History Recap / MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E01SpaceTravelers

* LongList: Joel and the Bots list off all of the things that mankind has benefited from, thanks to the space program. Some of the items are a bit suspect, such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branford_Marsalis Branford]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynton_Marsalis Wynton]], and ''[[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Chicken]]'' [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Marsalis]].

Film watched: ''Film/{{Marooned}}'' (repackaged by Film Ventures International under the title ''Space Travelers'')

!!The ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode provides examples of the following tropes:

* The crew reenact a scene from the movie, with Joel and Tom as the astronauts and Crow as Mission Control. Crow soon causes everything to fall apart when he randomly switches back and forth between his impressions of Creator/GregoryPeck to Creator/DavidJanssen.

* Inspired by Jim Pruett's sacrifice, Joel contemplates what might happen if one of the trio had to sacrifice themselves for the other two to live. The bots are quick to point out that he’s the only one who needs oxygen.

* StealthPun: The first segment of the season premiere sees a botched magic trick involving Crow getting struck by a canon going off. Or, in other words, they started the season off with a bang.

* Crow is the Great Crowdini, hanging upside down from the ceiling, wrapped in chains, with a lit cannon aimed at his head. Things go bad when he ends up losing the key.

* Crow is revealed to have escaped his predicament by chewing his head off. Joel, meanwhile, has invented the Dollaroid, a camera that puts people’s faces on money. Tom wastes no time ranting about how pointless it is. After observing the decline of ''Film/TheLastBoyScout'' in the box office, the Mads present tissues with famous faces drawn on them, allowing people to blow their noses on them in ridicule.

* The guys list the various ways in which the space program has influenced everyday life. Some are more unreal than others.

* While reenacting a scene from the movie, Crow causes everything to fall apart when he randomly switches from his Creator/GregoryPeck impersonation to his Creator/DavidJanssen impersonation.

* Joel contemplates what might happen if one of the trio had to sacrifice themselves in space. The bots are quick to point out that he’s the only one who needs oxygen.

* Joel plays fetch with Gypsy, shows the bots a magic trick, then reads a letter. The Mads are not impressed.

* LongList: Joel and the Bots list off all of the things that mankind has benefited from, thanks to the space program. Some of the items are a bit suspect, such as [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Branford, Wynton, and]] ''[[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Chicken]]'' [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Marsalis]].

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* StockFootageFailure: InUniverse, the S.o.L. crew mentions that the film uses famous stock footage of an ''Apollo'' launch, despite having an ~$8 million USD budget. Not only that, but it's clearly missing the space capsule on top.
-->''"They've cut off their nosecone to spite the rocket!"''

* CallBack: When Joel asks rhetorically, "Who decides who lives and who dies?", Crow reminds him that [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E21SantaClausConquersTheMartians he already called dibs]].

->''"They've cut off their nosecone to spite the rocket!"''

-->'''Crow:''' "Millions of dollars went into this space mission, and they didn't invest in a camera strap?"

* LampshadeHanging: Tom practically goes ''mental'' as a result of Joel's bit for the Dollaroid, questioning why Crow would need to provide identification for using money with his face on it and questioning why Joel would give Tom money with ''his'' face on it.

* HaveAGayOldTime: Joel says, "I could go for some fap-jacks" upon seeing the name of the film's director of photography, Daniel Fapp, A.S.C. "Fap" hadn't become a profanity/[[ADateWithRosiePalms vulgarity]] yet.

* RealityEnsues: Tom practically goes ''mental'' as a result of Joel's bit for the Dollaroid, questioning why Crow would need to provide identification for using money with his face on it and questioning why Joel would give Tom money with ''his'' face on it.

* StockFootageFailure: InUniverse, the S.o.L. crew mentions that the film uses famous stock footage of an ''Apollo'' launch, despite having an ~$8 million USD budget.

* StockFootageFailure: InUniverse, the S.o.L. crew mentions that the film uses famous stock footage of an ''Apollo'' launch, despite having an ~$10 million USD budget.

* HaveAGayOldTime: Joel says, "I could go for some fap-jacks" upon seeing the name of the film's director of photography, Daniel Fapp, A.S.C. "Fap" hadn't become a profanity/vulgarity yet.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In their skit as ground controllers, the guys manage to slip one past the radar in the midst of the rapid fire jargon.
-->'''Joel:''' Roger on that glory hold, sir.

* Crow is revealed to have escaped his predicament by chewing his head off. Joel, meanwhile, has invented the Dollaroid, a camera that puts people’s faces on money. Tom wastes no time ranting about how pointless it is. After observing the decline of Creator/BruceWillis’ latest film, the Mads present tissues with famous faces drawn on them, allowing people to blow their noses on them in ridicule.

* ShoutOut: Several riffs reference ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' (which came out a year before ''Marooned'').