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My top 10?
1. Jack Frost
2. Santa Claus
3. Beast of Yucca Flats
4. I Accuse My Parents
5. Night of the Blood Beast
6. The Final Sacrifice
7. Sinbad
8. The Painted Hills
9. Eegah
10. Pod People

My Favorite Seasons

Season 5
Best in Show= 7
Platinum Level= 5
Gold Level= 8
Silver Level= 1
Bronze Level= 2
Subpar Level= 1 Best Episode: Santa Claus.
Weakest Episode: Wild World of Batwoman.
The guys were at the top of their game in year 5. Joel, the seasoned vet, is as good as he's ever been and they don't lose a step with newbie Mike at the helm. I love the variety of the movies, we get a little bit of everything: Troubled teens, Russian magic, Arch Hall Jr and our final Bert I Gordon movie!
"Batwoman" is the only experiment I didn't care for, but that episode is at least paired with a great short. This is the most consistant season, with a huge 7 ranked Best in Show. Ah yes indeed, year 5 is a beautiful thing to behold.

Season 8
Best in Show= 5
Platinum Level= 5
Gold Level= 4
Silver Level= 4
Bronze Level= 3
Subpar Level= 1

Best Episode: Jack Frost.
Weakest Episode: Incredibly Strange Creatures...
Season 8 is bound by the networks edict to stick within the sci-fi/horror parameters so there's not a lot of variety in the movies. Plus the host segments are a bit bumpy. Riffwise this is an outstanding season, and by the time they get to show 813 (Jack Frost) they never look back and put together a string of 10 solid experiments.

Season 7 (includes movie)
Best in Show= 1
Platinum Level= 2
Gold Level= 2
Silver Level= 2
Bronze Level= 0
Subpar Level= 0

Best Episode: Night of the Blood Beast.
Weakest Episode: Laserblast
It's impossible to know how a full season would have shaped up, but when you include the Movie, this season is near spotless. From Blood Beast to Laserblast there's not a blemish in the theater work (even the weakest ep -Laserblast- is a goodie). Outside of the movie segments tho, the Clay/Pearl dynamic fails and proves to be the "sevens" one major slip. It seems to me that the riffing is a bit darker in tone, but I enjoy it none-the-less.
Season 6
Best in Show= 4
Platinum Level= 5
Gold Level= 5
Silver Level= 4
Bronze Level= 5
Subpar Level= 1 Best Episode: Beast of Yucca Flats.
Weakest Episode: Invasion USA
It's a real mixed bag with grades pretty well matched across the board. The movies, with some exceptions (Girls Town) are really of the same school. Kind of dreary, grade z material. Goofy Bert I is gone and replaced by the "no fun at all" Coleman Francis. Flicks like Starfighters, Sinister Urge, Creeping Terror and the Dead Talk Back, are just a few examples of the basic "Incompetence" theme that runs through this season. The riffing swings back and forth and at times the shorts were the best part of the theater segments (Invasion USA, Diamond Head, Racket Girls), it's a little heavy on the Bronze, but the top level stuff is stellar.
Season 3
Best in Show= 2
Platinum Level= 2
Gold Level= 7
Silver Level= 9
Bronze Level= 3
Subpar Level= 1 Best Episode: Pod People.
Weakest Episode: The Unearthly
Movie-wise 3 is similar to Season 8 in that they both lack a lot of variety. Season 3 is dominated by Corman, Bert I and the Sandy Frank imports. Three does have the better host segments - Pod People, Daddy-O, Mighty Jack are all picture perfect in that regard. And it has the edge due to the shorts. Like "Mr. B Natural" and "Appreciating Our Parents". I'm finding that many of these eps haven't held up as well over the years (Apes, Star Force, It Conquerd, Santa/Martian). There are a lot of decent 'Silver' level eps, but it's a bit light on the masterpieces.

