The Liberian pilot escapes from the wreckage. Removing a weapon mount from the wing of his ship, he fires at the approaching Listerian ship, which crashes.

The Listerian pilot crawls toward a broadcast array. The Liberian follows him, accusing the Listerians of faking their ratings and starting the war between their planets.

After a surprisingly inept laser gunfight, the Listerian dies and the Liberian collapses at his feet soon after.

As death takes him, he sees the Listerian's final broadcast playing on the array's screen.

"Let it be known for all times there were once two planets in this system. The planet Lister made great television shows. The planet Liber made crap. They had to fake the ratings. They had to fake the ratings."

While taking a moth to the surface, Stan expresses misgivings about landing on an apparently abandoned planet. 790 agrees with Stan.

Xev asks Stan what he has to lose by landing. When he tells her, "My life," 790 changes his vote.

Upon landing, they find the skeletal remains of the Listerian and the Liberian. Stan is ready to leave the apparently deserted planet, but when Xev decides to explore, he follows.

They find a multicolored star-shaped arch on the front of a building. As they pass, it lights up.

A television monitor above the star activates to allow the disembodied "C.G.," TV World's vice president of programming, welcomes them.

The planet is a television amusement park. Visitors get to "be that special character you've always wanted to play."

Xev gives it a try. As she steps into the arch, C.G., speaking so rapidly as to be all but unintelligible, offers the following disclaimer: "Some players may fail to draw high ratings and will become permanent members of our studio audience."

When Xev enters the arch, the C.G. recording tells her that only one player may enter the game. She tosses 790 to Stan and enters her chosen program, "Boys' School".

790 orders Stan to put him in the show with Xev. C.G. refuses to let them in.

Eventually, Stan and 790 find the entry to the show "Talk Time". The door opens and Stan pitches 790 into the studio.

As Stan grouses about Xev's penchant for getting them into trouble, he comes to a third arch. Two beautiful women -- Slinka and YoYo -- invite Stan to join them on the show "Girl Time".

He hesitates for a moment, then walks through the door.

As he enters the set, a bucket perched above the door covers Stan with jellybeans. The audience laughs and applauds.

Slinka enters the room. Her robe catches on something and comes off, leaving her dressed in nothing but a bikini. YoYo enters, losing her own robe in the process.

The women tell Stan, "We need a new roommate."

Stan asks them, "Do you have any openings?" Knowing a double entendre when they hear one, the audience responds enthusiastically, and a ratings meter moves into positive territory.

Stan notices a floating sphere bristling with cameras floating above the set. The camera broadcasts his image to a monitor somewhere else in the complex.

Xev appears on another monitor. She’s standing in a classroom with several rowdy young men.

One of her "students" asks about her lesson plan. Xev tells the class, "I'm going to start with simple teasing, then move on to basic squeezing, and end up in advanced pleasing."

The audience loves the show. The lights go off, and C.G. comes on the monitor.

He tells Xev that her ratings qualify her for primetime exposure. The lights come up, and she picks up her attempted seduction where it left off.

Back on "Girl Time", Stan's ratings plummet as his attempted one-liners fall flat with the audience. Even the arrival of the crusty landlord character can't stave off cancellation.

C.G. reassigns Stan to a daytime show.

On the talk show set, 790 sits on a table and praises Xev. His sidekick introduces the first guest, but 790 ignores the usual chat show niceties and continues talking about Xev.

Stan finds himself cast as the doctor on a soap opera, with Slinka is his patient/lover. Stan ignores the storyline and attempts to seduce her.

"Doctor" Stan's drunken wife enters the operating room. She pulls out a knife and raises it to stab Slinka.

Before the blow strikes, the lights go out and the scene freezes. Stan has again been canceled.

Elsewhere, C.G. introduces "The Xev Show".

A half dozen shirtless, cowboy hat wearing bohunks surround Xev. She basks in the adulation of the audience.

A studio audience comprised of still-living disembodied heads watches the show on monitors. They appear to love "The Xev Show".

Slinka sashays onto 790's set. The robot insults her, then shouts, "I want Xev!."

His ratings drop precipitously.

Stan finds himself on the set of a children's program, wearing a diaper over his uniform. Stan refuses to play along with the show's host, the unfortunately named Farty.

A robot child mocks Stan, and he kicks its head off its shoulders. This is enough to cancel the program.

C.G. informs Stan that he has run out of shows. He will now be cast in specialty programming.

A trapdoor opens under Stan's feet, and he falls through.

Xev sings her theme song. It includes the line, "I'm a little bit of lizard and a whole lot of love."

The captive, disembodied audience loves the show. One of the audience compartments contains a skull rather than a living head.

Slinka and YoYo -- dressed in black, military-style uniforms -- stand guard over Stan. C.G. explains that Stan's poor performance requires him to become a permanent member of the studio audience.

Stan attempts to leave. The captain of the guard hits him with a taser.

Kai's pod opens. The assassin leaves the cryo chamber and takes a moth to TV World.

The captain tells Stan that they are going to decapitate him.

Xev tells the audience her life's story. She laments, "It's not easy being programmed to love and never finding it."

Her maudlin attitude kills her ratings, and "The Xev Show" gets canceled. C.G. promises to find her a new show

790's show finally gets canceled. C.G. promises him a new show.

Kai enters the "Girl Time" set. Slinka and YoYo appear and go through the same routine they played out with Stan.

When they won't divulge Stan's location, Kai walks off the set to look for him.

790 is cast as the contestant on a game show. He continues to call for Xev, and quickly assigned to specialty programming.

Kai passes through the children's show set. He pauses to reflect on his childhood fondness for balloons before continuing his search for Stan.

The guards prepare to decapitate Stan. Kai rushes in, knocks Stan out of the way, and tells him to find Xev.

The guards activate the decapitation machine and separate Kai's head from his already dead body.

Kai's head is given a spot in the audience. He watches Xev on an exercise program.

Stan searches the set for the real Xev. He winds up on the children's show set again, where he pops a balloon and stuffs it into Farty's mouth.

The ratings go through the roof, and Stan qualifies for a better show.

Kai attempts to influence Xev's ratings by laughing and praising the show.

The guards assign 790 to the audience, and he ends up in a cubicle next to Kai. They both laugh at Xev and attempt to sway the other heads.

Xev explains to the audience that her body is perfect, and stops exercising. The show gets cancelled, and she is cast in specialty programming.

Stan asks the actors on the soap opera set if they've seen Xev. They stick to the script.

The wife character's head enters attached to Kai's body. Stan knocks the head off the body, and his ratings skyrocket.

As the guards prepare Xev for decapitation, Stan bursts in, dragging Kai's body behind him. He fires Kai's brace through the head guard's robotic body, effectively deactivating him.

Stan frees Xev. They find the audience room and liberate 790 and Kai's head.

Kai reattaches his head to his body, and they return to the ship.

Xev tries to explain the feeling she got from being in front of an audience. Stan insists the experience was artificial since the audience wasn't really alive.

Kai observes that, "Being alive isn't everything."