Fun fact: the amount of time between the release of Teenage Strangler (1964) and this MST3K episode was 30 years, the same length of time between this episode and now (2024).
Seriously. If things end up working out with your boyfriend of THREE MONTHS, you have a house you can share with him, which is gonna be a hell of a lot harder to do on your own with his dubious football prospects. If not, you still have a goddamn house.
I honestly like Mike a lot more than Joel. I guess it's because when I started watching MST3k, it was when Mike was hosting. I had no clue Joel was the original host on the SOL till years later. I'm not saying Joel isn't good, he's awesome. But I still like the riffs done by Mike and the bots.
I definitely like Mike better, but like Marc above, I started watching MST3K when Mike was the host. I hard a hard time with the transition back to watching the shows with Joel. I always had a hard time understanding the "invention exchange." Just never clicked with me. I love Pearl Forester and Bobo and Brain Guy!
The first several episodes I watched featured Joel. I laughed, I enjoyed it, but I loved Mike so much more. His relationship with the bots really worked better, at least I thought. Plus Nelson in my eyes is, I wouldn't say funnier...but maybe his delivery is more amusing? Something like that.
I'm a mike nelson guy myself.. To me he is funnier than Joel... Joel had some good episodes, but overall I enjoy the mike nelson episodes better. Also, I like the guy who voices Crow during seasons 8-10 MUCH more than the previous crow (trace)
Joel was funny but to me Mike Nelson was funnier. He just added more energy to the show as Joel had a sleepy I am getting tired voice but he did have his moment's been a fan of both but Mike's my dude! Its sad how not too many people know about MST3K. There were time's were I would be stressed about something and these guys always cheer me up.
As a former janitor, I always feel a little hurt when we get branded as creepy villains... but as a person named Mike, I am appalled by this movie’s depiction of us as whiny, groveling, bike-stealing leeches.
Mikey going to Betty's house to give her the letter is one of my favorite moments of the show ever. I have to watch it at least 3 times in a row everytime I watch this episode. "OK . Is home Betty?...no. Is available.. is Betty ava....oh I dont know wha....aHaaaa!!"
As a matter of fact, _MST3K_ creator Joel Hodgson went on to make a TV movie about teenagers - namely an infamous one about six friends being sucked into the internet titled _Web Surferz,_ which in turn spawned the Canadian cartoon sitcom _6teen._
lmao i'm fascinated by the parents & the cop's scene around the 30:00 mark, i've never heard dialoge so aggresivly stilted & acting so randomly off the charts It's like Tommy Weisou built a time machine and had his family do this scene, it's so fascinatingly wrong on every leval
Hahahaha! Gotta love Tommy! Did you know someone on UA-cam made a song made entirely out of lines from The Room with autotune? I usually don't like most of those autotune the news songs type songs except for one every once in a while but this one takes the cake and is legitimately hilarious!!
Aagh! I wasn't paying full attention and thought the "Is This Love?" public service film was part of Teenage Strangler. I kept wondering when the young suitor was going to strangle her.
Damn - just like a typical Scooby-Doo episode; it was the school janitor behind everything all along. And he would have gotten away with it too, If it weren't for those meddling kids!
"Good Lord, who is this clown?" “Would some one shut that music off, it’s driving me crazy!” Damn that made me pause the video in laughter. Lot of good riffs in this one
@@DerekPower I grew up not too far from there. The town is a dump now, but it's a got a decent university (Marshall). Brad Dourif (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Chucky, Lord of the Rings) is from there, which is pretty cool. Mike, Bill and Kevin riffing his Grima Wormtongue in The Two Towers always cracks me up.
@@nowonmai-r8m Considering Brad Douriff, and the fact that the cast in this film was all locals, at least one person from Huntington had acting talent.
i'm fond of the movie as a movie. They had no budget, but they manage to have a plot, a tiny bit of mystery, escalating tension, people to root for. The leads aren't horrible actors. They got a lot right, and I forgive them the shortcomings that the lack of money cost. Also, they did one heck of a lot with a single song!
