This question arose on the old rec.arts.tv.mst3k newsgroup, which, in turn, spawned a cascade of answers (a stunning development which surprised almost no one), which, in further turn, led to the creation of this list! (And now you know... the rest of the story!

• If, having seen or heard a reference to Joe Don Baker *MITCHELL!!!*, you have an uncontrollable urge to shout MITCHELL!!!
• Or when you see Joe Don Baker in anything--which gets really tiring when he's the "star" of the film. Or when you see a bad Merlin Olson movie, i.e. a Merlin Olson movie.
• If you can never take Joe Don Baker seriously anymore.
• You're playing DOOM, and while running to avoid a hail of bullets, you start shouting "Ser-pen-tiiiiiiiiiine!" Or if you've been known to shout "I WILL KILL YOUUUU!" during Deathmatches. Or if you insist on deathmatching your workmates with the MST3K.WAD file loaded
• A news report on open-air drug markets in DC being named "red zones" comes on and you immediately think "Red Zone DC?"
• If you give your kids a 5 minute warning to get ready for school, then shout "Movie sign!" when the bus drives up.
• If you stay up until 3 in the morning just so you can MST a financial scheme infomercial.
• When you see a young couple embrace and you think to yourself, "Smoochers!"
• If you can't sit through a soccer game without giggling at least once when the announcers refer to the space around the goal as "the area"
• If you can't sit through a football game without having a Coleman Francis flashback when the announcers talk about the space between a team's 20-yard line and their end zone, known as the "red zone"
• If you giggle whenever someone on TV talks about radar
• If you can't look at a forklift with giggling
• If you can't look at Jack Perkins without giggl - well, you're probably watching A&E at least
• If you can't help giggling at William Shatner's line near the end of "Where No Man Has Gone Before": "Even a god needs compassion.... MITCHELL!!"
• You riff "The Real Bowl"
• You know all the words to the "Mentos" song
• You say "La La La" for no apparent reason
• You dress up as "Willy the Waffle" for Halloween
• Every time someone yells your name, you respond with "Chief? McCloud?"
• You have the urge to post the lyrics to "Tubular Boobular Joy" on alt.binaries.pictures.erotica
• Every time you get on a highway, you roll down the window and yell, "Do you want to go faster?"
• Your pet name for your genitals is "Manos: The Genitals of Fate"! Actually, just the fact that you have a pet name for your genitals would qualify you. You could choose from any of these endearing charmers: "The Woozle Whose Name Is Peanut" "Monster-A-Go-Go" "Sampo" "Mitchell" "Satellite of Love" "Deep 13" "Winkie" "The Master"
• Everytime you get mail, you ask Cambot to put it on stillstore.
• When you discover one day that every time you open a can of *soda* (or a jar, or a bottle of juice, or a package wrapped in plastic, or a door that sticks, or when you swing at a pitch in baseball, or ...), you say "Hai-keeba!"
• If, one day while you're watching a Major League Baseball [TM](R)(C)(P)(U) game, you watch a batter swing at a pitched ball and miss, and you suddenly realize, "Oh, so THAT'S where the phrase 'swing and a miss!' comes from!".
• You go through Office Depot and type the lyrics to "Wild Rebels" on all the demo typewriters (this is fun, but only if you have lots of time and can type very quickly)
• You know the temperatures in the Twin Cities for EVERY airtime of the KTMA episodes.
• When you laugh out loud, while reading Greek mythology to your daughters, because the book you're reading says that Aphrodite was born from the blood of Uranus.
• When proffered anything by someone who says "Want some?" You swipe at something invisible in the air and bellow "I want an answer!"
• If you give up your love for one of the bots because they like a specific type of computer. (Servo! How could you?!!)
• If you post silly things all the time and expect others to actually laugh (you know they're MSTies if they do)
• If every time you see a vehicle larger than a firetruck, you yell: IT'S MEGAWEAPON!
• You get strange looks from singing the "Big Head" song under your breath. (Or the Sandy Frank song.) (Or "Slow the Plot Down.") (Or "Patrick Swayze Christmas.") (Or - well, you get the point)
• When you sing the Tom Servo song in front of a bunch of people who don't know what the hell you're talking about. TOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM SERRRRRVOOOOOOO! TOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMM SERRRRRRVOOOOOO!
