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Weekend Discussion Thread: Favorite Hexfield MomentsAlert reader “Be Right There” asks:
I gotta go with Kevin as Ilya Muromets at the Waffle House. “HAM!!” What’s your pick? 61 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: Favorite Hexfield Moments”Commenting at Satellite News
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the kitten with a whip. *ha-a-aaack!*
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“Mike broke the Hubble! Mike broke the Hubble!”. And it drops like a rock.
Sorri Andropoli from 205. Joel, Mike and their respective robots all out in space together.
Mike thinking he gets to escape after “Final Justice”.
The Hugh Beaumont visits, from Lost Continent and Human Duplicators. Hugh is so wise and open to accepting change in LC, even agreeing not to destroy all Mankind. By HD, he’s more like a man ready to snap, but still with that certain “Dadliness” under it all (well, sort of).
Mike as the Amazing Colossal Man, especially his bitterness over not getting the part in the sequel.
Crow partying with Mary Jo and her rowdy friends, until Tom spoils things by immitating a police siren.
Mike as J.C. and TV’s Frank as Cooch from Sidehackers always makes me laugh.
J.C.: Cooch, I want you to get him.
Cooch: I will.
J.C.: Get Rommel for me.
Cooch: I will.
J.C.: Get him now.
Cooch: I will get him.
That was the first thing that came to my mind, too… LOVE that one, Mike nails it.
But , technical foul… that was not hexfield, was it? I think it was rocket number 9?
;-)
Winky (played by Mike, ‘natch) in his invisible spaceship — er, no, his Mom’s basement — from Manhunt in Space.
:-D
I have a love for the very first Hexfield moment, when Mike appeared as Valeria from ‘Robot Holocaust’. The over all cheap look to it really reflected the spirit of the movies. A direct quote from the episode guide describes it best “Mike had to work it himself; then at the end of his “transmission” he had to stand really still and we turned off the lights and dollied past him and kind of pretend he wasn’t there anymore.”
Well, the question that the reader sent said “favorite hexfield/Rocket #9 moments” so it fits within the topic.
As for hexfield moments, I’ll go with Joel’s departure at the end of Mitchell.
The visit from the mobbed-up Da Vinci in ‘Quest of the Delta Knights’. ‘Call me ‘Leo’!’
Pretty much any time Mike showed up was a good one, particularly as Hugh Beaumont and Winky. I also particularly liked him as the arrogant explorer with the “magic fire stick”.
Aside from Mike, I also liked Bridget and Mary Jo as the Amazon soccer moms.
As for Rocket #9, I liked the cool Angel of Death spaceship. Pity the pilot was so lame.
Doh! That’s what I get for “scanning”. :wilt: Eating Crow.
Bruce from “Daddy-O” makes an appearance: “Gimme that key, fella!”
One word: Megaweapon.
Was really a nice guy, even babysat for the kids. I imagine his difficulty
in getting parts after Warrior was due to being in a movie with the Paper Chase
Guy and the irritating computer/bike.
“Mommy’s on the PHOoONE!”
I liked Mary Jo as the “trailer trash lady” in “Beginning of the End”. As someone who lives in Alabama, I can say that she portrays trailer trash almost [i]too[/i] convincingly!
Btw, it was nice of Dr. F. to give Joel and Mike such
extensive use of his telephone to chat with various guests
(must have had quite a bill).
(Heh … what are the odds that two people would post about the exact same hexfield segment at the exact same moment?!)
When the clowns went crazy.
Can’t remember the experiment though.
It was “Attack of the Giant Leeches”.
“I can’t sleep at night and I’m tasting metal!”
Brooks and DUNN?
Mary Jo as Jan in the Pan.
Well, my first job was as a doorstop……
Ro-man: Doh!That’s what I get for “scanning”.Eating Crow.
You know there’s not much meat on Crow, right? He’s made of molybdenum.
The Holo Clowns:
“Get on your orange and yellow knees and kiss my clown feet, that I haven’t killed you!”
