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Coup by Clam

Season 4, Episode 10, Aired Aug 16, 2002

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The crew consume food, sharing amongst themselves, unaware that if these special mollusks are not ingested by the same person, it becomes toxic. Consequently, they must quickly find a cure or they'll die. Fortunately there's someone who's happy to come through... for a price. But there's more going on here than their own problems, and solving them may be a real drag!moreless

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Barry Otto

Doctor Tumii
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David Field

Ho'Ock
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Sara Groen

Mujombre

Ben Browder

John Crichton
Claudia Black

Aeryn Sun
Anthony Simcoe

Ka D'Argo
Jonathan Hardy

Voice of Dominar Rygel XVI
Wayne Pygram

Scorpius
Gigi Edgley

Chiana

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This episode was silly but it was also fun.

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By farscapefanuk, May 22, 2007

I really liked this episode. The crew all ecept Chiana become sick and will die unless they find a cure because they ate some toxic food. So to get the cure they must first find the amount of money the doctor wants then get him to cure them. But the situation gets compicated when Aeryn is kidnapped and Rygel and Crichton has to dress up as women to rescue to women. This episode was very silly but it was amusing and we got to bond with some of the new characters. This so far is proving to be a great season i hope the next few episodes are as good.moreless
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Never share your food!

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By Jungchen_isti, Apr 19, 2007

Again, a fun episode to watch.
In order to upgrade Moya's filters, the crew must get verified by a doctor, who also brings them food. It comes out that this food is toxic unless it is eaten by the very same person! But the crew shared the food! In order to get the cure, the doctor wants money!
Men rule the planet where they go, but only the Women possess the mollusks the crew needs to get the cure!
So, while Sikozu and Aeryn get caught and interrogated by the Women, John tries to rescue them by getting dresses like a woman, what was very fun to watch by the way.
Finally, Scorpius' allegiance is also depicted in this episode. He eats part of the mollusks to make the rest of the crew last longer on the planet while they search for the cure. Or is it just another way to protect Crichton and his Wormhole knowledge? Probably yes...
Rygel gets his revenge on the doctor by making him eat the same food! And Aeryn farts a lot in this episode, because the food linked her to Rygel!
Entertaining episode
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Never gonna eat green jello again....

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By BadgerBorg, Mar 06, 2007

Now, wasn't that all a bit silly? Farscape goes for another gross-out episode of bodily function jokes. Thankfully they soon got bored with that, only to fall into a series of oddly assorted set pieces. So before we look at the good, how about the bad. Did anyone believe the engineer was a bloke before the "reveal"? I don't think so. And the woman playing the liberationists leader made Crichton in a frock look feminine. And our feisty PK caught out with a simple blow to the back of the head? I don't think so here either. Still it was worth it to see D'Argo and Granny bond for an episode. I'm really starting to like Noranti - she is uniquely alien and bizarre without being conventionally sci-fi based. There were other laughs as well, but, alas, not the green jelly used for the molluscs. The Doctor gave a good performance, with some nicely disjointed dialogue. He was lucky that, unlike humans, he doesn't have many capillaries close to the surface in his nose, or there'd have been blood everywhere once Rygel put the bite on.moreless
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TRIVIA (4)
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- Moya has been upgraded to filter out the radiation that lurks in Tormented Space.
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- Leviathans are apparently not well known in this region of space.
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- Qatal mollusks should not be shared between more than one person. The purple one was eaten by D'Argo and Noranti. The green was eaten by Aeryn and Rygel, and the yellow by Crichton and Sikozu.
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- The milking chair from "Scratch and Sniff" is one of the decorations at the girls club.
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QUOTES (12)
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- Aeryn: (after Sikozu's finger is cut off by the revolutionaries) Why did you volunteer your finger? Sikozu: Do your appendages reattach?
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- Aeryn: Sikozu, we have a mission! Crichton: I'm happy to go... Aeryn: Zurl power! Crichton: Girl! Girl power! Would you quit speaking English?!
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- Crichton: (to Dr Tumii) One more word of techno- babble, and I'm going to cut your tongue out!
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- Male at the Club: (grabbing the ass of Crichton, who's in drag) What have we got here? I love a powerful woman!
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- Crichton: (objecting to the purple dress Rygel brought him) Look at that! That is not a slimming color! Black is a slimming color! Maybe, maybe if it was black, but uh uh. Rygel: I wear that color all the time!
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- Crichton: (about the food) Well, it's the first thing I've had in a while that doesn't taste like chicken. Kinda reminds me of a big bowl of Alpo I once ate.
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- Aeryn: Rygel and I had the green mollusk. Somehow it's linked us. (a squeaky fart sound comes from her) We have to find a cure very quickly.
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- (after Dr. Tumii has lengthily explained about the mollusk poison) Aeryn: All right, we understand. Fix it! Crichton: We'll pay double if you shut up. D'Argo: And I'll break your neck if you don't.
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- D'Argo: So, we should be touching when we drink this. Noranti: Oh, so you said. Bare skin to bare skin. (begins to take her shirt off) D'Argo: Aiee, ah, ahhhhh!!! Not that much bare skin!
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- Dr. Tumii: My nose! You bit off my nose! Rygel: There's plenty left. Now get back to work.
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- Dr. Tumii: The problem is you are not mollusks. D'Argo: It's never been a problem for us before.
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- Crichton: (dressed as a woman) Over here, keep your head down. Rygel: We need to blend in. Crichton: Blend in? Hell, we got here the clock stopped. We couldn't blend in on butt-ugly night.
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NOTES (3)
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- The Creature Shop used KY jelly for Dr. Tumii's perpetually dripping nose.
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- The script didn't call for Rygel to bite off Dr Tumii's nose. After it happened, puppeteer Fiona Gentile took the nose home.
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- When Ben Browder was dressed as a woman and had to walk down the street from his trailer to the filming location, he received "wolf whistles" from members of the public who were convinced that he was a real woman.
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ALLUSIONS (2)
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- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: Tumii's facial design was inspired by Robert Helpmann's appearance as the Child Catcher in the 1968 MGM film, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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- Some Like It Hot: The scenes in which Crichton and Rygel are in the club, dressed in drag is similar to the film Some Like It Hot, which starred Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe.
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