“	Does anybody know a song about stock footage that can get us through this? Yeah, I know a song about stock footage, it goes like this, "Da da da da da, EAT IT MOVIE!!!	”
	— Crow and Tom

612 - The Starfighters
Air Date	October 29, 1994
Movie Director	Will Zens
Year	1964
Cast	Robert Dornan, Richard Jordahl, Richard Masters
Preceded by	611 - Last of the Wild Horses
Followed by	613 - The Sinister Urge

Contents 1 The Movie 1.1 Synopsis 1.2 Information 2 The Episode 2.1 Host Segments 2.2 Obscure References 2.3 Video Release

The Movie

Synopsis

A movie about planes that, sadly, also has actors in it. Refueling is prominently featured. This movie is viewed as the most uneventful movie they've ever had to watch.

Information

• Robert Dornan, who plays young Lt. John Witkowski, is the former congressman from California who unsuccessfully vied for the 1996 Republican nomination for President, then lost his House seat in a hotly contested race the same year, losing by less than a thousand votes.

The Episode

Host Segments

Prologue: With his seriously impressive (by 1994 standards) computer, Crow attempts to access the wonder that is the information superhighway using state of the art (by 1994 standards) dial-up. When his talked up tech skills crumble when he's unable to connect, Mike and Tom have to restrain him from smashing the computer/himself.

Segment One: As Crow suffers through the queue waiting for technical support, the Mads attempt to introduce their new cranial ports, but are enticed by Cowboy Mike's Red Hot Ricochet Barbecue Sauce, until they discover that the SOL crew has misrepresented its claimed boldness.

Segment Two: Inspired by the film, Crow and Tom reenact the spectacle that is... "refueling". Unfortunately Crow's on-hold tech support call finally reaches a human in the middle of it and he can't "disengage" in time.

Segment Three: The Bots "debriefing" of Mike is a little too literal.

Segment Four: The United Servo Academy Men's Chorus perform a stirring tribute to flight.

Closing (Segment Five): Crow finally gets to experience the wonder that is the information superhighway, but finds the wonder has been overstated a tad as Mike reads a letter, while the Mads finally get to show off their new cranial ports.

Stinger: Wife's killer elbow teaches Hubby whose boss.

Obscure References

• "It's Budgie the Helicopter!"

Budgie the Little Helicopter is a character created by Sarah, Duchess of York for a series of children's books.

• "Here, the Air Force escorts Sununu to a golf game!"

Yet another reference to John H. Sununu's misuse of government planes for personal use.

• "His name is Gein!"

​A reference to murderer, cadaver thief, and suspected cannibal Ed Gein of Plainfield, WI.

• "We got a great big convoy, truckin' through the night..."

​A line from the C.W. McCall song 'Convoy ', which was an impetus for the C.B. radio craze in the 1970s.

• Poopie (or Poopy) Suits

Poopie Suit is a nickname for a water survival suit. Its nickname stems from the odor that it acquires after extended use. It comes with a neck gasket and does not, by design, breathe. At all.

Also, that really is the nickname for that particular piece of flight gear--not a 'sanitized for Hollywood' version.

Video Release

• Commercially released on DVD by Rhino in October 2007 as part of The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection: Volume 12, a 4-DVD set with The Rebel Set, Secret Agent Super Dragon, and Parts: The Clonus Horror.
• The DVD features MST3K Video Jukebox Volume 3.

preceded by: Season 5		MST3K Season 6					followed by: Season 7
		1994 - 1995
601	Girls Town	1994-07-16	609	The Skydivers	1994-08-27	617	The Sword and the Dragon	1994-12-03
602	Invasion USA	1994-07-23	610	The Violent Years	1994-10-15	618	High School Big Shot	1994-12-20
603	The Dead Talk Back	1994-07-31	611	Last of the Wild Horses	1994-10-15	619	Red Zone Cuba	1994-12-17
604	Zombie Nightmare	1994-11-24	612	The Starfighters	1994-10-29	620	Danger!! Death Ray	1995-01-07
605	Colossus and the Headhunters	1994-08-20	613	The Sinister Urge	1994-11-05	621	The Beast of Yucca Flats	1995-01-21
606	The Creeping Terror	1994-09-17	614	San Francisco International	1994-11-19	622	Angels Revenge	1995-03-11
607	Bloodlust	1994-09-03	615	Kitten with a Whip	1994-11-23	623	The Amazing Transparent Man	1995-03-18
608	Code Name: Diamond Head	1994-10-01	616	Racket Girls	1994-11-26	624	Samson vs. the Vampire Women	1995-03-25