MST3K: First Spaceship On Venus

Episode Rating: 1 star

Plot: An International Taskforce of World Scientists Working For the Betterment of Mankind is assembled and stuffed into a rocket and sent to Venus. Turns out the explosion from space that hit Siberia in the early twentieth century was a Venusian spaceship. The team deciphers the message on the way and it turns out the Venusians were planning to take over Earth, but they didn't bother because it seems they were all killed by a nuclear explosion when their toilet backed up.

Opening: Adjusting Servo's sacrasm sequencer.

Invention exchange: Joel makes Junk Drawer Helper. Mads go through their junk drawer and find Abe Vigoda.

Host segment 1: The Bots make the coolest robot in the universe, but unfortunately it answers questions by spewing foam.

Host segment 2: A gorilla in a cage floating through space encounters the SOL, causing Gypsy to faint and Tom and Crow to panic. Tom sings to it and when it leaves Joel provides a moment's comfort.

Host segment 3: A commercial for Klack. "Remember, if you're incapable of showing emotion and know how to cook, Klack has an idea for you."

End: Joel and the Bots discuss what the movie is like. Tom's sarcasm is off the charts until something in his head explodes. The excess cuteness of the chin rascals drivers Forrester to throw up in the junk drawer.

Stinger: Everyone waves goodbye, including the guy with the A on his chest.

Zingers

Narrator: This is Dr. Chen Yu.
Joel: Gesundheit.

Radio Announcer: Arriving now is Brinkman, the first American to land on the moon.
Tom: Oh, I don't think so.

Scientist [on the robot] He reacts to stimuli in his environment and evaluates them with his electronic brain.
Joel: That means you can kick him.

Asian Woman: Have I changed that much?
Joel: Yeah, you used to be a Swedish man.

All: M-I-C
Joel: See you real soon.
All: K-E-Y
Joel: Why? Because we're an international taskforce.

Chen Yu: [reading Venusian] "We will initialy subject the planet to a very intense bombardment of radiation. The conquest and occupation of the Earth will then present no difficulty."
Crow: Oh, he's reading Dianetics.

Joel: Get into these metal cars, we'll be safe from the lightning in here!

Scientist: We must try to do what the Venesians did: make the energy of the glass force in the sphere change back into mass once more.
[buzz sounds]
Crow: Wrong, but thanks for playing.

My Thoughts

Boy, the bald guy in the movie was useless. First he makes the robot that winds up going haywire and nearly kills the captain. Then, out on Venus, he knocks the rocks into the pool and nearly gets them all killed, and then follows that up by shooting the goo and causing the nuclear explosion that kills three of the crew. And naturally, it's the black guy and the asian who pay for his stupidity.

This might just be me, but the captain looks like someone you'd see in an old silent film, with the pretty boy looks and light hair. Something about him just screamed to me that he should be in black and white, lips moving soundlessly, little title cards showing up, and then cops go running by at slightly overclocked speeds.

Tom's sarcasm to the point of annoyance, the gorilla, "What's a Herringway?", Klack, the foam robot bit that went on and on like a Saturday Night Live sketch, it's obvious the Brains were just burned out when it came to this episode. It's definitely the low point of season two.

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