"Hi we came to get Scruffy our pet lion. Oh my God!" I love Joel so damn much.

"Looks like it's a big brawny hairy glistening two fisted manly day!" remains probably my favorite MST3K line of all time.

@analogkid01

8 жыл бұрын

Very much a precursor to "Boobular Toobular Joy," definitely!

@jeffreyriley8742

10 ай бұрын

My favorite in this is, "I'm Herc and I'm irked."

@carlabamford9154

8 ай бұрын

I'm going to work that line into my next conversation!

8:19 -- "Wait, this is ancient Greece. They didn't have ruins yet." Ha ha! I saw this in the theater when I was 10, it was already a classic! Thank you MST3K for the constant funny comments!!!

@LoneKharnivore

5 жыл бұрын

S'wrong, though. Even Classical Greece had a history.

Iole's maid is played by Lucianna Paluzzi, who went on to play SPECTER assassin Fiona Volpe in "Thunderball," as well as Lisa in "The Green Slime." The movie's lighting and special effects are by Mario Bava, who directed many Italian movies, including "Planet of the Vampires," and was famous for his brilliant, vibrant lighting, causing some to call him "the Roman god of color."

@devinreese1397

6 ай бұрын

Her maid isn't really shown in this cut? Mario Bava shot Herc. and the Captive Women? And he directed Herc. and the Haunted World.

@graemesmith6721

6 ай бұрын

@@devinreese1397 Isn't that her at 47:33?

@CJVS995

Ай бұрын

Huh more you know

If you think about it, the smartphone is the cellular desk.

Steve Reeves. The most talented of any Hercules. It doesn't hurt that he is so very handsome. 💋He's my hero

With the passing of Betty White earlier this year, now the Match Game bit is 100% accurate.

I'd say both Joel and Mike had their moments, and their flops, doesn't change the fact that they were both fantastic hosts, writers, and comedians. :D

Every movie should have an [MST3K] button.

@majorsmind

5 жыл бұрын

EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.

@brettvv7475

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@holyshard530

4 жыл бұрын

It's like the show never ended..

@notinspectorgadget

3 жыл бұрын

LISTEN UP HOLLYWOOD

@AdamWestish

3 жыл бұрын

Netflix feature for 2021

Steve Reeves was a truly amazing physical specimen and that's his real voice in this flick. It was recently revealed that Reeves was George Pal's first choice for Doc Savage in 1975. Not to take anything away from Ron Ely, who was very good, but Reeves as Doc Savage would have been incredible. It probably wouldn't have saved the movie, but Reeves was built just like James Bama's illustrations of Doc in the 60s and 70s and at that point in history no one had ever seen a living person with that sort of musculature.

@Blizzard-kf3qm

5 ай бұрын

That’s not his real voice. The studio didn’t think his real voice was manly enough so they had another actor dub him; as was the norm for Italian films back then.

53:03 flashbacks of Zapp Brannigan when he meets the Amazons. "Death by Snu-Snu" 😂

Little did Jason know, he had not in fact hired Hercules, the demigod hero of Thebes, but _Herman Cleese_, FDA Inspector from Boston and Freemason in good standing who's bringing the pasta salad to the next lodge meeting

@meowistforlife

3 жыл бұрын

Well the guy should do a good inspection at least

@jonilougy6608

2 жыл бұрын

Ok, you're just freeking awesome 😂

@twizz420

2 жыл бұрын

@@meowistforlife not if he works for the FDA

@AdamWestish

2 жыл бұрын

Is that John's brother? If so, check out the awesome Silly Walks he does.

@faithfulgrl

2 жыл бұрын

You know those Freemason's they always bring the lime green jello with cottage cheese. The kids like it.🥗

I Love all the hercules episodes

@brettvv7475

5 жыл бұрын

I do too.

