MysteryScienceTheater3000
#88103
This troper saw two guys doing this at his local theater. They weren't funny at all, and the movie (''TheHangover 2'') was good enough that no snarkery was needed. At about the 1:10 mark some bald guy leaned into one of the dudes' ears and yelled at him to shut the fuck up. Thanks, bald guy!
#88104
Yesterday I was watching a popular episode on YouTube. My three-year-old brother was sitting with me.
Lulz were had just a few hours ago when, without provocation or proper context, he shrieked, "
Watch out for snakes! Aaah!"
#88105
This community on LiveJournal is entirely devoted to MSTing bad FanFic.
#88106
This troper and her family quote MST3K and RiffTrax quite often and will rewatch our MST3K shorts over and over again, laughing harder each time. My siblings and I also attempt to MST movies like ''HighSchoolMusical'' when we watch them.
#88107
This troper and his best friend sometimes watch what we have been told is crap just to absolutely laugh at each other's joke on it, most of the time it comes down to us creating an entirely new plot, or just discussing how Mike Tyson would solve the film's problems much quicker and easier. Me and another friend do this with history books with picture reference, don't read the plot, create your own story using pictures alone.
#88108
This troper and her family dissolved into MST while watching the original ''FlashGordon'' movie, making fun of the cheesy special effects, strange plot twists, quoting various lines and singing the Queen theme song, and, of course, doing our best '''{{BRIANBLESSED}}!''' impressions. Of course, we had more fun watching it than we have anything in ages.
#88109
My brother and I have been doing this since we were 8 and 5 respectively. Our local movie theater HATES us because we're unable to shut up.
#88110
Yet, you continue the behavior fully aware of the fact that you are ruining your fellow moviegoers' experience that they paid for. This Troper thinks some people might consider you assholes for doing so.
#88111
This troper does this a lot. My dad's girlfriend hates it when I do it, since it detracts from the time she gets to ask for us to explain painfully obvious plot points to her.
#88112
{{Griffin}} and her little sis once MST'd Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus. They were really, really bored and wanted to do something other than just watch. Now they're planning which Barbie movie to MST next.
#88113
This Troper's father bought a boxed set of science fiction B-movies on DVD. My brother and I had recently discovered MST3K through the wonders of Youtube. Fun times are had by all.
#88114
This Tropette came from an MST3K family, and probably watched more MST3K than I did Disney movies. I assumed everyone makes snarky comments about whatever it is they're watching, and often have a hard time refraining from snarking movies up, much to the annoyance of my friends.
#88115
I can't watch ANYTHING without unloading round after round of snarky commentary in the process. My favorite target is school plays, which are all excellent SnarkBait for many.
#88116
As a result of one too many screenings of ''Soultaker'' and ''Laserblast'', This Troper now drinks the
HELL out of his Cokes.
#88117
This troper and a friend MST3Ked all of ''GundamWing''. She has it archived for lulz.
#88118
Since everyone in my family hates the mass-produced christmas specials they show, we celebrate every christmas eve by going into the basement, turning on the TV, popping in the ancestral christmas specials tape, and TALK through the entire thing!
#88119
This Troper is sad to say he paid full price to see the Bruce Willis opus "Armageddon" in 1998. By twenty minutes into the movie he was MSTing it to himself.
#88120
This troper instinctively does this to ''everything''. For example, there's an advertising ad which uses the phrase "grow your business"; he generally doesn't bother restraining the phrase "So [PRODUCT NAME HERE] is like pouring shit on your business?" He also periodically whips up
never-to-be-completed {{MSTing}}s of things he gets off the Internet (and, in a TakeThat to his English Extension class, the first two chapters of ''Possession'').
#88121
His favourite moment of this, however, was when other people in his lodgings were apparently watching ''Tyra'' because they couldn't be arsed to change the channel. Tyra Banks was quizzing a 53-year-old man (with a 34-year-old wife) on what assorted Internet abbreviations meant by holding them up on cards. This troper immediately grabbed a piece of paper and scrawled "STFU + GTFO" on it, saying something along the lines of "I've got another one for him."
