Ice Pirates was crazy. I was expecting an innocuous romp for kids, and then suddenly there's the n-word and talk of space herpes.

ESPECIALLY not even him.

"Didn't need no welfeah state…"

From the 70's into the 90's at least he definitely had a darkly handsome, quasi-Beatnik vibe to him.

There's a scene where Sutherland contacts numerous city officials to report the pods; people who are initially eager to help, but who become evasive and dismissive with follow-up calls. Nothing much happens, but the details (the camera work, the traffic noise, the scary "whomping" noises in the score) builds a…

These clowns come from Donny's SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDD

"Pass the co-pilot."
Oops, wrong survival story.

Same here. I remember Joe Dante talking it up a year or two ago in one of the Halloween features. Saw it and was not disappointed.

"and then a big brown shark came…"

Genuinely funny moment: At the end, Garfield turns on the TV, only to find the old man hosting an all-night pirate movie marathon on Halloween for some reason.

They really blare it during kids' field trips to the aquarium for some reason.

That triggered my work computer's "Racism and Hate" filter.

"If Spike Lee made movies in Boston…"

Feel like we could have used the Skywalker NOOOOO! picture for this.

The cases they were in had telephone receivers. What more do you want?

Da big goombas took all the fuel.

And then Nixon died just a few months later.

Leland's glaze-eyed doppelganger is maybe the creepiest single image of the show.

Evil Leland's expression is even more menacing than Bob's.

But…he doesn't have AIDS.