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...and that encounter should take place over in the Crossover thread(hint, hint)

Good point.

Lancer: "...so that's where I stand, Scott! It's unfair, asking us to put up with this!"
Scott: "Look, Lancer, I know, I KNOW! It's irritating, but we have to face the facts! Harmony Gold's only going to back future projects if there's a profitable return on them! And given the past history of Robotech project launches, they're going to do what it takes to maximize profit! That means attracting capital!"
Lancer: "But it's just so...demeaning!"
Scott: "We're just going to have to put up with the product placements."
(POV draws away to show the New Generation crowd standing plastered in various brand-name patches and logos, with their vehicles similarly covered in advertising)
"AAAAIIIEEEE!!!!!!!!"
(Rand runs by, predictably ON FIRE)
Rook: "Though what THAT'S supposed to be advertising, I don't know."
Lunk:(as Annie runs by, in Rand's wake)"Ronson lighters. Lights up all the time, every time."

Ariel: "Could be worse, he could have gotten Corg's job."

Cut to... a Praxian loading up at the craft services table.

Corg: "Hi there... Do you French?"



Charon: (Looking at the mess) "Ewwww."

"So what really was being advertised there? Artificial joint implants? Plastic surgery? At-home convalescent services? Lift chairs?"

"Good news Dana! You've been assigned to a new Armored Calvary unit!"

"Louie...upgrade it."
"WHA--?! I'm a software GEEK, not a bio-engineer!"

Sean: "I get my unit back!"
Dante: "No, you don't."

Gnea: "This reminds me of the children's rides we had back home."

"MISS MINMEI! DON'T TOUCH THE MAC II CONTR..."



"Ohmygod!!! You stepped on Tommy!!!"

Uatu, The Watcher: "I didn't see NUTHIN'."

"Did you know Miss Minmei was going to do 'Ballet with Destroids' BEFORE the talent portion of the show?"
"All she said was 'I'm doing a dance number'."

Lisa: "I'm back from the new comic."

Guys all collapse with explosive nose bleeds.

Lisa: "What?"

Kim: "Um, your flight suit is so form fitting it looks like they painted it on."

"They did say it was airbrush art."
"....and Rick's down."

Rick walks over and kick the body on the floor. "Stupid weak stunt doubles.

"What? We've been married since the *80s;* a man learns appreciation for his wife in that time."

"Happy anniversary, Admiral!" crows Lisa.

"Thank YOU, Admiral!" smirks Rick.

From offstage, the voice of General Edwards hollers, "Get a room, you two! Geez, you'd think those two were newlyweds...

"FOKKER! Follow me to the O. Club; I need to kill some brain cells before the image sets in..."

"You think that was bad? You should see Ben's diaper!"

Rick: "Our kid, not you, Ben."
Ben Dixon: "For a moment there I was worried I might have been at a coma at some point and you were referring to that."
Max: "Well, you WERE in the hospital for that extended stay, but as I recall, they entubated you, not diapered you."
Ben: "That felt more like a municipal sewer replacement than a medical procedure....MI think I'll go join Edwards and Fokker in seeking alcoholic amnesia."

Edwards: "So...ever been rear-doored wit' a deep well drill?"
Fokker: "That was Lisa's #37,468, wasn't it?"
Edwards: "I'd almost say I was proud of her grudge-list, if she wasn't applying them to -me-."

Fokker: "Thank God for stunt doubles!"
Edwards: "Thank God for stunt doubles!"
<clink beers together>
Edwards: "I get that the majority of me are jack@**es, but those are the stunt doubles! Still...mistaking the actor for the character kinda hurts."
Fokker: "Catch some overflow?"
Edwards: "Oh, yeah. And to be fair, I've earned some karmic payback. But the stunt doubles earned most of it. But I'll take my lumps; they're fair."
Fokker: "Hungry?"
Edwards: "Yeah. I hear today's special is...pineapple salad."
Fokker: "NOT FUNNY, EDWARDS."
Edwards: "Too soon?"
Fokker: "TOO SOON."
Edwards: "I'll get the next round, then."
Fokker: "Apology accepted! MOAR BEER!"

Of course, after the hangover and discovering what the bar tab is, Edwards discovers a new reason to kill Fokker...

Nah, he only stood that round.

Besides, these guys are fighter pilots. They don't get hangovers; pure O2 is your friend. Or a tab; they might not live to pay it...