#88122
This happened during a Classical Civilisation class at this lurker's school. We were watching some really old documentary with a
terrible shot of fighting soldiers superimposed over fire that lead to this lurker uttering, "Mycenae had yet to understand the concept that fire wasn't alive" in the exact some tone as the narrator of the video, and the class descended into chaos from there.
#88123
Also occurred during a powerpoint presentation that cost the department about £200. It had so many glaring errors that it got given a
point system, and the name
Super Expensive Presentation from the teachers and students alike.
#88124
This troper has extreme difficulty ''not'' doing this during films. During my first viewing of Rocky Horror, about halfway through the group of friends I'd come with (it was at someone's home, and not in a theatre) forgot their pre-arranged shout-outs -- and to fill the awkward silence, apparently my snarking sufficed. Fun times.
#88125
This Troper (KKDW) also has a habit of MSTing movies and TV shows, a recent one came during an episode of ''Time Team'' about Stone Henge... #QUOTE#Voice Over(paraprased): For six years this team set out to uncover the secrets of Stone Henge... #QUOTE#Me: Two months later the footage was found.
#88126
I've also recorded a full commentary (with my brother) for ''
Adolescence of Utena'' which I had up on YouTube until my account got suspended (but I plan re-upload it on my new account).
#88127
I've been lucky enough to find a club of like-minded geeks at my college who gather weekly to MST whichever movie we vote on at the previous meeting, from bad films like ''Night of the Lepus'' to good films like ''Dark City''. ("That's what you get for bringing a knife to a mind fight!") Skiffy, I salute you!
#88128
This troper was acting in a play where an audience member was doing this very audibly. He was too impressed to be annoyed and decided to
emote harder to encourage her.
#88129
This troper was watching a car commercial some years ago, not long after getting into MST3K (it was in reruns on the Sci-Fi Channel by then). As soon as the commercial got to the line "No money down! Zero-percent interest!", my mouth opened on reflex: "Well, he's right about one thing; I have zero-percent interest."
#88130
This troper does it almost instinctively with anything he watches. There were a few instances in 8th grade US History. During a documentary about historic something-or-otherburg, there was a shot of a windmill: #QUOTE#Voice Over(paraprased): Today, (town name) has been restored to resemble itself as it was three hundred years ago. #QUOTE#Me: Including its lucrative miniature golf business.
#88131
Made more hilarious by the teacher shushing me, then cracking up seconds later when she realized what I'd said.
#88132
I do this impulsively, especially when watching educational films at school. One of my favorite examples was from a documentary about the excretory system in Biology class. It was talking about a test of people drinking water and exercising, then urinating in a cup and running tests to see the amount of water in the urine. After explaining this, it then showed a clip of some of the participants drinking water from a glass, and, without skipping a beat, I exclaimed "NO WAIT THAT'S THE WRONG GLASS AHHH", and then the class broke out in laughter.
#88133
This troper once briefly played Mike and the robots on a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover online RPG. Their CrowningMomentOfFunny (at least in his opinion) was the
merciless MSTing of a ParodySue's post.
#88134
Once, while watching a "horror" movie at a friend's house, we got so bored we started doing this, the best line being, on seeing a possessed old man crawl up some stairs, "Mr Jenkins is sleepwalking again..."
#88135
Me and a good friend MST everything we see. We saw Batman & Robin, and MST'd it to the point where, to this day, whenever someone makes a joke (not even a pun) "HE MADE A PUN! THAT WAS PUNNY! LOOK AT THE PUN!". We've also MST'd Dollhouse while we were watching it, with my favorite MST line to date. "I believe he is being dramatic. His face appears dramatic. Indeed he has a dramatic face. Notice the drama in this scene. It is quite dramatic. Dramatic things are happening. This, my friend, is drama."
#88136
This troper frequents a site where, when bored in the chat room, we decide to MST3K movies on youtube. It's quite fun, and makes for a great article in the site's wiki. sydlexia.com, for anyone who cares to visit.
