1 00:02:25,399 --> 00:02:29,097 A plague commemorating the historical importance of this day's events... 2 00:02:29,170 --> 00:02:31,434 was placed herein 1988. 3 00:02:57,665 --> 00:03:01,863 This was the first scene shot for the film... 4 00:03:01,936 --> 00:03:05,964 on location at Lakeview Medical Center on Monday, July 12, 1983. 5 00:03:27,628 --> 00:03:31,155 “Comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable.” — B. Banzai 6 00:04:02,663 --> 00:04:06,293 The Eskimo boy, after a brief period of time as an Alaskan crabber... 7 00:04:06,367 --> 00:04:08,995 became a Goth. 8 00:04:32,093 --> 00:04:35,825 Packed in Buckaroo's briefcase are the OVERTHRUSTER... 9 00:04:35,897 --> 00:04:38,025 Albert Einstein's brain... 10 00:04:38,099 --> 00:04:40,466 and a tuna sandwich. 11 00:04:50,878 --> 00:04:54,781 The Jet Car's top speed was actually clocked at 718 mph. 12 00:05:15,603 --> 00:05:19,506 Unknown Fact The designation HB 88... 13 00:05:19,573 --> 00:05:23,567 refers to Hikita/Banzai and the number of keys on a piano. 14 00:05:31,852 --> 00:05:35,254 For the past 17 years, the original OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER... 15 00:05:35,323 --> 00:05:38,918 has been a can opener in Mrs. Johnson's kitchen... 16 00:05:38,993 --> 00:05:42,395 while Buckaroo has struggled to get the kinks out of its successors. 17 00:05:43,397 --> 00:05:46,162 (More on this later.) 18 00:06:08,122 --> 00:06:11,422 This headband was also worn by Masado Banzai (Buckaroo's father)... 19 00:06:11,492 --> 00:06:13,688 on that fateful day in 1955. 20 00:06:13,761 --> 00:06:17,698 The kaniji reads “beauty in everyday life.” 21 00:06:17,765 --> 00:06:20,462 It is now on display at the Smithsonian. 22 00:06:21,969 --> 00:06:25,496 The Jet Car you see here is not the real McCoy... 23 00:06:25,573 --> 00:06:28,975 but a replica of the vehicle made for the film. 24 00:06:29,043 --> 00:06:31,102 At the time of production... 25 00:06:31,178 --> 00:06:35,308 many of the Jet Car's components were still classified... 26 00:06:35,383 --> 00:06:39,650 so the Institute was obligated to deny W.D. Richter's request... 27 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:41,654 to use the actual vehicle. 28 00:06:41,722 --> 00:06:44,419 As a consolation, Perfect Tommy... 29 00:06:44,492 --> 00:06:48,588 (who designed the Jet Car's revolutionary suspension... 30 00:06:48,662 --> 00:06:52,030 and oversaw the vehicle's construction)... 31 00:06:52,099 --> 00:06:55,899 offered to review Art Director Stephen Dane's blueprints... 32 00:06:55,970 --> 00:07:00,635 for the recreation of the vehicle and correct any gross inaccuracies. 33 00:07:00,708 --> 00:07:02,733 (None were found.) 34 00:07:02,810 --> 00:07:05,472 The movie's Jet Car replica... 35 00:07:05,546 --> 00:07:09,346 was built by Jerry Segal of Southern California's Thrust Racing. 36 00:07:09,417 --> 00:07:14,856 Jerry still builds jet-powered drag racers and is working with the Institute... 37 00:07:14,922 --> 00:07:17,584 on a new, top-secret project involving scooters. 38 00:07:24,165 --> 00:07:28,102 “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible... 39 00:07:28,169 --> 00:07:32,629 is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” — Arthur C. Clarke 40 00:07:42,116 --> 00:07:46,644 Professor Hikita once built an atom bomb using only an abacus. 41 00:08:29,930 --> 00:08:32,058 Unknown Fact 42 00:08:32,133 --> 00:08:36,036 The sonic boom was heard as far away as Canyon Lake. 43 00:08:52,253 --> 00:08:55,689 In actual fact, this man on the phone was not a SAG extra at all... 44 00:08:55,756 --> 00:08:59,750 but an operative of the World Crime League... 45 00:08:59,827 --> 00:09:02,956 assigned to sabotage the shooting of the film. 46 00:09:03,030 --> 00:09:06,227 A close look reveals he's wearing tiny finger cymbals... 47 00:09:06,300 --> 00:09:08,632 attached to a hidden transmitter... 48 00:09:08,702 --> 00:09:13,640 designed to jam communication between the director and his vital second unit. 49 00:09:42,269 --> 00:09:46,536 These incredible images of the 8th Dimension are not a special effect— 50 00:09:46,607 --> 00:09:50,669 they are the actual film taken by the Jet Car cameras... 51 00:09:50,744 --> 00:09:53,076 while inside the mountain. 52 00:09:53,147 --> 00:09:56,412 The EM-sensitive film was created by Dr. Peter Kuran. 53 00:09:56,483 --> 00:10:00,477 The Banzai Institute agreed to declassify the footage... 54 00:10:00,554 --> 00:10:03,990 specifically for its inclusion in this release... 55 00:10:04,058 --> 00:10:07,653 (which marked the first time it was seen publicly). 56 00:10:08,562 --> 00:10:12,931 Much as Sir James “Black” Douglas vowed to carry out... 57 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:18,598 Robert the Bruce's dying wish to have his heart buried in Jerusalem... 58 00:10:18,672 --> 00:10:23,872 Buckaroo Banzai carried Albert Einstein's brain with him... 59 00:10:23,944 --> 00:10:27,278 during the fateful Jet Car run through solid matter. 60 00:10:27,348 --> 00:10:32,548 It was, after all, Einstein who worked on Project Rainbow... 61 00:10:32,620 --> 00:10:36,887 the original time-space window experiment back in 1943. 62 00:10:36,957 --> 00:10:41,588 Otherwise known as the infamous Philadelphia Experiment... 63 00:10:41,662 --> 00:10:47,431 the test either went spectacularly haywire or never actually happened... 64 00:10:47,501 --> 00:10:51,631 depending upon whom you choose to believe. 65 00:10:51,705 --> 00:10:55,369 Basing his work upon the Unified Field Theory... 66 00:10:55,442 --> 00:10:59,902 which posits that gravity and magnetism are connected... 67 00:10:59,980 --> 00:11:01,791 in the same way as mass and energy... 68 00:11:01,815 --> 00:11:03,977 in the same way as mass and energy... 69 00:11:04,051 --> 00:11:08,579 Einstein sought to send a US Navy vessel, the Fldridge... 70 00:11:08,656 --> 00:11:12,650 through a time vortex. 71 00:11:12,726 --> 00:11:17,527 Judging by the alleged results, he only partially succeeded. 72 00:11:17,598 --> 00:11:22,468 Many of the ship's crew were left embedded in solid matter... 73 00:11:22,536 --> 00:11:26,530 while others went insane. 74 00:11:26,607 --> 00:11:31,067 Einstein confessed to never fully solving the problem... 75 00:11:31,145 --> 00:11:36,083 but to judge by the success of the OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER... 76 00:11:36,150 --> 00:11:40,144 Dr. Banzai did... 77 00:11:40,220 --> 00:11:44,282 although he unfailingly acknowledged his debt to Einstein... 78 00:11:44,358 --> 00:11:49,956 whose papers at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies... 79 00:11:50,030 --> 00:11:54,490 served as Buckaroo's primer on the Unified Field Theory. 