Mystery Science Theater 3000 experiment #612: The Starfighters.
Original airdate: October 29, 1994.
Part of the 12th MST3K box set, still available from Amazon.
A 1964 movie about Air Force pilot trainees starring future U.S. Congressman Robert K. Dornan, who as many people know, has had a history of saying really stupid things during his political career. If Dornan was really that much of a conservative homophobe during his acting career, he never really showed it.
Dornan is Lt. John Witkowski, training at a central California Air Force base to fly the F-104 Starfighter, whenever his father, a Congressman, isn't calling him to make sure he's all right, or calling his military superiors to talk them into moving him into the Bomber wing like he was back in World War II. And that's pretty much the film in a nutshell. Not a whole lot happens, aside from endless shots of airplanes refueling in the air.
On the Satellite of Love, Crow is trying very hard to get into the INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY!!!1!, but it takes the entire episode to do so, not to mention that Tech Support can't be bothered to take his phone call. Mike and the bots market their own barbeque sauce, which is bold as bold can be. Later on, Crow and Tom try "refueling", which looks and sounds fairly obscene, and they later successfully debrief Mike. Oh, and we can't forget Tom leading the United Servo Academy Men's Chorus in an inspired performance.
I missed this episode during its run on cable, and never got to see it until Rhino released it as part of their final MST3K box set before Shout Factory took over releasing the show to home video. I missed one hell of an episode. Highly, highly recommended.
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