(Rygel farts) What a way to start off an episode of Crichtonisms.... :-)
J: Oh, damn. How do you roll down the window in this place?
Rolling down the window is something you do in a car, truck...when someone passes gas to let the smell out.

R: Oh, I need food.
J: We all need food, Buckwheat. You don't hear the rest of us fumigating the joint.
Fumigating is the process of spraying to rid someplace of bugs or other pests....generally the smell of fumigation is nasty and it lingers.

(Noranti tries to get the crew to eat something she spit up)
J: Give it to Mikey
Rygel eats it
J: What do you know, Mikey likes it.
Life Cereal ran a commercial back in the 70s where a couple of kids were suspiciously examining a bowl of Life Cereal. They end up giving it to Mikey who doesn't like anything and, as the commercial went, "He likes it! Hey Mikey!"

C: It's actually quite good.
J: That stuff's not going to turn anybody into a newt, is it?
This is a reference to the witch-trial scene from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail". Thanks to the many site fans who wrote in to help us out with this source. I should kick myself since I've seen this movie multiple times.

J: How come everything tastes like chicken?
C: What's chicken?
John refers to chicken soup in the season two episode, Home on the Remains. I also thought this might be a reference to the Matrix, where they discuss why everything tastes like chicken. The Matrix computers don't know what all the different foods should taste like, so they make lots of things taste like chicken, however, the Matrix hit theaters in 1999, the year John was sucked into the Uncharted Territories. Hey, maybe he saw it in theatres just before he left. :-)

J: (to Noranti) Restorative! You call that a restorative? Try purgative.
N: Here, this will help with cramp.
J: You better get away before I spew on you.
Spew....blow chunks, scream Ralph to China, pray to the porcelain gods, puke, barf, hurl, throw up, or as Stark says...Vomit!

D: Rygel, what the frell are you doing?
J: Buckwheat, I thought you come down here to drop some friends off at the pool.
Oh, I died laughing at this one. While I've not heard this one before, I can guess that this is slang for pooping in the swimming pool. A funny thought, until your two-year-old does just that and YOU have to clean it up.

Noranti opens a case
N: Look, medicines!
J: Great, another klepto
A "klepto" is a kleptomaniac, a person who has a pathological compulsion to steal.

J: (to D'Argo) D, we may have to take Granny to a home.
D: I think we should burn her.
J: You burn your old folks?
D: No. It just sounded like a good idea.
Taking Granny to a home is a reference to putting her in a retirement home. I want to pause here and remark on how much D'Argo's sense of humor has developed over the years. John and he really have the whole bantering thing down.

N: Come on out, it's all right.
J: (upset that Noranti has given up he and D'Argo's hiding place) Burning... is too good for her.
We had someone write in and tell us that this might be a reference to the rant by Hanover Fiste in the movie Heavy Metal

J: Granny you've got to stop wandering off like that. Thanks for looking after her fellas. She's a little...(John makes the crazy finger twirl). You haven't seen my dog have you? Little Bubba, you got caught in a trap?
It appears that the swirly finger by the side of the head is the universal gesture for crazy. More than once in season four, I've had the distinct impression that John misses having a dog.

D: No good. They're shielded.
J; They've got body armor? That's a hell of an invention. How come we don't have that?
Boys and their toys. :-) By the end of the episode, John has his own set of body armor....I wonder what he'll name it?

N: They've saved thousands of lives.
J: Whatever. They're angels of mercy. They're still trying to shoot us.
Angels of Mercy are what the Red Cross nurses where called during the World Wars.

N: So let me mediate.
D: You know, maybe we should let her try.
J: Oh, she's going to get shot.
D: And that would be bad?
LOL....D'Argo sounds more like John all the time.

Noranti falls asleep just as she's going to try to negotiate
J: This is unbelievable. Can't cook, won't bathe, and now she's narcoleptic? She's a triple threat.
Narcolepsy is a neurological condition which causes the afflicted person to fall asleep suddenly, especially during times of emotional stress. The "triple threat" reference is a crazy. Depending on who you talk to it refers to the Triple Crown in horse racing, a baseball player who is trying to lead the league in batting average, RBI, and home runs, and finally to my personal pick, a "triple threat" in my world is a performer who excels in singing, dancing, and acting. Thanks everyone who wrote in on this!

