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14 October 2008 9:50 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

In 1965, Buck Henry and Mel Brooks exploited the success and ubiquity of James Bond and the Pink Panther movies with the classic spoof Get Smart! Twelve years later, Henry—now flying solo—took notice of a massive boom in science fiction and created 1977's Quark, a Get Smart-style spoof that sets its satirical phasers on another outsized pulp genre which had already veered close to self-parody. Henry wasn't as successful this time around, and the show was cancelled after a mere eight episodes. Gone but not forgotten, Henry's romp piggybacked on the popularity of the science-fiction perennials it spoofed (three of the show's episodes are direct parodies of Star Trek, while a fourth spoofs Star Wars) to a small but loyal cult following. Consequently, hardcore Trekkies will probably get a lot more out of Quark's spaced-out shenanigans than people who regularly get laid. Richard Benjamin took a break from playing.

Nathan Rabin

14 October 2008 9:50 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

In 1965, Buck Henry and Mel Brooks exploited the success and ubiquity of James Bond and the Pink Panther movies with the classic spoof Get Smart! Twelve years later, Henry—now flying solo—took notice of a massive boom in science fiction and created 1977's Quark, a Get Smart-style spoof that sets its satirical phasers on another outsized pulp genre which had already veered close to self-parody. Henry wasn't as successful this time around, and the show was cancelled after a mere eight episodes. Gone but not forgotten, Henry's romp piggybacked on the popularity of the science-fiction perennials it spoofed (three of the show's episodes are direct parodies of Star Trek, while a fourth spoofs Star Wars) to a small but loyal cult following. Consequently, hardcore Trekkies will probably get a lot more out of Quark's spaced-out shenanigans than people who regularly get laid. Richard Benjamin took a break from playing.

Nathan Rabin

2 articles from 2008