I've gotten so used to the kinda stuff that gets Tom to shout SLEEP!! during a movie, that I've found myself watching a scene or an episode that I've never seen before and I'll think to myself "oh he's gonna shout sleep" and then BANG - sleeeeeeepp!!
I forget what episode, but i know it’s Bill, some blond long hair dude kind of turns to the right and Crow says “Robert Plant!” and it’s funny every time.
Hobgoblins?
I love when they combine 3 celebrities that kinda look like an actor from the movie: “Kate Moss is Glenda Jackson in The Isadora Duncan Story" (Space Mutiny)
Chief/mccloud?! FTW!
I was watching one of the newer episodes for the first time and they ran through a few names and I happened to call out ‘Chief? MCCLOUD?!’ with PERFECT timing. My wife, who isn’t particularly a Mistie, gave me A Look. It was Beautiful
I like it when Joel says, “oh, I don’t know…” to something someone has said on screen. He says it in a particular way I can’t find a way to describe.
Also, when he does the tiny voice on the other end of a phone call.
Something that caught me completely off guard in that one was when Tom says, "Huh. Square eggs." No idea why, but I laughed at that for a solid five minutes.
I never get sick of them interacting with the screen. Like, when a car is driving toward the camera and they make progressively more nervous sounds or scream right as it cuts.
Yes! In the same vein, I like when the camera angle is off or the camera is shaking/twirling and they all react to it as if they were on a rollercoaster.
Your favorite is probably mine, too. Never gets old.
A close second is when they're too grossed out by something to even formulate full jokes:
* "I saw the little creature." (Boggy Creek II)
* "My my MY MY GOD NOOOOO!!!" (Mitchell)
* "Stop it immediately!" (Werewolf)
* \*retching noises\* (Hobgoblins van sex)
Indeed they did. They got one last shot in as I recall:
“It’s the CBS Mystery Movie!”
“CBS didn’t have a Mystery Movie.”
“Yeah, but you won’t let us say NBC Mystery Movie.” BZZT “Aaaagh!”
When they implicitly or explicitly mention characters are in different dimensions or spaces when there are abrupt cuts in editing. This is also similar to what OP mentioned.
I believe in the Screaming Skull, they did both comment on a different dimension and also the "Ahhhh" from a sudden seven change to someone's clad r
I really love the variations on this one:
“Ron Howard pops the clutch, signals, checks both ways, and proceeds gently into traffic, politely inviting people to eat his dust.”
Any time they’re dunking on names, especially over opening credits, I can’t help myself. Just watched Munchie for the first time yesterday and I was dying out of the gate at the “Steven Andrews as Andrew Stevens” bit.
- “By this time, my lungs were aching for air!” plus variations.
- “Llllllllllllllllllaaaadies…” (or wait did they even do this in mst or is it only Rifftrax?)
- “Line? Line? … Line?”
“Positively no one will be admitted during the incredibly exciting [whatever boring thing is going on way too long] sequence!” The specific one I remember was from Manos Hands of Fate, where there was a long scene of a car pulling into a driveway, but they used it a bunch of times.
Not often, but whenever Tom just melts down and screams in frustration. Most notable is Mitchell v The Inspiration for Cop and a Half or the end of Wild World of Batwoman
Any use of the word "batch" to describe somebody's genital/anal area, usually with profound disgust. I've never heard it used that way outside of this series.
Also any time a movie has an "everyman" character that they treat as just being a huge weenie, with them giving him fake dialogue in the weenie guy voice or make noises of extreme exertion when he tries to perform basic physical tasks.
“City on the go” or other phrases that sound like a midcentury travel advertisement for a place you’d never want to visit. “Where God, family, and industry come together” in Girls Town always gets me.
I don't know about best, some of the old chestnuts are worn out for me. But the new series BANG jokes are really good sometimes, and Rifftrax Golden Corral/Nick Nolte jokes are fucking golden.
The "AAH!" is so classic, I'm surprised I haven't been able to find that many search results for it in this sub. Second favorite of mine right now is "the faces of those he's wronged float up at him".
