Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Lewis Carroll Never Imagined This
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 17 | Aired on 09.09.1999
... and elsewhere, they split up down two corridors. As soon as they have, though, some slashes appear in the air behind Crichton, and if he didn't have enough problems already, it looks like Freddy Krueger's after him. Of course, if Krueger gets a look at Pilot and Rygel, he might decide that this reality is too fucked-up even for him. Aeryn returns, and after an aborted attempt to determine whether she saw the scratches in the air, they walk off, with more scratches appearing in the air behind them.
Sometime later, they split up again, and Crichton investigates Rygel's quarters. We see Rygel's self-portrait, which is pretty funny, but brings up the question: If there are copies of everything on Moya in each dimension, why aren't there copies of each crew member as well? (I don't really want to know -- I'm just giving you a topic. Talk amongst yourselves.) Anyway, Crichton reaches for his tape recorder, although of all the possessions of Crichton that Rygel could have ganked, it seems like the one that contains "Letters To My Dad On Tape Never Sent" is an odd choice. It just so happens, though, that in reaching for the recorder, Crichton gets sucked into another dimension, leaving Aeryn to discover he's gone. She warily draws her weapon.
After the break, Crichton reappears in a yellow-lighted dimension, and this time the occupant of the quarters is there, as Rygel looks up and starts belly-laughing to the point of wheezing. I'd be happy to see Crichton too -- who wouldn't? -- but this still seems a little extreme. Rygel goes on that Crichton is making even less sense than usual, "but in a cute way." All right, he's winning me over here. Crichton says he doesn't know what Rygel's been smoking, and I have to admit that that's the first place my mind went as well. Soon, however, Crichton is struggling to stave off the giggles as well.
Cut to Crichton listening as Rygel's in medias Catskillas Routinas. Crichton guffaws at the punchline, but then tries to regain control in between bouts of cracking up. He tells Rygel that something's wrong, and points out that Rygel doesn't tell jokes. Rygel, hilariously lugubriously, agrees, and then they're dying laughing again, this time with good reason, because the delivery there was awesome. The party keeps going until Freddy Krueger shows up again, and even Rygel doesn't see the humor in that...
...but later, he's trying to tell Crichton that it was a hallucination. Crichton spends more time refuting that statement than it deserves, which is to say any, and then tells Rygel that they need to locate a weird noise to find the dimensional portal. Rygel: "Weird noise. Does my stomach count?" Crichton giggles, but enough stuff has disappeared into Rygel's gullet over the years that maybe he should take that suggestion a little more seriously. In an effort to stop Rygel from cracking him up, Crichton tries holding Rygel's lips together -- see what I mean? -- but that only serves to make him funnier, so Crichton takes his leave of Rygel.