The BEST episodes of RiffTrax season 2
Every episode of RiffTrax season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of RiffTrax season 2!
RiffTrax is comedy narration to your favorite movies & TV shows, plus some wonderfully terrible films. Written and performed by the stars of the award-winning TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000, RiffTrax brings the unique humor of "Satellite of Love" MST3K partners Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett to Hollywood's hit movies. Season 1: Official RiffTrax Season 2: RiffTrax Presents Season 3: Shorts Season 4: iRiffs Season 5: Total Riff Off Season 6: RiffTrax Live!
#1 - Deadly Instincts
Season 2 - Episode 38 - Aired 9/8/2017
via https://www.rifftrax.com/deadly-instincts A meteorite has crashed in the quad of a women’s college in the faraway land of Boston/Scotland. Its passenger, an alien monster, mates with the student body to carry on his hideous species. Only the art professor, his star student/girlfriend, and the monster’s girlfriend (who’s been trying to break up with him) can save the campus before the big homecoming dance! Also known as Breeders, Deadly Instincts is just another fine example of weird, sci-fi schlock. Plus, lots of college! Join Bridget and Mary Jo as they navigate Deadly Instincts!
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Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/10/2008
Hey you young whippersnappers -- you thought that "Alien" was just Predator's sparring partner, didn't you? Not so, Padawans. "Alien" (who, in a series of HUGE coincidences, happens to BE an alien, AND stars in the movie ALIEN! Weird!!) first took Hollywood by storm during the heady, Jimmy Carter-filled days of 1979....back when a long, long pan over a hot-glued spaceship miniature made the first generation of geeks wheeze in delight, and reach for their inhalers. ALIEN starred a pair of plain white underpants worn by a young, little-known actress named Sigourney Weaver.... who later went on to start in ALIENs 2 though 37. (The underpants retired to Sedona, AZ. shortly after filming.) It also featured a pre-Hobbit Sir Ian Holm, a pre-wand-wizard John Hurt, and a pre-Mormon Mafioso Harry Dean Stanton. And you'll never forget Bursty, the impish-but-loveable little chestbursting alien baby! Join Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy as they riff on this sci-fi / horror / underpants classic.
#3 - Ghost
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/25/2009
If messy wet clay and the brothers Everly are your idea of foreplay, look no further than this Jerry Zucker-directed (yes, THAT Jerry Zucker) surprise smash hit of 1990. Test your credulity as our beloved Patrick Swayze trades in his dirty dancin' shoes and his blue collar bartending meat hooks to give a turn in the role he was destined to play: an intelligent, educated, high-powered account executive. Feel his pain when he is prematurely ripped away from Demi Moore while she is upstaged by her own Hobbit haircut. Drown in misery as you discover that the only way he can communicate with her is through a scenery-gnawing con woman. But cheer up! You also get to feast your eyes on some of cinema's worst special effects in the form of crudely animated shadow demons.* Cole Stratton and Janet Varney return for another Swayze classic with Ghost, a movie cloaked in profound questions about the existence of an afterlife, whether the living can communicate with the dead, and how in the world Whoopi Goldberg ended up with an Oscar. *We are not referring to Tony Goldwyn.
#4 - Before I Say Goodbye
Season 2 - Episode 77 - Aired 8/27/2021
Nell McDermott’s mysterious husband has been killed under mysterious circumstances in an even more mysterious boat explosion. Now the search is on for who done it - and why. Joining forces with another widow, Nell (Sean Young, in her clenchest jawest performance ever) braves safe deposit boxes, an attempt on her life, and pressure from her grandfather to run for public office - and a nosy detective who seems to take an inordinate interest in her jogging schedule. Say "Hello" to another Mary Higgins Clark riff! Join Bridget and Mary Jo as they tackle Before I Say Goodbye!
#5 - Fear
Season 2 - Episode 54 - Aired 7/26/2019
Medical student Larry has lost his scholarship! Or has he? Desperate to pay for his last semester, he resorts to a heinous crime. But did he? And he’s falling hard for local waitress Eileen. But is she really who she says she is? A tenacious detective is determined to catch the criminal. But does he have the wrong guy? Join Bridget and Mary Jo as they find out the answers to these and other questions in Fear!
