J: Uh, hi. My name’s John, John Cri...
Smooth, John, very smooth

J: I’m from a planet called Earth. I'm human. Homo Sapien Sapien....
Homo Sapien Sapien is the Genus and Species for us....humans....not like Zhaan and friends even knew what John was talking about anyway. :-)

J: You know, you’re the first alien contact anybody from my planet has ever made. I mean, we dreamed about it, made movies about it but, by the way, what part of the universe are we in? Are we still in Orion’s Belt, still in the Milky Way....You have no idea what I’m talking about do you?
He's just starting to get the idea that things are very, very different here.

J: You fart helium!?
R: Sometimes, when I'm nervous or angry.
Apparently the microbes were able to translate 'fart' okay.

J: Boy, was Spielberg ever wrong. Close encounters my ass!
"Close Encounters of the Third Kind," a movie by Steven Spielberg.

J: Wormhole! I must have come here through a wormhole...
A: Look, if you want to make one of these, wormhole things of yours how do you expect to do that from inside this cell?
The translator microbes don't understand wormhole, probably because it's a complex concept-- later, in "Til the Blood Runs Clear" they are able to translate it when John is talking to Furlow."

J: Freeze! Don’t move! Or I’ll fill you full of....little yellow bolts of light!
OK, so this is probably a good place to explain a little about our site. We are mainly listing Crichton's pop-culture references, but this site is not dedicated just to those....we are putting in all the funny bits he says. And this one is one of our favorites. It's a paraphrase of the cliche "I'll fill you full of lead" from Western. "Fill you full of lead" means to shoot someone.

To D'Argo--
J: Can you get me off this rock, away from these over-amped rent-a-cops, away from Crais.
Rent-a-cop is a popular slang for security guards....Rent-A-Cop was also the name of a movie starring Burt Reynolds

J: (Gets out a pen) I need paper!
A: Paper?
Everyone looks really confused. Poor John, this is just the beginning.