O Others, Who Art Thou?!

## Summary

After drifting for months in a distant galaxy, the crew faces harsh new perils. Bargie hits the beach. Pleck takes asides. Nermut hates blizzards.

## Plot

The episode starts with a Cold Open: The Bargarean Jade is about to crash on an unidentified planet. Unable to cope, Bargie puts herself in "manual mode". Luckily, Rolphus has some experience with ships as he was a member of the space sailing team at Quantarvard.

In the Opening Crawl, Jeremy Crutchley explains that the crew have been jettisoned into another galaxy on the other side of the universe.

The crew crash-land on an island. Bargie is largely intact but partially buried in the sand and out of fuel. Pleck makes a rousing speech, urging the "People of Bargarea" (Pleck, Dar, Nermut, C-53 and AJ) to mount an offensive against The Others (Rolphus, Seesu, Hark, Justin, Centurion and Zalcatron).
They have all grown beards due to the very wet climate. The crew mock Pleck's beard. Horsehat wants to go on the raid. C-53 is not so sure but, as a toaster, is strapped to AJ. Bargie doesn't want to play.

Native to the island are blizzards, creatures evolving (or devolving) from birds to lizards (the opposite of a lird). Dar demonstrates that "when you pick up a blizzard and hold it upside down, it doesn't shift at all." Nermut doesn't like blizzards but still thinks it's disrespectful to turn them upside down to show how they don't move. Dar doesn't ride a blizzard but carries C-53 in their beard and also carries Nermut.

Meanwhile, The Others are enjoying a home-made holo and loconut pina coladas.

[AD BREAK] Dr Pheenis Ma and Dr Pheenis Carrot express their feelings and enjoyment of Dipsea Stories.

The crew interrupt Seesu's book club by throwing loconuts, but they quickly run out. They attempt to retreat but their blizzards just run in a circle. Rolphus challenges Captain Dar, who tells him they are at war? After an unsuccessful opening, Dar suggests they reopen negotiations. Seesu reminds them that they agreed to divide the island in half. This was the result of a social schism when The Others asked the crew to stop doing asides. Seesu challenged the crew to go 30 seconds without doing an aside.
Pleck argues they didn't know there was a bad half of the island: On the crew's side, it rains all the time, but The Others can grow crops and build stuff.

Pleck apologises for causing division, for not realising that the weather was not the same over the whole island and picking the wet side, for flying into the Allwheat and for Beano opening a rift in reality and causing them to become lost. AJ suggests that some members of the crew may actually still be processing their feelings for members of The Others.

Seesu asks what they can do for Pleck. Pleck asks that they work together to get home. Seesu agrees as de-facto president of the island.

Back on the wet side of the island, AJ notes a lot of unidentified footprints. Then they see a spacecraft on the beach next to Bargie. It seems their distress signal was received! Bargie saw three life forms leave the ship. AJ wants to track them the old fashioned way, through scat. Horsehat infiltrated the alien ship and was able to describe the advanced technology inside.

The Others arrive with a story of being surprised by aliens and ... some death happened. Hark siphons fuel from the aliens to refill Bargie.

[AD BREAK] Dr Pheenis Hornby recommends Green Chef to improve nutrition amongst the turtleneck-wearing scientists.

Bargie is able to run on the alien fuel but not without side effects. She's higher than when she's on Hyper-Proton Fuel. In her drug-fuelled euphoria, Bargie delivers the crew to a space station or ship (with the same insignia as the ship on the island). A turret extends and emits a beam. Jeremiah Frankenfurter starts to glow and disappears. Bargie beats a hasty retreat but before they can leave the system, a ship catches up with them. Hark begins to glow and disappears. Pleck urges Bargie to run away again but the ship is able to track them. Seesu and Rolphus disappear. Pleck tries to get Bargie to jump again but Bargie is concerned that she's using a lot of fuel. But her hallucinated bunnies said to jump, so she tried. Pleck sees the other ship following them inside hyperspace. There is only one speed in hyperspace. Centurion glows and disappears. Justin admits he's been DMming someone else. Bargie runs out of fuel and both ships drop out of hyperspace. AJ wants to bet who goes next .... They figure it will be Justin as he's the least OG. But no! It's Nermut!!! Justin comments it's just the original gang left. C-53 toasts Nermut.

Pleck begins to speechify again but Dar interrupts and then everyone talks at once. Everyone stops when they hear C-53 mention the Sea Captain.

Then everyone disappears except Zalcatron.

And Bargie notices. Zalcatron reckons they're captain now, then disappears.

Bargie sings. And then gets nabbed by a tractor beam.

Meanwhile back with the Pheenises, the stick begins to glow. The Floyda Device returns. An alarm sounds to indicate something is killing everyone on one side of the ship. Before the Pheenises can evacuate, someone steals the stick.

## Quotes

AJ: Hey, crew? I'm caught in some wires. Tied up and twisted. The way I *don't* like to be.

C-53: AJ, you're crashing into *me*!

Bargie: I don't like this! I don't like this at all! I'm crashing!

Bargie: Terrain. Terrain. Terrain. You're not fine. You're dead and you crashed. You're dead and you crashed

Pleck: Now is the time to take up arms with our opressors! The Others!

Bargie: My friends. My final hours. Of the day. I'll be here tomorrow. I will take a nap soon

AJ: Let's Lock and Loconut!!

Seesu: I bet you can't go thirty seconds without doing an aside.

Nermut: A mudslide is fun once. Try every hour.

Rolphus: Honestly, on mojito Mondays, it's hard to think about anything except how nice it is over here.

AJ: Set a perimeter of optimism. Captain Dar, permission to Woo?

Zalcatron 5000: I have no regrets. I'm not going down for this. There's no proof.

Hark: You know. I'd like to say this was the first time I was disintegrated, but actually it's a funny... story...

Pleck: Wait. We're going to hear about the Sea Captain?

## Trivia

Rolphus attended Quantarvard University. He has a flag.

First (and only?) mention of a drink, the Queltar Spritz (presumed intoxicant).

## Credits

### Voice actors

Jeremy Bent - C-53, Hark Tartigast, Zalcatron 5000 and Dr Pheenis Hornby

Alden Ford - Pleck Decksetter and Dr Pheenis Canaloma

Allie Kokesh - Dar and Jeremiah Frankenfurter

Seth Lind - Nermut Bundaloy and Dr Pheenis Ma

Moujan Zolfaghari - Bargie, Seesu Gundu, Justin Ballwheat, Dr Pheenis Pryce and Dr Pheenis Carrot

Winston Noel - AJ, Rolphus Tiddle, Centurion Tiddle and Dr Pheenis Brione

### Production

Edited - Seth Lind

Sound design and mix - Shane O'Connell

Theme Music composed by Brendan Ryan and performed by FAME's Macedonian Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra mixing by Danny Keith Taylor

Additional Music - Shane O'Connell

Opening Crawl Narration - Jeremy Crutchley

Ship design for The Bargarean Jade - Eric Geusz

Audio hosting by Simplecast

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