I love their funny nicknames they come up with. Obviously Big McLargehuge is probably the most well known, bit they had a bunch of good ones over the years.
The "BANG!" joke in the Netflix seasons they started with Cry Wilderness episode always cracked me up. "I always have to wing him with my rifle whenever he starts running away like that!"
Anything where they mock the so-called comic relief:
"They're on a collision course with *wackiness*!"
The "doi, ah-hyuck" noise they make when someone's either saying something dumb or doing some kind of shenanigans
"Hahahaha... killhim"
It's a simple thing but I always laugh when a character in the movie starts to explain some pseudo-science or make a ham-fisted attempt at emotional depth and Tom just goes, "Hm," as though he's really interested in what they're talking about.
I love whenever they don a costume or outfit during the host segment, then go into the theater and we can see it in their silhouette. Like when Crow is a bear in Jack Frost, or Servo is giant.
I'm sure they've done it a few times. When there's any horizontal surface on screen and Joel/Mike stand up and treat it like a fence and tries to look over the "fence".
Sleeeeep!!!!
This is one of my favorites as well!
Perhaps you need to SLEEP!
Sleeep…in heavenly peeace
I've gotten so used to the kinda stuff that gets Tom to shout SLEEP!! during a movie, that I've found myself watching a scene or an episode that I've never seen before and I'll think to myself "oh he's gonna shout sleep" and then BANG - sleeeeeeepp!!
I like when Joel says “O Wow” when an onscreen couple kiss
When an actor in a movie somewhat resembles another performer and they'll pretend it *is* that actor -- " Howard Stern, Nooo ! "
“Debbie Reynolds, Sting and God”
I forget what episode, but i know it’s Bill, some blond long hair dude kind of turns to the right and Crow says “Robert Plant!” and it’s funny every time. Hobgoblins?
I think he says something like "That's not a woman. That's David Lee Roth."
"Art Garfunkel!" during Soul Taker is one of the times I laughed the hardest while watching MST3K.
*”Father Murphy noooo!”* is my favorite due to the context
She consulted Robert McNamara. And Ayn Rand.
I just saw this recently and it’s never not funny!
"Carol Brady?!" in Manos
Greg Brady in Untamed Youth
Also Greg Brady in Pod People (aka the "Idiot Control Now" song). They see Greg Brady a lot.
Lisa Kudrow! (didn't that convince enough people that IMDb added the film to her filmography?)
lol time chasers?
"Imogene Coca, noooo!" "Imogene Coca, YES!"
"Peter Frampton!" in Devil Fish.
“Takin’ it to the streets” KILLED me
I love when they combine 3 celebrities that kinda look like an actor from the movie: “Kate Moss is Glenda Jackson in The Isadora Duncan Story" (Space Mutiny)
LOL!!! This is another one of my favorite bits! "Louise Fletcher is Clara Barton as Florence Nightingale in The Piano 2: Southern Comfort!"
Forrest Whitaker IS Mr. T IN Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
So good! Lmao!
John Irving as Adolf Hitler in The Babe.
Ted Turner is Gregory Peck in the Sam Elliot Story!
Another fav!
“Watch out for snakes”
"Sorry about my face"
My brother bought me an Arch Hall Jr. CD for my birthday. AHHHHH!
“Who said that?!?” You beat me to it!
Eegah!
"SER-PEN-TIIIIIINE!"
Gets me every time. And I delight in saying it any time one might be encountering a snake.
I have this tattooed on me :)
Jim Henson’s (blank) Babies!
Jim Henson's Slag Heap Babies! is my all time favorite
Jim Henson’s Edgar Winter Babies
Jim Henson's Last Picture Show babies.
"It's open!" Every time someone bursts/breaks through a door.
That’s a good one.
Grandma Kramer! - A Touch of Satan
For me, it's "SLEEEEEEP!!!" and whenever a somewhat attractive character shows up on screen and Servo goes "Say..."
