I did! I had quite a few episodes taped, and in the Early Days of the Internet, I re-taped and traded episodes with some people. I also lent tapes to friends that I never got back.
I won a vhs from somebody online for correctly guessing the episode from a riff they posted; it was from the Mr B. Natural short.
Fun times 
Yeah it was! Iām from Vancouver and I watched it every Saturday night/Sunday morning(?) at midnight. Canāt remember what channel.
No way! Iām also from Vancouver! I had no idea!
I was so amazed when a Sampo was brought up in that episode! I had had a friend from Sweden who explained it to me long before.
Heh, how about that, @Jajahamu? 
Itās funny how things work out like that, no? Really is a small world, in a manner of speakingā¦
I didnāt get into the show until the movie in 1996, so I missed out. But I still love the VHS format and the idea of sharing the show that way. So creative.
I let folks borrow a lot of VHS tapes, but I never could bear to do that with my copy of MST3K: The Movie.
It was just too precious to do so. I must have spent an entire summer watching that every day.
I mentioned it in another post here, but my ex got me the best christmas present ever when we moved to Chicagoā they found someone (head of a Chicago fan group?) who was moving and getting rid of possessions. And Christmas Eve I opened a box with like a hundred VHS tapes, most of which had four full episodes per tape, including Poopie and KTMA episodes and justā¦ everything. This would have been 1999 or 2000, so most of these movies were impossible to find. We gorged ourselves right away, and Iāve still got most of them.
Greatest gift ever.
Iām so jealous! That would be a peak present for me, too
WHOA!
That really is a next-level gift, isnāt it? Very cool stuff!
Sure did! I was introduced to MST3K by one of my roommates at my summer job back in 1992. He had a bunch of tapes that he brought with him. One day, he made a joke about MST3K and realized I hadnāt heard of it. He was like, āSit down, child. Itās time for school.ā I donāt remember how many episodes I saw that summer, but it was enough that, by the end of the summer, I went back to college with my own second-generation tapes to share with friends. I also returned with a tape of āPastor Gas.ā Before YouTube, there was a certain social currency to being āthat guy who had tapes of everything.ā lol. Good times.
MST3K: just the thing to keep your head full of zombie.
Coolest. Grandmother. Ever.