80 00:11:54,568 --> 00:11:58,300 It was therefore in tribute to the great man... 81 00:11:58,372 --> 00:12:03,572 that Buckaroo decided to take along Einstein's preserved brain... 82 00:12:03,644 --> 00:12:06,705 during the Jet Car test run through solid matter. 83 00:12:07,214 --> 00:12:09,876 The other white meat. 84 00:13:02,870 --> 00:13:06,500 A deserted room at Brentwood's VA Hospital in California... 85 00:13:06,573 --> 00:13:09,838 provided the perfect place to re-create... 86 00:13:09,910 --> 00:13:12,880 the New Brunswick Home for the Criminally Insane. 87 00:13:12,946 --> 00:13:16,405 Lithgow described it as “a bag woman's lair.” 88 00:13:32,633 --> 00:13:36,866 What you are watching here is a re-creation... 89 00:13:36,937 --> 00:13:40,601 of the events of October 11, 1938, the first time (to our knowledge)... 90 00:13:40,674 --> 00:13:44,770 that humankind broke through the dimensional barrier. 91 00:14:32,025 --> 00:14:35,086 We now know that the key to Lizardo's incomplete penetration... 92 00:14:35,162 --> 00:14:37,790 was his restrained initial velocity. 93 00:14:37,865 --> 00:14:42,063 However, his partial access to the 8th Dimension (despite its brevity)... 94 00:14:42,135 --> 00:14:45,765 provided opportunity enough for John Whorfin... 95 00:14:45,839 --> 00:14:50,709 to take over Lizardo's consciousness. 96 00:15:27,614 --> 00:15:31,050 The joy of finally being freed from exile in the 8th Dimension... 97 00:15:31,118 --> 00:15:34,179 (albeit in a human body) proved so intoxicating... 98 00:15:34,254 --> 00:15:39,215 that Whorfin-as-Lizardo went on a lengthy crime spree... 99 00:15:39,293 --> 00:15:43,662 (the proceeds of which founded Yoyodyne). 100 00:16:33,513 --> 00:16:37,973 Despite the overpowering presence of Whorfin's consciousness... 101 00:16:38,051 --> 00:16:41,351 for brief periods Lizardo was occasionally able... 102 00:16:41,421 --> 00:16:44,982 to regain control of himself. 103 00:16:45,058 --> 00:16:47,720 This would lead to the most bizarre behavior... 104 00:16:47,794 --> 00:16:50,593 often a combination of Lizardo's kind, peaceful disposition... 105 00:16:50,664 --> 00:16:52,689 and Whorfin's violent dementia... 106 00:16:52,766 --> 00:16:57,203 (as just evidenced by his offering of a gratuity... 107 00:16:57,270 --> 00:17:00,501 to the orderly he will later kill). 108 00:17:31,204 --> 00:17:35,300 Artie, previously an insurance salesman... 109 00:17:35,375 --> 00:17:39,505 had emergency bypass surgery under the knife of Dr. Banzai. 110 00:17:39,579 --> 00:17:42,605 The operation saved his life and left him a changed man. 111 00:17:42,683 --> 00:17:46,244 Upon recovery, he resigned his position... 112 00:17:46,386 --> 00:17:50,414 and made good on his high school dream of owning a rock and roll club. 113 00:17:50,490 --> 00:17:53,926 Tongue planted firmly in cheek, I suggested the name “Artie's Artery.” 114 00:17:53,994 --> 00:17:58,158 It remains there still, and Artie has recently wed his second wife... 115 00:17:58,231 --> 00:18:00,723 a 24-year-old backup vocalist... 116 00:18:00,801 --> 00:18:05,602 currently on tour with a popular, mega-selling girl group. 117 00:18:30,597 --> 00:18:33,828 The song we're performing here is a cover of “Rocket 88”... 118 00:18:33,900 --> 00:18:37,268 recorded in 1951 by Bill Haley and the Saddlemen. 119 00:18:37,337 --> 00:18:40,534 Bill Haley is often credited as one of the founders of rock and roll... 120 00:18:40,607 --> 00:18:43,304 and, coincidentally, played his first rock and roll song... 121 00:18:43,376 --> 00:18:48,405 while goofing around during a show at the Twin Bar in Gloucester, New Jersey. 122 00:18:51,818 --> 00:18:55,152 The Hong Kong Cavaliers often enjoy playing unannounced gigs in small clubs. 123 00:18:55,222 --> 00:18:58,590 Scheduling shows too far in advance... 124 00:18:58,658 --> 00:19:02,686 provides opportunity to those who might do us harm, so it is often a necessity. 125 00:19:42,602 --> 00:19:46,937 I am often asked how Buckaroo could hear... 126 00:19:47,007 --> 00:19:51,069 the soft whimpers of Penny Priddy over the din of the music. 127 00:19:51,144 --> 00:19:54,444 At the time, we wondered the same thing... 128 00:19:54,514 --> 00:19:58,451 but Buckaroo later explained it was not what he had heard... 129 00:19:58,518 --> 00:20:00,885 but a flash of intuition that told him... 130 00:20:00,954 --> 00:20:05,050 someone out there was terribly alone and in need. 131 00:20:37,657 --> 00:20:41,525 Penny was so down-in-the-dumps that night... 132 00:20:41,595 --> 00:20:44,360 because she had just come from making... 133 00:20:44,431 --> 00:20:47,128 her first and last squish video. 134 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:51,034 The money was good but she felt so empty inside. 135 00:21:14,194 --> 00:21:17,994 Unknown Fact Buckaroo rarely plays piano at gigs. 136 00:21:37,651 --> 00:21:41,815 B. Banzai had not performed “Since I Don't Have You”... 137 00:21:41,888 --> 00:21:45,256 since the death of his first wife, Peggy, poisoned by Hanoi Xan. 138 00:21:45,325 --> 00:21:48,386 It was her favorite. 139 00:21:55,669 --> 00:21:58,900 Penny's earrings are also bottle openers. 140 00:22:16,623 --> 00:22:20,389 “Need a penny, take a penny.” — Penny Priddy 141 00:23:22,989 --> 00:23:26,323 This is the first of many violent moments... 142 00:23:26,393 --> 00:23:29,727 that required softening for the film version of this tale. 143 00:23:29,796 --> 00:23:32,766 In reality (according to the New Brunswick police report)... 144 00:23:32,832 --> 00:23:36,393 Whorfin had brutally stabbed the orderly with a crude, handmade knife... 145 00:23:36,469 --> 00:23:39,837 plunging it straight through his stomach and into several vertebrae. 146 00:23:39,906 --> 00:23:43,467 W.D. Richter knew depicting this would earn the film an “R” rating... 147 00:23:43,543 --> 00:23:46,740 so the conceit was made to snap the orderly's neck. 148 00:23:46,813 --> 00:23:50,249 Why one form of cinematic violence is more acceptable than another... 149 00:23:50,316 --> 00:23:53,650 cannot readily be explained by the likes of me. 150 00:24:26,786 --> 00:24:30,916 The Hong Kong Cavalier tour bus (a modified Greyhound Scenicruiser)... 151 00:24:30,990 --> 00:24:34,051 provides us with much more than transportation between gigs. 152 00:24:34,127 --> 00:24:36,858 It contains a strategic command center and monitoring station... 153 00:24:36,930 --> 00:24:39,490 (also known as World Watch One)... 154 00:24:39,566 --> 00:24:41,830 living quarters and a small recording studio. 155 00:24:41,901 --> 00:24:44,529 Unknown Fact 156 00:24:44,604 --> 00:24:47,835 Reno's first wife was ordered from a catalog of Filipino brides! 157 00:25:12,599 --> 00:25:15,796 Fingerprints lifted at the scene of the crash later revealed... 