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#906: The Space Children
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As is the case with most of our films, everybody's depressed in Space Children. A bunch
of guys are working on "The Thunderer," a new kind of nuke; they live in piping hot
trailers on a desolate California beach with their wives and children. Everybody hates
everybody; the most cheerful character is a racist xenophobe played by Jackie Coogan.
As might be expected, the children (ages 5 to 41) are soon contacted by a blob from space.
The blob guides them in the ways of sabotaging the military, and by the end The Thunderer
is in ruins, the blob flies away, and everyone's left still in need of counseling and trying
to sort out some truly strange theology.
Russell Johnson is in the film, too.
The movie's preceded by a short feature, Century 21 Calling, that concerns some very white
kids drenching themselves in the phone technology of the future, from the vantage point of
the 1962 Seattle World's Fair.
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Prologue:
Servo has a kissing booth, and Mike buys a budget kiss, only $49.99.
Segment One:
Pearl wires the castle and the SOL with a new phone system, so she can take over the
world better with more efficient officing. It doesn't work very well.
Segment Two:
Mike silently imitates the grinning, pointing star of the short.
Crow and Servo take him down, hard.
Segment Three:
Mike and the 'Bots fail to launch a model rocket, although they do succeed in
blowing up Mike. Pearl has a real rocket and plans to launch Bobo; to train him,
she spins him in a faulty centrifuge.
Segment Four:
Crow introduces a sexy fashion line of very skimpy fashions meant to
be worn by Jackie Coogan.
Segment Five:
The blob from the movie shows up and makes Servo destroy his nuclear weapon.
Pearl launches the rocket but Bobo's not in it. It destroys the castle and kills
them all. Or does it?
Stinger:
Russell Johnson staring.
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