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Episode 5: Part 47

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Episode 5: Planet of the Laugh Track!
Original Characters and Concept: Travers, Kenyon, & Rioux Jordan; Alex & Natasha Gorely; Sam Barnett
Original Story (Trapped on the Planet of the Laugh Track!): Kenyon Jordan
Adapted to Comic Form by: Travers, Rioux, & Kenyon Jordan
Photos: Travers & Rioux Jordan
Background Photos: Search Engine Image Sources & personal photos
Art/SFX/Photo Editing: Travers Jordan
Editing: Kenyon Jordan, Therese Jordan
Social Media Coordinator: Danielle Jordan

4/6/26:
Happy Easter and Happy Birthday to my wife!

Comments from the Tagboard:
04/10/26 12:08 AM
Swiftbow: Hey, I forgot to mention in the post... working on a fence this weekend and have to do taxes. So... no update this week. Will be back next!
04/08/26 12:41 AM
Swiftbow: Ah, I see. I hope you're not upset! I swear this and what will follow after is not just referencing for the sake of referencing.
04/07/26 05:15 PM
Freezer: Not that I recall. But they were never afraid to just slap another franchise into the story and explain later.
04/07/26 01:32 AM
Swiftbow: Did Legostar Galactica do a Simpsons reference?
04/06/26 04:22 PM
BrickVoid: Well you always did want to know what the cartoon characters got up to when they went off set! :P
04/06/26 02:47 AM
Freezer: Welp... We've gone full Legostar Galactica!

Transcript
Panel 1:
Ensign Hylia: I've got something on the tricorder. Not the signal. Solid object. No, two of them. Size variance. Commander Dale Zurkett: I'm pretty sure it is. Just up ahead.

Panel 2:
Hylia: What a bizarre-looking... sign, you say?
    Odd-looking humanoid form. The text is... wait. Is that... English?
Zack Del Rio: Yes... yes it is. But I think that's the least weird thing.
Lieutenant Commander Natashia Staratt: I recognize this... it bears a resemblance to an Earth circus clown. Perhaps a case of convergent evolution?
Dale: I think this goes beyond that, Natashia.
Commodore Jeffrey Bannister: How so? And why do you and Zack seem to recognize this?

Panel 3:
Jeff: And what is a Krusty Burger?
Dale: That's going to take some time to explain, sir.
    To sum up... it's from an old Earth 20th and 21st century television show.
Jeff: TV? Is that like holovision?
Dale: Sort of. But not really.
Unknown Transmission: Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Panel 4:
Dale: Okay... Natashia: Is there any chance WE'RE in a simulation here?
    Maybe trapped in our own holodeck?

Panel 5:
Natashia: Unless my tricorder is faulty, sir, no. All these objects are registering as real.
Dale: Then what is this? Are we on some parallel world? Or... what about that Wonderland planet Captain Kirk discovered?
Jeff: Oh, I went to the Wonderland planet for a vacation once! I don't think we're there.

Panel 6:
Natashia: If you're asking me to guess... I can only speculate one possibility.
    This planet is roughly 340 light years from Earth.
Dale: SO you mean...?
Natashia: Television signals from around the turn of the 21st century on Earth would be arriving here now.
Zack: Cultural duplication!
Dale: So like... they may have watched our TV? And then copied it?
Natashia: We should tread carefully. The Prime Directive is still in play here. Even if damage was already done.

Panel 7:
Natashia: In any case... the duplication would be cultural-only. It's impossible to say what sort of alien race we may encounter here.
Jeff: Standard first contact scenario, then! So relax. We're trained for this!
Dale: Okay, yes. I feel better. Just ecause it all looks like the Simpsons doesn't mean that this IS the--

Panel 8:
Dale: Uh--
Homer Simpson: Where's my burrito Where's my burrito?
Bart Simpson: Don't have a cow, man.
Unknown Transmission: Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

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