#88137
This trooper does it from time to time when she goes to theaters. Films like CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs and ToyStory double feature. (ex: *When Bullseye loses his saddle* He's naked!! :D)
#88138
Have you ever gone to the HP6 midnight premiere? With your friends? One of whom decided to scream "SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE!" before the film started for the lulz? Well, when said event occurred, after Dumbles fell, the theatre was silent. My friend leans over and chimes, "Mmm, whatcha saaay~" from Hide And Seek... I ended up laughing right after Dumbledore died. Am I going to hell? No... I've watched the movie of "Beowulf" and whenever something physical happened, I hit the Up button on the DVD remote, strangely making a thumping noise. Even the key line. "
I! AM! -thump-!"
#88139
This troper once started to do an MST of an infamously bad fic (basically the fandom's own lesser ''MyImmortal''). He got through the prologue before the fic became
unreadable.
#88140
This same troper loves to do this with advertisements as well. #QUOTE# '''[=Cash4gold=] ad:''' We've increased our cash payouts 20%! #QUOTE# '''This troper:''' Yes, that's right! We'll pay you 2/5ths of what your gold is worth instead of 1/3rd! #QUOTE# '''AOL ad:''' Want a better Internet? #QUOTE# '''This troper:''' You're probably on AOL.
#88141
0dd1: Just like at least one example I've read here, I've taken to doing this on videos shown in school. Notable examples include:
#88143
Health class (DRUG EDUCATION!!!...echoo...), in which everyone in class mocks every video, though not quite so intellectually. One instance that wasn't so bad was one video we saw (I believe it was about marijuana, but whatever it was, its moral was DrugsAreBad) that every two seconds had a lady's voice flatly saying "FACT" with a
distorted bass note playing in the background. MemeticMutation
ensued, as every time it came up, my friend shouted "FACT!" while I did the bass note... until one killjoy told us to shut up.
#88144
Actually, I pretty much do this with every single movie I see now, and even TV shows (much to the annoyance of my mom when she's watching ''DaysOfOurLives''). My favorite that I've riffed on, however, is ''TheIncredibles'' -- great movie, but great opportunities in it to make jokes. Related: I once had a conversation with someone on YouTube (it was in the comments of a video that mixed scenes from ''WallE'' with Crow's "Creepy Girl" song) in which we reached the conclusion that ''WallE" would also be a good film to riff on.
#88145
Me and my friend got together and MSTed TheCatReturns and RockADoodle.
#88146
And later I mocked the 1970's version of Macbeth in English class, getting a few laughs out of the crowd and a very pissed off supply teacher. #QUOTE#"Looks like the Elderly Nudist's convention is back in town!" #QUOTE#"Head Off! Apply directly to neck!"
#88147
Same here, though I did it
while reading the play aloud. One part included a joke on one person in the class's mispronunciation of Fleance's name: #QUOTE# ''(snark in italics)'' '''MACBETH''' Thanks for that. ''And tell Florence "Hello" for me.''
#88148
My science teacher likes to show us YouTube videos at the end of class about whatever we were just taught. One day we were watching something about Red tide. You can watch it
here. At the very end when the screen turned red, this troper shouted "THEY KILLED THE LABORATORY OH NOOOOOOOOO"
#88149
This troper and his friend often perform this to shows and movies were watching. I even do it when he makes me read his comics and such. I have even made my friends like going to school assemblies because of the fact I MST3K them, and it's hilarious, or it was but unfortunately I've graduated from high school.
#88150
This troper has done this for almost every movie he's ever watched, before learning of MST3K last year. Today, we MSTed ''TheWizardOfOz'' and I seemed to be the only one purposely funny. My favourite bit was when the Witch and her monkey are looking into the Crystal Ball. #QUOTE#Me: I just LOVE my new lipstick. It's SOO my shade.
#88151
This troper and a friend love to trade MST3K barbs for
Doctor Who. In fact, she thinks that Doctor Who is perfect for Rifftrax! It's got the cheap special effects, its own clichés, and great pauses for funny comments.
#88152
Last weekend, this troper got herself KICKED OUT of a theater for doing this too loudly to New Moon. She wasn't disappointed. That was what she went for.