15:59 - "Listen..." 19:13 - "You better listen to what I have to say..." 28:55 - "Now concentrate and listen to me..." 29:56 - "Remember what I'm going to say..." 30:03 - "Listen..." 34:29 - "Listen to what I say to you..." 37:14 - "Listen to me, Iole..." 38:53 - "Now listen to me..." 43:55 - "Listen to what I have to say..." 44:19 - "Listen, Iole..." 54:28 - "Now you listen to what I tell you..." 1:17:03 - "Listen..." One of those eps where I can have fun outside the riffs. I seen enough kung fu dubs to expect certain quirks and patterns after Chinese dialogue is translated and re-written ("but still"); in this case, I ended up noticing all the variations on "listen" used to extend dialogue from the original Italian script!

@trtaylor29

6 жыл бұрын

JoseBronxRican. Ha!Thanks for this. I'm going to listen for the listens now!

@HylianFox3

5 жыл бұрын

I smell a drinking game

@LoneKharnivore

5 жыл бұрын

Translations by Navi.

@brettvv7475

5 жыл бұрын

That's funny. I couldn't help but notice all of the "listen"s as well.

@faithfulgrl

2 жыл бұрын

@@HylianFox3 🚀 I'm always up for a drinking game!🍺🍻

Hercules is a 90's woman. :) Does anyone else start watching a regular movie and wait for the riffs, and have to remind yourself it's not an MST3K show?

@jeffreyriley8742

8 жыл бұрын

+Yvonne Rousseau Constantly. I do my own riffs when I'm watching a movie or TV show by myself or with friends.

@yvonnerousseau2238

8 жыл бұрын

Me, too, my friend. :D

@quester09

7 жыл бұрын

same

@LumpsPlays

7 жыл бұрын

Regular movies DO have riffs! www.rifftrax.com Courtesy Mike, Kevin, & Bill! And sometimes some other random comedians...

"Oh well I guess I'll see what Sampson is up to."

That "Match-Game" sketch was deep, man; deep.

"Hey, we came to get Scruffy our pet lion!"

Looking back, I sure wish they had a longer run and perhaps covered more Hercules films. There were so many and so riffable.

29:53 Ulysses is the Roman name for Odysseus, who after Odyssey-ing, came back and restrung his bow, and killed all the dudes who were trying to pork his wife. I guess a bow did decide his fate.

@chuithrowaway1677

3 жыл бұрын

Every movie should have an [MST3K] button.

@ElazarYershovFilms

3 жыл бұрын

@@chuithrowaway1677 true. I’d love to see their goofy commentary over modern movies like the new bad Wonder Woman movie

@willf.4590

3 жыл бұрын

Mrgknao

@Xebelan

2 жыл бұрын

@@ElazarYershovFilms that's what they made Rifftrax for. Same guys.

@j3lny425

2 жыл бұрын

Castor and Pollux were Roman right?

1:31.50 Hi we came to get Skruffy our pet lion. OH MY GOD!

@PGTRegard

10 жыл бұрын

Favorite line by far.

this movie didn't have enough shirtless men in tiny skirts for my tastes

@psychoticquantum

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@notinspectorgadget

3 жыл бұрын

*"do ya like gladiator movies, Billy?"*

@A_Person5280

3 жыл бұрын

@Alphonso Stouall I don’t have a girlfriend to have an Instagram to hack. Thanks for reminding me 😢

Nothing beats a Steve Reeves MST3K/The Film Crew movie

@memyself1407

6 жыл бұрын

Stellar Marvel your hot

@patmandew22

3 жыл бұрын

you're* hot

Steve Reeves isnt dead.still lives at mst3k

"Where is the sampo!?" I actually died

@mayhaps1

8 жыл бұрын

+PolarTechie good to know you can still watch mst3k in the afterlife

@Jitterzz

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that legitimately made me laugh out loud too. It's a perfect reference to another hilarious movie.

@jeffmowgli4866

4 жыл бұрын

Was it pleasing?

@troywright359

3 жыл бұрын

ONLY A SAMPO!!!!!!

@robertdiotalevi285

3 жыл бұрын

Well, where the hell is it! Somebody get me a blacksmith!

