Alien Again

"**Alien Again**" is the 38th episode of the third season of *Lamput*, and the 105th episode of the series overall.

## Plot summary

Slim Doc is mistaken for an alien and spends the night in a spaceship. Meanwhile, an actual alien from the ship decides to take Slim's place until he returns.

## Characters

* Lamput
* Fat Doc
* Slim Doc
* The Boss

## Plot description

In the middle of the night, Lamput has books about aliens with him and is looking through binoculars, looking for extraterrestrials. Slim Doc finds Lamput, who runs away; meanwhile, a flying saucer lands near where Lamput was standing, and some blue-gray aliens emerge and look around the area. The aliens retreat to the ship when Slim Doc reappears, still going after Lamput. Slim trips and develops a bump on his head; he also finds one of the aliens' space helmets. One of the visitors from the saucer finds Slim, assumes from his similar appearance he's one of them, and takes him back to the ship, which takes off. An alien that was left behind finds Slim Doc's hat and puts it on, and Fat Doc arrives, mistaking him for the real Slim and asking where Lamput went. The alien answers by mimicking Fat's movements and speech before he is dragged to the docs' van. Lamput returns to where he was standing and gets back to searching for aliens.

At the docs' house, Fat Doc and the alien are sleeping in the docs' beds. The alien sees a picture of Fat Doc and Slim Doc next to the bed he's sleeping in, and notices what Slim Doc looks like. The alien uses a ray gun to cut a circular shape out of a piece of paper and make it look like an eye before sticking it onto his face.

In the UFO, Slim Doc looks out the window, realizes he's far away from Earth, and screams; a passenger next to him shushes him.

Meanwhile, back on Earth, the alien posing as Slim Doc attends a laboratory class with Fat Doc. The Boss writes a complex equation on the chalkboard, and the alien gives an answer that impresses the Boss and the other students.

On the spaceship, Slim Doc whistles to himself, and the aliens are interested by the sound he makes and cheer when he shows them his whistling again. Slim then shows them a magic trick where he makes it look like he's removing his thumb and putting it back on; after that, he demonstrates some dance moves and gets the passengers grooving. One of the aliens takes Slim Doc to another room in the ship, where both are served a dinner with two capsule-like objects and liquid consumed using a dropper. The alien eats his capsules and drinks a drop of the liquid with no problem, while Slim Doc is disgusted the moment he consumes his food.

Back at the lab, the alien, still being mistaken for Slim Doc, is nominated "Doc of the Week" and has a party held for him to celebrate. Fat Doc offers the visitor some orange juice, but the alien finds the drink disgusting and refuses the offer when Fat asks if he wants more.

The alien goes to the rooftop of the laboratory while Slim Doc looks sadly out the window, both characters missing their homes. The alien uses the antenna on his head to send a signal to the spaceship; Slim enters the ship's control room and notices a red blinking dot on a big screen, as well as a red blinking button in front of him. Slim presses the button, which causes the spacecraft to automatically descend to the surface of the Earth. Slim Doc takes off the space helmet he was wearing and is happy to have returned to his home planet. The alien trips on the helmet left behind by Slim, who notices him. The alien gives Slim back his cap, and Slim adjusts his head antenna and puts his helmet back on him. The alien leaves for the spaceship, which then takes off again; Lamput is still outside looking for aliens, unaware of the twinkle that the spaceship makes in the sky behind him as it goes into space.

## Trivia

### Series continuity

* The episode's title is a nod to the Season 2 episode "Alien".

### Cultural references

* A cover for the magazine *Time* can be seen in the docs' room on a side table. The cover depicts the Boss on it.