I think the aliens' real plan was to come to Earth and open a chain of Red Gargon restaurants.

"He is the son of our leader; the high court will pardon him!" "Oh yeah, he's a Kennedy!"

Best thing: Finding an MST3K episode I haven't seen.

@yvonnerousseau2238

9 жыл бұрын

Oh. My. Word. This has the WORST monster I have ever seen! lol And the scream it does? hahahaha

@enhaxed7839

9 жыл бұрын

Yvonne Rousseau that's a big call - what about the Creeping Terror? :)

@yvonnerousseau2238

9 жыл бұрын

Ah yes...the walking indoor/outdoor carpet. ;)

@CaliGamer1

9 жыл бұрын

And when the monster eats people, they kind of have to crawl inside his "mouth"...

@yvonnerousseau2238

9 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha seems like they would die from boredom more than anything. "Am I dead yet? Are you going to chew on me or something?"

Attention, there is a giant lobster on the loose. Please scream and run around in circles.

For years after seeing this episode, my friend and I would find every excuse to weave the word "TORCHAAA" into our discussions.

@MarginalSC

8 жыл бұрын

+Exhausted Elox I made sure to carry a wooden crate around with me in case I needed to strike up a conversation with someone.

“Above minimum requirements” “TORTURE” “to take me away haha” most memorable quotes from the episode

@sydneyhamilton2575

6 жыл бұрын

Torture With A Big Mac!

@sydneyhamilton2575

5 жыл бұрын

With A Big Mac!

The music Night of the Living Dead used was from Teenagers from Outer Space, as it had passed into the public domain and was cheap to use. It's kind of remarkable how much better Romero and crew used it, though.

"Grades don't matter, it's the SATs that count" as a highschool senior I just died a lil

*pounding of fists, frantic muffled yelling from giant 50's car trunk*

You know, if I saw a bleach dry skeleton, I would not assume a murder RECENTLY happened.

First episode of MST3K I ever saw. I fell in love. Sigh.

@mikesilva3868

Жыл бұрын

My first episode of mst3k was on scifi channel episode 3 of season 8 back in 2003 I was 19 though it was hiliarous 😊

Gotta love someone that will rent you a room even though he has no clue who you are or if you even have a job :-)

@Nemo7The7Pirate7

6 жыл бұрын

Steve P i know for sure this could happen, especially in small towns post calamity period.

@benjaminbarrera214

8 ай бұрын

Oh yeah, this still happens. I drove a friend to rent out a room, she had no job but she did get money from her family. The place was near a college, so I suppose a lot of people were renting out rooms that way.

this movie is surprisingly respectful to the viewer's intelligence. Refreshing.

I've always thought that, if you took a picture of Drew Barrymore and morphed it into a picture of Christina Ricci but stopped at the half-way point, you'd have Betty.

"The film failed to perform at the box office, placing further stress on an already-burdened [director/ producer/ writer Tom] Graeff, and in the fall of 1959, he suffered a breakdown, proclaiming himself as the second coming of Christ." I like this movie!

@luisreyes1963

4 жыл бұрын

Too bad Uwe Boll didn't suffer the same fate.

I miss this show.

"Dear gramps I can not continue to live this way"😂😂😂

This is one of those movies, like Manos: The Hands of Fate, and the entire filmography of Ed Wood, and that of Coleman Francis, that exemplifies why I like the cult cinema/bad movie genre: You look into the story of the film, and you see the monumental effort made just to get it made, and you feel some of the energy and excitement that must have been felt: "Oh my God, we're actually making our own movie" Teenagers From Outer Space is silly, of course, but there's a level of earnestness in it that I simply adore. This was a perfect film for the Joel era. Mike and co. would have just torn it to shreds, and I don't think that would be fair.

@KarmikCykle

6 жыл бұрын

Few things are as amazing and fun as someone trying their darnedest to make a real movie and failing horribly. Much better than 99.9999% of intentional attempts to make a bad movie.

@macdaddymandalorian7305

5 жыл бұрын

Wesley Chalmers yeah except for special effects movies today arent really any better and actors today have their heads way up their asses

"Scootch over.... I'll ride raygun." Haha!

