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* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Several examples, all played straight.
** ''Into the Great Beyond...Beyond'' uses this as the mind-controlling entity's plan for the entire crew.
** ''Getting to Know You'' has this first against the crew accused of alien infiltration, then against the infiltrator itself.
** ''Into the Great Beyond...Beyond'' uses this as the mind-controlling entity's plan for the entire crew.
** ''Getting to Know You'' has this first against the crew accused of alien infiltration, then against the infiltrator itself.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The alien infiltrator in "Getting to Know You" sabotaged the ship and almost ejected half the crew into space, but when identified they're mostly concerned with its cover-maintaining plagiarism.
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* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Karen and the cauterizer in "Getting to Know You".
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-->'''Natasha:''' These walls are merely decorative. The fact that you've survived this long is ''crazy''.
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-->'''Natasha:''' These walls are merely mostly decorative. The fact that you've survived this long is ''crazy''.
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* [[TheAllegedCar The Alleged Ship]]: The UMP Cruiser's foot tank hasn't been upgraded in thirty-five years, its engine leaks mind-numbing radiation, its AI was purchased from Hooter's, and ''bits of it fall off when it undocks''.
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* [[TheAllegedCar The Alleged Ship]]: The UMP Cruiser's ''Cruiser'''s foot tank hasn't been upgraded in thirty-five years, its engine leaks mind-numbing radiation, its AI was purchased from Hooter's, and ''bits of it fall off when it undocks''.
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* [[TheAllegedCar The Alleged Ship]]: The UMP Cruiser's foot tank hasn't been upgraded in thirty-five years, its engine leaks mind-numbing radiation, its AI was purchased from Hooter's, and ''bits of it fall off when it undocks''.
-->'''Natasha:''' These walls are merely decorative. The fact that you've survived this long is ''crazy''.
-->'''Natasha:''' These walls are merely decorative. The fact that you've survived this long is ''crazy''.
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* BiTheWay: "First Contact" reveals Stewart's sex dreams involve at least one man, and he mentions that he hasn't had a boyfriend "in years". This same episode reveals that Karen and Tina have both slept with women, [[spoiler:namely each other]]. Zalien also once declared that women were "one of his two favorite genders".
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* BiTheWay: "First Contact" reveals Stewart's sex dreams involve at least one man, and he mentions that he hasn't had a boyfriend "in years". This same episode reveals that Karen and Tina have both slept with women, [[spoiler:namely each other]]. Zalien also once declared that women were "one of his [his] two favorite genders".
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* BiTheWay: "First Contact" reveals Stewart's sex dreams involve at least one man, and he mentions that he hasn't had a boyfriend "in years". This same episode reveals that Karen and Tina have both slept with women, [[spoiler:namely each other]].
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* BiTheWay: "First Contact" reveals Stewart's sex dreams involve at least one man, and he mentions that he hasn't had a boyfriend "in years". This same episode reveals that Karen and Tina have both slept with women, [[spoiler:namely each other]]. Zalien also once declared that women were "one of his two favorite genders".
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* YearInsideHourOutside: Episode five, "Trouble's Brewing", sees Mike and Tina stranded on a planet for six months while six hours passes on the ''Cruiser''.
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* YearInsideHourOutside: Episode five, "Trouble's Brewing", sees Mike and Tina stranded on a planet for six months while six hours passes on the ''Cruiser''.''Cruiser''.
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* ADogNamedDog / HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: a rare inanimate example, the CoolSpaceship UMP ''Cruiser'' is... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a cruiser in the UMP]].
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* Foreshadowing: The reaction shot of [[spoiler:Mike]] when Karen plays her "cauterizing useless limbs" instructional video in "Getting to Know You".
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* Foreshadowing: {{Foreshadowing}}: The reaction shot of [[spoiler:Mike]] when Karen plays her "cauterizing useless limbs" instructional video in "Getting to Know You".
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* Foreshadowing: The reaction shot of [[spoiler:Mike]] when Karen plays her "cauterizing useless limbs" instructional video in "Getting to Know You".
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* GreatOffscreenWar: UMP was founded in the excitement surrounding the end of a war between the United States and, [[TeamSwitzerland of all countries]], ''UsefulNotes/{{Switerland}}''.
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* GreatOffscreenWar: UMP was founded in the excitement surrounding the end of a war between the United States and, [[TeamSwitzerland of all countries]], ''UsefulNotes/{{Switerland}}''.''UsefulNotes/{{Switzerland}}''.
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* GreatOffscreenWar: UMP was founded in the excitement surrounding the end of a war between the United States and, [[TeamSwitzerland of all countries]], ''UsefulNotes/Switerland''.