I don't know why they were worried about their marriage, back then you could just take an unsatisfactory spouse and stone them to death in the street or drag them behind a horse
No crap! 3 months and you get married?! It's amazing that the "old fashioned" couple wait so short a time. But then, I guess when you're expected to be a virgin until marriage (pre pill) jumping into marriage seems like a good idea.
The actor John Humphries appeared at an MST3K convention in 94. He must have a great sense of humor to poke fun at his one acting gig. He definitely steals every scene he's in
That girl from the short was dense as all get out. Your parents actually offer to buy you and your 3-month boyfriend with shaky job prospects a fucking HOUSE if you just wait a single year?? Hell I'd wait for 5 more years if it meant I got a house out of the deal!
I think it refers to back when long-distance was still relatively expensive and answering machines still sort of new; people who grew up during the Great Depression are known for their frugality and penny-pinching. That's how I took it, but I could be wrong.
When Jimmy points his finger towards the distance and says, “I’ll get to you later, Curly” and crow, in a muffled, quiet, distant voice responds, “Okay.” That makes the episode for me.
So Jimmy joined the Fast-Backs out of rebelion because he got Grounded... but he got grounded because he joined the Fast-Backs... but he joined the Fast-Backs because he got grounded... but he got grounded because he joined the Fast-Backs... but he joined the Fast-Backs because he got grounded... but he-
"Dear, this is Lt Anderson" "I knew a policeman in my hometown. His name was Herdison as well. Didn't like him" "The name I have is Anderson. I'm here on police business."
"I'm a janitor, a janitor. I'm looked on as kind of a leech. But at least I get more respect than The ones who have to teach." It's all fun and games until they lay down some truth.
Fun fact: the amount of time between the release of Teenage Strangler (1964) and this MST3K episode was 30 years, the same length of time between this episode and now (2024).
"ironically there's no one there to clean him up....." God bless Mike Nelson.
This Mikey kid is absolutely hilarious. He's so over the top with his acting.
As a general rule, if your parents offer to buy you a house if you hold off your wedding, HOLD OFF YOUR WEDDING AND TAKE THE HOUSE!
Seriously. If things end up working out with your boyfriend of THREE MONTHS, you have a house you can share with him, which is gonna be a hell of a lot harder to do on your own with his dubious football prospects. If not, you still have a goddamn house.
LordQuadros
Three months and three days.
This just proves that teenagers are and always have been idiots.
David Firestone Don't be silly, holding off the wedding and taking the house would make too much sense. XD
Hell Yeah u Do!
The mom kills me! "From community theatre to the big screen!" NO KIDDING!
"You're very handsome! Can i touch your gun?"
I hated when Joel left the show, but this was the episode that sold me on Mike as the new host. Nelson was really great and a worthy replacement.
I honestly like Mike a lot more than Joel. I guess it's because when I started watching MST3k, it was when Mike was hosting. I had no clue Joel was the original host on the SOL till years later. I'm not saying Joel isn't good, he's awesome. But I still like the riffs done by Mike and the bots.
I definitely like Mike better, but like Marc above, I started watching MST3K when Mike was the host. I hard a hard time with the transition back to watching the shows with Joel. I always had a hard time understanding the "invention exchange." Just never clicked with me. I love Pearl Forester and Bobo and Brain Guy!
The first several episodes I watched featured Joel. I laughed, I enjoyed it, but I loved Mike so much more. His relationship with the bots really worked better, at least I thought. Plus Nelson in my eyes is, I wouldn't say funnier...but maybe his delivery is more amusing? Something like that.
I'm a mike nelson guy myself.. To me he is funnier than Joel... Joel had some good episodes, but overall I enjoy the mike nelson episodes better. Also, I like the guy who voices Crow during seasons 8-10 MUCH more than the previous crow (trace)
Joel was funny but to me Mike Nelson was funnier. He just added more energy to the show as Joel had a sleepy I am getting tired voice but he did have his moment's been a fan of both but Mike's my dude! Its sad how not too many people know about MST3K. There were time's were I would be stressed about something and these guys always cheer me up.