• If you sing "Love Pads The Film." Out loud. In the theater.
• You're at a cemetery and you start wandering around, calling out, "Puma? Puma?"
• You punctuate the day with statements like: "Rock Climbing, (whomever you're with), rock climbing"; "Bite Me"; "Whoah!"; "They're telling secrets"; "You see, (whatever I'm talking about) sees the universe as a collections of ones and zeros"; "This simplifies everything" (in your best Bela); "I don't get you", to which the proper response is ,"Nobody does I'm the wind baby" (This should be a masonic-esqe greeting ritual for fans.); "I'm huge!"; and finally, "I want to decide who lives and who dies!"
• When something really stupid is on TV (as in 90% of the programs, especially the news, President's speeches, etc.) looking for that silhouette at the bottom, just to make sure this is "real" and not MST - or wishing it was there.
• If you've become so critical of the media that you can't watch any movie, play, or TV show without seeing silhouettes of people in front of you
• If you can see the silhouette of the chairs and three heads across the bottom of your screen when the TV is off
• If it really is there from being burned in by watching MST3K too much!
• If you've made a cutout and taped it to the screen.
• If you've drawn it on with a magic marker!
• If you never take it off, and you forget if you're watching a normal show or if it really is MST3K, until you notice that Mike & the Bots aren't moving or cracking wise
• You get the silhouette etched onto your contact lenses or glasses, so your vision looks MSTy
• You cut out the silhouette in Photoshop and "MiSTie" everything you can fit on a scanner.
• If you have this uncontrollable urge to put your knee up on everything
• You see a commercial for the Sterling (or wherever) Renaissance Festival and your first reaction is to shout "Huzzah!!"
• Every time you see a man with a full beard and mustache you walk up and shout "Huzzah!"
• If you actually think that wearing a jumpsuit would be COOL!
• If you have an overpowering urge to talk to the gumball machine at the 7-11
• If you have no human friends.
• When you go to used CD stores looking for a copy of Chunga's Revenge so you can understand all those Frank Zappa references.
• You should be a MSTie if you know who Ruth Underwood is.
• If you can't listen to Newt Gingrich on NPR without adding scathing supplemental commentary to every break in the Speaker's talk.
• You accidentally MiST in public.
• You find you have an uncontrollable urge to MSTify everything you come into contact with
• If you can't see or hear the name *Mitchell* without immediately shouting it out loud! Or, upon seeing a brown '76 LTD in the office parking lot, you shout "Mitchell!...in color" and start humming (singing?) "Wachika-wackika-wachika..."
• You go to a major College Bowl tournament, which is theoretically one of the last bastions of scholarship against the creeping tide of mediocrity (hey, I said "theoretically"), and see nothing wrong with a significant number of those running it wearing "Fresh Cheese" T-shirts. (of course, most of them STILL don't have a clue.)
• If you see a statue of Anubis and start saying "I don't get you".... (I think that would be a more apropos comment if you saw a statue of the Norse God of the North Wind) (Nope, yer gettin' yer `bots crossed, - Crow is Anubis, and Tom is the one who is the wind, 'cause ya don't get him)
• When you cut your finger and you start yelling "My hand... my bloody hand!!!" Or, you cut your finger just so you can start yelling "My hand... my bloody hand!!!" Or, at any given moment through the day, you say for no apparent (to others) reason, "Gym Bag!" or "Flag on the Moon"
• If you ALWAYS mutter, "Why don't they look?" whenever you see railroad tracks
• If you've got to pass through 6 vault doors to get anywhere in your house - even the bathroom!
• If seeing the "Tor Giant" in the "Magic: the Gathering 'Ice Age'" set makes you think of something completely different
• When, upon proofing, you spontaneously begin to MST your graduate thesis
• When, while attempting to cross the street in midtown Manhattan, you bang on the gypsy cab (hey - GYPSY cab!) threatening to run you over and yell, "Hey, you &%#$! We got 'WALK SIGN' here!"
• If every time you're at an event and the people start cheering, you bellow "And the crowd goes wild, yeaaaaa!"
