I am not american and in my country this show was never aired, just 3 or 4 episodes. I have been watching it for years here on youtube, and now, after this episode, it´s hard to not drop a little tear. This show was made with heart.

I always imagine RiffTrax as just listening to Mike and the Bots as they watch TV on their couch. We can't see their silhouettes because the television is too small for that.

I remember watching this finale when it aired. I cried. Seriously. MST3K will always be a fond memory of my childhood.

What a warm ending. It's like...even after all this time they can't bring themselves NOT to watch a cheesy movie.

Pearl gave the most straight-to-the-point farewell ever. "Look, Nelson. Move on. I am."

Just as heart-wrenching as Dr Forester's rendition of "Who Will I Kill?" upon Franks's departure.

I really like the last scene. No spoilers or anything, but it was a very appropriate way to end the series. Kudos to all the people involved with this show. It really is one of my all time favorites.

At least it got to end on its own terms. Thank you MST3K

“Brace for impact!” “We’re all gonna die!” “Mike, have you seen my other sweater?” “NOOOOOOOOO!!!!”

The filmmakers of Diabolik made a bold choice by not having any likeable characters!

"Move on. I am." Such a fitting finale.

That ending is the most wholesome thing ever.

it took me an hour and 22 to figure out Diabolik is Calgon from Space Mutiny. All he had to do was laugh.

Yes, that IS John Phillip Law....a.k.a....Space Mutiny's commander Kalgan, as Diabolik.

Remember when the not too distant future didn't fill you with dread?

Luckily after they crashed they started renting movies and talking about them on a show called Rifftrax.

And so ends the best comedy series ever made in the US.

in a way, the 90's ended when mst3k was cancelled. dec 31,1999.

One of the all time greatest series finales. Ever.

"Had Willy Wonka's contractor do this part." Ironically, Tim Burton would later reference this movie as part of his visual inspiration for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory. lol

How fitting that the final shot of the original run ended with them starting to watch the The Crawling Eye, especially considering it was the first episode after the show jumped from just being aired locally on KTMA to national with it's move to The Comedy Channel (which soon became Comedy Central a few years later) in 1989. The bots' note about the movie being familiar just clinched it, definitely a great bit of subtle calling back to the early days.

Bobo and Brain Guy fled the moment Pearl’s back was turned…

20 years later and hearing that credit music play on the last episode still hits me in the heart guts.

I've always avoided this episode because it was the end but having Mike continue to watch cheesy movies with his robot friends is the best way to end it in my opinion.

Pouring one out for Ennio Morricone, the score writer for this movie.

Ah. I see that Pearl went to the Tommy Wiseau School of Trashing a Room.

FUN TRIVIA: Diabolik's great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandson would go on to lead an unsuccessful starship mutiny

"Is that Stud, coming?" I beg your pardon?

I totally forgot this was the last episode. Makes me sad all the time.

And so the movie ends... diobolik eventually suffocated 16 hours later, still trapped in the gold His partner was sentenced to 45-life for aiding in the murder of several officers and multiple counts if grand theft and turned to jesus while in prison. The officer was given a comendation for bravery after his arrest, but his drinking problem eventually drove his wife and children to leave him. He died alone, in a hotel, at age 48. The surgion that almost cut him open stubbed his toe on the way out of the hospital. He cried. The old woman who had her jewels stolen was still old.

"Some movies just won stop and ask for directions" hahahaha

"Diabolik" is actually based off an Italian comic book series, and in many ways is rather similar to Deadpool, i.e. an anti-hero who isn't really a 'good guy' but isn't the villain either. They also both have a rather ninja-y way about them.

The end make me wonder. Is the implication that with the experiment completed, Pearl has set the plan into motion? Is that why the world has gone crazy since the ending of the original run? Is that why movie theaters have stopped showing original movies and instead have relied on remakes, reboots, and adaptations? Are these the movies that have been so bad that they drive the world insane allowing the Mads to take over?

Diabolik was trying for the ultimate man-cave

"He's dead, I have a huge forehead... what else can go wrong???"

Reverse Racoon Man gets me every time.

fun fact: the song deep deep down was covered by faith no more front man mike patton with his band mondo cane.

Finally seeing this again after ten years. Love the episode but knowing the end was coming made it tough to watch frequently like the others.

