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612: The Starfighters

A congressman doesn't want his son to learn to fly F-104 jets.

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Beginning of the episode

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TV's Frank
But Clay, do you think it might be... bold?
Mike
Bold?! Well, hell yes, it's bold! It's Cowboy Mike's own, original, red-hot, ricocheeeeeet barbecue sauce!
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movie start

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Credits
THE STARFIGHTERS
Crow
...The Sean Penn story.

Crow references Sean Penn's penchant for making news for scuffles during the 1980s .

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Mike
Jet!
All, singing
Woo-oo-oo woo-oo-oo woo-oo-oo...

Quotes the 1974 song "Jet" by Paul McCartney and Wings.

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Mike
Just lie back and think of England's airspace.

English wives were once encouraged to put up with sex by laying back and thinking of England, to produce children.

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Servo, as plane, singing
Ohhhhh, sweet mystery of life, at last I've found you!

In the 1974 Mel Brooks movie "Young Frankenstein," the character Elizabeth (Madeline Kahn) belts this song out while having sex with Frankenstein's monster (Peter Boyle).

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Crow, as refueling jet
Uh, you want stamps with that?
Mike, as other jet
Just the gas and the menthols, thanks.
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Mike, as a plane disconnecting from a refueling jet
Oh, I-I'm sorry, that's never happened to me.
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Mike, as a plane flying toward a larger refueling jet
Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?
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Servo
Ewing, from downtown!
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Mike, as refueling jet
I have a feeling you're not ready for this. Your first time?
Crow, as other jet
No, it's not... I've refueled a lot of times.
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Servo
They should have Donna Summer singing for this scene.
Mike, as Donna Summer, singing
I love to feel you baby... I love to feel you baby...
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Crow
It was really awkward because he yelled out "Cordite Four," but he was with Cordite Five!
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Servo
Welcome to minute six of the glorious refueling sequence!
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Crow
The refueling jet likes me, he thinks I'm cuuuuuuuuuute!!!

Reference to the popular 1964 holiday special "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." Rudolph shouts, "She thinks I'm cute!" after a doe named Clarisse talks to and kisses him.

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Mike
Is your face odd, misshapen? Join the Air Force!
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Colonel, holding up model of a plane
Now this is the Starfighter.
Servo
Get in.
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Mike
Our Job... spray talc on that man's butt.

In the style of TV series "Misson Impossible"'s "assignment for the agents" tapes.

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Servo
Yeah, "the wife" is going to be awful glad to see "the me."
Crow
We're going to have "the sex."
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Col. Hunt
You know, flying a plane is like making love.
Crow, as Maj. Stevens
Uh, you have to pay?
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Servo, as film cuts from the pilots at the bar to more refueling
Seventeen and a half scotches later...
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Mike
Yes, we've traded the quality education of a million kids for these planes.
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Crow
Yes, the desert environment is enhanced by bombing! Left alone, it is too placid!
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Man
Hey, Mary, where are you from anyway?
Mary
Iowa.
Servo
Oh, so you're stupid.
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Guy
My father still runs a small dairy farm outside of Milwaukee.
Mike
The name's "Gein."

Ed Gein was a psychotic rural mass murderer and cannibal in Wisconsin.

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Servo
Frankenhooker!

A real movie. see the link. ugh.

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Crow
I want to kick this movie in the groin, snag on it, and give it a power sit-up!
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Mike
Boy, the potential for something to happen is very high right now.
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Lt. Witkowski
Come on, Dad! Look, I'm here to stay, and no one is gonna change my mind.
Servo, as Lt. Witkowski
I got life in me, Big Daddy!
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Servo
Hey... is that Rod Serling?
Mike
Uh, no, no cigarettes.
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Officer
Let's get out there and crank 'em.
Mike
The Air Force recommends crank!
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Crow, in booming voice
You asked for more refueling, and we're giving it to you!
Mike
Yes. I'm at a loss. Now, we've done promiscuity entendre...
Servo
Check.
Crow
Uh, cuddling in the afterglow?
Servo
Check.
Mike
Uh, multiple partner allusion?
Servo
Got it.
Crow
Premature ejaculation innuendo?
Servo
Yup.
Mike
Gas station joke?
Servo
Been there.
Crow
Impotence?
Servo
Oh, yeah.
Mike
One-night stand stuff?
Servo
It's all covered.
Mike
Okay, let's just watch, then.
Servo
Refueling is a beautiful, natural thing that's nothing to mock.
Mike
Okay, you're right.
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Mike
You know, I read the screenplay. It was two pages.
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Tom Servo
Makes you wonder about the scenes they didn't use
Crow
The cutting room floor was remarkably clean!
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Mike
We have an ID on numbnuts.
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Servo, singing
Don't crap in your hand, crap in your Poopie Suit!
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Mike, singing
Fill your pants over France, in your poopie suit!
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Servo
So this must be the highway to the danger zone.
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Servo
So, basically, according to themselves, the Air Force is a bunch of leather-faced, not-so-bright, heavy-drinking, dull-witted speed freaks who poop in their pants and can't make it with women, right? Am I right?