• You get a new computer which is much bigger than your old one, and your first impulse is to name it "Megaweapon". Or if you do it to hard drives - i.e.: a gig HD named Megaweapon, and a 340 meg HD named Peanut
• If every time a character in a movie makes reference to another character being a good cop, you feel compelled to shout "Hooker's a good cop!"
• If every time you hear someone say something remotely sexual you start singing "wockachickWOWN achicka wockachicka" (you might be a MSTie if every time you read this you hear the bots snickering in your head and Joel going "heyyyy..." and giving them a hand signal to cool it (because it's a family show))
• When you'll interrupt a conversation on nearly any topic to point out someone's passing similarity to a celebrity: "So she grabbed my belt and said - hey, it's Michael Gross of TV's 'Family Ties'!"
• When you will begin making snide comments at nearly anything--the guy at the drive-thru, the footage of a flood in the midwest, crime scene footage, etc.
• When you consider buying a lacrosse helmet just so that you can start building your very own Crow (and you'd never think of doing something like playing lacrosse)
• You can't watch anything with Richard Basehart in it without cracking up.
• You keep tapes of MST3K in your car just in case you need them
• When every blond guy under the age of forty that you see on the street starts to look like Joel or Mike because you're hallucinating because you're sleep-deprived because you've been staying up until 2:00 am every weeknight for over a month because you cannot bear to miss a single episode of Comedy Central's ''countdown'' which is nothing but a publicity ploy to mask the fact that they have no new episodes to show us because the show's creators have been spending their time making and promoting some movie that might never be released and maybe never should be because the highest praise that preview audience members have yet offered on this newsgroup anyway is that the picture is like a really good episode of MST so why not just stay home and watch the reruns for free until 2:00 am so you can become sleep-deprived and start hallucinating that everyone looks... like... Joel... or Mike... ZZZZZzzzzzz
• You hear a Burger King commercial for "a flame-broiled Whopper sandwich" and without thinking, you add "....and some french-fried potatoes".
• If you can recite the entire filmography of Edward D. Wood, Jr., from memory, but have never seen a Kurosawa film.
• You can't turn off the TV at night without first uttering the phrase "Push the button, ." In fact, you can no longer push any button, anywhere, without saying "Push the button Frank."
• If you yell "OHHHHHHH...WE'VE GOT MOVIE SIGN!!" every time you see a police car.
• You're watching a sporting event, seeing a player named Mitchell (i.e. the QB for the Detroit Lions), and every time he makes a poor play, start singing, "My my my my Mitchell..."
• Every time you see someone walking in the dark with a flashlight, you yell out "NBC Mystery Movie!"
• You yell "Jimmy Smits" when someone says the word "switch". Or if while watching the Emmys, every time someone mentioned Jimmy Smits, you yelled "Switch"!
• You think a chain of Torgo Pizza shops would be a great idea!
• You erase the video of your wedding to record "Mitchell". Or if, despite your irate spouse, you sit back and MiST the video of your wedding....(probably not a good idea, though). Or (even worse) you MiST the actual wedding.
• You find yourself humming or singing "Pants!"
• If every time you put on a pair of pants, you start singing "Pants. Pants. Sing the praises of pants."
• If you can't say "It stinks!" without doing the "OK" sign.
• If you say "It's the machine that goes 'ping'!" whenever your computer pings at you (could also apply to Monty Python).
• You can't pass raccoon roadkill without laughing
• You can't watch a BOB 100FM commercial without totally losing it.
• You have the urge to face anyone named Johnny and go "I don't care!"
• If, whenever someone says "Hello", you respond with "Thank You"
• If you see an armored vehicle on the road and think to yourself, "Wow, if Gandalf had that, he probably wouldn't have died at the hands of the Balrog."
• If you watch certain TV shows regularly out of sheer morbid fascination at how bad a show can be.
• If you find yourself wishing for a chance to audition for C-SPAN3K...and most particularly if you're willing to do this across partisan lines.
• Every time your instrument (e.g. my flute) is out of tune, you find yourself humming/singing "flat(or sharp), I'm flat(sharp), I'm really, really flat(sharp), I'm really, really, really, really flat(sharp)"
• You introduce yourself by saying "I'm Cherokee Jack!"