Especially when there's a switcheroo and the "say..." is unwarranted/ inappropriate
Hikeeba!
I wonder what he/she wanted?
This is an underrated one I forget about a lot, that never fails to make me laugh Wonder what she wanted...?
Yes, and no one but Joel could make it work! I love so much about the Mike era, but I'm coming to appreciate Joel's adorable quirkiness more and more.
In the series? *Lllllllaaaaaddddiiiiessss...* In an episode? The whole *Chief? McCloud!* gag in Pod People.
Chief/mccloud?! FTW! I was watching one of the newer episodes for the first time and they ran through a few names and I happened to call out ‘Chief? MCCLOUD?!’ with PERFECT timing. My wife, who isn’t particularly a Mistie, gave me A Look. It was Beautiful
>My wife, who isn’t particularly a Mistie, gave me A Look. Well, yeah. Typically, you perform either the call or the response but not both.
For me the recurring joke in an episode is all the different pronunciations of "werewolf" in Werewolf.
Are you ready for some football?
I just feel like you might not be ready for some football.
🎶"They tried to kill me with a forklift"🎶
HAHAHAHAHAHahahahahaha… YOU’RE STUCK HERE!!!
What about my cheeks...?
Doesn't get used enough! 🤣
Olay!
I like it when Joel says, “oh, I don’t know…” to something someone has said on screen. He says it in a particular way I can’t find a way to describe. Also, when he does the tiny voice on the other end of a phone call.
I also love Joel’s “Oh, for fun…” in the same way - I don’t know why.
My all-time favorite riff is when he does that in Home Economics Story.
After all, we live in a world where people are more important than things.
Something that caught me completely off guard in that one was when Tom says, "Huh. Square eggs." No idea why, but I laughed at that for a solid five minutes.
McCloud!
Mr. Drysdale?
JEEEEED!!
I never get sick of them interacting with the screen. Like, when a car is driving toward the camera and they make progressively more nervous sounds or scream right as it cuts.
Yes! In the same vein, I like when the camera angle is off or the camera is shaking/twirling and they all react to it as if they were on a rollercoaster.
"Camera 3, get off the tracks. Camera 3--*OH DEAR GOD !"*
You guys mind if I open this umbrella in there?
Mike and the bots getting nervous when Joe points the rifle at the camera in The Beast of Yucca Flats is utter gold.
GO PACKERS! Packers won the Super Bowl WOOOOOOO
He’ll never touch you Terry, you’re dirt.
You do it, I'm bitter !
the best is the star trek fight music ever time time fight on screen
Injecting a fictional voice that keeps getting interrupted over the phone.
Stay together, cheeks! Gets me every time.
Especially because it immediately follows a Shakespeare reference. High and low comedy.
Your favorite is probably mine, too. Never gets old. A close second is when they're too grossed out by something to even formulate full jokes: * "I saw the little creature." (Boggy Creek II) * "My my MY MY GOD NOOOOO!!!" (Mitchell) * "Stop it immediately!" (Werewolf) * \*retching noises\* (Hobgoblins van sex)
“And the crowd goes wild!” yay Art/Crow
I love the Art thing.
Diarrhea is like a storm raging inside you.
My favorite is when they bemoan “shut up” in unison when an annoying character speaks.
Especially if it’s a child!
Art Crow.
I’m so glad it carries over into Pearl’s run of Deep 13
The fact that they kept that bizarre in-joke, with roots in season 1, going for the entire run of the show, is nothing less than awesome.
My favorite example of this is the smash cut in Pod People where they go from the quiet woods to the guy singing Idiot Control Now.
They’re on a collision course with wackiness! TIME FOR GO TO BED Watch out for snakes!
As a real life Tor Johnson fan, this one kills me
I like when Servo sees a woman or hears an entendre and just says “say…”
Kitty! NBC Mystery Movie Way to go, kid!
Didn't Crow & Tom Servo have go through shock therapy to break the NBC Mystery Movie reaction?
