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The show follows several people involved as janitors and other low-grade employees at a very large space-ship/station belong to The Empire. There is also a series of shorts called "Space Janitors: Deck Crew."
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* FutureFoodIsArtificial: Imperial rations are various colors of "mush"; pink mush, yellow mush, sweet mush. Also, [[spoiler:some or all of it may be made from recycled Squall Troopers, or other emperial Imperial subjects.]] The crew appears to like it, however. They react with horror to the idea of eating meat of the bone.
* MessOnAPlate: Similar to ''Film/StarshipTroopers'', Imperial rations look like different kinds of pudding.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Edith Kingpin (Evany Rosen), Dennis 4862 (Scott Yamamura), Darby Richards (Brendan Halloran), Mike Chet (Pat Thornton) and [=LN6=]-K (“Elle”, played by Tess Degenstein).]]
''Space Janitors'' is a science fiction comedy show hosted on The Escapist, which updates every friday. Find it [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/space-janitors here]].
The show follows several people involved as janitors and other low-grade employees at a very large space-ship/station belong to The Empire. There is also a series of shorts called "Space Janitors: Deck Crew."
Now also available on GeekAndSundry and Website/YouTube.
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!! ''Space Janitors'' provides examples of:
* AffablyEvil: Roarke who always gives a positive spin on things and tries so hard to be nice to people while finding Mass Genocide to be relaxing, blowing up planets to be someone's best idea yet and the best way to get to make new friends is to force them to spend their day off living their most embarrassing personal stories on the holodeck.
* AlmightyJanitor: Invoked, Darby explains to Mike that they're really the most important people on the ship because they maintain the [[FasterThanLightTravel hyperdrive]] and the [[DoomsdayDevice giant laser]].
* AIIsACrapshoot: Subverted, what appears to be the RobotGirl L severely malfunctioning is really her reacting strongly to a [[spoiler:taste bud]] upgrade.
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: Invoked, Darby is upset that no-one thinks he's important enough to take a shot at.
* BackhandedCompliment:
-->Darby: "...one of these days, I'm going to be somebody someone's gonna want to shoot at."
-->Mike: "Hey, if it's any consolation, I already think you should be shot."
-->Darby: "Thank you!"
-->Mike: "[[{{Subverted}} Yeah, that wasn't a compliment]]"
* BenevolentBoss: The Emperor sends each clone a birthday card. Dennis-4862 thinks that writing all the cards for the billions of clone troopers is why HIH has [[CreepyLongFingers such gross hands]].
* CaptainErsatz: One of the rebel operatives from the pilot episode bears a strong resemblance to Zoe from ''{{Firefly}}'' if Zoe had an afro.
** Squall Troopers are, of course, [[StarWars Storm Troopers]]
** Guess what the Emperor looks like.
** [[spoiler: Darby's father is one of Admiral Ackbar]]
* CloneDegeneration: Clones have a very short lifespan; after an 8-year tour of duty, they are retired to the resort planet Pyus Dunes.
* ConspicuousCGI
* CreepyChild: Although she's grown up by now. Roarke says she finds Mass Genocide "relaxing".
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Dark Lord
** the Emperor.
* TheDreaded: Captain Roarke, although she's actually [[NiceGuy a very nice lady.]]
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The Empire is fond of laconic names for things. The world-destroying, [[ThatsNoMoon moon-sized]] space station OfDoom? "The Station". The device that allows it to [[EarthShatteringKaboom crispy-fry entire worlds?]] "The giant laser".
* FantasticRacism: Referring to an android as cold and calculating is enough to make her cry.
* FrickinLaserBeams
* FutureFoodIsArtificial: Imperial rations are various colors of "mush"; pink mush, yellow mush, sweet mush. Also, [[spoiler:some or all of it may be made from recycled Squall Troopers, or other emperial subjects.]] The crew appears to like it, however. They react with horror to the idea of eating meat of the bone.
