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A plague commemorating the historical
importance of this day's events...

was placed herein 1988.

This was the first scene
shot for the film...

on location at Lakeview Medical Center
on Monday, July 12, 1983.

“Comfort the afflicted,
afflict the comfortable.” — B. Banzai

The Eskimo boy, after a brief period
of time as an Alaskan crabber...

became a Goth.

Packed in Buckaroo's briefcase
are the OVERTHRUSTER...

Albert Einstein's brain...

and a tuna sandwich.

The Jet Car's top speed
was actually clocked at 718 mph.

Unknown Fact #12,086:
The designation HB 88...

refers to Hikita/Banzai
and the number of keys on a piano.

For the past 17 years, the original
OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER...

has been a can opener
in Mrs. Johnson's kitchen...

while Buckaroo has struggled
to get the kinks out of its successors.

(More on this later.)

This headband was also worn
by Masado Banzai (Buckaroo's father)...

on that fateful day in 1955.

The kaniji reads
“beauty in everyday life.”

It is now on display
at the Smithsonian.

The Jet Car you see here
is not the real McCoy...

but a replica of the vehicle
made for the film.

At the time of production...

many of the Jet Car's components
were still classified...

so the Institute was obligated
to deny W.D. Richter's request...

to use the actual vehicle.

As a consolation, Perfect Tommy...

(who designed the Jet Car's
revolutionary suspension...

and oversaw the vehicle's
construction)...

offered to review Art Director
Stephen Dane's blueprints...

for the recreation of the vehicle
and correct any gross inaccuracies.

(None were found.)

The movie's Jet Car replica...

was built by Jerry Segal
of Southern California's Thrust Racing.

Jerry still builds jet-powered drag racers
and is working with the Institute...

on a new, top-secret project
involving scooters.

“The only way of discovering
the limits of the possible...

is to venture a little way past them
into the impossible.” — Arthur C. Clarke

Professor Hikita once built an atom bomb
using only an abacus.

Unknown Fact #12,560:

The sonic boom was heard
as far away as Canyon Lake.

In actual fact, this man on the phone
was not a SAG extra at all...

but an operative
of the World Crime League...

assigned to sabotage
the shooting of the film.

A close look reveals he's wearing
tiny finger cymbals...

attached to a hidden transmitter...

designed to jam communication between
the director and his vital second unit.

These incredible images of the
8th Dimension are not a special effect—

they are the actual film
taken by the Jet Car cameras...

while inside the mountain.

The EM-sensitive film was created
by Dr. Peter Kuran.

The Banzai Institute agreed
to declassify the footage...

specifically for its inclusion
in this release...

(which marked the first time
it was seen publicly).

Much as Sir James “Black” Douglas
vowed to carry out...

Robert the Bruce's dying wish
to have his heart buried in Jerusalem...

Buckaroo Banzai carried
Albert Einstein's brain with him...

during the fateful Jet Car run
through solid matter.

It was, after all, Einstein
who worked on Project Rainbow...

the original time-space window
experiment back in 1943.

Otherwise known as the infamous
Philadelphia Experiment...

the test either went spectacularly
haywire or never actually happened...

depending upon whom
you choose to believe.

Basing his work
upon the Unified Field Theory...

which posits that gravity
and magnetism are connected...

in the same way
as mass and energy...

in the same way
as mass and energy...

Einstein sought to send
a US Navy vessel, the Fldridge...

through a time vortex.

Judging by the alleged results,
he only partially succeeded.

Many of the ship's crew were left
embedded in solid matter...

while others went insane.

Einstein confessed to never
fully solving the problem...

but to judge by the success of the
OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER...

Dr. Banzai did...

although he unfailingly acknowledged
his debt to Einstein...

whose papers at Princeton's
Institute for Advanced Studies...

served as Buckaroo's primer
on the Unified Field Theory.

It was therefore in tribute
to the great man...

that Buckaroo decided to take along
Einstein's preserved brain...

during the Jet Car test run
through solid matter.

