Homeboys In Outer Space (There's No Space Like Home S1/E1 Full Episode 1996)

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Homeboys In Outer Space

Homeboys in Outer Space is an American science fiction/fantasy sitcom that aired on UPN from August 27, 1996 to May 13, 1997. The series stars comedian Flex Alexander and Darryl M Bell.

The plot centered around two astronauts, Tyberius "Ty" Walker (Flex) and Morris Clay (Bell), who flew around the universe in a winged car, nicknamed the "Space Hoopty", in the 23rd century. The duo's car, which was a cross between a lowrider and an 18 wheeler, was piloted by a talking female computer named Loquatia.


Main Cast

• Flex Alexander as Tyberius "Ty" Walker
• Darryl M Bell as Morris Clay
• Rhona Bennett as Loquatia
• Kevin Michael Richardson as Vashti
• Paulette Braxton as Amma
• James Doohan as Pippen
• John Lithgow as Pitty McPatpat
• Michael K Colyar as Milky Ray
• Peter MacKenzie as Android Lloyd Wellington III

Video Description: Ty and Morris are two wacky space cadets hustling jobs in the 23rd century, waiting for the contract that will pay off big. When rich Jed Eye mercenary approaches them with a lucrative contract to find buried treasure, they're in seventh heaven, but there's no such thing as easy money. Morris and Ty meet the famous and notorious bounty hunter Jed Eye, who seems to be old friends/enemies with Amma. Jed Eye offers to take Morris and Ty on a lucrative mission. Once they're on the mission, Jed Eye hijacks the Hoopty and strands Morris and Ty on a deserted asteroid. After they are picked up by a little old lady who lusts after Ty, our heroes hail a space taxi and track Jed Eye to the planet Remula, where he has gone to retrieve his buried treasure. Jed Eye, who has the ability to change his shape, makes himself look like Morris and manages to capture Ty. At the last minute, Morris shows up and turns the tables on Jed Eye. As Morris and Ty count their money, Amma shows up and claims the treasure - Jed Eye stole it from her years ago. Morris and Ty reluctantly hand over the treasure, and Amma pays them a small finder's fee, which is immediately snatched out of their hands by the space-taxi driver, who has been waiting all this time - with the meter running.

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Video Description: The original pilot for UPN’s much maligned Afrofuturistic guilty pleasure Homeboys From Outer Space. It stars Flex Alexander and Mel Jackson, who would be replaced by Daryl M Bell (Ron on A Different World) once the show was picked up for production on UPN.

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Orlando Sentinel (1996) https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...342-story.html



LAME, WITLESS 'HOMEBOYS' IS AN AWFUL WASTE OF SPACE

A warped adventure that's not worth a whoop, Homeboys in Outer Space beams into the television galaxy tonight, courtesy of those scavengers at UPN.

The major broadcast networks would flush this bit of "Star Dreck," yet the UPN executives have decided to lamely go where other sci-fi series have gone before.

Critic's log: The results are stunningly bad. The sitcom debuts at 8:30 on WRBW-Channel 65 and WTOG-Channel 44.

Homeboys could be the worst new series this fall, though it has many competitors for that title, all of them from the fledgling networks UPN and The WB. What these two networks do for comedy is comparable to what the Exxon Valdez did to nature.

The WB started Sunday with The Steve Harvey Show, a waste of the talented stand-up comic, and Life With Roger, which drops two nitwits into painful situations.

UPN continued the trend Monday with three sitcoms. Sparks obsesses over gross body jokes. The amateurishly performed Goode Behavior puts boorish Sherman Hemsley under house arrest. And in a particularly bad sign, UPN didn't make Malcolm & Eddie, the Malcolm-Jamal Warner sitcom, available for review.

The WB presents two more substandard comedies on Wednesday, Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher and The Jamie Foxx Show.

Even in that group, Homeboys stuns with its ineptitude and tastelessness. The space adventure, set in the 23rd century, scrounges up tacky sets and special effects, neither of which would matter if the show had a trace of humor or a campy style.

Instead, the sexist comedy repeatedly stoops to innuendo, making these intergalactic travels unsuitable for younger viewers. Early on, the designated heroes, Tyberius (stand-up comic Flex) and Morris (Darryl Bell of A Different World), share a conversation about making love to "an eight-breasted woman."

