Firefly: Jaynestown
Episode score
9.1
Superb
Jaynestown
- 4.
- Season: 1
- Episode: 4
- First Aired: 10/18/2002
- Prod Code: 1AGE06
- When Simon pretends to be a businessman seeking mud, the worker slaps his hand on Simon's back, leaving a large, muddy imprint on his jacket. A few shots later in the same scene, the mud stain is no longer there. edit »
- After the young boy takes the shot that was supposed to hit Jayne, he falls to the ground. You can see a rope attached to his left foot during this stunt and when he is falling to the ground. edit »
- When Stitch points his shotgun at Mal, there is a pump action sound effect, even though he does not pump the gun. edit »
- You can't take a shotgun blast for someone. A shotgun blast is a spread of pellets, even at relatively close-range. At least some of the pellets/buckshot would have gone past the guy and hit Jayne. edit »
- Stitch walks upright pretty well, and manhandles Simon pretty readily, despite being locked up in a cramped box for four years. Did the Magistrate let him have daily exercise periods and all, or what? edit »
- So exactly what is "Port Control"? The Serenity landed in the middle of a big open field with no signs of buildings, no one to greet them, and no indication they had to request permission to land. edit »
- Kaylee: (about the Jayne statue) Wherever I move to, his eyes keep... followin' me. edit »
- Mal: (upon finding the statue) Jayne?
Jayne: Yeah?
Mal: You want to tell me how come there's a statue of you, here, starin' at me like I owe him somethin'?
Jayne: Wishin' I could, Cap'n. edit » - (Inara's client, Fess Higgins, tells her about an upcoming hearing for a criminal)
Fess: He stole a ton of money from my dad and gave it to the poor, to my father's workers. He's become kind of a folk hero in Canton.
Inara: Go on.
Fess: Well, he's back. Apparently, he landed here yesterday.
Inara: Yesterday? (to herself) Oh, no. (to Fess) I... I know this man. He's… he just has this idiotic sense of nobility, you know? He can never just let things go. He thinks he's this hard-hearted criminal, and he can be unrelenting, but… there's a side to him that's just so…
Fess: You mean you actually know… Jayne?
(long pause)
Inara: Jayne? Jayne Cobb? You're talking about Jayne Cobb? edit » - (River is hiding from Book, freaked out by his enormous unbundled mane of white hair)
River: They say the snow on the roof is too heavy. They say the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger.
Book: River? Please, why don't you come on out?
River: No! Can't. Too much hair.
Book: Is... is that it?
Zoë: Hell, yes, preacher. If I didn't have stuff to get done, I'd be in there with her. edit » - [sitting in a bar, listening to "The Ballad of Jayne" being sung]
Mal: Uh, Jayne?
Jayne: Yeah, Mal?
Mal: You got any light you'd like to shed on this particular development?
Jayne: No, Mal. edit » - Zoe: River, honey, he's putting the hair away now.
River: It doesn't matter. It'll still be there. Waiting. edit » - Simon: (hearing the entire pub break out into Jayne's tribute song) No... this must be what going mad feels like. edit »
- Simon: (sarcastically to Jayne) Enemies? You? No! How it can it be? edit »
- Fess: (after losing his virginity) Aren't I supposed to be a man now?
Inara: A man is just a boy who's old enough to ask that question. edit » - Kaylee: Bye now! Have good sex! edit »
- Mal: It's my estimation that every man ever had a statue made of him was one kind of sumbich or another. edit »
- Jayne: (addressing crowd) Far as I see it, you people been given the shortest end of the stick ever been offered a human soul in this crap-heel 'verse. But you took that end and you - well, you took it. That's...well, I guess that's something. edit »
- Jayne: (singing) My love for me ain't hard to explain. The hero of Canton, the man they call me. edit »
- Jayne: Hey, I got an idea. Instead of us hangin' around playin' art critic until I get pinched by the man, how's about we move away from this eerie-ass piece of work and get on with our increasingly eerie-assed day. How's that?
Mal: I don't know. This here's a spectacle might warrant a moment's consideration. edit » - Simon: (looking at a statue to Jayne) This must be what going mad feels like. edit »
- Mal: The management here don't take too kindly to sightseers, which is why we're posin' as buyers. There ain't a one of us looks the part more than the good doctor. I mean, the pretty fits. Soft hands - definitely a moneyed individual. All rich and lily-white, pasty all over--
Simon: All right! Fine. I'll go. Just stop describing me. edit » - Simon: I swear, when it's appropriate.
Kaylee: Simon, the whole point of swearing is that it ain't appropriate. edit » - Fess: Jayne will get back and find out that he's grounded. Sorry, I hate the idea of his getting caught.
Inara: (insincerely) Yes, that would be bad. edit » - Simon: You know, I've saved lives. Dozens, maybe hundreds. I - I reattached a girl's leg, her whole leg. She named her hamster after me. I get a hamster. He (Jayne) drops a box of money. He gets a town.
Kaylee: Hamshtersh is nice! edit » - River: Bible's broken. Contradictions. False logistics. Doesn't make sense.
Book :No. No. Y-y-you can't...
River: So we'll integrate a non-progressional evolutionary theory with God's creation of Eden. edit » - River: Noah's Ark is a problem.
Book: Really?
River: We'll have to call it an early quantum state phenomenon. Only way to fit 5,000 species of mammals into the same boat. edit » - Jayne: Can't be a statue of me. No reason for it. Flies in the face of every kind of sense.
Wash: Won't argue with that. edit » - Wash: We gotta go to the crappy town where I'm a hero! edit »
- Simon: (proposing a toast) To Jayne - the box-dropping man/ape gone wrong thing. edit »
- Wash: (talking about Jayne's statue) I think they captured him though, captured his essence.
Kaylee: Looks sort of angry, don't he?
Wash: That's kinda what I meant. edit » - Simon: Does anybody here have a menu?
Bartender: A what? edit » - Jayne: Do you think we should be using my fame to hoodwink folks?
Mal: You'd better laugh when you say that. edit » - Jayne: You guys had a riot on account of me? My very own riot? edit »
- Simon: (about Jayne) You're like...a trained ape. Without the training. edit »
- There is an easter egg on Disc 4 of the DVD set. On the second special features page, highlight "Joss sings the theme" and then hit the left arrow. Hit enter, and it will play a clip of Adam Baldwin singing the "Hero of Canton" song from the episode "Jaynestown." edit »
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