The other white meat.

A deserted room at Brentwood's
VA Hospital in California...

provided the perfect place
to re-create...

the New Brunswick Home
for the Criminally Insane.

Lithgow described it as
“a bag woman's lair.”

What you are watching here
is a re-creation...

of the events of October 11, 1938,
the first time (to our knowledge)...

that humankind broke through
the dimensional barrier.

We now know that the key
to Lizardo's incomplete penetration...

was his restrained initial velocity.

However, his partial access to the
8th Dimension (despite its brevity)...

provided opportunity enough
for John Whorfin...

to take over Lizardo's consciousness.

The joy of finally being freed
from exile in the 8th Dimension...

(albeit in a human body)
proved so intoxicating...

that Whorfin-as-Lizardo went
on a lengthy crime spree...

(the proceeds of which founded
Yoyodyne).

Despite the overpowering presence
of Whorfin's consciousness...

for brief periods Lizardo
was occasionally able...

to regain control of himself.

This would lead
to the most bizarre behavior...

often a combination of Lizardo's kind,
peaceful disposition...

and Whorfin's violent dementia...

(as just evidenced
by his offering of a gratuity...

to the orderly he will later kill).

Artie, previously
an insurance salesman...

had emergency bypass surgery
under the knife of Dr. Banzai.

The operation saved his life
and left him a changed man.

Upon recovery,
he resigned his position...

and made good on his high school dream
of owning a rock and roll club.

Tongue planted firmly in cheek,
I suggested the name “Artie's Artery.”

It remains there still, and Artie
has recently wed his second wife...

a 24-year-old backup vocalist...

currently on tour
with a popular, mega-selling girl group.

The song we're performing here
is a cover of “Rocket 88”...

recorded in 1951
by Bill Haley and the Saddlemen.

Bill Haley is often credited as
one of the founders of rock and roll...

and, coincidentally,
played his first rock and roll song...

while goofing around during a show
at the Twin Bar in Gloucester, New Jersey.

The Hong Kong Cavaliers often enjoy
playing unannounced gigs in small clubs.

Scheduling shows too far in advance...

provides opportunity to those who might
do us harm, so it is often a necessity.

I am often asked
how Buckaroo could hear...

the soft whimpers of Penny Priddy
over the din of the music.

At the time,
we wondered the same thing...

but Buckaroo later explained
it was not what he had heard...

but a flash of intuition
that told him...

someone out there
was terribly alone and in need.

Penny was so down-in-the-dumps
that night...

because she had just come
from making...

her first and last squish video.

The money was good
but she felt so empty inside.

Unknown Fact #6,070:
Buckaroo rarely plays piano at gigs.

B. Banzai had not performed
“Since I Don't Have You”...

since the death of his first wife,
Peggy, poisoned by Hanoi Xan.

It was her favorite.

Penny's earrings are also
bottle openers.

“Need a penny, take a penny.”
— Penny Priddy

This is the first
of many violent moments...

that required softening
for the film version of this tale.

In reality (according to
the New Brunswick police report)...

Whorfin had brutally stabbed the orderly
with a crude, handmade knife...

plunging it straight through his stomach
and into several vertebrae.

W.D. Richter knew depicting this would
earn the film an “R” rating...

so the conceit was made
to snap the orderly's neck.

Why one form of cinematic violence
is more acceptable than another...

cannot readily be explained
by the likes of me.

The Hong Kong Cavalier tour bus
(a modified Greyhound Scenicruiser)...

provides us with much more
than transportation between gigs.

It contains a strategic command center
and monitoring station...

(also known as World Watch One)...

living quarters
and a small recording studio.

Unknown Fact #1,018:

Reno's first wife was ordered
from a catalog of Filipino brides!

Fingerprints lifted at the scene
of the crash later revealed...

that the Maserati Whorfin escaped in
had been driven by Lo Pep...

lieutenant to the infamous Hanoi Xan.

What interest did Xan have
in Lizardo's escape?

