MST3K - Favorite Moments - The Deadly Mantis

[@MongoSays]

"We should get going"....."but I`ve got a mantis in my pantis"......greatest line ever!!

[@markdaniels7174]

I agree! Best line in this ep, and maybe all time in MST3K.

[@paulv7554]

Best line of all MST3K

[@babbetteduboise4284]

In the 70's I worked in the air defence command. The radio transmissions in this movie was actually accurate. "Give me pigieons to home plate" from the pilot means "Give me bearing to my main base" and he would be talking to a SAGE site. It's no no longer used.

[@AnnetteLG]

"That's your thumb, you dork!" "I peed your pants. I'm not sure how." "Yellow snow, sir. Can I eat it?"

[@Nick-who-loves-cilantro]

I nearly died at "Who are you men and where's my soup?"

[@control_the_pet_population]

Martha died ya know... Everything with that old scientist man is pure gold.

[@alltaken678]

"For every action, there's a Jackson." lol

[@monkeymouse]

"He traded in his Chevy for a kayak-ak-ak-ak-ak-ak-ak" (We oughta know by now!)

[@MrValiant61]

Bad sci-fi films from the 50`s were a gold-mine for this show.

[@williamcrowe2576]

And from that day forward, Mike Nelson was declared "Destroyer of Worlds".

[@monkeymouse]

"For every action--" "There is a Jackson!" Funny!

[@tomservo56954]

"Don't ask, don't tell, bur have a DARN good time!"

[@ackbarfan5556]

"Frosty the snowman was a victim of a pistol whipping."

[@Anynom]

"Apparantly, the director was a former catographer." I've seen tons of stock footage but never seen a movie with so much stock maps.

[@nataliewaters7415]

"But I got a mantis in my pantis."

[@maryadkins2599]

That is the funniest line. thanks for mentioning it!

[@robin2012ism]

Mary Adkins agree.

[@McSuperfly101]

Still one of my all time favourite MST3K quotes.

[@ScreaminEmu]

It’s been 20 years since I heard that line and I almost threw up laughing

[@J3MOdh3NOWX3S]

Ive never see a blip like tthis It's there then it's gone. "I think that's the definition of a blip."

[@ZachsMind]

4:20 "Man, I am so baked right now. You oughta hear this Rush tape."

[@rebeccah.4983]

"Yellow snow sir -- can I eat it?" "It's kind of bad timing, they were about to toss Grandma onto the tundra." "Don't ask, don't tell, but have a darn good time!" "Scream like hell and die."

[@IrishQT07]

One of my favorite episodes of all time. "That's me, right there. Me!" :)

[@bobtheduck]

13:26 was my very first exposure to MST3k. Then I rented the movie, and then my friend got a bunch of episodes on old VHS tapes that kept breaking and it was the start of something amazing. Actually, said friend and I bonded over MST3k and I was a man at his wedding (not best man, just, you know, one of the other ones)

[@hmdwgf]

bobtheduck Groomsman

[@control_the_pet_population]

Welcome to Ventriloquist Island! had forgot about that one...dead

[@Damar158]

"Inuit Baywatch." "If everyone had a kayak, across the Bering Strait!"

[@80MWH]

Could always be worse. You could be subjected to daily whispers of: "I gotta Mantis in my Pantis."

[@jasonw131]

"We really need you to stop talking funny and kill that big bug. Over."

[@SNESdrunk]

It's a magma flow of savings at MENARDS!

[@jenaesmith3259]

😅😅😅😅

[@BryonYoungblood]

@@jenaesmith3259 "Don't soak your map in NITROGLYCERIN!!" - A classic riff of Mike's from the explosion bit

[@filidorable]

There are more great lines in this episode than any other I think. Hail Ming!

[@SodapopKevin]

Check out werewolf, space mutiny and final sacrifice. Those are my favorites.

[@BammerD]

"Hey Mike! Hey Mike! Get a load of this!" "There's a radar screen here!" - Crow

[@FrenchPaul1988]

I loved Werewolf and The final Sacrifice, so I'll support the recommendations.

[@SodapopKevin]

The 2 Master Ninjas are really good to.

[@BryonYoungblood]

SodapopKevin Space Mutiny was my first full episode of MST3K while my first exposure of it was the movie itself. I can recommend those episodes as well as stuff like Project Moonbase, Future War, the Mole People, Godzilla vs. Megalon, and the Gamera movie they did as some other recommendations

[@weavernutz22]

“Coffee, Colonel?” “Head injury, Corporal?”

