Tonight’s edition of NBC’s Saturday Night Live included a second-half skit that took aim at Ad Astra, The Martian, The First Man, Gravity, and other astronaut screen epics that often fo…
in-show mini-movies and it featured a number of the show’s troupe as well as the night’s guest host, Chance the Rapper, as the leader of a looming space mission.Apollo 13, Ad Astra, Gravity, and The Martian,
another movie about the dangers of space…” Chance the Rapper’s character is dying goodnight to his young son and assuring the anxious boy that his daddy would be careful to avoid errors beyond the earths atmosphere. “I promise because that would be the worst place to make one.” The astronaut’s wife is apparently a frequent moviegoer because she’s well-versed in the heavy history of weightless disaster. “You said last time was the last time. I’m worried you’ll make a mistake. You could crack your helmet, spin too fast, push the wrong thing and the top comes off, your tube could pop, the window could ka-boom!”
The action follows Chance to the launchpad where he gives his crew a pep talk. “Well you know what they say: in space no one can hear you make a mistake.” Mission control “lights the candle” and the rocketmen the off. But one of the crewmen doesn’t have his seat belt on…which doesn’t end well for him as he becomes the bloody pulp lining the rear wall of the cockpit. The casualties don’t end there, of course.
Too bad, really, we didn’t get a chance to suggest a new update we had a new motto to suggest, one that takes a bite out of Apple TV: “In space, no one can hear you stream.”
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