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The Phantom Planet

Season 9, Episode 3, Aired Mar 21, 1998

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Movie Plot: The Phantom Planet An astronaut ends up on a planet inhabited by miniature people.

Intro: The Crew have a contest with their Andy Rooney imitations. Gypsy judges. Segment One: Gypsy never announces the winner because the crew can't stop doing their Andy Rooney. The Doomsday Device Pearl ordered finally arrives. Unfortunately, its radioactive core was sent to the SOL, and the 'bots do not want to part with it. Segment Two: Servo tries to look at good and beautiful things, so he can enjoy life. He has to switch a couple of things. Segment Three: Mike takes a space walk, and the 'bots forget to let him back in. In Castle Forrester, Pearl and Brain Guy discover that the ghostly noises around the castle are actually being made by Bobo. Segment Four: The 'bots play their water glasses and Mike upstages them. Segment Five: Crow thinks he's an alien from the movie and dresses like one. Pearl, doubting her evilness after failing to assemble the Doomsday Device, is cheered up by a mob of villagers. She is going to pour hot oil on them. Turns out, however, that they are just the local welcome wagon. She gives up, but accidentally pours the oil on them.

Stinger: The "Good and the Beautiful" are extolled.moreless

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Michael J. Nelson

Mike Nelson [5-10]
Mary Jo Pehl

Magic Voice [4-7] & Pearl Forrester [7-10]
Kevin Murphy

Tom Servo [2-10], Professor Bobo [8-10] & Cambot
Patrick Brantseg

Gypsy [8-10]
Bill Corbett

Crow T. Robot [8-10] & Observer aka Brain Guy [8-10]

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Basically these two are flying their spacecraft in an effort to find their buddies who got lost in space. THe surviving member gets shrunk on an asteroid and interacts with other small people there.moreless

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By sounddoctorin, Dec 15, 2005

In one scene the co-pilot is commenting in these gushy terms how ...looking out there....he can only think of the *best* and *most noble*....
From that moment on everything starts going to the bad place. They take a hit from some small noise emitting (in a vacuum of course) particle and have to go do a repair...in the midst of this high speed particle storm of course.
The captain takes a hit alledgedly as the Co-pilot gets knocked off the ship. However...his acting is so bad that the mockers accuse him of being a 'crew killer' as he staggers back into the ship and closes the door while the Co-pilot floats off into space as they mock him saying 'uhh can you please grab that cord before it...uhh oh never mind...uhh can you leave the door open so I....uhh oh never mind" hehe.
Well he eventually winds up on this asteroid where he shrinks to become like these miniature people that live there....and the mockers come up with this funny comparison to make utter shame out of the explanation they suggest for the phenomena in the movie. It really degenerates after that. I need to find a copy of it again to refresh my memory.
SOme of the best mockery of a bad piece of technical forethought I've seen from these people. :-) They constantly ride the 'best, the most noble' comment as all the disasterous stuff happens. It's a fun one. Highly recommended for those aspects. And some kind of unique 50's sci fi feel.moreless
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- Sesom: Activate the gravity curtain. Tom: Or the Venetian gravity blinds.
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- Chapman: (to Herron) I'd like to hang one on ya. Sesom: Chapman... Mike: Would you hang one on me?
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- (as Chapman's ship approaches Raton) Crow: It's Extra Crispy...no, wait, its Original Recipe! Mike Oh, no, it comes with slaw!
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- Voice on Radio: Pegasus Four, you are...(static) Mike: Completely boned!
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- Voice on Radio: Lunar Base One to Pegasus Four, can you read me? Over. Tom: Well, have you been published?
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- Capt. Beecher: We'll need every bit of thrust for our takeoff. Chapman: Don't worry. Mike: I've got extra thrust.
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- Capt. Beecher: You must have been knocked out for quite a while. Crow: We hit you as hard as we could.
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- Lt. White: This was a wandering planet. Could have carried you anywhere. Crow: East Lansing, Crab Nebula, Oxnard.
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- Mike: (as Zetha while Chapman kisses her) The word 'love' means 'detest', right?
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- Tom: (describing Chapman) Is he a turnip that grew a face?
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- Crow: (describes the Solarite) He's basically a cauliflower with a handle and eyes.
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- Tom: (describing Sesom) He's Kool Moe Grandpa.
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- Crow: (during the duel)This will be on TV if they ever have ESPN 6.
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- Mike: (at the start of the fight) They really gotta cooperate to kill each other.
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- Chapman: The time has come! Crow: The walrus said!
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- Mike: (as an astronaut floats at him) Space batch!
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- Crow: Wow, this is almost as good as 2001...nails driven into your eyes.
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- Sessem: I would like you to become acquainted with... Mike: Herbalife.
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- Mike: (describing the people of Rae-Tan) Oh no, a colony of tiny mimes!
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- Tom: (over another shot of the ship) The U.S.S. Pencap.
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- Tom: (as the people go into Chapman's helmet) He is an alien. He only has one.
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- Crow: (as Chapman stands up) You are the great god Wide-Hip!
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- Crow: (as Chapman gets back in the ship) OK, let's take roll call: Me, here. Ray, dead. OK, good, that's clearer now.
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- Crow: (as Chapman's ship goes through space) Spaceship, now with gentle glide applicator.
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- Crow: Weird! We're in space and I can hear you scream.
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- Mike: (sees a nuclear explosion) Grandpa tried to use the microwave again.
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- Pearl: (as Bobo is being attacked by rats) Bobo, if you harm a single one of God's precious creatures, so help me, I'll kill you!
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- (during the second flashback sequence) Crow: Come on! We didn't like these scenes the first time! Mike: What if these flashbacks lap themselves? Crow: No fair! You can't flash back to stuff we saw ten seconds ago!
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- Tom: (as the Solarite is dematerialized) A danger sign? Rope it off, anything?
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- Tom: (as the rocket takes off) And they die.
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- Mike: (as Chapman is helped into the new ship) Just want to remind you this is a Northwest flight, so we'll be sitting on the tarmac for an hour with no beverages or air conditioning and we're out of meals and the flight attendants are overworked and abusive and if you complain, we'll throw you off the flight.
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- The Walrus and the Carpenter When the astronaut says "The time has come" and Tom chimes in "The Walrus said" they are quoting the opening line of the 1871 Lewis Carroll poem the Walrus and the Carpenter.
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- Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer: The song Mike plays on the water glasses closely resembles the theme to Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer (formerly known as Star Hustler), a late night public television program about current astronomical phenomenon viewers can observe with the naked eye.
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