* FutureSlang: "kiss" has been supplanted by the more juvenile "smooch."
* GreyAndGreyMorality: Rebels are portrayed as egotistical adrenaline junkies while imperial citizens are portrayed as very happy with their dystopian lives.
* GroinAttack: Not deliberately, but every so often a deck crewmember nuts himself on a running-light probe; this is reffered to as "The ol' entire-ship-to-the-groin"
* {{Homage}}: The setting is more or less classic ''StarWars'' with the SerialNumbersFiledOff.
* HumanResources[=/=]ToServeMan:
-->"This is Mike Chet; we've got two squall troopers ready for soylent."
* HypocriticalHumor: Eating meat off the bone is regarded as "Cannibalism." Clone pate', however, is Ay-okay.
* LimitedSocialCircle: Enforced. The Empire groups people together based on their psych profiles, although nobody seems to mind that clone trooper Dennis-4862 spends a lot of time with the gang.
* LotusEaterMachine: Used to give tests in a stress-free environment, although if the testee knows what's going on, they can manipuilate it in some ways.
* MachineMonotone: the psychoevaluation computer, Dr. Sabato
* OneWayVisor: Squall Troopers wear them.
* PerspectiveFlip: the show's pretty much StarWars from the Empire's side.
* ReleasedToElsewhere: Retired clones are supposedly sent to the resort world Pyus Dunes. Darby thinks they're actually eaten, and Steve-225 finds evidence that they're sent to work in a gas mine. [[spoiler: Turns out, Pyus Dunes is real. Oppressive the Empire may be, but at least it doesn't lie.]]
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: [=LN6-K=], or just L for short.
** One Deck Crew short had two female mechanics lamenting this trend, stating that the robots from their childhood had much more personality, and mentioning that the new-model androids border on UncannyValley.
* ShoutOut: Squall Trooper uniforms are 90% Storm Trooper, but have white [[{{Halo}} Master Chief]] helmets with silver visors.
** Squall trooper training is dodging shots from a remote.
** Imperial fighters look like TIE Fighters; rebel fighters look like X wings.
** Dr. Sabato is ''very'' reminiscent of [[{{TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey}} HAL 9000]].
** The Enterprise bosun whistle can be heard in episode two during the scene where Dennis is introduced
** Mike uses the [[{{DoctorWho}} 11th Doctor's]] sonic screwdriver on the droid in episode 5
** The logo that appears on a lot of products that appear on the show is awfully similar to the sigil of {{ReBoot}}.
** A brief scene showing how the Dennis clones are "born" is straight out of
''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' with a very cylon-looking ooze-pool and even the cylon's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhNJAVaDl4M distinctive leitmotif]].
* StandardEstablishingSpaceshipShot: Subverted; it's really an extreme close-up shot of a bottle of window cleaner.
** Later episodes actually do a [=SESS=] with "The Station".
* StockYuck:
-->Milk is gross...
* TractorBeam: A portable model that looks an awful lot like a leaf blower.
* TrustBuildingBlunder: How Captain Roarke meets the group; spending their single vacation day out of the entire year doing horrible team-building excersizes, such as having Edith read her epic-length MyLittlePhony fanfiction-disguised-as-a-novel (which she didn't want anyone else to know about), and making the group act out a FilmNoir pastiche with Mike as the detective.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The pilot shows Mike and Darby blithely performing their duties while a dramatic space battle takes place outside the window they're washing.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Dark Lord, rather than being intimidating, is regarded as super-awesome. Darby mentioning that he's seen him in person makes his friends jealous. In fact, watching Dark Lord work is how Darby spends his vacation. His one-day-out-of-the-whole-year vacation.
* WeWillUseManualLabourInTheFuture: TheEmpire has yet to invest in some cleaning robots.