Season 9
Best in Show= 3
Platinum Level= 1
Gold Level= 1
Silver Level= 4
Bronze Level= 3
Subpar Level= 1 Best Episode: Final Sacrifice.
Weakest Episode: Delta Knights
Seasons 4, 9 and 10 are too close to call. But I'll try. Nine is boosted by 4 great episodes, Werewolf Touch of Satan and Final Sacrifice. In addition to that there's the Platinum Puma Man. Nine is a decent season with grades spread across the board.
Season 4
Best in Show= 2
Platinum Level= 1
Gold Level= 6
Silver Level= 10
Bronze Level= 3
Subpar Level= 2 Best Episode: Monster A Go-Go.
Weakest Episode: Hercules Against the Moon Men
Four finished up strong, but is mostly stocked with solid Silver level episodes. Manos and Monster A-Go Go are the best. Human Duplicators is a lot of fun and is the only episode to reach Platinum. Sadly, there are 2 Subpar eps. This is a popular season and it's good, I just like other ones better
Season 10
Best in Show= 2
Platinum Level= 1
Gold Level= 3
Silver Level= 3
Bronze Level= 2
Subpar Level= 2
Best Episode: Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues.
Weakest Episode: Hamlet
The season started off well with eps like Gold Boots, Soultaker & Moon Beast But It spiralled down at the end. I wasn't a huge fan of Diabolik and with the sub-par Spider Island and the horrid Hamlet in the mix, MST sadly limped off into the sunset.
Season 2
Best in Show= 0
Platinum Level= 0
Gold Level= 5
Silver Level= 2
Bronze Level= 6
Subpar Level= 0

Best Episode: Ring of Terror.
Weakest Episode: Sidehackers
There are a lot of blah in the movie mix, and while no episode bombs, there are several bronze level eps that don't thill me (Hackers, Catalina Caper). To counter those there are some experiments that provide many laughs. Zilla vs the Sea Monster, Wild Rebels and King Dinosaur all set the second season above the first. The riffing is tighter and everyone seems more comfortable in their roles. Especially Trace. His Dr. F is more demonstrative (He was a bit stiff and had that forced deep voice) and the Baby-Talk Crow is giving way to a smarter, playfully biting character.
Season 1
Best in Show= 0
Platinum Level= 0
Gold Level= 2
Silver Level= 2
Bronze Level= 5
Subpar Level= 4

Best Episode: Project Moonbase.
Weakest Episode: Aztec Mummy
The riffing is laid back and sparse. And while there are no "A grade" episodes, great laughs are still to be had. In the MST universe there are no "bad" seasons, simply different levels of excellence. I liked Josh's Servo and Joel is always Joel, he's the one guy who was always working at a high level.

Twenty Great Riffs
1] "Tommy's the Lathe of Heaven!" - Joel. #320 Appreciating Our Parents
2] "Man, it's like "No Exit" with bad jokes" - Joel. #418 Attack of the Eye Creatures
3] "Now this is good old fashioned nightmare fuel" - Crow. #521 Santa Claus
4] "Peter must be walking around denying everyone this morning" - Servo. #813 Jack Frost
5] "Every man I meet is either gay or a bear" - Mike #813 Jack Frost
6] "Welcome to manic depressiville" - Crow. #505 Magic Voyage of Sinbad
7] "Mom, Dad! I won the 'Get the crap kicked out of me' contest!" - Joel. #507 I Accuse My Parents
8] "Oh if only Richard Widmark were here" - Crow. #518 Atomic Brain
9] "Nice caboose on that girl... What am I saying, that's my daughter! I am mad" - Servo. #103 Mad Monster
10] "Will somebody put me out, I seem to be on fire" - Crow as Bullwinkle. #422 Day the Earth Froze
11] "Take her!" - "Here? In front of the circus people?" - Lodec/Crow. #411 The Magic Sword
12] "Hi, we came to get Scruffy, our pet lion... OH MY GOD!" - Joel. #502 Hercules
13] "So in the future, kids become gay agents?" - Crow. #821 Time Chasers
14] "He's going to use his coconut powered spanking machine on me!" - Crow as kid is chased by Russell Johnson. #906 Space Children
15] "Jeepers, This dog tags a gold mine!" - Joel. #404 Teenagers from Outer Space
16] Are You Ready For Marriage? = "Uhm... Yeah, I'm sick of sex anyway" - Title card/Mike from Short seen before Racket Girls
17] "Jiminy thinks Johnny, if only I could get a ride in one of those!" - Crow (as Johnny sits eye-level to girls chest). #419 Johnny at the Fair
18] "A razorback hat lacks the quiet dignity of a cheese wedge" - Mike. #1006 Boggy Creek II
19] "The poor Irish, you know, if they aren't being invaded by Cromwell or infested with leprechauns, they've got this guy." - Mike. #909 Gorgo
20] "You know the consequences of a body moving with unchecked velocity in free space!!" " - "Uh... We're our own grandparents?" - Space guy/Crow. #201 Rocketship X-M

