As a former resident of Fargo, I concur.

Goodbye, Sister Driscoll.

I'm Cherokee Jack; there can be only one!

Actual Dennis Weaver, and not the Generic Dennis Weaver lookalike from Code Name: Diamond Head. Accept no substitutions!

I suppose that I am fine. I have been working hard; one could say I have been hardly working.

Brewster? I mean, McCloud?

Is your face odd, misshapen? Join the Air Force!

Lea-THER coat!

It really should have been called Jockey-Clad Canadians Drinking Hot Tub Water Nightmare. . .

Big McLargeHuge.

Ted Danson hair for all!

Come up here where it's really obscene!

Agreed, the likes of Laserblast, Riding With Death, and Track of the Moon Beast have long struck me as paeans to and and brilliantly merciless takedowns of that decade and its pop culture.

Nice list; say, do you happen to know who killed that fat barkeep?

Always love hearing Kevin Murphy cracking up over that riff.

Ironically enough, Red Zone served as my first full introductory episode after catching bits and pieces of MST3K growing up and I loved it from the get go; but then, it seems I naturally gravitate towards the most deranged and atrocious features.

Almost impossible to narrow down, but here's my stab at a top ten:
1. Red Zone Cuba
2. The Starfighters
3. Track of the Moon Beast
4. Riding With Death
5. Teen-Age Strangler
6. Werewolf
7. Laserblast
8. Hobgoblins
9. Manos: The Hands of Fate
10. Pod People

Thanks to the ubiquity of the vhs tape in thrift stores around the Fargo-Moorhead area, Buttercream Gang has achieved something of a cult rediscovery here. . .amongst my admittedly limited circle of friends and acquaintances, anyways.

I believe Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb was made by folks called Bolex Brothers, but it would certainly make for entertaining classroom viewing all the same!

It's much more competently made than The Room, but makes for inspired viewing due to its taking unadulterated whitebread corniness to an art form; if you crossed Tommy Wiseau with a Mormon Rod Flanders making a smalltown version of Cross and the Switchblade as an afterschool special, you might get Buttercream Gang.