Did they think they could use recycled "Battlestar
Galactica" footage and no one would notice?

Yeah. I tried watching this one, but I couldn't. The wretchedness of the movie overtook the humor. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that "Manos: The Hands of Fate" and "Monster a Go-Go" are any better, but usually, when movies are this bad or worse(like the two I mentioned) they make for great MST3K episodes, but I couldn't bear to watch anymore after the first host segment

The Australian jokes kept me laughing. Plus, Reb Brown is funny even in an un-MSTed movie.

You know, that brief scene on Contact where they contact the Australian tracking station has to feature one of the worst attempts at an Australian accents ever.

What about the underground people in "Alien from L.A.?" As Mike says, "I almost forgot I was Australian for a minute!"

There was an Australian that appeared on a few early episodes of "M*A*S*H." He was constantly saying "bloke" and "blimey", the total stereotype.
'Struth! (sorry Chris, I couldn't resist).

No worries, mate. And another acceptable spelling is "Strewth".

Kathy Ireland once said something about how she had to pick her movie roles carefully.... I can't remember the exact quote, but it's on the "Wisdom of Supermodels" quote page.

Wisdom Of Supermodels? is'nt that an oxymoron?

The dead woman said that talking to that dead man was "her business" but it's about explosives, which is ships bussiness, and she's talking to the security chief. So shouldn't she talk?

HORRIBLE movie!! Great moments though...

"Special effects by Industrial Light & Moron."

"I wish that I had Jesse's girlllll........"

"The easily bamboozled wise council."

"I think it's really great of you to give that dead girl another chance."

Sting, Debbie Reynolds and God!

I'd rather get a lapdance from Trent Lott!

Please, my breasts are very sensitive!

And our brave hero roasts the disabled man.

This movie had 3 editors work on it, and none of them noticed that Lt. Lamont gets zapped in one scene and reappears on the bridge alive and well in the very next scene? Sheesh, somebody get me a job as a Hollywood film editor; it can't be all that difficult.

It even had someone whose only job was "continuity"

Then again, nitpicking a MST3K movie is the height of redundancy.

At one point, when Chunkhead and Leia charge into the room with the frozen bodies, Crow starts to say "Bulk Vanderhuge", but is cut off by Servo suddenly shouting "GET OFF THE STAIRMASTER!" and then he says Bulk Vanderhuge

Great riffs from a great ep.

Don't get smart with me celing.
God you look good.
Buff Drinklots!
Sting, Debbie Reynolds, and God!
I think its great of you to give that dead woman another chance.
We put our faith in Blast Hard Cheese!
Is he Snidely Whiplash?
Chunkheads girly screams : He took my purse!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Well anyway got that out of my system.
Maniac, MAAANNNIAC ON THE FLOOR! EVERYBODY! Some day, love will find you!

And I love Brain Guys lack of brain.
String tastes funny.

My favorite is John Philip Law as Kalgon ("TAKE ME AWAY!"). I think he just read the script and discovered a perfect vehicle to overact in.

"MEDDLING FOOL!"

I always like being the only person to get certain jokes when I watch MST3K, so here we are watching, and the classic "Herve Villechaize's death car!" comes up, and the people I was with didn't get it (they're all late teens). I busted a gut, then I explained it to them.

"OI!"

"Ho."

"Too Roight!"

"Okay, look alive everyone, oh, sorry Susan."

The scene where Kalgon rants about his "disciples" is impossible to riff because it's so bad already.

All the action hero names are classic...

Slab Bulkhead!
Fridge Largemeat!
Punt Speedchunk!
Butch Deadlift!
Bold Bigflank!
Splint Chesthair!
Flint Ironstag!
Bolt Vanderhuge!
Thick McRunfast!
Blast Hardcheese!
Buff Drinklots!
Trunk Slamchest!
Fist Rockbone!
Stump Beefknob!
Smash Lampjaw!
Punch Rockgroin!
Buck Plankchest!
Stump Chunkman!
Dirk Hardpec!
Rip Steakface!
Slate Slabrock!
Crud Bonemeal!
Brick Hardmeat!
Whip Slagcheek!
Punch Side-iron!
Gristle McThornbody!
Slate Fistcrunch!
Buff Hardback!
Bob Johnson! (no, wait...)
Blast Thickneck!
Crunch Buttsteak!
Slab Squatthrust!
Lump Beefbroth!
Touch Rustrod!
Reef Blastbody!
Big McLargehuge! (my personal fave)
Smoke Manmuscle!
Beat Punchbeef!
Hack Blowfist!
Roll Fizzlebeef!

Try calling your friends these names without telling them why, it's fun!

This episode does have a bunch of fun lines.