• If your electric fan is made by SAMPO (or if your computer monitor is a SAMPO brand), and every time you turn it on, you shriek "WHERE IS THE SAMPO?"
• If you can never look at a supermodel without wondering what she sounds like.
• When I still worked in the same office as my friend and closet MiSTie Sean, I would periodically walk by his cubicle, wait until I was around the corner and out of site, and exclaim "MITCHELL!". It never failed to elicit a 'DOE!' or a "Don't DOOOO that!", especially when he was on the phone with a customer....
• You MiST a show you like. I can't help doing this to The X Files. Needless to say, I watch it alone.
• If you're wondering why Mary Jo Pehl is taking classes at the Citadel during the off-season?
• If you nervously check what you were doing this past weekend when you hear the local movie reviewers disparaging some people sitting behind them who cracked up every time Keanu Reeves spoke in "A Walk in the Clouds"?
• On jump run, when the spotter yells, "Exit, Exit!", I always yell "The Calls are coming from within the Plane!!!!".
• Every time some alarm or beeper goes off you say "Fries are done" (to be fair, this could also mean that you're under-employed)
• Every time you see Kung Fu action you say "Gymkata -- in color"
• If every time you see a "Welcome to ____ town" sign you say "Centerville - a nice place to raise your kids" (or you're a Zappa fan...)
• If, after five years of faithfully watching the show, taping it, and attempting to share the good news about MST3K with all your friends, you finally get around to joining the info club
• If you see Jack Palance's skin bracer commercials, you think or say "I CRAP bigger than this commercial"
• If any reference to Peter Graves makes you think "He went to the University of Minnesota"
• If you postpone plans for study abroad so that you won't miss season 7 or the '96 Con
• If you can't help humming "He's such a failure, failure, failure..." whenever someone messes up at ANYthing
• If you get depressed because you're wearing your Con t-shirt and no one has ever commented on it, much less fallen at your feet in awe
• If you bought all the accessories for the "Johnny Long-Torso" action set - and paid retail!
• If you actually have a romantic dream involving Dr. Clayton Forrester
• If you see a picture of a factory on television and feel compelled to yell, "INDUSTRY!"
• If you turn to the editorial section of the L.A. Times... see an article by one Robert S. McElvaine... and have to be revived by paramedics.
• If, in your C code, after every "switch" statement, you have the comment "Jimmy Smits."
• If you see a Christmas ad on TV with a little girl looking into a store window, and you say "No, Lupita..."
• If, while watching "The Santa Clause", during the scene of all of the very Disney-ish children playing elves, you say "...and now, the children of Mexico!"
• If you crack up during a class you teach because you're thinking "What you call the negative terminal? Cathode. What do you call the positive terminal? Anode." "What do you not know your butt from? Hole in the ground."
• If you dress up as Tom Servo for Halloween and your fiancé dresses up as Torgo (and later uses his Torgo staff to reach behind the fridge)
• If you and your husband say "There's a bot in the room," when one of you is making unseemly remarks about some other show.
• If you burst into "Tubular Boobular Joy" at parties
• If you consider inviting Mike and the bots to your wedding (It's been done)
• If a waiter asks you, "Water?" and you reply, "The source of all life."
• If you get up to leave the theater every time a movie fades to black
• If, whenever you see a turtle, you shout out "Tibby!"
• If you're reading Beowulf and at the point where he rips off Grendel's arm you think, "I must have missed the pun."
• If you see stop-motion animation and exclaim, "Trumpy, you can do magic things!!!"
• If you finish giving a lecture and have to suppress the urge to add, "What do you think, sirs?"
• If every time you see three people together, you want to sing out, "Hello, Hello, Hello...Hello!"
• If you run screaming from the school janitor
• If you spend endless hours debating how to spell MSTy...er, MSTie...or is it MiSTy? MiSTie?
• If you can't look at a collie without thinking, "Snausages!"
