One of the film's long-running gags occurred between wo jive-talking black passengers, Jive Man 1 Holm (Norman Alexander Gibbs) and Jive Man 2 Arthur (Al White), whose conversations required subtitles, for example:Jive Man 1: "Sheeeet, man, that honkey mus' be messin' my old lady got to be runnin' col' upsihd down his head!"Subtitles: "GOLLY, THAT WHITE FELLOW SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM MY WIFE OR I WILL PUNCH HIM.Ripley congratulated Call: "Well, you did it.You saved the Earth." They marveled at Earth's beauty, and as they wondered what would happen next, Ripley told Call: "I don't know.A modest, black and white film in an era of wide-screen color epics, its critical acclaim and box-office success were phenomenal - its $340,000 production budget yielded over $5 million in gross proceeds." Powers decided to visit Dr.Evil imprisoned in his Maximum Security Facility in Geneva, Switzerland - a scene parodying one inThe Silence of the Lambs (1991).It is an original look at sex, violence, crime and power under the peaceful exterior of small-town Americana in the mid-80s.