Conference noted::sf

469.0. "QUARK" by EDEN::KLAES (Patience, and shuffle the cards.) Fri Apr 24 1987 13:30

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Subject: QUARK
Posted: 22 Apr 87 16:13:08 GMT
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From: PUGH%[email protected]

    [I miss this old SF show from 1978; it really was rather clever. - LK]
     
    QUARK was a very funny show (at least to those of us who like
Richard Benjamin and know all the SF movies they were parodying) that
lasted only for one summer season.  That puts it around 10-15
episodes. 
 
    The cast was Ficus, the unemotional plant science officer who had
most of the really great lines.  Like when Quark went outside to fix
something and came back in as an old man. He said, "Ficus, how did I
get so old?" Ficus replied, "One hypothesis is that you were outside
for ten years."  Then there's that great blank stare.  Or the time
some girl was trying to seduce Ficus and they ended up pollinating. 
They layed on their backs with their arms and legs in the air (sort of
like a dead dog) and she says, "Now what?"  "We wait for the bees." 
There were other direct parodies of popular STAR TREK shows too. 
 
    The clones, Betty and Betty.  Each claimed to be the original and
was willing to argue about it.  Loudly. 
 
    The grisly old scientist with a patch over his eye (he lost it
when someone slapped him on the back while he was looking through a
microscope). 
 
    That stupid robot that he built.  
 
    "Mank you." 
    "That's 'Thank you'."
    "You're melcome"
 
    All in all, I enjoyed it.
 
Jon
 
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That seems like eons ago.  I don't remember too much about it; 
does anyone remember a few of the episodes?  All I can remember 
is that the space ship was a galactic garbage scowl...

	Mike

PS- I thought it was a pretty funny program...