It's even funnier when you remember the first person to go through it was connected by tubes and they thought he had died when the portal shut off and the tube was cut
"Someone who will laugh in the face of his enemy even when it's inappropriate." This is possibly the best description of his character in so few words.
Yeah, the actors, writers and producers ability to realize just how silly most of it all is, really makes it easy for us fans to accept what we are watching.
@@terranceaskew3165 Its just lampshading they are admitting their scripts ain't perfect and directly pointing at the fact. Still these meta humor episodes were funny.
It's kinda unfair to make fun of the 'astronomical chances of finding life that Looks like humans' (which is also making fun of the languages spoken in the milky way). Stargate has you covered for all that, after all! I think they did a great Job. Many races speak english, but with Explanation, but there's also a lot of other languages, and often, SG-1 Needs to translate.
@@mojebi3804 They tried the whole "everyone speaks other languages" thing initially, then realised that everyone having to use Daniel as a mouthpiece gets old really fast.
"Sargent, make it spin" "Spin? Sir it doesn't spin" "Whu-- it has to spin. It's round! Spinning is so much cooler than not spinning. I'm the general, I want to spin. NOW!"
I forgot which behind the scenes it was, they said it was very difficult to puppet that (they were mimicking poses by the actors), and "of course" it was RDA who came up with the one pose that would give them trouble.
The funniest thing to me is them clearly basing the Daniel Jackson puppet off 90s James Spader instead of Daniel Jackson. Everything in this episode was friggin hilarious
Don't agree with your theory at all. Just like every other character in that segment, they were 100% based on the TV actors' characters. What you're confusing as some kind of a homage to James Spader is that they based the puppet's look and performance on Michael Shanks' well known, early episodes attempts at mimicking James Spader's version of Daniel. His recreation of the James Spader interpretation of DJ is the very reason they liked his audition the best. Over the years, Shanks' Jackson has naturally evolved from the bookworm archeologist who remained on Abydos, and is quite different from Shanks' OG version. This was an "origin story", so naturally they wrote, and Shank's performed, his original, James Spader inspired interpretation of the character.
WolvesbaneNetwork Yeah, I just did a Stargate marathon run a couple months back. I figured he only died in character, but then I saw "Children of the Gods: The Final Cut" is dedicated to Don S. Davis.
Too much like "Team Amerika" or a SG1 parody for me. 1-2 episodes tho could've been fun, a sort of "improbability drive" like accident when going through the stargate.
"Sir? It doesn't spin" "WHAT? It HAS to Spin! It's ROUND! But spinning is so much cooler than not spinning! I'm the general, I want it to spin! NOW!" One of my favourite quotes of all time...
@@wibblelord2633 shows a scene from usual suspects indicating daniel jackson ascended on purpose to break the 4th wall and become a program and then a machine.
Ya know, shows that can pull off this level of inside jokes and self-awarness, they are pretty rare. SG1's writers really could pull off this without it looking completely weird and I'll forever adore this show because of that
Stargate SG-1 was the greatest show on tv. Ever. This clip is what I love so much about the show: they aren't afraid to make fun of themselves. The characters and actors and writers were absolutley brilliant.
Haha like the Wormhole-X episode or whatever it's called, the actor "so if I'm out of phase and can walk through things, how come I'm not falling through the floor or stairs".... "uhhh i dontnknow, justbcause"
Puppet Gen. Hammond: Sergeant, make it spin! Puppet Sgt. Harriman: Spin? Sir.... it doesn't spin. Puppet Gen. Hammond: What? It has to spin, it's round. Spinning is so much cooler than not spinning. I am the General, and I want it to spin! Now!
In fairness, Star Trek did wedge in an implausible "panspermia" concept to attempt to explain it all during TNG. You know, ancient aliens. Seeding all the planets with DNA that somehow would end up creating humanoids. Even though that kind of doesn't make any sense with how evolution works or they're implying that the humanoids are not related to the other non-humanoid lifeforms on their planet or, somehow, these ancient aliens accurately predetermined what species would eventually emerge (even though that's chaotic and mathematically impossible to do). I mean, it's nonsense. But at least Star Trek tried to bake in an excuse for it all. (And, in fairness to Stargate, there is at least some explanation - that the System Lords actually kidnapped humans from Earth and sent them all over the galaxy. Plus, Stargate at least bothers with some convincingly different humanoids in the Asgards. Like, actual aliens. Not just humans with bumpy foreheads.)
They mocked that line before in another episode where a Samantha from an alternate timeline said the line and then remarked on how stupid that sounded.
Yeah this is WAYY to funny, the 200th episode me & my brother watched when it originally aired. When the puppets appeared we were already dying 😂. The spinning line will NEVER die. HILARIOUS
...I believe he is making fun of the Atlantis gate not spinning but just having moving lights... So he was saying how the original is way cooler than the new one. Rubbing it in the whole way. I love this show.
@@heathb4319 I think you're right about the Atlantis reference. Spinning is a cool effect, but if I were creating such an advanced piece of technology, I'd allow it to be dialed faster than a rotary phone.
@@RationalEgoism ...ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-L_VLvmOZKhM.html..this is video about the different types of gates you may find interesting.
This is AMAZING!! If the entire show was made like this with puppets and everything, I STILL would have watched it and been a fan. The end was hilarious with the strings being cut by the vortex and Teal’c laughing at them flopped on the ground.. Is there more of this out there somewhere?
I think the only way they could've improved on this is one minor change. When they walked out at the end and collapsed, one of 'em should've said "Well... now we're in trouble." and Teal'c responds with "... Indeed."
It's pretty rare when a parody is done by the writers of the show rather than being done by other people. xD I love this. Love it when Daniel just scribbles a bunch of random stuff on the monitor. xD I swear, they must have borrowed some of the puppets used in Team America. lol
@@SquirrelASMR ....quite right. And let's not forget: "you know this isn't a real show?" "but I'm getting paid?" "Yes, you're getting paid" "with real money?" "oh yeah, with real money?" "so I'm getting paid real money for doing a show that isn't real? "you got it" ah, Wormhole eXtreme, a great show that is not a show
This makes me think back to where one of the conditions for RDA to do the show was that it be fun and they have a sense of humor. They honored that throughout the run and just killed it on this episode.
MARTY: The executives are thinking about an animated series. CARTER: Forget it. No Stargate animated series. MARTY: But what about Infini- JACKSON: THERE IS *NO* STARGATE ANIMATED SERIES!
This scene was the best, is a omage to Team America, and is accurace to real event, making a resume of the first episodes. And all of this is like a flashbuck of one director that whats to make a tv serie of the Stargate to hidde the real Stargate Program. Stargate really was a gold universe, soo sad that Universe killed.
my favorite part of the whole selection of scenes was the fact that when the puppet jackson writes on the white board and its just scribbles lol its kinda like the 21 Jump Street scene where channing tatum is high and babbles shit while writing only the number 4 all over the white board.
I wish they would have made a SG-1 comedy series with inside jokes and all this great stuff. Clearly, the material was there after so many seasons and the minds behind it were ready to go apeshit, as apparent by the humor in the 200th and many other episodes. This is one of the best Stargate episodes, maybe even of all of TV.
!BRAVO BRAVO¡, a excellent parody to Team America as never seen before, so hideous puppets by the way, of course they losing the strings and see that Teal'c puppet laughing at them, add extra humor in this, !DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN¡, HA HA HA HA.