My absolute favorite MST3K episode.

Fresh Maine gargens are still the best.

I've seen this movie before and the most amusing thing is that all the music is the same free music that "Night of the Living Dead" used. :)

Betty doesn't seem to give a shit that her dog was disintegrated. :P

@sydneyhamilton2575

6 жыл бұрын

But at least she got her own scraps (corpse bride) or one of the skeleton dogs from Premier Automne

Oh my god, he literally predicted the future...when the guy brought up that ventriloquism will be the new entertainment it was...jeff Dunham and Terry Fator and that one guy with the teddy bear

It may be the alcohol but the movie actually seems pretty decent considering. The commentary was just an added bonus.

@BMcCue7

8 жыл бұрын

+Alexander Jakubsen - I like this movie too. It really isn't that bad.

@johnnyfive222

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's not that bad I actually bought the real movie.

@taumpytears6999

8 жыл бұрын

you're right , its the alcohol

@JamesWVanFleet

8 жыл бұрын

It's made so heavily on the cheap (those lobsters...), but it doesn't feel insincere. There's a baseline competence here you don't find in the insufferable anti-cinema of "Manos," "Monster A-GoGo," and "Red Zone Cuba." It's more on the "Tormented" / "The Giant Gila Monster" level of MST3K fodder, where they're not "good" but not without real ambition and good-naturedness.

@Porcupine38P

7 жыл бұрын

One of the better ones to be sure. Unlike so many MST movies it actually has a coherent story line and a few brief moments of tension, not to mention it is a b&w movie with 'teenage' in the title but doesn't include the obligatory horrific malt-shop-esque teen dancing or singing.

That damn gargling lobster!

"When we return home the High Council may sentence us ALL to acting lessons!!"

Giant lobster is all they eat?

Fun fact: the "TORCHA" guy, the correctly named King Moody, was also Ronald MacDonald in the 70s.

@sydneyhamilton2575

6 жыл бұрын

Torcha! With A Big Mac!

@sweatybanana969

6 жыл бұрын

Oh cool!!!!

@MrKmanthie

6 жыл бұрын

oh yeah, the "chaperone" for the teenage space fascists who takes off w/the rest of the crew to bring back their giant lobster/spider thingies. LOL!

@angelsaltamontes7336

4 жыл бұрын

APPLEMASK ("...the guy correctly named King Moody...")---It's good to be King. It's good to be Moody. Off with your...Where (48:07) IS Betty?

"-He's a murderer...'cause Pepridge Farm remembers!" HAHAHA classic.

Set pieces, acting, and lobster aside, this is actually a really really good story. I really love this movie, I watch it even unMST3Ked

@BluJean6692

9 жыл бұрын

It's a shame really, it even has a strong and well paced 3-act structure -which is super rare with these films- but the fact that one of the primary threats is giant carnivorous lobster(s) really dampens the promising concept of livestock-monsters. Hell, I don't even mind the cheap effect so much, what I find unforgivable is how the monster looks like a lobster but nobody in the story acknowledges their resemblance! It's as though they actually don't HAVE lobsters on Earth.

@BluJean6692

9 жыл бұрын

***** or better yet they could have owned it by emphasizing/noticing the crustacean-ness instead of having the characters be like "gosh I don't know what that is but I've never seen anything like it!" Might've been a good opportunity for humor too, imagine how much better 1:08:08 would've been if the guy had said "a giant lobster" instead of "some kind of monster". (Come to think of it, since there's no real description of the monsters in the script it really could have been a total last-minute thing.)

@Mogget01

9 жыл бұрын

I've never bothered to research it much, but I remember hearing that this was actually intended to be a artistic take on the B Movie medium at the time, which goes a long way in explaining how the story gets so goofy and serious so quickly. Am I the only one who crapped themselves during the scene when the bad alien is holding the guy up and having him explain how cars work?

@dustincantrell6712

5 жыл бұрын

I have too, many times. I love this film. Some of the films they riffed are really good, and some are awful. For example, Eegah is totally fucked up. Point is, I tried watching it without mst3k before I knew they riffed it, and I couldn't even make it past the 30 minute mark. Es muy terrible.

