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1!!{{Blog}}s
2->''Sure, he helped patrol the sector [[SpacePolice during the Moon Years]], but chasing crooks down [[TimeTravel the Corridors of Time]] is ''just too damn much work'', and if you try to pull that 'it can’t be overtime if it’s in the past' crap, you are definitely gonna hear from his union rep.''
3-->--'''''Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon''''' [[http://joshreads.com/?p=22668 on]] Curtis & Staton's ''ComicStrip/DickTracy''
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5!!{{Film}}s -- Live-Action
6->"The people need us, Machete. This is a new Network. It's all...''galactic'' and shit."
7-->--'''Luz''', ''Film/MacheteKills Again... In Space!''
8
9!!{{Magazine}}s
10->''"Y'know, some people say that when we crash-land on these various planets, we use them as springboards to steal the plot of famous movies!"\
11"Ridiculous! Now, which one of these planets do you want to crash-land on this week: The Planet Of The Apes? The Bounty? The Dirty Dozen? The Towering Inferno? The Poseidon?"''
12-->--''Magazine/{{MAD}}'', "[=CattleCar=] Galaxica"
13
14!!LiveActionTV
15->"There were many trains to take the name Orient Express, but only one in space."
16-->-- '''''Series/DoctorWho''''', "Mummy on the Orient Express"
17
18->"It'll be fabulous. Believe me, Jerry. It's ''Literature/TheGrapesOfWrath'' in outer space!"
19-->-- '''Lorne''', ''Series/{{Angel}}'' ("Life of the Party")
20
21!!VideoGames
22->"Space. Trial. Puttin' the system on trial. In space. Space system. On trial. Guilty. Of not being in space! Going to space jail!"
23-->-- '''Space Core''', ''VideoGame/Portal2''
24
25!!WebAnimation
26->'''Strong Sad:''' But why are they in space? There's no reason for them to be in space!\
27'''Strong Bad:''' On the contrary, my dear Fatson; there's ''every'' reason for them to be in space!
28-->-- ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'', "[[Recap/StrongBadEmailE126BestThing best thing]]"
29
30->"You remember how, at one point in [[VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder the last game,]] we had to go to a Nazi [[SpaceBase moon base,]] and it was like the ultimate escalation of ridiculousness, and you wondered how you could [[SequelEscalation possibly top that?]] Well, in ''The New Colossus'', we get to go to a Nazi base on {{UsefulNotes/Venus}}, which is totally different to a moon base in a number of ways that I'm sure {{Creator/Bethesda}} will be happy to list for you if you all ring them up at three in the morning. We're even going there for the exact same sodding reason we went to the moon base: [[FetchQuest to get some control codes]] for something on Earth that is so vital and important that the Nazis keep them as far away from where they'd be useful as it is possible for them to be...Guess they think they can stretch this out to a trilogy, so tune in to ''Wolfenstein III'' where, presumably, we'll get to visit the Nazi Andromeda Galaxy for precisely one mission and B.J. will [[DentedIron survive getting his entire body pushed through a cattle grid.]]"
31-->--'''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''''' on ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus''
32
33!!{{Webcomic}}s
34->'''Ben''': Why is he talking in a French accent?\
35'''GM''': [[JustAStupidAccent It's just to indicate he's from a different culture.]] He's not ''French'' French, he's...\
36'''Pete''': [[AliensOfLondon Space French]].\
37'''GM''': ...[[SureLetsGoWithThat Yeah]].
38-->--''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids''
39
40->'''Bob''': They're ''space flowers''!\
41'''Jean''': They're tulips.\
42'''Bob''': ''Space'' tulips!
43-->-- ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob''
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45!!WebOriginal
46->{{Film/Battleship}}'' begins exactly where you'd expect a movie based on a naval board game to begin: in outer space.''
47-->--'''[[http://www.hollywoodbitchslap.com/review.php?movie=19905&reviewer=429 Brett Gallman]]''', "I have to assume that no one would want to visit a planet that churns out stuff like ''Battleship''"
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49->''The movie wants to be a kind of [=WWII=] war movie complete with Spitfire fighter planes…IN SPACE!!! Yeah I didn’t know riveted ships were so airtight.''
50-->--'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Miles Antwiler]]''' [[http://moviemoses.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/wing-commander-1999-chris-roberts/ on]] ''Film/WingCommander''
51
52->''This, for the record, is going to be the first of many weird little tangential connections that this story has to the story in ''Uncanny X-Men'' #164 – 166, where the X-Men go out into space, chill with some {{space whale}}s...It is not what I would call [[Creator/ChrisClaremont the Mont’s]] finest hour, but at the same time, it kind of is everything you need to know about that run in one convenient package.''
