Farscape

Crichton: All right...here's the deal. We're gonna be really, really quiet so the Pirates of the Caribbean don't hear us. Okay? One of the better known of the amusement park rides found at Disneyland, the Pirates of the Caribbean is obviously based on the long history of piracy in the Caribbean Sea.

Crichton: What's the matter? You not hungry? Red Rover, Red Rover, send Cujo right over. Red Rover is a children's game, in which one side chants "Red Rover, Red Rover, send _____ right over." The named person on the other team then has to break through the barrier formed by the first team. Cujo is the rabid St. Bernard from the 1981 Stephen King novel and the 1983 film made based upon it. In the time since the novel's publication, "Cujo" has become virtually a generic name for any vicious and/or mad dog.

Crichton: It's beautiful. You're Picasso. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is the Spaniard who's considered one of the most notable artists of the 20th Century. He's primarily known for developing the art style known as Cubism.

Crichton: You guys go find the Slaughterhouse Five. Make sure we're ready to move. Slaughterhouse Five is the title of a 1969 SF novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., adapted into a movie by George Roy Hill in 1972. John is being a bit metaphoric in using the phrase to describe the Grudeks' harvesting of organic material from Leviathans.

Crichton: We get outta here, we find someone to fix it. Before then, we gotta find a way to screw the pooch. The expression "screw the pooch" is a phrase used by test pilots to refer to accidents which result in destruction of the aircraft, and/or death of the pilot. Its use came into popularity with the publication of Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff. Here, John is using it in a more literal sense of dealing with the Grudeks' Brindz Hound.

Crichton: Sputnik, we don't work together, we die. That's all the need-to-know I need to know. John is probably likening Sikozu's hairdo to the antennae on Sputnik, the first space satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.

Crichton: Hey, man, you don't like the Baywatch thing, head inland. Another reference to Baywatch, the TV series about lifeguards on the beaches of California.

Crichton: Absolutely correct, Tinkerbell. Tinkerbell is the fairy companion of Peter Pan in the 1904 play Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie, as well as the novel version, originally published in 1911 as Peter and Wendy, and the various films adapted from it, mostly notably the 1953 animated feature film from Walt Disney, and Steven Spielberg's 1991 film, Hook.

Crichton: Besides, I've almost cracked 'Wormholes for Dummies'. A series of books, "for Dummies" became popular in the late nineties, explaining everything from computers to finances to games in layman's terms, so that anyone could understand the basics of the subject.

Crichton: (on Sikozu coming to the Leviathan sacred burial ground) So you Jacques Cousteau'ed your way upstream to where they die. Jacques Cousteau is a famous deep sea diver who had a TV show The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau which ran from 1966 to 1976.

1812: The DRD known as 1812 has been taught by Crichton to sing the "1812 Overture", which commemorates Napoleon's unsuccessful invasion of Russia. 1812 has also been painted blue, white, and red, the colors of the French flag.

Crichton: Mother Teresa of the uncharted territories. Mother Teresa is a nun who was known for her self-sacrifice for others.