• When you start taping episodes
• If you know you'll be around to watch them at the same time
• If after starting the tape, you sit there and watch the entire episode, even if you've seen it 20 times already, just so you can edit out the commercials
• When you actively seek other watchers of the show to share MST3K jokes with
• When you tell non-MST watchers about the show
• If you start to feel a genuine resentment towards your friends who hate the show
• When you actually spend money on the show... whether buying videotapes, t-shirts, or high-tech equipment to spy on BB
• When you never, ever, say "Mystery Science Theater 3000," but MST3K (except for telling the non-watchers)
• When you know which human and which robot go together (and if you can tell all the voices apart when they're in the theater) If you can tell when Crow blows a line because you notice his mouth is moving and nothing comes out
• When you realize that it really doesn't matter if you prefer Joel or Mike
• When you start collecting MST quotes for your .sig
• When you spend time seriously thinking about the difference between an MST watcher and a MSTie
• When you're embarrassed about how high your Info Club # is
• If you're the third person nominated to the SAVE MST CABAL emailing list
• If you spend more than 25% of your annual income on blank tapes
• If If you find yourself strangely attracted to robots, guys in jumpsuits, guys in fluorescent lab coats, and/or NUUUUUUUVVVVVVVEEEEEEENNNNAAAAA
• If you keep threatening coworkers with TOHTCHA!!!
• If a thread on ratmm is dedicated in your name
• When you try to hit on girls, Torgo style
• When you're moving to a new town and you yell "LEAVE THE BRONX!"
• If you wear a silver suit and hold a flame thrower for Halloween
• If you name your kid Trash
• If you suddenly demand crackers
• If you tell your girlfriend "I've got some warm blankets over here."
• If your school paper is your own script for MST3K
• If you end your letters with --MOVIE SIGN!!--
• If you invited some inanimate objects to your wedding (objects' names: Crow, Servo and Gypsy) as well as requesting special love theme music to be played as the wedding march.
• If you get a journal article for lab meeting, and you feels the urge to riff it
• After my roommate and I left a wedding Saturday, I told her, "I thought her train was FA-A-A-ABULOUS!"
• I met someone whose last name was Mannix, and it was all I could do not to shout out "Mannix! BA-DUM-DA-DUM !"
• At Safeway, I walked past some attractively displayed specialty breads, and I thought, "Bread that comes to a sharp point!"
• As we wrapped up discussion of the Clean Air Act today, the professor said, "Any comments?" and I was sorely tempted to raise my hand and say, "I had Jell-O today"
• You see a gumball machine and start looking for (useless?) arms
• You start wearing your old baseball mitt on your head
• Every time you burn yourself, you yell "Hodgca!"
• You MiST your boss during employee meetings
• You watch the Joe Stalin movie "The Inner Circle" on the History Channel, and after 30 minutes of them referring to Stalin as "the Master" you start mumbling in a disjointed Torgo voice "the-the ma--ster would not... approve of... capitalist plots!"
• Whenever you refer to upcoming events you tell people they're happening "In the not too distant future."
• When your wife has your wedding ring inscribed with your wedding date along with the phrase "The Not Too Distant Future"!
• Whenever someone asks if you can hear them, you respond by saying "Can I feel you near me?"
• You see large black birds, you say "Crows!! My brethren!!"
• You have, oh, 70 or 80 videotapes which you watch constantly
• When you know the lyrics to the KMTA version, the Joel version, the Mike version and the Pearl Version
• You have tapes and watch them to put you to sleep so you could dream you were Dr. Forrester and your dog was TV's Frank and your cat was Brandon Tartikoff, and where the heck is my lithium?
• Every time you see a listing in the FAQ newsgroup for "Waffle FAQ" you hear the entire cast once again singing, "Oh, waffles, we love youuuuu!" (No, it's not a FAQ on breakfast food; Waffle is some sort of computer scripting language)
• You wake up every morning yelling "Football practice!"
• You feel a need to eat waffles every meal of the day
• You have an overwhelming urge to go Mr.B Natural practice and attend Junior Jester meetings.
• You've memorized Crow's guitar solo - totally
• You sampled the United Servo Academy Men's Chorus (from "Starfighters") and put your digital-audio playback applet on "auto-repeat"
• You feel compelled to MiST songs you hear on the radio (I did this with Michael Jackson's "Heal The World")
• You write incredibly long MST3K fanfics that no one else will ever read because your low-budget on-line service doesn't access newsgroups
• You wear your MST3K T-shirt for as long as humanly possible before the people you live with force you to WASH THE DARN THING!
