Episode
Sealab 2021: Return to Oblivion
Overview
A network executive audits the set of the hard-hitting action drama Sealab 2021, with hopes of somehow salvaging the dwindling series.
Details
- Series
- Sealab 2021
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 2003-11-16
- Runtime
- 12 min
Episode context
Return to Oblivion is Episode 5 in Season 3 of Sealab 2021. It aired on 2003-11-16. The runtime is 12 min.
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Episode 4: Article 4
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?
Episode 6: Splitsville
Debbie and Quinn break up, while Dr. Virjay gets his old rock band back together.
More episodes from this season
Episode 3: Fusebox
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.
Episode 7: Tourist Season
Captain Murphy opens Sealab to tourists, eventually prompting Dr. Virjay to renounce his religion, and begin to eat meat from cows.
Episode 2: Vacation
Dr. Quinn forcibly takes a well-deserved vacation, inside Sealab's walls, the crew attempts to find out what he's doing.
Episode 8: Red Dawn
Kommissar Murphy brings Marxist-Leninist ideals to Sealab.
Episode 1: Brainswitch
An accident leaves Quinn comatose and Stormy allegedly smarter. Have they really switched brains?
Episode 9: Meet Beck Bristow
Hollywood Actor Beck Bristow (Brian Bloom) comes to Sealab to study for a television role.
Episode 10: I, Robot, Really
Due to an incident with Chubby Carol, Quinn (who doesn't think Carol is so chubby) is blackmailed into giving each crew member a robot body, but what is to become of the crew's old bodies?
Episode 11: Frozen Dinner
The Sealab crew attempts a daring rescue mission to Ice Station Zebra, one of whose inhabitants has turned to cannibalism. They are accompanied by a German who "came with the sub," bears more than a passing resemblance to Jürgen Prochnow and is given to firing his pistol inside the sub and shouting "Sieg Heil, Cornelius Drebbel!" Unfortunately, the two inhabitants of Ice Station Zebra cannot be rescued due to a lack of wetsuits, thanks to Debbie packing an attractive dress for herself instead.
Episode 12: Tornado Shanks
As Captain Murphy leaves for The Great Spice Wars, a new captain, Tornado Shanks, is given the helm.