** They do, however, appear to have at least one robot that cleans up when [[spoiler:a minion needs [[{{FutureFoodIsArtificial}} cleaning up]]]]. This may have been a custom robot, since it appears to be under control of Dark Lord.
* YouHaveFailedMe: A variant, Dark Lord can only telekinetically choke someone for three seconds due to a union rule. An unpopular superior being throttled is a source of mirth, rather than fear.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Edith Kingpin (Evany Rosen), Dennis 4862 (Scott Yamamura), Darby Richards (Brendan Halloran), Mike Chet (Pat Thornton) and [=LN6=]-K (“Elle”, played by Tess Degenstein).]]
''Space Janitors'' is a science fiction comedy show hosted on The Escapist, which updates every friday. Find it [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/space-janitors here]].
The show follows several people involved as janitors and other low-grade employees at a very large space-ship/station belong to The Empire. There is also a series of shorts called "Space Janitors: Deck Crew."
Now also available on GeekAndSundry and Website/YouTube.
----
!! ''Space Janitors'' provides examples of:
* AffablyEvil: Roarke who always gives a positive spin on things and tries so hard to be nice to people while finding Mass Genocide to be relaxing, blowing up planets to be someone's best idea yet and the best way to get to make new friends is to force them to spend their day off living their most embarrassing personal stories on the holodeck.
* AlmightyJanitor: Invoked, Darby explains to Mike that they're really the most important people on the ship because they maintain the [[FasterThanLightTravel hyperdrive]] and the [[DoomsdayDevice giant laser]].
* AIIsACrapshoot: Subverted, what appears to be the RobotGirl L severely malfunctioning is really her reacting strongly to a [[spoiler:taste bud]] upgrade.
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: Invoked, Darby is upset that no-one thinks he's important enough to take a shot at.
* BackhandedCompliment:
-->Darby: "...one of these days, I'm going to be somebody someone's gonna want to shoot at."
-->Mike: "Hey, if it's any consolation, I already think you should be shot."
-->Darby: "Thank you!"
-->Mike: "[[{{Subverted}} Yeah, that wasn't a compliment]]"
* BenevolentBoss: The Emperor sends each clone a birthday card. Dennis-4862 thinks that writing all the cards for the billions of clone troopers is why HIH has [[CreepyLongFingers such gross hands]].
* CaptainErsatz: One of the rebel operatives from the pilot episode bears a strong resemblance to Zoe from ''{{Firefly}}'' if Zoe had an afro.
** Squall Troopers are, of course, [[StarWars Storm Troopers]]
** Guess what the Emperor looks like.
** [[spoiler: Darby's father is one of Admiral Ackbar]]
* CloneDegeneration: Clones have a very short lifespan; after an 8-year tour of duty, they are retired to the resort planet Pyus Dunes.
* ConspicuousCGI
* CreepyChild: Although she's grown up by now. Roarke says she finds Mass Genocide "relaxing".
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Dark Lord
** the Emperor.
* TheDreaded: Captain Roarke, although she's actually [[NiceGuy a very nice lady.]]
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The Empire is fond of laconic names for things. The world-destroying, [[ThatsNoMoon moon-sized]] space station OfDoom? "The Station". The device that allows it to [[EarthShatteringKaboom crispy-fry entire worlds?]] "The giant laser".
* FantasticRacism: Referring to an android as cold and calculating is enough to make her cry.
* FrickinLaserBeams
* FutureFoodIsArtificial: Imperial rations are various colors of "mush"; pink mush, yellow mush, sweet mush. Also, [[spoiler:some or all of it may be made from recycled Squall Troopers, or other emperial subjects.]] The crew appears to like it, however. They react with horror to the idea of eating meat of the bone.
* FutureSlang: "kiss" has been supplanted by the more juvenile "smooch."
* GreyAndGreyMorality: Rebels are portrayed as egotistical adrenaline junkies while imperial citizens are portrayed as very happy with their dystopian lives.
