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Not to be confused with the video game featuring the cast of ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'', the final level in ''VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards'', the Music/GratefulDead song, or the SealedEvilInACan from VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory

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Not to be confused with the video game featuring the cast of ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'', the final level in ''VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards'', the Music/GratefulDead song, or the SealedEvilInACan from VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStoryVideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory.
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''Dark Star'' is a tongue-in-cheek 1974 sci-fi/comedy motion picture directed by Creator/JohnCarpenter (helming his first feature film) and co-written with Dan O'Bannon. ''Dark Star'' was ranked #95 on Website/RottenTomatoes' ''Journey Through Sci-Fi''.

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''Dark Star'' is a tongue-in-cheek 1974 sci-fi/comedy motion picture directed by Creator/JohnCarpenter (helming his first feature film) and co-written with Dan O'Bannon.O'Bannon (who would later repurpose the concept for ''Film/{{Alien}}''). ''Dark Star'' was ranked #95 on Website/RottenTomatoes' ''Journey Through Sci-Fi''.
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* Novelization: By Creator/AlanDeanFoster.

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* Novelization: {{Novelization}}: By Creator/AlanDeanFoster.
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* Novelization: By Creator/AlanDeanFoster.
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* NoOshaCompliance: The entire second half of the movie wouldn't have happened if they had thought to program the bombs to not start their detonation timers until ''after'' they clear the launch bay.

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* NoOshaCompliance: The entire second half of the movie wouldn't have happened if they had thought to program the bombs to not start their detonation timers until ''after'' they clear the launch bay. Or included abort codes they could use in the event of an accident.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: It's Creator/JohnCarpenter's first feature film, and it's more of a hippie-era comedy than the action and horror movies he'd later become known for.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: It's Creator/JohnCarpenter's Creator/JohnCarpenter and Dan O'Bannon's first feature film, and it's more of a hippie-era comedy than the action and horror movies he'd they'd both later become known for.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: It's Creator/JohnCarpenter's first feature film, and it's more of a hippie-era comedy than the action and horror movies he'd later become known for.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: For Creator/JohnCarpenter, who wouldn't touch comedies again for the rest of his career.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: For Creator/JohnCarpenter, who wouldn't touch comedies again for the rest of his career.
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* KillEmAll: Did you read the description? It's mostly played for laughs.
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* PrecisionFStrike: A computer screen flashes "FUCK YOU HARRIS" in one scene.
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* BetterThanItSounds: The plot: Incompetent hippies on a deep space demolition tour dispel their boredom by chasing and deflating a sentient beach ball. Over-confidently, they then enter a debate with a sentient thermo-stellar bomb.

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* BetterThanItSounds: SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds: The plot: Incompetent hippies on a deep space demolition tour dispel their boredom by chasing and deflating a sentient beach ball. Over-confidently, they then enter a debate with a sentient thermo-stellar bomb.
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* BetterThanItSoundsFilm: The plot: Incompetent hippies on a deep space demolition tour dispel their boredom by chasing and deflating a sentient beach ball. Over-confidently, they then enter a debate with a sentient thermo-stellar bomb.

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* BetterThanItSoundsFilm: BetterThanItSounds: The plot: Incompetent hippies on a deep space demolition tour dispel their boredom by chasing and deflating a sentient beach ball. Over-confidently, they then enter a debate with a sentient thermo-stellar bomb.

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