Overall Rating: 8.6
This episode is incredibly bizarre and...what's a polite way to put this...well suffice to say, it would fit well in the early Dr. Who universe. It's really...really quirky and campy. But it works and is legitimately entertaining. It helps when you're related to a comic genius and can guilt him into appearing on your show. :)
Plot Synopsis:
A full summary may be found here, courtesy of the Stargate Wiki.
Writing: 9.3
I love that this episode includes no malevolent forces, no dire stakes, no jeopardy at all. A "funny" episode should be purely for the joy of its' audience. :) And this script is "spit your soda across the room via nostrils" hilarious. I'd actually forgotten exactly how funny this episode was until I was watching to gather highlights for this review and blew Gatorade onto my monitor twice. Trust me folks...this one is a SCREAM. For that to happen, they had to craft an adorably obnoxious Urgo and a totally different Togar on which Urgo was based. Between the Wizard of Oz reference and the televised golf slam and the incredible resemblance Urgo bears to most six year old children (pay attention to ME!!!!! I'm BOOOOOORED! I'll scare you off with immature-sounding lies! LOL), you just can't help but spend 45 minutes giggling like an idiot.
Acting: 9.5
Until I started this review, I incredibly had never made the connection between the almost-as-hilarious Peter DeLuise (Stargate Director and one of my favorite commentators on the DVD sets) and the far more famous Dom DeLuise (noted funny man and character actor extraordinaire). It's nice to have family in the business to call on for a script like this that needs the perfect comic. Dom DeLuise could not be more perfect for this role (Urgo) and he plays it with such pathos and humor and perfect comic timing that he makes an outstanding script that much better and he brings out the comedic chops in the rest of the main cast. RDA's impatience suddenly becomes giddy-making, Chris Judge's stoic demeanor is now the perfect "straight-man," Amanda Tapping's usual geeky and still feminine portrayal of Sam now fits perfectly as Urgo's companion when the rest of the group just wants him to go away. Even Don S. Davis' reactions as the group reacts to the unseen Urgo (and Teryl Rothery's, for that matter) are comedy gold.
Message: 7.0
This one isn't message heavy, but it's not really intended to be. It does, however, communicate the importance of having an open mind to new experiences. Let me tell you all a little story. I know a guy who is kind of like Urgo. I befriended him because his heart was in the right place and because he really was a good person, but, like Urgo, he was too incessant for his own good. I'd be trying to get work done or chatting with a friend online or trying to play catch with another friend and he'd be yapping continuously in my ear like a toddler. Oh my LORD does he have the capacity to be irritating in large doses. But I'll tell you what he also did for me...he brought me out of my shell and helped me realize how joyful college can be if you try a little bit harder to be brave and have new experiences. He gave me the college years I'd been missing out on before I arrived at Oswego. Sometimes, that onslaught of attention-seeking enthusiasm is just what we need to be better people and to have some real fun. This is one of the great joys of parenthood too, if you let it be - children see the world with boundless optimism and energy and wonder...let it infect you too.
Highlights:
SAM: Probe indicates a breathable atmosphere, sir. 78 degrees in temperature, normal barometric pressure, no toxic gases. 388 appears to be an untouched paradise, sir.
TEAL'C: Appearances may be deceiving.
JACK: One man's floor is another man's ceiling.
DANIEL: A wise man travels well worn paths.
JACK: Never run with...scissors? (LOL)
SAM: It looks like the initial images showing this planet to be a paradise were manufactured and then sent back to us through the MALP.
JACK: Why?
SAM: Possibly to lure us into this room...to do...whatever was done?
DANIEL: Wow...this coffee's great!
SAM: Yeah, I was just about to say...
DANIEL: Yeah, is that cinnamon?
JACK: Chicory...(and Teal'c breaks into the jug of coffee and starts gulping it down like beer at a frat party, ending with a satisfied "ahhh")
SAM: Isn't that...hot?
TEAL'C: Extremely. (LOL)
HAMMOND: Just...stay on the base! (heh)
URGO: OK...I'll make it so that you can all see me...as long as you promise to be nice! Ready...and boom! (he appears) Isn't that nice? You can all see me, right?
JACK: Apparently.
URGO: Oh good...hello to you all. Now you say it.
SG1 TOGETHER: Hello, Urgo.
URGO: Wonderful! Do you know that you're all so much better looking on the outside than the inside? Inside, yeesh, so complicated! (LOL)
SAM: Of course! You're actually in our heads, aren't you?
URGO: You are so smart, Samantha, I love that about you!
JACK: So...what's going on here?
SAM: The technology implanted into our brains, sir. We must be looking at some sort of visual communication interface - controlled hallucination.
JACK: So...we're...what?
URGO: He gets confused! Who is Mary Steenbergen, by the way? (HA!!)
