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Weekend Discussion Thread: MSTed Characters on the MoonAlert regular John notes:
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while i believe that there’s no more inspirational sight than Mitchell! and Rowsdower on the moon,
i have to say that more than a few eyes would get a little misty when they heard ‘HOUston, thE MASTer says WE’re oN thE MoON!’
Griffin sticks the American flag on the Moon’s surface and asks Houston. “Flag on the moon, how’d it get there?”
Roxie steps from the landing craft with the flag and hears a disembodied voice say, “Watch out for snakes!”
Boggy Creek II –
Old Man Crenshaw sets foot on the Moon in a filthy space suit that somehow has a strap dangling and says “Caint tend to my fahrs here, Houston. There ain’t no air and there ain’t no man’s kinda moon maidens like you said, neither.”
The LM lands on the moon, and Hogan (the beer-swilling scientist from “Devil Fish”) disembarks. He looks around, but says nothing. Finally, the CapCom tells him, “Hey, you’re on the Moon.” And Hogan replies, “I KNOOOOOW!!”
a purely historical question:
would the Apollo Program have been so prolific is Beef Slabface had been on the first flight and screamed like a terrified girl while the Saturn V lifted off?
as long as Arch has a ‘malfunction’ with his oxygen tanks while singing about some chick he never met, iapprove of this mission.
Ohhhh, no! First thing that came to my mind was Outlaw of Gor’s Watney being the first man to set foot on the moon. And the first words spoken? “Cabot? Cabot? Cabot! Cabot!! Cabot?!”
Ow.
Mr. B Natural to the man in the moon.
Knew your father I did!
Some great one already posted!
Raydoor from Quest of the Delta Knights is on the LEM, but before he descends the ladder, he opens the hatch and flings out his pee.
By the way, congratulations to my father, who was on the lunar module mission planning team at NASA-Houston for all the Apollo missions!
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A list of Moon related MSTs:
Radar Men From the Moon
Moon Zero Two
Hercules Against the Moon Men
Crash of the Moons
12 To The Moon
And, of course, Seasons 11 and 12 which were set on the Moon in Kinga’s Moon 13. I guess we MSTies are just a bunch of “lunatics”. Happy Fiftieth Anniversary all you Moon lovers!
Not exactly Moon-related, but “Marooned” (alias “Space Travelers”) is NASA-related, so I guess it fits.
You could count Phantom Planet, as well, since “the moon has become the launching pad…”
Professor Joseph Javorsky (Tor) lands on the moon with the narrator of THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS and the rabbit he has befriended on earth. As Javorsky strokes his pet bunny’s ears, the narrator muses blandly, “Flag on the moon, how did it get there?” Javorsky gesticulates and chews the scenery.
There’s also Cosmic Princess, assembled from two episodes of Space: 1999, which takes place on the Moon.
Rowsdower leaps from the hatch in his acid-washed spacesuit, pops open a Molson, and proclaims, “I may never know if there’s beer on the sun, but there sure as hell is beer on the moon now, eh?” Then aliens appear from nowhere and stuff Troy in a deep crater.
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Kenny (from any of those movies) stows away on the LM, saves the day through his innovative thinking, then as soon as the door opens he runs out and plants his own flag, while all the cast members smile at the lovable scamp.
Red from Atlantic Rim steps out of the LEM and decides to take a selfie where he moons the Moon.
Also First Spaceship on Venus
project moonbase
track of the moon beast ‘moon rocks, oh WOW!’
After they pants him and magic marker his weenie.
Since Kitten With A Whip shows part of a Warner Brothers cartoon, Canned Feud (Sylvester), making the those in it de facto MST3K movie characters, I envision a very Looney-Tuney scenario:
The narrator in The Beast of Yucca Flats says, of course, “Flag on the moon. How did it get there?”
Cut to the moon, the flag, and the mouse from the cartoon right beside it, answering, “Oh, wouldn’t YOU like ta know?”
(iris out, “That’s all, folks!”, ending music)
This isn’t how it works in the actual movie, but taking inspiration from “Project Moon Base”, I see this happening: the ship lands and Col. Briteis, the senior officer moves to the hatch to take the historic first step. And Maj. Moore, her white male junior officer, elbows her out of the way, leaps down onto the surface, and declares, “I claim the Moon for the United States!”