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* GreatOffscreenWar: UMP was founded in the excitement surrounding the end of a war between the United States and, [[TeamSwitzerland of all countries]], ''UsefulNotes/Switerland''.''UsefulNotes/{{Switerland}}''.
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* GreatOffscreenWar: UMP was founded in the excitement surrounding the end of a war between the United States and, [[TeamSwitzerland of all countries]], ''UsefulNotes/Switerland''.
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* ActorAllusion: Trace Beaulieu's character A.R.T. is one to his role as Crow T. Robot on ''MST3K''--the character ended up with the FanNickname "Art" due to a convoluted series of events, and the nickname ultimately ended up on the show.
** Zalien and Art are pretty much Joel and Crow with the serial numbers filed off.
** Zalien and Art are pretty much Joel and Crow with the serial numbers filed off.
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* AscendedFanboy: Stewart's wanted command of his own ship since he was a boy, and finds his crew's lack of enthusiasm for space travel troubling.
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** Another one happens in episode two, "Getting to Know You", when the crew convinces themselves that both Karen and Stewart are aliens and locks them in the airlock.
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* NumberTwo: Karen, who would far prefer to be captain. Mike ''aspires'' to this role, however, having filled it for Stewart when the two played pretend as kids, and goes along with Karen's mutiny largely because it means getting promoted from Number Three.
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* TheMutiny: Karen pulls one of the "relieve him of command" variety in the first episode, ostensibly because Stewart left dock without making sure they had proper supplies and then stranded them in another universe, but really because she's jealous that Stewart outranks her. It doesn't last, and how much Stewart should be allowed to lord this over her even after she apologizes is a point of contention in a few other episodes.
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** Zalien and Art are pretty much Joel and Crow with the serial numbers filed off.
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* IChooseToStay: In the finale, [[spoiler:Stewart and Mike]] decide to go live with the mysterious alien they've just encountered rather than take the impending rift home, [[spoiler:Stewart]] feeling there's too much left to do and [[spoiler:Mike]] coming along out of loyalty. [[spoiler:Both change their mind when it turns out the alien's ship is gross and that the alien has been siphoning fuel from the ''Cruiser''.]]
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* FirstContact: Technically happens in the first episode, with another alien encounter in the second. While both are referred to later in the series, no one's under the impression that they count for whatever reason. The seventh episode is referred to as "First Contact", and this is the only alien encounter in the series acknowledged to be that.
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* FirstContact: Technically happens in the first episode, with another alien encounter in the second. While both are referred to later in the series, no one's under the impression that they count for whatever reason. The seventh episode is referred to as "First Contact", and this is the only alien encounter in the series acknowledged to be that.
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* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Tina decides to resort to this with Mike when they're stranded on a planet in "Trouble's Brewing", seemingly less because they've run out of food and more because he's wearing on her patience.
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* TheBroCode: An alarm goes "bro code violation in progress" as Mike gets intimate with Tina, who his best friend Stewart has a crush on. Nothing is made of this beyond that, though.
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* EroticDream: Stewart spends much of "First Contact" using drugs to achieve these so he can communicate with an alien; see TalkingInYourDreams below.
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* RedAlert: When Stewart believes an alien has tried to contact him in a dream, he calls for one of these--but only after deciding that turning the lights all the way up in the hallway isn't dramatic enough.
* {{Robosexual}}: Kent and Natasha end up falling for each other.
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* TalkingInYourDreams: The titular "First Contact" involves a mysterious alien in black robes intruding on Stewart's sex dreams to feed him a transmission frequency to broadcast on. Stewart, led by A.R.T. to believe the dreams need to be sexier for the message to complete, ends up taking a ''lot'' of drugs to spice things up.
* TenMinuteRetirement: In "Trouble's Brewing", Stewart goes above and beyond Zalien's request for a bonus, giving him a million dollars on the basis that money's meaningless out here anyway. Zalien decides to take the opertunity to retire from being an engineer and take up painting.
* TenMinuteRetirement: In "Trouble's Brewing", Stewart goes above and beyond Zalien's request for a bonus, giving him a million dollars on the basis that money's meaningless out here anyway. Zalien decides to take the opertunity to retire from being an engineer and take up painting.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Turns out that, when the mission ends and the crew returns to Earth, Natasha will have her memory wiped to give her a fresh start with the new crew and to preserve the current crew's privacy. No one's especially happy about this, least of all Kent, who's fallen in love with her and begins scheming ways to give her her own body.
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[[caption-width-right:325:Left to right: Mike, Zalien (holding hands with A.R.T.), Karen, Stewart, Natasha, Kent, and Tina. ]]
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* BrainUploading: A.R.T. claims in "Getting to Know You" that he was once a wealthy executive who was trying to sell the idea of brain uploading to the public and used the process on himself as a publicity stunt.