Time would tell.

Unknown Fact #220:

Old Spice is banned
from World Watch One.

The costume seen here
on New Jersey...

once belonged to his grandfather,
a famous silent movie star.

Pecos (a gal with whom Reno
was once quite smitten)...

was at this moment in Tibet
with the Seminole Kid...

embroiled in a bitter conflict
with Xan's Death Dwarves.

Reno's mail-order bride
later got her teeth done and left him.

In his youth, B. Banzai embarked
on a hiking tour of Europe and Asia.

Through a serendipitous series
of wrong turns...

he found himself a witness
to the wedding procession...

of Her Majesty
Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard.

The Dutch queen was
the most beautiful woman...

the impressionable young man
had ever seen.

Years later, Buckaroo had the exact same
feeling upon first laying eyes on Peggy.

Unknown Fact #9528:

Perfect Tommy's pet peeve:
women with Adam's apples.

Buckaroo once told us
that if we ever saw him...

at one of these press conferences where
he appeared to be having a good time...

to shoot him.

“Like a bee in the middle
of St. Peter's Cathedral”...

notes a prominent Berkeley physicist.

According to quantum field theory...

as initially developed by Yukawa
and many others in the 1930s...

(when Buckaroo's father
first began his experiments)...

the forces between particles are created
by exchanges of other particles.

The electromagnetic force is carried.

By the exchange of particles
called “virtual photons.”

In other words, the empty space
between the electrons and protons...

in normal material
is full of virtual photons.

Furthermore, if virtual photons
fail to travel...

all the way between electrons
and the nucleus...

atoms would no longer be prevented
from passing through each other.

Since virtual photons have no mass,
they are able to travel...

the full distance
between electrons and protons.

If virtual photons had mass, they would
be restricted to a very small region...

around the elementary particles
that make up the atoms.

This would reduce the ability
of these particles to “see” each other...

in effect creating truly empty space
within and between atoms.

The passage would be clear...

for Buckaroo Banzai and his Jet Car
to pass through matter.

This creature (nicknamed Odd Wad)...

is actually a sentient parasite
that lives on alcohol.

(It was attracted to the Jet Car
by a small pinhole leak in a fuel line).

It is seen here
basking in a beaker of rum.

Eventually growing
to a circumference of ten feet...

it was successfully crossed with
one of Rawhide's prize-winning pigs...

as a potential food source
for the developing world.

During this brief intermission, Reno
kept members of the press entertained...

by showing psychedelic slides
of the 8th Dimension.

The bolt sent to Buckaroo over the phone
was not an electrical shock per se...

but a form of electrochemical
communication.

(The information contained
in that one charge...

would have taken nearly an hour
to impart verbally).

This moment was utter chaos...

as none of the Cavaliers yet knew
what a Lectroid was...

and Buckaroo was the only one
that could see them!

Perfect Tommy later said he noticed
the reporters in question...

heaping giant spoonfuls of sugar
into their coffee and thought it odd...

but didn't feel it warranted mentioning.

Ah, the benefit of hindsight.

The motorcycle Buckaroo is riding
is a Harley Davidson XR1000.

This bike was a special production number
and very few were made.

(Today this model
is quite collectable.)

In 1984, the XR1000 was the fastest
and baddest model that Harley offered.

The scenes with the duck hunters...

were filmed at the end
of the first week of production...

at Rocky Oaks Park
in the Malibu Mountains.

Note the Lectroid on the left,
sucking on the battery leads.

Lectroids derive great pleasure
from electricity.

What you see here is the equivalent
of a nic fit.

These chase sequences were shot
in Griffith Park in Los Angeles...

(also the site of a free concert
by the Hong Kong Cavaliers in 1992).

While it may seem odd
that a simple shotgun...

could down an advanced alien vessel...

most likely the thermopod had already
dropped its protective force field...

as it searched for a landing spot.

The shotgun blast merely hastened
its descent.