• You talk about MST for hours to anyone who happens to be in the room
• You get completely ticked off when your father says he's going to rent "MST3K: The Movie" for you and rents "Four Rooms" instead
• Upon your father doing this, you immediately pop some popcorn and settle in to make comments through the whole entire movie!!!
• You send random E-Mails telling people to watch MST3K
• During the Republican National Convention, you MiST Bob Dole's campaign speech
• During the Democratic National Convention, you MiST Bill Clinton's campaign speech
• You MiST Ross Perot every chance you get
• You spend your entire fourth quarter Home Ec. class designing an MST needlepoint (I actually did this last year. It still isn't finished!)
• You purposely rent bad movies for the sheer fun of MiSTing them
• Whenever someone aks what time is it? You reply "Ten to - Tend to your own damn business"
• You take off in your car to go somewhere, and you feel compelled to say "(state your name) pops the clutch and tells the world to EAT HIS/HER DUST!"
• You're watching news reports about the warfare in Africa, and they mention Zairian strongman Mobutu, and all you can think of is Gypsy, from the last sketch of "Jungle Goddess": "MOBUTU! MOBUTU! MOBUTU!"
• You're watching a report on the alleged racial bias in the imposition of the death penalty, and a talking head says "We shouldn't allow race to decide who lives and who dies," and you say "Right! Crow's got dibs!"
• You're listening to a report on the recent riot in St. Petersburg, and the correspondent says she's at the "Thunderdome," and you start snickering
• You hear that Nicole Brown-Simpson's dog was an Akita, and you say "A Hai-keeba?"
• You hear from the manager of the Metza-Luna cafe, and you think, "but the planet Metaluna was destroyed!"
• You refuse to date non-MSTies
• When you see 3M products, you automatically think they're making the world a better place
• Every function on your computer is hooked up to MST3K sounds(i.e. windows exit is "Push the button, Frank")
• You just spontaneously shout "MITCHELL"
• After a stressful day you keep thinking "I wish I had some sweet, sweet booze"
• When asked about many things at once you reply "It can be all that, and more!"
• If you audio tape the waka-chika waka-chika song to listen to in your car
• If your favorite lunch food is "sammiches"
• When you drive by an accident and mutter to yourself, "Why don't they look?"
• MST3K starts invading your dream world (I vividly remember a dream in which Mike and Kevin Murphy were eating popsicles in my school cafeteria...)
• You break into the "Pants Up" song every time you see a Dockers commercial
• You write to Siskel and Ebert thanking them for their kind review of "MST3K: The Movie", even though it came out almost six months ago
• You get into conversations about MST3k with complete strangers (This has happened to me, once at a restaurant in San Fransisco and once at my local video store. Both people commented about my Crow shirt.)
• You try to send e-mail to Crow@BiteMe.com
• You name your pet goldfish Mike, Joel, Crow, Servo, and Gypsy.
• Every time your Spanish teacher says the word "manos" you giggle uncontrollably
• Just about everything reminds you of an MST reference
• Every time someone you know heads into the great outdoors, you admonish them to "watch out for snakes"
• When parking in a massive parking lot, you can't help but remark, "Let's not forget where we left SuperCar!"
• You drive several hours out of your way to find a store selling the Rhino Home Videos of the show, and then BUY EVERY ONE YOU FIND
• You buy MST merchandise as gifts for people who have never seen the show
• You spend several hours a day doing nothing but perusing MST related web sites.
• You yell "We've got movie sign!" when you're about to watch a non-MST movie, even at the local cineplex.
• If you've ever seen a beautiful girl (or guy) and let out a Joel-esqe "Oh, wow..."
• You've gone to a party dressed as a character from MST3K
• You made labels for your MST3000 tapes on your computer
• If your ACE Guide falling apart from overuse.
• You've developed a deep emotional attachment to the gumball machine down at work.
• You insult Gallagher at every opportunity, even though you actually think he's pretty funny.
• You're watching Sea Hunt. Lloyd Bridges says "By this time, my lungs were aching for air." You scream "Hey, he stole that from Crow!"
• You're constantly writing letters to George Lucas asking him to use "Gump-tech" to replace Walter Pidgeon with Richard Basehart in the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea movie.
