Crackers Don't Matter

Season 2, Episode 4, Aired

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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".
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Nitpick: When Chiana was describing how much food they had managed to acquire at the commerce planet she explained that they had enough crackers for "a thousand years", however Crichton is generally the only one to use the term "years", everyone else on the crew regularly uses the term "cycles".

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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?!
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Pilot: I'm only judging on my experience with you, but I've never seen such a deficient species. You have no special abilities. You're not particularly smart, can hardly smell, can barely see, and you're not even vaguely physically or spiritually imposing. Is there anything you do well? Crichton: Watch football.
    • Crichton: Does this strike any of you superior beings as a little bit ironic? Chiana: Why? Crichton: I'm the deficient one, and I'm still saving your butts.
    • Rygel: Shut up! I don't need a grunt to give me a military assault lecture. I wrote military assault lectures! Aeryn: You? The only thing you've ever assaulted was a plate of food cubes. Now shut up.
    • Aeryn: Got a bit of a problem, Commander? Because now you've got one more. The only way you're going to get my weapon is if I'm dead. (Aeryn holds her gun to her head.) Crichton: Look at what you're doing. Look. Aeryn: (laughing) Yes, you're right. You're so right. He's absolutely right. The power setting's too low! (She starts shooting at Crichton) Thank you! So much better! Crichton: You missed!
    • (To D'Argo after finishing talking to the Scorpius hallucination) Crichton: What...? Am I being... irrational!? Oh well, have a little pain... (Crichton shoots D'Argo in the leg)
    • Crichton: I'm not deficient, I'm SUPERIOR! Humans are superior!
    • Rygel: I never run away! I strategically maneuver!
    • Crichton: I got great eyes! They're better than twenty-twenty and they're blue!
    • Crichton: They don't get it, Scorpy. They don't get how crazy they are. Scorpius: You're right, John, they don't get it. They don't get how crazy they are. Because... 'cause they stole the crackers.
    • Crichton: I don't care about crackers! Rygel: We do! We want food! Crichton: Is that what this is all about? Is that it? Okay. Then where's my ice cream? Aeryn: What? Crichton: Where's my ice cream? Rygel: Savage, I know almost every food in the galaxy- Crichton: WHERE'S MY DAMN ICE CREAM? Rygel: I have no idea what izes creme is.
    • Crichton: (to T'raltixx) Ionic radiation gives them photogasms, unless she's faking it, they can do that you know--hey, Zhaan, you faking it? Zhaan: (giggling) No....
    • Crichton: (to T'raltixx about Rygel) That guy eats and craps his own body weight twice a day.
    • Crichton: Anybody feel anything? D'Argo: Nope. Rygel: No. Zhaan: (blissing out with a photogasm) I do. I feel good- the light... Crichton & D'Argo: Oh, great!
    • Crichton: (to Pilot) Do I look stupid to you? No, please, don't answer that question.
    • Pilot: How is your module? Crichton: Checked out fine, I checked out fine. Pilot: While vaguely concerned about you, I'm much more interested in how this will affect Moya.

    • Scorpius Hallucination: Kill her. Then we'll have pizza and margarita shooters. Go on, John, do it, do it!
      Crichton: No one has margaritas with pizza!

    • Crichton: What the hell is this? Zhaan: Heat-deflecting paste. You'll burn up in there without it. Crichton: It smells like puke. Zhaan: I pre-digested it to increase its potency. Crichton: It's puke!?
    • Scorpius: (about Crichton aiming at D'Argo) Go on John, do it! Then we can go to the beach... I know a place with naked Sebacean women and margarita shooters!
    • Scorpius: Revenge is a dish best served cold, and you like revenge, don't you? Crichton: Shut up! I hate when villains quote Shakespeare!
    • Pilot: Is something the matter Crichton? Crichton: It's that damn Peacekeeper bitch. She's barricaded herself in command; I think she's trying to take over the ship.
    • Aeryn: Next time you'll be a crouton, Crichton!
    • Pilot: (about Zhaan) She's a plant. Put her in the light, watch her smile.
    • Crichton: Zhaan, where are you? Zhaan: I'm up in the maintenance bay John, about to have a fight with Aeryn.

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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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Crichton: Bingo! Give Brainiac the fluffy doll. Brainiac is a comic book super-genius villain who is one of Superman's primary nemeses.
    • Crichton: Oh, great, so he's like one of those mechanics on 60 Minutes who says he's gonna help, and then he screws us. 60 Minutes is the notable news magazine show that's been airing on CBS since 1968, and which excels at investigative reportage.
    • Crichton: (referring to T'raltixx) Barring the Yoda factor, if he gives us any trouble, we lock him up. This is a reference to the Star Wars movies, which has a seemingly harmless looking alien named Yoda as a master warrior.
    • Crichton: Today's assignment is... anyone? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? A brand new car! This is a reference to the exceedingly popular daytime game show The Price Is Right, where the surprise prize was often a car.
    • Crichton: ...I've been seeing Scorpius like he's guest starring on Hawaii Five-O, how crazy is that? Hawaii Five-O was a police drama-type show during the late seventies to early eighties set in, as one can imagine, Hawaii.
    • Crichton: Heeeere's Johnny! This is a line verbatim, from the The Shining, the movie version of the hit horror novel by Steven King. It is also the introduction of Johnny Carson by Ed McMahon on The Tonight Show.
    • Crichton: Gilligan and Mary-Anne; maybe you're Ginger, I'd have to see you in a wonder bra to know--where you takin' the Minnow? Gilligan, Mary-Anne and Ginger were three of the seven castaways on the television classic Gilligan's Island.
    • Pilot: I'm sorry, John. I can not do that. This is a paraphrase of the line spoken by the computer HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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