The attendant delivers a TV-dinner style ray, one that is fitted with straws and pictures of the different foods.) She emits a loud-pitched scream - the alien reacts by belching out a horrifying moan in imitation.Elliott screams back at his sister to stop, as Mike backs up into a wall bookcase and knocks it down.He overwhelms his son with advice about putting off thoughts of marriage (or not getting his girlfriend pregnant and being forced to marry her) because there are other better prospects in his life - an education at Yale University and a merging with the oil business.On a blackboard behind him with a basketball-looking Earth and a small moon in the upper right hand corner, he illustrates how a rocket will be fired from Earth from a great space gun toward the lunar surface.