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** Ryland breaks this pattern when he first sees the Blip A and realizes he has just made first contact with intelligent alien life. “Holy fucking shit!”
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** Taken to greater heights when Ryland teaches Rocky the "fist bump" leading to Rocky later asking Ryland, "Fist me!"
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* Grace accidentally oversleeps one of his first scheduled meetings with Rocky leading to the discovery that the AngryFistShake is literally a universal gesture.
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* Dubois. Just Dubois. Basically a heterosexual [[Series/BrooklynNineNine Captain Holt]] whose blunt sexual exploits with Shapiro have Grace scrambling for BrainBleach!
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* Dubois. [=DuBois=]. Just Dubois.[=DuBois=]. Basically a heterosexual [[Series/BrooklynNineNine Captain Holt]] whose blunt sexual exploits with Shapiro have Grace scrambling for BrainBleach!
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* Rocky criticizes "Tau Ceti e" as a "boring" name for a planet. Then it turns out that the Rocky's culture has named the Venus-equivalent planet in their ''own'' system as something that translates as "Planet Three".
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* Rocky criticizes "Tau Ceti e" as a "boring" name for a planet. Then it turns out that the Rocky's culture has named the Venus-equivalent planet in their ''own'' system as something that translates as "Planet Three".
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* Meta Funny. Compared to the SirSwearsAlot attitudes of the characters in Weir's novels ''Literature/TheMartian'' and ''{{Literature/Artemis}}'', Ryland's GoshDarnItToHeck tendencies are hilarious. Justified given he starts as a teacher to middle school students.
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* Meta Funny. Compared to the SirSwearsAlot attitudes of the characters in Weir's novels ''Literature/TheMartian'' and ''{{Literature/Artemis}}'', Ryland's GoshDarnItToHeck tendencies are hilarious. Justified given he starts as a teacher to middle school students.students.
* Rocky criticizes "Tau Ceti e" as a "boring" name for a planet. Then it turns out that the Rocky's culture has named the Venus-equivalent planet in their ''own'' system as something that translates as "Planet Three".
* Rocky criticizes "Tau Ceti e" as a "boring" name for a planet. Then it turns out that the Rocky's culture has named the Venus-equivalent planet in their ''own'' system as something that translates as "Planet Three".
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* Eridians are especially vulnerable when they sleep and thus have a heavy cultural emphasis on only sleeping when a trusted friend is on guard, so Rocky naturally offers to keep watch on Ryland as a gesture of good faith. All of this flies over Ryland's head (and the reader's, as it's only explained later), so Ryland is left with an alien GiantSpider [[InnocentInnuendo insisting that he watch Ryland sleep]].
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* Eridians are especially vulnerable when they sleep and thus have a heavy cultural emphasis on only sleeping when a trusted friend is on guard, so Rocky naturally offers to keep watch on Ryland as a gesture of good faith. All of this flies over Ryland's head (and the reader's, as it's only explained later), so Ryland is left with an a metal alien GiantSpider spider [[InnocentInnuendo insisting that he watch Ryland sleep]]. sleep]].
* Rocky, who can best be described as a five sided rock spider, wears a version of overalls and a tool belt for his work.
* Rocky, who can best be described as a five sided rock spider, wears a version of overalls and a tool belt for his work.
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* DuBois. Just DuBois. Basically a heterosexual [[Series/BrooklynNineNine Captain Holt]] whose blunt sexual exploits with Shapiro have Grace scrambling for BrainBleach!
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* DuBois. Dubois. Just DuBois.Dubois. Basically a heterosexual [[Series/BrooklynNineNine Captain Holt]] whose blunt sexual exploits with Shapiro have Grace scrambling for BrainBleach!
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-->'''Strat:''' Also, most infections take three days to show any effects.\\
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'''Strat:''' Okay, it's exactly like that.
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* Ryland is horrified when he realizes that everyone on the base assumes he's sleeping with Strat. Worse, when they find out he isn't, everyone points out that maybe he ''should be''. [[YouNeedToGetLaid Would probably do both of them some good]].
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* Ryland is horrified when he realizes that everyone on the base assumes he's sleeping with Strat.Stratt. Worse, when they find out he isn't, everyone points out that maybe he ''should be''. [[YouNeedToGetLaid Would probably do both of them some good]].
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* Dupois. DuBois. Just Dupois. DuBois. Basically a heterosexual [[Series/BrooklynNineNine Captain Holt]] whose blunt sexual exploits with Shapiro have Grace scrambling for BrainBleach!BrainBleach!
* Ryland and Blip-A make first contact through flashing lights. Then Ryland has to engage the centrifuge, and Blip-A starts spinning too. Ryland promptly realizes that he's now also responsible for the first ''mis''communication with an alien race.
* Eridians are especially vulnerable when they sleep and thus have a heavy cultural emphasis on only sleeping when a trusted friend is on guard, so Rocky naturally offers to keep watch on Ryland as a gesture of good faith. All of this flies over Ryland's head (and the reader's, as it's only explained later), so Ryland is left with an alien GiantSpider [[InnocentInnuendo insisting that he watch Ryland sleep]].
