What would they call the Mads on this? "The Mad"?

Ben Jackson

I don't know if anyone else recieves the MST3K newsletter (since it's on the Sci-Fi Channel now, it probably isn't published anymore...) but the "Hard Copy" of the ship's system report is actually a copy of one of the issues of the newsletter!

I had a great time watching them dissect the closing credits!

The newsletter has been converted to a website, www.mst3kinfo.com. It cost too much to publish and mail the newsletter.

The Amazing Rando!

Seriously, the film "This Island Earth" was one of the inspirations for the SNL sketch "The Coneheads". I think the hows and whys are pretty obvious if viewed.

Watch Rando the Great construct sets with his very mind!

I'm not really sure where this should go, but this is as good as any...

If anyone ever watches the Nicktoon "Angry Beavers", the beavers watch really bad black and white monster movies (where you can see microphone booms, etc...) wherein the characters talk in a monotone parody of bad monster movies.

There was another host segment in this, but Gramercy took it out. It was a meteor shower and Mike and the bots tried to escape getting killed. Or that's what I heard.

Alright, since the surfers on here have mentioned the great lines of regular epsiodes, how about those of this movie?

My vote for that is "And then I jam my ovapositer down your throught(sp?) and lay my eggs in your chest, but I'm not an alien!"

or "Joe, Joe, watch out for the prop Joe, you (sound of someone getting chopped up by a propeller)" Even typing that, I was laughing out loud.

And of course, during the jet plane sequence...
when the footage of snow capped mountains appear, "geeze, there are soccer players laying all over the place"

as Cal and Joe are opening the package "How'd they get blow up Wanda in there?" or something like that..

"Eat my photons, small heads!" Cracks me up, especially with Tom Servo doing the funny voice.

Or how about: "a giant flaming hat was seen today..." during the crash scene.
I know so much about this one because I bought the movie..
when cal gets on the plane for the first time and sees the empty seats... "i'm claude rains, your pilot and your co-pilot is harvey."
I am Eastman, i came from the east to fight.. The Amazing Rando!

Best line:
Postman: "Sort this, deliver that; I'll make 'em all pay."

The best line:

"Eat at Joe's, Eat at Joe's, Eat at Joes."

My favorite lines are, "And why I a picture of a burger on my wall," when in Brak's chamber, "You know is really hard to get those decals on with out tearing," when they see Cal's jet take off, the sound of suspencful music when Cal and the woman run down a hill into the water, and," The secrect government eggo prject, contact Dr. Jemima."

I'm busting a gut just thinking about this movie.

Normal view!

Normal view!

Normal view!

My favourite line: "...and so we escape under the cover of..day..in the biggest car in the county!"
Also: "Come on down to L. Marie Ford. Free hot dogs and balloons for Mom" from closing credits.
Does anyone know when/if mst3k will be shown in australia?

For best line, how about:
"Now, I swear we parked on level C, right next to--Oh, %$@#!"
"Oh no! Tinkerbell's going down! Pull up, Tink!"
"Captain's Log: 'I've lost my toupée and girdle and I can't leave my room.'"
Visit my website at Matt Rinehart Online!

The whole conversation about the Pop Tart.... OF THE FUTURE!!! "The secret government eggo project." "Contact Dr. Jemmima." and so on.

Turn on more flashing lights and increase the Flash Gordon sound effects.

"There you have it...a letter opener."

Actually rachqd, the line is: "So let's slip away, under cover of Afternoon, in the biggest car in the county."

Other good lines that haven't been posted yet:

"Should we be seeing this?" (after the overhead shot of the guy steering the plane)
"Ooh, I like the blueberry ones best."
"Puppet wrangler? There weren't any puppets in this movie!"
"This is a job for Weenieman!"
"Come, come, Doctor, surely a man of your scientific curiosity would want to know a few things about me -- who I am, where I come from..." "If I have pants on..."
"I'm gonna curl up in his sock drawer and sleep for days."

My favorite, having lived in the Chicago area for so long:

"Hey! You can see the Cubs losing from here!"

There's a couple of cracks I don't get.

First:"Oh, there's soccer teams all over the place."
During the credits: "All rights are reserved, Callaghan!" "Oh Yeah? Well what about the rights of that little girl?"

I think the "All Rights Reserved" joke is from
Dirty Harry.

News flash, Gordon: Several years ago an airplane carrying a soccor team crashed in the Andes and the survivors were forced to eat the dead, (but that's the risk you take when you fly no frills.)
They made a movie about it. (That's what I call dinner theater.)
(I'm not certain if they crashed in the Andes McDowells or the Andes Kaufmans though.)
;-)

I tell you what: I don't get the "secret eggo project".

