The moon itself sighed with impatience and intoned, “I do not think that is how space travel works.”

“You can’t use visual gags in an actual fight!”

This episode is going to visual-gag itself into oblivion.

“So I decided to cram as many things immediately recognizable as ‘Japanese’ into one frame of animation!”

Umino is channelling his inner Professor Tomoe in the “hamminess” department.