can't be sure. Oh, we can definitely rule out a Germanic language. But it's okay! I'm a 'Bot without a country. All I know is that I love you! I want to shout it from the mountain tops! Uh, but, I'd have to get back down to earth and actually climb a mountain. Or they could just drop me off on a mountain. I don't care! That would be okay, because I just need YOU!

My creepy girl!
Won't you be mine?
I'll give you scrolls and fish
And tinker toys and wine!
I'll ditch these guys
If you'll be my creepy girl!
Be mine before
Movie sign!
Whooo hoo yooo hooo!