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  • Gwen: My TV Guide interview was six paragraphs about my boobs, and how they fit into my suit!
    • Sigourney Weaver playing a bimbo is one big CMOF in itself.
  • Jason trying to prevent Alex from abandoning the convention at the beginning of the film.
    Jason: You will go out there.
    Alex: I won't. And nothing you can say will make me.
    Jason: "The show must go on."
    Alex: ...Damn you. Damn you!
    • Alex has apparently delivered his self-pitying rant about how his career has led him to this so many times that his co-stars can apparently predict the major beats he's going to touch upon ("Five curtain calls...").
  • At the convention, Jason tells the Thermians that "mum's the word", at which they start repeating the word with a variety of lengths and inflections.
  • When the Thermians go to pick Jason up from his home, he scrambles on the floor for his clothes and finds a shoe. When he asks the Thermians to look for the other shoe, they all start looking around at the ceiling.
  • When a hungover Jason gets fed up with what he believes to be a fan production of Sarris threatening him and making his demands, he orders all weapons fired at Sarris down to ordering the Thermians to throw an empty coke can. Mathesar's horrified confused expression in the background especially sells it.
  • (Alexander, poor in tone but rich in self-loathing) "By Grabthar's hammer... what a savings."
    • The lead up is great too. The other actors say their lines, then there's a big pause as they motion Alexander to go. Eventually, Gwen nudges Alexander, who reacts to acknowledge. Then there's a close-up shot of Alexander suffering that goes for a long time before he finally utters the line.
  • "You remember yesterday at the convention? Those people dressed like aliens? They were aliens! They were termites, or dalmatians! I don't remember 'cause I was pretty hungover!"
  • When the crew are first beamed aboard the ship, every one of them is completely frozen in horror at what just happened. Except for Fred, who doesn't seem to be the slightest bit traumatized by the experience.
    • There's Guy's Delayed Reaction to being surrounded by the Thermians in their other, more alien forms.
      A Thermian: Our most sincere apologies. We forgot about our appearance generators.
      Jason: You guys came! Who wants the grand tour?
      Guy: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! ....ahhh!
      Jason: ...Anyone else?
    • When Guy screams, Gwen nearly jumps out of her skin. According to Sigourney Weaver, she had not been told that the scream was coming so her reaction is 100% genuine.
  • When Jason introduces the others to the Thermians, the aliens are awed at being in the presence of their heroes, with Mathesar identifying each of them individually while the others reverently intone their names. The ethereal choir accompanying the scene builds as each crew member is named, finally rising to a dramatic crescendo as they reach Guy, who is still in shock and staring dumbly with his mouth hanging open.
    Guy: ...I'm...Crewman Number S-...Guy.
    Thermians: (same reverent tone) Guy.
  • When the cast is first being shown around the ship:
    Mathesar: The medical quarters are to the left...
    Tommy: What the hell is going on?!!?
    Alexander: Jason, what have you gotten us into?
    Gwen: I don't believe this, it's insane.
    Fred: Wow, the floors are so clean.
    • Especially funny given the 'screensaver' on the Special Features screen, of a Thermian sweeping and then licking a floor. Okay, he licks a finger that he rubbed on it, but essentially the same.
    • Even funnier knowing that Fred Kwan was played by Tony Shalhoub.
    • Then near the end of the film, where Kwan has just spaced one of Sarris's men who had been ready to do the same to them.
    Kwan: Did you see that? That door stuck a little bit there, I'll get one of my boys down here with a can of WD-40...
  • On the way out of the spacedock, Laredo manages to scrape the entire ship against the side of the docking bay. Everyone on the bridge cringes as an almighty "EEEEEEEE" echoes through the hull.
  • When Jason first calls Sarris:
    Jason: Hey Sarris, how're you doing?
    Sarris: (Shows the head of his lieutenant mounted on a stick) Better than my lieutenant.
  • After Jason barks out a series of orders to the crew and insults the bad guy Sarris, including "he's as stupid as he is ugly" while Gwen is busy trying to get his attention. And then realizing he's not on hold and Sarris has watching/listening to everything he's said including the backhanded insults, which Sarris proceeds to bring up.
    Jason: Gwen, put me back on.
    Gwen: That's what I've been trying to tell you, you are on.
    Sarris: Perhaps I'm not as stupid as I am ugly, commander.
    Jason: (To Gwen) ...I gave you the (swipes finger across his throat pointedly) 'kill' gesture.
    Gwen: No, you gave the 'we're dead' signal. I was agreeing with you. Like I know where the hold button is.