The wall explodes and lava pours in
J: Somebody's doing the Pompeii thing!
Pompeii was a city in southern Italy, once part of the Roman Empire, which was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in 79 AD.

Ra'Keel on Comm: Who's this?
J: Lou Costello, who's this?
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were a famous comedy team. Their most famous "bit", the "Who's On First" routine, has been referenced by John before in A Human Reaction.

J: That thing you did on Calamari...That was Nobel Peace Prize material.
Calamari is squid; once again John can't seems to get the names right. A site fan wrote in to say that "Calamari" is also the home planet of Admiral Akbar in "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi." The Nobel Prize for Peace is awarded, along with prizes in other disciplines such as Economics and Literature, by the The Nobel Foundation.

J: We'll just take the slug and get out of your hair.
Rygel is still exceedingly slug like, but he's been showing more care of others, especially in how he treated Elack's Pilot in the previous two episodes. "Getting out of someone's hair" is to stop bothering or distracting someone.

J: Get with the program!

J: Fire is thermal energy. Thermal energy is like kinetic energy. Ergo, a rock will work.
D: Okay, I just have one question. Who is Lou Costello?
J: Abbott & Costello We've been over this.
We covered "ergo" in My 3 Crichtons. As for Abbott and Costello, see above re: Lou Costello.

D'Argo wants to test the protection belt
N: Shoot him in the buttock. That's big.
J: Hey, don't touch my ass. That's sexual harassment.
That one gets both a laugh and a cringe.

J: Surprise, surpise, surprise
John is doing an impression of Gomer Pyle. John seems to be a fan. He referenced Gomer Pyle in Self Inflicted Wounds, 1.

J: Here's the deal, Tin Man. You've got our whoopee cushion; we've got Larry & Moe here.

• Tin Man is a character in "The Wizard of Oz." What a surprise, John referencing the Wizard of Oz. Joss Whedon's right, there should be a sarcasm font.
• A whoopee cushion is a rubber pillow-like item which is filled with air and when sat on produces fart-like noises.
• Larry & Moe are two of the Three Stooges.

Ra'Keel: Tell us where she [Noranti] is.
J: Out riding her broom
John is not terribly fond of Noranti. He's implying that she's a witch.

Ra'Keel: You squad?
J: A whole platoon on big, hairy guys with really cool tats and more guns than you can count. If they come down here and find us dead, they're going to slit you from crotch to eyeball with a dull deer antler.
D: In other words, if we die, you die.
Even I needed a translation on that one. John can get really crazy at times, but he does bluff well.

• Tats is a shortening of the word tattoos.
• "Slit you from crotch to eyeball with a dull deer antler" is a quote from the movie "Jeremiah Johnson" starring Robert Redford. A site fan fan wrote, "It was said during a scene in a Flathead Indian village where the Chief is giving a reluctant Redford his daughter as a gift. His mountain man friend, Del Gue, warns Redford, 'If you turn down this gift, they'll slit you, me, Caleb, and the horses from crotch to eyeball with a dull deer antler.'" Thanks for sending in the source of this reference!

Ra'Keel leaves one of his lackeys to guard John and D'Argo
J: Mr. Red Shirt, whatever Ra'Keel is paying, we'll double it.
This one had us cracking up. Another Star Trek reference, Mr. Red Shirt refers to the fact that any time an unfamiliar crew member (always wearing a red uniform shirt) was assigned to help explore a planet, he was sure to wind up dead.

Looking for Rygel in the lava
J: I'm too old to be playing hide & seek.
Gee, my mom never let us play hide & seek in the lava beds.

Walking around in the lava
J: Damn! This has got to be bad for the sperm count.
LOL, Very hot baths or spas are said to lower a man's sperm count.

Triumphantly holding Rygel above his head
J: Can I get a "Hell, yeah!"?
Now that really deserves a "Hell yeah!" And we haven't had a good "Hell Yeah!" since Season of Death. We had a site fan write in and let us know that professional wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin who uses "Hell Yeah" as his catch phrase and that John yells it out it in the same manner that Stone does.

Rygel lets out a large amount of potent gas
J: Somebody had something crawl up his ass and die. Nobody light a match.
John is implying that Rygel's gas is flammable. However, helium, which is what usually comes out of Rygel, isn't flammable.

Trying to hurry up and leave
J: Whoa, my module's parked in orbit, and the meter's running out.
Yeah, those Peacekeeper parking tickets are quite pricy.