Mystery Science Theater 3000 Quotes

[As the girls, now seniors, walk along.]
Joel: Hey, it's Abbey Road.
Joel, Crow, Servo [singing]: Here we come, walking down the street...

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Servo [singing]: It's a wonderful world when you're married, when you have a family...

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[As the short ends, it's just after the girls graduated.]
Narrator: Jean and Louise were leaving for their jobs in the city, so you all drove down to the train station to see them all.
Servo: And to re-enact the last scene from Anna Karenina.

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[In flashbacks to "Fugitive Alien", the scene jumps abruptly from Rita's death to Ken eagerly waving for pickup by the Bacchus 3.]
Ken: Hey! Hey! Hey!
Joel [as Ken]: Ha ha! My chick's dead! Hey!

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[The Bacchus 3 crew, wearing enemy uniforms, are about to infiltrate a secret-weapon installation.]
Rocky: It won't be easy getting into this place.
Ken: How will we do it?
Rocky: Easy.
Servo: Wha— wait a minute.

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[In a desert, The Bacchus 3 crew walk past foliage that resembles stalks of corn.]
Crow [as one of the crew]: Hey, corn...CORN?!?

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[Confused about a name in the opening credits]
Joel: What does "A.S.C." mean?
Servo: "A sick cookie".
Joel: Oh.

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[A large, bleacher-like musical staff appears, and an unseen female voice speaks.]
Mr. B Natural: Boy! Am I glad to see you!
Crow: Well, it's not mutual!

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Mr. B Natural: Knew your father, I did!
Joel: Hey, leave my father out of this!
Mr. B Natural: And your grandfather! And don't be too sure I wasn't in the garden with Mr. and Mrs. Adam!
Servo: Yeah, you were the snake!

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Mr. B Natural: The spirit of music's inside all of you.
Crow: No, I bathe.
Mr. B Natural: In you... (points to the right while Servo makes missile noises) In you... (points to the left while Servo makes missile noises) In all of you! (Points straightforward while Crown imitates a missile hitting and Joel acts like he's hit)

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Crow [as Princess]: Herc, you gonna help us move?
Servo [as Hercules]: Even if it costs me my life.
Hercules: Now see them both safely back to the city.
Servo [as Hercules]: Even if it costs you my life.

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[Popular high school girl Jeannie approaches Buzz invitingly]
Jeanie: Wanna come? We could dance!
Crow [as Buzz]: Don't hit me!
Buzz: No thanks... well... I mean I've got a lot of reading to do. You know, that big history essay...
Jeanie: But that's not due for two weeks!
Buzz: I know Jeanie... but I...
Servo [as Buzz]: ...I gotta finish my letter to Jodie Foster.

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Joel [as Buzz]: [in a whiny voice] That hurt. I'm all messed up inside. If only an androgynous man would come and visit me...

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Servo: Meanwhile, the Midvale police visit his locker. Find out why they call him "Buzz".

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Mr. B Natural: Better wait 'til he calls on me, though... 'til he reaches for the spirit!
Servo: Yeah, calls for Satan.

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[Returning home from school, a dejected Buzz fends off his mother's concern.]
Buzz: Nah, I better get upstairs, and... do the reading.
Buzz's Mother: All right, dear. Oh, and Buzz...?
Crow [as Buzz's Mother]: This time, don't make so much noise when you "read."

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Joel [as Buzz's Mother]: Why does my kid have to be such a dud? I was popular!

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Mr. B Natural: Whether you know it or not, you sent for me! When you reached down to grab that music, to make yourself feel better, you awakened the spirit of music inside you! That's me, B Natural!
Servo: [excited] So I'm attracted to guys now?
[Joel nudges Servo, shaking his head as if to say "stop that!"]

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Mr. B Natural: You sing a baby a lullaby, and it coos.
Crow [as Jerry Lewis]: The lull-a-baby-bye! Oh... go away!

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[Mr. B Natural is talking about joining the school band.]
Mr. B Natural: And wait 'til you see the kicks you get out of it, Buzz.
Servo: Kicks!
Mr. B Natural: The glamour of the uniform...
Servo: Kicks!
Mr. B Natural: The thrill of traveling for a band competition...
Servo: The all-night coke jags in cheap motels!
Mr. B Natural: ...just like being in a football team, and best of all, Buzz, fun, fun, fun!
Crow [as Buzz]: Yeah, that's nice... MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

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Mr. B Natural: When you want to show dignity, Buzz, try a French horn!
Joel: Uh, Mr. B, what would you know about dignity?

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[Mr. B Natural cavorts before the lifesized musical staff as "his" instruments play together.]
Joel: You know, I think Oscar Wilde only wished he was this gay, you know?
Servo: Ladies and gentlemen, please accept our sincere apology for all of this. Please.
Crow [as Buzz]: Forget music, I wanna dance!

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[Mr. B dances to some music.]
Crow: He's so perky... kill her.
Servo: See, Buzz? It's really fun to be psychotic.

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[Mr. B appears in the music store and begins talking.]
Joel [as Buzz]: [in a panicky voice] Mom, Dad, tell me you heard that!

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Crow: [in a midwestern voice] Oh cripes. Polish, polish, polish. That's what I do all day.

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[A shot of unpolished trumpets is shown to a background of low music.]
Joel: Honey West!

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[Three trumpet shells are shown, with someone behind them.]
Joel: Come on now, watch the red man. Watch for the red man, you're wrong.

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[An inspector is checking a trumpet.]
Servo: Extra value's what you get when you play the coronet.
Crow: This trumpet is flatlining!

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[Buzz is performing at a school dance]
Joel, Servo, Crow: [singing to the music] We're really, really white, we're really, really, really, really white...
. . .
Joel: Say, that guy's got a way with a ballad.
. . .
Crow [as radio host]: Well, the old clock on the wall says that's all for the Stridex Medicated Band hour...
. . .
[Mr. B Natural appears and gives the "okay" symbol.]
Joel: It stinks!

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Servo: Ah, but in real life, Johnny is last chair with the preschool band.

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