The thermopod replica for the film
was constructed...

out of an inflated eight-foot weather
balloon covered with polyurethane foam...

which expands and hardens
on contact with the air.

This was the comics adaptation...

of the first Buckaroo Banzai story
ever committed to paper...

“The Strange Case of Mr. Cigars.”

Unknown Fact #28,512:

The Banzai Institute was a primary
developer of cellular technology...

first put to use
in our very own “Go-Phones”...

used by Buckaroo and Rawhide
in this scene.

Unknown Fact #8,391:

Perfect Tommy's Pet Peeve:
“People that can't dance.”

After fumbling
a previous strike team assignment...

Tommy was fined
a year's supply of guitar picks.

At last count there were over
6,000 Blue Blaze Irregulars worldwide—

extraordinary men, women
and children...

who are “on call” 24 hours a day
to help B. Banzai in a pinch.

They must submit
to rugged physical training...

and are required yearly
to make certain educational advances.

The motto
of the Blue Blaze Irregulars:

“Treat me good, I'll treat you better.
Treat me bad, I'll treat you worse.”

This is Mrs. Johnson, official archivist
of the Banzai Institute.

She provides the grease that keeps
the wheels turning in this place.

Without her,
I daresay little would get done.

Her world-famous
sticky cinnamon buns.

Have provided the fuel
for many a late-night jam session!

Unknown Fact #8,490:
Mrs. Johnson's Pet Peeve:

“Watches costing more than my car.”

Buckaroo's Five Verities are:

#1: A man should love others
better than himself.

#2: To serve is more honorable
than to command.

#3: To give one's life for another
is the greatest glory.

#4: Unrequited love is
the greatest happiness.

#5: Poverty is the best state for man...

although a pauper should accept
a certain amount of wealth...

to relieve the unhappiness
of the rich.

“Every year we pass the anniversary
of our death.” — B. Banzai

This was another moment
that had to be toned down...

for the benefit
of younger audiences.

Far from simply knocking them
unconscious...

the evil representatives
from Yoyodyne...

actually slaughtered the duck hunters
and sheriff in a most gruesome manner.

(Full details are available in the novel
Across the 8th Dimension...

now available from Pocket Books.)

Unknown Fact #42,109:

Peter Weller's father
was a helicopter pilot.

Albert Einstein also played piano.

Unknown Fact #8,381:

Billy's Pet Peeve: “Fire walls.”

Sadly, he was later dismissed...

for hacking into Banzai Institute
personnel files...

at the behest
of a well-known national tabloid.

The Banzai Institute is always looking
for alternative revenue streams.

If you have a money-making idea...

we'd be happy to hear from you
at www.Banzai-Institute.com.

When the Planet 10 spaceship
aimed its beams at this planet...

they scanned
the island of Jamaica...

leaving the Adders (black Lectroids)
with the false impression...

that all Earthlings
look like Rastafarians.

Billy Vera, who was cast as me
in the film...

is a real-life rock star
in Los Angeles.

His band, Billy Vera & The Beaters,
still plays around town.

His band, Billy Vera & The Beaters,
still plays around town.

Blue Blaze Irregulars
often show up at gigs...

with pink cake boxes
full of goodies for the band.

All the inhabitants of Planet 10
took the earthly first name “John”...

which, according to Reno, sounds like
a form of greeting they commonly use...

“comparable to the use
of che in Argentina...

or, to a lesser extent,
our own 'hey.”

Their surnames are either phonetic
approximations of their real names.

Or common Earth names chosen at random
from the pages of the phone book...

found in the Grover's Mills, New Jersey,
social security office.

“Mystery is the source of all true art
and science.” — Masado Banzai

Unknown Fact #32,807:

Director W.D. Richter's credits
also include writing the screenplay...

for the '70s remake of
Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Unknown Fact #23,901:

The author of the Buckaroo Banzai
adventure novel...

Across the 8th Dimension
is actually Reno.

It was ghostwritten for his friend
Earl Mac Rauch...

in exchange for some rare Polaroids.

Sam was a former exotic dancer.

