Starship Troopers (1997) - Would ...
Starship Troopers (1997) - Would You Like to Know More?
Explicit
Untitled Sci-fi Show by Studio:Channel84
S3 · E19
Sep 20, 2026
01:29:50
Episode notes

The Untitled Roulette has spun and landed on 1997's Starship Troopers. Would you like to know more?

Rob and Tom wade back into Paul Verhoeven's fascist bug hunt and find a film of two halves: nearly an hour of Sweet Valley High in space that had Rob begging for the bugs to show up, followed by some of the finest shooty-shooty sci-fi action ever put on film. Tom reckons it was secretly meant to be a six-part TV series, and honestly, once you hear the theory, the maths checks out.

There's the long-overdue return of the budget quiz ($105 million well spent?), a plot rundown featuring thick-as-shit Johnny Rico, narcissistic Carmen (she flies it like a cunt), poor doomed Dizzy, psychic mini-SS-officer Neil Patrick Harris, the legendary Michael Ironside, and Aldi John Barrowman getting his brain sucked out in the best practical effect of th ... 

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