This Sunday NBC is airing the first of its two part disaster miniseries Meteor, which I fully planned on skipping. Two weeks ago ABC ran that miniseries Impact where a piece of the MOON breaks off and hits the Earth. That is a disaster mini series idea I can get behind. Judging from the title, this NBC movie just has one f***ing meteor. If my memory of the space chapter in my 8th grade Earth science text book Our Planet and You: Discover! serves me correctly, meteors are the dangerous space debris equivalent of some M-80’s purchased at some Pennsylvania highway gas station (NASA’s words, not mine). Call me when you have a miniseries that ups the ante a little, NBC. Maybe Jupiter hits the Earth or something.

All that was before I watched this preview clip, however:

First off, check out this cast: Christopher Lloyd, Jason Alexander, and Ernie Hudson. Actors from three of my favorite things ever (Back to the Future, Seinfeld, and Ghostbusters) are fighting space debris. I think maybe that dream I had where an NBC executive gets me really high and asks me to come up with show ideas was actually true.

Also, this thing isn’t about a meteor. It’s about meteorS, PLURAL, and that’s because a COMET strikes an ASTEROID. NBC really should have called this movie: A Comet Strikes An Asteroid, And S**t Gets Real. I’d pay $15 to see that in Disney Digital 3-D.

I will be watching in hopes they shoehorn in some lines where Christopher Lloyd says “Great, Scott! That thing is headed straight for us!” and Ernie Hudson yells “I’ve seen s**t in space that will turn you WHITE!” I also hope that after the part where Jason Alexander says “guesstimate” in this clip, a quibbling argument breaks out at the war room table about whether or not you should date people that use words like that. Either way, I’m tuning in this Sunday.