158 00:25:15,869 --> 00:25:19,931 that the Maserati Whorfin escaped in had been driven by Lo Pep... 159 00:25:20,006 --> 00:25:23,306 lieutenant to the infamous Hanoi Xan. 160 00:25:25,645 --> 00:25:28,740 What interest did Xan have in Lizardo's escape? 161 00:25:28,815 --> 00:25:30,977 Time would tell. 162 00:25:47,333 --> 00:25:50,268 Unknown Fact 163 00:25:50,336 --> 00:25:54,569 Old Spice is banned from World Watch One. 164 00:26:20,066 --> 00:26:23,195 The costume seen here he New Jersey... 165 00:26:23,269 --> 00:26:26,603 once belonged to his grandfather, a famous silent movie star. 166 00:27:14,587 --> 00:27:18,319 Pecos (a gal with whom Reno was once quite smitten)... 167 00:27:18,391 --> 00:27:21,827 was at this moment in Tibet with the Seminole Kid... 168 00:27:21,894 --> 00:27:24,920 embroiled in a bitter conflict with Xan's Death Dwarves. 169 00:27:30,470 --> 00:27:34,464 Reno's mail-order bride later got her teeth done and left him. 170 00:28:51,084 --> 00:28:54,782 In his youth, B. Banzai embarked on a hiking tour of Europe and Asia. 171 00:28:54,854 --> 00:28:58,017 Through a serendipitous series of wrong turns... 172 00:28:58,091 --> 00:29:01,061 he found himself a witness to the wedding procession... 173 00:29:01,127 --> 00:29:03,994 of Her Majesty Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard. 174 00:29:04,063 --> 00:29:07,863 The Dutch queen was the most beautiful woman... 175 00:29:07,934 --> 00:29:11,370 the impressionable young man had ever seen. 176 00:29:11,437 --> 00:29:15,533 Years later, Buckaroo had the exact same feeling upon first laying eyes on Peggy. 177 00:29:43,035 --> 00:29:45,026 Unknown Fact 178 00:29:45,104 --> 00:29:47,903 Perfect Tommy's pet peeve: women with Adam's apples. 179 00:30:21,774 --> 00:30:24,573 Buckaroo once told us that if we ever saw him... 180 00:30:24,644 --> 00:30:28,581 at one of these press conferences where he appeared to be having a good time... 181 00:30:28,648 --> 00:30:31,743 to shoot him. 182 00:31:21,167 --> 00:31:23,397 “Like a bee in the middle of St. Peter's Cathedral”... 183 00:31:23,469 --> 00:31:26,336 notes a prominent Berkeley physicist. 184 00:31:26,405 --> 00:31:28,464 According to quantum field theory... 185 00:31:28,541 --> 00:31:32,136 as initially developed by Yukawa and many others in the 1930s... 186 00:31:32,211 --> 00:31:34,441 (when Buckaroo's father first began his experiments)... 187 00:31:34,514 --> 00:31:39,509 the forces between particles are created by exchanges of other particles. 188 00:31:39,585 --> 00:31:41,815 The electromagnetic force is carried. 189 00:31:41,888 --> 00:31:44,914 By the exchange of particles called “virtual photons.” 190 00:31:44,991 --> 00:31:48,825 In other words, the empty space between the electrons and protons... 191 00:31:48,895 --> 00:31:51,455 in normal material is full of virtual photons. 192 00:31:51,531 --> 00:31:54,262 Furthermore, if virtual photons fail to travel... 193 00:31:54,333 --> 00:31:56,267 all the way between electrons and the nucleus... 194 00:31:56,335 --> 00:32:00,499 atoms would no longer be prevented from passing through each other. 195 00:32:00,573 --> 00:32:03,873 Since virtual photons have no mass, they are able to travel... 196 00:32:03,943 --> 00:32:06,435 the full distance between electrons and protons. 197 00:32:06,512 --> 00:32:11,746 If virtual photons had mass, they would be restricted to a very small region... 198 00:32:11,817 --> 00:32:14,912 around the elementary particles that make up the atoms. 199 00:32:14,987 --> 00:32:18,981 This would reduce the ability of these particles to “see” each other... 200 00:32:19,058 --> 00:32:21,857 in effect creating truly empty space within and between atoms. 201 00:32:21,928 --> 00:32:23,896 The passage would be clear... 202 00:32:23,963 --> 00:32:27,627 for Buckaroo Banzai and his Jet Car to pass through matter. 203 00:32:35,608 --> 00:32:38,543 This creature (nicknamed Odd Wad)... 204 00:32:38,611 --> 00:32:42,013 is actually a sentient parasite that lives on alcohol. 205 00:32:42,081 --> 00:32:47,076 (It was attracted to the Jet Car by a small pinhole leak in a fuel line). 206 00:32:47,153 --> 00:32:50,145 It is seen here basking in a beaker of rum. 207 00:32:50,222 --> 00:32:53,055 Eventually growing to a circumference of ten feet... 208 00:32:53,125 --> 00:32:56,493 it was successfully crossed with one of Rawhide's prize-winning pigs... 209 00:32:56,562 --> 00:33:00,362 as a potential food source for the developing world. 210 00:33:22,622 --> 00:33:26,217 During this brief intermission, Reno kept members of the press entertained... 211 00:33:26,292 --> 00:33:29,819 by showing psychedelic slides of the 8th Dimension. 212 00:34:11,537 --> 00:34:15,098 The bolt sent to Buckaroo over the phone was not an electrical shock per se... 213 00:34:15,174 --> 00:34:17,802 but a form of electrochemical communication. 214 00:34:17,877 --> 00:34:21,541 (The information contained in that one charge... 215 00:34:21,614 --> 00:34:25,346 would have taken nearly an hour to impart verbally). 216 00:34:46,405 --> 00:34:49,636 This moment was utter chaos... 217 00:34:49,709 --> 00:34:53,168 as none of the Cavaliers yet knew what a Lectroid was... 218 00:34:53,245 --> 00:34:57,580 and Buckaroo was the only one that could see them! 219 00:34:57,650 --> 00:35:00,745 Perfect Tommy later said he noticed the reporters in question... 220 00:35:00,820 --> 00:35:04,051 heaping giant spoonfuls of sugar into their coffee and thought it odd... 221 00:35:04,123 --> 00:35:07,491 but didn't feel it warranted mentioning. 222 00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:10,359 Ah, the benefit of hindsight. 223 00:36:17,596 --> 00:36:21,829 The motorcycle Buckaroo is riding is a Harley Davidson XR1000. 224 00:36:21,901 --> 00:36:25,235 This bike was a special production number and very few were made. 225 00:36:25,304 --> 00:36:28,035 (Today this model is quite collectable.) 226 00:36:28,107 --> 00:36:31,737 In 1984, the XR1000 was the fastest and baddest model that Harley offered. 227 00:36:42,188 --> 00:36:44,520 The scenes with the duck hunters... 228 00:36:44,590 --> 00:36:47,651 were filmed at the end of the first week of production... 229 00:36:47,726 --> 00:36:51,492 at Rocky Oaks Park in the Malibu Mountains. 230 00:37:07,713 --> 00:37:11,377 Note the Lectroid on the left, sucking on the battery leads. 231 00:37:11,450 --> 00:37:14,579 Lectroids derive great pleasure from electricity. 232 00:37:14,653 --> 00:37:17,122 What you see here is the equivalent of a nic fit. 233 00:37:37,276 --> 00:37:40,302 These chase sequences were shot in Griffith Park in Los Angeles... 234 00:37:40,379 --> 00:37:44,873 (also the site of a free concert by the Hong Kong Cavaliers in 1992). 