Accursed Mountebank!
Come on Metamucil, work your magic.
Whoa, shake it, Ralph Macchio!
They could get a few more miles per hour if they took it off the shag setting.
I'd rather get a table dance from Trent Lott.
He is going to have so much sex with your daughter.
She's presenting like a mandrill.
Mother Angelica aerobics.
The Stevie Nicks Workout.
He blew out his knee in a previous mutiny.
Shari Lewis has it going on!
She doused herself with super weight gain powder to attract him.
I have to go to Roddy McDowell practice.
Toro, Toro! These cars are made by Toro!
The lobster guy's name was Guy Pringle. I wouldn't want to slam a stack of that guy.
You were really into the Thompson Twins, weren't you Mike? You were Wang Chunging all over the place.
It's statistically proven that 78% of white guys can sing like this. Nobody else wants to.
Back to the rotting septic system of this Futuristic Spaceship.
I'd like some mixed flowers for my eunuch.
She graduated MIT, but she still has to serve drinks to men.
We have the best mini-golf in the galaxy.
We now go live to Spencer's Gifts.
Can't talk now, Mike. I'm locked in a death struggle with Tom.

Here are a few more lines.

Outlets in Space!
In the future, geese will be rocket-powered.
My Buns of Steel videos are in there.
Santa's playing FreeCell.
So, should I spend 20 bucks for Griffey?
I got Dad's Enforcer for the weekend.
Those formica monitors don't have a lot of resolution.
I'd like to confuse bok choy with cabbage, sir.
Eat munchy-crunchy-cocoa death.
She's leaving with two Mexican wrestlers.
We'll need both horsepowers on this one.
I was just about to do the Monster Mash.
Get my warrior muumuu.
I have one weakness, pain. And French Silk pie.
The laser that whirrs like a drill.
Lt. Commander Jason.
The computer problems of Murray and Joe make for gripping cinema.
A man born without a brainstem.
You lovable trollop.
Come on, move, move. See how it feels?
Why do you hate my groin so much?
How about some sugar for Sting and Dolph?
I'm gonna miss this old, whatever it is.
Here's a little free advice for the mutineers: just stop and aim, you idiots!
Someone get me a Zantec, quick.
I loosened up the paint, we can scrape later.
Please don't shoot us. OK, you don't get a box lunch then.
This movie is ripe with the stench of back bacon.
We're being totally defeated, I must say.
I got the gas grill going. You want burgers?
You really are dense. Does that mean I'm cut?
Gearing up for a really intense video game.
Any second, Lea's gonna jump on his Big Wheel and give chase.
That's for not knowing about ancient dentistry.
This could be the beginning of a beautiful alternate-day bulk-up routine.
They married and gave birth to a healthy 8-pound pork roast.
Cajun pan-blackened Kalgan.
A retarded jellyfish could make a better movie than this.
Music rejected by the band Survivor.
The best boy they could come up with was Fuzzy Skinner?

Ah, I love this movie now. It's just so wonderfully, loveably BAD, a great barrel of (unintentional) laughs. That scene in the disco was a riot.

I agree. I've seen "Manos, the Hands of Fate," and it just doesn't compare to this. I mean, you've got a bad plot, bad actors, bad writing, bad music, bad speical effects, and bad costumes all rolled into one BAD movie.

My favorite lines are when they add all sorts of silly names to their technology ("Captain, we have to shut down our Varron-Bloomtek-blah-blah-blah rocket engines!")

The best scene of this movie is when McLargeHuge does that insane scream, then is instantly calm and jumps out of the little deathbuggy.

Such a delightfully bad movie it's awesome. I especially love the total lack of context for anything, forcing the viewers to develop their latent telepathic powers in order to figure out what the hell the writers were thinking about... well pretty much everything. Of course, Tom already covered that one:

"You know, if we pretend we know what's going on this is actually sort of exciting."

This will probably qualify as utterly pointless nitpicking, especially in the context of MST3K (yes, I've memorized the opening song) but... during the host segment where the bots discover and trash the escape pod/fighters, Mike prepars a cup of something and drops two cubes of sugar in. When he picks it up we can hear the sugar rattling around in what is clearly an empty cup. Perhaps this is that Coffee of the Future I've heard so much about.

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Merat: The best scene of this movie is when McLargeHuge does that insane scream, then is instantly calm and jumps out of the little deathbuggy.

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The episode inspired the webcomic Turn Back The Sun.

There's a bar on the bridge of that ship? o.O

Oddly enough, Rifftrax also does this movie. Not sure how much repetition of jokes there is.

The reriffs generally have very little repetition. Aside from a couple of new names for Big McLargehuge, it's pretty much a new set.