After his death, a cache of
folded $1 bills was found in his lockbox.

Lectroids blow poison barbs from their
esophagus as a primary offensive weapon.

(If you ever find yourself face-to-face
with a Lectroid, go for its throat—

it's the most vulnerable spot
on its body).

It's the most vulnerable spot
on its body).

John Bighoote is not
your typical Lectroid.

Soon after Yoyodyne was founded
and Lizardo incarcerated...

Bigboote led the company
to become...

the nation's largest privately held
defense manufacturer.

Forbes magazine once described him
as an “innovative CEO”...

and, at the time
of Whorfin's return...

plans were underway
to open a new branch in London.

He had become a capitalist
and was enjoying the fruits of his labor.

Although he was forever sworn
to Whorfin's side...

he harbored a deep resentment
at being forced to give up...

the life he had worked so hard
to make for himself here on Earth.

Unknown Fact #43,901:

Rawhide is an accomplished
astronomer...

but dropped out of university
shortly before getting his degree.

Unknown Fact #1,429:

Next to Buckaroo, Mrs. Johnson has
the biggest key ring at the Institute.

Buckaroo and Casper
had met a year earlier...

at the Blue Blaze Desert Survival School
in Nevada...

where Buckaroo taught Casper
how to kill a man with his shoe.

The original “record” device and viewing
glasses are on display at the Smithsonian.

Special written requests to actually view
the hologram are accepted...

but less than 5% of said requests
are granted.

(Scholarly research will give you
the best chance.)

Study of this technology
provided the key...

to several components
in your DVD player!

“Any sufficiently advanced technology...

is indistinguishable from magic.”
— Arthur C. Clarke

Mrs. Johnson loves animals.

She has a Japanese snow monkey
and a Mexican Hairless...

which is the unofficial mascot
of the Banzai Institute.

Red Lectroids were bred
by the Adder majority...

expressly for fighting wars
of planetary defense...

but in time these Lectroids
grew ambitious...

and seized power for themselves...

overthrowing civilian rule
with an army led by Whorfin.

It turns out the Black Lectroids were
only bluffing about vaporizing Smolensk...

in order to gain Buckaroo's help.

Their actual plan
was to strike Yoyodyne.

They were only awaiting approval
from the Nova Police...

sanctioning body of the universe.

On his much-delayed forthcoming
solo album...

Perfect Tommy has a song entitled
“Emdall.”

His “guns” are the Navy Colts
Buckaroo ordinarily uses...

His “guns” are the Navy Colts
Buckaroo ordinarily uses...

only when going in search
of Hanoi Xan.

Manufactured in 1851,
they are .36 caliber...

and among the most popular
of all Colt cap-and-ball revolvers.

They have
a 7 Y-inch barrel and cylinder...

engraved with the scene of a battle
between the navies of Texas and Mexico.

This weapon was a personal favorite
of Col. Colt himself.

Peggy was murdered by Hanoi Xan shortly
after she wed Buckaroo in New York.

To quote Dr. Banzai: “A scientist,
like a warrior, must cherish no view.

A 'view' is the outcome
of intellectual processes...

whereas creativity,
like swordsmanship...

requires not neutrality,
or indifference...

but to be of no mind whatsoever.”

Bethlehem Steel in Los Angeles
doubled as the lab corridors...

of the Banzai Institute.

(A private home in Rustic Canyon
served as the exterior location.)

Allow me to share a story with you...

which seems oddly appropriate
at this point in the film.

A sly old Zen master,
who was very proud of his cunning...

one day met a new pupil,
Buckaroo Banzai...

who was already a boy professor
of philosophy at the Imperial University.

“How do you do, master?” said Buckaroo.
“Very well,” replied the old man.

“Come now, young Banzai,
it is said you are very quick-witted.

Tell me, I pray you,
how many tricks do you know...

for escaping the heartless ronin
in these parts?”

“Oh, I know but one,”
answered Buckaroo...

“and that is to scramble up a tree
as fast as I can.”

