Episode 820-
Space Mutiny
Movie
Summary: In a time at some
point way in the future, there are literally many people
living in a large basement warehouse - I'm sorry, I mean a
large spaceship, clearly a spaceship, what with all the
storage area and forklifts and security guards sitting
around at massive metal desks, the kinds of things one
expects to find in a spaceship, and not at all in a basement
warehouse or other planet-bound industrial facility -- just
kind of drifting around the galaxy, apparently having fled
some sort of awkward situation on Earth; maybe they'll
settle down on a Class M planet someday, who knows, what the
hey.
This placid bunch is ruled by a bearded Cameron Mitchell and
his elderly daughter in hot pants (the pants being the hot
item in this case, and not what they envelop), and all seems
well until the movie starts, when the security forces in
this warehouse (spaceship!! Darn!) come to their senses and
plan a mutiny to force Captain Santa to land anywhere.
The bad guys are foiled when the thickly-muscled Rider, a
free-lance jock/pilot, bullies his way to the top in this
goofy world, simply because he and no one else has any
command or leadership qualities. There is fighting; there
are guys falling over railings; there are some real skinny
dancing girls (the kind you would in fact expect to find
dancing in a warehouse space), and after we get to see Rider
and The World's Oldest Daughter rolling on the concrete
floor of this spaceship, the mutiny is put down.
Prologue: Crow and Servo are outraged that the ship's
encyclopedia is so out-of-date; they engage in a bit of
bot-ish hyperbole to make their point.
Segment One: Mike gets new encyclopedias, with on-line
links and all, but the 'bots are mad cuz they like
complaining. In Rome, Pearl and friends are locked in a
dungeon. Brain Guy's brain has been taken from him, so he is
somewhat addled, as shown by his lame attempts to bring Mike
down to help.
Segment
Two: Inspired by the film,
Crow and Servo take the only two remaining escape pods on
the SOL (of which Mike knew not a thing) and have a fine
dogfight out in space before crashing them into the SOL. Man
these guys are idiots sometimes!
Segment Three: Be-wigged be-robed Crow declares himself a
"Bellarian" (the name for the skinny dancing women), but
then is not so sure. In Rome, Bobo regurgitates several
items, including a key to his chains; but in his excitement
he forgets to do anything but get a banana to eat.
Segment Four: Servo installs safety railings all over the
SOL. They're not that safe. They make people fall over a
lot, in fact. It's just another example of Servo taking
something to a ridiculous extreme.
Segment Five: Crow, having lifted, shows off his wee muscle
to Mike, who manages to insult it; Servo is all bulked up
and thick-voiced, and asks Mike for a spot. On the planet,
Observer regains his brain and sets them all free, while
using Mike as a distraction: the spluttering boob is
rejected by Flavia just long enough to do a tiny bit of
good. Bobo burns down Rome.
Stinger: Rider (aka Flank McBrickgroin) screams and
leaps from his golf cart.
Reflections: As
has been the case with several of our movies over the years,
almost everyone in this world talks in what would seem to be
an Australian accent, although we've found out since taping
that the thing was made in South Africa, of all places, so
this qualifies as the MST equivalent of caving in and
playing Sun City. Oh well.
We got a lot of Internet comment on how we didn't joke about
how this movie used the Battlestar Galactica ship for the
exteriors, and I have to admit, in retrospect we didn't joke
about that at all. To quote the jury foreman at the end of
The Producers: of this charge we are, in fact, incredibly
guilty. -- Paul Chaplin.
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