Episode Report Card Keckler: D+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT From Dusk 'Til Yawn
By Keckler | Season 2 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.07.2003
Tripwrecked appears to have been working for awhile, because he mutters about almost being "there." Don uses his word for bad -- "nohkto," the same word he used when he spit out the brown cracker -- and Tripwrecked says, "No, not nohkto. Good." "Gooood," Don imitates. Tripwrecked tells him that as soon as they get back to Enterprise and a UT, the first words out of Don's mouth better be "thank you." Same goes for you and your healed arm, ass. Tripwrecked does something that causes major sparks, and Don throws back his head and hisses out a laugh. I do too. "You think that's funny?" Tripwrecked asks, and presses a button. The transceiver lights up. "Huh? You gonna laugh now?" Tripwrecked taunts. Tripwrecked tries sending a message to Enterprise, but only gets static. "This terrain, it's all volcanic," Tripwrecked waves his hands around. "Igneous rock is heavy in diamagnetic minerals -- it's interfering with the transmission," he recites. Using bits of Don's language that he picked up and lots of arm motion, Tripwrecked tells Don that they have to bring the transceiver up to a higher elevation in order for it to work. God, I am SO BORED! Don twitches in response. You know, when he does that, he bears a striking resemblance to a character in "Fawlty Towers: Gourmet Night." "I'm gonna need help. You [Tripwrecked points at Don] and me [Tripwrecked pats his chest] together." So very not on the ocean. Nor at Tanagra. Don keeps twitching, so Tripwrecked makes a big display of throwing the gun away. He spreads his arms apart and says, "I'm not going to hurt you. And you [he points at Don] are not going to hurt me. We'll work together." "Tripwrecked, his arms open," Mathra says, waking up from a deep doze. Don seems to understand all this, and gestures that Tripwrecked should untie his hands. Of course, as soon as he does, Don attacks Tripwrecked and they go for some extended rolling around in the dust. "I hope they don't end up having sex," Mathra confides. I'm really sick of these fight scenes just as the music tells us they're about to have a communications breakthrough. Not that I really care whether or not they actually have a communications breakthrough, but after three times, it's a bit played -- you know? Although it does keep me from having to recap too much. Somewhere amid the fight, Don scrambled up and recovered the gun. Tripwrecked manages to get it away from him, but Don spits a Loogie Of Sting in his eyes. Why didn't he do that in the first fight? The guy's obviously got a long-range spit-take.
They fight to exhaustion, and both fall to the ground. Tripwrecked manages to get up first and asks, "Is that the best you can do?" Don remains on the ground, twitching and hissing. Tripwrecked recovers the gun and aims it at Don. Don looks nervous under all his latex. Tripwrecked hurls the gun far away where it will never hurt anyone again. "Too bad those guns are shaped like boomerangs -- it's gonna clock him right here," Mathra wishful-thinks. If he was just going to throw it away in a big display of peace, why did he aim it at Don first? Downright rude, that was. "We can fight some more if you want or we can try to get the hell outta here -- whassit gonna be?" Tripwrecked asks.