The menfolk take the chariot to search for a water source. Of course, there's a fishing hole within walking distance from the J2 and we know that there's an inland sea. But they go hunting for water anyway. It's unclear how they plan to get this water back to the J2 since they don't have any containers. And they make it clear that if they don't find water, they're all gonna die. But they still go hunting for water anyway.
Now this particular planet has an odd orbit that means that the temperatures go up above the 120s. The intrepid castaways never go hunting for water when the temperatures are moderate. They always wait until just before the season of fiery death. Then they get into their all-Pyrex car and go water hunting.
Stock chariot footage from the meteor shower episode ensues, this time cut with stock footage of lava to denote a volcano. After this episode of volcanism, the robot announces that they're driving over an underground water source. So they promptly drive the chariot right up a hill because when you're drilling for water, you want maximum elevation.
The water turns out to be brackish, so they get back into the Pyrex car. When it gets really hot (because Dr. S has stolen the AC parts) they drive into a cave. Will requests and receives permission to wander aimlessly through an unexplored cave system per standard Robinson parenting. There is a planet-quake, exactly like the last time that they drove into a cave. The quake is bad enough to toss Will and the robot down a mysterious pit which looks like a circular well full of debris from the top and a cave system from the bottom. Dr. R and Maj. W fail to notice the planet quake.
After a few twists and turns, Will and the robot find themselves on Gilligan's Island, only underground and furnished and populated by old Flash Gordon sets and costumes. Dr. R and Maj. W follow them down the hole. During another quake, a boulder rolls toward them, so Dr. R throws Maj. W in the path of the rock while hiding himself under a ledge. Note to Maj. W: back off a little on the Judy thing.
Prodded by the robot, Will kisses a sleeping child. When she awakens, she turns out to be a princess with Ferengi teeth who learned her lines phonetically. They all go to the underground kingdom where Will is supposed to marry the princess so that her major domo Ming the Merciless can unleash a thousand generations of mini-dress clad warriors to conquer the universe, starting with earth. The warriors wield full height weapons, because nothing's easier to shoot than a cross between a floor lamp and a coat rack.
At this point, the show turns into a Benny Hill episode with all the characters chasing each other from the throne room to the torture chamber to the instrument room several times, but sadly without Yakety Sax accompaniment. Eventually, Ming fries, the princess goes back to sleep and the castaways somehow get a two-ton robot out of a vertical pit.
Now this particular planet has an odd orbit that means that the temperatures go up above the 120s. The intrepid castaways never go hunting for water when the temperatures are moderate. They always wait until just before the season of fiery death. Then they get into their all-Pyrex car and go water hunting.
Stock chariot footage from the meteor shower episode ensues, this time cut with stock footage of lava to denote a volcano. After this episode of volcanism, the robot announces that they're driving over an underground water source. So they promptly drive the chariot right up a hill because when you're drilling for water, you want maximum elevation.
The water turns out to be brackish, so they get back into the Pyrex car. When it gets really hot (because Dr. S has stolen the AC parts) they drive into a cave. Will requests and receives permission to wander aimlessly through an unexplored cave system per standard Robinson parenting. There is a planet-quake, exactly like the last time that they drove into a cave. The quake is bad enough to toss Will and the robot down a mysterious pit which looks like a circular well full of debris from the top and a cave system from the bottom. Dr. R and Maj. W fail to notice the planet quake.
After a few twists and turns, Will and the robot find themselves on Gilligan's Island, only underground and furnished and populated by old Flash Gordon sets and costumes. Dr. R and Maj. W follow them down the hole. During another quake, a boulder rolls toward them, so Dr. R throws Maj. W in the path of the rock while hiding himself under a ledge. Note to Maj. W: back off a little on the Judy thing.
Prodded by the robot, Will kisses a sleeping child. When she awakens, she turns out to be a princess with Ferengi teeth who learned her lines phonetically. They all go to the underground kingdom where Will is supposed to marry the princess so that her major domo Ming the Merciless can unleash a thousand generations of mini-dress clad warriors to conquer the universe, starting with earth. The warriors wield full height weapons, because nothing's easier to shoot than a cross between a floor lamp and a coat rack.
At this point, the show turns into a Benny Hill episode with all the characters chasing each other from the throne room to the torture chamber to the instrument room several times, but sadly without Yakety Sax accompaniment. Eventually, Ming fries, the princess goes back to sleep and the castaways somehow get a two-ton robot out of a vertical pit.