235 00:37:47,620 --> 00:37:51,022 While it may seem odd that a simple shotgun... 236 00:37:51,090 --> 00:37:53,684 could down an advanced alien vessel... 237 00:37:53,759 --> 00:37:57,423 most likely the thermopod had already dropped its protective force field... 238 00:37:57,496 --> 00:38:00,329 as it searched for a landing spot. 239 00:38:00,399 --> 00:38:03,198 The shotgun blast merely hastened its descent. 240 00:38:32,765 --> 00:38:36,360 The thermopod replica for the film was constructed... 241 00:38:36,435 --> 00:38:40,872 out of an inflated eight-foot weather balloon covered with polyurethane foam... 242 00:38:40,940 --> 00:38:43,773 which expands and hardens on contact with the air. 243 00:40:02,688 --> 00:40:05,487 This was the comics adaptation... 244 00:40:05,557 --> 00:40:07,753 of the first Buckaroo Banzai story ever committed to paper... 245 00:40:07,826 --> 00:40:10,921 “The Strange Case of Mr. Cigars.” 246 00:40:17,636 --> 00:40:21,197 Unknown Fact 247 00:40:21,273 --> 00:40:25,767 The Banzai Institute was a primary developer of cellular technology... 248 00:40:25,844 --> 00:40:29,371 first put to use in our very own “Go-Phones”... 249 00:40:29,448 --> 00:40:32,782 used by Buckaroo and Rawhide in this scene. 250 00:40:54,206 --> 00:40:56,903 Unknown Fact 251 00:40:56,975 --> 00:41:00,605 Perfect Tommy's Pet Peeve: “People that can't dance.” 252 00:42:34,474 --> 00:42:38,138 After fumbling a previous strike team assignment... 253 00:42:38,211 --> 00:42:41,181 Tommy was fined a year's supply of guitar picks. 254 00:43:00,934 --> 00:43:04,393 At last count there were over 6,000 Blue Blaze Irregulars worldwide— 255 00:43:04,471 --> 00:43:07,566 extraordinary men, women and children... 256 00:43:07,641 --> 00:43:11,236 who are “on call” 24 hours a day to help B. Banzai in a pinch. 257 00:43:11,311 --> 00:43:14,110 They must submit to rugged physical training... 258 00:43:14,181 --> 00:43:16,741 and are required yearly to make certain educational advances. 259 00:43:16,816 --> 00:43:18,807 The motto of the Blue Blaze Irregulars: 260 00:43:18,885 --> 00:43:24,016 “Treat me good, I'll treat you better. Treat me bad, I'll treat you worse.” 261 00:44:24,517 --> 00:44:27,714 This is Mrs. Johnson, official archivist of the Banzai Institute. 262 00:44:27,787 --> 00:44:30,779 She provides the grease that keeps the wheels turning in this place. 263 00:44:30,857 --> 00:44:34,020 Without her, I daresay little would get done. 264 00:44:34,094 --> 00:44:37,394 Her world-famous sticky cinnamon buns. 265 00:44:37,464 --> 00:44:40,900 Have provided the fuel for many a late-night jam session! 266 00:44:47,474 --> 00:44:51,035 Unknown Fact Mrs. Johnson's Pet Peeve: 267 00:44:51,111 --> 00:44:54,411 “Watches costing more than my car.” 268 00:45:07,327 --> 00:45:09,625 Buckaroo's Five Verities are: 269 00:45:09,696 --> 00:45:13,098 better than himself. 270 00:45:13,166 --> 00:45:16,227 than to command. 271 00:45:16,303 --> 00:45:20,206 is the greatest glory. 272 00:45:20,273 --> 00:45:24,267 the greatest happiness. 273 00:45:24,344 --> 00:45:27,109 274 00:45:27,180 --> 00:45:30,172 although a pauper should accept a certain amount of wealth... 275 00:45:30,250 --> 00:45:33,220 to relieve the unhappiness of the rich. 276 00:45:47,367 --> 00:45:51,668 “Every year we pass the anniversary of our death.” — B. Banzai 277 00:46:03,316 --> 00:46:06,650 This was another moment that had to be toned down... 278 00:46:06,720 --> 00:46:09,246 for the benefit of younger audiences. 279 00:46:09,322 --> 00:46:13,122 Far from simply knocking them unconscious... 280 00:46:13,193 --> 00:46:16,185 the evil representatives from Yoyodyne... 281 00:46:16,262 --> 00:46:21,063 actually slaughtered the duck hunters and sheriff in a most gruesome manner. 282 00:46:21,134 --> 00:46:24,104 (Full details are available in the novel Across the 8th Dimension... 283 00:46:24,170 --> 00:46:26,434 now available from Pocket Books.) 284 00:47:12,419 --> 00:47:15,719 Unknown Fact 285 00:47:15,855 --> 00:47:19,257 Peter Weller's father was a helicopter pilot. 286 00:47:42,715 --> 00:47:46,447 Albert Einstein also played piano. 287 00:47:46,519 --> 00:47:49,648 Unknown Fact 288 00:47:49,722 --> 00:47:53,317 Billy's Pet Peeve: “Fire walls.” 289 00:47:53,393 --> 00:47:55,885 Sadly, he was later dismissed... 290 00:47:55,962 --> 00:47:58,659 for hacking into Banzai Institute personnel files... 291 00:47:58,731 --> 00:48:02,133 at the behest of a well-known national tabloid. 292 00:48:02,202 --> 00:48:05,297 The Banzai Institute is always looking for alternative revenue streams. 293 00:48:05,371 --> 00:48:07,601 If you have a money-making idea... 294 00:48:07,674 --> 00:48:10,439 we'd be happy to hear from you at www.Banzai-Institute.com. 295 00:48:31,731 --> 00:48:34,962 When the Planet 10 spaceship aimed its beams at this planet... 296 00:48:35,034 --> 00:48:37,765 they scanned the island of Jamaica... 297 00:48:37,837 --> 00:48:40,534 leaving the Adders (black Lectroids) with the false impression... 298 00:48:40,607 --> 00:48:43,042 that all Earthlings look like Rastafarians. 299 00:48:51,684 --> 00:48:54,312 Billy Vera, who was cast as me in the film... 300 00:48:54,387 --> 00:48:57,322 is a real-life rock star in Los Angeles. 301 00:48:57,390 --> 00:49:01,436 His band, Billy Vera and The Beaters, still plays around town. 302 00:49:01,461 --> 00:49:01,484 His band, Billy Vera and The Beaters, still plays around town. 303 00:49:01,594 --> 00:49:04,689 Blue Blaze Irregulars often show up at gigs... 304 00:49:04,764 --> 00:49:08,723 with pink cake boxes full of goodies for the band. 305 00:49:32,425 --> 00:49:37,625 All the inhabitants of Planet 10 took the earthly first name “John”... 306 00:49:37,697 --> 00:49:42,100 which, according to Reno, sounds like a form of greeting they commonly use... 307 00:49:42,168 --> 00:49:45,263 “comparable to the use of che in Argentina... 308 00:49:45,338 --> 00:49:48,433 or, to a lesser extent, our own 'hey.” 309 00:49:48,508 --> 00:49:52,069 Their surnames are either phonetic approximations of their real names. 310 00:49:52,145 --> 00:49:55,843 Or common Earth names chosen at random from the pages of the phone book... 311 00:49:55,915 --> 00:50:00,148 found in the Grover's Mills, New Jersey, social security office. 312 00:50:31,651 --> 00:50:35,417 “Mystery is the source of all true art and science.” — Massage Banzai 313 00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:49,294 Unknown Fact 314 00:50:49,369 --> 00:50:52,930 Director W.D. Richter's credits also include writing the screenplay... 315 00:50:53,006 --> 00:50:56,374 for the '70s remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. 316 00:51:47,493 --> 00:51:50,292 Unknown Fact 317 00:51:50,363 --> 00:51:53,492 The author of the Buckaroo Banzai adventure novel... 