9 of my least favorite episodes
I recently watched every show from 101 to 1013 for the "Riff Explanations" on my pages. And I found there were a few episodes that I avoided like the plague. I just didn't want to watch them. Here then are those rare MST eps that don't strike my fancy
1] Robot vs the Aztec Mummy
I simply don't laugh very much at all. Probably the worst of the modern era.
2] Hamlet
Unlike many eps, this one gets worse with each viewing. The handful of riffs I like are now old hat, and there's nothing new that grabs me. Dull
3] Hercules Against the Moon Men
The riffs are repetitive, uninspired and unfunny. Right up there with Hamlet as an ep I can hardly sit through.
4] Wild World of Batwoman
The short is SOOO funny, but Batwoman leaves me cold. I expect to 'laugh so hard I hurt' when I watch this show. Not lose focus from indifference!
5] Incredibly Strange Creatures...
The movie gives me a headache. But I could deal with that if M&TB distracted me with hilarity. But they don't and the flick hurts too much.
6] Horrors of Spider Island
Popular episode, but I find the riffing so weightless. I prefer a little more wit with my movies and I don't find this very funny at all
7] Delta Knights
Very few laughs. Pearl lacks comic timing and chemistry in the theater
8] City Limits
A tough one to grade. Starts off funny, but dies a painful, humorless death. I'm pretty silent during the last hour.
9] The Corpse Vanishes
While I cut season 1 some slack, and Corpse has a couple of nice quips. This is overall too dreary and dry and not a real fun one to watch.
But what about "Mad Monster"?
Very, VERY sparse riffing -BUT- there are a couple times where I just burst out with huge guffaws. So "Mad", while not one of the best, has a few great slivers here and there.

16 Favorite Stingers
1] Newspaper Boy in Invasion USA
2] Gerbil fondling in Master Ninja II
3] Speaking in tongues from Hellcats
4] Cranky grocer from Brute Man
5] Mad maid in Radar Secret Service
6] Rubber bands in Racket Girls (short)
7] The dogs meat in Deadly Bees
8] The Bicycle Thief? Teenage Strangler
9] It Stinks! Pod People
10] Where the fish live from Touch of Satan
11] Time for go to bed, Unearthly
12] I've seen the little creature! Boggy Creek II
13] McLargeHuge's girly scream in Space Mutiny
14] Billy Spazes in Giant Leeches (short)
15] Mom M'nuts? - Memory Bank
16] "I don't care" from Time of the Apes