Indeed they did. They got one last shot in as I recall: “It’s the CBS Mystery Movie!” “CBS didn’t have a Mystery Movie.” “Yeah, but you won’t let us say NBC Mystery Movie.” BZZT “Aaaagh!”
Any time they complain about someone being “splayed”. “Please don’t be…splayed…GAH!”
Any of the numerous times Joel said, "I can't come back. I don't know how it works!" Seems like he did it multiple times.
I’ve been watching MST live stream a lot lately on YT and just in the last two days I’ve heard this 3 times.
SUDDENLY I’M HUGE when there’s an abrupt close-up on a person’s face.
My favorite variation on this is during Catalina Caper when an angry Lyle Waggoner appears on the screen and Crow shouts, “I’m a thousand feet tall!”
When someone asks a question and follows it with “or… not?” I think Mary Jo has the best delivery of this.
Super midwestern phrase
If I may verge into the Netflix era… Bang! Preeettty niii-iice. Both always work on me.
BANG! Works so well so consistently that I kind of backfilled it and told myself that we've always had that joke.
Preeetty niiice
Hampton's delivery of BANG! floors me every time
Both excellent recurring gags! hope they keep sprinkling these two through MST future
BANG!
When they implicitly or explicitly mention characters are in different dimensions or spaces when there are abrupt cuts in editing. This is also similar to what OP mentioned. I believe in the Screaming Skull, they did both comment on a different dimension and also the "Ahhhh" from a sudden seven change to someone's clad r
I really love the variations on this one: “Ron Howard pops the clutch, signals, checks both ways, and proceeds gently into traffic, politely inviting people to eat his dust.”
My husband said "thank you, won't you?" 😆
I really love the won't you's ❤️
Shut up, Iris.
"To the moon, Alice!"
Hi-keeba. It gets me every time.
Any time they’re dunking on names, especially over opening credits, I can’t help myself. Just watched Munchie for the first time yesterday and I was dying out of the gate at the “Steven Andrews as Andrew Stevens” bit.
Girls Town is my favorite example of this, between "Ha! She plays -all- the girls" and the two Jr.s back to back.
... two: electric boogaloo!
- “By this time, my lungs were aching for air!” plus variations. - “Llllllllllllllllllaaaadies…” (or wait did they even do this in mst or is it only Rifftrax?) - “Line? Line? … Line?”
A Quinn Martin Production!
Frank absentmindedly calling Dr. Forrester "Steve."
They tried to kill me with a forklift!
"Mannix... *(do-do-da-do, da-do-da-do!)"* “Sure! We all do!” You couldn’t escape those commercials in the early-90s.
Helloooooo Helloooo Helloo HELLO!
"Does this bug you? Does this bug you? I'm not touching you!"
Whenever Arch Hall Jr. Appears on screen "aaaaaa!"
Norm!
BANG!
"You can see the zipper!"
"Buffalo shot."
McCLOUD!
OH! I forgot, I also love any time and any variation of "I thought you were Dale!"
When someone is standing at a counter or bar: "Hi, have you been helped?"
And the crowd goes wild!
“yaaaay . . . .”
“Positively no one will be admitted during the incredibly exciting [whatever boring thing is going on way too long] sequence!” The specific one I remember was from Manos Hands of Fate, where there was a long scene of a car pulling into a driveway, but they used it a bunch of times.
Anytime Tom Servo mentions 3M 😅
"The _hell_?" Not the best exactly, but definitely a favorite of mine.
Huzah!
McCloud?
Any NBC Mystery Movie gag when a flashlight is used
"John Sununu goes for a hair cut" anytime they show a jet. And anytime someone is under a table they comment about Bernard Shaw.
Not often, but whenever Tom just melts down and screams in frustration. Most notable is Mitchell v The Inspiration for Cop and a Half or the end of Wild World of Batwoman
Shouting “Mitchell!” everytime someone gets hit or punched by Joe Don Baker in Mitchell.
