Lexx 5.02: The Rambling Insectoids
Synopsis: The Lixx's crew, while sitting around and trying to master the game of chess with Kai and exchanging biting quips about each other's physical appearances,
encounter a strange purple bubble floating in space. Retrieving it, they find that inside is a large alien woman with green fur and three breasts. Naturally, Stan is intrigued. They revive her by tossing water on her face, and she introduces herself as 'Butch'. She says she was in space because she needed some adventure on another planet, and since her civilization hasn't yet discovered spacial propulsion, she had to use the bubble. She just happened to be sleeping when they came along. Sometime after they show her around the ship, Kai starts singing the Brunnen-G song (*heart-flutter*), and Butch pipes in. She has an incredible voice, and this gives Stan the idea to start a rock band, a dream he's had since early childhood. (This is discovered in a series of hazy, dream-like flashbacks filled with ripping guitars and quick flashes of Stan getting booed of the stage or being pelted with vegetables.) Butch and Xev agree, and they eventually convince Kai to join as well. (Remember that episode in Canada? What band wouldn't be better with the addition of Kai?) Both of 790's personalities are dead-set against it, however, unless the person they love can be the
front-man/woman.
After about fifteen minutes of fruitless arguing, the conclusion is reached that both 790's should be ignored. They then decide that since neither Butch, Stan, or Xev can actually play an instrument, they will all have to sing. And that leaves Kai with the job of pianist/saxophonist/drummer/pipe-organist/flautist/violinist/guitarist/xylophonist/cow-bellist. Kai does not mind. They name the band the "The Rambling Insectoids," for reasons known only to themselves.
Once everything is settled, and another fifteen minutes is taken for them to write a hit song (which is, basically, the Brunnen-G song playing over and over and over again. Can't resist the Brunnen-G.), the eager-to-please Lixx flies them to a nearby music-loving planet and they go down in moths, being careful to tie 790 up. They get a gig at an all-male strip club. Luckily, they aren't picky, so they set up their gear and start to play. Everything goes well at first, until some terrible interference causes Butch's eardrums to burst, and she falls down dead on stage, because apparently her species hearts are located near their ears or something. Without Butch, it's just Stan and Xev singing, and Kai trying to play every instrument known to man. Needless to say, the strip club patrons boo them away, and they flee back to the Lixx.
What the Dead do not do: Play air-guitar; Sign autographs; Have wild sex with groupies; Like to watch scantily-clad men undulate; Eat raisins.
Why there is no sex: Well, as it comes out sometime during the mothride to the music planet, though Butch may seem very female, with her high-pitched voice and three boobs and all, she is actually a gender completely different from both males and females. And she is attracted to a gender completely different from her own, males, and females. Therefore she has no interest in either Xev or Stan, and even if she did they wouldn't ... fit. Right.
And as for the strip club, the men are all very gay. So they don't want Xev, and Stan doesn't want them. Because as we all know, Stan likes the ladies