I can’t watch this episode, this series never ended as far as I’m concerned.

At least no one tried to kill them with a forklift.

If we're being honest, there's no way that John Philip Law as the villainous protagonist of a movie that runs on the internal logic of a Roger Moore Bond flick wouldn't already be one of the most eminently watchable movies ever...

"It's not unusual to steal trucks from anyone!" :instantly does Carlton dance:

Batman: I have the best underground headquarters EVER! Diabolik: Hold my beer.

"This movie looks kinda familiar, doesn’t it?" Maybe to you and Tom, but I’m fairly sure Mike hasn’t seen it.

For eighteen years, I have held off on watching this episode. Part of me always felt if I never saw the end, in a way, it never would end. Well, now that Season 11 has debuted on Netflix, I can finally watch this one. This wasn't the end...it was only the beginning.

Their last riff as MST3K is, in my opinion, one of the best before Rifftrax

I was sad because this was the last episode, but it's also one of my favorites.

I liked Joel, but Mike was my favorite host

Be sure to check out Club MST3K. If you have full episodes upload them to other sites rather than KZfaq. Keep circulating the tapes.

She's a GREAT Samaritan!" -Crow

This is one of the sweetest endings to a show ever.

"Is that stud coming?"

I like to think that the original bots still live with Mike and the new bots are replicas (hence the new voices)

All jokes aside, I love this movies soundtrack.

"This can't be good for us." *gets punched* "See?" *collapses*

"No she wasn't Hitler!" Fucking hilarious, always loved this show.

Adore this show!! Was sad when it ended. Best group is pearl bobo brain guy Mike Crow Tom gypsy gambit satellite of l ❤ve!!🥰

There's an underground rapper from NY named 'Diabolic' and in his song, 'Diabolical Sound', he samples the beginning line from this movie where the guy says, "The whole underworld worries me less than a single man..." It's actually an incredibly great song too with clever wordplay and the beat sounds like Armageddon through a swirling cyclone.

A movie like "The Crawling Eye" would more likely show on WVTV.

And then Diabolik was uncased a few centuries later by workers on an unsuspecting spaceship called the "Southern Sun" where he was given the name, Kalgan and taught how to race small, electric floor-polishing cars to help keep the ship's massive sewage-treatment facility operating smoothly. This of course led to extreme discontent, especially since hip, psychedelic women were replaced by old ladies in Lycra who don't know anything about ancient dental history...

"If you didn't see him, he's there." "Huh??"

End of an era. The best justification for KZfaq I can think of. It allows me to re-watch or find episodes I missed. I've been watching MST3k for decades. These uploads let me be young again for 2 hours. Thank you.

I don't know why, but I love the music in this movie. Funny riffs, and a not so bad movie(like Hobgoblins or Neptune Men). Great sign off for the series

"Member FDIC heh heh heh" had me rolling

As a child, I was too young to get the stinger. As an adult, I recognize that it is one of the greatest stingers.

The last episode of the series. I remember watching this with my parents back in the day. Amazing

"Whooping!.....Cranes!"

I remember when this first aired. Brilliant ending.

While I hated to see the show end, it couldn't have gone out on a better note, unless Joel and Dr. Forrester somehow found their way into the episode.

Guys, please don’t forget!!! The same guys do a show called Rifftrax which is exactly the same thing (except no world with Pearl and Bobo and spaceships and whatnot). Same guys, same humor, and everything! Highly recommend “The Last Shark” available on KZfaq!!

Anybody else more pissed off than they should be about scifi channel being "syfy" now?

Emeralds decompose at 850F. A creamator goes around 1,400F.

Charles Manson helped me find MST3K. One day I did a quick Google search for films made at Spahn Ranch. One of those movies was The Creeping Terror and for me, the rest is history. MST3K forever.

So funny yet so sad, the end of MST3K. But at least Rifftrax still scratches the itch

Ive not seen this episode very many times because it always makes me a little sad too see the end of an era.

I have never made it all the way through Diabolik. Maybe the 15th try will prove successful

Great that there was a "Prince of Space" reference, but I can't believe they made no Kalgan references from Space Mutiny!

I loved Observer at the beginning. "Chili squint!" "Raging clipart..."

