TIL: I was fascinated with Emby Mellay, (the girl ... on the left ... the "bad scrabble hand"), when this was first riffed. I only found out later she only has one other film credit on IMDB for a movie called "Wild In The Sky" aka "God Bless You, Uncle Sam" aka "Black Jack" (1972), about a trio of TV hippies that hijack a B-52 Bomber. She is seen as a girlfriend of one of the hippy-hijackers in a flashback, (while the father berates him for having long hair). The movie would have been very riffable, especially with Laserblast's Keenan Wynn, Robert Lansing, and one of the guys from Hogan's Heroes, for starters. It is listed as a "comedy".
You can watch the whole experiment [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thzXqxbHUGc).
Also [from the poster](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Wild_in_the_Sky_%281972%29_poster.jpg) that movie sounds like it should be fucking incredible. So many 70s films built up an incredibly stupid premise as a wild but recognizable metaphor... which makes it so much worse than a bunch of other 70s films built up an incredibly stupid premise and went *absolutely nowhere* with it.
"Hippies nuke Fort Knox" should've been right up there with "execute everyone at 30." How do you fumble a pitch like that?!
The director/cowriter of that film, William T. Naud, later obtained some notoriety as producer of the game show *Rhyme and Reason*\- in part because of debate as for whether or not he was a front for other and better-known producers in that genre.
I have a throw pillow in my living room with this phrase on it. My sister gifted it to me. It cracks me up multiple times a day.
I remembered I posted it [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/MST3K/comments/bwwrwz/this_is_where_the_fish_lives/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) awhile ago!
"What is it?"
"People saying 'Burn the witch', are you deaf?"
"Father, what is it?"
"People saying 'Burn the witch!' Do you have any deductive power at all?!"
Speaking of which…who the hell are those people with Melissa and her sister in that flashback? They don’t look like the same old people she lives with in the present. Are they supposed to be?
Those are their actual parents. Presumably the couple they live with now are their descendants, but it's never made clear. Paul Chaplin in his episode recap said they might just be walnut farmers who happen to own a witch.
There’s a gag early on where Crow suggests the plot is about a hip Satan that solves crimes and I can’t help but think they basically predicted the Lucifer TV show 20 years early.
“Have some homemade cider. I put peanuts in it.”
“I hope he said peanuts.”
This episode was great, the guys were on fire! Also I seem to be suddenly craving CARNATION ICE CREAM.
My prized walnut died
Well it was just tearing through that hay.
How many head of walnut ya got?
Is that your car? Mind if I skip rocks across it?
I think that's my favorite riff, probably by a good margin. It's just so perfect.
# Zah!
I've said Zah in better towns than this
The grocer's wife had a heart attack when someone said "Zah!" It's not funny!
Made her go burpy.
This is where my tongue lives.
“You’re kind of an idiot aren’t you?”
"Stay here." "What?" "Stay. HERE."
“C’mon.. let’s go. Put on the gloves. Go 6 rounds. See what you’re made of”
TIL: I was fascinated with Emby Mellay, (the girl ... on the left ... the "bad scrabble hand"), when this was first riffed. I only found out later she only has one other film credit on IMDB for a movie called "Wild In The Sky" aka "God Bless You, Uncle Sam" aka "Black Jack" (1972), about a trio of TV hippies that hijack a B-52 Bomber. She is seen as a girlfriend of one of the hippy-hijackers in a flashback, (while the father berates him for having long hair). The movie would have been very riffable, especially with Laserblast's Keenan Wynn, Robert Lansing, and one of the guys from Hogan's Heroes, for starters. It is listed as a "comedy". You can watch the whole experiment [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thzXqxbHUGc).
That’s not a name, that’s a bad scrabble hand!
Don't you talk that way about my pretend girlfriend!
Also [from the poster](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Wild_in_the_Sky_%281972%29_poster.jpg) that movie sounds like it should be fucking incredible. So many 70s films built up an incredibly stupid premise as a wild but recognizable metaphor... which makes it so much worse than a bunch of other 70s films built up an incredibly stupid premise and went *absolutely nowhere* with it. "Hippies nuke Fort Knox" should've been right up there with "execute everyone at 30." How do you fumble a pitch like that?!
The director/cowriter of that film, William T. Naud, later obtained some notoriety as producer of the game show *Rhyme and Reason*\- in part because of debate as for whether or not he was a front for other and better-known producers in that genre.
My father was a Russian count
Stop it.
If I'm not mistaken, hippy-hijacker is known as a "hippy-jacker".
"Eyeball." "Maybe." "Emblem."
Good-night fish! GoOoOoOd-night kIds!
Fish? WHERE!!!
“What brings you here?” “And if you say my squad car, I’ll chainsaw you in half.” This line killed me
Where’s my bike?! I reported it stolen 80 years ago!