#6 - Mother of the Bride
Season 2 - Episode 75 - Aired 5/7/2021
When last we left the titular Bride, she’d married a younger man and had just given birth to a new baby, adding to her family of grown children. In the third of the made-for-TV dramas, the family is planning the wedding of unlucky-in-love daughter Anne, while former nun daughter Mary is falling for a biker dude. All goes haywire when their long-gone deadbeat father shows up, and tries to woo Margaret back. But all’s well that ends well - and it does end for somebody. Content warning: spontaneous “fun” dance sequence occurs.
#7 - Flash Gordon (1954) - Part 1
Season 2 - Episode 74 - Aired 4/16/2021
Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Sam J Jones... These are the actors one automatically thinks of whenever "Flash Gordon" is mentioned. But the name Steve Forrest is always said in hushed tones... or maybe not at all, since you probably never heard of him. Now, it's time to join him on his adventures in the post-war TV series as his ship, the Skyflash, blasts off for the far-flung planet... Earth. The series was filmed in post-WWII West Germany, which means that most of the bit-players don't speak English, they just phonetically mime an English-speaker reading their lines off-camera. So there's that to look forward to, along with Flash, Dale and Zarkov battling aliens so crappy they make the special effects in Plan 9 look like CGI. Place your trust in Ian and Matthew to guide you through the unfamiliar territory of Flash Gordon - West German Style!* *Remarks to the effect that Hollywood icon George Segal is still alive are demonstrably false. Thoughts with his family.
#8 - The Veil - Part 1
Season 2 - Episode 72 - Aired 2/5/2021
In 1958, Hal Roach – the man behind Laurel and Hardy's greatest comedies – decided to make a horror anthology series starring Boris Karloff. That series then remained in a vault for the next thirty years, because it was exactly as good as you think it was. Now, RiffTrax Presents is somewhat proud to bring you three of those episodes, all of them with basically the same moral: that women are bad news, and you're best steering clear of them. See the guy from All Creatures Great and Small witness a premonition of his brother's murder, skilfully edited to remove the important detail that his own fiancée did it. See a creepy lounge lizard become improbably obsessed with a woman he almost runs over while driving at speed. And see Boris Karloff himself as a salty old sea dog who carries venomous snakes in his luggage while the rest of us pack sun tan oil and a John Grisham paperback. The Veil... Be warned, there's more of it.
#9 - Earth Angel
Season 2 - Episode 71 - Aired 1/23/2021
We've all been there: it's 1962 and you're a prom queen on your way to the big dance with your hot-head jerk of a boyfriend at the wheel when you meet your demise in a car crash! Voila, you’re an apparition whose only chance at redemption is to return to Earth and set things right. This means playing matchmaker for the high school friends you left behind, who seemed to have moved on just fine and never mention the traumatizing event. It’s Bridget, Mary Jo, and Earth Angel! Together with strange acting bedfellows Shakespearean actor Roddy McDowall; TV stars Erik Estrada and Cindy Williams; Miami Vice’s, 21 Jump Street’s, and Otis Elevator’s Rainbow Harvest; and Mark Hamill as the nerd whose heart was broken by Earth Angel lo, those many years ago.
#10 - Invasion of the Bee Girls
Season 2 - Episode 70 - Aired 1/8/2021
Imagine Invasion of the Body Snatchers crossed with The Stepford Wives. Okay, now imagine it bigger, with extra nudity and making less sense. Now add honey. You're still a little way off imagining this extraordinary movie from the pen of Nicholas Meyer and the mind of a teenage boy. Thrill to the story of a conspiracy of wild women with bee enhanced DNA set on ruthlessly orgasming a small number of unattractive middle-aged men to death! Gasp at the nylon underpants! Weep as your brave riffers face more gratuitously exposed breasts than they've ever seen outside a STARZ mini series or outdoor music festival.
#11 - Baby of the Bride
Season 2 - Episode 69 - Aired 12/11/2020
It’s the bonkers-est Christmas Eve ever for the Becker-Hix clan! When last we left them, elder bride Margaret Becker had just married a much younger man, much to the dismay of her four grown children. In the second from the “...of the Bride” oeuvre, Margaret discovers she’s pregnant shortly after returning from her honeymoon. Her kids are aghast anew, including Mary, who’s just left the nunhood and is preggers herself. And yep, we all gotta go to Midnight Mass - and that’s when all holy heck breaks loose! Happy holidays from Bridget and Mary Jo and the whole Baby of the Bride team, featuring Rue McClanahan, Kristy McNichol, Ted Shackleford, and that guy who won two back-to-back Daytime Emmys!