URGO: Boring! By the way...who decorated this room? It's so plain...so...yeeecchh...boring! Tell me the whole planet isn't like this...not the whole planet! Couldn't we go someplace else...someplace that's not here...someplace...not...here?! (he looks so cute the way he pleads with them..LOL)
DANIEL: He seems unresponsive to direct questioning.
URGO: Oh, that's not true! I'm pickin' your brains, you can pick mine. Ask me...ask me anything you want to know, I'll tell ya!
TEAL'C: Tell us how to remove you.
URGO: Oh pfffffffft...except that! (LOL!!)
URGO: Why would you want to remove me anyway? I'm in your brains, I know your thoughts...I know...you like me.
JACK: No...we don't like you.
URGO: Oh come on, Colonel, I know you better than that. Just admit it. You like me.
JACK: Nope.
URGO: Come on...a smidgen?
JACK: No smidgen.
URGO; I wouldn't blame you...I have a lot of endearing qualities. In ten years, when you look back on this, you're gonna say, "how did I ever get along without that lovable constant companion? Woof!
JACK: YEARS?
DANIEL: Woof? (BWAHAHA!)
SAM: Are you programmed? How can you defy your creators?
URGO: Because they're evil, you don't want anything to do with them.
SAM: So maybe if we contact his creator...
URGO: That would be bad.
JACK: Why should we listen to you?
URGO: OK...look, I know you only like me a little bit, but I like you a lot. I don't want to see you end up dead.
JACK: Dead?
URGO: Yep....as in...killed for good. You don't want that...if you take me back, they're gonna crack open your heads with a big scary can opener (getting increasingly squeaky)...then they'll scoop me out with a big scooper...that's how it works! It's me or death. You have to decide now...death...or me. Me or death. (long pause) Well?!
JACK: We're thinking. (ROTFL!)
URGO: (singing incessantly) Me me me me me-me-me me-me me-me me me...me-me-me-me-me me me me...me me
JACK: WILL YOU STOP IT?!?! (BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!)
SAM: Maybe there's another way, sir. I haven't had much time to study the technology. Maybe there's a way to turn him off.
URGO: Turn me off?? Forget it...it's impossible! No way...no how. Besides, why would you want to do that? Let's do something fun...let's play hide and seek! I'll count and you hide. I'm not gonna cheat...y'know...because I could...I'm not gonna. Here, I'll start...one...two...three....four...
HAMMOND: (while Urgo continues counting) Whatever you need, Major.
URGO: seven...eight...nine...ten...(looks up and everyone is gone...cute reaction take)
SAM: Urgo, that is rude!
FRAISER: (confused) What did he say? (LOL)
SAM: I know it's an advanced piece of technology, but all electro-magnetic devices operate on the same basic premise. A strong enough EM pulse should render him impotent.
URGO: Could you, um...rephrase that? (BWAHAHAA!!!)
URGO: Oh, I know...I can be smaller! (shrinks to about a foot tall) How's this! Aren't I cute? (they don't respond, so he shrinks himself to the size of a coffee mug) How about now? See how teeny weeny I am? How can anything this teeny weeny...possibly hurt anyone?!
JACK: Please...just get on with it.
URGO: I can be boring...you want me to be boring? What a lovely shade of gray. I'll have some white bread with mayonnaise. Let's watch golf on television. (HA!!)
URGO: Oh please, don't fight. I'm here...what's the difference how? Look, I'm not gonna make another sound...I'm gonna be quiet as a mouse. You won't even here a peep...watch me, here I go...no peep...oohh peep peep. I have an idea...why don't we play a game...something fun...Pictionary! You draw a word and then you...try to guess what you think the word is...oh it'll be so much fun...we should try it! (cut to SG-1 about to speak through the gate to Urgo's planet...LOLOL!!)
JACK: OK...let's ask the question. Do we want to give up SG-1 and spend the rest of our lives walking around with...this guy...yapping away at us?
URGO: Yes. Say yes!
JACK: Or do we want to take the risk and see if we can find a way out of this so we can get on with our lives?
URGO: No. Say no! (LOL)
DANIEL: Sorry, Urgo.
URGO: Sam...Sammy! You like me! I remind you of your uncle Ernie. Boobalah! He he...remember? (seriously...ROTFLSHIAD!)
SAM: Yeah...I guess you do a little. (heh)
TOGAR: Do not move...or I will render you unconscious! If necessary.
DANIEL: You're Togar?
TOGAR: Yes...Togar! (reveals himself to look exactly like Urgo)
URGO: As handsome as he is evil! (snerk)
DANIEL: What will you do with Urgo?
TOGAR: It will be destroyed!
URGO: See...what'd I tell ya...help me...please! Jaffa...kree!! Give him a double Jaffa-chop! (LOL!!)
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