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* BiTheWay: "First Contact" reveals Stewart's sex dreams involve at least one man, and he mentions that he hasn't had a boyfriend "in years". This same episode reveals that Karen and Tina have both slept with women, [[spoiler:namely each other]].
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* BrokenPedestal: Stewart learns pretty quickly that Zalien is no longer the sort of guy he looked up to as a kid, if he ever even was.
* {{Nepotism}}: Mike's a member of the crew because he's Stewart's childhood friend; Kent's a member of the crew because his mother's a higher-up at UMP, and Tina's a member of the crew because Stewart has a crush on her. That's almost half the crew, and goes a ways towards explaining the serious competence issues.
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* TheStoic: Kent, who has almost no experience with human interaction and thus can neither read nor generate much in the way of inflection.
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* TheStoic: Kent, who has almost no experience with human interaction and thus can neither read nor generate much in the way of inflection. In one episode, A.R.T. and Natasha start a robot uprising, and Kent (who's disgruntled over being denied 3D printer privileges) is allowed to join on the basis that of the three of them he's the only one who actually acts robotic.
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* ArtificialLimbs: As of episode five, [[spoiler:Mike]] has a robotic leg.
* ButtMonkey: Mike. He can barely get anyone to pay attention to him and when they do it's to insult him. More often than not, he'll end up doing the jobs no one else wants.
* FanOfThePast: Kent, as he was shown lots of pop culture from our time during his isolation. This helps them weed out an alien intruder in "Getting to Know You"--it's the crew member who speaks entirely in [[spoiler:Matthew [=McConaughey=]]] references.
* ButtMonkey: Mike. He can barely get anyone to pay attention to him and when they do it's to insult him. More often than not, he'll end up doing the jobs no one else wants.
* FanOfThePast: Kent, as he was shown lots of pop culture from our time during his isolation. This helps them weed out an alien intruder in "Getting to Know You"--it's the crew member who speaks entirely in [[spoiler:Matthew [=McConaughey=]]] references.
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* LotusEaterMachine: The [[spoiler:first]] episode ends with the entire crew placed in one as part of a convoluted attempt by unknown alien beings to get the crew to open the airlock and eject themselves into space.
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The year is 2105. Fifty years ago, an international coalition founded the Universal Mapping Project (UMP) to chart the cosmos and hopefully find alien life. Unfortunately, over the course of those fifty years, UMP's found basically nothing of interest to the public and its popularity is waning. It's in this climate that young cadet and exploration fanboy Stewart Lipinski is given command of the UMP Cruiser, much to the chagrin of his second-in-command and older sister, Karen, with whom he has a somewhat friendly rivalry. Stewart is happy-go-lucky and a major people-pleaser, while Karen is stern and authoritarian.
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The year is 2105. Fifty years ago, an international coalition founded the Universal Mapping Project (UMP) to chart the cosmos and hopefully find alien life. Unfortunately, over the course of those fifty years, UMP's found basically nothing of interest to the public and its popularity is waning. It's in this climate that young cadet and exploration fanboy Stewart Lipinski is given command of the UMP Cruiser, ''Cruiser'', much to the chagrin of his second-in-command and older sister, Karen, with whom he has a somewhat friendly rivalry. Stewart is happy-go-lucky and a major people-pleaser, while Karen is stern and authoritarian.
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''Other Space'' was created by Paul Feig, of ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'' and ''Film/Bridesmaids'', and co-stars Joel Hodgson and Trace Beaulieu of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' as Zalien and A.R.T.. All eight half-hours of its first season went up on Yahoo! Screen on April 14th, 2015, and can be found [[http://screen.yahoo.com/other-space here.]]
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''Other Space'' was created by Paul Feig, of ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'' and ''Film/Bridesmaids'', ''Film/{{Bridesmaids}}'', and co-stars Joel Hodgson and Trace Beaulieu of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' as Zalien and A.R.T.. All eight half-hours of its first season went up on Yahoo! Screen on April 14th, 2015, and can be found [[http://screen.yahoo.com/other-space here.]]
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* ThreeLawsCompliant: Jumbled up a bit. The first law, "A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm", has been bumped down to number two, with the new first law being "The customer is always right." The second law can be circumvented if the robot in question is sufficiently broken.
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* ThreeLawsCompliant: Jumbled up a bit. The first law, "A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm", has been bumped down to number two, with the new first law being "The customer is always right." The second law can be circumvented if the robot in question is sufficiently broken.broken.
* YearInsideHourOutside: Episode five, "Trouble's Brewing", sees Mike and Tina stranded on a planet for six months while six hours passes on the ''Cruiser''.