#12 - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Season 2 - Episode 68 - Aired 10/23/2020
Do you lay awake night after night, tossing and turning, wondering... What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?? Sure, we all do! Bridget and Mary Jo bring you up to speed with the 1991 redux of the classic - this time with real live sisters: the Redgraves Lynn and Vanessa! This Grand Guignol of sibling rivalry is updated to feature modern inventions like VHS, stairlifts, physical therapy, and Billy Korn! (Is he a grass? We may never know.) Tune in, drop down the stairs, and find out whatever happened! (And be sure to hang around for the credits.)
#13 - Wonder Woman 1984
Season 2 - Episode 73 - Aired 4/2/2021
It’s the be-spandexed and be-mulleted 1980s, and Diana Prince, AKA Wonder Woman, is living anonymously among mere mortals. Filmed entirely in ChaosVision, WW84 finds Diana gigging as a curator of antiquities, and in her spare time saving pedestrians from oncoming cars. Her new work bestie, Barbara Minerva, discovers a Dreamstone among the ancient tchotchkes, which grants the holder one wish. When it falls into the hands of Babs’s oleaginous crush Max Lord, anarchy and mayhem rain down throughout the world. Oh, and Barbara transforms into Cheetah. Join Bridget and Mary Jo and find out if WW can stop moping about Steve Trevor long enough to become the Shero the world needs!
#14 - Lucky Day
Season 2 - Episode 76 - Aired 6/11/2021
Gregarious, whistling courier Bill has gone missing - and under suspicious circumstances. Nora, an aspiring actress and Bill’s friend, starts sleuthing. Whether it means reciting an elaborate story to exercise her Method chops, shrieking at the cops, grimacing at her accountant/novelist husband, or complaining that “Bill is missing” in every single scene, Nora will stop at nothing to find him. Hang on tight, because Lucky Day takes viewers on a thrill ride like no other in a TV movie adaptation of one of the thousands of novels by prolific novelist Mary Higgins Stuart Masterston Louise Parker Clark!
#15 - Amanda and the Alien
Season 2 - Episode 67 - Aired 10/2/2020
Amanda is an aspiring artist Gen-Xer who works two jobs while being ignored by her parents and two-timed by her loser boyfriend. Amanda, played by Nicole Eggert’s midriff, is an aspiring artist and Gen-Xer who works two jobs while being ignored by her parents and two-timed by her loser boyfriend. Amanda’s whole world is turned upside down when she meets a hot alien and helps hide him from ruthless government agents trying to track him down. It’s Bridget and Mary Jo Go Time!
#16 - Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory
Season 2 - Episode 66 - Aired 8/21/2020
They come out at night, they feast on human blood, and they can only be repelled by a crucifix or the odor of garlic. They are, of course, vampires. But nobody ever made a movie about a vampire in a girls' dormitory, so there's this instead. A lycanthrope is mutilatin—okay, not really mutilating. He's kind of savaging—All right, he's not exactly savaging them. The werewolf just kind of nuzzles his schoolgirl victims (none of whom are of schoolgoing age, but not yet ready to retire to Florida, either) until they die in a nonspecific fashion because werewolf. But who could the werewolf be in his downtime? Is it the creepy teacher? The other creepy teacher? The other other creepy teacher? Or could it be the creepy janitor? Grab a round of silver bullets, then join the Brit-Riffers and find out! Something you should know: Contains a brief scene of simulated animal harm involving a dog.
#17 - High School U.S.A.
Season 2 - Episode 65 - Aired 8/14/2020
There are enough plots and characters for everyone in this made-for-TV movie! It’s a who’s who and who’s not of ‘80s celebrities, like Michael J. Fox, Nancy McKeon, Anthony Edwards and more. Grab your bingo card and dauber, and play along with Bridget and Mary Jo in this hard-hitting look at life after middle school in these United States of America.
