RW309 - SeaQuest Rewatch S02E04-05 - Vapors Time

In this weeks episode of The SeaQuest Rewatch, Cory and Tom escape the heat and fight the future as they discuss season 2 episodes 4 & 5, "Vapors" and "Playtime."

Vapors:

The crew of SeaQuest gets to experience a little well earned shore leave with plans to meet up at Bridger’s place for a barbecue. 

While Lucas teaches Darwin the concept of money, Bridger shows off his plant room to Smith and the two get a bit closer before being interrupted by Piccolo who then proceeds to spread a rumor about the two. Bridger consults his holographic advisor about his feelings but finding no answer there decides to retire to his beach house to contemplate further. 

Ford, Brody, and Ortiz troll the waters for hours supposedly looking for some perfect women to hang out with. Eventually Ortiz gets frustrated with them, realizing that his friends are more concerned with their careers and so he jumps ship to go meet up with some women.

Meanwhile O’Neil and Henderson go on a date which at times seems ok but devolves into a discussion of O’Neil wanting to keep any relationship on the downlow with the result of Henderson smashing ice cream in his face when he insults her.

Piccolo gets a call from his estranged father who asks him to help save his mother who has been popping pills to reverse her aging process. Lucas and Piccolo both find themselves both quite taken with her and repulsed, seeing as the pills have made her look like a beautiful young 25 year old again. After Lucas and Piccolo along with Dagwood break into Smith’s lab to test the pills, the doctor shows up and helps them discover that the pills are actually a type of insecticide that burns the fat from the inside, and then goes to work on your muscles. Piccolo apologizes for spreading the rumors while Smith says she will need to transfer off the SeaQuest due to UEO regulations. 

Bridger and Smith later meet up to talk and share a dance before everyone shows up for the barbecue, with even Oneil and Henderson reunited. As everyone enjoys the party, Ortiz waves to them from the deck of a yacht, flanked by two women he met and Bridger and Piccolo walk off together as they are kindred workers both in need of human counsel.

Send Out the WSKRS:

Nick is played by Dom Deluise, real life father of Peter and Michael. He is known for movies such as Cannonball Run, Blazing Saddles, The Secret Of Nimh, the All Dogs Go To Heaven franchise, and so many cameos in TV shows.

David Deluise, younger brother of Peter and Michael (Dagwood and Piccolo) appears as The Guard who tells Marie to leave the club. He’s best known for The Wizards of Waverly Place (106 episodes). We’ve seen him before in the Lois & Clark episode “I’ve Got A Crush On You” as one of the Toasters (flamethrower guys). 

Marie was played by Leslie Hope. She’s still a working actor. She has recently made recurring appearances in the series Slasher, Suits, and Tyrant. Probably best known for playing Terri Bauer on 24. 

The Doctor is played by Patricia Kennell Carroll. This is her only credit. 

The song playing in the smokers club is called “Monkey in the Whitehouse” by the band Magadog.

Playtime:

The crew of the SeaQuest receive a distress call from what sounds like a young girl, despite Dr Smith being unable to sense anyone. Bridger orders the crew forward into a mysterious hole that appears in the ocean and they suddenly find themselves more than 200 years in the future with no way of going back. 

Piccolo, Henderson, Ortiz, and Brody search the nearby town for answers but find no one, only two giant robots bent on shooting at each other. Lucas Bridger and Smith inspect a computer which explains to them that it brought them here to save her babies and they learn that the people of the world allowed computers to take over their lives which in turn led the humans to develop purely digital relationships, never meeting in person, and playing games that eventually ended up killing everyone as they held human life with little regard. Lucas joins the game and manages to take down the two robots, leaving Ortiz and company to bring the boy and girl back to SeaQuest where they begin to learn how to interact with each other in person, mentally and physically. 

Lucas learns of a theory that says the future cannot exist without the past and that the past cannot exist without the future. Thus, in order for them to return to the past, the future must be ensured, meaning that the two people playing video games, the last two people on earth, must start a family and ensure that life will continue. Smith states that leaving the boy and girl won’t help because they will always go back to their video games, choosing to interact the way they always have bringing Lucas to the realization that the computers must be shut down so that the two will be forced to interact. Once he does that, the disturbance that brought the SeaQuest to the future disappears from the screen and the SeaQuest is able to return to their own time.

Send Out the WSKRS:

Sarasota is a city south of Tampa on Florida’s Gulf Coast that was once the winter home of the Ringling Brothers Circus. Today, it hosts a number of cultural institutes, notably the Ringling Museum of Art, which showcases old masters and modern art. It’s also the gateway to miles of beaches with fine sand and shallow waters, such as Lido Beach and Siesta Key Beach.

A Möbius strip, Möbius band, or Möbius loop, is a surface with only one side and only one boundary. The Möbius strip has the mathematical property of being unorientable. It can be realized as a ruled surface. Its discovery is attributed to the German mathematicians Johann Benedict Listing and then independently August Ferdinand Möbius in 1858, though a structure similar to the Möbius strip can be seen in Roman mosaics dated circa 200–250 AD.

The boy in the commercial was Johnathan Bouck and besides a handful of credits as guest characters, he did appear in an episode of Thunder In Paradise!

The girl in the commercial was Heather De Oreo and only had one other credit, one episode of Tom Hanks’ From the Earth To the Moon series. 

Joanna Garcia Swisher played Iris; the young girl survivor. Previously she had a lead in the shows Reba, Are You Afraid Of The Dark, Freaks and Geeks, and Privileged among others. She most recently played Ariel the Mermaid in Once Upon A Time and Amy in a short lived sitcom called Kevin Probably Saves The World starring Jason Ritter.

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