The movie starts on government property. It’s a space lab where they plan to launch a rocket ship to Mars. Four dudes and a girl are about to launch into space in their stylish leather suits. They hold a press conference about the project and they talk about sending the people into space (X-M Stands for eXpodtion Moon). The crew is introduced. Col. Flloyd, Dr. Lisa, Dr. Carl, Maj. William, Harry (No rank), and Dr. Ralph. They go over their plan.

They go over their plan. They’re going to the Moon. People have some exposition chat. They go to the rocket and they blast off.

A lot of space travel and science mumbo jumbo later and they jettison their tail section and continue the flight. They talk and someone is a being a sexist asshat to Lisa. I honestly can’t tell the difference between them. Some more space stuff happens and they get into some troubles. One of the guys plays his harmonica, but I comically floats off in the regular gravity area. A giant telescope looks for them, but they notice that X-M hasn’t been moving all that much. Slicked back hair guy is dumb. He’s obviously hitting on Lisa and tries to get into, her panties, but he sucks at being attractive. They engage in dumb romantic dialog and asteroids come by.

They are forced to do some repairs cause I guess they got hit. There becomes a problem with the oxygen, speeding up, and they pass out after a while. They vanish from the telescopes view and are completely off course. They wake up and they find that they are ways off course. They find out by looking out the window and they are within the range of Mars. They land down on Mars and they’re fine despite the rough landing. They land and find that…Rain and thunder on Mars? Oh how naïve the 50’s were. Also the black & white cinematography makes it look like snow on Mars. Looks like Death Valley. Well it is the most unearthly place on Earth.

Also doubles as the set of the Thing From Another World

They wander for a bit and I just realized that it also has a breathable atmosphere. They wander for a bit more and they find a building.

Actually decent map painting

They dig up a mask near it so they get suspicious. One of the guys sees some things, but they run away. They go to look for the Martians, but they run towards a cave. One of the Martians is shot and he falls down a mountain. Primitive Martians attack them and a female screams and is taken back by a guy who looked kind of like Tor Johnson of Plan 9 infamy.

Some rocks that the Martians are throwing crush one of the dude’s. They run away and one of them guys trips and is killed by a rock. They lift off with only three people left. They get close to Earth and they attempt to land with an inoperable navigator and two dead buddies. All that’s left is Lisa, Smirky McFlirtsalot, and the wounded guy. They successfully land and inform the people of the deaths. The leader of the operation says it was a success and informs the press of an R-X-M2.

The first sketch of Season 2 is a repair being made on Tom Servo to change his voice. Thank god. Josh Weinstein sucked. Now in the next skit we get to hear a variety of new voices until we settle on the beloved Kevin Murphy Tom that lasts till the series’ ending. Also we lose Josh Weinstein completely and TV’s Frank played by Frank Conniff has replaced Josh’s character that has just vanished. Probably due to the mutation from Black Scorpion, but we have a movie that brings it up soon in Season 3. Frank is working at Dr. Forrester’s new restaurant. They order food and they try to escape the ship by tricking Frank into lowering them, but Dr. F intervenes. Also we get out first glimpse of the Mole People. For Season 2 and Season 3 there was two Mole People who were assistants to Dr. F and TV’s Frank. The invention exchange on both sides is the BGC-19. The robot suit from Aliens except a drum set. Pretty funny. Next skit is unfocused and pretty dumb. It’s talking about the unsung hero of the movie. The reporters. Funny at certain points. The joke about Spike was funny though. William Studman was funny too. Next up is Joel lecturing the bots on Selective Gravity and how some stuff is funnier with no gravity. Not funny. Next skit is them relaxing and waxing poetic about life. They find a ship and Valaria from Robot Holocaust pilots it. Not funny. The episode isn’t the best. They’re still ironing out the goodness. We’ll see the laugh out louds later on the season and definitely at the Season 3. The episode is kind of dull, but the movie was okay. Nothing special, just okay. Recommended for completionists.

Episode Rating – 3/10

Movie Rating – 4/10

Favorite Riff – “By this point my lungs were aching for air.”

Possible Stinger – “A mere speck. Texas a mere speck?”

Episode – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIpM8xIOpTA

Trailer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oCMTgSbL8s