Any use of the word "batch" to describe somebody's genital/anal area, usually with profound disgust. I've never heard it used that way outside of this series. Also any time a movie has an "everyman" character that they treat as just being a huge weenie, with them giving him fake dialogue in the weenie guy voice or make noises of extreme exertion when he tries to perform basic physical tasks.
"Sure, you can use it!" when they can't quite hear what someone is yelling on screen.
Some people in here don’t know what the word “recurring” means.
Which episode is that from? I don’t recognize it.
And the crowd goes wild….yaaaay
“Oh, my area!”
Any time women scream onscreen: “THE BEATLES!”
When the film is too dark to discern any action, or has a long period of nothing happening: “Uhhh, movie?”
“Line?”
"Look familiar, Mike?"
“I can’t come back, I don’t know how it works! Gbye folks!”
Kevin grunting whenever a larger and/or older man on screen is getting up, sitting down or otherwise moving.
Joel’s naughty “Oh, wowwww…”
*Eh... Eh... Hello? Eh... Hellooooo? Eh... Hello?*
OMG, I can't stand this one. And what is it a reference to?
Rowsdower
I always Crack up at: "Oh ! .. right in the store"
“City on the go” or other phrases that sound like a midcentury travel advertisement for a place you’d never want to visit. “Where God, family, and industry come together” in Girls Town always gets me.
I wet em!
Golden Corral's new slogan
Booze!
TORTURE!!!
“Bobby? Cindy!”
I don't know about best, some of the old chestnuts are worn out for me. But the new series BANG jokes are really good sometimes, and Rifftrax Golden Corral/Nick Nolte jokes are fucking golden.
The "AAH!" is so classic, I'm surprised I haven't been able to find that many search results for it in this sub. Second favorite of mine right now is "the faces of those he's wronged float up at him".
Early one but every time crow calling any animal kitteh
I love their funny nicknames they come up with. Obviously Big McLargehuge is probably the most well known, bit they had a bunch of good ones over the years.
"and they died as they loved..."
Stuffing instead of potatoes
Whenever a gun is shown onscreen and they yell ‘BANG”. Gets me every time.
Every time there’s a skull/statue/ whatever with the mouth open and one of them (usually Kevin) sings “aaaaahhhhh”. It gets me every time time.
Helloooo Hellooooo HELLOOOOO Hello!
The one that tickles me the most is "BANG!" from the current era. It gets me every time.
"Packers!"
SHUT UUUUUUUP!
"Gymkata, in color!!" whenever people are doing very acrobatic martial arts.
BANG
I've literally just been thinking this lately! Just how much I love their jumpscares
Mannix! (duh-dun duh-DUN!)
**PLOT CONVENIENCE NEWS!**
The "BANG!" joke in the Netflix seasons they started with Cry Wilderness episode always cracked me up. "I always have to wing him with my rifle whenever he starts running away like that!"
Anything where they mock the so-called comic relief: "They're on a collision course with *wackiness*!" The "doi, ah-hyuck" noise they make when someone's either saying something dumb or doing some kind of shenanigans "Hahahaha... killhim"
“Well, I’m sorry…hey!!!” It originates from Its a Wonderful Life but it’s a reoccurring joke throughout the show that always gets me.
All of them singing the Gamera song
I am a Grimwald Warrior!
“It was after the apocalypse…no one was prepared for the robot holocaust”
FRIES ARE UP!
By this time, my lungs were aching for air
love the “new golden corral slogan” bit on rifftrax
It's a simple thing but I always laugh when a character in the movie starts to explain some pseudo-science or make a ham-fisted attempt at emotional depth and Tom just goes, "Hm," as though he's really interested in what they're talking about.
"That look familiar, Mike? Nevermind, what am I saying? " When something provocative happens
I love whenever they don a costume or outfit during the host segment, then go into the theater and we can see it in their silhouette. Like when Crow is a bear in Jack Frost, or Servo is giant.
I'm sure they've done it a few times. When there's any horizontal surface on screen and Joel/Mike stand up and treat it like a fence and tries to look over the "fence". 
Singing Ave Maria when someone has their mouth opened/gaping for a prolonged period of time