Trivia / Mystery Science Theater 3000 S07 E06: Laserblast

• Approval of God:
  • Despite the razzing he got, Eddie Deezen has said a few times that he loves the episode, and was already a fan of MST3K. He did sort of have a negative attitude towards them bringing this film back into the public eye though, but eventually got over it.
  • Leonard Maltin finds the Running Gag about his ratings to be Actually Pretty Funny.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: The MST3K crew's summary of the episode claims that while shutting down operations on Deep 13, Dr. Forrester tells the SOL crew that the satellite will drift through space and probably fall into a black hole, while in the actual episode, he instead tells them that its orbit will decay in two hours, and Mike and the bots will die in a crash landing. Servo then makes the satellite drift into space himself, and that's the last the SOL crew hears from Forrester. The mistake is likely related to the staff having written the Season 7 summaries many years after the broadcast and trying to do them from memory, as opposed to the other summaries which were written during the show's production. Plus, a later host segment actually does have them almost going into a black hole.
• Real-Life Relative: Trace Beaulieu's father played the elderly Dr. Forrester.
• Same Voice Their Entire Life: A weird homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey ends with Dr. Clayton Forrester reverting to a baby. His overbearing mother, Pearl, is delighted at the opportunity to raise Clayton again, and "do it right" this time. Baby Clayton replies, in his adult voice, "Oh, poopie."

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