Things I learned from 1980s scifi movies.

Is that good or bad?

When you’re checking everyone’s blood sample with a red-hot wire, make sure your flame thrower is ready to deal with the alien when you discover it.

Crossing the charged-energy plasma streams will send demons back to their dimension…

…also, turning off the power grid is a Very Bad Thing™ and will result in an EPA official being called “dickless”

Don’t trust the six fingered man when trying to sell a sword.

Never bet against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

The loser doesn’t matter, only the Princess matters.

If you see a helicopter full of Norwegian scientists trying to shoot a dog, for God’s sake – help them do it!

Space vampires walk around naked in public - fortunately for us they are beautiful with perfect bodies.

In space no one can hear you scream.

Scientists really like Alice in wonderland. they are sure to use names and quotes from it, or create an AI called Alice. Jaberwocky, Snark, Boojum, and Cheshire Cat are close seconds for Alice.

When doing so, AIM FOR THE FLAT TOP BOYS!

  1. The school’s computer was directly accessed via a modem. A lot of systems were available by dialup then. No Internet required. Note that such direct modem connections was used heavily throughout the movie.

  2. The “Joshua” thing was a back door put in by Falken. The whole point of David going to see the nerds was to so that he could be told to look for a back door. The current admins actually said that they didn’t know about it and blocked that dial-in method (but not the dial-out).

(Now if you were to complain that if you walked from the KCTS building towards the forestry building you are not going to get to the computer center, then you would be right.)

I strongly suggest you re-watch the movie several times.

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If you see a helicopter full of Norwegian scientists trying to shoot a dog, for God’s sake – help them do it!

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Werent they Swedish?

Laser beams are visible in clean air.

Many of the truths you cling to depend greatly on your point of view.

That cool guy you think is really in it for the money? Nah, he’s OK.

Governments and militaries don’t care about society - they just want the next best weapon. Do not trust their agents.

If you’re given magical words to say, remember them. Saying them mostly won’t count.

Old Chinese dudes are magic!

The school computers had a dial-up modem set to answer incoming calls.
It wouldn’t be ludicrous to imagine a school IT vendor setting up such a line for use by tech support from the vendor.
Ludcrious would be a school that wasn’t too stingy to pay for a dedicated line…

AND

PARTY ON DUDES!

What we really should learn from this- is that two goofy future Rock and Roll stars are going to rule over the world.

(Um… weren’t those movies “A long time ago…” (In a galaxy far far away)? Or did I take that too literally)

If it bleeds, we can kill it. You, OTOH, will probably not have time to bleed.

The douchebag is Hudson, the other one is Hicks.

Cyborgs run on nothing but baby food.

Sometimes, the only way to win is not to play.

Many of the world’s greatest heroes and villians at this time came from the same muscle bound, Austrian stock :wink:

Yes, but they were set in the far, far future, so they were still in the present-day future, see?
OK, it’s all I got.

The Justice Department’s Entertainment Division can be convinced to support anything so long as the ratings are good.

In space, no one but the audience can hear you scream.

Never forget where you left your genetically engineered, megalomaniacal(sp?) enemies. Some bozo looking for a completely lifeless planet to test their [del]ultimate superweapon[/del] scientific excperiments on may accidentally stumble across them, and through the lack of anything resembling internal security, hand over a pretty whupass starship to them so they can come looking for you for vengence.

Starfleet seems to only ever have one ship in the quadrant.

Whales will save us.

God needs starships. Oops, sorry. That’s “God.”