Are we confusing fighter pilots or actors here?
Because if they're actors playing fighter pilots, they might not get that discount from the real thing.
If they're pilots being actors, they might, but then 'Harrison Ford Syndrome' might cut in.

"Sorry, Tower...ah, didn't mean to land on the wing of that transcontinental flight-"
<<"FOKKER!!!!">>

Edwards: (sitting in fighter cockpit) "Ah...I don't drive manual. I drive an automatic."
Flight Instructor: "Mister Edwards, it's a JET, not a car!...I'm supposed to make this mook look like an ace?! I give up! Marine Aviation saves the miracles for the REAL recruits!"
Director: "...looks like you won't be flying your own stunts, Edwards. We'll just focus on your later career as an administrator."
Edwards: "Ah, nuts..."

"Why's Kyle going into the Producer's trailer with a baseball bat?"

"He just found out what the guy made Minmei do for the part..."

"I'll get the splatter protection, you microwave the popcorn..."

"We're going to insist on you actually singing your own lines. Lip-synching and CGI cover only so much from the diehard purists."
Minmei:(Bass voice) "You're kidding me, right?"

I'd...actually find that amusing.

But then, I think this scene from Space Balls is the funniest thing in the movie:
Druish Princess, singing: "Nobody knows the trouble I've seen/nobody knows the sorrows."
Lone Star: "She's a *bass!* Who knew?"

"There will be a slight delay in filming, while our producer. Mr. Weinstein, recovers from his concussion and neutering."

Well, I did have the Spaceballs scene in mind for Minmei.

Director: "We're going to have to use the helium in all your speaking scenes."
Minmei: "But that dries up my throat something fierce! I'm a performer, not a deep sea diver!"

"No sir, we cannot send Minmei on a USO tour to the 37th like we did when we sent her to Ice Guard."
"Why NOT?! She -ENJOYED- her stay at Ice Guard! Completely missed the point of a gulag exile!"
"Well, sir, we can't FIND where the 37th is. And they've been declared renegade anyways."

Kyle: "I think we finally made it to the Elysian Fields..."

Edwards: "How can you tell?"

Kyle: "Look!"

Khyron: "You know, in the original Macross saga, I was credited with inventing the Glaug. Here, what am I responsible for?"
Grel: "You DID suggest adding the cup holder and the beaded massage mat, sir."

Random Zentraedi Trooper: "Wait! You invented the Ford Pinto of battle mechs!?!"

Destroid Pilot: (staring at the smoking hole blow through his cockpit and his lower torso by a PBC)":...If only..."

"Great firepower but..." (Rubs greasy hamburger wrapper on the torso of the pod, which immediately turns transparent)

"Ah, those are the background mecha for the big fight scenes. They're actually little more than 2D cardboard puppets...mook fodder."

Moran: "I've talked to the Robotech Masters, and they say they didn't do it. I believe them."

Nova: (Face Palms)

Moran: "I believe my intelligence people."
Leonard: "I note that you do not identify them as being part. of the branches of the Southern Cross..."
***
Marie Crystal: "It's heartening to know that when the coup takes place, the GMP and the Civil Defense Corp Investigatory Division will be firmly on our side..."
Dennis Brown: "...If not actually responsible for planning it in the first place."

Nova: "See, and now if you google dunce, Dana's face pops up."

Dana:

Dana: "What do you mean I'm being transferred to Voltron!?!"

"Yes, you've been assigned to be Pidge's stunt double."

Actually, that's Magruder's new job......

Charon: "Who are you again?"

Magruder: "It was a ways back,,,,,but reflexive shot to the head, snake bite, jaguar ambush, giant eagle grabbing me...remember?"
Charon: "Ah yes, the love-blind jungle hormone in quest of manhood!"
Magruder: "...not what I want in my resume..."

Regess: (Seductively) "I could make you a man."

Magruder: (Clinging to Charon) "Eeek!"

Regess: "No, really, the Hideauze got nothing on me."

Magruder: "Who's the little guy under the robe? A Jawa?"
Charon: "Your manhood. Your experiences basically killed your interest in sex."

Wandering Otaku: "HEY LOOK!" (Pointing at Magruder) "It's Tomoki from Heaven's Lost Property!"

