Lexx 5.04: Cliché
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bSynopsis:/b The crew of the Lixx isn't really feeling up to any big adventures after the whole slightly painful "Critters and Caverns" fiasco. So they meander around the Lixx, Stanley complaining about the poor quality of the food, Xev complaining about how she never gets any, both of 790's personalities reciting conflicting epic poetry, and Kai being dead.
It is all very dull and typical until Stanley finds a large red button on the back of his captain's chair-standing-up-thing. A cardboard sign hung over it with string says "Cliché." Stanley reads it out loud: "Clitchy." Figuring it's probably something sexual, he pushes down. There is an earthquake (Lixx-quake?) during which the cameras shake around chaotically and the crew, who have inexplicably walked onto the bridge at just the right time, jump up and down. When it's all over, they stare at each other dumbly until Xev shouts, "Hey, I'm Xev!"
See, as it turns out, everyone has switched bodies with everyone else. 792 is now 796 and vice-versa. This isn't really a problem, because they share a body. They continue to recite poetry. However, Stan is Xev, Xev is Stan, the Lixx is Kai, and Kai is the Lixx. Kai spends the rest of the episode laying catatonically on the floor. And the Lixx is, well, the same, except for his off-and-on quips of "The dead do not blow up planets."
Xev-Stanley (who has Xev's brain) drills Stanley-Xev (who has Stan's brain) of what exactly he did to cause this, because no one else would have been that stupid. Stanley-Xev, after getting over the fact that every bit of him is now attractive but his hair, admits that he pressed the "clitchy" button, expecting something more gratifying than what had happened. Xev-Stanley goes to look at the button, glares at Stanley-Xev, and defines the word "cliché" in tones less than friendly. Stanley-Xev feels very bad.
The pair spends the majority of the rest of the episode doing various things to get themselves back to normal: standing on their heads; taking mind-altering drugs that result in short, trippy little dream-vignettes; singing the Brunnen-G song over and over; putting themselves into the cryochambers and thinking very hard about what they used to look like; saying "I wish I was in my iown/i body," at exactly the same time; and running around each other in circles until they collapse of dizziness.
Sometime during this, Stanley-Xev finds the time to get a pair of scissors and cut his hair to a more managable length. Before he has a chance to actually chop it off however, he realizes that it is but an ugly wig, and he simply pulls it off. This reveals the shorter red hair of Xev from season 2. He is quite pleased with this. In fact, so is Xev-Stanley, who says that she never really liked that style, but kept it because she'd never actually done her hair before. She'd just woken up and it had been perfect.
Xev-Stanley goes power-tripping and orders the Lixx to blow up a nearby moon, because she now has the key. But since the Lixx is actually Kai, he refuses with the excuse given above.
Finally, Kai-Lixx (who has Kai's brain), suggests that they push the "cliché" button again. Xev-Stanley tries it, and, lo and behold! it works like a charm and everything is back to normal. Kai stands up, looks bored, and goes back to his cryochamber. The episode ends on the funny note of the Lixx piping up "I feel funny," and Xev, Stanley, 792, and 796, bursting out laughing uproariously.
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bWhat the dead do not do:/b Blow up planets. (I know you probably feel cheated. I'm sorry. But there was not a lot of Kai in this one. I promise to make it up to you later.)
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bWhy no one has sex:/b They meet no one to have sex with. And they certainly aren't going to have sex with each other, because even though they might be in different bodies, they still have the same brains. And we all know that their personalities clash like, well, Titans. Or something like that.
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bSynopsis:/b The crew of the Lixx isn't really feeling up to any big adventures after the whole slightly painful "Critters and Caverns" fiasco. So they meander around the Lixx, Stanley complaining about the poor quality of the food, Xev complaining about how she never gets any, both of 790's personalities reciting conflicting epic poetry, and Kai being dead.
It is all very dull and typical until Stanley finds a large red button on the back of his captain's chair-standing-up-thing. A cardboard sign hung over it with string says "Cliché." Stanley reads it out loud: "Clitchy." Figuring it's probably something sexual, he pushes down. There is an earthquake (Lixx-quake?) during which the cameras shake around chaotically and the crew, who have inexplicably walked onto the bridge at just the right time, jump up and down. When it's all over, they stare at each other dumbly until Xev shouts, "Hey, I'm Xev!"
See, as it turns out, everyone has switched bodies with everyone else. 792 is now 796 and vice-versa. This isn't really a problem, because they share a body. They continue to recite poetry. However, Stan is Xev, Xev is Stan, the Lixx is Kai, and Kai is the Lixx. Kai spends the rest of the episode laying catatonically on the floor. And the Lixx is, well, the same, except for his off-and-on quips of "The dead do not blow up planets."
Xev-Stanley (who has Xev's brain) drills Stanley-Xev (who has Stan's brain) of what exactly he did to cause this, because no one else would have been that stupid. Stanley-Xev, after getting over the fact that every bit of him is now attractive but his hair, admits that he pressed the "clitchy" button, expecting something more gratifying than what had happened. Xev-Stanley goes to look at the button, glares at Stanley-Xev, and defines the word "cliché" in tones less than friendly. Stanley-Xev feels very bad.
The pair spends the majority of the rest of the episode doing various things to get themselves back to normal: standing on their heads; taking mind-altering drugs that result in short, trippy little dream-vignettes; singing the Brunnen-G song over and over; putting themselves into the cryochambers and thinking very hard about what they used to look like; saying "I wish I was in my iown/i body," at exactly the same time; and running around each other in circles until they collapse of dizziness.
Sometime during this, Stanley-Xev finds the time to get a pair of scissors and cut his hair to a more managable length. Before he has a chance to actually chop it off however, he realizes that it is but an ugly wig, and he simply pulls it off. This reveals the shorter red hair of Xev from season 2. He is quite pleased with this. In fact, so is Xev-Stanley, who says that she never really liked that style, but kept it because she'd never actually done her hair before. She'd just woken up and it had been perfect.
Xev-Stanley goes power-tripping and orders the Lixx to blow up a nearby moon, because she now has the key. But since the Lixx is actually Kai, he refuses with the excuse given above.
Finally, Kai-Lixx (who has Kai's brain), suggests that they push the "cliché" button again. Xev-Stanley tries it, and, lo and behold! it works like a charm and everything is back to normal. Kai stands up, looks bored, and goes back to his cryochamber. The episode ends on the funny note of the Lixx piping up "I feel funny," and Xev, Stanley, 792, and 796, bursting out laughing uproariously.
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bWhat the dead do not do:/b Blow up planets. (I know you probably feel cheated. I'm sorry. But there was not a lot of Kai in this one. I promise to make it up to you later.)
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bWhy no one has sex:/b They meet no one to have sex with. And they certainly aren't going to have sex with each other, because even though they might be in different bodies, they still have the same brains. And we all know that their personalities clash like, well, Titans. Or something like that.