Awesome Music: The credits music. Also, the Cliffhanger music that would, without fault, play at the end of every episode — the characters even tried to invoke it in one episode of 5A, by standing as still as statues in shocked poses! And in Vid Vintergatans Slut, it was buffed up a step further by the screen turning demonically red and dissolving into the distance with hyper-speed. Awesome.
Fan Nickname: Lenny 'Råttan' ('The Rat') Lennartsson.
Peo, punching his way through hordes of mutants to save Henrik and Mira. Created his later-to-be Catchphrase: A simple
Peo: PEOPEOPEOPEOPEO!
Also, an episode in which a lot of arguing was going on between all members of the crew. Words were thrown about, tension was mounting, anger was abundant — and then Henrik, the bookworm, The Smart Guy, came out with a furious yell of "QUIET!"
Most Wonderful Sound: The end-of-episode cliffhanger music. DA, DADAH-DAH DAAAAAAAAAH!
The fifoons ('Fifunerna'). Pale as the moon, with sunglasses, black coats and deadpan expressions. They wore lampshades and made it intimidating. There was a constant source of illumination shining down on their faces, implying the lampshade actually had a lightbulb under it. Were they walking power sources? Were the lightbulbs parasites? Could they simply not survive without light? Either way, it says something when Vid Vintergatans Slut, despite the better special effects and more advanced technology, they were less scary. Perhaps the original Fifoons simply set that standard of terror into the minds of children. Sure, it's kind of Nightmare Retardant looking back at it now, but...those faces!
The mutants and the doomsday planet as a whole. A large red planet, seemingly void of all life but the soulless mutants, implied to once have been a civiliced race not unlike the humans. And the characters just narrowly escape the planet's destruction.
Lucci before he was revealed, whereupon he acted as his own Nightmare Retardant.
That thing at Zeryj. All we ever see of it is it's claw and unblinking piercing red eyes.
Squick: Oh yeah, the earthworms Lucci eats? Lennartsson eats them himself. Sure, it's only seen in one scene, but keeping in mind the previous close-up on the writhing, twisting worms and then seeing him swallowing one so casually was enough to make us squirm.
When Irina, in a Defrosting Ice Queen moment, talks about her dog to Henrik. She says that she had to leave her behind, and the Soviet Union took care of her. All fine and well, nothing you can't get over — until she reveals her dog's name. Laika.
Irina using the time machine (it makes sense in context) to return to Soviet. She expects to be hailed as a lost hero returning... Only to witness a meeting where the top brass decides that she is lost in space and they don't really give her another thought.