A return to some classic bloopers:

Lisa Hayes finds Karl Riber's cabin at Mars Base Sara. This time she has enough time to identify his personal journal and start reading it;
"My love I have thoughts only of you, every day, every hour-" "Oh, that's so sweet of him-"
"My heart yearns for your touch, and to hear the words of passion pass your lips-" "Oh MY."(blush)
"I can hardly wait for shift's end to hold you in my arms again, my darling Renee-" "I miss you holding me too, Karl-----wait, RENEE?!"
"I want to start a family with you, dearest Renee, and when we get out of the service, we can get married and have a long honeymoon. I already have in mind a good nanny for our kids, a rather staid and unimaginative young girl, but she takes orders well-"
It's at this point she looks around the cabin again, verifying it is indeed Karl's....and she starts seeing what she missed previously....several pieces of women's underthings, some of it quite racy, lying amongst the male garments.

Outside, Rick Hunter is about to smash in the cabin window and grab his commanding officer, who hasn't been responding to inquiries, when with a sudden BLAM he can feel even through the thin Martian air, the window is forcibly ejected from the wall and sent flying in a burst of flaming debris across the base concourse.
Fearing the worst, Rick zips his VF up closer, guns hot, when spacesuited Lisa emerges from the smoke and fire, practically GLOWING in rage.
"YOU! Underling! Get me the hell out of here!"
Confused and increasingly afraid, Rick complies, extending the hand of his Gerwalk for the Commander to board and they're soon quickly flying away from the doomed base, when it explodes.
Rick pretends not to hear as Commander Hayes mutters ".. burn in HELL, you two-timing bastard ..."

The streets of Macross, shortly after the battle of Mars Base Sara...

Kyle is walking down the street when Lisa stomps up to him with angry, tear-filled eyes.

Lisa: "KARL! YOU TWO-TIMING BASTARD!" (Kicks Kyle in the crotch)

As Lisa stomps off.

Kyle: (Lying on the ground in a fetal position) "Who's Karl?"

Claudia: "At this rate she's either going to become a nun, a man-hating spinster, or a lesbian. Our best hope may be the last one, because I'm not sure we want to share the bridge with Sister Lisa, and Captain Gloval is already afraid of her after she nearly tore his mustache off."
Vanessa: "Or we could arrange for her to have a meaningful, stable, relationship with a reliable man."
Kim: "Risky. If she caught wind of what we were planning. We can try. Now who-"
Claudia: "Roy's out. He's mine."
Kim: "Wasn't about to suggest it."
Vanessa: "We need somebody with vouch-for credentials, yet still expendable enough that she can dump him and get some catharsis in the bargain."
Sammy: "Hmmm...only person I can think of is... that new lieutenant..."
Kim, Vanessa, Sammy: "Rick Hunter!"

Max: "You okay, el-tee?"
Ben: "Yeah, that looked painful!"
Rick: "Never had anything happen to me like that before! Never had a sneeze that felt like I was trying to expel my entire upper skeleton all at once! Or that my skin was dipped in liquid nitrogen!"

could be worse.. they could be trying to hook her up with Gloval.

Azonia: "Russia's greatest love machine is mine!"

VO: "To prove the strength of new Z-brand Adhesive, we've superglued this young lieutenant in his shoes outside the cabin of his superior officer-"
(POV shows Rick Hunter in dress uniform, with a bouquet in his hands, frantically pulling at his legs, in front of Lisa Hayes' quarters)
Rick: "Oh come on, guys, what the hell did you do to me?!"
Behind him, Lisa's door opens.

Roy: "I'm not entirely comfortable with putting Rick in harm's way like that, even with the explanation you gave me. Usually, when I send somebody in the path of peril, they have a Veritech around them to give them a fighting chance."
Claudia: "It's for the best for both of them."
Kim: "Sometimes you HAVE to sacrifice a virgin to appease the dragon."

Kyle: "Um, why are we out here in the desert again?"

Edwards: "Because that orange haired moron will pay us 5.7 Billion to put up a steel slat border wall."

Kyle: "But these are just Popsicle sticks!"

Edwards: "Hey, anyone dumb enough to blow that kinda cash on a worthless wall isn't going to know the difference!"

Meanwhile on the other side, an Invid Scout and a bunch of Shock Troopers in Sombreros...

Invid Scout: "We wait til the Gringos finish their work, then we tear it down around them..."

Two Bioroids come up to the fence, stick a long crowbar between the slats, and PUSH, levering down a stretch of them to form a ramp, over which a horde of Tirolian clones, who have been waiting in the bushes nearby, rush up, over, and through to the other side.


Zentraedi just steps over it.