• Everybody else says "Pope John Paul II." You say "Pope John Paul II: Electric Boogaloo!"
• You built your own chiro-gyro, not realizing it was a trick, and spent 16 weeks in traction.
• You riff while performing open-heart surgery. ("You call that a spleen? I've seen better spleens on a French menu!")
• You panic whenever somebody shoots a rubber band.
• Your wardrobe? Three words: jumpsuits, jumpsuits, jumpsuits!
• You think it would be great if you removed your brain and put it in a bowl. So do your friends and family.
• If when somebody asks if they can leave you just say, "hahahahahahahaHHAHAHAHAHAHAH YOUR STUCK HERE!!!"
• Whenever anyone says they're hungry, you feel you must say "Listen, it's cold."
• Whenever you see a circus tent, you hum the bigtop theme with attitude.
• You refer to any state park as The Casio Forest.
• You laugh when thinking about the Corn Palace.
• When you have a cough or the hiccups, and the teacher says, "You'd better get a drink of water", you say "Yeah, that's the cure for a broken spine."
• You've watched an entire episode of Highlander, waiting for someone to shout "McCloud!" (MacLeod)
• When you see 4-wheeler-marks in a pasture, you remark, "Someone's been free-wheeling!"
• You named your car / truck / van / bike "The Satellite of Love"
• You've actually watched an episode with the vol. off, trying to figure out what direction Crow is facing.
• When calling someone, and a friend asks, "Did you get ahold of her/him?" You respond, "Of course not, it's a prop phone."
• If you rent The 7 Faces of Doctor Lao just because Joel quoted it when he left the SOL.
• If you have actually used the Thunderdome joke.
• You download the drinking game.
• You pass out the game to ALL your friend, relitives, co-workers, mail-men, delivery boys, tradesman,class-mates, teachers, post it on web-sites, ect...even when these people and/or web-sites have NO earthly clue what MST3K is.
• you play the game at a party.
• The only thing about the party that you remember is playing the game!
• You send money to a complete stranger, in order to get taped episodes of MST3K, or MST3K related items.
• You join a MST3K fan club, caption group, wise-cracking acting group, and/or spend every minute of your spare time looking for lost and/or missing episodes.
• You start a fan club or group.
• You think that the next MST3K movie should flame some anime, like Sailor Moon(TM) or Speed Racer(TM).
• You install "Mike and the bots" cutouts on you car windshield so you can flame traffic.
• You build a headboard in the pattern of "Mike and the bots".
• You start letters "In the not to distant future" or "Letter Sign!!!"
• You end letters with "What do you think, sir's", or "Push the button, (name of person letter is to here)!"
• If you can't see a fight without muttering "I THOUGHT YOU WERE DALE!"
• If you see a crow and think or have an urge to yell "BITE ME"!
• If you start to get the references that relate to earlier eps.
• You riff all the speakers - at your college graduation ceremony!
• When you blow out a candle and say "I wish to get married to my new boyfriend Sam Casey!"
• When the mention of anything MST-related sends you into hysterics and your non-mstie friends look at you like you're totally off your rocker.
• If you screw up on something and all you can mutter is "Oh, poopie!"
• If someone tells you to push a button, you reply "I AM THE BUTTON"
• If you suddenly think "Attack of the THE EYE CREATURES" and burst into giggles.
• If you get really bored in class and start writing the lyrics to songs and msted movie titles all over your folders. And showing them off.
• If you see someone doing Riverdance, you yell "Mike Nelson is Lord of the Dance!" and start doing your own version.
• If every time you see the show "Mannix" you shout "Don't touch Touch Connors!"
• Shout "Sweet Charlotte" whenever someone says "hush, hush" (or even just hush).
• every time your VCR makes a "funny" noise, you consider buying a new one just to be sure not a single one gets ruined by a shoddy VCR!
• You open your oven and call out, "Sylvia?!"
• Anytime you have to swerve to avoid hitting someone with your car (or vice versa), you say, "All that jerking around must have caused a flame out."
• A flash of lightning elicits you to say, "Moses! Move the bike!"
• When looking out the window when traveling, you say "This is so not Illinois".