This was basically The Mikey Show. He stole every scene, and their jokes were the best when riffing on him.
Completely agreed. MST3K's best episodes (to me) were Mike's.
Mike is the funniest of all the characters imo, his delivery is gold
"HEY, will you keep it DOWN? I'm trying to strangle someone over here!"
As a former janitor, I always feel a little hurt when we get branded as creepy villains... but as a person named Mike, I am appalled by this movie’s depiction of us as whiny, groveling, bike-stealing leeches.
Hey, I was a Janitor too.
But you Mikes are whiny, groveling, bike-stealing leeches. Just own it man
I cleaned up at a YMCA...in Texas...
You didn't steal no bike neither!
I used to be a janitor at a VDot.
"Scaring a lot of us is a felony, son."
"And punch it up a little, sell me this madman." This one gets me every time. I find myself thinking it every so often just randomly.
"Hope these kids have grief counseling".. One of my favorite lines..lol
If the Strangler had turned out to be Mikey, this would have been the greatest movie in the whole world.
Unfortunately they weren't smart enough to think of that
Yipes, Stripes!
That's what I was expecting all along. I'm so disappointed!
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'Abraham Lincoln?" 🤣 every time I watch an episode again I find a joke I missed. How I love this show.
"Oh, no! It wasn't me who was murdered was it?" cracks me up every time, as does, "Oh, don't invoke Jupiter" and "Let's commit the marriage act."
D K 👋
When Mikey goes, "Mom's next door..." and Tom goes, "with her head in the oven!"
"Hey Mom. Is that you?"
(Male Voice) :"Yes it is."
Too Funny LOL
I wish I had family like Crow and Tom Servo!
+James Schuur Even if Crow changes?
+No Matches For Mikey I'm different!
"It wasnt me who was murdered was it?"
Everyone is white so they are innocent.
Yes he’s dead, dead, dead!
@@wadecarmen7501Theyre all good Lutherans!!!
"I remember hearing Ann scream". "It went ahahahahahahahaa"
No Matches For Mikey That‘s my favourite bit - it’s the way Mike does the ahahahahaa...
Yodeling aside, that little tremolo guitar riff is addictive and creepy!
"We're expecting them at any moment"
"6;11, they were expecting us at any moment, I rang the bell"
Makes me lol everytime xD
Random movie link : The Romulan lady from the short was in Videodrome - Max's friend that warns him about the group.
Woah🤯
Mikey is absolutely in the MST3K Weirdo Hall of Fame. Right up there with Torgo, Buffalo, and Pipper.
Wait, who is Buffalo again? Riding with Death guy who calls everyone turkeys?
@@laurend9829 he’s the trucker, race car driver and “singer” in that episode.
Don't forget Mickey from "The Screaming Skull."
@@tomhill6047 Getta box!!
Mikey going to Betty's house to give her the letter is one of my favorite moments of the show ever. I have to watch it at least 3 times in a row everytime I watch this episode. "OK . Is home Betty?...no. Is available.. is Betty ava....oh I dont know wha....aHaaaa!!"
"The Amish kids beat me up again!"
That marriage short only had white people!
The riffing for this one is amazing, and the movie wouldn't be half as funny without little Mikey.
And BIG MIKE TOO
As a matter of fact, _MST3K_ creator Joel Hodgson went on to make a TV movie about teenagers - namely an infamous one about six friends being sucked into the internet titled _Web Surferz,_ which in turn spawned the Canadian cartoon sitcom _6teen._
He cops in this movie don't even use sirens, just recorded Mikey wailing.
*The
The only kid Micheal Jackson didn't want!
☹️😕 whhhhhhaaahhhhhhhh
Mikey kept Micheal Jackson away.
Sounds like a bitcrushed fly
"Oh please don't invoke Jupiter's name."
this is one of Mike & TheBots best episodes. There's a hundred great zingers in this one.
