Sex and the Single Commander

[COMALiteJ]

This was GREAT! If you've got someone who can do a decent Garibaldi, he and your Londo guy would be a great cast to do a skit I've long had in mind!

Scenario: in a "missing scene" from before Londo is too far corrupted by Morden, but after mid-Season Two, Garibaldi catches Londo in the Green Sector corridor just outside his ambassadorial quarters:

G: "Londo! Just the man I needed to see!"

L: "Ah, my good, GOOD friend Garibaldi. I'm busy. Can it wait?"

G: "It'll only take a minute! Please?"

[COMALiteJ]

L: (sigh) "Okay. Get on with it."

G: "I think you'll like this. You're an afficiondo of old Earth culture, right? Especially of songs that ancient Earth humans used to teach their children, right?" (this is set after the "Hokey Pokey" incident)

L: "Yes."

G: (holds up data crystal) "Well, in researching my own second most favorite thing in the Universe [20th Century animation], I came across an old song that was used to teach certain, er `basic concepts' to young Earth children."

[COMALiteJ]

L: "Well? Play it!"

G: "Sorry it's incomplete, but this is all that survived. It should give you the basic idea, though."

Garibaldi mimes putting the data crystal in an audio-only player (actually an iPod or some such hooked up to the convention P.A. system) and starts it playing.

It plays the audio only, of just the first four verses (first 50 seconds or so), of this:

v=CCWcWGrJaZQ

(Only serious B5 fans will get it.)

[familieVorselaar]

timov= vomit (backwards)



[anlashokna]

Oh aye. I remember hearing as much from JMS, I believe. It was more for the benefit for those who don't have the good fortune to be obsessed with the show :)

[anlashokna]

Timov! <3 (Notice what timov's name is when it's spelled backwards?:P )

[COMALiteJ]

That was intentional. Peter David wrote that episode, and he's known for such puns, and he stated outright on GEnie (the premiere online service of the day for SF fandom, predating the popularity of the Web — JMS himself was an active participant, and talked about B5 there long before he talked about it anywhere else — even before he could tell us the NAME of the series [back then we called it TWCNBN {That Which Can Not Be Named}]) that it was deliberate.

[Wingdoss]

Good work by these folks. Excellent.

[iJulia81]

LOL ... all three of them were great. Wonderful imitation of the voices and gestures.

Thanks for posting. :)

[KryssLaBryn]

That was really well done! She does Ivanova very well, and he does a fabulous Londo impression. Well done!

[fisnationstate]

His voice is similar to Jurasik's. That scene's is on of the memorable ones of Babylon 5.