Everyone is asking the same question...
ServoWhy am I watching this?
A character in Mystery Science Theater 3000
Played by Kevin Murphy
Mystery Science Theater 3000 · 3,167 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in Mystery Science Theater 3000: in 1,542 of its 3,167 quotes
Most scenes with: Crow T. Robot (818), Mike Nelson (393), Joel Robinson (294)
Everyone is asking the same question...
ServoWhy am I watching this?
[High school girls attend an assembly. Someone, possibly the principal introduces the speaker in silence.]
Your Period and Mine: A Lecture.
Hello. Am I on? Is this thing on? You wanna look at that, Helen?
[A matronly woman steps up to the podium on stage.]
Today, I'd like to tell you about several girls I know very well.
...and why I'm being fired.
[Kay is discussing college with her family.]
ServoShe consulted Robert McNamara.
And Ayn Rand!
[As Kay sends her application letter.]
She got a real thrill out of dropping that letter in the box.
(chuckles maniacly)
Be cool! Be cool! Come on! Be cool! Just... Oh, that's good! Now let's get out of here.
[In the next scene, Kay gets her acceptance letter.]
It's here already! Oh, shoot! I mailed it to myself!
It's from Ed McMahon! It says I may already be a winner!
[A football game is starting.]
ServoHey, look! It's the Woodstock of the 50s! Vic Damone's on next.
Play "Whipping Post"!
[A band leader with a fuzzy hat is marching forward.]
[in marching cadence] I'm a Q-tip, what are you!
[During the game, two cheerleaders gesture downward with with pom-poms.]
Look, look, look at my crotch. Look, look look at my crotch. Loooook at my crotch. Yay!
[Kay and her college roommates are having their usual gab session. Nearby, a lamp with Kay's name on the lampshade is seen.]
ServoHats off to Ray, the whimsical lampshade.
...but then Kay came up with that all-important question.
How do Pop-Tarts work?
What are you doing to major in, Helen?
. . .
What are you going to take, Jean?
I'm going to take Bob for everything he's got!
. . .
You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to teach.
Because I can't do.
[As the girls, now seniors, walk along.]
Hey, it's Abbey Road.
Here we come, walking down the street...
[As the short ends, it's just after the girls graduated.]
Jean and Louise were leaving for their jobs in the city, so you all drove down to the train station to see them all.
ServoAnd to re-enact the last scene from Anna Karenina.
Viking Women and the Sea Serpent (movie)
[Rocky Jones and Winky march in Cleolanta's men at gunpoint to meet with her.]
[cadence-calling] Hut, 2, 3, 4!
We are in a crappy film…
We are in a crappy film…
[Rocky tells Cleolanta about the United Worlds' plan to save her people.]
They'll help you with your evacuation to a new world, which will be mutually agreed upon.
They will tell me where to take my people?!
No, Cleolanta. They'll only advise.
[singing] For yooooou!
Ooh, Harold!
Ooh, Maude!
What if we turned ourselves in to the police?
Then we'd be policemen and could drop the charges!
ServoThe Woody Allen story!
Hey, I like my family, as a friend!
[Brother looks inside a pot]
What's the matter?
THERE'S A RABBIT IN THERE!
Now, Mother and Daughter put the finishing touches on the dinner.
With strychnine!
Salad needs more butter, Mother!
Mike NelsonMichael J. Nelson · 824 quotes
Joel RobinsonJoel Hodgson · 542 quotes
NNarrator224 quotes
JJonah171 quotes
GGypsy75 quotes
EEmily69 quotes
CFDr. Clayton Forrester57 quotes
PFPearl Forrester26 quotes
MMax22 quotes
KFKinga Forrester21 quotes
JPJack Perkins20 quotes
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