Trivia
Speech so evil: The voiceover this week is in the chilling tones of Wayne Pygram, aka Scorpius.
Unrevealed realities: References to other episodes include Unrealized Reality, of course, and Aeryn-centred story The Way We Weren't. We also get to find out a little about what Aeryn was doing immediately before her return in Promises.
Putting it about: There's a sly reference to season one episode PK Tech Girl when Aeryn says that her sexual behaviour gave her the nickname "PK tralk girl".
Destructive deities: According to Aeryn, it's said the Sebaceans once had a deity - Jan'ke'brue. Omnipotent, but not good, this goddess destroyed the six worlds of her worshippers, just because she could.
Fruits of success: What Scarrans want is palaces and virgins, apparently.
The John Crichton guide to pop culture.
The DC Territories: John describes the mixed-up Moya he saw as "Bizzaro Moya". A reference to Superman comics, the Bizarro world is a malevolent, back-to-front version of the real world.
Bloody Scarrans: "Nosferatu" says John to Scorpius, as the haggard hybrid offers him a blood oath. Nosferatu was a 1922 film about a hideous, tight-skinned vampire, made by F.W. Murnau. Silent but terrifying, the film was nearly destroyed by the widow of Bram Stoker, writer of Dracula, because of copyright infringement.
Shakespeare Scorpius: Rather ludicrously, John refers to himself and Scorpius as a "regular Romeo and Juliet." He's really talking about the end of the play, where the lovers lie dead together. Surely he doesn't see Scorpius that way?
Drinking hombre: Apparently John's drunk enough mezcal in the past to make his head spin. It's a sort of tequila which comes with a worm at the bottom of the bottle - the gimmick is that the worm has eaten mescalin cactus, a hallucinogenic.
Anything could happen in the next half hour: John explains the unrealised realities as a space where any possibility could occur, even a world where "the Cubs are winning the World Series." By the Cubs he means the Chicago Cubs, who haven't been to the World Series since losing to the Tigers in 1945, and haven't won it since 1908. It's the longest losing streak in American professional sports.