53-->--'''Chris Sims''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/the-x-men-episode-guide-4x13-love-in-vain/ on]] ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' ("Love in Vain")
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55->''Then the bottom drops out. We finally learn the secret of the immortals. Turns out they're all aliens from planet called Zeist, exiled to live on Earth for all eternity. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer I'm not making this up.]] Zeist. All of the immortals are shown in a group together, exiled for some kind of revolution. To this day, I enjoy [[AerisAndBob how richly Zeistian the names 'MacLeod' and 'Ramirez' are]]... I don't know a single ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}'' fan that looked up at that screen and just nodded in awe to say, 'That's brilliant stuff, man. Aliens.[='=]''
56-->--'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Noah Antwiler]]''' [[http://www.http://spoonyexperiment.com/highlander-series/ on]] ''Film/HighlanderIITheQuickening'', ''Knights of the Dinner Table
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58->''It was so successful that it spawned a slew of mostly inferior copycat movies in the early nineties, about a lone hero trapped in a confined location by a superior force, that could best be summed up as: Die Hard on a.. ship! Plane! Mountain! Island! Bus! Train! But, no matter how many times they tried to rip it off, there's just something endlessly re-watchable about this movie.''
59-->--'''[[https://www.youtube.com/@TheCriticalDrinker The Critical Drinker]]''' on ''Film/DieHard''
60
61!!WebVideo
62->"At last we have ''Film/JasonX'', a movie that comes right out and says: "Look there's nothing left to do, so fuck it, it's Jason in outer space!"
63-->-- '''Creator/JamesRolfe''''s review of ''Jason X''
64
65->"And yes, four years later, we got [[Film/HellraiserBloodline another sequel]]--and you ''best believe'' it's the one that goes into outer space! I bet that means it's gonna be the best one. It's gonna be so good that the director's gonna use the AlanSmithee credit for fear of it being ''too'' perfect!"
66-->--'''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob''' on ''Film/HellraiserIIIHellOnEarth''
67
68->"Space. The final ''fun''tier...Eventually, all things must go to space. ''[[WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToasterGoesToMars The Brave Toaster]], [[Film/Leprechaun4InSpace the Leprechaun]], [[Film/AirBuddies Air Bud]].'' Space represents infinite, boundless possibilities."
69-->-- '''[[LetsPlay/VideoGameDunkey Dunkey]]''' on ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy''
70
71->'''Mike:''' Michael Myers already went to space, didn't he?\
72'''Jay:''' No. Jason went to space, Leprechaun went to space, Hellraiser went to space.\
73'''Mike:''' [[IWantMyJetpack Everyone but the astronauts have gone to space.]]\
74'''Rich:''' Why is it that all of the horror movies go into space when they're really desperate?\
75'''Jay:''' That's exactly why: because they're ''desperate.''
76-->-- ''WebVideo/HalfInTheBag'' riffs ''Film/Halloween1978''
77
78->''"So in a pitch meeting in 1985, Ron Clements pitched two projects of note: An [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 adaptation]] of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid", and what was effectively ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' in [[WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet spaaaaaaace]]. And Jeffrey Katzenburg was like, 'mmm...that sounds kinda stupid. Maybe keep workshopping that.'"''
79-->--'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick''', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KznZcK7ksf4 Hercules, Disney's Beautiful Hot Mess: a Video Essay]]"
80
81->Have you seen ''Series/TheXFactor''? And have you seen an animal? If so, you've seen this film already.
82-->-- ''WebVideo/IHateEverything'' on ''WesternAnimation/{{Sing}}''
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84!!WesternAnimation
85->'''Leela''': Oh no! {{Space pirates}}!\
86'''Fry''': Space pirates?\
87'''Leela''': You know, pirates. But in space!
88-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''
89
90->'''Bob:''' But Larry, you were supposed to learn Danish! We were going to do a show about a Danish trucker and his trusty pet monkey!\
91'''Larry''': ''[Excited Gasp]'' Like ''Series/BJAndTheBear''!?\
92'''Bob''': In Danish!
93-->-- ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'', "[[Recap/VeggieTalesEpisode21ASnoodlesTale A Snoodle's Tale]]"
94
95!!RealLife
96->''He wasn’t alone in pitching an SF series—not by a long shot. There was also an ‘I see this as Howards’ Way—but in space!’, an ‘Imagine the kids from Fame—but in space!’ and then an ‘It’s like The Money Programme—but in space!’ Mervyn couldn’t imagine how that one would have worked. He’d even heard of one old and rather baffled producer who went into a meeting with the words: ‘Think Star Trek—but in space!’''
97-->-- '''Nev Fountain''', ''Geek Tragedy''
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99->''"At last we have ''Jason X'', a movie that comes right out and says: "Look there's nothing left to do, so fuck it, it's Jason in outer space!"''
100-->-- '''Creator/JamesRolfe''''s review of ''Film/JasonX''

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