Stingray Sam
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Liberty Chew Chewing Tobacco presents! |
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is a 2009 space-western/musical serial film from the same creative team behind The American Astronaut.
Stingray Sam, a lounge singer on parole on Mars, finds himself invited kidnapped by his former partner-in-crime The Quasar Kid on a mission to rescue a girl child being held by Upper Class Twit Fredward. This provides an excuse for much social satire, Non Sequitur Scene songs, and dancing, dancing, dancing, dancing, dancing!
Tropes used in Stingray Sam include:
- Bounty Hunter: The Quasar Kid
- Bragging Theme Tune
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Stingray Sam is not a hero |
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- But Now I Must Go: Stingray Sam has to leave the Carpenter's Daughter at the end because, well, he's a lounge singer, and folks need to be sung to.
- Cliff Hanger: Stingray Sam is produced in the form of a weekly serial.
- Cloning Blues
- Dap Greeting
- Explosive Leash
- Ho Yay: Fredward's attraction to the Quasar Kid after the latter dances at his party. Then there's that Latex Space Suit he wears.
- Incredible Shrinking Man: Mass matter compression is used to put people inside the Tiny Little Robot.
- Mister Seahorse: The rich have only been having male children (via gender-decisive drugs) in order to perpetuate their dynasties and so are in danger of dying out. Doctors Fred and Edward come up with a solution by combining their DNA to create their son, Fredward.
- Mugged for Disguise
- Must Have Olives: The Quasar Kid.
- The Narrator
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And so the plot begins to thicken...but not by much. |
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- Nobody Poops: Averted, which is why the Corporate Mascot Rehabilitation Program failed. Turning a corporate mascot into a solitary confinement Mobile Suit is not a good idea. After a while they start to...smell.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: The receptionist at the Intergalactic Hall of Records and Trivia.
- Offhand Backhand: When Stingray Sam swings his 'Asking Stick' at the back of the Quasar Kid's head, the latter blocks it without looking.
- One Product Planet: Every planet has only one industry or social class. The planet Durango changes from Planet of Rocket Builders to Planet of Criminals to Planet of Prison Factories.
- The Red Planet: Mars, once the entertainment capital of the galaxy, has fallen out of fashion and is now a Crapsack World.
- Running Gag: Folks plugging Liberty Chew Chewing Tobacco.
- Shout-Out to The Manchurian Candidate with the Brainwashed visitors at Fredward's party smoking "bizarre tobacco substitutes".
- Stingray Sam Has No Sense of Scale: The scientists on Planet Fredward point out that you only have to cross one galaxy to get there, not two.
- Swiss Cheese Security: No-one dares see Fredward without an appointment, so his fortress isn't even guarded.
- What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic: Jerry the Carpenter.