Crow_ "Wait; this is ancient Greece, they didn't ruins yet" lol

Halfway through this movie i became confused as to why this movie is called hercules when the story is about Jason and The Argonauts.

"Kibbles and Bits Kibbles and bits, gotta get me some Kibbles and Bits!"

I love Joel so much it makes my heart hurt.

@generalzod8589

5 жыл бұрын

Me to. Nothing against Mike though.

@MelodyMeanFace

4 жыл бұрын

You're into that "nerd" look, huh? Mike was the hot one.

@cliffbooth1029

3 жыл бұрын

I can be just like Joel I swear

@robertdiotalevi285

3 жыл бұрын

Down girl! 🤪

@mehitablestorm8877

2 жыл бұрын

Me too!!! Mike's okay, nothing against him, but Joel was so sweet & kind of goofy & I loved how creative he was & how he was such a sweet "dad" to the bots. Just a real nice guy and very adorable!!!

Trace really brings some surreal brilliance in "Give 'em Hell, ____!"

The dinosaur's roar is from the original Godzilla.That's awesome!

1:21:00 Huh, a giant Greek warrior fighting people with chains. Why does that seem so familiar?

Am I the only one that loves these old movies almost as much as the riffs?

@jeffreyriley8742

10 ай бұрын

I love these Hercules films, especially Hercules Unchained.

@GenY42

6 ай бұрын

They are nostalgic and charming

This might be the first episode where they had to fill a long end credit sequence with something, like the fight from the end of Space Mutiny.

Gypsy has so much personality. "She" is so cute.

I'd watch this movie even without the riffing. Low budget but certainly of a higher quality than the usual dreck they make fun of. At least the cast and crew seemed competent in directing and acting.

@nicholasmoose6574

7 жыл бұрын

I like a lot of the movies on MST3K. (In fact back in the 90's I STARTED watched MST3K because it was the only way to see some of these films. Though of course, I fell in love with the riffing right away.) The movie itself doesn't have to be "bad" to make for a good riffing experience. (Rifftrax even did Casablanca!) I really like a lot of the 50's and 60's "teen drama" type movies they did. Even when the stories are good, all that dated slang makes for plenty of opportunity for mockery!

@devinreese1109

6 жыл бұрын

This first one is a great movie, with the best of the designs. Herc. Unchained as well, was good. However quality was lessening. Reg Park and Captive women is pretty silly, but a good change. The first one perhaps and unchained are more works of art.

@WalkerRileyMC

5 жыл бұрын

There are quite a few films they did that could be considered quality films but were trashed when translated for american audiences.

@LoneKharnivore

5 жыл бұрын

The Day The Earth Froze, for example.

@brettvv7475

5 жыл бұрын

Right? I love these old movies.

Michael Bolton must have been a popular punching bag in the 1990s. Him and Kenny G.

@quester09

7 жыл бұрын

also John Tesh and Paula Abdul.

Crow adressing Betty White seems so... profound now.

"I'm Herc, and I'm irked." 👌👌👌

"Andrea Dworkin memorial cemetery" It's a good thing I didn't have anything in my mouth.

33:46 "Hiiii, we came to get Scruffy, our pet lion - OH MY GAWD!!"

As corny and cheesy as these Hercules movies were, they still have a sense of fun and personality. I find them much more enjoyable than the soulless dirge that came out with Kellan Lutz. That one was so abysmal I didn't even watch the one with The Rock...

@devinreese1109

5 жыл бұрын

the versions with steve reeves and reg park are pretty good in design, especially the steeve reeves ones, but, they have some laughible special effects. the italians were pretty good at imagining greek antiquity. Its partially in their blood. italy was settled by greeks originally.

@orinanime

5 жыл бұрын

The one with the Rock was surprisingly entertaining. Just as melodramatic, silly, and psuedo serious as the 2 Steve Reeves movies.

Or if you want something visual that's not too abysmal We could take in an old Steve Reeves movie.