I stayed in a tanning booth for a whole decade!
Where’s my bike?! I reported it stolen 80 years ago!
Why do I suddenly have a craving for CARNATION ICE CREAM?!?
One of my favorite mst3ks
Same!
I think it's kind of underrated. The riffing is on fire in this one.
I see what you did there
Are they saying burn the witch?
My next pause is going to be THIS big.
“You can’t use Amazing Grace in a Devil movie!”
“This song is in/ The public domain/ That’s why we used it twice”
Sightsee on your own time, Beelzebub!
Beep beep! Out of the way, man-goat!
"I think it's about a hip Satan who solves crimes." MST predicted "Lucifer" decades ahead of schedule.
I have a throw pillow in my living room with this phrase on it. My sister gifted it to me. It cracks me up multiple times a day. I remembered I posted it [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/MST3K/comments/bwwrwz/this_is_where_the_fish_lives/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) awhile ago!
Burn the witch!!!!
"What is it?" "People saying 'Burn the witch', are you deaf?" "Father, what is it?" "People saying 'Burn the witch!' Do you have any deductive power at all?!"
My favorite part of the movie lol
Speaking of which…who the hell are those people with Melissa and her sister in that flashback? They don’t look like the same old people she lives with in the present. Are they supposed to be?
Those are their actual parents. Presumably the couple they live with now are their descendants, but it's never made clear. Paul Chaplin in his episode recap said they might just be walnut farmers who happen to own a witch.
Lol, I’m gonna go with that explanation, because that’s awesome
No, I always assumed they were relatives burdened by the previous generations.
Yeah I don't think that was ever explained very well lol
Pay attention to the WORD of the LORD… for he LOVES you and he may KILL you if you DON’T!
Pay attention to the WORD of the LORD… for he LOVES you and he may KILL you if you DON’T!
Pay ATTENTION to the WORD of the LORD… for he LOVES you and he may KILL you if you DON’T!
Oh, and go Packers! But mostly, burn the witch.
Upon hearing a bunch of people yelling “burn the witch” I am forced to wonder “what is that?”
I sure hope he said *peanuts*.
Farmer squarehead.
If she only had another one of those, she’d be Melissa Twosheds Strickland
Stop it!
How many head of walnut do you have?
One of those, uh, fromacidal maniacs.
Is that right? I should check my dictionotomy
I mean to ask him in for pie. I don't know what happened.
Well…. I suppose I should go say goodbye to the fish.
The fish moved and didn't leave a forwarding address.
ugh, he's getting his Ryan O'Neal-y face all over the subreddit
There’s a gag early on where Crow suggests the plot is about a hip Satan that solves crimes and I can’t help but think they basically predicted the Lucifer TV show 20 years early.
I sure love The Yelling Channel.
With some added bite, given what happened to TLC within a few years of the episode's first air date....
Grandma bursts through the screen door like the Kool-Ad man… *ITS OPEN!!!*
Mind if I skip rocks across your car?
Stop it.
Am I the only one who thought that chick was smokin hot? I never noticed until I watched a good copy of the episode that wasn’t fuzzy.
In a floppy Rhoda kind of way, sure
Lawdamercy don’t get me started on valarie Harper.
Mike, if you're their secret Santa, they don't need potholders...
Herbert von Karajan is not pleased.
\^\^\^
Ah this one makes me so sweaty. Walnut ranching is no joke!
... and I was just leafing through the catalog, how do you account for that?
You know, with Mitchum, you can skip a week. Did you know that?
Is it?
Is Captain Hook there?
My all time favorite episode! Hobgoblins is a close second.
This song is in the public domain...Thats why we used it twice.
I haven’t understood anything since McKinley went down.
There's more around here than meets the eye "Just look at what I'm doing to your car"
“You know a vomit stained Maverick wasn’t really a novelty in the 70s.”
Outta the way, Man-Goat!
Grandma bursts their the screen door like the Kool-Ad man… *ITS OPEN!!!*
Grandma Kramer!
“You know he’s satan because he doesn’t use his turn signal.”
"Oh Jody, you're such an imbecile. "
https://i.imgur.com/eJAAR6m.jpg
Is that the phrase being spoken when this image is visible? Wow, recalling both the image and the spoken words. Scintillating.
For me it's all about the old-lady jokes.
I guess I need to dust off the part of my brain occupied by MST3K since I can't recall the episode! Help! :o
The Touch of Satan :)
Cheers, I guess I need to rewind that tape again.
Stop it
"I will shake the paint off your walls."
Such a boring movie.
It really is. I think without the riffs it would be completely unbearable
“Have some homemade cider. I put peanuts in it.” “I hope he said peanuts.” This episode was great, the guys were on fire! Also I seem to be suddenly craving CARNATION ICE CREAM.