318 00:51:53,566 --> 00:51:56,866 Across the 8th Dimension is actually Reno. 319 00:51:56,936 --> 00:52:00,133 It was ghostwritten for his friend Earl Mac Rauch... 320 00:52:00,206 --> 00:52:03,141 in exchange for some rare Polaroids. 321 00:52:07,447 --> 00:52:10,439 Sam was a former exotic dancer. 322 00:52:10,516 --> 00:52:14,009 After his death, a cache of folded $1 bills was found in his lockbox. 323 00:52:18,458 --> 00:52:22,019 Lectroids blow poison barbs from their esophagus as a primary offensive weapon. 324 00:52:22,161 --> 00:52:25,756 (If you ever find yourself face-to-face with a Lectroid, go for its throat— 325 00:52:25,832 --> 00:52:29,345 it's the most vulnerable spot on its body). 326 00:52:29,368 --> 00:52:29,391 It's the most vulnerable spot on its body). 327 00:52:29,502 --> 00:52:32,233 John Bighoote is not your typical Lectroid. 328 00:52:32,305 --> 00:52:36,264 Soon after Yoyodyne was founded and Lizardo incarcerated... 329 00:52:36,342 --> 00:52:38,811 Bigboote led the company to become... 330 00:52:38,878 --> 00:52:42,712 the nation's largest privately held defense manufacturer. 331 00:52:42,782 --> 00:52:46,810 Forbes magazine once described him as an “innovative CEO”... 332 00:52:46,886 --> 00:52:49,480 and, at the time of Whorfin's return... 333 00:52:49,555 --> 00:52:52,957 plans were underway to open a new branch in London. 334 00:52:53,025 --> 00:52:57,587 He had become a capitalist and was enjoying the fruits of his labor. 335 00:52:57,663 --> 00:53:00,997 Although he was forever sworn to Whorfin's side... 336 00:53:01,067 --> 00:53:05,629 he harbored a deep resentment at being forced to give up... 337 00:53:05,705 --> 00:53:09,403 the life he had worked so hard to make for himself here on Earth. 338 00:53:19,418 --> 00:53:21,853 Unknown Fact 339 00:53:21,921 --> 00:53:24,856 Rawhide is an accomplished astronomer... 340 00:53:24,924 --> 00:53:28,417 but dropped out of university shortly before getting his degree. 341 00:53:29,428 --> 00:53:32,329 Unknown Fact 342 00:53:32,398 --> 00:53:36,858 Next to Buckaroo, Mrs. Johnson has the biggest key ring at the Institute. 343 00:53:46,879 --> 00:53:50,110 Buckaroo and Casper had met a year earlier... 344 00:53:50,183 --> 00:53:53,414 at the Blue Blaze Desert Survival School in Nevada... 345 00:53:53,486 --> 00:53:56,512 where Buckaroo taught Casper how to kill a man with his shoe. 346 00:54:01,994 --> 00:54:05,362 The original “record” device and viewing glasses are on display at the Smithsonian. 347 00:54:05,431 --> 00:54:09,061 Special written requests to actually view the hologram are accepted... 348 00:54:09,135 --> 00:54:11,866 but less than 5% of said requests are granted. 349 00:54:11,938 --> 00:54:14,339 (Scholarly research will give you the best chance.) 350 00:54:14,407 --> 00:54:18,037 Study of this technology provided the key... 351 00:54:18,110 --> 00:54:20,169 to several components in your DVD player! 352 00:54:22,415 --> 00:54:26,750 “Any sufficiently advanced technology... 353 00:54:26,819 --> 00:54:31,017 is indistinguishable from magic.” — Arthur C. Clarke 354 00:54:39,365 --> 00:54:41,493 Mrs. Johnson loves animals. 355 00:54:41,567 --> 00:54:45,026 She has a Japanese snow monkey and a Mexican Hairless... 356 00:54:45,104 --> 00:54:49,132 which is the unofficial mascot of the Banzai Institute. 357 00:54:49,208 --> 00:54:51,540 Red Lectroids were bred by the Adder majority... 358 00:54:51,611 --> 00:54:55,275 expressly for fighting wars of planetary defense... 359 00:54:55,348 --> 00:54:57,646 but in time these Lectroids grew ambitious... 360 00:54:57,717 --> 00:55:00,084 and seized power for themselves... 361 00:55:00,152 --> 00:55:03,281 overthrowing civilian rule with an army led by Whorfin. 362 00:55:49,368 --> 00:55:53,134 It turns out the Black Lectroids were only bluffing about vaporizing Smolensk... 363 00:55:53,205 --> 00:55:56,607 in order to gain Buckaroo's help. 364 00:55:56,676 --> 00:55:59,873 Their actual plan was to strike Yoyodyne. 365 00:55:59,946 --> 00:56:02,938 They were only awaiting approval from the Nova Police... 366 00:56:03,015 --> 00:56:05,507 sanctioning body of the universe. 367 00:56:13,759 --> 00:56:17,195 On his much-delayed forthcoming solo album... 368 00:56:17,263 --> 00:56:20,961 Perfect Tommy has a song entitled “Emdall.” 369 00:56:49,095 --> 00:56:50,439 His “guns” are the Navy Colts Buckaroo ordinarily uses... 370 00:56:50,463 --> 00:56:52,557 His “guns” are the Navy Colts Buckaroo ordinarily uses... 371 00:56:52,631 --> 00:56:55,566 only when going in search of Hanoi Xan. 372 00:56:55,634 --> 00:56:58,467 Manufactured in 1851, they are .36 caliber... 373 00:56:58,537 --> 00:57:01,438 and among the most popular of all Colt cap-and-ball revolvers. 374 00:57:01,507 --> 00:57:04,568 They have a 7 Y-inch barrel and cylinder... 375 00:57:04,643 --> 00:57:08,409 engraved with the scene of a battle between the navies of Texas and Mexico. 376 00:57:08,481 --> 00:57:11,781 This weapon was a personal favorite of Col. Colt himself. 377 00:57:29,802 --> 00:57:33,898 Peggy was murdered by Hanoi Xan shortly after she wed Buckaroo in New York. 378 00:57:39,345 --> 00:57:42,542 To quote Dr. Banzai: “A scientist, like a warrior, must cherish no view. 379 00:57:42,615 --> 00:57:45,710 A 'view' is the outcome of intellectual processes... 380 00:57:45,785 --> 00:57:48,277 whereas creativity, like swordsmanship... 381 00:57:48,354 --> 00:57:51,449 requires not neutrality, or indifference... 382 00:57:51,524 --> 00:57:53,618 but to be of no mind whatsoever.” 383 00:58:04,170 --> 00:58:07,902 Bethlehem Steel in Los Angeles doubled as the lab corridors... 384 00:58:07,973 --> 00:58:10,567 of the Banzai Institute. 385 00:58:10,643 --> 00:58:14,170 (A private home in Rustic Canyon served as the exterior location.) 386 00:58:34,333 --> 00:58:36,529 Allow me to share a story with you... 387 00:58:36,602 --> 00:58:39,663 which seems oddly appropriate at this point in the film. 388 00:58:39,738 --> 00:58:43,003 A sly old Zen master, who was very proud of his cunning... 389 00:58:43,075 --> 00:58:45,942 one day met a new pupil, Buckaroo Banzai... 390 00:58:46,011 --> 00:58:50,312 who was already a boy professor of philosophy at the Imperial University. 391 00:58:50,382 --> 00:58:54,683 “How do you do, master?” said Buckaroo. “Very well,” replied the old man. 392 00:58:54,753 --> 00:58:58,348 “Come now, young Banzai, it is said you are very quick-witted. 393 00:58:58,424 --> 00:59:01,416 Tell me, I pray you, how many tricks do you know... 394 00:59:01,494 --> 00:59:04,361 for escaping the heartless ronin in these parts?” 395 00:59:04,430 --> 00:59:06,899 “Oh, I know but one,” answered Buckaroo... 