Disappointed they didn't do a Danger! Will Robinson!...Riff(unless i missed it?)

The Japanese woman translating the alien language actually isn't as stupid as it seems.

First of all, if the moon people had any long-forgotten contact with the Earth, it would make sense for them to have knowledge of one of the most ancient and widespread written languages on the planet, like Chinese.

Further, it is proper to assume that a native Japanese speaker could read Chinese. Japan makes use of an alphabet that is almost identical to the Chinese alphabet, which assigns one word to one letter. They are therefore able to read a Chinese text with perfect understanding, even though they would pronounce each word differently.

I have a question: Brain Guy is about to use a noose to hang himself...but he's supposed to be just a brain. So would killing his body really kill him? Clearly, he wouldn't be able to communicate in the same way, but if his brain is really independent of his body, then, killing the body wouldn't do anything to solve his problem. Right?

Here's a question for everyone: vis a vis that knob that protrudes from Crow's beak in the first scene, do you see that as a bulging cheek full of tobacco, or a horrible tobacco-based tumor? Or something else?

soo.... they just keep sending men out into space when two ships have already vanished?

Ever notice the one brunette giant who does absolutely nothing but hang out behind the other giants? I wonder what the story was with that.

This movie has some of the biggest plot holes in all of MST3K; what's the deal with "Genius" biking out to the park before he observed the effects of his concoction? How are the giants making sure nobody escaped the town if all they do is hang out in the theater? How does "Untie our leader or I'll leave this girl on the roof of this building, such that getting her down will be a mild inconvenience" serve as an effective form of extortion?

So...to keep myself from falling into an existential void during this final air battle, I started thinking about the decision to make this half-hour battle. I mean, really, would this be interesting to anyone? It really is at least 30 minutes, and there's very little going on. You have people staring up at the sky and cheering every so often. Then, you have the same four repeated scenes...over and over. Children wouldn't be interested in this...or at least, I can't imagine that they would be for this long. So...is it directed toward children? If not, I can't imagine adults enjoying this, either.

Or...do the Japanese just have a different definition of what makes an entertaining movie?

I would say that Crow's comment about a "hip Satan who solves crimes" is prophetic, considering Fox's recent Lucifer series; but I suppose it more likely proves that network TV just steals its ideas for new shows by watching old TV.

They are supposed to be smart enough to have made a time travel device, but they don't know the basics of radiation protection.

I found the movie that comes before this one, "Gor", on Netflix. It's worth watching, as it's even worse than this one.

On another note, as ridiculous as this movie is (one of my favorite episodes, incidentally), am I the only one who thinks that the theme music is actually pretty cool?

"What's the matter? You look like an astronaut who didn't get selected to go into orbit!"

This is the movie's subtle way of establishing "AIR FORCE! AIR FORCE, AIR FORCE, AIR FORCE! THEY FLY!"

The sheriff is pretty ineffectual. Can't even take photos of skid marks, gets policing tips from a tow truck driver, needs the state police to send an investigator, etc