#18 - Frankenstein's Daughter
Season 2 - Episode 64 - Aired 7/31/2020
Scientist Carter Morton and his assistant, Oliver Frank, are working to create a medicine that will eliminate all disease among mankind. Little does Carter know that Frank is a descendent of Victor Frankenstein and has a secret project all his own. Then Carter’s niece Trudy and her boyfriend, played by cinematic vacuum John Ashley, start having suspicions about the Female Monsters in the neighborhood. Could it be curtains for Frank? Find out with Bridget and Mary Jo and Frankenstein’s Daughter!
#19 - Assignment: Outer Space
Season 2 - Episode 63 - Aired 6/5/2020
It's the not-too-distant future of the not-too-distant future and mankind has breached the boundaries of space. Space armadas, hyper-dimensional anomalies, green-skinned ladies who demand to be told “What is kiss?” Assignment: Outer Space features none of these sci-fi staples; instead, we follow the adventures of journalist Ray Peterson - played by a guy who was Felix Leiter in that one James Bond film, and who may or may not be dubbed with his own actual voice for a change – as he makes it his business to piss off just about everybody in the cosmos. It seems like a Herculean task, but somehow, he's equal to it. But when an out-of-control rocket threatens life on planet Earth, our boy is looking at the story to end all lifetimes. Can he fearlessly report about it while other people do the actual hero work?
#20 - Bride of the Gorilla
Season 2 - Episode 62 - Aired 5/29/2020
She’s a bride. He’s a gorilla. What happens when they meet and fall in love in the jungles of South America? Murder and mayhem, that’s what! Raymond Burr is a plantation foreman who kills his employer, then has at his boss’s hot wife. But the neighborhood witch just happens to witness the murder and puts a curse on him, which has him roaming the jungle doing a lot of things not on the honey-do list. (Bridget & Mary Jo)
#21 - Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Season 2 - Episode 61 - Aired 4/17/2020
It’s double-ya double-ya two and Sherlock Holmes once again faces Professor Moriarty - with nothing less than the future of England at stake! Holmes must crack a secret - but cute - code to prevent Moriarty from selling an extremely accurate bomb site to the Nazis (we hate those guys). Bridget and Mary Jo join in a race against time in Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Weapon. (Hint: it ain't Watson.)
#22 - Strange Impersonation
Season 2 - Episode 59 - Aired 1/10/2020
Nora is a brilliant and beautiful scientist on the verge of an important scientific breakthrough. Unfortunately, she’s also a Female Lady Girl Woman, and the pressure mounts for her to abandon her career before her man falls for the ineffectual-but-available lab assistant. Enjoy mystery, mayhem, and mistaken identities with Bridget and Mary Jo in Strange Impersonation!
#23 - Sherlock Holmes: Terror By Night
Season 2 - Episode 58 - Aired 1/3/2020
“Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flieth by day.” So it is said-ith in the Bible. This movie has absolutely nothing to do with that quotation. Instead, here are Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, back again as Holmes and Watson, investigating a series of murders committed on a train bound for Scotland. None of the murders are done with an arrow that flieth, but they do all take place at night, so that's got to count for something. Holmes is customarily unruffled, Watson is ruffled pretty much all the time, and there are a bunch of interesting accents on display. So jump on board, for the greatest murder mystery ever to occur on a train and not involving a finicky Belgian detective.
#24 - Lady Mobster
Season 2 - Episode 60 - Aired 3/6/2020
Susan Lucci is once, twice, three times a lady - mobster, that is! Multiple Daytime Emmy also-ran Lucci stars as the orphaned Laurel, who is adopted by a mobster family after her parents are murdered by hitmen. But being a high-powered attorney with a fine 80s wardrobe isn’t enough for this little lady. When the crime boss dies, Lucci steps in and organizes crime - her own way.
#25 - Last Woman on Earth
Season 2 - Episode 57 - Aired 11/15/2019
The washing's piling up, you're drinking beer, talking nonsense and forgetting what day of the week it is. It's probably Friday, because you're having fish again. Have you ever felt that awkward atmosphere after your partner failed to notice your new hairdo? An atmosphere so awkward, in fact, that it's suffocating everyone not wearing scuba gear? Well, Ev's having one of those days, which also happens to be Doomsday, because the vaguest apocalypse in movie history just struck, leaving behind only Ev, her wife, Harold, and Harold's H.P. Lovecraft lookalike lawyer Martin. It's the end of the world as we know it, and Martin feels the gaze of the infinite void This is the spellbinding drama of an eternal triangle featuring three compelling figures and also Matthew J Elliott.