396 00:59:06,966 --> 00:59:09,458 “and that is to scramble up a tree as fast as I can.” 397 00:59:09,535 --> 00:59:11,526 “Is that all?” said the master. 398 00:59:11,604 --> 00:59:15,598 “Why, I know at least a hundred. How I pity your ignorance!” 399 00:59:15,674 --> 00:59:19,440 Just then they heard the thunder of horses ridden by cutthroats. 400 00:59:19,512 --> 00:59:24,382 “Good-bye,” said Buckaroo, and, running up a tree, he hid in the branches... 401 00:59:24,450 --> 00:59:27,112 where he could see all that was happening without being seen. 402 00:59:27,186 --> 00:59:29,416 The Zen master tried all his tricks in vain. 403 00:59:29,488 --> 00:59:32,150 The cutthroats quickly seized him. 404 00:59:32,224 --> 00:59:36,127 As they were dragging him away, Buckaroo called from the tree... 405 00:59:36,195 --> 00:59:38,289 “Good-bye, master. How I pity you... 406 00:59:38,364 --> 00:59:41,334 and how glad I am that I know one good thing well!” 407 01:00:54,340 --> 01:00:56,672 Unknown Fact 408 01:00:56,742 --> 01:00:59,768 Hikita's fave thing: “Any game of chance.” 409 01:01:35,314 --> 01:01:39,774 Don't forget the annual Basho Haiku Festival at the Banzai Institute. 410 01:01:39,852 --> 01:01:42,844 Send your entries to www.Banzai-Institute.com. 411 01:02:10,783 --> 01:02:13,582 Unknown Fact Reno's fave saying: 412 01:02:13,652 --> 01:02:17,816 “When the pupil is ready, a master will appear.” 413 01:02:37,076 --> 01:02:39,511 These frames from the movie have appeared... 414 01:02:39,578 --> 01:02:43,014 in numerous underground squish videos. 415 01:02:52,358 --> 01:02:55,384 “After the first death there is no other.” — B. Banzai 416 01:03:13,712 --> 01:03:16,704 Contrary to popular belief, Rawhide is not dead. 417 01:03:16,849 --> 01:03:20,547 While he is not “with us” in the sense of daily camaraderie... 418 01:03:20,619 --> 01:03:22,951 neither is he a lost cause. 419 01:03:23,021 --> 01:03:26,389 Following his descent into coma, he was placed in medical stasis... 420 01:03:26,458 --> 01:03:30,224 his metabolic rate slowed to a nearly imperceptible level... 421 01:03:30,295 --> 01:03:33,265 (also known as being put “on ice”). 422 01:03:33,332 --> 01:03:36,427 An entire wing of the Institute was dedicated... 423 01:03:36,502 --> 01:03:39,870 to finding a cure for the deadly Lectroid barb... 424 01:03:39,938 --> 01:03:42,771 the best men in their fields working around the clock. 425 01:03:42,841 --> 01:03:45,902 Only now we do we feel confident to announce... 426 01:03:45,978 --> 01:03:48,948 that an antidote is indeed nearly at hand... 427 01:03:49,014 --> 01:03:51,813 and we expect our fallen comrade to rejoin our ranks shortly. 428 01:03:51,884 --> 01:03:56,481 (His modified Trans Am is still in his parking space... 429 01:03:56,555 --> 01:03:58,580 and his favorite book, The Compleat Angler ... 430 01:03:58,657 --> 01:04:00,751 is still in the bathroom where he left it.) 431 01:04:14,406 --> 01:04:17,967 Secretary of Defense McKinley, while speaking to a highly respected senator... 432 01:04:18,043 --> 01:04:21,877 reportedly once referred to Buckaroo and his trusted inner circle... 433 01:04:21,947 --> 01:04:24,814 as “a bunch of amateur international do-gooders... 434 01:04:24,883 --> 01:04:28,012 who spend half their time... 435 01:04:28,086 --> 01:04:31,056 battling man's inhumanity to man in every corner of the globe... 436 01:04:31,123 --> 01:04:35,458 and half their time playing that goddamn primitive rock and roll music so loud... 437 01:04:35,527 --> 01:04:38,519 you can't even hear yourself scream.” 438 01:04:38,597 --> 01:04:42,261 The senator's response: “If they're amateurs, so be it. 439 01:04:42,334 --> 01:04:45,770 The world needs those who do something for the love of it.” 440 01:05:04,389 --> 01:05:07,359 Be sure to check out... 441 01:05:07,426 --> 01:05:10,657 the new Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers trading cards... 442 01:05:10,729 --> 01:05:13,994 in every box of Mrs. Johnson's corn bread mix. 443 01:05:27,179 --> 01:05:30,513 Unknown Fact 444 01:05:30,582 --> 01:05:34,780 New Jersey's Pet Peeve: “Stickers on fruit.” 445 01:06:44,356 --> 01:06:47,121 Unknown Fact 446 01:06:47,192 --> 01:06:50,753 John Lithgow played Yoda in the radio production of The Empire Strikes Back. 447 01:07:29,401 --> 01:07:31,961 We at the Banzai Institute are often asked... 448 01:07:32,037 --> 01:07:35,007 why the OVERTHRUSTER has been “on the shelf” for so long. 449 01:07:35,073 --> 01:07:37,633 The obvious unintended side effect... 450 01:07:37,709 --> 01:07:41,407 of the original technology is well-documented: 451 01:07:41,480 --> 01:07:45,383 the inability to prevent the time vortex from being used... 452 01:07:45,450 --> 01:07:48,613 as a conduit to our world by uninvited travelers from other dimensions... 453 01:07:48,687 --> 01:07:51,679 such as the psychopathic alien John Whorfin... 454 01:07:51,757 --> 01:07:54,852 and his exiled crew from Planet 10. 455 01:07:54,926 --> 01:07:58,089 But there were also other, lesser-known problems... 456 01:07:58,163 --> 01:08:00,154 associated with the original test. 457 01:08:00,232 --> 01:08:03,293 Although not highly publicized, a veritable laundry list of ailments... 458 01:08:03,368 --> 01:08:05,029 both emotional and physical... 459 01:08:05,103 --> 01:08:09,665 continued to plague Buckaroo for months after his trip through solid matter. 460 01:08:09,741 --> 01:08:11,835 In addition to violent black vomiting spells... 461 01:08:11,910 --> 01:08:16,211 and apparent damage to the limbic system of the brain (the seat of emotions)... 462 01:08:16,281 --> 01:08:19,717 far more troubling phenomena presented themselves. 463 01:08:19,851 --> 01:08:21,649 For example, on several occasions... 464 01:08:21,720 --> 01:08:24,815 Buckaroo walked through walls or simply disappeared before our eyes. 465 01:08:24,890 --> 01:08:27,587 These “freezing episodes” typically went on for several minutes... 466 01:08:27,659 --> 01:08:32,006 during which time Buckaroo was totally invisible to us... 467 01:08:32,030 --> 01:08:32,053 during which time Buckaroo was totally invisible to us... 468 01:08:32,164 --> 01:08:33,222 and unable to speak or move. 469 01:08:33,298 --> 01:08:36,233 When a visitor accidentally brushed against Buckaroo... 470 01:08:36,301 --> 01:08:39,293 seconds after one such disappearing incident... 471 01:08:39,371 --> 01:08:42,830 the poor woman burst into flames that proved impossible to extinguish. 472 01:08:42,908 --> 01:08:45,343 Despite these and other problems... 473 01:08:45,410 --> 01:08:49,040 work on the latest version of the OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER... 474 01:08:49,114 --> 01:08:52,846 continues apace for the next test run of the new polymorphous Jet Car ... 