From there, the show arranges a series of smutty references. Soldier of fortune Amma (Paulette Braxton), clad in skin-tight black leather, talks about buying a man to satisfy her needs. The heroes' jive-talking computer, Loquatia (Rhona Bennett), puts Morris through a simulated sexual experience. An elderly woman gives the stranded heroes a ride and pets Ty's leg, asking, "How far do you want me to go?"

Even the villain, one-eyed Jed Eye, changes his body shape into a curvaceous woman, prompting a trite breast joke.

It's bad enough that Homeboys condescends to its black characters, but the show does more damage than that. It demeans women, reduces men to lascivious fools and traps the audience in the all-too-familiar orbit of trash TV.

When the show switches gears from sex jokes, the results are no funnier. Space entrepreneurs Tyberius and Morris - dubbed "the biggest losers in the galaxy" - run such mundane errands as picking up pizza for haughty tavern owner Vashti (Kevin Richardson). In a gross routine - don't read on if you're dining - Vashti devours mushroom-and-squirrel pizza and later coughs some of it up. Ah, and some critics say wit is dying.

The only pleasure in Homeboys comes in seeing James Doohan,"Scotty" from Star Trek, pop in as the mechanic Pippen. "You guys are worse than my last employers," Doohan whines.

Yes, in every way. Pippen works to keep the heroes' dilapidated Space Hoopty going despite constant breakdowns. At tonight's fade-out, the Impala-like vehicle is falling apart. In a similar manner, the show self-destructs around the performers.

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The Root https://www.theroot.com/homeboys-in-...sic-1790898346



In 1999 the satirical media outlet The Onion asked several "everymen" what they thought of Kweisi Nfume's accusation of flagrant whitewashing in major network programming. "With the possible exception of MLK's assassination, there has been no greater setback in the struggle for racial equality than the 1997 cancellation of Homeboys in Outer Space," answered system analyst "Dale Gibson."

That's right, Homeboys in Outer Space. The same show one local chapter of the NAACP compared to Amos 'N' Andy. The one TV Guide ranked 31st on its seminal list of "The 50 Worst TV Shows of All Time." The series that traded in stereotypes so offensive that my mother shook her head in shame every time I made her flip the channel to UPN. The show I watched religiously all during my junior year in high school.

Starring Darryl Bell as Captain Picard wannabe Morris Clay and the mononymous Flex as ne'er-do-well Tyberius Walker, Homeboys was so bad that it was bad. Their hair pretty much set the tone. Bell's character, Morris, had a slick conk-and-S-Curl hybrid as if he'd told his robot barber, "Give me the Lando Calrissian look but with baby hair." And Flex's Ty sported a 23rd-century high-top that was reaching for the moon. According to the theme song, Morris and Ty were "mercenary brothaa-aas, down for one anothaa-aaa."

A shining example of sci-fi parody gone wrong, the show tried to poke fun at black and geek culture by throwing them both under the "Space Hoopty." The special effects were self-consciously bootleg. The inside of Morris and Ty's used starship looked like a Greyhound-station bathroom after a bomb went off. Their "computer" was named "Loquatia" ("Or Ms. Jones if you're naaasty") and was preprogrammed with ghetto sass.

Also, the dialogue went like this:

Morris: Pull yourself together! In our many years of intergalactic battle we've been through worst than this!

Ty: Nuh-uh.

[Cue the laugh track.]

Yet despite all the government-cheese comedy, somehow Homeboys managed to wrangle in an impressive list of guest stars, including John Astin (The Addams Family), Gary Coleman (Diff'rent Strokes) and even OG Star Trek alums James Doohan and George Takei. That, and me as a devoted fan because the show never once took itself too seriously. I mean, how could it?

I was hooked from the very first episode, when Morris, trying to sound ominous and important, intones, "Space … " but instead of filling in the blank predictably, his voice cracks like a prepubescent teen's: "What a cool place!" That's what kept me coming back week after week for the short-lived one-season spoof: the unbridled innocence that could only be described as straight-up goofiness. Yeah, the one-liners were all lowbrow and laugh-tracked. But who cares? They're doing stuff! In space!

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Video Description: Homeboys In Outer Space Intro