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'Moonbase 8' Scrubs The Mission

The Showtime comedy series about three NASA astronauts-in-training at a mock moonbase in the desert vibrates on its own singular wavelength, but never generates laughs.
Houston, We Have A Problem: (L to R) "Cap" (John C. Reilly), "Skip" (Fred Armisen) and "Rook" (Tim Heidecker) kick moonrocks in <em>Moonbase 8</em>.

In Showtime's six-episode series , about a group of pathetic astronauts-in-training living in isolation at a mock moonbase in the desert, the comedy is sometimes broad (John C. Reilly's blustering buffoon of a team leader), sometimes dry (Fred Armisen's passive-aggressive science officer), and sometimes ... whatever it is that Tim Heidecker is up to at any given moment (he plays

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