" with my budget, we'd be rolling around in a handful of change" lmao

Wow Kalgan was a stick figure in the 60s! Glad he put on some weight by the 80s!

Always a delight rewatching MST3K and getting references you missed before...they blindsided me right out of the gate with "Oh my...The Two Fat Ladies have their own gang now!"

Diabolik liked wearing shiny rubber clothes a bit too much.

Jude Laws daddy living the S&M bandit life ...Eurostyle . Driving off to the store . Gonna pick up some bread . Maybe stop by the post office . Meet Delores for lunch ...Hope their serving that ham , Oh yeah ...

The movie is based on a very popular pulp Italian comic book series about a master thief. So no, not at all based on James Bond.

When pearl says “move on, I am” that shit stings

if this movie was remade to day it would star tom cruise. tom cruise and ... tom cruise

and thus RiffTrax was born

I kinda like this movie. I would have loved it as a kid.

"I really thought one of these networks would have put the other one out of business by now"

Tom: That means we're heading to Earth. Mike: Earth. That's my home (pause) isn't it? I love that Mike had to think about that.

Tomorrow, MST3K RETURNS!

still :miss em all :\. tom, crow, gypsy, Forrester family, Dr. Laurence Erhardt, TV's Frank, Brain Guy, Bobo, Magic voice and the most underrated and unnoticed Cambot.

Finally brought myself to watch this. Love the ending!

"Fresh! I saw you undressing me with your eyes."

don't talk to me about dental history. You know nothing about dental history.

Diabolik is actually a cool movie, great aesthetic. And it’s got an Ennio Morricone score. Also at 34:30 the mob boss has a huge cold sore

Thank you put in your program a classic from Italian cinema.

Glad he’s finally home.

Nice series finale.

Okay, my theory on how Mike, Tom, Crow and Gypsy were able to survive the crashlanding of the SOL: By a bizarre coincidence, what Joel never told ANYBODY, neither Tom, nor Crow, nor Gypsy nor any of the Mads, was that after TV's Frank, in his cheap Arby's mindset, made an incredibly idiotic attempt to bring the Satellite of Love to Earth, Joel went to extreme measures to create a way for he and his friends to survive, should the ship crash into Earth. From after "Rocketship X-M," all the way to before "Mitchell," when he was sent back to Earth in the escape pod, conveniently hidden in the box of hamdingers, he built something with extra parts found in the ship that nobody bothered to use, and the last couple dozen pieces that controlled when the movies start and/or finish to ensure survival: a survival pod, set to activate if the ship is about to finally crash. From the events of the eighth season to immediately after the events of "Squirm," but just before the events of "Diabolik," Crow's Nanites, at times, helped improve the pod getting it ready to go as they had a nervous feeling that the Satellite of Love's destruction was going to happen soon. When Mike, Tom, Crow, and Gypsy screamed at 1:29:55, with the ship burning up and about to crash, the survival pod is activated, with the four strapped in and sedated; Mike's case with a needle and Tom, Gypsy, and Crow with digital sedation. Cambot thankfully survived. The ship crashes and the survival pod, a sphere, launches before the crash and safely lands in the wreckage. A few hours later, they wake up... and see that a video is playing... of Joel, revealing this: "Welcome. This is the Satellite of Love's Emergency Survival Pod. Now listen: I designed and built this, from the last couple dozen pieces, the ones which were going to be used to control the start and end of those bad movies, which I also built YOU from, and some of the ship's backup pieces that was kept in the event of an emergency. I'm sorry I never told any of you this, but I did it for a reason: to save you. If this is activated, then the Satellite of Love has been completely destroyed, and this has saved you. And some advanced technology helped improve it. If I escaped, then if you see me again, be sure to thank me for ensuring your safety... especially after Frank tried to kill us all those years ago on the Satellite Of Love, when he tried to bring us down for dinner. And to Tom, Gypsy, Crow, and either me or maybe my replacement should I escape back to Earth... congratulations on surviving the worst films of all time. I thank you." The message ends, the doors open, and they escape. Mike goes out first, though with some difficulty for a couple of seconds... and gets nauseated. The non-canonical visit from 2008 was a dream Crow had while they were sedated. And the final scene takes place in November 1999, and by then, they made an agreement: though they'll be watching a few great films and be quiet, sometimes they could watch terrible films but make great jokes.