Results: I Like My Science Fiction Funny.

Quark was a 1977-78 NBC sitcom starring Richard Benjamin as the captain of an outer space garbage scow. Its characters included a pair of comely blonde twin clones, a hermaphrodite who alternated between speaking in feminine and masculine voices, and Captain Quark's boss, Otto Palindrome (get the joke in his name?). I enjoyed it in its original run when I was a kid, but I must have been among few, as it didn't last long. My guess is that it was too weird for television in its day. Judging by my description &/or what you may recall of the show, do you think it would be too strange for broadcast TV nowadays?

As with Quark, it's been quite a while since I've watched Red Dwarf, the British sitcom that ran from 1988-99 on BBCTV and has been produced for BBC subsidiary channel Dave since 2009. This show revolves around a techie who awakens from 3,000,000 years of suspended animation (punishment for smuggling his pet cat onboard a spaceship on which he was working) to find he's the only human alive and on a mining spacecraft, Red Dwarf, with a hologram of his former bunkmate, a creature produced from the aforementioned cat, among other intermittent characters. In researching the show for this poll, I discovered that it was developed from a recurring sketch on a BBC Radio 4 comedy show. Be it from radio's golden age or current productions, do you currently listen to any audio sketch comedy?

Red Dwarf can get kind of dark in tone at times, but the 1999 movie Galaxy Quest gets kinda' meta. The flick centers around the cast of a canceled science fiction TV series (think Star Trek or something similar), the cast of which are enlisted to defend the inhabitants of a far off planet, the leaders of which mistook television fiction for documentary. Back when I professionally reviewed movies more often than I do now, I recall laughing plenty while watching Galaxy Quest. Have you ever been mistaken for being in real life someone you portrayed in an acting role?

Brewster Rockit: Space Guy! is the comic strip that currently provides me with most of my comedic science fiction intake lately. Drawn in the same semi-realistic manner as an old time space opera strip like Buck Rogers, it features dunderheaded astronaut Rockit leading a crew of various personalities among whom wacky hijinks with space aliens, a government agent, a mad scientist, and robots ensue. In ways, In the right hands, I think it could make for a fun animated cartoon series or movie (or movie series, and with more advanced production than the skit, which bears embarrassingly modest resemblance to the strip, included with this question). Do you agree?

Though I've yet to read any of its sequels, Douglas Adams' original novelization of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy cracked me up multiple times while I read it in high school study hall. Like Rd Dwarf, it derived from a BBC Radio 4 show (at least one song from which I believe I heard on Dr. Demento's radio show before reading the book). I was excited to see the Guide movie adaptation (cinemization?) in 2005, but it left me underwhelmed once I watched it. Have you ever been disappointed by the version of a story you enjoyed in one medium when it was translated to another?