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Season 5, Episode 13: R2F! Pt 1, Ch 3, Sub A: Rocketmen from Planet B

Still on a mission to Mars to quell the native insurrection there, the Earth Space Force rocket Vanguard ends up, somehow, on Mercury. Having no daily rotation (unlike the coffee pots at Einstein’s Bagels), Mercury has a cold side and an hot side—and woe betide anyone who strays out of the temperate zone ringing its middle like a spandex waistband of eternal safety. Crewman #4 and Lt. Schickelgruber explore the planet with the aid of the unhelpful Phil, the Used Android, while nearby, the evil Rocketmen from Planet B plot to take over the Vanguard.

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