The "TORTURE!" guy is King Moody, who went on to play Shtarker, Siegfried's right hand man, on Get Smart. This is his first film role. Not sure if he's supposed to be one of the "teenagers" but he was 30 when this movie was made.

@luisreyes1963

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting fact, there.

1:04:25 “We were made the same.” “How inconvenient.” Omg possibly my fave MST3K gag of all time 🤣

We have the SUPREME PIZZAS!

"for all its drawbacks, this movie informs as well as entertains," ...truly a metaphor for life from the great philosophy of MST3K

DEREK KILLED YOUR DOG!

Ah, this episode. This one was the first I ever watched. 'The Ren and Stimpy Show' brought me here. Derek still sounds like a cross between Alan Rickman and Peter Lorre.

@beelzibubbles

8 жыл бұрын

+Atheneastro He also looks a bit like Benedict Cumberbatch.

@Atheneastro

8 жыл бұрын

A little. Just a little.

@dreadcthulhu5

8 жыл бұрын

He's kinda hot. Too bad he's probably old enough to be my dad.

@vladnefarious

7 жыл бұрын

+Cynical Cthulhu but you predate humanity, and many other forms of life!

Yes, that is the same cave from Robot Monster. :)

For the seafood KILLER in you!

@dustincantrell6712

5 жыл бұрын

Haha! That's what I call highbrowel.

This has always been one of my favorites. Another one I taped off of Comedy Central at midnight when I was little in the very early '90s. Still have the tape. Has a very, very special place deep in my heart.

12:20 There were families.......there was love..... OH BITE ME.....THERE WAS NOT!

This is on of the MST3K Classics! I love the way all the teenagers are in their 20 s and 30 s! And the most terrible monster in the Universe,is the Shadow of a Lobster ,being held against a screen! And the 1-liners are killer! "Looks like very OLD teenagers from outer space! " The absurdity is great( A stranger ,comes to town and is rented a room on the promise that he'll find work and be able to pay for it !) This was a big Drive-In hit because of the title and the star pseudo-gay heartthrob,

"Go hang Bob in my office"

Screaming superimposed crawdads aside, this movie was actually kind of engaging. The "teens" had a certain charisma to them and the plot flowed pretty well. And 1:11:04 was the best thing ever.

@artgueret

5 жыл бұрын

suicune690

@luisreyes1963

4 жыл бұрын

Someone needs an appointment with The Agony Booth...☠️

I wish I'd been the one to register the patent on *Expandable Leg Bands*.

Ever since I was kid, I always wanted to be a spaceman. I have seen Goodfellas so many times, that I was waiting for "Rags to Riches" to start playing...

Funny story I've heard about this movie: the lead 'teenage' alien was the gay lover of the writer/director of the movie. The story is pretty well known in movie fan circles, so much so it actually inspired an episode of the short lived animate series "Mission Hill". :)

@hardcastle522

8 жыл бұрын

That's actually cool, I love Mission Hill.

@LibraGamesUnlimited

8 жыл бұрын

Hardcastle Yeah, I did too.

@thatonegirlchloe4114

7 жыл бұрын

wow... weird

@LibraGamesUnlimited

7 жыл бұрын

chloe rainbow unicorn Yeah, that's low budget movies for you. The thing that amused me when I saw it on DVD a few years back is that it uses the same royalty free music that "Night of the Living Dead" used. In fact, it must be popular music because there's an old western TV series my dad was watching awhile back that used the same music too. :)

@DonaldRilea

7 жыл бұрын

Many film and TV makers back then(I don't know about now, but it can be said of KZread and other Internet video makers),especially low-budget ones relied on "library" music, or music composed and conducted by various composers for inclusion in music libraries like KPM out of Great Britain, that would then sell the music and the rights to use it to various production companies. For KZread videos and others like them, there are free music libraries like Incompetech that offer music pieces for use by individuals and groups that make them.

"Alright, Derek. Sing us out of here." X D

"I'm gonna... TEAR your arms... out of their sockets..."

"Go hang Bob in my office" That destroyed me.

Best movie title ever.

