"Kick it Up a Notch" (starts at 4:19) and its reprise (starts at 1:00): The first is a fantastically ominous and catchy villain song for Pincer, while its reprise, though slowed down and given a more militaristic instrumental, is a great Villain Song for Junior, while also containing one of the funniest moments of the show:
Junior: *smokes a joint and coughs* Yeah I'm smokin' pot!
Complete Monster: Pincer is an egotistical alien Bug with an appetite for human flesh. Having devoured a ship of Starship Rangers in the past, Pincer used brain leeches to communicate with them, solely to delight in their pleas for mercy before they died. Eighteen years later, Pincer acts friendly to trick Bug into becoming human in order to lure the newly-arrived Starship Rangers to him so he may dine again. When this fails, Pincer strikes a deal with the Rangers' corrupt leader Junior, giving him the weapons needed for him to wipe out the Bug hive in exchange for eating Junior's entire crew. When Pincer gets onto the ship, he forces Bug to reveal his true nature to his friends, planning to humiliate him before eating him and all the humans on board.
Crosses the Line Twice: The Overqueen's reaction to Bugette's death. She sobs and delivers a touching eulogy... then eats the corpse, still crying, her sobs mixed in with delighted exclamations of "yum!"
Ensemble Dark Horse: On the main and character pages, just about any character who isn't Bug has been described as this. The variation is up to personal taste. If you found Tootsie Noodles way funnier than Taz or Up, then he's YOUR Ensemble Dark Horse. Nuff said. You could say, this Darkhorse is an entire Ensemble! Ba-Dum-Tish!
You've got to wonder what Junior's father and the rest of his evil corporation will do when they find out what happened...
How long do bugs live? The one advisor guy was talking about his "six long days" of life. So Bug and February get at most what, a week together? Though it's possible that days on Bug Planet are much longer than days on earth.
And Megagirl and Tootsie? She's still a robot, unable to age, etc. Lord knows what will happen when Tootsie dies as well.
The "sequel" Starship: Requiem plays this for laughs, having the Galactic League casually announce they killed all the human characters from the show to cover up their crimes and because they're only interested in Tootsie and Mega-Girl's romance.
Early on in the the play, it's established that Up was a former Badass commander, but after the robot war and a mysterious injury, he was reduced to a softie who hated killing. In other words, he had "lost his balls". The "injury" resulted in Up having his balls cut off. That's right. The man literally has no balls.
Early on, Tootsie Noodles says that a horse ate his cousin. Later on, he talks about how he had a flirtatious relationship with a stack of hay... and the stack of hay was his cousin.
When Up lost his balls, who's to say he didn't lose something else? Making his fear about the rumors being about him peeing sitting down perfectly justified. Could also double as Fridge Horror.
The reason for Pincer running away from the hive is because he was given the job nourishment, considering the way Bug World society works. The queen was most likely going to eat him. Because he also said he's had "his fair share of doubts and fears and they literally almost ate me alive"
Up and February's trouble with pronouncing basic scientific terms actually takes on a new light when you realise that Specs, resident geek, also does this. This could point to the English language having actually changed in small ways by this point in the future.
The way Bug controls the Ranger's body remotely is similar to the way a puppeteer controls a puppet. Rather ironic, considering that Bug is played by a puppet whose puppeteer also plays Bug's human body.
February starts to freak out when her device shows the atmosphere has "copious amounts of 'oxee-gun'". The thing is... Earth used to have a much higher concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere than it does now, back in the Carboniferous period. What did it also have, as a result? Giant bugs.
Fridge Horror: It's been established that Pincer lied to Bug about a lot of stuff. Who's to say he was telling the truth when he said that the Starship Ranger in the cryotube was braindead?
Hilarious in Hindsight: Now that Brian Holden and Meredith Stepien are married, it's funny that the only major interaction the two of them have had onstage is in this show, where Brian tells Meredith that she's a machine incapable of love.
The Scrappy: February. The comments are filled with people saying how Bug deserves better then a self-centered, annoying, hysterical, incompetent, Valley Girl stereotype. Poe's Law may or may not be in effect. Not helping is how much of a Woobie Bugette, who is in love with Bug, is. It rings very similar to the Cosette hatred that comes from loving Eponine .
Many viewers initially thought Specs was male. The fact that "Team StarKid" uses lots of Cross Casting and that Julia Albain had the same wig and glasses she wore as Percy in A Very Potter Sequel didn't help.
To a lesser extent, the tomboyish Taz and raspy-voiced Bugette, since Lauren is notorious for playing several male roles. Fortunately, and perhaps to directly prevent this trope, Bugette has prominent Tertiary Sexual Characteristics and a very feminine personality, while the first line said to Taz is "You're pretty tough for a chick!"
The Mosquito Brothers, despite their name, are two brothers and a sister, two of whom are crosscast. While the entire point of Sweetheart's (played by Jim Povolo) character is that she's a masculine-voiced girl, it can be easy to forget that Neato (played by Jaime Lyn Beatty) is supposed to be male.
The band
Critical Backlash: "We Built This City" was named the worst song of The '80s in a Rolling Stone poll and the worst song ever by Blender magazine. But many have disputed these claims, saying it's not that bad. At most, it's bland, generic, and clearly going against what its message is trying to convey about corporations and commercialization by sounding exactly like the material it's trying to preach against.
Funny Moments: When fast food chain Chick-fil-A decided to use their song "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" in their commercial during the Grammy Awards, lead singer Grace Slick secretly hashed the shit out of the chain and donated the ad revenue to Lambda Legal, an organization that supports the LGBTQ community and HIV victims.
(starts at 4:19) and its reprise