Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

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Episode: When I first saw this episode I developed a real hatred for television. I wondered what kind of brainless idiot would make a movie as terrible as this one. What kind of idiot would paint actor's faces and skin green, dress them in leotards, put antennas on their head and call them Martians. But as time went on I began to think of it as Joel and the bots do. Just a big joke, and maybe in many cases we're laughing with the film makers and not just at them. Now I think about the production of the film and I imagine the actors laughing and horsing around and just having a ball with the ridiculousness of this movie. Whereas before I imagined these poor starving actors being forced to humiliate themselves for meager wages by some sadistic director who got some perverse pleasure out of it.

Movie: The movie is BAD!! Man alive if there were a way for Best Brains to have riffed on this movie in the absence of this movie I would have been all for it. If any movie they've done deserves to be made fun of this one does. There is one scene in particular where some poor sap dressed in the worst excuse for a bear costume comes crawling out on his hands and knees and pawing after some kids. Man, the least they could have done is let the actor keep a little bit of his dignity and allowed him to walk upright in that ridiculous get-up. He could then have been interpreted as a metaphor or something other than a serious attempt to simulate a bear.

Intro: There are X-mas decorations everywhere and the bots are looking through X-mas catalogues to see what they want...

Joel: Hey guys, what are you doing?
Tom: Oh, just looking at catalogues, dreaming...
Joel: Oh, have you decided what you want for Christmas?
Tom: Yeah, me, me, I want a Ted Williams signiture inflatable bath pillow!
Joel: Ahhhohh, Gypsy?
Gypsy: I want a pony!
Joel: Oh, Gypsy we don't have room on this ship for a pony.
Gypsy: Please, please!
Joel: No, can't do it, what about you, Crow?
Crow: I want to decide who lives and who dies.
Joel: Oh, I don't know...