Another vote for Mary Jo as Trailer Trash Lady. She gets the voice just right. Shudder.
Hexfield? Mike as Gamera. Although I still can’t figure out what scratching at his abs was supposed to mean other than scratching at his abs.
Put me down for Leonardo Da Vinci’s visit in Quest of the Delta Knights. I especially love the lead-up when Mike asks Cambot for “Rocket number eleven, minus two” to which an unimpressed Servo comments, “Cute.”
Mike breaking the Hexfield in Soultaker’s a winner, too.
I also love the Urkel laugh-fest (with Rooster, Huggy Bear and Jan in the Pan in the Hex) – though I know I’m in the minority on that.
Since I suggested the topic, might as well toss in my two cents.
I agree with many of the other suggestions, mainly the Holoclowns and Hugh Beaumont. I also have to mention the skeleton in the awesome spaceship from “Teenagers from Outer Space”. Something about the anti-climactic way the skeleton just flops on the ground gets me every time.
The gorilla in “First Spaceship on Venus” is also pretty great, if only for it’s sheer randomness.
The Hexfield segments always seemed like vanity excuses for Mike or Mary Jo to take over the show for three minutes, so the skeleton in Teenagers From Outer Space (“(collapse!)” “Man, that was lame!”) seemed like it was self-aware satirizing the whole convention of Hexfield bits in the first place.
Like the “DON’T mail us in with what you think a Sampo is!” bit from Day the Earth Froze, the Joel era knew enough to poke fun at their own sketches when they started to become too formula.
“Hey little girl..would you like a salted nut roll?”
For whatever reason, I get a kick out of the Hexfield segment in Gamera Vs. Zigra when Bridget as the little girl from the movie says that Gamera is her boyfriend, often moving lips as though she’s talking but with no words coming out. Bridget seems to have great comedic pacing that I just can’t help but enjoy. She reminds me of Animala from The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra in how enthusiastically she does stupid stuff.
Way to take a fun topic and twist it to further your hateful agenda!
In showbiz, “stealing the show” is quite complimentary
See what you did there in your bitter oblivion?
Ha! You and your dour ways are doomed
Dark one.
“The Power Steves”!
Mike as the janitor in EARTH VERSUS THE SPIDER.
“A rock opera? You have got to be kidding. Is it femmie like KISS, or is it boring and pretentious like Emerson, Lake & Palmer?”
My choice is Kenny and Helen from Gamera Vs. Zigra. Bridget actually repeated her line (“Gamera is good. Gamera is my boyfriend.”) to me at the 2nd Conventiocon. I was happy!
Did you say “darkwon”?
You hd to admire the dedication of Weather Servo 9 to bringing the important
weather information desperately needed by the Satellite of Love, although he really should
have worn a sweater (what with the temperature dropping to near zero).
Patrick as unfunny Russian comic Yakoff Smirnoff (and I don’t even care if I misspelled his him).
No, he said Doug Warren.
I liked the Warrior of the Lost World driver’s permit test sketch.
Devoted Mike fanboys who recite the Holy Ayy Pledgii of “In Russia, (Y) (X)’s you!” every single freakin’ blessed time Smirnoff’s name is mentioned ANYWHERE in the outside world particularly drive me up the wall since he…really was pretty funny in the birth of standup 80’s:
(And from the legendary HBO “Dangerfield’s Young Comics Special” at that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GK8ewRec7c )
And then the Wall fell down and destroyed his career.
Ugh, yet another awful EricJ comment.
You have deep emotional problems.
Mike as Russian cosmonaut Sori Andropali with his ramshackle ‘bots
Mike as Glenn, The Amazing Colossal Man
Mike as Valeria from Robot Holocaust during Rocketship X-M
So you’re the creature they picked up in The Deadly Mantis. What was it like being a meatloaf?
I’d vote for Revenge of the Creature, when Phil demanded that Tom give back his French vanilla pudding.