On a radio broadcast soon after the film was released on video, Howard Stern said he had finally watched it and was amazed to note similarities to his own earlier work. He stated that, during the first week he was on the air at WNBC in 1982, he and co-worker Fred Norris had created and aired a segment entitled "Slim Whitman versus the Midget Aliens From Mars", which Stern proceeded to re-broadcast as proof. The bit depicted Slim Whitman's singing as a weapon against invading aliens, which rendered the planet a wasteland. "It's the same. I want credit," said Stern. "It's a weird coincidence, and it freaked me out." Years later, Stern had Tim Burton on his show as a guest, and he told Burton that he had created a bit titled "Slim Whitman Versus the Midget Aliens From Mars" in the early 1980s, to which Burton immediately responded "Wow" in amazement, and then added "You should have sued me."
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