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My Favorite Seasons
Season 5 Best in Show= 7 Platinum Level= 5 Gold Level= 8 Silver Level= 1 Bronze Level= 2 Subpar Level= 1	Best Episode: Santa Claus. Weakest Episode: Wild World of Batwoman. The guys were at the top of their game in year 5. Joel, the seasoned vet, is as good as he's ever been and they don't lose a step with newbie Mike at the helm. I love the variety of the movies, we get a little bit of everything: Troubled teens, Russian magic, Arch Hall Jr and our final Bert I Gordon movie! "Batwoman" is the only experiment I didn't care for, but that episode is at least paired with a great short. This is the most consistant season, with a huge 7 ranked Best in Show. Ah yes indeed, year 5 is a beautiful thing to behold.
Season 8 Best in Show= 5 Platinum Level= 5 Gold Level= 4 Silver Level= 4 Bronze Level= 3 Subpar Level= 1	Best Episode: Jack Frost. Weakest Episode: Incredibly Strange Creatures... Season 8 is bound by the networks edict to stick within the sci-fi/horror parameters so there's not a lot of variety in the movies. Plus the host segments are a bit bumpy. Riffwise this is an outstanding season, and by the time they get to show 813 (Jack Frost) they never look back and put together a string of 10 solid experiments.
Season 7 (includes movie) Best in Show= 1 Platinum Level= 2 Gold Level= 2 Silver Level= 2 Bronze Level= 0 Subpar Level= 0	Best Episode: Night of the Blood Beast. Weakest Episode: Laserblast It's impossible to know how a full season would have shaped up, but when you include the Movie, this season is near spotless. From Blood Beast to Laserblast there's not a blemish in the theater work (even the weakest ep -Laserblast- is a goodie). Outside of the movie segments tho, the Clay/Pearl dynamic fails and proves to be the "sevens" one major slip. It seems to me that the riffing is a bit darker in tone, but I enjoy it none-the-less.
Season 6 Best in Show= 4 Platinum Level= 5 Gold Level= 5 Silver Level= 4 Bronze Level= 5 Subpar Level= 1	Best Episode: Beast of Yucca Flats. Weakest Episode: Invasion USA It's a real mixed bag with grades pretty well matched across the board. The movies, with some exceptions (Girls Town) are really of the same school. Kind of dreary, grade z material. Goofy Bert I is gone and replaced by the "no fun at all" Coleman Francis. Flicks like Starfighters, Sinister Urge, Creeping Terror and the Dead Talk Back, are just a few examples of the basic "Incompetence" theme that runs through this season. The riffing swings back and forth and at times the shorts were the best part of the theater segments (Invasion USA, Diamond Head, Racket Girls), it's a little heavy on the Bronze, but the top level stuff is stellar.
Season 3 Best in Show= 2 Platinum Level= 2 Gold Level= 7 Silver Level= 9 Bronze Level= 3 Subpar Level= 1	Best Episode: Pod People. Weakest Episode: The Unearthly Movie-wise 3 is similar to Season 8 in that they both lack a lot of variety. Season 3 is dominated by Corman, Bert I and the Sandy Frank imports. Three does have the better host segments - Pod People, Daddy-O, Mighty Jack are all picture perfect in that regard. And it has the edge due to the shorts. Like "Mr. B Natural" and "Appreciating Our Parents". I'm finding that many of these eps haven't held up as well over the years (Apes, Star Force, It Conquerd, Santa/Martian). There are a lot of decent 'Silver' level eps, but it's a bit light on the masterpieces.
Season 9 Best in Show= 3 Platinum Level= 1 Gold Level= 1 Silver Level= 4 Bronze Level= 3 Subpar Level= 1	Best Episode: Final Sacrifice. Weakest Episode: Delta Knights Seasons 4, 9 and 10 are too close to call. But I'll try. Nine is boosted by 4 great episodes, Werewolf Touch of Satan and Final Sacrifice. In addition to that there's the Platinum Puma Man. Nine is a decent season with grades spread across the board.
Season 4 Best in Show= 2 Platinum Level= 1 Gold Level= 6 Silver Level= 10 Bronze Level= 3 Subpar Level= 2	Best Episode: Monster A Go-Go. Weakest Episode: Hercules Against the Moon Men Four finished up strong, but is mostly stocked with solid Silver level episodes. Manos and Monster A-Go Go are the best. Human Duplicators is a lot of fun and is the only episode to reach Platinum. Sadly, there are 2 Subpar eps. This is a popular season and it's good, I just like other ones better
Season 10 Best in Show= 2 Platinum Level= 1 Gold Level= 3 Silver Level= 3 Bronze Level= 2 Subpar Level= 2	Best Episode: Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues. Weakest Episode: Hamlet The season started off well with eps like Gold Boots, Soultaker & Moon Beast But It spiralled down at the end. I wasn't a huge fan of Diabolik and with the sub-par Spider Island and the horrid Hamlet in the mix, MST sadly limped off into the sunset.
Season 2 Best in Show= 0 Platinum Level= 0 Gold Level= 5 Silver Level= 2 Bronze Level= 6 Subpar Level= 0	Best Episode: Ring of Terror. Weakest Episode: Sidehackers There are a lot of blah in the movie mix, and while no episode bombs, there are several bronze level eps that don't thill me (Hackers, Catalina Caper). To counter those there are some experiments that provide many laughs. Zilla vs the Sea Monster, Wild Rebels and King Dinosaur all set the second season above the first. The riffing is tighter and everyone seems more comfortable in their roles. Especially Trace. His Dr. F is more demonstrative (He was a bit stiff and had that forced deep voice) and the Baby-Talk Crow is giving way to a smarter, playfully biting character.
Season 1 Best in Show= 0 Platinum Level= 0 Gold Level= 2 Silver Level= 2 Bronze Level= 5 Subpar Level= 4	Best Episode: Project Moonbase. Weakest Episode: Aztec Mummy The riffing is laid back and sparse. And while there are no "A grade" episodes, great laughs are still to be had. In the MST universe there are no "bad" seasons, simply different levels of excellence. I liked Josh's Servo and Joel is always Joel, he's the one guy who was always working at a high level.