I loved (and still love) Lost in Space but some episodes in the final season were just silly. I think the most stupid episode was The Great Vegetable Rebellion, every time I watch it I laugh it's so funny, that big talking carrot is just hularious and the plants that scream with pain every time that John and Don cut them, and also when Dr Smith latches onto a tree and becomes a plant with fruit on his head.
shareI would say--and apparently most on the tread agree--the "Vegetable Rebellion" episode was without doubt the most inane LIS episode, arguably the most ridiculous TV series episode in history.
Interestingly enough, it was the next-to-last episode of the series, and it was enough to warrant CBS to pull the plug. The series had obviously gotten beyond absurd.
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I thought he looked like an oversized marijuana plant.
shareThe Great Vegetable Rebellion wins hands down.
I read that some of the actors were laughing so hard while filming that episode, they were punished by being written out of a future episode.
In THE GREAT VEGETABLE REBELLION the way the plants shrieked in pain when cut intrigued me. Years later a book called THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS was published which stated that plants have feelings and emotions. It was turned into a 1979 documentary with music by Stevie Wonder -
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I read that some of the actors were laughing so hard while filming that episode, they were punished by being written out of a future episode.
"Space Beauty" is a stinker too.
I have the first season on DVD. Most of the episodes are pretty good. Seeing a 2nd/3rd season episode (Me-TV) after watching the first is a bit of a shock. I think I'll pass on the 2-3 season DVDs.
Season 1 far surpasses the other 2 seasons. Season 2 is, in my opinion, the worst of them all.
The first couple episodes of Season 2 aren't too bad and there are one or two episodes after that which are watchable, notably "A Trip Through the Robot". Season 3 has a few more episodes that are decent, including "Condemned of Space", "Visit to a Hostile Planet", and "The Anti-Matter Man".
I would suggest buying Season 3 and skipping Season 2.
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They're all pretty bad, and today, unwatchable.
Were it my command, Smith would have been tried and executed at the first opportunity.
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I just watched Curse of Cousin Smith on Me-TV, and it gets my vote.
shareThe original synopsis for that episode was far more serious.
But unlike most season 2 episodes, at least for me, Vegetable Rebellion succeeds with its plot execution and uber-camp since I'm not rolling my eyes and going "watching this insults my intelligence" or "this has no redeeming values, how could I have ever liked this one?"
Which is really sad to say because it's clear the episode instantly leaves the viewer with thinking "Were they on LSD when they wrote that?"
That episode had a lot of outtakes because the actors kept cracking up, Guy Williams and June Lockhart to such an extent they were written out of two episodes as punishment. Those outtakes would be priceless to see.
Actually Roald Dahl came up with basically the same idea with his story "The Sound Machine," published in 1949 (minus the 6-foot talking carrot and people turning into plants). His story covered seriously the topic of plants screaming in pain and the effect of its discovery on a human inventor, and was dramatized on "Tales of the Unexpected" in 1981.
Didn’t some of the cast members get in trouble during that episode because they couldn’t stop laughing while on camera?
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