Huh?

In the US, Eggo™ is a brand of bad-tasting, frozen waffles that busy people can pop in the toaster or microwave, when there is nothing else quick & easy, or when they can't afford to stop at a fast food joint.

Ah. I see.
Thanks, KAM. Now I can laugh.

Actually, I did already...and I didn't even know what it was about.

Ah, those wacky MSTers!

Hey, I do that too, sometimes! Laugh at the jokes I don't understand, I mean. Sometimes they just *sound* so funny! :-)

"Doesen't the fact that it's Universal make it International?"

"Doesen't the fact that it's Universal make it International?"

I watched the original.. ie... non-misted version of the movie.... It was pretty good, but I was suprised by how much the MSTing left out...

Jon: I have seen the original, too. I must say, despite the cheesy special effects and the bad acting, it was rather good. The reason there was so much left out of the movie in the mst3k version was that gramercy cut out an entire theater and host segment.

If that's the case, I hope they make a Directors Cut or something. Even If they made it and it went to DVD, I think I would buy a DVD Player just to watch it. (BTW, the movie was actually shorter that many of the actual tv episodes, if you take out commercials)

Jason's right. I watched this yesterday and it was very short compared to an average tv episode. Is it out on DVD yet?

My favorite line was something like: "Oh no! The professor! And his coffin will be made entirely out of coconuts, thank you." (Havent seen the movie in a few years :-) )

I've practically memorized this movie... for lines:

"Captain.. uh huh, uh huh... the Klingons have us in their tractor beam... do you want me to keep talking like George Takai?"

"Captain's Log: Part of the ship fell off... and... nobody likes me."

"I can just see the landlady now. Bum Bum Bum are you boys cooking up there? No. Are you building an Interoceter? No!"

"2,146 parts." *squish* "145 sir.." *skish* *crunch*

"Give Uncle Scrotor a hug!"

"Exeter died on impact, Brak was araigned in superior court, county of Los Angeles, in a moment, the results of that trial."

"GI Joe action set, Nerdy Joe not included."

Why on earth would Gramercy want to take out what had to be a big chunk of the movie, rendering 'This Island Earth's' plot not only dopey but incoherent...and making the whole thing an even harder sell to theaters? (It couldn't have been racy content; i was a little startled at how far downhill the 'bots' vocabularies went as it was).
Incidentally, a favorite line that hasn't been mentioned yet:
'Well, there's something my wife could use around the house -' 'A man?'

And how about:

"You know what my kids would say. . ."
"You're not my real father!"

My favorite line never actually made it into the final film--it's from the live version of "This Island Earth" that they did at the ConventioCon. When Russel Johnson (the Professor) is driving away and the car is rocking from laser blasts, they all start singing, "the weather started getting rough. . ."

(when all the parts from the interacitor are laid out) "There, it's done, whadaya think?"

has anyone seen the deleted SOL scenes from this movie? I thought maybe they'd be on the DVD.

I still don't understand why they were taken out in the first place?

some geniuses at grammercy thought the skits would have confused audiences new to MST. so they asked them to edit it out. pretty dumb if you ask me

Me too. Especially since they went to so much - too much almost - trouble to lay out the premise at the beginning of the film.

Another favorite line(s):

"So, was being green fun?" "I don't want to talk about it!" "Well, I just thought, y'know..." "No! Shut up."

And while the plane was green: "Eat at Joe's, Eat at Joe's, Eat at Joe's..."

"Suddenly I have a refreshing mint flavour!"

How about:

"Early LSD tests in the air force."

CAL: "Ruth don't you know me?"
TOM: "C'mon dummy!!"

"There go the piano lessons."

I can't remember my dad!

Here's a link to an essay about the book that This Island Earth is based on.

"Don't worry, I'll buy you a new one." "Cal" comforting Ruth over the body of the dead killer alien.

One of my favorites that wasn't mentioned after Ruth escaped the alien by herself:

"Thank God I saved you."

Have we quoted the entire movie, yet?

Not yet...

"Can you hand me my calculations? Thanks. Hey! Breach Hull = All Die. Even had it underlined."

Here's a few more:

"I feel safe with you Brack, you have a gentle touch."

"Ah, they're going 65, so they'll be there in 3 billion years."

"Ah, the script finally arrived."

"Now that you've exploded, any word for our listeners?"

And finally: "Pay no attention to me, I'm just a weather balloon. Just some swamp gas."

