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SEASON 1

Mystery Science Theater 3000 · Season 1

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Season 1 quotes

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S1The Crawling Hand

PPolice Officer

Did you hear anything... footsteps... a door opening?

CACrow [as Officer]

The sound of one hand clapping?

[NASA doctor Weitzberg scans Paul, recovering in the hospital, with a geiger counter.]

WDr. Weitzberg

Not a trace. Not a solitary trace.

Must be a talent meter.

[Stranded and virus-infected astronaut Lockhart begs for NASA scientists to push his capsule's remote self-destruct button]

[as Lockhart/David Bowie] This is Major Tom to Ground Control...

[even later, as Paul attempts to throttle the diner owner while under the hand's influence]

[as Owner] No strangling, not allowed.

[Crow and Servo tell Joel off in that he always wins every game he makes the Bots play- due to their non-functioning arms- and leave him alone]

[addressing Cambot] Cambot, I want you to remind me of something: next time I make a robot, no more free will. That's it; and now we've got commercial sign.

Hey, why's she wearing a swimsuit with a codpiece?

Oh, just for the halibut. Heh, sorry.

Stop it, you're giving me a haddock.

Oh, you're a pain in the bass.

You have no sole.

[as Sheriff Townsend/Skipper to Paul] Where's the little body, little buddy?

Let's see... if I were an arm, where would I hide? My sleeve, of course!

[later, to Joel] What's buggin' that hand anyway?

Oh, he's got a personal vendetta against anyone with a full body.

[Paul is driving out of town when he gets attacked by the severed hand, perfectly parking the car to a stop without crashing while still fighting the hand off]

See, you can tell it's a low-budget movie because they can't wreck the cars.

S1Robot Monster

[Tom sneezes violently]

Bless you!

Gesundheit.

You're not supposed to do that...

Radar Men from the Moon, Chapter 5 (short)

Robot Monster (movie)

[Space-helmeted, ape-like alien Ro-Man makes his first viewscreen contact with the last human survivors.]

Humans! Listen to me! Due to an error in calculation, there are still a few of you left.

JAJoel [as Ro-Man]

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience it may have caused you.

[After the destruction of the space platform, Ro-Man addresses the human survivors]

And now, of the two billion, there are six. Calculate your chances. Negative, negative, negative.

He's so negative!

[Shortly before the conclusion, Joel and the Bots discuss the movie.]

Isn't it kind of weird? It's like, there's a guy in a gorilla suit, and there's-- he's got a robot head, and inside he's got kind of a bunch of clay… I mean, I've seen Dali paintings that make more sense than this movie does.

Yeah, but I think there's a fine line between surrealism and costume-shop closeouts.

[Ro-Man clumsily struggles with Alice and Roy.]

That, ladies and gentlemen, is the destroyer of the universe. I rest my case.

[Ro-Man shows signs of weakness before his boss, the Great Guidance.]

GGGreat Guidance

To think for yourself is to be like the hu-man!

SAServo [as Ro-Man]

Me-man?

Yes. [distressed] To be like the hu-man! To laugh… feel… want… Why are these things not in The Plan?!

GGGreat Guidance

You are an extension of the Ro-Men, and a Ro-Man you will remain. Now I set you into motion. One -- destroy the girl. Two -- destroy the family. Fail, and I will destroy you.

JAJoel [as Ro-Man]

Uh, what's number three? Do I get a choice?

SAServo [as Great Guidance]

Do not violate ape law!

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