* Ryland and Blip-A make first contact through flashing lights. Then Ryland has to engage the centrifuge, and Blip-A starts spinning too. Ryland promptly realizes that he's now also responsible for the first ''mis''communication with an alien race.
* Eridians are especially vulnerable when they sleep and thus have a heavy cultural emphasis on only sleeping when a trusted friend is on guard, so Rocky naturally offers to keep watch on Ryland as a gesture of good faith. All of this flies over Ryland's head (and the reader's, as it's only explained later), so Ryland is left with an alien GiantSpider [[InnocentInnuendo insisting that he watch Ryland sleep]].
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* Dupois. Just Dupois. Basically a heterosexual [[Series/BrooklynNineNine Captain Holt]] whose blunt sexual exploits with Sharpiro have Grace scrambling for BrainBleach!
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* Dupois. Just Dupois. Basically a heterosexual [[Series/BrooklynNineNine Captain Holt]] whose blunt sexual exploits with Sharpiro Shapiro have Grace scrambling for BrainBleach!
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* Dupois. Just Dupois. Basically a heterosexual [[Series/BrooklynNineNine Captain Holt]] whose blunt sexual exploits with Shapiro Sharpiro have Grace scrambling for BrainBleach!
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* Dupois. Just Dupois. Basically a heterosexual [[Series/Brooklyn99 Captain Holt]] whose blunt sexual exploits with Shapiro have Grace scrambling for BrainBleach!
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* Dupois. Just Dupois. Basically a heterosexual [[Series/Brooklyn99 [[Series/BrooklynNineNine Captain Holt]] whose blunt sexual exploits with Shapiro have Grace scrambling for BrainBleach!
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* Before he remembers his real name, Ryland makes a brief RunningGag out of giving joke answers whenever the computer asks him to state his name. Highlights include Captain Comatose and Professor Pendulus.
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* Before he remembers his real name, Ryland makes a brief RunningGag out of giving joke answers whenever the computer asks him to state his name. Highlights include Captain Comatose and Professor Pendulus.The Great Philosopher Pendulous.
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* When Ryland tries to teach Rocky the metric system he gives him a measuring tape. Rocky, due to being Eridian, is blind and unable to see the marking on the tape, doesn't understand its purpose and seems to assume that it's a toy, much to Ryland's frustration.
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-->'''Ryland:''' Ohthankgod, I'm a teacher.
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* Stratt sends Grace a notice by simply slapping a post-it note on his forehead while he was still sleeping.
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* After discovering the ''Hail Mary's'' well-equipped lab and realizing he must be a scientist, Ryland excitedly tries to come up with some kind of science he can do. Unfortunately, the only "idea" he can come up with is that he's hungry.
-->'''Ryland:''' You have failed me, brain.
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-->'''Ryland:''' You have failed me, brain.
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* While retrieving the beetles so he can use them as emergency engines, Ryland loses a screw to the vastness of space. When he asks if Rocky can make new screws, Rocky chides him to hold on to them better. Ryland points out that he needs one hand to work the screwdriver and one to hold onto the ship. Rocky tells him to use a third hand to hold the screws...then stops mid-sentence when he remembers humans only have two hands.
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* Ryland pulls a MistakenForPedophile on ''himself'', as he remembers that he's a single man living alone who really likes kids before he remembers his job.
-->'''Ryland:''' Ohthankgod, I'm a teacher.
* It takes Ryland a couple days to realize why Strat is so insistent that he be the ''only'' one who handle the strange alien life before anyone else.
-->'''Strat:''' Also, most infections take three days to show any effects.\\
'''Ryland:''' Wait a second, you're using me as a guinea pig!\\
'''Strat:''' It's not like that.\\
'''Ryland:''' ''[glares]''\\
'''Strat:''' Okay, it's exactly like that.
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-->'''Ryland:''' Ohthankgod, I'm a teacher.
* It takes Ryland a couple days to realize why Strat is so insistent that he be the ''only'' one who handle the strange alien life before anyone else.
-->'''Strat:''' Also, most infections take three days to show any effects.\\
'''Ryland:''' Wait a second, you're using me as a guinea pig!\\
'''Strat:''' It's not like that.\\
'''Ryland:''' ''[glares]''\\
'''Strat:''' Okay, it's exactly like that.
* Ryland is horrified when he realizes that everyone on the base assumes he's sleeping with Strat. Worse, when they find out he isn't, everyone points out that maybe he ''should be''. [[YouNeedToGetLaid Would probably do both of them some good]].
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* Meta Funny. Compared to the SirSwearsAlot attitudes of the characters in Weir's novels ''Literature/TheMartian'' and ''{{Literature/Artemis}}'', Ryland's GoshDarnItToHeck tendencies are hilarious. Justified given he starts as a teacher to middle school students.
