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When the Bough Breaks

a conversation between Anon and Anon2, 17-Jul-2009
transcribed by Anon, 21-Sep-2009


Another kid's episode.Aldara - I got a card!The Custodian -
annoying subplot.
Deep Throat.
(more images below)

Overview: A mythical planet reveals itself to the Enterprise.
Writers: Hannah Louise Shearer
Director: Kim Manners


Anon: Guys, I don't know where to start today.

Anon2: I know where to finish. We've got two minutes exactly to finish this.

Anon: This was... what the fuck was this called? When The Bough Breaks.

Anon2: Yeah.

Anon: Episode number...

Anon2: God knows. 17?

Anon: Yeah, 17. This was so fucking terrible. This is my new bottom-of-the-pile. This was worse than Angel One.

Anon2: Okay, right. Wesley was in it a lot. You got 1 card; I got none. It was fucking gay. I'm not saying another word. That's the end of this commentary as far as I'm concerned.

Anon: You might have to help me out a bit.

Anon2: I think you'll be talking to yourself. Just comment on what you want.

Anon: What about Deep Throat?

(Guest star Jerry Hardin played Deep Throat in The X-Files.)

Anon2: Fuck him.

Anon: (laughs) You cunt. (laughs again)

Anon2: Carry on, go on. You've got a minute left.

Anon: (laughs) This is going to be a bit of a weak review, isn't it?

Anon2: This was a very fucking weak episode.

Anon: We're really struggling here. It was just so bad.

Anon2: I wrote the card count down and the name of the episode. I think I wrote something about Calculus at 6 six years old. Then it got worse.

Anon: This was a real suffer watching this, it's got to be said. Worst episode by far. They had this bit in it where they had the most unsubtle hand-off of a medical device ever.

Anon2: It was bullshit. Fucking crap.

Anon: Then this little kid - this 6 year old kid - he says to a crowded room, "I like working with the wood." Dirty fucker.

Anon2: It was shit. It was fucking rubbish.

Anon: Woeful acting. Terrible.

Anon2: Time's up, sorry.

Anon: The next episode, if we live to the next one, which is a bit of a question mark right now, is Home Soil. That's shit too.

Anon2: (laughs) Oh feck! How long was that?

Anon: 2 minutes 38 seconds. See ya.

Anon2: That's 38 seconds too long.

 

---Addendum---

Anon: And as a quick addendum to this, we put the episode onto the Spanish audio track towards the end and that made it to much better.

Anon2: It did. After we did the last commentary, we rewound it a bit. By accident in fact. We were fumbling with the remote control a bit there. It went back and got put on Spanish, then it played and we pissed ourselves.

Anon: We also checked out the Italian, the German, and tragically, the French.

Anon2: Yeah. The German was funny.

Anon: I liked the Spanish, with "Señor La Forge."

Anon2: (laughs) Oh merde.

Anon: Did you see the bit...

Anon2: We're not talking about the episode, are we? We're done with that.

Anon: No no, that's done. We're good.

Anon2: Okay, fine.

Anon: Did you ever see the Red Dward episode in Japanese on the series 1 DVD?

Anon2: Huh?

Anon: Check it.

Anon2: I don't know any Japanese.

Anon: You could ask Mike.

Anon2: That means if I want to watch Red Dwarf in Japanese, Mike's got to be there. Now, I like Mike, but...

Anon: It's not very practical. Anyway folks - later bye.

- Anon & Anon2, 17-Jul-2009

80's haircuts will
not die.
Harry likes working
with the wood...
... and this guy
helps him.
Another annoying kid.
Why didn't they just
leave them behind?
Friendly-looking
intergalactic
paedo.