* GroinAttack: Not deliberately, but every so often a deck crewmember nuts himself on a running-light probe; this is reffered to as "The ol' entire-ship-to-the-groin"
* {{Homage}}: The setting is more or less classic ''StarWars'' with the SerialNumbersFiledOff.
* HumanResources[=/=]ToServeMan:
-->"This is Mike Chet; we've got two squall troopers ready for soylent."
* HypocriticalHumor: Eating meat off the bone is regarded as "Cannibalism." Clone pate', however, is Ay-okay.
* LimitedSocialCircle: Enforced. The Empire groups people together based on their psych profiles, although nobody seems to mind that clone trooper Dennis-4862 spends a lot of time with the gang.
* LotusEaterMachine: Used to give tests in a stress-free environment, although if the testee knows what's going on, they can manipuilate it in some ways.
* MachineMonotone: the psychoevaluation computer, Dr. Sabato
* OneWayVisor: Squall Troopers wear them.
* PerspectiveFlip: the show's pretty much StarWars from the Empire's side.
* ReleasedToElsewhere: Retired clones are supposedly sent to the resort world Pyus Dunes. Darby thinks they're actually eaten, and Steve-225 finds evidence that they're sent to work in a gas mine. [[spoiler: Turns out, Pyus Dunes is real. Oppressive the Empire may be, but at least it doesn't lie.]]
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: [=LN6-K=], or just L for short.
** One Deck Crew short had two female mechanics lamenting this trend, stating that the robots from their childhood had much more personality, and mentioning that the new-model androids border on UncannyValley.
* ShoutOut: Squall Trooper uniforms are 90% Storm Trooper, but have white [[{{Halo}} Master Chief]] helmets with silver visors.
** Squall trooper training is dodging shots from a remote.
** Imperial fighters look like TIE Fighters; rebel fighters look like X wings.
** Dr. Sabato is ''very'' reminiscent of [[{{TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey}} HAL 9000]].
** The Enterprise bosun whistle can be heard in episode two during the scene where Dennis is introduced
** Mike uses the [[{{DoctorWho}} 11th Doctor's]] sonic screwdriver on the droid in episode 5
** The logo that appears on a lot of products that appear on the show is awfully similar to the sigil of {{ReBoot}}.
** A brief scene showing how the Dennis clones are "born" is straight out of
''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' with a very cylon-looking ooze-pool and even the cylon's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhNJAVaDl4M distinctive leitmotif]].
* StandardEstablishingSpaceshipShot: Subverted; it's really an extreme close-up shot of a bottle of window cleaner.
** Later episodes actually do a [=SESS=] with "The Station".
* StockYuck:
-->Milk is gross...
* TractorBeam: A portable model that looks an awful lot like a leaf blower.
* TrustBuildingBlunder: How Captain Roarke meets the group; spending their single vacation day out of the entire year doing horrible team-building excersizes, such as having Edith read her epic-length MyLittlePhony fanfiction-disguised-as-a-novel (which she didn't want anyone else to know about), and making the group act out a FilmNoir pastiche with Mike as the detective.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The pilot shows Mike and Darby blithely performing their duties while a dramatic space battle takes place outside the window they're washing.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Dark Lord, rather than being intimidating, is regarded as super-awesome. Darby mentioning that he's seen him in person makes his friends jealous. In fact, watching Dark Lord work is how Darby spends his vacation. His one-day-out-of-the-whole-year vacation.
* WeWillUseManualLabourInTheFuture: TheEmpire has yet to invest in some cleaning robots.
** They do, however, appear to have at least one robot that cleans up when [[spoiler:a minion needs [[{{FutureFoodIsArtificial}} cleaning up]]]]. This may have been a custom robot, since it appears to be under control of Dark Lord.
* YouHaveFailedMe: A variant, Dark Lord can only telekinetically choke someone for three seconds due to a union rule. An unpopular superior being throttled is a source of mirth, rather than fear.
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