@DrGull1888

5 жыл бұрын

I'm glad we caught you at home. Could we use your phone? We're both in a bit of a hurry.

@nina1522

5 жыл бұрын

@@DrGull1888 I'll get you a satanic mechanic.

@markmitchell2877

5 жыл бұрын

Let's go down to the lab... ...and see what's on the slab

@wkanost

5 жыл бұрын

Bfdidc - It’s older now.

@Jesse__H

3 жыл бұрын

I see you quiver with antici---

"Well, they're not Amazons, but 'When in Rome' fellas!"

Wow, that Sylva Koscina was hot!

@generalzod8589

5 жыл бұрын

👍❤️

Huge LOL at the constellations skit..."Guernica!"

ive watched these movies for 50yrs and just realized the men are wearing miniskirts

Favorite quotes. Hercules can sure clear a room. This is a weird chain of events. Now, he'll be dragging those around the house. I'm Herk & I'm Irked. He just invented the weed whipper. Chains don't kill people, Hercules kills people. Boy, Herk can really clear a room. This morning a lone chain man terrorized downtown Athens. No motive was apparent.

"Well they're not Amazons, but when in Rome"

Can't directly reply, but the lyrics to the song actually ARE "don't pull your love out on me, baby." Pretty good song too. And now it's stuck in my simple head. Of course.

@williammatthews693

3 жыл бұрын

I loved the kind of random conversations Joel and the bots found themselves in.

33:14 "Aw, Herc, I was KIDDING."

36:39 lol watching this on the 4th of July

"Your tunic is open in the rear, I can see your bike rack," had me spitting out my lunch! X>D 46:00 The most clean-shaven crew in the history of sailing. 1:02:24 I love the women's "This is the worst dates we've ever had" expressions! I've never seen a movie with more buffalo shots than this one. Did they really HAVE to give the men such short skirts??

@Ratraccoon

7 жыл бұрын

Don't you know why so many sword and sandal movies have those?

@AdamWestish

2 жыл бұрын

The shorter the better!

@faithfulgrl

2 жыл бұрын

It's a trip back to the 70's. Shorts were that. The guys looked ridiculous. Things just falling out 😝 Us girls in our "Hot Pants" Very sluty. 🎶 "We Love short shorts!"🎶

29:45 “What’s new pussycat, whoa.” It took me ten minutes to stop laughing the first time I saw it.

26:22 Hey look, Hercules was history's first senpai!

Fun Fact: Peter Lupus, who played Willie Armitrage on Classic Mission Impossible, once appeared in an Italian Hercules movie under the name Rock Stevens.

@goldenager59

Жыл бұрын

Even funner fact: The movie cited, "Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon", made notable use of leftover footage from the big-budget Stewart Granger movie, The Last Days of *Sodom and Gomorrah* from 1962. 😄 😎

Godzilla's wrestling-style kick gets me every time!

~29:00 - neat subtle reference to Ulysses' return to Ithaca and Penelope's challenge to her suiters.

12:35 "And the horses, don't forget about us!" They'd actually be good doing a kids show

I wasn't talking about THIS movie, but the 1983 HERCULES starring Lou Ferrigno. Compared to the 1983 film, THIS version is CASABLANCA. THIS has real locations-- Everything in the 1983 film is cheap and plastic-looking (including the leading lady, Sybil Danning.)

Hey we came to get Scruffy our pet lion- OH MY GOD!!

Sometimes a sandal is just a sandal.

@ 9:16, 'Have I mentioned that I have an extra set of balls?"

1:31.50 Hi we came to get Skruffy our pet lion. OH MY GOD!

If you want something visual, that's not too abysmal, we can take in an old Steve Reeves movie.

Scantily clad young man pole vaults onto a rock beside a scantily clad older beefcake. "NOTICE ME, SENPAI!"

The box of " Capt'n Ron " that Joel is eating...Kurt Russell played Captain Ron in the movie, the box has a picture of Patrick Swayze with an eye patch.