“Is that all?” said the master.

“Why, I know at least a hundred.
How I pity your ignorance!”

Just then they heard the thunder
of horses ridden by cutthroats.

“Good-bye,” said Buckaroo, and, running
up a tree, he hid in the branches...

where he could see all
that was happening without being seen.

The Zen master tried
all his tricks in vain.

The cutthroats quickly seized him.

As they were dragging him away,
Buckaroo called from the tree...

“Good-bye, master.
How I pity you...

and how glad I am
that I know one good thing well!”

Unknown Fact #8,523:

Hikita's fave thing:
“Any game of chance.”

Don't forget the annual Basho Haiku
Festival at the Banzai Institute.

Send your entries to
www.Banzai-Institute.com.

Unknown Fact #8,501:
Reno's fave saying:

“When the pupil is ready,
a master will appear.”

These frames from the movie
have appeared...

in numerous underground
squish videos.

“After the first death
there is no other.” — B. Banzai

Contrary to popular belief,
Rawhide is not dead.

While he is not “with us”
in the sense of daily camaraderie...

neither is he a lost cause.

Following his descent into coma,
he was placed in medical stasis...

his metabolic rate slowed
to a nearly imperceptible level...

(also known as being put “on ice”).

An entire wing of the Institute
was dedicated...

to finding a cure
for the deadly Lectroid barb...

the best men in their fields
working around the clock.

Only now we do we feel confident
to announce...

that an antidote
is indeed nearly at hand...

and we expect our fallen comrade
to rejoin our ranks shortly.

(His modified Trans Am
is still in his parking space...

and his favorite book,
The Compleat Angler ...

is still in the bathroom
where he left it.)

Secretary of Defense McKinley, while
speaking to a highly respected senator...

reportedly once referred to Buckaroo
and his trusted inner circle...

as “a bunch of amateur
international do-gooders...

who spend half their time...

battling man's inhumanity to man
in every corner of the globe...

and half their time playing that goddamn
primitive rock and roll music so loud...

you can't even hear yourself scream.”

The senator's response:
“If they're amateurs, so be it.

The world needs those
who do something for the love of it.”

Be sure to check out...

the new Buckaroo Banzai & the Hong Kong
Cavaliers trading cards...

in every box
of Mrs. Johnson's corn bread mix.

Unknown Fact #8,386:

New Jersey's Pet Peeve:
“Stickers on fruit.”

Unknown Fact #22,281:

John Lithgow played Yoda in the radio
production of The Empire Strikes Back.

We at the Banzai Institute
are often asked...

why the OVERTHRUSTER has been
“on the shelf” for so long.

The obvious unintended side effect...

of the original technology
is well-documented:

the inability to prevent
the time vortex from being used...

as a conduit to our world by uninvited
travelers from other dimensions...

such as the psychopathic alien
John Whorfin...

and his exiled crew from Planet 10.

But there were also other,
lesser-known problems...

associated with the original test.

Although not highly publicized,
a veritable laundry list of ailments...

both emotional and physical...

continued to plague Buckaroo for months
after his trip through solid matter.

In addition
to violent black vomiting spells...

and apparent damage to the limbic system
of the brain (the seat of emotions)...

far more troubling phenomena
presented themselves.

For example, on several occasions...

Buckaroo walked through walls
or simply disappeared before our eyes.

These “freezing episodes”
typically went on for several minutes...

during which time
Buckaroo was totally invisible to us...

during which time
Buckaroo was totally invisible to us...

and unable to speak or move.

When a visitor accidentally brushed
against Buckaroo...

seconds after one such
disappearing incident...

the poor woman burst into flames
that proved impossible to extinguish.

Despite these and other problems...

work on the latest version of the
OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER...

continues apace for the next test run
of the new polymorphous Jet Car ...

tentatively scheduled
for real soon.

“Nothing real can defeat us.
Nothing unreal exists.” — B. Banzai

The President's underwear
kept riding up...

to the point where surgery
was the only option.

