# Top Ten type lists: Funny Sci-Fi **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 6, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-type-lists-funny-sci-fi/765229 "2016-09-06T21:50:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-type-lists-funny-sci-fi/765229/21 "2016-09-07T03:22:40Z")
…does still _Singin’ In The Rain_ technically count here, too? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-type-lists-funny-sci-fi/765229/22 "2016-09-07T03:32:13Z")
Surely Buckaroo Bonsai would fit, right? In an odd, over the top kind of way… Ymmv ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-type-lists-funny-sci-fi/765229/23 "2016-09-07T03:35:06Z")
ST:5-TFF Well… _I_ laughed. ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-type-lists-funny-sci-fi/765229/24 "2016-09-07T04:00:42Z")
Galaxy Quest Spaceballs The World’s End A runner up is Starship Troopers which was satirical. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-type-lists-funny-sci-fi/765229/25 "2016-09-07T04:42:27Z")
If you want to include animated features you’ve got stuff like Chicken Little, Despicable Me, Escape from Planet Earth, Home, Meet the Robinsons, Megamind, Monsters vs Aliens, Planet 51, Robots, WALL-E. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-type-lists-funny-sci-fi/765229/26 "2016-09-07T04:47:15Z")
Wait, does Deadpool count? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-type-lists-funny-sci-fi/765229/27 "2016-09-07T11:11:58Z")
Not listed so far: **Hyperdrive** **Red Dwarf** ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-type-lists-funny-sci-fi/765229/28 "2016-09-07T11:15:53Z")
I did like Iron Sky, but it seems to be one of those “love it or hate it” movies. I think Army of Darkness would count in the Fantasy side. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-type-lists-funny-sci-fi/765229/29 "2016-09-07T12:53:20Z")
**Tank Girl** Well, my daughter found it funny. **Barbarella** - no **Ice Pirates** - no All the really good ones have been mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-type-lists-funny-sci-fi/765229/30 "2016-09-07T13:17:04Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > Sleeper Forgot about that one, but an excellent suggestion. > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > _Americathon_ Didn’t think anyone else even remembered that movie. (And _Brazil_ is brilliant.) > [@MrDibble](#): > > **Red Dwarf** Now we’re talkin’. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-type-lists-funny-sci-fi/765229/31 "2016-09-07T13:28:24Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > **The Creature Wasn’t Nice** (AKA_Spaceship_, and, after the success of _The Naked Gun_, as _The Naked Space_) – hit-or-miss musical (!) parody of _Alien_, starring Cindy Williams, Patrick MacNee, and Leslie Nielsen. From writer/producer/director/composer/actor Bruce Kimmel. His _First Nudie Musical_ is much better. But you have to love a film with a song entitled “I want to eat your face”. How have I not heard of this before? Can’t say I’ll rush right out and see it, but to not even have heard of it… > [@](#): > > **Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy** (all versions) I think the version issue does pose a bit of a problem here. The OP asked for movies and TV shows, and most fans seem to think both the movie and TV versions of _Hitchhiker’s_ were significantly flawed. The books are brilliant, of course, and I’ve not heard the radio version. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-type-lists-funny-sci-fi/765229/32 "2016-09-07T14:24:24Z")
“Strange Invaders” and “Night of the Comet”. come to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-type-lists-funny-sci-fi/765229/33 "2016-09-07T14:29:42Z")
_Ice Pirates_-YES. _Tank Girl_ ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-type-lists-funny-sci-fi/765229/34 "2016-09-07T16:03:41Z")
Little Shop of Horrors? ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-type-lists-funny-sci-fi/765229/35 "2016-09-07T17:00:26Z")
_ **Idiocracy** _ ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-type-lists-funny-sci-fi/765229/36 "2016-09-07T17:31:08Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Didn’t think anyone else even remembered that movie. I saw it way back when during its theatrical release. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-type-lists-funny-sci-fi/765229/37 "2016-09-07T17:36:46Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I saw it way back when during its theatrical release. _Americathon_? I did not see it in a theater, but I saw it during its run on one of the pay cable channels (probably Showtime) which would have been a few months later. I’ve got a friend who’s a huge Firesign Theater fan; I keep forgetting to ask him if he’s heard of it. ---
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-type-lists-funny-sci-fi/765229/38 "2016-09-07T17:42:12Z")
Stargate SG-1 ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-type-lists-funny-sci-fi/765229/39 "2016-09-07T19:22:31Z")
I’m not sure there’s enough comedy within to qualify for this list, but I’m going to nominate “Attack The Block.” ---
**Author:** ![Uniqueorn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uniqueorn/32/2807_2.png) [@Uniqueorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniqueorn)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-type-lists-funny-sci-fi/765229/40 "2016-09-07T19:40:24Z")
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