    • Adding to this is a brief cut of Alexander face-palming despairingly.
  • "There's a... red thingy... moving towards the... green thingy... I think we're the green thingy..."
  • During the first engagement with Sarris, Gwen inadvertently begins to re-embrace her old role on the show.
    Ship Computer: Enemy is matching velocity.
    Gwen: Enemy is matching velocity!
    Alexander: We heard it the first time!
    Gwen: Oh God, I'm doing it. I'm repeating the darn computer.
    • Later on...
    Computer: Negative, there is no replacement Beryllium Sphere on board.
    Gwen: (To the crew) No, there is no replacement Beryllium Sphere on board.
    Tommy: You know, that is really getting annoying!
    Gwen: LOOK! I HAVE ONE JOB ON THIS LOUSY SHIP, IT'S STUPID, BUT I'M GONNA DO IT! OKAY!?
    Tommy: (Leaning away from Gwen) Sure, no problem...
    • The implication is that not only is Gwen's job to repeat the computer, but in turn she's also the only one the computer will listen to, forcing her to repeat everyone's questions to it.
  • This damage report from Tech Sgt Chen.
    • Then there's the aftermath where Chen gets the engineering crew to group hug.
  • Tommy letting out a high-pitched scream after breaking his arm. He continues screaming as Mathesar carries him off to medical quarters.
  • "Alex, where are you going?" (Beat) "To see if there's a pub!"
  • "You broke the ship. You BROKE THE BLOODY SHIP!"
  • When the actors are first trying to explain that Galaxy Quest was just a show.
    Gwen: I mean, surely you don't think Gilligan's Island is-
    (Chorus of mournful exclamations from the Thermians.)
    Mathasar: Those poor people.note 
  • When they've landed the shuttle, and Guy is at the height of his nervous breakdown while Fred goes to open the door:
    Guy: Wait, don't open that! It's an alien planet! Is there air? You don't know! (Inhales loudly and holds his breath.)
    Fred: (Sniffs a few times, exhales) Seems okay.
    • Guy's breakdown itself, in which he appears to forget that he actually does have a last name:
      Jason: You're not gonna die on the planet, Guy.
      Guy: I'm not? Then what's my last name?
      Jason: It's, uh, uh- -I don't know.
      Guy: Nobody knows! Do you know why? Because my character isn't important enough for a last name, because I'm gonna die five minutes in!
      Gwen: Guy, you have a last name.
      Guy: DO I?! DO I?!
      Gwen: Yes!
      Guy: For all you know, I'm just "Crewman Number Six"! (Breaks down weeping) Mommy... mommy...
      Alexander: Are we there yet?
    • Even funnier in the scene is while Guy is panicking, Gwen’s trying to calm him down, Fred is smiling and calmly eating.
  • When the crew lands on the mining planet and spot the seemingly empty facility, Gwen wonders where the miners are. A few moments later, after they see the aliens that look like children:
    Alexander: Could they be the miners?
    Fred: Oh, sure. They're, like, three years old.
    (Everyone turns to stare at Fred.)
    Alexander: (Incredulous) Miners, not minors!
    Fred: You lost me.
  • After everyone telling Guy he isn't going to die on the mining planet. The moment the children aliens kill one of their own, Gwen gets this golden line: "Let's go before one of those things kills Guy!"
    • Within a minute after Guy hears that line, the team starts thinking up a plan... Like that one they did on episode 81? Guy turns white and interrupts the group's brainstorming.
    Guy: Are we doing episode 81?
    Jason: (Very irritated) It's just a rough plan Guy, what difference does it make if it's episode 81 or not?!
    Guy: Because I died... ON EPISODE 81!!!
  • Everything to do with the Digital Conveyor.
    (After beaming up the pig-lizard with horrific results, much to everyone's shock and disgust.)
    Jason: What? What was that?
    Alex: Uh, nothing.
    Jason: I heard some squealing or something.
    Gwen: Oh, no. Everything's fine.
    Teb: (As if the others have somehow overlooked this fact) But the animal is inside out.
    (All humans in the Conveyor room glare at Teb. Alex covers Teb's mouth.)
    Jason: I heard that! It turned inside out?
    (SPLOOM!)
    Teb: (Not moving despite being covered in Ludicrous Gibs) And it exploded.
    Jason: It turned inside out, and then it exploded?!
    Gwen: (Resigned and flicking a bit of pig-lizard off the communicator) Hold, please...
    • Teb had tried reassuring Gwen that the transporter had been designed for the crew's "hmm, anatomy", at which he gives Gwen a cursory look up and down.
