About.com's scifi guide has posted their breakdown of the jokes in 200. The first article containing the first 40 jokes can be found here.
Here's the first five for your perusal. Hit the link for the rest:
Here's the first five for your perusal. Hit the link for the rest:
1. The episode begins with "previously on," showing the silliness and exaggeration of Wormhole X-Treme and the Air Force's approval of the show for its role in "plausible deniability." But then we get a scene about some furry creatures shaking hands with Daniel Jackson.
a. Jackson is the official "greeter" of the group, and his cute looks go with the furry, bear-like creatures.
If the alien costumes weren't so obviously silly (and perhaps inspired by the Ewoks), this could be a real scene from the show.
b. The scene indicates the starting-off point where the "real life" adventures of the team are morphed into the "fake" adventures of the "Wormhole X-Treme" version.
c. The furry guys are supposed to be the Furlings, a race which has never been seen, but which has been named as one of the four great races, along with the Ancients, Asgard, and Nox.
2. Gou'ald mother ships show up and blast the planet.
a. SG-1 does have a habit of bringing the wrath of the bad guys down on the nice people they meet.
3. The little furry bear guys are making more Ewok-like noises. One stands in front of a viewscreen that looks a lot like The Guardian from Star Trek's "City on the Edge of Forever." Sam Carter spouts technobabble about the planet's thermodynamic core. Sam and Daniel are beamed out via Asgard technology. A Furling bangs on his console/tree stump. The planet explodes.
a. Sam's little shrug before she and Daniel are beamed out is exactly how she and Daniel would not act. They would stay and save the day, or die with the Furlings.
b. When the planet explodes, it gets a shock-wave ring around it that's very George Lucas.
4. Sam objects that that never happened, and Cameron says movies have to "open big" and be "jam-packed."
a. Vala's, "I love jam" gives us yet another instance of "alien doesn't understand English colloquialisms," which she herself points out.
5. Sam objects that the characters look stupid in causing a massive catastrophe.
a. Sam's pointing out that she and her team are not the characters, but that they're obviously linked.
b. SG-1 has started off a few episodes by having the team cause major damage, as Cameron points out with, "That's realistic."
a. Jackson is the official "greeter" of the group, and his cute looks go with the furry, bear-like creatures.
If the alien costumes weren't so obviously silly (and perhaps inspired by the Ewoks), this could be a real scene from the show.
b. The scene indicates the starting-off point where the "real life" adventures of the team are morphed into the "fake" adventures of the "Wormhole X-Treme" version.
c. The furry guys are supposed to be the Furlings, a race which has never been seen, but which has been named as one of the four great races, along with the Ancients, Asgard, and Nox.
2. Gou'ald mother ships show up and blast the planet.
a. SG-1 does have a habit of bringing the wrath of the bad guys down on the nice people they meet.
3. The little furry bear guys are making more Ewok-like noises. One stands in front of a viewscreen that looks a lot like The Guardian from Star Trek's "City on the Edge of Forever." Sam Carter spouts technobabble about the planet's thermodynamic core. Sam and Daniel are beamed out via Asgard technology. A Furling bangs on his console/tree stump. The planet explodes.
a. Sam's little shrug before she and Daniel are beamed out is exactly how she and Daniel would not act. They would stay and save the day, or die with the Furlings.
b. When the planet explodes, it gets a shock-wave ring around it that's very George Lucas.
4. Sam objects that that never happened, and Cameron says movies have to "open big" and be "jam-packed."
a. Vala's, "I love jam" gives us yet another instance of "alien doesn't understand English colloquialisms," which she herself points out.
5. Sam objects that the characters look stupid in causing a massive catastrophe.
a. Sam's pointing out that she and her team are not the characters, but that they're obviously linked.
b. SG-1 has started off a few episodes by having the team cause major damage, as Cameron points out with, "That's realistic."
