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Science Fiction's Deadliest Plants
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I always refer to them as the penis head aliens and I'm waiting for the new Who to bring them back. Of course, they wouldn't get past the censors... which makes me wonder how they ever got past them way back when.
12/05/08
Well, if they're going to bring back penis-headed Doctor Who aliens, they might as well start with The 3rd Doctor's good buddy, Alpha Centauri:
I absolutely love how the director took one look at the costume and said "No way! You've built me a 6-foot tall walking penis! You've got to fix this, they'll pull us off the air for sure!"
To which, the costume designer replied "Don't worry, I'll cover it in a big cape and the audience will be none the wiser." So off he goes, and two days later he comes back with the finished product... a 6-foot tall walking penis in a cape!
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Probably my single favorite episode of Lost In Space.
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Deadliest SF TV & Movie Plants, perhaps. And Swampie is deadly in the protection of man, and The Thing was 'plant-like' because there was no way they were going to make a creditable polymorph in a '50s movie.
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I'm never coming to io9 AGAIN!
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No, I won't....dammit, nevermind.
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Also, in Liz's Personal X-Files Canon, "Field Trip" is the series finale. Everything since then has just been a fungus-induced hallucination.
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In Purple Dave's Personal X-Files Canon, the entire show was a hallucination, as the people responsible for putting it on the airwaves in the first place up and died the moment the pitch came across their respective desks. I've seen entire forests that are less wooden than the two main stars' hackting.
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Well, at least me.
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@Purple Dave: False.
@ShubNecktie: Also false.