What a great episode! :D That "Torture Officer" must have been the inspiration for that scowling, bossy blue Eagle Muppet guy. How preposterously great was it when they got that communique from that skeleton??!! XD i don't know why, it was such a nonevent, but somehow that made me lol more than any gag in this episode. Derek really was an intergalactic dreamboat, despite that generous helping of ears. i'm still debating whether i found Betty hot or icky. But as she's likely 104 by now, the point is moot. It's just a matter of time before this movie title and plot finds it's way into a Misfits song. \m/ Well, i gotta go see a wizened old dude about renting a room. Live long and prosper. *\V/_*

"Because he was a Schnauzer."

@angelsaltamontes7336

4 жыл бұрын

We ALL are Schnauzers now.

Ach! Those kids Derek encounters are older than I am!

Usually not huuuge huge into Joe's sketch style, but his super-sarcastic derailing at 25:34 got a huge laugh out of me.

Was anyone else totally in love with Betty too?

@scottwegner4232

8 жыл бұрын

+Professor Monkeyface Ph.D. Yeah, Betty's hot, but Alice is soooo "friendly".

@GenY42

8 жыл бұрын

I felt pretty bad when she got turned into a plastic skeleton with some dry ice on the side. Everyone should have an Alice in their life.

@PaulTheSkeptic

8 жыл бұрын

She kind of had that creepy Winona Ryder thing going on. It was definitely working for her.

@loganfravel204

7 жыл бұрын

you know that thor guy in this movie is a pain in the ass as Marty mcfly in back to the future 3 may put it:"he's a asshole!"

@sydneyhamilton2575

6 жыл бұрын

She looks like a young Ellen greene

In every movie I've seen MST3k riff to pieces about teenagers........were adults in their 20s still considered to be teenagers at the time? I don't know whether to find that silly or just plain sad. "Teenager": Dad! When will I be old enough to drink?" Dad: When you hit 40 son. "Teenager": But dad! I'm 29 years old!!! Dad: GO TO YOUR ROOM!!!!

I actually like the movie as a movie. It's so sweet, so heartfelt and so 1959. I adore Harvey B. Dunn's screen persona. The movie is like a homely and friendly puppy I'd hate to see kicked (so I'm glad it was MSTed during the Joel years. I love Mike and Bill, but they can get mean.)

@luisreyes1963

4 жыл бұрын

Bet you felt sorry for the dog reduced to skeletal remains by that creep's ray gun.

38:02 Thank you, Captain Directions.

Betty's a total babe, sure she's in a bad movie, but she makes worth a watch.

@MarsGundam

9 жыл бұрын

antonialeigh It's the puff dress.

@TimelordR

9 жыл бұрын

At 36:00, a tragic waste of a bimbo.

@sydneyhamilton2575

6 жыл бұрын

Now Here's A Betty To Rely On, Unlike Betty Alexander (High School Big Shot)

@kakonis

6 жыл бұрын

She's like a mix of Winona and Christina Ricci.

@troywright359

5 жыл бұрын

she is beautiful

"FOR TORTAAA!"

NO EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!

They don't even try to catch up with the nurse and the murderer. The doctor just gives up when she gets off the phone lol

@MrKmanthie

6 жыл бұрын

"well, I was meaning to get a new nurse soon anyway, so I guess this is for the best." (lol)

1:13:09 No it's The Legandary Black Beast of Arrrrgggh!!!!

@GrixieKong

8 жыл бұрын

He must have died while carving it.

ROCK LOBSTAAAH!

@jondeare

5 жыл бұрын

To make his robot friends.... Cambot! Gypsy! Tom Servo Crow!

@GrixieKong

5 жыл бұрын

Lots of bubbles! Lots of trouble!

Doesn't that girl ever get out of that pool?

@luisreyes1963

4 жыл бұрын

Doesn't matter in a later scene...☠️

Welcome back MST3K'ers

Love this one! I keep thinking of the Misfits song, "Teenagers from Mars." I assume they took the title from this flick.

@RavnerRavner

3 жыл бұрын

bingo

This movie is so awesome. If I were making a list of my 100 favorite films of all time, it would probably be 80 something.

lol Tom's muffled struggling every time that car was shown was hilarious and Joel's silly singing was great too

Suddenly I'm hungry for a garganburger.

