Easter Island, Mars

While searching for the British TV series "Life on Mars" on Amazon tonight, I accidentally came across this fantastic example of Photoshop gone awry:



Clearly, the cover art is intended to combine the covers of the two programs included in this special edition, Life on Mars and Peru's Mystery in Stone. The setting is clearly Mars, as signified by its barrenness and the red sky (red planet= red sky. Get it? Get it?). But why—WHY—would the cosmonaunts on Mars be kneeling on the ground collecting samples of Mars dust when they could be marvelling at the gigantic Easter Island head just inches away from them?! (Incidentally, imagine how much Mars dust the head could snort by just inhaling. Just saying.)

But perhaps the cosmonaunts landed on Mars and were greeted by its hostile inhabitants, the giant stone heads, who then subjected them to a life of slavery cleaning the surface of Mars with some kind of cosmic vacuum cleaner and the big giant stone head is the overseer while the flank of six guards in the background ensures that no one makes a break for it. And perhaps that weird Aztec-ish pyramid in the background is the prison where they hold the cosmonauts captive until they have fulfilled their uses and then are executed. And perhaps this could be turned into some made-for-TV movie staring two vaguely attractive but non-threatening actors who went to Hollywood, failed in the movies, and decided go back to their sci-fi roots to placate an ever-dissatisfied fanbase. With the voice of James Earl Jones as the overseer.

Nice going, UFO TV. But next time, check your Wikipedia. The Easter Islands are a part of Chile, not Peru.