Unknown Fact #89:

Assumption
is the mother of all mistakes.

Unknown Fact #8,664:

Fire dwells beneath the water palace.

General Catbird was still trying
to deaden the pain of 'Nam.

Add in the crippling factor
of booze...

and he is now cleaning glasses
in a San Diego sports bar.

“Sometimes verbal ingenuity
is not enough.” — B. Banzai

The Firestone Rubber Plant
in Southgate (Los Angeles)...

already dark, dirty and dank...

made the perfect location
for “The Pitt.”

“Imagination is more important
than knowledge.” — Albert Einstein

SUV owners take note:

The Jet Car was fine-tuned
for extraordinary fuel mileage.

Is yours?
If not, contact the Institute today...

and request a copy
of the environmental action memorandum...

“Turn Your Gas-Guzzler
Into A Hydrogen Happymobile.”

Look in the mirror, moron.

All nasty goober teeth.

Dig a hole and die.

Psychotic loser.

When sparks fly from a monkey's ass!

That yellow mound on the floor...

is a giant pile of cream-filled,
sponge-cake-like snack food.

Wilmington's Department of Water and
Power was used for the Shock Tower scenes.

Although we referred to it
as the Shock Tower...

to the Lectroids it was known
as the “Chair of Delight”...

(so called because,
to the Lectroids...

massive electrical shocks
were a source of great pleasure).

Among themselves, they used
the chair for recreational purposes...

much as we might use a sauna.

Unknown Fact #45,987:

Roughly translated
from Lectroid texts...

Whorfin means “the strong.”

Unknown Fact #45,990:

John Whorfin is the father...

to over 200 illegitimate offspring
and countless larvae on Planet 10.

The Los Angeles Department of Water
and Power plant also served...

as the Yoyodyne exterior.

The Cavaliers follow the traditional
three stages before an attack is launched:

ACTION ALERT —ACTION REQUEST —
ACTION ORDER

Lectroids have plump black tongues
like Chow puppies.

“Nothing is ever what it seems...

but everything
is exactly what it is.” — B. Banzai

Lectroids do not bathe as a rule
except twice in their lives...

(at birth and on their wedding night).

They do have a ritual
of self-fumigation, however...

which also constitutes
recreation for them.

A fire using their excrement
is started on the floor...

and several of them strip
and shake their clothes over the flames.

Small parasites which infest
their bodies...

fall out of their clothes
and into the fire...

where they explode
with different noises...

depending upon the parasite's size.

The cumulative effect
of all these little explosions is...

to the Lectroid ear...

the sweetest kind of music,
akin to a symphony.

The Lectroids have a macabre
and little-understood philosophy...

which may be summed up as
“Death is the mother of beauty.”

It has been a matter
of great speculation...

why the alarms at Yoyodyne
were not sounded sooner...

and why, once sounded,
many failed to function.

A subsequent investigation
by the FBI revealed...

that much of the alarm-system wiring
had been chewed through...

presumably by the Lectroids
themselves.

Lectroids in general are
mucus-eaters...

(along with the electricity
elemental to their existence)...

but after decades on this planet,
they have been weakened...

by a steady diet of sweets,
asbestos and filter-tip cigarettes.

“Greatness can only be achieved
when it is not sought.” — B. Banzai

Yoyodyne smelled
like a nursing home.

One of the biggest dangers
to our boys...

was punji sticks
coated with Lectroid dung.

Unknown Fact #8,402:

Buckaroo fave place:
“Anywhere that doesn't exist.”

The Armco Steel Plant in Torrance
housed the Lectroid launch hangar.

Unknown Fact #46,907:

Director W.D. Richter's
latest hobby...

is helping his wife raise
rare-breed chickens.

His current obsession is
with the South American Araucanas...

a bird coveted centuries ago
by the Araucas Indians...

who refused to allow their fowl
to be crossbred...

with those of
the Spanish conquerors.

Today, the Araucana is prized for the
remarkable celadon-colored eggs it lays.