  • Jason and the rock monster: "Go for the mouth or its throat, its vulnerable spots!" "It's a rock, it doesn't have any vulnerable spots!"
    • The incomparable:
    Guy: I know! You construct a weapon... Look around you, can you form some sort of rudimentary lathe? (Promptly dragged away from the communicator.)
    Jason: A LATHE?! Get off the line, Guy!!
    • Even better: before we cut back to Jason, Alex raises his arm as if to Dope Slap Guy.
  • During Jason's Shirtless Scene, Alexander snarks "I see you managed to get your shirt off."
    • Even better: according to George Takei, they actually said that about William Shatner (who Jason is an Affectionate Parody of) whenever Kirk's fight scene resulted in shirtlessness.
    • When the rock monster gets revealed, Jason's response is a hilariously understated "oh, darn."
  • After uber-fan Brandon has spent a solid 30 seconds explaining how he realizes it's only a show, and the whole thing is fiction...
    Jason: Brandon, Brandon! ...it's all real.
    Brandon: Oh, my God! I Knew It!! I knew it! I KNEW IT!!
  • Just as Sarris finds out that the crew have escaped, one of the two Mooks that got blasted out of the airlock earlier smacks against the ship's windshield.
  • Brandon rallying his friends to bring their nerdy knowledge to assist Jason and the rest of the crew.
    Kyle: Hey Brandon.
    Brandon: No time for pleasantries Kyle, we have a Level 5 Emergency!
  • Gwen's indignation at having to go through the deadly corridor: "Well, forget it! I'm not doing it! This episode was badly written!"
    • "WHOEVER WROTE THIS EPISODE SHOULD DIE!"
      • Even funnier is watching Gwen closely once she first sees the aforementioned corridor. Despite what the movie has her say, anyone can see what she really said and the fact that the poor censorship was obviously intentional.
        Well, screw that!
  • Clearing out the control room:
    Fred: Besides, [Cackles] I just had an interesting idea.
    Guy: Are you stoned?
    (Cue the three with beatific smiles, watching the rock monster they've just beamed up trash the bad guys.)
    Fred: It's the simple things in life you treasure.
  • Guy's reaction to Fred and Lailari's public display of affection, especially with tentacles: "Oh! That's not right."
  • After Alexander has his Big Damn Hero moment, the Thermians cry out, "He saved us! Commander Taggert has saved us!"
    Alexander: (Sighing) It's just not fair.
  • This takes place during the climax of the film when Sarris transports to the ship and starts killing off the crew, forcing Jason to activate the Omega 13. The camera makes a point of showing a close-up of the faces of all the main characters who get shot, and that the Earth is getting very big in the window: chilling stuff. But then, right before Jason pushes the Big Red Button to set off the potential universe-ending bomb, the camera shows Guy right in the middle of the line of fire, still alive - after he's been complaining the whole movie about the fact that he's doomed.
  • Brandon gives a geeky, technobabble explanation of what his plans are, and his mother's response is to remind him when dinner is. Once he leaves, she notes to his father, "Well he's outside." While hilarious, her reaction is more-or-less how most Real Life supportive parents handle their fanchild.
    • The part where Brandon's line goes dead on Jason in a life-or-death situation, and the movie then cuts to Brandon hurriedly taking out the trash at the insistence of his mom.
    "Mother, I cannot stress enough to you the severity of Commander Taggart's situation! I must get to-"
    "Don't forget the recyclables!"
  • As the cast stumble out of the crash, Alex is announced with "Give him a hand, he's British!"
  • At the finale, when Sarris stumbles out of the crashed Protector into the convention, some of the fans shoot their Nerf guns at him.
  • A fangirl faints seeing Jason and Gwen kiss.

  • Any of Alex' irritable Serious Actor moments.
    Alex: You're just going to have to figure out what it wants. What is its motivation?
    Jason: It's a rock monster. It doesn't have motivation!
    Alex: See, that's your problem, Jason. You were never serious about the craft!
    • The deleted version of that scene is even better, as it involves Alex using method acting to give Jason an idea.
    Alexander: I am... a rock. I just want to be... a rock. Cold, still, and peaceful...
    • Plus a Fun with Subtitles gag on the film's DVD when the rock-monster goes flying off into the vacuum of space ...happy and content because finally all the noises have stopped.
  • Fred's whole personality, especially given his later series.
  • The DVD has three audio options, with the first two being whether you want it in standard or surround sound ...and the last of them being to watch the film in the Thermian language.

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