Meet Dave: Difference between revisions

The aliens come to Earth because Nil is facing imminent doom for want of salt, and they aim to solve this problem with a golf ball-sized orb that will extract all the salt from Earth's ocean. Unfortunately, the orb is knocked off course during its entry into Earth's atmosphere, so the aliens must search New York City to find it. During the search, Dave meets a young boy, Josh, who recently had the orb in his possession, and Josh's attractive single mother, Gina. More than a few complications occur (along with a good deal of [[Hilarity Ensues|laughs]]) as the Captain gets to know Earth's people in general, and Gina in particular (with whom he becomes rather smitten).

 

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* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: the aliens learn of Earth's status as a [[Crapsack World]] by scanning the covers of assorted magazines, depicting war, pollution, [[Britney Spears]]...

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Number Two, following the anti-mutiny.

* [[Camp Gay]]: Number Four, the ship's security officer, was originally quite the manly type, but exposure to Earth culture causes him to become one of these instead.

* [[Chekhov's Gun|Chekhov's Stun Gun]]: at one point the ship is "KO'ed" and paramedics "resuscitate" it with a defibrillator. {{spoiler|This gives Josh the idea to do the same thing later with a taser.}}

* [[Contrived Coincidence]]: Take your pick between the [[MacGuffin]] landing in the room of the boy whose mom accidentally hits Dave with a car ''when he arrives three months later'', or one of the officers assigned to investigate the crater from Dave's landfall being the [[Agent Mulder]].