[@jeremytung1632]

I have my own running gag I like to do with this movie, whenever the scientists are gathered and are very poorly trying to figure out what’s going on I like to punctuate each meeting with “one thing is certain it cannot be a giant deadly mantis”.

[@CraftySouthpaw]

11:57 - "Meanwhile, the city hoses down Pavarotti's sheets." LMAO!

[@draconiclady0610]

It's Paul Drake!...It's a wonder that he has any time at all to dedicate to science with all the cases Perry Mason sends him on.

[@MegaTaylor12345]

He's with a woman Crow: With breasts and everything lol

[@MythicSuns]

"I peed your pants, I'm not sure how" MST3K, the only show with even less logic than spongebob...though unlike spongebob they kind of acknowledge it in the opening credits

[@garysuarez9614]

@3:16 "Rock & roll...just as I suspected." Some of the non sequitor riffs are just too good...

[@ScreaminEmu]

“These sheets were trying to use our drinking fountain, sir!” is a fucking hilarious line that would NEVER fly in 2020.

[@sixgunshauna3486]

Equal rights for pigs!

[@Poxell91]

............OHHHHHHHHHHHH! Yeah no way would it. 😂😂

[@shadetreader]

Why, because the GOP is taking us back to the 1950s?

[@boru25]

10:15 But I got a mantis in my pantos! I've waited 27 years to hear that line again. Thanks for including that clip:)

[@auritone]

Could hardly be left out. :)

[@tristantobey7998]

MST3K, best show ever

[@cindydott452]

"I peed your pants. I'm not sure how" Always makes me laugh!

[@cindydott452]

"Get back in your little boat, grandpa!" I forgot about that!

[@currycockblock]

"Get back in your little boat grandpa." Lol

[@classic1333]

would've loved it if he clipped in the part where the guys is like "I've got Conan on the hotline colonel" and then Servo does a funny voice of "Dis is Gonan" Still, 15 minutes of good laughs :) The Deadly Mantis is definitely in my top 10 of favorite epsiodes of the show

[@PrinsaVossum]

"O little town of Death-lehem."

[@filidorable]

Who are you men and where's my soup?

[@laurallewien2165]

I'll take a bowl 🥣 of chicken noodle 🍜 ! 👌

[@MURPHYCHACHO]

HE'S FLIPPIN' US OFF!

[@potaterjim]

"These sheets were trying to use our drinking fountain!" HOLY SHIT

[@NP-ux9xg]

"Go take the picture....really, woman."

[@loganfravel204]

"He's flipping us off!"lol 14:16

[@MutantLitherKhan]

"Airborne with four chickens heading 0-3-5." Haha, what the Hell? Crow's reaction is priceless. 11:08

[@bram9519]

"Filmed in bald-spot vision."

[@racheledwards2352]

THIS IS CONAN Mike,"And you are?"

[@Cmach91]

"Tsk-Tsk-Tsk, It's a peeping mantis!"

[@johnnyd6135]

"this guy's insurance only covers damage by giant arachnids" lol

[@Anynom]

"Don't ask, don't tell but have a darn good time." "Little town of DEATH-lahem!" "Sky King!" "The final desperate hours of the Dole campaign."

[@filidorable]

Get back in yer litl' boat, grandpa!

[@sirtalkalotdoolittle]

Some of the jokes are just little snapshots of history: "The last moments of the Dole campaign..." and "Somehow, this gets Serbia into the war."

[@user-jy9so6kt2f]

"Everything was jake". Everything was fine, excellent.

[@davidreedy7886]

Enjoyed this mostly bad sci fi from the fifties. MST3K does great.

[@MrAnthimos112]

Some times it is the simplest throw away lines that crack me up. Hail Ming is classic. And in "werewolf" when out of nowhere they just show a ceiling fan and somebdoy says "The movies biggest fan" lol. In "Hercules" when for some strange reason the camera is pointed up to the sky and you can only see like the tops of the characters heads as they speak and Joel says "Great Shot".

[@danmckenzie1818]

My absolute favorite line from any of them was "Prince of Space." Aliens land in empty field and start searching for something and one of them says "I don't understand it, we were supposed to meet the heavens gate people right here!"

