Episode 194
September 18, 2026
The Infinity Impulse
MST3K K03 • Star Force: Fugitive Alien II
Hosted by Charlotte Wells and Chris Piuma
Star Force: Fugitive Alien II returns, KTMA-style, to send Chris and Charlotte into black holes, hyperbolic curves, infinite mysteries, historical myths, and national anthems.
Show Notes.
Star Force: Fugitive Alien II (Minoru Kanaya & Kiyosumi Kuzakawa, 1978 (tv show)/1987 (film)): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Watch on YouTube.
We covered Fugitive Alien (part I) in episodes 176 (KTMA) and 177 (season 3).
Our episode on Prince of Space.
Janna Levin: Black Hole Survival Guide was the most useful book Chris read on the topic.
Einstein Online (from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) and NASA also have useful pages on black holes.
Cygnus X-1, Messier 87*, and Sagittarius A* are the three obvserved black holes that we mention.
In case you can't imagine the math function Chris describes, here's a graph.
David J. Silverman: This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving.
The Smithsonian on the Thanksgiving origin story.
Mary Livingstone’s poem about two Thanksgivings on the Jack Benny Program, 1939. (Or listen to the whole episode. Though Chris was probably thinking about the episodes that came out around Thanksgiving 1940.)
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