Episode 96: Sam’s Notes

Invaders from Mars

  • That Cannon logo reminds me of the OCP logo in RoboCop
  • The title is coming right at me!
  • And so are the credits!
  • Opening music sounds very sci-fi militaristic
  • Mars is pretty close
  • Mom missed all the smart assing
  • But seriously, cool toy spaceship
  • This kid does not stay under the covers!
  • What I’ve learned from this kid’s room, he likes space stuff
  • Dad puts this ’58 penny in the kid’s jacket pocket, I wonder if the penny is from the same year as the original movie?
  • Now it’s really raining out
  • But outside, he sees a ship coming in for a landing
  • Which somehow hides itself, unseen, behind a small hill
  • Well, the kid presents a compelling argument
  • Yeah, you know, ball lightning, that phenomenon that is incredibly rare
  • Adults never listen!
  • Is mom planning to cheat on a test or interview or something?
  • Dad is acting weird
  • He obviously went outside
  • He knows to put glasses on
  • And there’s a mark on the back of his neck
  • Are those saccharin tablets?
  • I guess he likes coffee and tic tacs?
  • It’s cool, I can find the bus stop on my own
  • Suddenly, I really really want to get to school
  • Frog tossing
  • Counting solves all problems
  • Time for you to see the nurse
  • Is he really uncontrollable?
  • David gets home and the front door is open
  • I like the Star Wars Rancor right inside the front door
  • Wow, Lifeforce is on TV and this kid seems uninterested
  • Mom scares the shit out of David
  • Mom calls the police
  • These nice policemen will have a look over the hill
  • The guys from the base stumble into the scene
  • Oh, and that’s Dad
  • Dad works at NASA?
  • The police are acting weird
  • Neck stuff on the police too
  • Dad tries to talk mom into going over the hill
  • Dad goes into David’s room at 12:30 at night to steal… a big bowl of pennies
  • Do they eat copper?
  • David is cradling something to him, something precious
  • And Dad takes mom over the hill and David knows she’s gone
  • Yup, mom is weird
  • That is some super crispy bacon
  • Raw ground beef and all the salt
  • They haven’t quite worked out how hugging works
  • Later
  • David hangs out inside the jungle gym
  • Something important is happening at midnight
  • Has the field trip been redirected to the hill?
  • David spies on the teacher in her office
  • She has a patch on her neck
  • And she’s eating a frog
  • The nurse stands up for David
  • David is exasperated
  • At least the nurse hasn’t been infected yet
  • Nurse Linda laughs at David’s story
  • Now the nurse believes him
  • Nurse helps David escape
  • Note, David has  what I think is a slingshot in his pocket
  • This penguin eats litter
  • I’ll just, hide in this conveniently open van full of curiosities
  • And of course it’s Mrs. McKeltch’s van
  • Taxidermy is scary
  • David follows the teacher into a sort of round shaped cave
  • Looks like a giant ant colony
  • Thank goodness that door stayed open so long
  • Those are some wacky aliens
  • Krang?
  • She likes vowels
  • And they know David is in there
  • This place is not well defended and these aliens, not actually that threatening
  • No, not here! We’ll hide two steps this way!
  • Linda doesn’t understand words?
  • The tunnel opening is gone
  • I guess we have to go to the hill slash quarry?
  • NASA is here!
  • Looking for pennies?
  • And down they go
  • The whole class is going to the sand pits
  • How do you make that call not sound crazy?
  • No one is watching this kid getting kidnapped
  • “I’ll get you for this David Gardner!”
  • There’s one place we can hide while we call the FBI
  • David grabs his jacket… don’t forget the penny!
  • We’re hiding at school, is that a good idea?
  • That girl’s Dad must be messing with the phone lines
  • And the police happen to show up
  • David knows a place to hide in the school
  • Hiding in the boiler room
  • Linda fucked up!
  • David tells Linda it’s okay to be afraid
  • Wow, David is getting awful grabby with the nurse
  • Something is going to happen to expose a weak point
  • Or, the ground weirdly opens up because of alien digging machine
  • Nurse Linda is completely fine abandoning the whole town
  • They go to the base to talk with the General hoping they can get better car insurance
  • You can tell those are the guys that got sucked into the sand because they’re wearing orange
  • They’re loading copper wire onto the truck
  • Meanwhile, mom and dad show up at the base
  • The bomb is wired. The detonator is set.
  • “You outta hurry. Or you just might blow it.” 57:10
  • David explains stealth technology
  • The general is going to check out these two guys that got sucked under the sand
  • They pull guns, but are subdued
  • And they get dead
  • And the screws come out
  • David talks with these NASA guys about photos from Mars
  • This oxygen truck is wired to blow
  • Freeze the countdown
  • Of course, these guys are going to blow the rocket up
  • I like that they have a wireframe of the truck driving out to the launchpad
  • And they show the wireframe exploding
  • Copper wire was stolen
  • “Marines have no qualms about killing Martians!”
  • Marines break into the school
  • Marines go into the school’s boiler room because of the tunnel there
  • Marines get into the hole
  • David wants to talk with them, General doesn’t have time for that shit
  • One soldier tumbles into the sand and gets sucked down
  • This is what PacMan actually looks like
  • The NASA guy tries to stop them from opening fire
  • NASA guy presents the screw
  • He’s dead
  • HAHA
  • David has thoughts, and runs into the sand, chased by nurse Linda
  • The female soldier asks the general about the woman and the child
  • This was a terrible plan
  • Alright, not a terrible plan
  • David and Linda are alright, but this soldier is about to have a screw put in his neck
  • Or they could do something?
  • Nevermind
  • NASA scientist decides they’re smelting copper, that’s important, right?
  • Seriously lady, shut up!
  • “I’ll fix you! You dick brain!”
  • Somehow, the teacher gets eaten by a PacMan
  • And the other PacMan can’t stop laughing
  • Rinaldi fights back
  • This alien gun takes ammo that looks like a ruler
  • But seriously, they are really big targets that move very slowly
  • This soldier… “I wasn’t trained for this.”
  • Soldiers start firing at Krang, but there’s a shield that starts electrifying the soldiers
  • Krang retreats
  • Uhm, that rocket launcher is foam
  • We have five minutes to get out
  • Krang returns!
  • The digger
  • Just duck, it’ll be fine
  • Maybe we can use the alien gun to blast out!
  • If only we had a penny
  • “Great Scott! Has anyone got a penny?”
  • Haha… it’s a coin slot operated ray gun
  • Mom and Dad are calling David to them
  • No one is going to help David get out?
  • The ship tries to take off as the timer ticks down
  • Oh, they’re fine now, it’s cool
  • And the ship blows up
  • And David wakes up from the most traumatic nightmare ever
  • Wait, is there something happening over the hill?
  • Fuuuuuuuuuuck everything