#88153
I went to New Moon for that reason, too. I did it loudly as well and I actually somehow got a few laughs out of some Twihards as well! Of course, by the end of the film, everyone in the theater had moved to the opposite end of the theater. Can't imagine why.
#88154
This troper and his sister did this when watching
the 11th Star Trek movie. While fun, it was generally harder to do when when we did some classic Series/DoctorWho a few months prior.
#88155
This troper and a friend of his recently tried MSTing a music video. You can see the results
here. Tell us we're funny!
#88158
This Troper, his cousin and our friend tend to do this a lo... all the time to be honest. Any film we go and see together we usually have at least 5 or 6 comments each to make in the film and I swear I've occasionally heard other people laugh. This troper will actually admit he now [=MSTs=] his classes and just about everything he watches
#88159
Some of the troper's favourites of his own: #QUOTE# Opening scene to the strangers: "Huh... This how they found Kurt Cobain's house" Everyone *Ohhh haha" Me "What? Too soon?" #QUOTE# Later on during the strangers after the brother is shot. Scarecrow mask killer appears. Friend: "Hi, I'm Barry Scott and I want to show you new Cillit Bang Ultra, Bang-" Me: (Interrupting) "And your brother's gone."
#88160
Recently, this troper attended a friend's party, in which we ended up watching the wonder that is StarshipTroopers through Netflix streaming. As we'd all seen the movie before, this is pretty much what happened during the whole movie. Highlights include referring to the lead woman as
"Big Boobs", discussing the idiocy of having Co-Ed showers in the military, and renaming the
Battle of Klendathu to
"Operation: Human Shield." #QUOTE# '''This Troper:''' (After the discovery of the Brain Bug's first victim) Looks like he got skullfucked. #QUOTE# '''This Troper's Friend:'''
"Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase, 'fucked his brains out.'"
#88161
This troper does this all the time, with anything, his most recent being while watching FMA Brotherhood on Adult Swim. #QUOTE# '''Truth:''' (to Ed) You could say I'm all, one, everything...and you. #QUOTE# '''This Troper:''' That's right, '''I''' am the Walrus. and, in relation #QUOTE# '''Truth:''' (as Ed's being dragged into the doors) Isn't this what you wanted? #QUOTE# '''This Troper:''' Goo goo g'joob, motherf*cker.
#88162
This troper has a few.
#88163
Fantastic four movie: #QUOTE#Ben (After Johnny flies off the boat at the end): Show off. #QUOTE#Me: All I can do is sink to the bottom of a pool.
#88164
While watching the IronMan 2 trailer: #QUOTE#Me: Looks like the film crew for the IronMan movies cast SummonBiggerFish for this one.
#88165
This troper recently got a hold of a free copy of Avatar. He has chosen to use his powers for good - namely, to get his friend and riff the hell out of it. Details
here.
#88166
My mom and I went to see
Episode Three a few weeks after its release. My mom and I were kind of MSTing it the whole time (choice line: "How do you KNOW R2D2 lives?!") But when Anakin climbs up out of the lava with ONE ARM, she turns to me and says,
"it's only a flesh wound!" I seriously died.
#88167
This troper was watching a recording of Ian McKellen in Macbeth. In this film he has ridiculously gelled back hair. At the scene where he says "...doth unfix my hair..." I quipped "Not much that could do that." Also, when he says "Fetch me nothing but males!" I quipped "Isn't that ironic...", referencing his now-open homosexuality.
#88168
Probably this troper's favorite pastime. She has a regular riffing group and all, but enjoys herself most when it's an off-the-cuff affair.
#88169
This troper ''loves'' to {{MST}} practically everything he watches on television. Unfortunately,
he really sucks at it.
#88170
He's now had a lot of practice, thanks to ''TheWayOfTheMetagamer'', and can occasionally MST such that others are amused. He has received several angry glares for doing so at live theatrical performances.
#88171
I did it with the English dub of ''OutlawStar''. I know it's loved, but every time Jim Hawking opened his mouth I wanted to hurt something, so I attacked ''it''.
#88172
This Troper's brother was at a comic convention, and went in to a screening of some Green Lantern thing. Right there, in the front row, were people dressed in (surprisingly good) Joel, Crow, and Tom Servo costumes. As well, This Troper's anime club works like this.
