MST3K: The Starfighters - Sidewinder

[@taylorlconner]

I love this episode! The movie is so boring that it shouldn’t really work, yet they manage to turn it into gold, in my opinion.

[@theboombody]

This is one of those episodes where I'm laughing all the way from the beginning until the end, and I can't explain why.

[@ekw555]

Well, they've taken Jarts to the next level!

[@gulfmarine8857]

That one 1st lieutenant looked old enough to be a Colonel.

[@steealconwyrick1999]

You know that your movie is insufferable if Mike and the ‘Bots have to resort to an onslaught of (hilarious) sexual humor and then, halfway through another refueling scene, realize they’ve run out of dirty jokes to use and are stuck with the boredom that is... _The Starfighters!_ Okay, either that or the crack at the Poopie Suit.

[@thekaiser4333]

I would have aimed at that commie tow plane.

[@ClayLoomis1958]

2:23 We can't actually show you the "shooting" of the drone target. That would over-excite you pilots and keep you up past your bedtime.

[@TooLateForIeago]

I wonder if the folks who made Top Gun saw this movie?

[@AmyLSacks]

I wonder if anyone besides us saw it.

[@NickJohnCoop]

I still believe this movie was nothing more than trying to sell the Starfighter

[@athodyd]

This wouldve been around the same time Lockheed was bribing the West German government to buy the F-104G

[@giantnerd14]

I've yet to find evidence of it, but I'm 100% sure this whole movie is basically an infomercial.

[@uthegentel]

Eventually it was the Phantom that won out.

[@HylianFox3]

"Is your face odd? Misshapen? Join the Air Force!"

[@sandydee8003]

Absolutely stellar⭐️

[@jonathankleinow2073]

Buuuhhhh... BUM BUM BUM!

[@MisterAndrewBuckley]

Bring it on

[@ObiWanBillKenobi]

Jarts! Wow! There's an unintentionally dated reference.

[@kitty1376]

It was already pretty dated when Crow said it.

[@jacob-qp7pf]

There are plenty of dated references in this show. 1. Coco chanel 2. One where Mike asked servo if he was old and how he knew

[@sylvestervoigt9836]

Is this the Space Force way back then

[@giantnerd14]

The worst thing about this movie is that the Starfighter was actually pretty crap as a fighter jet. The West Germans called it the Flying Coffin, while the Canadians called it Lawn Dart, Aluminum Death Tube, and (appropriately for the refueling jokes) the Flying Phallus.

[@HylianFox3]

Yeah, ironically the F-104 was retired from service (in the US anyway) just a few years after this movie came out. The history of the F-104 is actually really interesting, much more so than this poopie-suit of a movie: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-104_Starfighter

[@uthegentel]

To think they could of made a movie of the f-4 Phantom, the best and most important fighter in the US during the cold war.

[@giantnerd14]

@@uthegentel I'm convinced this movie was funded by Lockeed to sell these jets. 'Cus they got caught dropping bribes to move these junkers, so making a 90 minute advertisement feels likely.

[@Ozraptor4]

Don't crap in your hand, crap in your poopysuit!

[@ObiWanBillKenobi]

"Starfighters" is an extremely misleading title. There're no stars involved, only Earth atmosphere. Red 5 is *not* standing by.

[@HylianFox3]

This movie suffers from a severe lack of Jek Porkins

[@quester09]

Starfighters? Explainers more like.

[@forshippingon34]

Infomercial for the military industrial complex

[@sandydee8003]

“Sunscreen was not involved in the making of this Movie”...

[@HylianFox3]

"He has a Scorched Face policy..."

[@adriennereyes5775]

🤣 love this

[@biggles2492]

even the boys couldn't rescue this movie, pee-yew

[@jacquelinepinn3064]

Blah blah missiles that's all you needed to say.

[@Nightweaver1]

"Anti-communism speech," you say? So this was made in THAT era.

[@MomedicsChannel]

Well........ yeah. The F-104 starfighter was a late 50’s design, used in ‘nam, gotten rid of when the cold war ended. Its primary role at the time was thought to be able to use “tactical nukes” small yield stuff to get rid of things like powerplants.

[@dannycalley7777]

N.W.20DOUBLE X...………….YEAH, RATHER BE DEAD THEN RED ERA !!!!!!!!!!

[@jkorshak]

Everyone had their own anti-communism speech.

[@culwin]

And when they viewed fascists as bad

[@markb1475]

One of the worst of the worst. This movie was soooo boring. Crusty & extremely unlikable. Unwatchable without Mike & the Bots

[@krystalfan]

its like topgun but with all the things that made that movie great removed also.......poopysuits

[@josephneider7332]

Speedsuit

[@Harbalz]

Poopy cockpit

[@sandydee8003]

@@Harbalz 🎶Poopysuits🎶Poopysuits..

[@BuzzbeeDC]

Bad Azz plane

[@Harbalz]

My ex wife was a sidewinder 🐍

[@Axolotl_Mischief]

IDK what genre or type of music you'd call the 'score' from this flick, but it's quite possibly the worst kind of music I've ever heard.

[@sandydee8003]

It sounds like ‘60’s “Glee Club” music. Lots of matching sweaters and men’s hairspray was involved...

[@Axolotl_Mischief]

@@sandydee8003 it has an old school elevator music sound with annoying filler vocals and no real lyrics. I've heard music like it in British sitcoms, but have never heard it defined...it's almost like something you'd hear in a 70s-80s era gameshow.

[@jacobdean4833]

MST should do 4 years of press conferences, interviews, and other (pointless) things trump did the last 4 years.

[@kitty1376]

They didn't do anything to deserve that.

[@ClayLoomis1958]

It's gonna take a week with the windows open just to get the Big Mac smell out of the White House.

[@culwin]

Some things are too stupid to parody. It would be like MST3K trying to make fun of "Scary Movie" or something. It's already obviously terrible.

[@꿀벌-x6o]

Can't wait for the sequel to that in 4 years!!

[@ClayLoomis1958]

@@꿀벌-x6o Yeah, bring on President Harris in 2024.