Space Travelers

Space Travelers

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Host Segment Rating:

Indoctrinationability: Poor

Episode: This is a fun episode! The movie wasn’t that bad at all, it was slow at times but it didn’t make me want to dig a hole in the earth and crawl in like the last three episodes did. Crow does a REALLY good Gregory Peck. I’ve tried to emulate him but I can’t do it worth a damn.

Movie: The movie is about three astronauts in orbit who are running out of oxygen and the controllers at NASA who are trying to send a rescue shuttle to bring them back during a hurricane. Gregory Peck and Gene Hackman are in this movie. Weu weu!

Intro: Crow is hanging from the ceiling wrapped up in chains while a Cannon is pointed at his head. He drops his key and it’s too late to do anything...

Invention Exchange: Joel invents the Dollaroid, a Camera that puts your picture on cash. The bots do a little skit on the benefits of the Dollaroid:

Crow: Ummm, excuse me, Mrs. Retail Sales Lady.. Ummm I would like to purchase some of your fine goods with this Five Dollar bill...
Tom: Well, if I’m going to take that Five Dollar bill, I’m going to need some proper identification...
Crow: No problem, my picture is right on the bill
Tom: Oh, that will simplify everything... wait a minute, Joel get in here! You don’t need ID to use cash, this whole idea is absurd!
::Joel hands Tom a $5::
Joel: Here’s some hush money, don’t tell your mom I gave it to you..
Tom: Wait a mnute, this $5 has my picture on it, it’s totally worthless, what am I, some kind of clown, do I amuse you in some fashion?
Joel: What do you think, Sirs?

Host Segments: Joel and the bots list the technological advances the space race has afforded us:

Joel and Tom are in a shuttle and Crow is playing Gregory Peck as they mock the technobabble dialogue, Crow slips out of Peck and starts doing Captain Joe from Fugitive Alien while talking CB lingo.

Joel asks the bots if they’ve thought about what would happen if they (SOL) were to be running low on Oxygen and one of them were to have to sacrifice their lives for the others to live, who could decide who lives and who dies. Of course this is all cut short when Tom Servo points out that Joel is a Human, he needs Oxygen to breathe, While Crow and he are Robots, they don’t. Then they go on about how cute they are and Joel looks at Cambot and says: "I’m already alone, aren’t I?"

Conclusion: Joel plays a game with the boits where he hides a James Franciscus Doll under one of three cups then tells the bots to Find the finder of lost loves" To which Tom protests "No it wasn’t James Franciscus it was Tony Franciosa!" Hmm I dunno who or what they’re talking about. But they end up finding Burl Ives so I guess it makes no never mind.

Favorite Lines:

One of the astronauts is about to pass out from lack of oxygen, a Soviet capsule approaches with a Russian who’s willing to help provide oxygen, the astronauts decide to get out of the ship, so Gene Hackman goes first, probably because of how weak he was feeling coupled with the weightlessness of space, his arms were stretched out as he emerged from the capsule and turned towards the camera:

Tom Singing(As Gene): There’s a bright golden haze on the meadow...

Gene is about passed out, his astro-buddy gives him one great push towards the Russian Cosmonaut who can give him some oxygen:

Tom (In Sportscaster voice): There’s the pitch!
::Gene floats by just out of reach of the cosmonaut::
Tom (Again, in sportscaster voice): Looks like it’s low and away, it’s gonna be Ball 1. Looks like he lost that one in the sun, well anyway, now is a good time for an Ice Cold Budweiser beer!

Book: Kevin Murphy reflects on the first time he met Dennis Miller, Dennis made a comment about this episode.