Sorry that it took me so long to finish the comments & explanations for the Crichtonisms for part 4 of Peacekeeper Wars. I felt like once I finished this last page, Farscape would really be over, & therefore Crichtonisms would be over. It made me sad & reluctant to end this fantastic endeavor. I'm now finished, and it's okay. It's been an amazing experience, and I'll always love Farscape. Thanks for your patience. - Alex

After blasting their way out of the temple... D: How's your honeymoon?
J: Well, the brochure was better.
another volley of weapons' fire interrupts them
J: I hear Bolivia is perfect for a honeymoon.
Aeryn looks over at him in confusion.
Everyone knows what a honeymoon is, right? Okay so why Bolivia? From past Crichtonisms we know that John is a fan of "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid". Bolivia is where Butch & Sundance planned to go if they escaped from their predicament at the end of the film.

Pinned down again by the Charrids & Scarrans
J: We get hit by any more of those missiles, we are spam.
I know we've talked about spam before. See the page for Green-Eyed Monster.

J: Pilot, what's your 20?
P: We are lifting off.
What's your 20 is radio code for What's your location.

The group prepares to make a break for the rendezvous point
J: Y'all be careful out there.
Once upon a time (in the 80s) there was this tv show called "Hill Street Blues" about a police precinct. It's considered the first "ensemble" drama. In the show, at the end of every morning meeting when the assignments were handed out, the duty sergeant would pause & say to all of the cops "Hey, let's be careful out there."

D'Argo is mortally wounded and elects to stay behind to hold off the Scarrans.
J: You're the closest friend I have.
D: You could have done better.
J: Nowhere in the universe.
D: You've got a lot of life to live, John. Do big things. (pause) Do me a favor.
J: Name it.
D: Chiana
J: (John's voice shakes, and he stammers) I'll look after her...I'll take care...Nothing will happen to...
D: (patiently) Go away. I want to speak to Chiana.
They both crack up laughing.
J: I'm gonna miss you.

John is taking Chiana away to safety
J: The first Scarran you see, you tell him who his daddy is. Tell him, D'Argo.
A few scenes later, the Charrids & Scarrans attack.
D: I'm your daddy!
D'Argo starts blasting.
I still choke up when I think about D'Argo. "Who's your daddy" is a way of saying "who's in charge here." That's the best way I can put it. This first came up in the episode Thanks For Sharing.

John is on the comms to Jothee
J: Cut loose. Get clear. You understand me?
Jothee: Copy. Is everybody safe?
J: (sighing John takes a minute) It's a little crazy around here for roll call now.
"Copy" is radio code for "understood." Roll call is checking to see if everyone is present by calling off names from a list or roll.

John steps into the wormhole weapon machine.
J: (to Scorpius) Come here. Closer. You want to see it? The thing you've been chasing my ass all over the universe for? Torturing me, my wife, my friends for? The wormhole weapon? You want to see it?
S: Yes
J: Beg
S: I beg you.
J: That's not good enough. Say please.
S: Please
J: Pretty please
S: Pretty please
Together:  With a cherry on top.
J: Happy Birthday. Now, get out of my sight.
When I was a kid we always said pretty please with sugar on top. I don't know about the whole cherry thing.

John activates the wormhole weapon, but nothing seems to be happening.
S: Is this some kind of joke?
J: Cosmic. Keep watching, blink and you'll miss it. (John points to a spot appearing in the distance.) There. Isn't that sweet. Baby's gonna grow. Pilot, are my comms open?
P: All comms open
J: Attention ladies & gentlemen and all ships at sea. If you look out your front window, you will see, by special request, your very own wormhole.
C: Crichton, what's happening?
J: The end of all this crap. Hey, Emperor Sleestack - you big upright iguana! - What does it look like from the Death Star? ... Can I get a huzzah from the grand Peacekeeper Bitch! Wormhole at 12 o'clock, Lucy.
The Death Star was Darth Vader's "ship" in the Star Wars series.  It was as big as a small moon and destroyed planets.  We had someone write in and tell us that "Huzzah" is the traditional call of praise used by the British Royal Navy.

John now has everyone's attention.
J: Okay boys and girls, here are the rules. Find a penny, pick it up. Double it, you've got two pennies. Double it again - four. Double it 27 more times, and you've got a million dollars and the IRS all over your ass. Round and round and round it goes, where it stops nobody knows, but it all adds up...quick.
John is trying to impress upon the various fighting factions the exponential nature of the wormhole. That a simple thing like doubling in size, even starting out as little more than a pin-prick sized hole, can lead to enormity. And the thing John says about doubling a penny 27 times? If you did that, you'd end up with well over $1 million dollars.

Every ship involved in the battle is now caught in the gravity well of the wormhole weapon.
J: Here's how it lays out. Are you listening Stahleek? Grayza? Wormhole weapons do not make peace. Wormhole weapons do not even make war. They make total destruction, annihilation, Armageddon. People make peace.
C: Crichton, can you stop it?
J: I don't know, maybe. It eats the whole universe, a monumental black hole, a giant whirling headstone marking the spot where we all used to live and play and slaughter the innocent.
S: This is insane, Crichton.
John lets out a choked laugh.
J: God! Four years on and you're finally getting that.

John is unconscious after reversing the wormhole weapon. Inside his mind, he encounters Harvey, sickly pale, lying on his deathbed in a room of white satin.
H: I toyed with Slim Pickens on the bomb. YEE HAW! But this feels more appropriate to the situation, don't you think?
Another reference to the movie "Dr Strangelove". With all of the allusions to this movie over the course of the series, I must recommend that you go watch the film. I can't adequately explain all of the in-jokes.

Harvey points John to the way back out of his mind.
H: Good-bye, John. Thanks for your memories.
Thanks for the Memory was Bob Hope's trademark song "Thanks for the Memory", first sung by him in the movie "The Big Broadcast of 1938. You can hear a midi version of it & read the lyrics here. It's really quite apropos for the end of the series. So thanks to the creators of Farscape, the actors, the crew, and to all of the fans who worked so hard to give our favorite show its own happily ever after.