Plan 9 from Outer Space: Difference between revisions

Also see ''[[Manos the Hands of Fate]]'', ''[[The Room]]'', ''[[Troll 2]]'' and ''[[Birdemic]]'' for some of ''Plan Nine'''s biggest competitors for Worst Movie Ever. Contrast with ''[[Citizen Kane (Film)|Citizen Kane]]'' (though [[Tim Burton]] actually dared to ''compare'' ''Plan 9'' with ''Citizen Kane'' in ''[[Ed Wood (Film)|Ed Wood]]''.)

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** Wood had to have known this was going to happen; the actor was a famous drag queen, and a good friend of Wood's.

* [[America Saves the Day]]: Toy flying saucers menacing your world? Defeat it with some California town folk and military stock footage. Said saucers only menaced one military company for all of five minutes and seemed most interested in screwing with one specific cemetery in one California town. You can't blame the rest of the world for not wanting to get involved.

* [[Fake Shemp]]: One of the most notorious and badly done examples of this trope in the history of film.

* [[Fauxlosophic Narration]]: Criswell's narration throughout.

** Though they are plainly saucers, and referred to as such throughout the film, the pilot refers to it as "shaped like a huge cigar," which is another common description of [[UF Os]]. [[Rifftrax|Mike Nelson]] [[Sarcasm Mode|clarifies]] that it was "A saucer-shaped cigar."

* [[Guilty Pleasures]]: Delightful when viewed as a G-rated comedy.

{{quote| '''[[Rifftrax|Bill Corbett]]:''' Yeah, look at those crafty alien bastards; we could ''never'' do that!}}

* [[Inherently Funny Words]]: The Dictorobitery.

* [[Juggling Loaded Guns]]: The actor playing Lieutenant Harper purposely pointed at things with his revolver to see if Ed Wood would reshoot the scenes. [[The Show Must Go On|He didn't.]]

* [[Lost Aesop]]: "You know, it's an interesting thing when you consider... The Earth people, who can think, are so frightened by those who cannot: the dead."

{{quote| ''(the scene cuts from the old man screaming to an ambulance racing by, with no sound effect indicating a car crash)''<br />

'''[[Rifftrax|Mike Nelson]]:''' Uh, did he die or did he get a job as an ambulance driver? }}

* [[Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions]]: Averted; in a scene that could have been [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot|quite interesting]], it turns out that the aliens, too, believe in [[God]].

* [[Please Wake Up]]: Tanna to Eros (who probably doesn't wake up because she's mispronouncing his name!)