"Do you have any idea who it might be, lieutenant? How 'bout some coffee?"
...no, some coffee isn't one of our main suspects at this point.
Woman:*Lifts up skirt slightly*
Tom:" Oh, mama told me not to come!"
I'm convinced that I'm the only Welsh MST3K fan 🏴 🛰 😍
Not true brother, Port Talbotonian here😉🏴
"Show biz love is the only love there is." Every celebrity couple they named is divorced now.
To be fair to ludd911, this episode aired in 1993 when all those couples were still together.
Except for the ones that are dead like the one Mike mentioned.
Talk about Hilarious In Hindsight.
Except Steve & Edie & Paul & Joanne.
or one of them is dead
lmao i'm fascinated by the parents & the cop's scene around the 30:00 mark, i've never heard dialoge so aggresivly stilted & acting so randomly off the charts
It's like Tommy Weisou built a time machine and had his family do this scene, it's so fascinatingly wrong on every leval
Hahahaha! Gotta love Tommy! Did you know someone on UA-cam made a song made entirely out of lines from The Room with autotune? I usually don't like most of those autotune the news songs type songs except for one every once in a while but this one takes the cake and is legitimately hilarious!!
But my name is Anderson
ColeVecsion I know right, they are about screaming at st each other
"Are you as turned on as I am?"
@@chriscampbell7895 ANDERSON! THAT’S ME!
"Mikey, get upstairs!"
You know the rules! How did you get unchained....
Why wasn't he killed?
@@wadecarmen7501 'cause he wasn't a girl or a teenager or an earthling.
“Looks like we found Waldo.”
Aagh! I wasn't paying full attention and thought the "Is This Love?" public service film was part of Teenage Strangler. I kept wondering when the young suitor was going to strangle her.
Me too! Except I thought "what happened to the couple in the beginning? In fact it feels like two completely different movi--wait a minute"
+Bfdidc He only strangles you because he loves you!
Only love lasts foooreveeer. Only loooove. Only loooove.
@@aryaasha4589 Why didn't someone strangle Mikey?
That would have been much better than the movie!
"And by Jupiter...!"
"Oh no, don't invoke Jupiter sir."
Too much 😂
Now it’s don’t invoke Marcon
Damn - just like a typical Scooby-Doo episode; it was the school janitor behind everything all along. And he would have gotten away with it too, If it weren't for those meddling kids!
612Tiberius [pulls off mask] "OLD MAN WILSON!"
And their dog.
nobody died in Scooby
"Good Lord, who is this clown?"
“Would some one shut that music off, it’s driving me crazy!”
Damn that made me pause the video in laughter. Lot of good riffs in this one
Mike's words during that street gang skit were powerful and profound. Someone needs to show that segment to the Bloods and the Crips.
Angel Medina You don’t want your life being cut short and end up in the bone orchard!
Woosh.
OMG, when they put the glasses on and imitated Mikey, I thought I'd die laughing!!!!!!
one of the all time best gags! Mike did perfect.
"Watch out for snakes." Best running joke ever
Juan F 👋
"Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. Now they've build their house on love and solid ground."
Oh dear, oh dear.
+Scott Korin Maria and Arnold too.
I knew there'd be a comment about this.
They picked so many future jokes... They were ahead of everyone's time.
I thought it was supposed to be the "not-so-distant future?" The cracks in the facade begin to show
DEAR GOD, DON'T DISAGREE! COURTNEY HAS EYES EVERYWHERE!
As the fry cook is walking away after stopping the fight i can almost feel how much he hates his customers.
What would SpongeBob do.....
Can you blame the guy? It appears about 90 percent of his clientele is high school kids, I'd hate my job too.
and he almost got ripped off for 30 cents? I'd close the place down or sell it to another person. eff that.
What frycook doesn't?
But does he hate them as much as the furious boss in "the Brute Man" hated his delivery-boy?
Doin' the butt, uh, uh, doin' the butt...
