Crackers Don't Matter

Season 2, Episode 4, Aired
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The crew returns from a commerce planet with a load of crackers and a meek alien called T'raltixx, who promises he can alter Moya's electromagnetic profile in order to make her untraceable. Crichton is skeptical; it seems too good to be true. As they pass through a constellation of pulsars, an intense paranoia affects the crew, turning them violently again each other. Crichton must fight against his own paranoid delusions to work out what T'raltixx is actually doing -- and how to stop him.moreless
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  • One of the best episodes...

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    By farscapefanuk, Mar 12, 2007 Report Abuse
    What a great episode. I really enjoyed this episode for a number of reasons one being the amusing storyline but also because i thought that through the events of this episode we really begin to see the major charators bonding. This episode featured every chactor and envolved them with something. I think that more episodes need to be written like this. The story was simple but the charactor interaction was strong and well written, this will undoubtably remain in my mind as one of the best episodes of Farscape so far. This season is turing out to be great, we can only hope that the episodes stay at such a high quality.moreless

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  • Most hilarious episode of Farscape ever!

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    By TheDContinuum, Feb 21, 2007 Report Abuse
    "Crackers" is undoubtedly the finest combination of pop culture, Crichtonisms, and utter hilarity of the entire series. Though debatably the best episode of them all, it is undeniably the funniest. It is also a crucial episode in which the first substantial hint of the Scorpy clone present in John's brain. "I've got great eyes...they can see better than 20/20, and they're blue."

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  • I'm crazy, you're crazy, we're all crazy. In space.

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    By SleepTight, Jun 18, 2006 Report Abuse
    Once again, Farscape did it.
    With ridiculous beginning, and some not so convincing lines. 'Crackers Don't Matter' beginning as a failing episode and ending as a completely hilarious and excellent one is a big achievement.

    The uniqueness of this episode is very rare. It begins on Moya, the crew members are acting a little touchy, especially Crichton. There is also someone on there who says that they will all change a bit when they go into a place but after that they will go back to normal.

    Soon, fights begin. While Zhaan annoys everyone, Aeryn and Chiana fight. Soon Crichton and D'Argo join the fight.

    The first fights are all over some crackers. Chiana is eating a lot of them and so is Rygel. D'Argo gets upset with Rygel and attacks him and makes him almost choke on them.

    Soon they go their own way, while Zhaan acts around like a stoned blue-junkie. D'Argo and Chiana work together and think that Crichton and the others want to kill them. Meanwhile Aeryn and Rygel take their own way and want to take over Moya. Pilot is also changing, he is mostly just putting down Crichton and making sure he realise how useless he is.

    Then soon Crichton who was holding everything right gets completely nuts as well, he begins to see Scorpius around who tells him to kill his friends. First he shoots D'Argo and then he attacks Chiana and wants to rape her. Then he goes to Aeryn and they tell each other what they really think of each other and shoot some more. But then Crichton realised it's all crazy and he shoots Scorpius in his mind which head falls into a lot of more heads. Great scene.

    But then Crichton gets pissed off and he captured all of his friends. He shoots some crackers on them and makes sure they get the point that they are loosing it. He wants to stop the real bad guy who is hiding somewhere and making Pilot give him light. They don't want him to do it but eventually dress him up, he looked ridiculous but hilarious. So he goes and begins to destroy the alien's place and then kills it. Crichton is then finally freed and so is the rest.

    I loved how ashamed they all were and how they apologized. Lucky Zhaan who didn't remember anything.

    The episode was excellent, Crichton looked so ridiculously funny. The acting was very strong and the episode was very well reconstructed. Beginning in a lame way and ending up so powerfully.
    'Cracker's Don't Matter' is another Farscape success.
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  • the crew has very little time to get supplies with wanted posters of them up so all they can get are crackers and an alien who starts a process that makes them all start going mad so that he can destroy the universe. Pritty normal day for our herosmoreless

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    By Max42, Feb 21, 2006 Report Abuse
    I love this episode. Everyone is loosing their minds and acting irrational and the only one vagly keeping their head on is John who has Scorpous's nero clone talking him saying things like we'll have pizza's and margarita shooters.

    this also has them shooting at each other and John finaly gets them all together-by force and explains to them why crackers don't matter

    all in all this is a good episode and a reason i love this seriesmoreless

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  • Very impressive acting from all cast members with some impressive surprises

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    By Ranlier, Feb 12, 2006 Report Abuse
    In addition to great acting from everybody (especially Ben Browder, who\'s really been having a ball since \"Mind the Baby\", I loved the extended history of the characters shown. The good, the bad, and the ugly all come out.

    Of course, the best part was Scorpius in a hawaiian shirt, but that's just me.

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    • The Scorpius Clone makes its first attempt to use the desire for revenge as a means to get Crichton to do as he wishes; this campaign will later come full circle in the third season episode "Revenging Angel". Edit
    • Though at first it seems as though Crichton seeing Scorpius is just a hallucination, it in fact marks the first appearance of the neural clone, implanted in Crichton's head by Scorpius and a crucial part of the story as the season continues. Edit
    • It is unknown why T'raltixx needed the light exactly. Somehow, the light boosted his powers, and it had something to do with the light being produced by a leviathan as opposed to conventional methods. T'raltixx said that his people would find another leviathan to make their light and that this would allow them to rise from their dormancy and sweep the galaxy like a plague. Edit

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    • A new Rygel puppet was used in this episode and was almost broken immediately during the cracker force-feeding scene. Edit
    • Danny Adcock (T'raltixx) had to look through a series of mirrors in order to see out of his costume's facial prosthetics. Edit
    • Ben Browder added Crichton humming "The Ride of the Valkyries" while looping the episode's dialogue. Edit

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    • Chiana: (referring to Scorpius' beacon) She won't show me the message! There's a hidden message on there, and she won't show it to me! Aeryn: She's out of her frelling mind! There's nothing on there! Crichton: Show her the message. Aeryn: What?! Crichton: Show her the message. If there's nothing secret on the beacon, then show her the message and she can get the hell out of here. Chiana: Wait a minute, why do you want me to watch it? What's on there you want me to see?! Edit
    • Chiana: (when Crichton says he has great eyesight) Okay, so, can you read the symbols on the basin over there? Crichton: There's nothing there! Rygel: (reading) Warning... D'Argo: ...don't flush corrosives... Aeryn: ...down the waste tunnel. Edit
    • Aeryn: Unless you're planning on pulling the trigger, never point a gun at me again. Crichton: I was making a point. Aeryn: So was I. Edit

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    • Crichton: Try it, Medusa, try it. In Greek mythology, Medusa was a gorgon, a chthonic female monster. Gazing upon her would turn onlookers to stone. Edit
    • Crichton: I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream. Baskin Robbins, Ben & Jerry's, Good Humor. What's your favorite? Creamsicle or fudgsicle? "I scream..." is a favorite kids' rhyme. Baskin Robbins and Ben & Jerry's are two of the more popular brands of ice cream. Good Humor is a old time ice cream company now owned by Breyer's that created a number of ice cream novelties, known as Good Humor Bars sold by trucks that would travel through neighborhoods. Edit
    • D'Argo: What's going on in here? Crichton: Go back to your mountain, Grizzly. You're not wanted here. A reference to the huge "mountain man" Grizzly Adams, played by Dan Haggerty, first in a 1975 film, The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, and then a 1977 TV series. Edit

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