Mystery Science Theater 3000 quotes

1930 total quotes


Geronimo: Carnival? Is it a big carnival?
Crow [as Geronimo]: Can I get a balloon?

Gilbert: Why, I can't think of anything that doesn't involve the use of a spring in one way or another! [inexplicably looks into sky]
Crow [as Gilbert]: Hey, look! God has a spring!

Gilbert: You see all spring action depends on elasticity: the ability of material to return to it's original form after it's been forced out of shape...
Mike [as Gilbert]: ...by anti-spring extremists.

Glenn: All I know is I just don't want to grow anymore.
Joel [as Glenn]: I'm a Toys 'R Us kid.
Glenn: I don't want to grow anymore!
Joel [as Glenn]: I'm a Toys 'R Us kid!

Guard: Who are you?
Cabot: My name is Cabot.
Guard: Cabot?
[Numerous Korubian peasants turn around in excitement at the mention of Cabot's name.]
Peasant #1: Cabot!
Peasant #2: Cabot!
Peasant #3: Cabot!
Peasant #4: Cabot!
Peasant #5: Cabot!
Mike: Nope, doesn't ring a bell, sorry.

Gumby's Mother: Such clever boys certainly deserve crackers with their milk!
Servo: Crackers? Wow! Maybe they can have white rice later!

Hamlet: Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.
Servo [as Hamlet]: Fifty thousand, maybe.

Hamlet: To be or not to be...
Mike: The literary equivalent of "Da-da-da-dunnn!"
Hamlet: That is the question.
Crow: I'll take "to be" for 50, Alex.
Hamlet: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune...
Servo: Starring Shelly Long and Bette Midler!
Hamlet: Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?
Mike: Ow, my shin's right on the edge of a stair.
Hamlet: To die: to sleep.
Crow: Yeah, that's what we're doing right now, Bub.
Hamlet: No more; and by a sleep to say we end the heart-ache and the tousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to...
Mike: Ok, we need a predicate, now.
Hamlet:...'tis a consummation devoutly to be wish'd.
Crow: Especially with Ophelia, man! [snickers]
Mike: Oh, you...
Hamlet: To die, to sleep.
Servo: To SLEEP!
Mike: Whoa, that's an old chesnut.
Hamlet: To sleep...
Servo: To SLEEEEEP
Hamlet: Perchance to dream...
Servo: The impossible DREAM?
Hamlet: Aye, there's the rub.
Mike: I knew I had some rub left...
. . .
Hamlet: ...When he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin?
Crow: Heh, he said "bare bodkin," hehe.
Hamlet: Who would fardels bear...
Mike': Ha, fardels...
. . .
Hamlet: And makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others--
Servo: SUM UP!
Hamlet: --that we know not of?
. . .
Mike: So I'm a chicken for not stabbing myself--that's all you needed to say!

Harold's Girlfriend: Ooh, Harold!
Servo [as Harold]: Ooh, Maude!

Harry: And Frankie, if I ever catch you around here again, I'll break both your legs.
Mike [as Frankie]: What if I don't bring 'em with me?

Helen: Hal? Hal? Hal?
Servo [as Helen]: Open the pod bay doors, Hal.

Helen: I think he's so wonderful, I love Gamera!
Joel: Keep your shirt on, honey.

J.C.: [after having killed Rommel's fiancee and beaten Rommel unconscious] I treated you like a brother!
Crow: Not a good brother...

Jane: Penny went up to the boss's house, and she's still there! And it doesn't take an hour and a half to sing a song.
Crow: Maybe it's Aida.

Jane: You can't hide this!
Kobras: Who is to prevent me?
Servo: A halfway smart guy with muscles and hair?