#88173
This Troper tends to do this whenever she sees a movie with her best friend(s). During Lord of the Rings, as the Gandalf is leading the Fellowship, our DM whispered, scandalized 'You NEVER put your wizard in front!'. More recently, while watching Iron Man 2, as Hammer is being led away by the cops, I turned to my friend and said 'You can't do this! I'm the president of the galaxy!'
#88174
Same Troper and best friend as directly above bring you this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWFPBnjKkkQ
#88175
This troper did it for the first 15 minutes of the new NightmareOnElmStreet movie.
#88176
While watching The Incredible Hulk- #QUOTE#'''Blonsky''': He tossed a 20 ton forklift like it was nothing! #QUOTE#'''Me''': *in his accent* He triiiiiiiiiied to kill me with a forklift!
#88177
When I'm with friends, we CANNOT sit through any movie without MSTing it. The first notable time I remember doing it was when I saw Revenge of the Fallen in theaters (ALL FOUR TIMES, and that's not to count all the DVD viewings), and the most recent was Iron Man 2. Hell, we rented Shawshank Redemption just to rip on it! Our MST of the ninth Pokemon movie gave us a new in-joke (It's the Wailord!), and I kept announcing "Title Drop!" when we saw Kick-Ass.
#88178
I have MSTed almost every movie I've seen. When dragged to see Eclipse by my girlfriend and mother (my girlfriend regretted it, as she thought it was terrible), I had the poor girl hysterical through most of the movie. The same thing happened while watching ''TheImaginariumOfDrParnassus'' and ''BeingJohnMalkovich'' at my best friend's birthday party. It wasn't until then that any of them realized my potential for humor.
#88179
This troper does this a lot. Recently, he has made fun of ''Jurassic Park'', giving the dinosuars voices and constantly telling the annoying characters to shut up being primary examples. Also cue obligatory ''Snakes on a Plane'' reference due to Sam Jackson's appearance.
#88180
This Troper dd a MST with his father watching My Neighbor Totoro. It helped that the theatre was empty so i could cross the line so many times...
#88181
This troper loves riffing movies, but knows that there is a special hell for people who talk in theaters. That's why she riffs them at home.
#88182
This troper and her mother recently riffed the remake of "The Hills Have Eyes", it all started when we referred to Beast the dog as "the only intelligent member of that family".
#88183
Played straight and averted on seperate occasions: I'm more than happy to riff on some movies like ''Twilight'' ("Edward looks less nervous now." "He's been
sucking his own blood. Relieves tension.") and ''Eclipse'' ("Would you care for a shirt, sir?" "No thanks, I'm trying to give them up."), but some movies I just can't take being mocked while I'm watching them.
#88184
Whenever we have to watch a movie in English class after a book: RIFF TIME! My friends and I did really well with it with the romeo and Juliet modernized thing. Now I dub things dumb enough to be riffed, like the first episode of Season 9 of Smallville and Napoleon Dynamite
#88185
My neighborhood does improvised comedy contests every so often, and I get a kick out of MSTing our resident
scrappy. #QUOTE# '''Scrappy:''' I'm Billy mays here, and I, uh, am here to produce something really cool- #QUOTE# '''Me:''' A baby? #QUOTE# ''*entire neighborhood cracks up*''
#88187
This troper's friends and family all generally do this when we're bored with a movie. Between my father, brother and I, we also watch quite a bit of the real thing, too.
#88188
This Tropette is rather (in)famous for doing this. When I'm with friends, we do this no matter what, but I drive my science class crazy when I mock the movies our teacher leaves for us when he goes to coach volleyball *cough EVERYDAY cough* It's my little way of rebelling against his "lessons".