[@jamesschuur2801]

Final desperate hours of the Dole campaign? That looked more like the high water mark!

[@jackobora3193]

"I've got a mantis in my pantis."

[@hebneh]

I've always wondered why and how the mantis ended up in the Holland Tunnel.

[@Calriec]

"This is Beagle 1-7." "Arf, arf."

[@degrelleholt6314]

"But, Ned, what about my pictures?""Oh! There'll be pictures alright."

[@t1p9d]

"It's not from an animal..." I guess this scientist subscribes to the unpopular theory that insects are from the plant kingdom.

[@foxymetroid]

Don't be daft. Insects are clearly protozoan.

[@kylestubbs8867]

You’re both wrong. They’re invasive species.

[@joshuablack8221]

08:23 “Well, where’s the woman?” 👀😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[@MegaTaylor12345]

In there last desperate moments they taped salad bowls to the roof of the plane

[@Thornbloom]

It's weird as hell to hear my hometown mentioned in a B-movie.

[@godbluffvdgg]

Inuit Bay Watch...:) And Thanks to the Ground Observers... Mike; KEEP WATCHING THE GROUND! :D...

[@ginidontthinkso4282]

They always seem to have a blast with William Alland films. which are fun films

[@obsidian179]

“Don’t you play games with me, Ned Jackson.” “Not even our Strip Risk?”

[@tdickensheets]

Tom: We need big swatter! Over!

[@MrEriklenn]

O little town of DEATHlehem!

[@BryonYoungblood]

Mike: Don’t soak your map in NITROGLYCERIN!!

[@loganfravel204]

"He's flipping us off!"lol

[@Patrick_Cooper]

2020, and still love me some MST3K gold...

[@donaldpetkus1637]

‘It was the Comanches, Sir.’

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

So this is where the giant mantis from War of The Monsters comes from.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

I made a cat skeleton just like that but I used Elmer's Glue and the cat came back alive in the hot sun - the new biology teacher told me to come to school in the summer to get the cat. haha

[@jsgold2000]

"Filmed in bald spot vision"......

[@davisphillips993]

“If everybody had a kayak…’Cross the Bering Strait….” 🎵

[@4EyedAnimation]

A boxing nun puppet...maybe the best MST3K line ever.

[@evolvedturtleproductions7600]

To be honest, the effects aren't half-bad for the time. The sound it makes though...

[@jigbuilda]

Has to be up there as one of the best ever MST3K lines!

[@garypotter5569]

THE best smokey marionette monster movie ever!!

[@jackthompson3453]

"Who's going to drive me home?"

[@MegaTaylor12345]

Jack Thompson please don't say elimination

[@ubery]

“Uh, Mantis isn’t here, he just left, thanks!”

[@kylestubbs8867]

“What flesh-eating insect of normal size has such a hook?” “The worm?”

[@scottybeegood]

Bus drivers in love.

[@filidorable]

I'm Cherokee Jack.

[@Damar158]

Mr. Mantis goes to WashingDEATH!

[@MarineReaper]

Because of volcano activity a creature named Santa Claus, crawled out of the ice xP

[@GillianMStarlight]

I swear I saw that bit of stock footage at 2:09 in a Science Channel show, probably What On Earth or Strange Evidence.

[@29AndreG]

"We have received top clearance to play on him."

[@Jangobadass]

Thanks man. One my top 10 Eps here. Really appreciate this :)

[@RaoulDuke77]

one of my favorite episodes, a perfect example of a generic, terrible 50's monster B-movie

[@billding7073]

A mantis in his pantis.

[@nwvfd22]

I made the mistake of showing a few co workers this video, now daily I hear " Get back in your little boat." and "The little town of Death-lehem."

[@fpg213263fu]

8:26 I think this guy is familiar with dishonorable discharge

[@1987phillybilly]

Never, EVER say 'But I got a Mantis in my Pantis' on a date!!!!!!!

[@Azmina_the_warlock]

Wish we could get the full version.

[@teresas8173]

logan ...you can. It’s now on KZbin

[@Azmina_the_warlock]

@@teresas8173 woop

[@hanz101]

oh god this rivals the final sacrifice.

[@sertorrhenclegane]

And Craig Stevens was the star of Peter Gunn. You forgot to mention that.

[@ladysnake8449]

14 dishonorable discharge wackos didn't have a mantis in their pantis.