J: (on the iceberg) Kansas in the winter. D'Argo! Pilot! Oh hell, I'm getting that going to the Island of the Misfit Toys thing. Just waiting on the Titanic. Well, as long as this whole deal doesn't end up with me as an old man. Hello! Nanook! Beelzebub!
This one has a lot of references in it. Hold on to your butts and here we go:

• OK, Kansas in winter is another reference to the Wizard of Oz. The wormhole, much like the tornado, dumps John out on an iceberg, instead of Munchkinland, which is where Dorothy was dumped.
• Island of Misfit Toys is from the old Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer movie narrated by Burl Ives, a favorite of mine when I was a kid.
• Titanic struck an iceberg and went down.
• The "old man" reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which astronaut Dave Bowman travels through something very much like a wormhole, and ends up in a room where he grows old, dies and is reborn.
• Nanook of the North, damn there is a lot in this one, is a documentary from 1922.
• And Beelzebub is a reference to the Devil or Satan's second in command. One fan wrote in to say, "Not sure why he avoided a more familiar term, unless it's the Southern habit some of our older folks have of not saying "Satan" or "Devil." I don't know why they do this, but they do. Maybe the old superstition of "speak the Devil's name and he will come?"
• Also, had someone else write in and say that the ninth circle of hell is frozen. It's reserved for traitors and Lucifer is bound there in ice. So most likely the traitor aspect isn't relevant, just the Devil and the ice.
  

Man: Time, time…
J: 's up
Man: time…
J: flies
Man: time…
J: bandits
Man: time…
J: wounds all heels
Man: time
J: rosemary and thyme
Man: time
J: 's up
Time Bandits is a movie. Time wounds all heels is a joke. When you end a relationship, the most often uttered advice is "time heals all wounds", and when someone breaks up with you, you call them a "heel". So then you would say, "time wounds all heels", meaning the no-good, lousy person who broke up with you will get hurt down the road sometime. We had someone write in a tell us that Groucho Marx was the first to utter this phrase. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme is a song sung by Simon and Garfunkel

Man: Time is meaningless and yet it is all that exists.
J: very Morrisy. My name is…
Man: (he interrupts because he already knows) Yes.
J: and yours is...
Man: Unimportant to our encounter.
J: Exactly. I love how you lay it out there Einstein. So let me ask you without getting existential on me, why are you, why are we here.
The Morrissey reference is to Steven Morrissey, the lead singer of The Smiths who is now out on his own. Albert Einstein is the famous scientist responsible for early wormhole theory, back when they were called Einstein-Rosenberg Bridges. And this conversation, I'm told, is similar to a conversation Arthur Dent has with a fellow named Slartibartfast in Chapter 23 of the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

John is thrown back in time, via a wormhole to his first encounter on Moya, on the bridge meeting D'Argo, Zhaan and Rygel.
D: You're ship, what kind is it?
J: Four cylinder, got a plastic Jesus on the dashboard.
Or plastic dice, hula dancer....anyway, the point is there was some damn plastic thing on the dashboard. Probably a Cool Hand Luke reference, "I don't care if it rains or freezes, as long as Igot my plastic jesus, riding on the dashboard of my car."

J: Here's Rygel (said in a very Price is Right fashion). Hey Sparky.
R: They brought you on board didn't they? Don't worry I'll protect you. I'll look after you now, you look after me later.
J: No offense, Buckwheat, but you couldn't look after a Chia pet. What is the matter with you people? Tongue. (D'Argo gets him with the Luxan tongue)
Damn, and those Chia Pets are supposedly do easy to take care of...

J: (back on the iceberg) Thanks for the memories.
This is the title of a fairly well-known song covered by many including Frank Sinatra

Man: Movement at speeds through space becomes movement through time.
J: Einstein again 1905, you publish anything since?
Yep, he published "How to hang out on a block of ice in a supposed season finale and tease Farscape fans," published 2002 by the SciFi Channel

J: Why don't we table that discussion. Tell me about the Ancients?
Man: Members of my species, substancially modified to live in your realm.
J: They're here to spy on us? Narcs.
Narcs....this is a reference to Narcotics Agents who go undercover to break up a drug ring. They are called Narcs by the drug dealers.

