Season Eight Episode Twenty-One: Time Chasers
Network: Sci-Fi Channel
Riffers: Tom Servo, Mike Nelson, Eddie Nelson (Between Segments Three and Four), Crow T. Robot, and Brain Guy (Briefly, at the end)
Mads: Pearl Forrester, Professor Bobo, and Brain Guy
Plot Synopsis: Nick Miller creates a time machine out of an airplane and a Commodore 64 and shows it to his friends by taking them 50 years into the future. Nick sells the technology to Gen-Corp, a high-tech firm run by J.K. Robertson (whose office looks like it is in the mezzanine of a shopping mall or library). Robertson however, to little suprise, turns out to be Evil and uses the time machine to plunder the future. With the lives of himself and his friends at stake, Nick needs to use his time machine to travel a week back in time and convince himself not to give the demo to Robertson
Host Segments:
Prologue: Tom (and Crow) want(s) Mike to use the phrase "Lost In Space", so that they can reenact Lost In Space.
Segment One: Mike docks the SOL with The Widowmaker and has an unusually neighborly chat with Pearl. Crow joins up partway through to hang out with Mike and Pearl.
Segment Two: Tom sends Crow back in time to convince Mike not to take temp jobs. The blonde, irresponsible slacker Mike of the past proves difficult to reason with.
Segment Three: Crow convinces Mike to quit temping, and returns and finds Mike's abusive brother Eddie (Michael Nelson) there instead. Servo has now become Eddie's Yes Man and ashtray. He says that Mike's band ("Sex Factory") was actually doing very well, when Mike got hit in the head, by a girl fans big hotel room key, and died. Says he got that job since that 'sleepy eyed guy left.'
Segment Four: Crow returns to the past and convinces Crow not to go through with his plan.
Ending Segment: Crow wants Mike to say 'Gilligans Island', but backfires. Mike chats up Pearl again, and realises that another Crow is in 80s Wisconsin, working at the cheese factory he used to work at.
Stinger: "Matt, it's time for you decide if you're gonna be one of my team players or not."
Review:
This isn't bad as say, Invasion of the Neptune Men, but it's a pretty rough film. There are no decent actors, the budget is terrible, and the plot makes no sense. Another thing is that the plot of the movie (though similar to Back to the Future II) isn't THAT bad. The director just didn't seem to know how to go from there, I guess.
The riffing is some top notch quality. Lots of great riffs about how the main character looks nothing like a real hero, the bad plot, the weird settings, and how bad the clothing styles of the 80s/90s were. Also, is it bad that I liked Eddie Nelson: Riffer? Even though it was still Mike under the hat and stache, Eddie did bring a very different riffing style than that of his "brother" Mike or Joel. He was abusive, openly smoked and drank in the theater (all while throwing the occasional riff in there). Maybe it's just the novelty of there being someone "different" riffing the movie, but I wouldn't have mind seeing a full episode with Eddie instead of Mike.
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