475 01:08:52,918 --> 01:08:56,616 tentatively scheduled for real soon. 476 01:09:13,739 --> 01:09:17,539 “Nothing real can defeat us. Nothing unreal exists.” — B. Banzai 477 01:09:36,628 --> 01:09:39,791 The President's underwear kept riding up... 478 01:09:39,865 --> 01:09:42,732 to the point where surgery was the only option. 479 01:09:54,045 --> 01:09:56,514 Unknown Fact 480 01:09:56,581 --> 01:09:59,983 Assumption is the mother of all mistakes. 481 01:10:13,665 --> 01:10:16,134 Unknown Fact 482 01:10:16,201 --> 01:10:18,568 Fire dwells beneath the water palace. 483 01:10:39,324 --> 01:10:43,056 General Catbird was still trying to deaden the pain of 'Nam. 484 01:10:43,128 --> 01:10:45,597 Add in the crippling factor of booze... 485 01:10:45,664 --> 01:10:49,123 and he is now cleaning glasses in a San Diego sports bar. 486 01:11:03,715 --> 01:11:06,980 “Sometimes verbal ingenuity is not enough.” — B. Banzai 487 01:11:19,531 --> 01:11:23,263 The Firestone Rubber Plant in Southgate (Los Angeles)... 488 01:11:23,335 --> 01:11:25,599 already dark, dirty and dank... 489 01:11:25,670 --> 01:11:28,105 made the perfect location for “The Pitt.” 490 01:11:50,328 --> 01:11:53,787 “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” — Albert Einstein 491 01:12:24,062 --> 01:12:26,827 SUV owners take note: 492 01:12:26,898 --> 01:12:30,493 The Jet Car was fine-tuned for extraordinary fuel mileage. 493 01:12:30,568 --> 01:12:33,196 Is yours? If not, contact the Institute today... 494 01:12:33,271 --> 01:12:36,673 and request a copy of the environmental action memorandum... 495 01:12:36,741 --> 01:12:39,870 “Turn Your Gas-Guzzler Into A Hydrogen Happymobile.” 496 01:12:49,387 --> 01:12:52,152 Look in the mirror, moron. 497 01:13:14,412 --> 01:13:18,349 All nasty goober teeth. 498 01:13:24,422 --> 01:13:27,289 Dig a hole and die. 499 01:13:49,381 --> 01:13:51,816 Psychotic loser. 500 01:14:00,825 --> 01:14:03,294 When sparks fly from a monkey's ass! 501 01:14:13,805 --> 01:14:16,001 That yellow mound on the floor... 502 01:14:16,074 --> 01:14:20,011 is a giant pile of cream-filled, sponge-cake-like snack food. 503 01:14:54,379 --> 01:14:58,282 Wilmington's Department of Water and Power was used for the Shock Tower scenes. 504 01:16:04,682 --> 01:16:07,913 Although we referred to it as the Shock Tower... 505 01:16:07,986 --> 01:16:11,820 to the Lectroids it was known as the “Chair of Delight”... 506 01:16:11,890 --> 01:16:14,757 (so called because, to the Lectroids... 507 01:16:14,826 --> 01:16:18,228 massive electrical shocks were a source of great pleasure). 508 01:16:18,296 --> 01:16:21,561 Among themselves, they used the chair for recreational purposes... 509 01:16:21,633 --> 01:16:23,692 much as we might use a sauna. 510 01:16:48,793 --> 01:16:51,160 Unknown Fact 511 01:16:51,229 --> 01:16:54,130 Roughly translated from Lectroid texts... 512 01:16:54,199 --> 01:16:56,566 Whorfin means “the strong.” 513 01:17:12,550 --> 01:17:15,520 Unknown Fact 514 01:17:15,587 --> 01:17:17,646 John Whorfin is the father... 515 01:17:17,722 --> 01:17:22,159 to over 200 illegitimate offspring and countless larvae on Planet 10. 516 01:17:39,577 --> 01:17:43,309 The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power plant also served... 517 01:17:43,381 --> 01:17:46,146 as the Yoyodyne exterior. 518 01:18:25,423 --> 01:18:29,053 The Cavaliers follow the traditional three stages before an attack is launched: 519 01:18:29,127 --> 01:18:32,153 ACTION ALERT —ACTION REQUEST — ACTION ORDER 520 01:18:58,956 --> 01:19:01,550 Lectroids have plump black tongues like Chow puppies. 521 01:19:20,678 --> 01:19:23,204 “Nothing is ever what it seems... 522 01:19:23,281 --> 01:19:26,376 but everything is exactly what it is.” — B. Banzai 523 01:19:50,208 --> 01:19:53,576 Lectroids do not bathe as a rule except twice in their lives... 524 01:19:53,644 --> 01:19:56,579 (at birth and on their wedding night). 525 01:19:56,647 --> 01:19:59,446 They do have a ritual of self-fumigation, however... 526 01:19:59,517 --> 01:20:02,487 which also constitutes recreation for them. 527 01:20:02,553 --> 01:20:05,284 A fire using their excrement is started on the floor... 528 01:20:05,356 --> 01:20:09,122 and several of them strip and shake their clothes over the flames. 529 01:20:09,193 --> 01:20:12,390 Small parasites which infest their bodies... 530 01:20:12,463 --> 01:20:14,955 fall out of their clothes and into the fire... 531 01:20:15,032 --> 01:20:18,058 where they explode with different noises... 532 01:20:18,136 --> 01:20:21,197 depending upon the parasite's size. 533 01:20:21,272 --> 01:20:24,401 The cumulative effect of all these little explosions is... 534 01:20:24,475 --> 01:20:26,807 to the Lectroid ear... 535 01:20:26,878 --> 01:20:30,007 the sweetest kind of music, akin to a symphony. 536 01:20:34,318 --> 01:20:37,879 The Lectroids have a macabre and little-understood philosophy... 537 01:20:37,955 --> 01:20:41,482 which may be summed up as “Death is the mother of beauty.” 538 01:20:59,577 --> 01:21:02,308 It has been a matter of great speculation... 539 01:21:02,380 --> 01:21:06,374 why the alarms at Yoyodyne were not sounded sooner... 540 01:21:06,451 --> 01:21:08,852 and why, once sounded, many failed to function. 541 01:21:08,920 --> 01:21:12,288 A subsequent investigation by the FBI revealed... 542 01:21:12,356 --> 01:21:15,326 that much of the alarm-system wiring had been chewed through... 543 01:21:15,393 --> 01:21:17,487 presumably by the Lectroids themselves. 544 01:21:39,317 --> 01:21:42,719 Lectroids in general are mucus-eaters... 545 01:21:42,787 --> 01:21:46,348 (along with the electricity elemental to their existence)... 546 01:21:46,424 --> 01:21:49,223 but after decades on this planet, they have been weakened... 547 01:21:49,293 --> 01:21:52,854 by a steady diet of sweets, asbestos and filter-tip cigarettes. 548 01:22:09,347 --> 01:22:12,806 “Greatness can only be achieved when it is not sought.” — B. Banzai 549 01:22:58,896 --> 01:23:01,866 Yoyodyne smelled like a nursing home. 550 01:23:01,933 --> 01:23:04,925 One of the biggest dangers to our boys... 551 01:23:05,002 --> 01:23:07,972 what punji sticks coated with Lectroid dung. 552 01:23:09,840 --> 01:23:12,036 Unknown Fact 553 01:23:12,109 --> 01:23:15,272 Buckaroo fave place: “Anywhere that doesn't exist.” 554 01:23:24,622 --> 01:23:28,286 The Armco Steel Plant in Torrance housed the Lectroid launch hangar. 555 01:23:43,774 --> 01:23:45,401 Unknown Fact 556 01:23:45,476 --> 01:23:48,377 Director W.D. Richter's latest hobby... 557 01:23:48,446 --> 01:23:51,711 is helping his wife raise rare-breed chickens. 558 01:23:53,217 --> 01:23:56,243 His current obsession is with the South American Araucanas... 559 01:23:56,320 --> 01:23:59,756 a bird coveted centuries ago by the Araucas Indians... 