The American Astronaut: Difference between revisions

← Older edit

The American Astronaut (view source)

Revision as of 14:54, 13 July 2021

3,112 bytes removed , 2 years ago

m

Reverted edits by Gethbot (talk) to last revision by Looney Toons

VisualWikitext

GethN7

Bureaucrats, Forum administrators, Interface administrators, Administrators

10,161

edits

Revision as of 22:00, 11 August 2014 (view source) Dai-Guard (talk \| contribs) m (update links) ← Older edit		Latest revision as of 14:54, 13 July 2021 (view source) GethN7 (talk \| contribs) m (Reverted edits by Gethbot (talk) to last revision by Looney Toons) Tag: Rollback
(4 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown)
Line 2: [[File:AmericanAstronautDVD.jpg\|frame]] ''[[The American Astronaut]]'' is 2001 [[Space Western]] [[Science Fiction]] [[The Musical\|musical]] about space captain Samuel Curtis in middle of a [[Chain of Deals]] to give the Venusians a new king and earn a few bucks while being chased by the mentally-unbalanced Professor Hess ~~that~~to sabotage his plans. In this original take of [[Sci Fi]], space is mostly guided by roughnecks and all spaceships seems to be easy repaired with hammers giving it a feeling of [[Used Future]] for truckers, with goes along pretty well with the awesome music, this can only be described as a ''[[Firefly]]'' musical with ''[[Flash Gordon Serial\|Flash Gordon]]'' serial props. Also by the same people (and in the same vein) is ''Stingray Sam'', an episodic serial which can be played on screens of all sizes, including mobile phones. ~~----~~ {{tropelist}} ~~=== ''[[The American Astronaut]]'' includes examples of: ===~~ * [[Absent Aliens]] * [[Arc Words]]: "It's my birthday." * [[~~Big~~Non ~~Lipped~~Sequitur ~~Alligator Moment~~Scene]]: The whole space barn sequence. * [[Berserk Button]]: You don't dare to forget Professor Hess' birthday, you just don't... * [[Body Horror]]: The reason the miners from the space barn can't return to Earth. Line 23: * [[Ho Yay]]: Sam and The Boy Who Saw A Breast. * [[Indy Ploy]]: Curtis seems fond of these ones. * [[I Just Shot Marvin in the Face]] * [[Knight Errant]]: Curtis. * [[Lady Land]]: Venus. * [[Mars Needs Women]]: Jupiter needs women and Venus needs men. * [[Memetic Mutation]]: RIO YETI RIO YETI RIO YETI RIO YETI RIO YETI RIO YETI RIO YETI [[Overly Long Gag\|RIO YETI]] * [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]]: Professor Hess. Line 45: * [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Is not unusual for Professor Hess to fall into this every once in a while. * [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: A [[Space Cowboy]] [[Science Fiction]] Musical! * [[We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future]] * [[You All Meet in An Inn]]: Ceres' Crossroads, set on Ceres. {{reflist}}▼ [[Category:Film]] ~~==== Stingray Sam ====~~ ~~{{quote\|''Liberty Chew Chewing Tobacco presents!''}}~~ Stingray Sam, a lounge singer on parole on Mars, finds himself <s>invited</s> kidnapped by his former partner-in-crime The Quasar Kid on a mission to rescue a girl child being held by [[Upper Class Twit]] Fredward. This provides an excuse for much social satire, [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]] songs, and dancing, dancing, dancing, dancing, dancing! ~~----~~ * [[Bounty Hunter]]: The Quasar Kid * [[Bragging Theme Tune]] ~~{{quote\|''Stingray Sam is not a hero''~~ ~~''But he does do the things that folks don't do that need to be done''~~ ~~''He's got a bravery inside''~~ ~~''That won't let him run away''~~ ~~''It will not let him run...'' }}~~ * [[But Now I Must Go]]: Stingray Sam has to leave the Carpenter's Daughter at the end because, well, he's a lounge singer, and folks need to be sung to. * [[Cliff Hanger]]: ''Stingray Sam'' is produced in the form of a weekly serial. * [[Cloning Blues]] * [[Handshake Substitute\|Dap Greeting]] * [[Explosive Leash]] * [[Ho Yay]]: Fredward's attraction to the Quasar Kid after the latter dances at his party. Then there's that [[Latex Space Suit]] he wears. * [[Incredible Shrinking Man]]: Mass matter compression is used to put people inside the [[Man in the Machine\|Tiny Little Robot]]. * [[Mister Seahorse]]: The rich have only been having male children (via gender-decisive drugs) in order to perpetuate their dynasties and so are in danger of dying out. Doctors Fred and Edward come up with a solution by combining their DNA to create their son, Fredward. * [[Mugged for Disguise]] * [[Must Have Caffeine\|Must Have Olives]]: The Quasar Kid. * [[The Narrator]] ~~{{quote\|''And so the plot begins to thicken...but not by much.''}}~~ * [[Nobody Poops]]: Averted, which is why the Corporate Mascot Rehabilitation Program failed. Turning a corporate mascot into a solitary confinement Mobile Suit is not a good idea. After a while they start to...smell. * [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: The receptionist at the Intergalactic Hall of Records and Trivia. * [[Offhand Backhand]]: When Stingray Sam swings his 'Asking Stick' at the back of the Quasar Kid's head, the latter blocks it without looking. * [[One Product Planet]]: Every planet has only one industry or [[Planet of Hats\|social class]]. The planet Durango changes from Planet of Rocket Builders to Planet of Criminals to Planet of Prison Factories. * [[The Red Planet]]: Mars, once the entertainment capital of the galaxy, has fallen out of fashion and is now a [[Crapsack World]]. * [[Running Gag]]: Folks plugging Liberty Chew Chewing Tobacco. * [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[The Manchurian Candidate]]'' with the [[Brainwashed]] visitors at Fredward's party smoking "bizarre tobacco substitutes". * [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale\|Stingray Sam Has No Sense of Scale]]: The scientists on Planet Fredward point out that you only have to cross one galaxy to get there, not two. * [[Swiss Cheese Security]]: No-one dares see Fredward without an appointment, so his fortress isn't even guarded. * [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: [[Jesus Christ\|Jerry the Carpenter]]. ▲{{reflist}} [[Category:Films of the 2000s]] {{DEFAULTSORT:American Astronaut, The}} [[Category:The American Astronaut]]