Great wordplay: “I think it’s the Kurds.” “And whey?” “Yes, way!”.Vaguely dirty riff: “It’s the speedy delivery guy and has he got a package!”. Obscure riff: As the cave man eats human heart: “I wanna Barney Clark bar!” In 1983, Clark was the first person to receive a permanent, implanted artificial heart he lived 112 days.Callbacks: “The driver is either missing or he’s dead!” (Phantom Creeps) “Pyuma?!” (Ring of Terror) “I say it’s foggy!” (The Crawling Eye) “It’s the Aztec mummy!” “What’s Your Dream?” (Rocketship X-M).At the end of segment three, Trace does the voice of TV’s Madam, but gets mixed up and makes Crow’s mouth move for a moment.Segment three also feels like something out of early season two, akin to Joel’s zero-gravity or gobos lectures.Segment two feels very season two-ish: very wordy but funny.The credits are moderately amusing, though. Segment one just kind of establishes the premise then kills time.Oddest non sequitur: Joel says, “and…bring me the head of Gallagher!” apropos of nothing on the screen.It’s a sword-and-sandal flick called “Taur: the Mighty.” One of the commenters identified the movie that the clips used during the opening credits came from.Before, FVI got hold of it, this movie was called “Ator The Invincible.” On video it was titled “The Blade Master.” It was a sequel to “Ator the Fighting Eagle” (1983) and the prequel to “the Iron Warrior” (1986).is wearing his baseball cap backwards in a homage to the movie “Over the Top.” The whole “Mike Douglas Show” bit (a decade before “Seinfeld” would explore similar terrain) establishes the “ Man in My Little Girl’s Life” as a piece of mental furniture for this show.gives the whole “stranded in space” premise a boost by asking Joel, “How did you fare going through the asteroid belt?” (Apparently not well. Many of the catchphrases that we’d hear again and again are heard for the first time in this episode, including “…later…later…,” “bite me, it’s fun!” “It’s not a comic book, it’s a graphic novel!” “they’re kinda dumb and easy to kill” and “Go to bed, old man!”.That massive contract is perhaps the best evidence of how much CC officials considered this the network’s “signature series.” More evidence: June 1 was the day CC officially went on the air (after two months as “CTV” ): this episode was one of the shows that ran that day.It was an almost unheard-of situation in the TV business, and you can almost feel them settle in for the long haul. In the ACEG, Kevin notes it was the first of SEVENTY-TWO contracted episodes (in fact, they’d do at total of 96 episodes from this point before Comedy Central grew weary of them).
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