MST3K:Tormented

This is my first venture into the land of MST. The local cinema has a running program of B movies showing every Thursday night and Tormented is on the schedule so I thought I'd prep myself by seeing how the boys at MST handled it. Thank goodness Joel and the 'bots are so hilarious with their wisecracks because I'd have a hard time sitting through Tormented otherwise. It's just one zinger after another as I'm sure all you MST fans know fully well. Some of my favorites in this episode are after the ghost of Tom's ex-girlfriend Vi comes to haunt him he lashes out saying "you're just a shadow perhaps...light perhaps", to which Crow quickly adds "..a bit of beef, an underdone potato" the same comment Ebenezer Scrooge makes in A Christmas Carol one of my all-time favorite movies. Later when the ghostly Vi ruines Tom's fiancee's wedding dress and she shrieks "MY WEDDING DRESS!!", Servo shoots back "NOW IT'S GAA BAGE" which is what Oscar sneers off to Felix after winging his plate of LINGUINI on their kitchen wall in The Odd Couple.Tom racing to the top of the lighthouse where Vi fell from calls out to her ghost "Vi! Vi!" to which Joel cracks in a suitably german inflection "Vi ask Vi!" One of the secondary characters, a hipster cat who comes to blackmail Tom is played by one Joe Turkel and as soon as he appears on screen, the boys quip "it's Lou Reed!" who Joe definitely resembles but more importantly Joe Turkel played Lloyd the bartender in Kubrick's The Shining. I recognized him immediately and I was very surprised the sharp crew at MTS did not. Only negative comment I have is the audio of Tormented is pretty fuzzy. I had to strain to make out what they were saying half the time. I love the rotating MST3K off-white planet-I'd like to get that image on a t-shirt. I liked the boys movie 'commentary' so much I think I'm gonna seek this disc out for purchase. And am also now considering myself a fan of MST. welcome to the club right?                      9/13/08