Okay, that’s stretching it some.
MOOOOOOOOON ZEEEEEEEEEEE-ROW TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
A Case of Spring Fever –
The oily guy Gilbert some how is selected to go to the Moon and as soon as he set boot on the surface he begins listing all fifty thousand and forty-two springs in the Saturn V rocket. Before he gets to spring number 73 Buzz Aldrin cuts off his air supply.
Just imagine watching the moon landing, seeing Kathy stepping onto the moon’s surface in her pink terrycloth spacesuit, hearing her saying “Moon rocks? Oh, wow!” and then hearing the sound of thousands of facepalms from Houston Control.
The little cartoon guy from Moon Zero-Two steps onto the moon’s surface, opens his mouth, and animated credits come out.
Mooney saunters downs the ladder and just before he takes that first step he yells into the radio – “Houston. I’m gonna moon you!!!”
Jimmy from I Accuse My Parents: “Houston, my mom and I just landed on the moon. Did I mention I won the essay contest?”
Jimmy didn’t actually go to the moon, but he tells everyone he did.
A gaggle of dancers crash land on the moon. At first they are languid and helpless, and murmur a lot, but eventually they strip down to their underwear and dance around for a while.
Jessica from “The Thing That Couldn’t Die” climbs down from the lander, steps onto the surface of the Moon, and declares it “evil”. She then uses a forked stick to find water.
Meant to mention it earlier, Albuquerque Turkey, but that is very cool about your father!
Toblerone steps onto the moon and in a thick Italian accent bellows, “I left-a the Bronx!” followed by a hearty laugh.
CAPCOM: Apollo, we copy you on the ladder and about to step on the surface. Flight requests a status check: will you proceed, or will you abort and lift off?
QUNITAS: We’ll STAY!!
CAPCOM: Uh…roger that.
Not for very long they wouldn’t. (See Tom’s Christmas description of Santa and his reindeer: Prancer – BOOM, Dancer – BOOM.)
Micky from Space Prince;
“This is Houston Commander Micky. How does it feel to be the first human to step on the moon?”
“I LIKE IT VERY MUCH!”
Space Chief tried to go to the moon, but his flying car could only get about 400 feet off the ground.
If you watch the video of Mission Control immediately after Eagle has landed, everyone is checking their systems to confirm whether the astronauts should stay on the moon, or take off right away in case there are any safety concerns. On the audio, you hear (I’m paraphrasing the actual calls from Gene Kranz): “Fuel?”; “STAY”; “Medical?”; “STAY”; “Navigation?”; “STAY”, and so on. In my older years as a MSTie, I can no longer hear this without thinking of Quintas.
“Look, Johnny! The Americans have landed on the moon!”
“I don’t care.”
Sandy: “POOM!”
Danny is first to step out of the LEM onto the Moon’s surface when a gang of Moonies attack him to steal his $100 (because that was a lot of money back then). Big Stupid comes out just in time to save him. Then Jack Elam arrives and is going to sabotage the LEM when all of a sudden appeared…pygmies! If you look at them you die, so don’t look at them. Jack sees them and dies so Danny and Big Stupid are able to safely come home. When their craft splashes down, Carrie remarks that she loved the rings the space ship made when it hit the water. Then she asks Big if he is ready to stop exploring and settle down.
What do you think, sirs?
I can see it now: The lander’s hatch opens, and ghostly footprints appear on the moon’s surface. Then Vy’s disembodied head appears and starts chanting, “Tom Stewart killed me! Tom Stewart killed me!”
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I just realized something… if we sent Paul and Natalie (“Werewolf”) and Tony (“I Was A Teenage Werewolf”) to the moon, they’d be stuck in wolf form the entire time. Absolutely fascinating!
They sent Pete from “The Skydivers” to the moon, but he panicked and forgot to fire the retro rockets. Splat!
Godzilla and Jet Jaguar landed on the moon, but Toho shut down the video feed, forcing NASA to switch to footage of the Giant Gila Monster.