#88189
This Troper's mother and stepfather only had cable sporadically and when they did we never had Comedy Central. The first time I saw MST3K was at my Dad and Stepmom's house for Thanksgiving 1993 or 94. ''SantaClausConquersTheMartians'' was on and I laughed my head off. Watched the show when I could, which wasn't much. I only was able to buckle down and watch it on a regular basis in 1999, after getting married to a woman who had to have cable. Our Saturday mornings (pre-children) were spent with coffee, cinnamon rolls and MST3K on Sci-fi. I work night shift at a front desk, and an episode can really make the time fly. These days I'm busy trying to collect the [=DVDs=]. Slow-going on our limited income, but it's happening.
#88190
Okay, most people are talking about riffing. My wife's and my first date was to see ''{{Film/Stargate}}'', and when the circles with the symbols on them started rotating, I said "
WHEEL! OF! FORTUNE!!!!"
#88191
This Troper and his friends get together whenever possible to enjoy Bad Movie Night and our riffing skills get better and better with each horrible film. It's a source of Geek Pride.
#88192
When watching {{Metropolis}} for the first time this trouper and her best friend did not know it was a silent movie... fifteen minutes in we started riffing it... it made the movie much more fun to say the least.
#88193
This troper does this to Series/DoctorWho. But I still love the show.
#88194
When a couple of friends and I went to a showing of
9 a while ago, we were the only ones in the room. Naturally, we took full advantage of the situation and riffed the film as much as we could. It was one of the best screenings of that film that I've ever been to.
#88195
I MST3Ked for the movie 9 when it came out. "So the fate of the world is in charge of nine potato sack dolls? I'll remember that in 2012!"
#88196
I did quite a lot of this in school, specifically in science class while watching educational videos, but there was one--an IMAX film on volcanoes called ''Ring of Fire''--that I thought was so bad that I borrowed it from my teacher and a friend of mine and I riffed it later that week. I can't actually remember any of the riffs besides one, a running gag where, any time it looked like there was going to be a shot of a crowd panicking and fleeing, he would yell "SALE AT WAL-MART!" and do little mutterings of all the other people in the scene whispering "Sale at Wal-Mart?" "Did he say sale at Wal-Mart?" "Oh, I can't miss that", and so forth. (Occasionally, there was a crowd shot that ''didn't'' desolve into mass panic, at which point he'd have the first guy mutter "False alarm" or something like that.)
#88197
This troper can't stop making jokes in {{Free Willy}}.
You know which ones. Much to one employee's annoyance at his workplace.
#88198
Me and my group of friends absolutely love doing this to old animes and (not so old) video games. Especially common when we do multiplayer. Two examples from TheDishwasher:
#88199
Mort08 and her former best friend once did an affectionate MST of ''ChickenRun.'' It remains as one of her fondest memories of that friendship.
#88200
Several years later, she finally watched the show after having her mom recommend it to her for several years. The first episode she watched was ''Hamlet,'' which wasn't that great. She decided to give it another chance, and the next episode she watched was ''Lost Continent.'' She's been an MST3K junkie ever since.
#88201
My best friend happens to love certain TV shows and such that I can't stand. Thankfully, she's one of those "True fans have no problem making fun of what they love" people, so whenever we're watching one of said TV shows, the both of us gleefully MST it together. Hell, we do it with things I love too, such as when we were both riffing music videos by my favourite band.
#88202
This troper was raised on MST3K and as such is pretty sure that it gave rise to my personality today. My favorite riff I've done was during Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. "You're doing it wrong! It doesn't go in her belly button! What the hell are you doing without lubricant! You're going to skin yourself alive at this rate! Seriously man grab the Crisco at least!" As such her friends have decided to use this if ever their roommates
need the room with them inside of it at the time.
#88203
My boyfriend and I do this while playing videogames on the Xbox 360. "Hello,
Dante." "'Sup,
Dante." "Nice sword." "Nice scythe."
#88204
This troper habitually does this, even with movies/games/anime/shows he likes. He's even considering doing a series where he riffs anime episodes (
because nobody has ever thought of that).
#88205
This troper first heard about the show from her friend's older brother. Eventually I (moving to first person now) picked up a copy of "The Brain That Would not Die" at the local movie store, and have been watching it ever since. That also might be why I'm more used to the Mike-era episodes rather than the Joel-era ones... though I'm working on that. I also enjoy other forms of MSTing, and would like to try it myself...