I like Mike episodes better too, you are not alone, EPT.  There are many good Joel ones, but Mike's humor is a little more sarcastic and cutting and just plain funnier to me.

You have picked a lot of my favorite episodes to watch too.  I love Final Sacrifice, Girl in Gold Boots, and Space Mutiny was my first episode of MST and the one that got me hooked on the show.

In fact, I go to an MST meetup group once a month and we watch an episode together and Final Sacrifice is the next one coming up.  Since I've joined this group last year, the number of people has nearly doubled.  Nice to see so many fans still out there.


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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

--John Kenneth Galbraith