Though Gor has a sort of fairness by having the men (aside from geezers like the old king and Palance) wearing just as little if not less than the women. Including several who really shouldn’t
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There have been 36 Gor novels, starting in 1966 and he’s still cranking 'em out today at age 90.
I read the first couple of them a long time ago, as a kid. I was sick in bed and my mom bought a couple for me, knowing I liked fantasy books. I don’t recall them being that bad, but what did I know? I would read anything with a Boris Vallejo cover back then.
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I saw this episode in a theater with a ton of other people on the Free Cheese tour back in the 90s. I got a T-shirt which I wore so much I wore it out. We were saying, “Cabot? Cabot! Cabot!” for months.
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I always took it as an homage/ripoff of Abbott and Costello, where Lou Costello was known for yelling “Abbott!” a lot.
Robin Hood, Men in Tights did a bit referencing this:
I think the writer of the film was like “hey, Cabot sounds like Abbott,” and then drove the joke into the ground.
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The situation could’ve been far more practical than that, in that the original film wasn’t available for licensing, but this one was. Keep in mind that they were churning out 24 episodes a year at that time, so likely had to pick usable films that they could actually license regardless of continuity.
Also, it replicated the TV experience back in the day, when you were likely to turn on the TV and start watching the sequel to a film you never saw, just because it was on. This is likely why the movie starts with a recap of the previous film, because the producers knew there was a strong chance a lot of the viewers wouldn’t have watched it.
MST3K had done other sequels before the original, as in the KTMA season they did the Figutive Alien moves in reverse order, and during the CC years did Hercules Unchained and two other Hercules sequels a season before doing the original Hercules.
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It may how the film was sold to them, or possibly a requirement for the TV listings, likely so not to cause confusion with the Howard Hughes classic film Outlaw.
The film seems to have a bit of an identity crises, as in some markets it was titled Gor II, while others just called it Outlaw. I guess it depended on how whether the distributor thought it being a sequel to Gor was an asset or liability. When packaging up the film for syndication, they likely had to come up with a title to list that would make it clear which “Outlaw” film they were selling.
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I had another thought about this movie:
Why is Cabot friends with Watney in the first place?
Yes, they’re coworkers, so okay maybe Cabot accepts an invitation to go for a drink.
But they don’t seem like the type to be friends. Yet Cabot introduces Watney as such several times.
Then Watney throws Cabot under the bus without hesitation just to get some royal nookie.
I guess he never heard of “Bros before…”
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This is addressed more in the first movie but Cabot is a nerdy professor who obsesses over imaginary worlds, bores his students and gets swiftly dumped by his girlfriend. Given that level of unpopularity, he can’t be too picky with his choice of friends.
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Every time I see that sequence my brain insists that any minute they’re going to break into song. It’s just the run-up to a musical number they didn’t have the budget to produce so they just kept the intro and said the hell with it.
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This movie should come with a warning to not, under any circumstances, play the Cabot Drinking Game. 
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If you ignore that fact that there’s no woman, even among the extras, who looks older than maybe her mid-30s. I’m guessing there’s some kind of Logan’s Run-for-women-only type explanation for this in the original script. (Yeah, right. )
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Pretty sure that’s implicit in all low-budget science-fiction, fantasy and horror films.
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Well, you get a supposedly ancient queen, witch or sorceress from time to time. Like in The Undead or The Magic Sword. And I can’t believe I’m saying this, but kudos to COR-Man for almost giving us an interesting and morally ambiguous “old lady” character in the former.
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When a woman reaches a certain age… she dies in childbirth. Except for the rare woman who didn’t and must be a witch and and therefore hide herself away.
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Why must escapism [sic] always be so damn depressing? 
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If you’re looking for escapism in the world of Gor, you’ve come to the wrong place. If you’ve come looking for buffalo shots, though…
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I just enjoy how “Shamelessly 80s” it is. Gor is a supposedly this “harsh world of harsh people”, but most the fashions and hairstyles just scream “EIGHTIES!”. It’s such an easy riffing target.
Plus, my all-time favorite Stinger: “Get outta here, you disgusting WOOOOOOOOORM!” 
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It’s always been super weird to me when you fire up a movie like Gor (or Conan or Ator or…) and all the extras are sort of soft white folks with visible tan lines.
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The genre is the Sword and Planet genre. It was started by Edgar Rice Burroughs and then got tropified in the 60’s, 70’s, and a little in the early 80’s. You don’t often see them much anymore, but I’m sure they still get written and published.
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Yeah, when my wife and I were watching it I said, “None of these people have enough melanin in their skin to even survive this place.”
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