560 01:23:59,824 --> 01:24:02,225 who refused to allow their fowl to be crossbred... 561 01:24:02,293 --> 01:24:04,728 with those of the Spanish conquerors. 562 01:24:04,795 --> 01:24:08,561 Today, the Araucana is prized for the remarkable celadon-colored eggs it lays. 563 01:24:39,363 --> 01:24:43,061 Get that copyrighted. Somebody could steal that. 564 01:24:49,575 --> 01:24:53,876 The “snot monster” prop, as it was affectionately known... 565 01:24:53,946 --> 01:24:56,415 was coated with actual clams... 566 01:24:56,482 --> 01:25:00,043 giving it the ability to leave a genuine slime trail. 567 01:25:15,067 --> 01:25:17,798 Unknown Fact 568 01:25:17,870 --> 01:25:20,931 Perfect Tommy's Pet Peeve: “How many can I list?” 569 01:25:29,381 --> 01:25:33,284 “If all wishes were granted, what would be left to dream?” — B. Banzai 570 01:25:40,693 --> 01:25:43,390 Unknown Fact 571 01:25:43,462 --> 01:25:45,590 The strong energy gate is the center of the palm. 572 01:26:45,324 --> 01:26:48,817 Lectroids are easily aroused sexually by the sight or smell of the dead... 573 01:26:48,894 --> 01:26:52,990 becoming vaso-congested and lubricated by the proximity of a corpse. 574 01:27:22,895 --> 01:27:25,626 The budget of the movie called for suits and ties... 575 01:27:25,697 --> 01:27:28,689 but the real Lectroids at Yoyodyne were found wearing... 576 01:27:28,767 --> 01:27:31,395 guayabera shirts and sky-blue jumpsuits. 577 01:27:45,417 --> 01:27:48,216 Unknown Fact 578 01:27:48,287 --> 01:27:52,246 Reno's Fave Thing to Do on a Day Off: Get messed up and waste time. 579 01:28:07,606 --> 01:28:12,737 Scooter Linley went to Santeria seminary and now resides in the Miami area... 580 01:28:12,811 --> 01:28:16,611 where he remains an active Blue Blazer. 581 01:29:28,020 --> 01:29:30,990 These are the feet of Associate Producer Dan Lupovitz. 582 01:29:31,056 --> 01:29:34,515 The ring is the wedding band of Susan Richter, wife of the director. 583 01:29:39,264 --> 01:29:42,495 Unknown Fact Time is of the essence. 584 01:30:59,811 --> 01:31:01,802 This special effect shot required five cameras... 585 01:31:01,880 --> 01:31:04,110 running at speeds of 120 to 240 frames per second... 586 01:31:04,182 --> 01:31:06,344 a special model and a very delicate wall. 587 01:31:06,418 --> 01:31:08,409 A cart was made to carry the small Lizardo ship... 588 01:31:08,487 --> 01:31:11,047 on a track towards the wall at a speed of 30 miles per hour. 589 01:31:11,123 --> 01:31:13,114 The spines on the front of the ship... 590 01:31:13,191 --> 01:31:16,388 had to be reinforced with steel rods to prevent them from breaking. 591 01:31:16,461 --> 01:31:18,293 Special dump tanks filled with debris... 592 01:31:18,363 --> 01:31:20,127 were rigged to fire just as the ship broke through. 593 01:31:20,198 --> 01:31:22,826 One sunny afternoon, everything was set up, the cameras rolled... 594 01:31:22,901 --> 01:31:25,427 and in less than a third of a second, the whole thing was over. 595 01:31:25,504 --> 01:31:28,132 The Panther ship model was more than three feet across. 596 01:31:57,569 --> 01:32:00,664 The Escape Pod miniature was built by Greg Jein... 597 01:32:00,739 --> 01:32:03,709 using photo reference provided by the Banzai Institute... 598 01:32:03,775 --> 01:32:06,472 (courtesy of the Nova Police). 599 01:34:04,663 --> 01:34:08,327 After being shot down by Buckaroo, pieces of Whorfin regenerated... 600 01:34:08,400 --> 01:34:10,801 and he resumed his treacherous, criminal ways. 601 01:34:10,869 --> 01:34:14,134 In order to survive, he began a career as an Ethiopian drug mule... 602 01:34:14,206 --> 01:34:18,507 squeezing out drug balloons for the World Crime League. 603 01:34:18,577 --> 01:34:22,980 His later plots included a roofing scam that preyed on the elderly... 604 01:34:23,048 --> 01:34:26,348 and a grave-robbing operation that mined silicone breast implants for resale... 605 01:34:26,418 --> 01:34:29,285 to crooked plastic surgeons. 606 01:34:29,354 --> 01:34:32,517 He was last seen co-hosting a goofy morning show in Philadelphia. 607 01:34:39,331 --> 01:34:42,596 “Hope is a dream by one who is awake.” — Aristotle 608 01:34:49,341 --> 01:34:51,969 “All of us have wings. 609 01:34:52,043 --> 01:34:55,479 Some of us just don't know what they're for.” — B. Banzai 610 01:34:58,316 --> 01:35:00,683 After the heroic assault on Yoyodyne... 611 01:35:00,752 --> 01:35:03,813 each Blue Blazer received an oversized spoon and fork 612 01:35:03,888 --> 01:35:06,721 from the grateful government of the Philippines. 613 01:35:23,708 --> 01:35:25,699 “Be careful of half-truths— 614 01:35:25,777 --> 01:35:29,645 you might have the wrong half.” — Reno of Memphis (formerly Reno Nevada) 615 01:35:36,721 --> 01:35:39,656 To this day, Peter Weller is still mistaken for Buckaroo Banzai. 616 01:35:39,724 --> 01:35:43,092 Billy Vera (who portrays me in the film) is approached on a weekly basis... 617 01:35:43,161 --> 01:35:45,357 by fans looking for an autograph from Pinky! 618 01:35:49,234 --> 01:35:53,034 Lewis Smith has been known to go clubbing with the real Perfect Tommy. 619 01:35:53,104 --> 01:35:56,233 They enjoy taking bets as to who will be recognized as Tommy first. 620 01:36:05,417 --> 01:36:08,284 Unknown Fact 621 01:36:08,353 --> 01:36:11,721 During the massive post-raid cleanup/excavation of Yoyodyne... 622 01:36:11,790 --> 01:36:15,192 John Whorfin's private quarters revealed a cache of edible panties. 623 01:36:15,260 --> 01:36:19,458 In addition, Buckaroo and the boys found various human and Lectroid skeletons... 624 01:36:19,531 --> 01:36:22,398 seated around a carved ice swan. 625 01:37:34,305 --> 01:37:38,242 “Nobody is nobody. Everyone has something to offer.” — B. Banzai 626 01:38:23,354 --> 01:38:26,133 Unknown Fact 627 01:38:26,157 --> 01:38:26,180 Unknown Fact 628 01:38:26,291 --> 01:38:29,158 The World Crime League controls 90% of the squish video market. 629 01:38:30,562 --> 01:38:33,793 “Few will have the greatness to bend history... 630 01:38:33,865 --> 01:38:36,926 but each time a man stands up for an ideal... 631 01:38:37,001 --> 01:38:40,528 or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice... 632 01:38:40,605 --> 01:38:44,405 he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. 633 01:38:44,476 --> 01:38:48,208 And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring... 634 01:38:48,279 --> 01:38:51,271 those ripples build a current which can sweep down... 635 01:38:51,349 --> 01:38:54,944 the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” — Robert F. Kennedy 636 01:42:16,554 --> 01:42:18,454 Pop quiz! 637 01:42:18,523 --> 01:42:21,322 Q: What's the unofficial mascot of the Banzai Institute? 638 01:42:23,628 --> 01:42:26,256 A: Mrs. Johnson's Mexican Hairless.