One of the best lines by the 'bots!
Funny how "Yipes, Stripes" never caught on......
According to Wikipedia, this movie was filmed in West Virginia.
Huntington, WV … right off US Route 60 and I-64
@@DerekPower Lush treed streets. I guess Dutch Elm Disease hadn't scoured that part of the country yet.
@@DerekPower I grew up not too far from there. The town is a dump now, but it's a got a decent university (Marshall). Brad Dourif (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Chucky, Lord of the Rings) is from there, which is pretty cool. Mike, Bill and Kevin riffing his Grima Wormtongue in The Two Towers always cracks me up.
@@nowonmai-r8m Considering Brad Douriff, and the fact that the cast in this film was all locals, at least one person from Huntington had acting talent.
"When He Wants It Rough"
❤
Know your ointments.
I like how the yipes stripes guitarist manages to sound like an entire band.
Beechnut fruit striped gum.
i'm fond of the movie as a movie. They had no budget, but they manage to have a plot, a tiny bit of mystery, escalating tension, people to root for. The leads aren't horrible actors. They got a lot right, and I forgive them the shortcomings that the lack of money cost. Also, they did one heck of a lot with a single song!
This was the end of Bill Bloom's (Jimmy) career. 2 bit parts, then this. Then gone forever. Wonder what happened. This was filmed in Huntington WV.
"Jimmy.... am I blooming?"
one of my most memorable MST3K scenes of all time 😂😂😂
"Surely not I, Lord!"
The callbacks to Manos are great
I came into this movie hoping to see a teenager that strangles people, came out disappointed that it was just a creepy janitor
The short "Is This Love" was actually very sensible. A lot of people rush into marriage and regret it later.
+Craig Zimmerman They made a sequel. It's called "Frozen."
I don't know why they were worried about their marriage, back then you could just take an unsatisfactory spouse and stone them to death in the street or drag them behind a horse
No crap! 3 months and you get married?! It's amazing that the "old fashioned" couple wait so short a time. But then, I guess when you're expected to be a virgin until marriage (pre pill) jumping into marriage seems like a good idea.
+B Cahill no you're referring to modern day Muslim countries
Sensible? Are you kidding? No way are Liz and Peggy the same age!
Crow: He crashed and then shot himself! Servo: You can learn a lot from a dummy
"The Master wants you, but he can't have you!" I love whenever they make a reference to ManosX-D
Mikey , has to go down in cinema history, priceless performance ........;-)
right on!
The actor John Humphries appeared at an MST3K convention in 94. He must have a great sense of humor to poke fun at his one acting gig. He definitely steals every scene he's in
I bet Joe makes Peg feel all "squishy" and gives her the reds!
That's so funny !
That girl from the short was dense as all get out. Your parents actually offer to buy you and your 3-month boyfriend with shaky job prospects a fucking HOUSE if you just wait a single year?? Hell I'd wait for 5 more years if it meant I got a house out of the deal!
Hey look, it's Troy from "The Final Sacrifice"!
I guess Rowsdower let him out of the dungeon after he was done with him.
its great how a serial killer can bring a town together
One of the best episodes EVER!
This is my all time favorite
It's because of Mikey, isn't it?
The murderous janitor having a kitten calendar is a weird bit of cognitive dissonance.
The me from a year ago is still absolutely right.
The me from two years ago remains correct.
I'm on a solid 'still right' streak here.
"I think we found Waldo..."
Pretty sure the cop who says, "What kind of a nut would do something like this?" at around 26:58 is the co-pilot from "Plan 9 From Outer Space."
I’ll need to look into that
42:14 - David Schwimmer, the Early Years.
It's silly, but my favorite part about this movie is how the creepy guitar riff (e.g., 24:37) is really just "Yikes Stripes" in disguise.
@lionwhalemusic
The theme song of stranglers everywhere!
They really were just trying to sell that song
I’m glad I wasn’t the only person who noticed that.