So, who decided to show Mike as a fit athletic hunk at the beginning of the movie? Could it have been … oh, I dunno … just a guess here … but could it possibly have been … the Head Writer??! ;-)

How do they tell the difference between ‘Condition Yellow’ and ‘Commercial Sign’?!

How did Mike get changed into his jumpsuit so quickly between Movie Sign and going into the theatre?

The Host Segments seemed rather strained in comparison with the TV show. Dr F in particular didn’t come across well, in my opinion. I think the problem was that they had to choose a film that wasn’t too awful because non-MSTies probably wouldn’t have tolerated a really bad one, but it made Dr F look a bit silly believing that this film would break Mike. Unfortunately, I felt that the writers didn’t help by having Mike and the bots proclaim the film as a piece of cake at the end.

That said, the riffing was an absolute delight. A lot of the best lines have already been quoted above, but some of my other favourites were:

“Ow, that ringing! Now he knows what the world sounds like to Pete Townsend.”
“Our liquorice icecream cones melted!”
“Hey, Miss Interociter!”
“It’s the amazing technicolour cheese wedge!”
Cal after his flight in a plane with no bathroom: “Hullo? Where can I empty my hat?”
“Ladies and gentlemen, A Flock Of Seagulls.”
“Oh gross, I saw Cal’s pubic bone!”
“Eww, it’s Michael Stipe’s head!”
“Raspberry World – for all your raspberry needs.”
Exeter flies the UFO low over the ocean: “Let’s see how many times I can skip this thing.”

On the off chance you've never seen it before, that scene during the opening credits was a parody of a scene from 2001.

I was just watching the video for Weird Al's song "Dare to be S-tupid." They use the interositor several times during it! :-)

What's with the bot's reference to Ruth's line about Exeter's slave quarters - when they reply "not funny Ruth, I was a slave". Is this somehow (mistakenly?) referring to Rex Reason's brother Rhoades' appearance as Flavius Maximus on the Trek episode 'Bread and Circuses'?

Maybe, but I think they're really just trying to riff clever and ironic off Ruth's lighthearted comment.

I wonder why mike and the 'bots didn't jump on ruth for changing her dress and putting on pearls right in the middle of the lab scene with the cat.

SPOCK!

Now it's time for the Brak show! Dun-dun-dunun dun dun! It's the Brak, starring me and BRAK! It's the Brak show, and we've got lots of good guests!

Going all the way back to Andy Jackson's favourite line from the postman ("Sort this, deliver that; I'll make 'em all pay"), I guess most people already know that the postman was played by none other than our favourite maker of MSTable movies, Coleman Francis!

No wonder the bots had Joe say "I don't like you," to the postman!

Any Brits who’ve not seen this or would like an introduction to MST3K should note that the movie will be premiered on British TV this coming Wednesday night on ITV1.

Saw it last night, so I finally know what it's all about! One line that hasn't been quoted yet:

"The hand rails are magnetic"
"And if your hands were metal, that would mean something."

(Did they comment on the infamous line where Ruth says the cat is called Neutron because it's so Positive? (Neutrons aren't positive.) I was making toast at the time.)

I just noticed a BRILLIANT reference to the show during the Hubble sketch. Look at the button/switch/whatever-it-was that Mike hits to activate the manipulator arms: it's marked "MANOS"! (You know? "hands"? Get it?) You can even hear the Haunting Torgo Theme playing when the arms first emerge from the SOL!

"Cal... no, wait... Cal, I'm stuck! Whh--whh---whaa!

"May your forehead grow like the mighty oak!" That one kills me every time, and it's right at the end.

For those who didn't notice, Shout Factory is doing a proper DVD/Blu-ray release of the movie. It's reported that it'll be jam packed with extras, including the deleted scenes. No word on how they'll be presented, whether inserted into the movie a la Lord of the Rings Extended Edition or as a conventional extra. It's coming out in September and can be preordered from all the usual online retailers.

The packing of jam on the DVD release seems to have gone awry. My version had a couple of short extras which weren't worth the money, and I wasn't aware of any additional scenes in the movie.

I'm guessing what you got was some earlier bare-bones release. Here's the Amazon entry for the Shout Factory release:

http://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Science-Theater-3000-Blu-ray/dp/B00D7AM6B6/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1383220927&sr=8-3&keywords=Mystery+Science+Theater+3000+The+Movie

This Island Earth is considered a classic among Sci-Fi Fans. I wonder why they chose this movie?

Because it's a sci-fi movie with all the cornball elements you expect in a movie screened on MST3K that also happens to be in color and widescreen and in the Universal vault.

IIRC there's a topic in the Kitchen Sink of Love concerning movies on the show that were actually pretty good.

I have this movie on my shelf.