@GregDad100

10 жыл бұрын

It's not Patrick Swayze, it's Kurt Russell ...

~Panning over a herd of goats~ "Oh, I hope *they* aren't Herc's mortal weaknesses." Wow. LMAO. Starting off savage.

1:12:57 HEY!! That's GODZILLA'S roar!! Those damn, dirty thieves!

@Ghostwalker2061

10 жыл бұрын

Yup, that really was Godzilla's roar.

@JohnAvengerJR1985

8 жыл бұрын

+ElveeKaye I know but hearing it made me smile!

@gohawks3571

6 жыл бұрын

At least it wasn't a Wilhelm scream, although that would be really funny!

Tom Servo "Claude Balls ladies & gentlemen" 😂

He lost his sandal aiding an old lady cross a river. The old lady turned out to be Hera in disguise. She was his protectress.

We all shine on. Don't we, Mister Wobinson?

13:49 When they started singing the theme to Peabody's Improbable History, I totally geeked out with joy :D

i love this stuff

Oh look, at 1:18:30, Herc is sleeping. That's ^so^ new for these movies :P

Best version of Joel's intro song!!!! Love it!

Hiliarous classic good riffing, good host segments😊

I love this old ones.

Lol, i made the little beep noise after tom did his "broadcast day"joke too! hahah

I had no idea Misties would tare each other apart over politics. The great thing about fans of this show is no matter what their background, they have good taste and a good sense of humor. oh god my new years resolution was to try to stop being reasonable on the internet... I learned almost too late that man was a feeling creature :(

@nikolasblodgett8933

Жыл бұрын

politics is an ugly subject, along with religion, and should not be discussed in public. An old lesson rediscovered by one not taught it specifically. An observation at the most basic level. It goes more than double for the anonymouness of the world wide interwebs

Expressing agreement with blvp2145, through sarcasm, to have these conversations left out of the comment section. You helped illustrate the point that by starting these dam threads they lead to endless unneeded, "unclassy" name calling & insults & for that "I thank you". (-=

Dr. Forrester's cellular desk was the first smartphone.

This is truly one of the great Joel era movies! A pity there weren't more of these kinds of movies during the Sci-Fi era.

"I hope my beverage works!"

Great episode! Great riffing and the movie was not that bad!

This was the first MST3K I saw. That was back around 1999 I think.

Hercules would be so irritating to hang out with.

I love those closing credits.

"It's the Bataan sex march." - Htom Sirveaux

Pretty please with Herc on top?

30:47 obviously, this dude’s never heard about the time Heracles threw A BEAR INTO OUTER SPACE

@mah7961

3 жыл бұрын

I tried calling that number from the ITT technical institute, only to get another no longer in service tone.

karma! now freeze dried for your convenience. bring your own bowl.

@quester09

7 жыл бұрын

>Hercules has returned!! >I'll alert the media.

I just started seeing MST3k.... and I love it! It's fun even if the movie sucks... In fact, if it sucks, the better....

saw this movie as an 8 yr.old still brings bitching memories

I like how Joel and the bots poke fun at the late 60s Hare Krishna subculture in the US. Really funny with the tambourine. "My sweet lord.... mah, my sweet lord" - George Harrison.

damnit i just love these guys

aim before you wind up keep your left arm straight and watch the direction and intensity of the wind it aint over till its over watch the tops of the trees and have some fun

OH, WE"VE GOT MOVIE SIGN!!!!

On Joel v. Mike, I'd have to say... neither, actually. They had two different approaches, and were each funny in their own right. Joel tends to be more deadpan (much like Will Wright or Demetri Martin, and their ilk) and focuses a lot on prop shtick. Mike is more energetic, and focuses more on situational gimmicks. Joel doesn't emote at enough at times, while Mike comes off as cheesy at other times. Both great, both funny.

Melanie Elaine, to add to you brain mush "If you do then I think that maybe, I'll lay me down and cry for a hundred years..."