"0h momma told me not to come" still brings tears to my eyes
I think it refers to back when long-distance was still relatively expensive and answering machines still sort of new; people who grew up during the Great Depression are known for their frugality and penny-pinching. That's how I took it, but I could be wrong.
Geez, how many times was SHE held back?
That's AUNT Liz to you
Splendor In The Grass: Dream Warrior
Everyone in this film is neurotic. Even the police siren is whiny.
1:07:47 I love how Lieutenant Anderson was barely containing his laughter after Betty and Mikey's awful performances.
"Maybe this was the start of the *COUNTER* culture!"
When Mike whines like the police siren I lose my shit laughing.
"Ironically, no one is there to clean him up."
"Get back to us when you have a whole sentence worked out."
If Mikey wasn’t in this, I wouldn’t watch
Mikey just cracks me up. It's like he was born to star in an MST3K movie.
"Mikey's down, medic!"
"But it's all my fault!"
"Well, only in the sense of Original Sin"
Laughed so hard oh my god.
good lord these women run for like 6 seconds and then nearly pass out
When Jimmy points his finger towards the distance and says, “I’ll get to you later, Curly” and crow, in a muffled, quiet, distant voice responds, “Okay.” That makes the episode for me.
Oh dang
So Jimmy joined the Fast-Backs out of rebelion because he got Grounded...
but he got grounded because he joined the Fast-Backs...
but he joined the Fast-Backs because he got grounded...
but he got grounded because he joined the Fast-Backs...
but he joined the Fast-Backs because he got grounded...
but he-
was a man playing a woman playing a man, got it
I never liked how his dad basically accused him of killing someone and no one identifies how fucked up that is.
I know! And they might not even be the Fast-Backs! (“So you joined this group?”)
GET ON WITH IT!
@@MinscFromBaldursGate92 Haha!
Some of the guitar music starts off with the same riffs as, "Honky Tonk" (Bill Doggett). "Ooooh, Ah'm a teenage stranglin' man!" (Tom Servo)
Is this love was actually quite good and sensible.
The dialogue between the cop and the dad is classic.
"Dear, this is Lt Anderson"
"I knew a policeman in my hometown. His name was Herdison as well. Didn't like him"
"The name I have is Anderson. I'm here on police business."
"For the very last time runt, SHUT UP!"
Crow: "Your finger smells like baloney."
I...must carve that song from my mind with a fork.
Holy crap. Mikey somehow ended up being Troy McGregor's grandfather. A la The Final Sacrifice.
Mr1987Joe Yeah. No beer though.
But, I wonder if there's beer on the sun...*ponders*
+wasmithie911 That's a compliment, implying Mikey grew up to be Larry Zsonka
Technically Troy's dad, the guy in the picture, was Larry Zsonka. I think Mikey became Vince Lombardi
ROWSDOWER!
He's not fully dead until he's Zestfully dead. referring to the soap Zest.
"For those who pledged their allegiance to Peter, Paul and Mary."
Crow: "They're dead!"
Or hiding in Canada to avoid the draft.
@@luisreyes1963 Ha ha ha!
"Pigpen's dead? Then I don't want to live anymore either!"
I said "I didn't steal no bike neither" the other day, only a one person snickered, but I knew it was funny, so that's all that matters
"Have I told you lately you're my hero." I think I misquoted the lyric just then but the sentiment's there.
"he crashed, then shot himself" lol
"Watch out for snakes!"
I looked up the cast for the short - the woman who played the Romulan roommate was 37! While the the guy who played her fiancé was 23. lol.
WOW!
Is that 37 Earth years? Or is that in Romulan years? What's the conversion rate?
No just /old!/
Crow "Pardon the stain, I'm a cop" 😂
The janitor song was fun
"I'm a janitor, a janitor.
I'm looked on as kind of a leech.
But at least I get more respect than
The ones who have to teach."
It's all fun and games until they lay down some truth.
25:12 Angels: Hard as they Come. My god. Still one of my favorite movies. Soundtrack's classic, too, which I think is why they referenced it there