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Dave W.
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 Posted - 03/28/2011 : 18:43:15
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So I've been watching a lot of Stargate lately, and just started episode 16 of season 5 of Stargate Atlantis, when I encountered the following scene at about eight minutes in. Since YouTube isn't being my friend tonight (edited: it is now), and for the benefit of those with low bandwidth channels, I'll make a transcript.
The scene begins with Dr. Rodney McKay (a sort of generic "scientist") taking his coworker and would-be girlfriend, Dr. Jennifer Keller (MD, played by the wonderful Jewel Staite), to a scientific conference on Earth. While sampling the food and wondering where, exactly, they were (the conference was being held in a "secret bunker"), they hear a voice:
Bill Nye (himself): Rodney McKay? I had it on good authority that you were dead.
McKay: Oh, ha ha.
Neil deGrasse Tyson (himself): And this would be your... sister?
McKay: No, no, Neil, you know she's not my sister, this is Jennifer Keller. [To Keller] That's Bill Nye and [mumbling] Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Tyson: [To Keller] You know... from television.
Keller: Yeah, um, of course. Very nice to meet you.
Tyson: No, the pleasure is mine.
McKay: And she's taken, Neil!
Tyson: No, I didn't mean it that way, no!
McKay: [To Keller] Neil likes to steal things from me, things like women and theoretical physics ideas.
Tyson: [To Nye, smiling] Yeah, but who hasn't stolen an idea from the great Rodney McKay?
McKay: Oh, so we admit it now.
Nye: [To Keller] See back in the day whenever any one of these people [gesturing to other conference-goers] came up with a new idea or published a new paper, Dr. McKay here would swear that he was already working on something very similar, just hadn't gotten around to publishing it yet.
Tyson: He'd say thing like, "I was about to say that very same thing!" or "I was just about to have that same idea!"
McKay: Hey, at least I didn't declassify Pluto from planet status. Way to make all the little kids cry, Neil. Did that make you feel like a big man?
Nye: [To Keller] See, thanks to Dr. Tyson, Pluto is now the first of the Plutoids, a new class of celestial object! It's cool! [To McKay] Come on, Rodney, it's the 21st century!
Tyson: Actually, come to think of it, when was the last time you even published a paper? Like, the eighties?
McKay: It... hasn't... been that long.
Nye: I think I was listening to that band... A Flock of Seagulls, while I was reading it.
Tyson: Actually, I think it might have been pre-Reagan!
McKay: Well, it sure has been great running into you guys. We should maybe get our seats.
Keller: Bye.
[McKay and Keller leave. Nye whistles as Tyson cranes his neck to get a look at Keller's backside]
Tyson: They can't possibly be dating.
Nye: I know. Well, Neil you're married, so... dibs!
Tyson: She's all yours.
Tyson and Nye (much more Nye) get a little more face-time mostly for comic relief later in the episode. A really lousy Stephen Hawking impersonator shows up, too.
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Dr. Mabuse
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Posted - 03/28/2011 : 19:37:39 [Permalink]
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I liked that episode, especially because of the cameos(?).
Isn't it called cameo when they appear as themselves? |
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Chippewa
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Posted - 03/28/2011 : 20:42:46 [Permalink]
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| It would have been perfect if, as they settle down to hear the first lecture, Phil Plait steps to the podium. |
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Baxter
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Posted - 03/28/2011 : 20:47:51 [Permalink]
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So I guess it would technically be a guest appearance?
Anyway, I watched the YouTube video. Funny stuff. Nye and Tyson together is funny by itself, and Tyson's acting was actually good.
I used to watch Stargate just to laugh at how corny and cheesy it was. But that was years ago, maybe it has improved. |
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Posted - 03/29/2011 : 04:58:41 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Baxter
I used to watch Stargate just to laugh at how corny and cheesy it was. But that was years ago, maybe it has improved.
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I used to watch it for Amanda Tapping. |
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BigPapaSmurf
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Posted - 03/29/2011 : 05:02:49 [Permalink]
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I agree that it is corny and cheesy, however the new 'Stargate: Universe' show is great not like the others at all.
Also the greatest guest appearance was Jean Claude Van Damme on the show 'Las Vegas', he plays himself and then gets murdered. |
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Baxter
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Posted - 03/29/2011 : 07:50:23 [Permalink]
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| Gotta love the Chuck Norris appearance in Dodgeball. |
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Dave W.
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Posted - 03/29/2011 : 14:31:47 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
Also the greatest guest appearance was Jean Claude Van Damme on the show 'Las Vegas', he plays himself and then gets murdered. |
A "spoiler alert" would have been nice. That's the episode I'm in the middle of, now.  |
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Posted - 03/29/2011 : 19:03:32 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
That's the episode I'm in the middle of, now. |
Or maybe not. It was called "Vegas," though. |
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