John just has a encounter on Moya with Chiana, only it is Aeryn as Chiana.
J: Spectacular. Boy, I gotta hand it to you…great…great illusion. Now I know how Copperfield got Schiffer.
LOL....David Copperfield, world famous magician, who was engaged for a long time to world famous model, Claudia Schiffer. They never got married leading a lot of people to think that Copperfield was actually gay. Hmmm...now I know how Michael Jackson got Lisa Marie Presley. I'm ducking now. :-)

Back on Moya day one, in the cell with Aeryn…she takes off her helmet
J: Officer Aeryn Sun. Special Peacekeeper Commando, Icarian Company, Pleisar Regimen. My name Jose Jimenez. We have a lot to catch up on.
"My name Jose Jimenez" is the signature line of a comedian, Bill Dana, who used to be on the Ed Sullivan show. Dana created in the Jose character in the early days of the American space program and he was terrified of space travel. A site fan wrote in a told us that Bill Dana's comedy routines were known to be very popular with the original Mercury astronauts, some great examples of which can be seen in the film, The Right Stuff.

Aeryn just finishes kicking John's butt in the cell when they first met
J: Oh baby, you had me at hello.
A: Rank and regiment now. And how do you know my name.
J: What you should really ask is how I know you've got a birthmark on the sweet spot of your hip.
"You had me at hello" is a famous line from the movie, Jerry MacGuire. Jerry tells Dorothy, "You complete me," in an effort to win her back and she says, "Shut up. You had me at hello."

Man: (to John) If I had not pulled you back… wherever it was you went would have become your reality from then on.
J: Does not compute.
We had someone write in and tell us that "does not compute" are the words the robot in Lost in Space used to say. Never watched LIS myself so I can't say for sure. Regardless of whether the computer in LIS said it, I've heard it in other movies and television shows.

John in a reality where he is a Peacekeeper commander
Sk: I will never tell you what you want to know.
J: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
Oh yes....one of the most well-known movie lines in history. Spoken by Rhett Butler in Gone With The Wind.

J: So how the hell am I supposed to get off this rock?
Man: Through the wormhole.
J: With what propulsion, the smoke you're blowing up my ass.

J: I don't understand any of this.
Caroline: It's not a science, John.
Teacher: It's an art.
J: You failed me in art, not to mention 3rd grade English. And I still don't understand the proper use of a comma.
Teacher: You did not forget the "a", Johnny, you wrote a report about Mach Twin.

Rygel as D'Argo: Are you mocking me on death's threshhold?
J: Never, little big man, never.
Little Big Man was movie starring Dustin Hoffman where he plays an indian. An interesting Crichtonism, if only because D'Argo is a "big man" and Rygel is a "little man" and in this reality John was in they were combined together.

Man: I almost could not retrieve you.
J: Yea, I noticed. We're running out of real estate.

Man: You would rather die?
J: Not particularly, but I liked my childhood and I don't want to scramble the eggs.
Man: Should an aggressive species puncture the wormhole the consequences for both our worlds would be unimaginable
J: Ah, screw it. But I am not Kirk, Spock, Luke, Buck, Flash or Arthur frelling Dent. I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas.
Another line with a lot of references in it, so off we go:

• Captain James T. Kirk, from Star Trek
• Spock is also from the original series of Star Trek
• Luke Skywalker, part of the Star Wars universe. He left his home planet, after his family was killed, and joined the Rebellion to fight Darth Vader, who turns out to be his father.
• Buck Rogers, a comic book and movie character. He's a 20th century astronaut who emerges from suspended animation 500 years in the future time where Earth is threatened by alien invaders
• Flash Gordon, a comic book and movie character. Flash is a football player who battles the evil Ming the Merciless to save earth. Here's a great website about him.
• Arthur Dent is a reference to "Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy", which I obviously need to read. Arthur was one of two humans left in the Universe after Earth was destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass. He met alien, Ford Prefect, and desperately wanted some tea.
• Dorothy Gale is a reference to the leading character in the Wizard of Oz

What is significant about all these character references is that they are all peope who traveled in space, save Earth or their home world from evil and/or had experience with being pulled from one reality to another...just like John. However, with the exception of Dorothy Gale, every one of these people left their homes voluntarily, or semi-voluntarily in Arthur's case, in order to save/protect Earth. Dorothy Gale was swept up in a natural event and deposited far away from the life she knew, and her only goal was to return home to Earth. That is why John says he's Dorothy Gale. He just wants to get home. Maybe he should ask Glinda the Good Witch for a pair of ruby slippers.

Man: Fear is your providence.
J: Feel the force.
So... now John is in a galaxy, far, far away. Where's Obi Wan?

John comes out of the wormhole and sees the moon and then Earth.
J: Oops.
Ya think?