@luisreyes1963

4 жыл бұрын

They sell them under a different name at Carl Jr's. 😆

47:08 I can't imagine anyone just randomly touching blood, let alone ALIEN blood.

Killers need rooms too.

I watched MST3 when I was little, but only now, a decade later do I get many of the references. It was funny then and still is now especially since I understand more of the cracks they make!

we had a resusci annie for lifeguard training. the thing was f-ing freaky. i'll never forget doing a lost swimmer drill and seeing her face appear through the murky water. scary as hell.

It was a reference to how at the point in time they made this episode, most of these really obscure movies only got around by circulating bootleg VHS tapes at conventions and whatnot because they weren't available from any mainstream source.

Betty is incredibly beautiful.

@sydneyhamilton2575

6 жыл бұрын

She reminds me of a young ellen greene

@dustincantrell6712

5 жыл бұрын

She's 1 of the hottest white chicks I've ever seen, seriously.

@GrixieKong

5 жыл бұрын

Derek is pretty handsome too! I like this couple.

@wendysgarden4283

4 жыл бұрын

@@GrixieKong but gay. (I mean, the actor, in real life). Also... dead.

Really old teenagers from outer space. :P

@artgueret

5 жыл бұрын

Adrian Lee

@Carly8Corday

5 жыл бұрын

Not "REALLY old," just a bit old. At least these are nice to look at. For a change.

"Miss Hathaway, the EARLY years...mmm!!!!"

LMAO: 1:07:24 "ohh, a lotta seeds in this stuff"...IKR!

1:10:39 In space, no one can hear you scream...but they CAN hear you burn rubber! Hooker headers and Thrush pipes? BOSS!

gargon spelled backward is nograg.

@dirtydave2691

5 жыл бұрын

Or gragno no?

@luisreyes1963

4 жыл бұрын

That skit involving movie theater snacks going into a waste container was a parody of an Intermission from General Cinema Corp.

old man:singing:ITS THE NEW ZOO REVIEW COMING RIGHT AT YOU my fave line

That burning bush part got me.

Every movie needs the "man stuck in the trunk" gag.

this has to be the most elaborate plan to get lobster dinners ever ....pure TORCHA! pull my finger XD

Best riff they ever did.

@artgueret

5 жыл бұрын

Main Street Workshops

The commentary was a lot of fun. Thanks !

30 yr olds from space lol lollol

"well meaning and 'clean' folks here today" even the little throw aways are funny

One of the first episodes I watched in the 90s.Funny Stuff🤣

Why do I have a feeling that most of this movie's budget went into buying the lobster?

29:16 - 30:16 The clip was also used in a game of Film Dub in Whose Line Is It Anyway. "Hey this is a laser-free zone! You can't shoot that!"

@MK-lk7nc

6 жыл бұрын

Cool, also "We have the supreme weapons" was used in Figure's Alien mix kzread.info/dash/bejne/oGSKrLZ7gNTchKQ.html

My favorite part is when Joel started singing the theme song from The New Zoo Revue around 33 minutes in. Makes me feel old, but in a good way.

When you get right down to it, this movie reveals the true meaning and purpose life: Grazing land for Gargon herds.

I totally love King Moody. I remember him as Starker on Get Smart.

That Tristar Pegacow was adorable.

I've seen this like four times now and every time I think the actual movie is better and better. It has a really interesting opening and kicks off with a scene that feels like the 2nd act of a better movie about a planet where people are raised in cubicles and separated from their families but one man finds a book with ancient truths in it and it triggers a moral awakening. When he sides against the dog-killers you're on his side right away!

"TORTURE!!!"

@sydneyhamilton2575

5 жыл бұрын

With A Big Mac!

Someone waving a lobster at Keanu Reeves

@TomMSTie1138

10 жыл бұрын

That's the best plot summary I've ever heard! XD

@MrKmanthie

6 жыл бұрын

LOL ...I always laugh out loud whenever I recall that scene in Point Break where Keanu Reeves says "I am an F ...B...I agent" with this straight-faced sincerity!