The essential episodes of Sealab 2021
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Sealab 2021 — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Murphy, bored to tears, starts his own pirate radio show called "Howlin' Mad Murphy" until the FCC Search & Destroy team shuts his @*! down!
- 02
Murphy is stuck under a soda machine. To make matters worse, everyone else is out at a concert and can't help him! To make matters worse still, who should happen upon poor, defenseless Murphy but an angry scorpion and a tooth-collecting maintenance robot?
- 03
Sparks starts pushing a new, "mostly kelp" energy pill that proves to be highly addictive.
- 04
Who should come aboard SeaLab but the Bizarro versions of the crew, such as Bizarro Debbie, Bizarro Marco, Bizarro Murphy, Bizarro Sparks, Bizarro Stormy, and a sort-of Bizarro Dr. Quinn. The Bizarros hold the real crew captive, before beginning to torture the real crew. With Bizarro Torture.
- 05
Murphy's golf game is, due to a lack of golfballs, cut short. Murphy embarks on a frantic quest to find the Pro Shop. On the way, Murphy runs into a Monster-Hesh, snotty telephone operators, the Dolphin Boy, and a perfidious Eggers.
- 06
Capt. Murphy's attempts at a happy Alvistide go awry thanks to non-Alvian crew members, an uncooperative electrician, and Alvis himself "crapping the buffet".
- 07
An accident leaves Quinn comatose and Stormy allegedly smarter. Have they really switched brains?
- 08
The electricity is out in Sealab, and the crew tries to turn the power back on. This episode shows the outside of the Sealab for 8 minutes, during which time nothing happens besides Stormy destroying a section of the Sealab, and occasional appearances by fish, sharks, and bubbles.
- 09
A loophole in the Sealab charter turns everyone into captains, except Stormy (too stupid), Quinn (too proud to exploit the loophole), and the Chinese crew members (because of previous Asian accomplishments, including anime, among other things). How will Sealab survive? And where did Capt. Murphy go?
- 10
A network executive audits the set of the hard-hitting action drama Sealab 2021, with hopes of somehow salvaging the dwindling series.
- 11
Debbie and Quinn break up, while Dr. Virjay gets his old rock band back together.
- 12
Captain Murphy opens Sealab to tourists, eventually prompting Dr. Virjay to renounce his religion, and begin to eat meat from cows.
- 13
Kommissar Murphy brings Marxist-Leninist ideals to Sealab.
- 14
A delivering mishap and some dishonesty on Sparks' part pockets Sealab a brand new Asteroid Smasher/High-definition Television. Unfortunately, the ASHDTV was supposed to go to Spacelab so they could destroy an asteroid hurtling towards the earth.
- 15
The cast looks back over five years of "A Legacy of Laughter" in the style of one of those tacky TV reunion specials but of course since this IS Sealab, not all goes well.