Get that copyrighted.
Somebody could steal that.

The “snot monster” prop,
as it was affectionately known...

was coated with actual clams...

giving it the ability
to leave a genuine slime trail.

Unknown Fact #8,511:

Perfect Tommy's Pet Peeve:
“How many can I list?”

“If all wishes were granted, what would
be left to dream?” — B. Banzai

Unknown Fact #8,325:

The strong energy gate
is the center of the palm.

Lectroids are easily aroused sexually
by the sight or smell of the dead...

becoming vaso-congested and lubricated
by the proximity of a corpse.

The budget of the movie
called for suits and ties...

but the real Lectroids at Yoyodyne
were found wearing...

guayabera shirts
and sky-blue jumpsuits.

Unknown Fact #42:

Reno's Fave Thing to Do on a Day Off:
Get messed up and waste time.

Scooter Linley went to Santeria seminary
and now resides in the Miami area...

where he remains
an active Blue Blazer.

These are the feet
of Associate Producer Dan Lupovitz.

The ring is the wedding band
of Susan Richter, wife of the director.

Unknown Fact #77:
Time is of the essence.

This special effect shot
required five cameras...

running at speeds of 120
to 240 frames per second...

a special model
and a very delicate wall.

A cart was made to carry
the small Lizardo ship...

on a track towards the wall
at a speed of 30 miles per hour.

The spines
on the front of the ship...

had to be reinforced with steel rods
to prevent them from breaking.

Special dump tanks
filled with debris...

were rigged to fire
just as the ship broke through.

One sunny afternoon, everything
was set up, the cameras rolled...

and in less than a third of a second,
the whole thing was over.

The Panther ship model
was more than three feet across.

The Escape Pod miniature
was built by Greg Jein...

using photo reference
provided by the Banzai Institute...

(courtesy of the Nova Police).

After being shot down by Buckaroo,
pieces of Whorfin regenerated...

and he resumed
his treacherous, criminal ways.

In order to survive, he began
a career as an Ethiopian drug mule...

squeezing out drug balloons
for the World Crime League.

His later plots included a roofing scam
that preyed on the elderly...

and a grave-robbing operation that mined
silicone breast implants for resale...

to crooked plastic surgeons.

He was last seen co-hosting
a goofy morning show in Philadelphia.

“Hope is a dream by one who is awake.”
— Aristotle

“All of us have wings.

Some of us just don't know
what they're for.” — B. Banzai

After the heroic assault
on Yoyodyne...

each Blue Blazer received
an oversized spoon and fork

from the grateful government
of the Philippines.

“Be careful of half-truths—

you might have the wrong half.”
— Reno of Memphis (formerly Reno Nevada)

To this day, Peter Weller
is still mistaken for Buckaroo Banzai.

Billy Vera (who portrays me in the film)
is approached on a weekly basis...

by fans looking for an autograph
from Pinky!

Lewis Smith has been known to go clubbing
with the real Perfect Tommy.

They enjoy taking bets as to
who will be recognized as Tommy first.

Unknown Fact #40,055:

During the massive post-raid
cleanup/excavation of Yoyodyne...

John Whorfin's private quarters
revealed a cache of edible panties.

In addition, Buckaroo and the boys found
various human and Lectroid skeletons...

seated around a carved ice swan.

“Nobody is nobody. Everyone has
something to offer.” — B. Banzai

Unknown Fact #2,337:

Unknown Fact #2,337:

The World Crime League controls
90% of the squish video market.

“Few will have the greatness
to bend history...

but each time
a man stands up for an ideal...

or acts to improve the lot of others,
or strikes out against injustice...

he sends forth
a tiny ripple of hope.

And crossing each other from a million
different centers of energy and daring...

those ripples build a current
which can sweep down...

the mightiest walls of oppression
and resistance.” — Robert F. Kennedy

Pop quiz!

Q: What's the unofficial
mascot of the Banzai Institute?

A: Mrs. Johnson's Mexican Hairless.