History Recap / MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E06Starcrash

!!Tropes featured in this episode:

* TooDumbToLive: The film begins with the crew of one of Count Zarth Arn's ships being killed off, by the defenses of the Count's own secret planet. It's never made clear why they were even there in the first place.

* FilkSong: At one point, Jonah and the 'bots pick up an acoustic guitar and sing a little ditty InTheStyleOf {{Music/The Beach Boys}} about Stella [[SchmuckBait getting into a space ship she knew nothing about after escaping prison]], complete with references to ''{{Franchise/Star Wars}}'', ''{{Franchise/Star Trek}}'', and even ''Mystery Science Theatre 3000'' itself.
-->'''Jonah:''' On [[Film/ANewHope the Kessel Run]], ('''Bots:''' Yeah, nobody can touch her!)\\
Let me be the [[Creator/PatrickStewart Picard]]! ('''Bots:''' [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration To your Beverly Crusher!]])\\
[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything The gangway's extended]], and we're ready to go!\\
Won't you come along, baby, in my UFO!\\
'''All:''' [[TemptingFate Surely no danger]], [[SchmuckBait getting in a stranger's UFO!]]

** Jonah has the opportunity to play the aforementioned FilkSong due to an incredibly long, dialogue-free scene of Stella Star exploring an open UFO. It's not the only scene like that in the film, either.

** "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S09E03PumaMan The Pyumamen]]."

** "Looks like [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S02E02TheSidehackers chili peppers burned his gut.]]"

** This film is like ''StarWars''; let Jonah and the 'Bots count the ways.

* EndingFatigue: Jonah and the bots mistake a giant explosion for the movie's end, and start to walk out of the theater (muttering something to the effect of "Finally!") before realizing their mistake. ''Twice.''

* {{Padding}}:

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Like Paul in ''Cry Wilderness'' and Danny in ''The Time Travelers'', Jonah and the Bots mock Akton for being a perm-wearing goofball. However, once he reveals he has super powers during his fight with Thor, they change their minds automatically and cheer him on.
* RootingForTheEmpire: When Thor betrays the heroes and tries to kill Akton, the riffers all cheer on Thor.

* NotableOriginalMusic: In the theater: FilkSong "UFO", InTheStyleOf a Music/BeachBoys DrivingSong.

** The Beach Boys-esque ditty [[NotableOriginalMusic "UFO"]] (presumably a reference to [[SurfRock "GTO" by Ronny & The Daytonas]]) also references [[Franchise/{{Whoniverse}} Gallifreyan]] cruisers, the ''dudes'' of [[Literature/{{Dune}} Arrakis]], [[Series/{{Firefly}} Serenity]], [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Slave I]], [[TheGreys Whitley Strieber]], [[Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind Roy Neary]], [[Film/ForbiddenPlanet Altair IV]], [[VideoGame/TexMurphy New San Francisco]], and "[[KlaatuBaradaNikto Klaatu barada]], [[Series/MorkAndMindy na-nu na-nu]], [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration make it so]]."

* TooSoon: "A vanilla pudding pop... Hey, Stella, are we far enough in the future that we can make Bill Cosby jokes again? Boy, I hope so."
* [[TruthInTelevision Truth In Riffing]]: During Christopher Plummer's first incredibly low-energy scene, the bots encourage him by saying, "You can do it, Christopher! Think of the hospitality suite!" This is absolutely accurate; Plummer has said in interviews that he did this movie solely to score a free trip to Rome.

** Jonah comments on a crashed and half buried spacehip's resemblance to a crashed and half buried [[Disney/BigHero6 Baymax]].

** The Beach Boys-esque ditty [[NotableOriginalMusic "UFO"]] (presumably a reference to [[SurfRock "GTO" by Ronny & The Daytonas]]) also references [[Franchise/{{Whoniverse}} Gallifreyan]] cruisers, the ''dudes'' of [[Literature/{{Dune}} Arrakis]], [[Series/{{Firefly}} Serenity]], [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Slave I]], [[TheGreys Whitley Strieber]], [[Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind Roy Neary]], [[Film/ForbiddenPlanet Altair IV]], [[VideoGame/TexMurphy New San Francisco]], and "[[KlaatuBaradaNikto Klaatu barada]], [[Series/MorkAndMindy na-nu na-nu]], make it so."

** Stock riff: [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S02E02TheSidehackers "And chili peppers burned its guts!"]]

** [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S02E02TheSidehackers "And chili peppers burned its guts!"]]

** Tom Servo sings his "This isn't ''Star Wars''" song along with the opening credits music.
** And then when he sees the Emperor's Flying City, Tom turns the soundtrack into a song about the Space Church.