Episode 29: Alien

“I’d feel vulnerable in little pants and a vest”

The panel of peril wake up from hypersleep (normal sleep really), cough for absolutely ages, have a quick brekkie, and stick on Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic Alien.

The Nostromo mining ship is on its return journey to Earth when it intercepts a distress beacon form LV 426. But Dallas (Tom Skerritt), Brett (Harry Dean Stanton), Parker (Yaphet Kotto) and Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) find more than they bargained for on the planet’s surface. In space no one can hear you say “ermahgerd an alien(s),” after all.

Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ5lPt9edzQ

********PLOT SPOILER ALERT********

What the crew don’t know is that they have a Company stooge on board, the android named Ash (Ian Holm), and he has been given a diabolical task. They are to locate an alien species on LV 426, and return it to Earth – crew expendable. There must surely be a hero amongst the crew of the Nostromo who can stop him (Ripley)? And if there is no hero (Ripley) then who can possibly stop the Company and their drive for profits (Ripley)?

What the actual flip did the panel make of this one? How the actual flip can they improve upon the villain’s dastardly scheme? And who the actual flip will be victorious in this week’s competition?

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