Episode #20: Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Episode Notes
Can you imagine the amount of paperwork involved in such a technical malfunction? They never show that in films. I bet it would lead to some rather serious budget cuts too, if not the complete withdrawal of funding.
Transcript
- Panel 1: Spacedude 1 is standing on a platform inside a pod-like structure which has cables and pipes coming out of it. He is holding a walkie-talkie radio. Spacedude 2 is standing at a computer console.
- Spacedude 1:
- Are you sure this transporter is safer?
- Spacedude 2:
- It's been tested in the lab. Get ready to be beamed to the bio lab garden.
- Panel 2: Spacedude 1 is now surrounded by lush vegetation and flowers, there is white cat (Captain Slog's cat, Fluffy), trying to climbing up his leg.
- Caption:
- A short while later...
- Spacedude 2 (over radio):
- Did it work?
- Spacedude 1:
- Yes, I'm here and I'm alive.
- Fluffy the Cat:
- Meow!
- Spacedude 1 (to cat):
- Shoo, shoo kitty...
- Spacedude 2 (over radio):
- Pardon? Your shoe what?
- Spacedude 1:
- Oh, sorry, nothing, never mind
- Spacedude 2:
- Ok, beaming you back, don't move
- Panels 3-4: Transition from the bio lab garden to the transporter room as Spacedude 1 is beamed back.
- VFX:
- Fade out/fade in
- SFX:
- BEAM
- Panel 5: Back in the transporter room and things didn't quite go to plan. Fluffy got accidentally caught in the transporter beam along with Spacedude 1 and they are now fused together as a single organism.
- Spacedude 1!Fluffy:
- Mew.... meow?
- Mraaow!?!?
- Spacedude 2 (panicking):
- Oh... dear... uh... I'll get the Doctor... nice kitty...
- This is going to take so much paperwork!