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The year is 2105. Fifty years ago, an international coalition founded the Universal Mapping Project (UMP) to chart the cosmos and hopefully find alien life. Unfortunately, over the course of those fifty years, UMP's found basically nothing of interest to the public and its popularity is waning. It's in this climate that young cadet and exploration fanboy Stewart Lipinski is given command of the UMP Cruiser, much to the chagrin of his second-in-command and older sister, Karen, with whom he has a somewhat friendly rivalry. Stewart is happy-go-lucky and a major people-pleaser, while Karen is stern and authoritarian.
Also along for the ride are:
* Mike Newman, perpetually put-upon third-in-command when he's not being ignored;
* Tina Shukskin, the ship's massively underqualified, spacy, and possibly psychotic navigator;
* Kent Woolworth, who spent most of his life in isolation and so barely has any idea how to interact with or read people;
* Zalien Fletcher, the ship's engineer and oldest crew member who's basically fried his brain with engine radiation and drugs;
* A.R.T., Zalien's best friend, a robotic stowaway with entitlement issues; and
* Natasha, the ship's chipper yet blunt ArtificialIntelligence.
Unfortunately, about a minute into their first mission--already looking to be a disaster as the ship is breaking and they're light on supplies--they find themselves sucked into a wormhole to another dimension. Now this barely-qualified crew must ward off alien attackers and space anomalies as they try to find a way home.
''Other Space'' was created by Paul Feig, of ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'' and ''Film/Bridesmaids'', and co-stars Joel Hodgson and Trace Beaulieu of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' as Zalien and A.R.T.. All eight half-hours of its first season went up on Yahoo! Screen on April 14th, 2015, and can be found [[http://screen.yahoo.com/other-space here.]]
!!Other Space contains examples of:
* ActorAllusion: Trace Beaulieu's character A.R.T. is one to his role as Crow T. Robot on ''MST3K''--the character ended up with the FanNickname "Art" due to a convoluted series of events, and the nickname ultimately ended up on the show.
* ArtificialIntelligence: Natasha.
* FirstContact: Technically happens in the first episode, with another alien encounter in the second. While both are referred to later in the series, no one's under the impression that they count for whatever reason. The seventh episode is referred to as "First Contact", and this is the only alien encounter in the series acknowledged to be that.
* SarcasmMode: Natasha has a literal one--Stewart accidentally activates it leaning on the console, which leads to a very awkward conversation.
* TheStoic: Kent, who has almost no experience with human interaction and thus can neither read nor generate much in the way of inflection.
* ThreeLawsCompliant: Jumbled up a bit. The first law, "A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm", has been bumped down to number two, with the new first law being "The customer is always right." The second law can be circumvented if the robot in question is sufficiently broken.
Also along for the ride are:
* Mike Newman, perpetually put-upon third-in-command when he's not being ignored;
* Tina Shukskin, the ship's massively underqualified, spacy, and possibly psychotic navigator;
* Kent Woolworth, who spent most of his life in isolation and so barely has any idea how to interact with or read people;
* Zalien Fletcher, the ship's engineer and oldest crew member who's basically fried his brain with engine radiation and drugs;
* A.R.T., Zalien's best friend, a robotic stowaway with entitlement issues; and
* Natasha, the ship's chipper yet blunt ArtificialIntelligence.
Unfortunately, about a minute into their first mission--already looking to be a disaster as the ship is breaking and they're light on supplies--they find themselves sucked into a wormhole to another dimension. Now this barely-qualified crew must ward off alien attackers and space anomalies as they try to find a way home.
''Other Space'' was created by Paul Feig, of ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'' and ''Film/Bridesmaids'', and co-stars Joel Hodgson and Trace Beaulieu of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' as Zalien and A.R.T.. All eight half-hours of its first season went up on Yahoo! Screen on April 14th, 2015, and can be found [[http://screen.yahoo.com/other-space here.]]
!!Other Space contains examples of:
* ActorAllusion: Trace Beaulieu's character A.R.T. is one to his role as Crow T. Robot on ''MST3K''--the character ended up with the FanNickname "Art" due to a convoluted series of events, and the nickname ultimately ended up on the show.
* ArtificialIntelligence: Natasha.
* FirstContact: Technically happens in the first episode, with another alien encounter in the second. While both are referred to later in the series, no one's under the impression that they count for whatever reason. The seventh episode is referred to as "First Contact", and this is the only alien encounter in the series acknowledged to be that.
* SarcasmMode: Natasha has a literal one--Stewart accidentally activates it leaning on the console, which leads to a very awkward conversation.
* TheStoic: Kent, who has almost no experience with human interaction and thus can neither read nor generate much in the way of inflection.
* ThreeLawsCompliant: Jumbled up a bit. The first law, "A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm", has been bumped down to number two, with the new first law being "The customer is always right." The second law can be circumvented if the robot in question is sufficiently broken.
