After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to Earth only to find their de-orbit thrusters won't activate. After initially thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit, NASA decides to launch a daring rescue. Their plans are complicated by a hurricane headed towards the launch site—and a shrinking air supply in the astronauts' capsule.
Working as a maintenance crew member on the moon, Duguyue is left behind after the evacuation mission forgets about him. A meteorite then destroys planet Earth, leaving him as the only man left alive in existence.
A Russian film about a bug-eyed alien babe is the backdrop for a variety of antics aboard the Satellite of Love.
Servo writes a letter to his uncle in which he recalls many fond memories of his time aboard the satellite. Meanwhile, the crew are subjected to a TV drama about a New Orleans Super Bowl full of intrigue, romance, and catfish.
This week's film features two intrepid heroes fleeing their Orwellian futuristic society in a souped-up racecar – but Joel and the 'Bots are more interested in reading fan mail from their adoring public.
Joel, Crow, and Servo sit through a star-studded TV movie about a doomed SST flight while Gypsy goes through some interesting changes.
Joel introduces the chiro-gyro at the invention exchange while the Mads show off their flame-throwing flower. In the theater, Joel and the Bots get the third installment of 'Radar Men from the Moon' before the Bela Lugosi film 'The Corpse Vanishes'.
Joel and the 'Bots suffer through a dreary '70s dinosaur movie from Japan. Where's Doug McClure when you need him?
The 007-ish exploits of Mighty Jack – a government organization created to defeat the notorious crime syndicate known as 'Q' – took everything that was bad about espionage movies and threw the rest out.
Tom Servo gets his new "Mighty Voice" and a chance to use it during another Gamera film. Crow is still frozen.
Today's experiment features real humans from Japan and a budget that must've been tens of dollars.
The crew discover disturbing secrets in Crow's memory bank while watching a film about bland government officials investigating, and then trying to cover up, a flying saucer crash.
As groovy femme fatale Sumuru plots world domination, Joel gets even with the 'bots for locking him out of the ship.
This week's experiment is disastrous disaster film City on Fire (1979), which assures viewers the events depicted could happen in any city, anywhere. Even, as Tom points out, while we're watching this.
For the Invention Exchange, Joel presents a safety device for motorcyclists. The Mads, anticipating the Mad Scientists' Convention, show off their device for getting rid of unwanted guests. For the day's experiment, Joel and the bots are forced to watch the first tedious chapter of "Radar Men from the Moon" (1952), with Commander Cody, as Joel explains to Tom Servo what a serial is. Their feature film is the cheesy Mexican horror flick, "The Robot vs the Aztec Mummy" (1958). Meanwhile, the threesome do their best to fend off an attack on the Satellite of Love by demon dogs, who are attracted to the spaceship's bone-like shape.
This week's film is a deep sci-fi story about ants that leaves Crow wishing he'd brought a pair of boots into the theater.
As two Earth boys plead for Gamera to rescue them from a planet of cannibals, Crow experiences a wonderful dream in which he turns the tables on the Mads.
The stranded crew of the Satellite of Love have no sympathy for the stranded crew of Moonbase Alpha when they take in two repackaged episodes of Space: 1999.
Our intrepid hosts are trapped between Isaac Asimov's Literary Doomsday Device and Robert Ito from Quincy M.E. (1976) in a fur caveman outfit.
Adapted (i.e., shredded and stitched into incoherence) from the 1974 Japanese series Saru No Gundan, Time of the Apes follows the travails of a scientist and two small children who are accidentally frozen and thaw into a future ruled by apes. Meanwhile, Crow and Servo have locked Joel out of the Satellite of Love.