Well said.

That was the rare movie I rented as a teenager for the boobs and wound up distracted by the plot. I've since forgotten both. 

“Sneaking away under cover of broad daylight in the biggest car in San Fernando Valley...”

I went to the Eastman School of Music, so you can guess which of those is my fave....

Well look at that!!  Breach hull, all die!!  Even had it underlined twice!!

“Whoopdie shit” killed me for whatever reason.
Then there’s Crow attacking the hull with a pick axe while singing “It’s A Long Way To Tipperary”

“Remember me now, Ruth?” after a shot that seemed to linger on Cal’s crotch.

“I hope you slept well, Dr. Meecham” “Because it’s time to die.”

“You know, every frame of this movie looks like someone’s last known photograph.”

Well, we do know that NetFlix took 14 fully funded episodes and didn’t pay enough to fully fund SIX episodes in the next season.

“Here’s something my wife could use.”
“A real man?”

Joel > Mike

“Industry. Science and Technology! Big men putting screw drivers into things! Turning them, and adjusting them!”

Yeah, in the episode guide they said they had no idea what was coming in Sidehackers, and when they watched it to start writing, they were shocked. From then on they screened movies before ordering them.

Which was exactly why I skipped this in the theater. “This Island Earth” is a dumb movie, but like a lot of fifties sci-fi, it’s a dumb, loveable movie. It could have conceivably worked for Joel, who might have at least had some affection for the movie. Mike always came across as the smart ass who thought he was above…

All the “but I’m not an alien” lines killed me. 

I remember being really excited for the movie to come out. My college roommate was a big fan of the show and was instrumental in my gaining appreciation for it.

“Ha, my wife could use one of these around the house!”

It still baffles me that Universal interfered so heavily with a project they were spending so little on, and which they ended up just dumping anyway. It makes a little more sense when you read that nobody at Best Brains really knew how to run interference, but a damn shame. Like they had to cut a lot out of the movie…

Everything else aside, This Island Earth just wasn’t a great choice, because Mike era comedy—especially during the Sci-Fi run—just didn’t work so well with earnest, well-intentioned 1950s movies. Mike period humor just got progressively meaner as the show went on and worked best with hateful shit* like Merlin or…