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SEASON 1

Mystery Science Theater 3000 · Season 1

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Season 1 quotes

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S1The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy

CCCommando Cody

Do you mind telling me why your men are carrying out that campaign of destruction on Earth?

SAServo [as Retik]

It's an election year.

RRetik

Not at all. They are merely softening up your defenses for our impending invasion.

CCCommando Cody

Why do you want to invade the Earth?

RRetik

Because the atmosphere on the Moon has become so thin and dry, it is impossible for us to raise food, except in pressurized greenhouses.

JAJoel [as Cody]

Get a humidifier!

The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy (movie)

[Dr. Almada voices-over scenes of the doomed romance between Aztec maiden Xochi and warrior Popoca.]

ADr. Almada

So they decided to run away, even though it was her sacred duty to preserve her maidenhood and be sacrificed to the god Tezcatlipoca.

JAJoel [as Dr. Almada]

The god of decaffeinated coffee.

ADr. Almada

They were discovered by the tribal priests.

[A priest receives a steaming bowl, turning to the restrained Popoca to force-feed him.]

SAServo [as Dr. Almada]

They prepared hearty soups and broths and forced them on their guests, for they truly knew how to handle a hungry man.

[A priest carries the prone Xochi up the aisle to the sacrificial altar.]

Kind of looks like Dirty Dancing, doesn't it?

SAServo [as Xochi]

[singing to "(I've Had) The Time of My Life"]

I've reached the end of my life

And I'm waiting for the knife to fall.

[The evil Dr. Krupp unveils his creation, a "human robot".]

KDr. Krupp

Tonight I'm going to put it to the supreme test!

The Cosmo sex quiz?

[Erhardt and Forrester are preparing an invention for the Mad Scientist Convention]

[to Forrester] Promise me if you lose the contest you aren't going to blow up the whole convention center again.

I only did that once! [Erhardt sternly clears his throat] OK, twice.

It was three times!

The third time I used the incendiaries, and it didn't make the building blow up, it just made it burn. Really... quickly.

[while introducing their creation for the Invention Exchange, a chalkboard vinyl on a record player] Okay- so you're throwing a party, it's 3 AM, and none of the guests are leaving. That's when you bring out the Chalkman!

Yes, as every self-respecting scientist knows, the sound of human fingernails on a chalkboard is most annoying. It initiates the primal fear response in all mammals, much like a chimpanzee scurrying across the plains of the Serengeti. Simply put your Chalkman on the platen. [shows record] Now this is a real chalkboard. (Set on) Side B; excellent. And you'll just notice the tonearm has real human fingernails embedded in the hand, now place it on the platen... [scratches the disc, creating a shrill sound] Now open it.

They'll stay.

Close it. [shrill scratching sound continues]

They'll leave.

And so on and so forth.

[attempting to shoo away a swarm of Demon Dogs from the Satellite of Love] Puppy party's over; everybody off! This is Tom Servo, your worst doggy nightmare!

EKEnoch, King of the Demon Dogs

[as he explains he's willing to help drive away the Dogs] First we'll exchange pleasantries, then, we will drink Tranya.

[snarkily] From a dish off the floor, boy?

[Joel and the bots succeed in shooing away the Demon Dogs by firing a ball-shaped probe into space for the dogs to fetch]

Alright, they're gone!

Joel, I don't mean to be a killjoy; but doesn't fetch mean "go get and bring back"?

D'oh!

S1Mad Monster

[After the stars a list of names under "With" comes up.]

These are the extras...they'll probably get killed.

[Last week's cliffhanger is resolved by Cody simply diving away from a ray blast.]

Oh, if they'd only shown him diving out of the way, I wouldn't have spent the week worrying about him.

Mad Monster (movie)

[Local yokel Jed Harper wanders through the misty, jungle-like woods at night.]

SServo

[singing to "Theme from 'The Beverly Hillbillies'"]

Come 'n' listen to a story 'bout a man named Jed,

A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed.

Then one day, he was shootin' at some food...

[Suddenly, Jed spots Wolfman Petro, who also spies him through the mist.]

[singing] And up from the swamp came a big, ugly dude.

Wolfman, that is.

Black teeth.

JSJoel, Servo

Gnarled face.

[Petro begins to advance on Jed, who turns and flees.]

[singing]

Well, the next thing ya know, ol' Jed's really scared.

The kinfolks said, "Jed, get away from there!"

Said, "My cabin is the place I oughta be!"

So he loaded up his drawers and told his family.

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