History Recap / StargateAtlantisS02E04Duet

** It's a comedy episode and the audience is not meant to take it particularly seriously, despite [=McKay=] and his therapist calling out Cadman for doing it.

* NameMcAdjective: Blaminng Zelenka for his predicament, a pissed-off Rodney dubs him 'Fumbles [=McStupid=]'.

* NameMcAdjective: Blaminng Zelenka for his predicament, a pissed-off Rodney dubs him 'Fumbles McStupid'.

* StockEpisodeTitles: 6 uses

** The comedy aspect is rather less funny when one remembers that, over on ''Stargate: SG-1'', the idea of another consciousness living in your body, taking control over it and making you watch while it acts without your consent or input is the exact MO of the Goa'uld, and this has consistently been portrayed a AFateWorseThanDeath. Especially if one remembers "[[Recap/StargateSG1S2E17Holiday Holiday" (which "only" involved body-swapping, not implanted consciousness subjugating a body's resident consciousness) the "villain" was explicitly called out as being no different from a Goa'uld, stealing someone else's body to prolong his life. Cadman takes over Rodney's body because. . . she's bored and annoyed.

** The comedy aspect is rather less funny when one remembers that, over on ''Stargate: SG-1'', the idea of another consciousness living in your body, taking control over it and making you watch while it acts without your consent or input is the exact MO of the Goa'uld, and this has consistently been portrayed a AFateWorseThanDeath. Especially if one remembers "Recap/StargateSG1S2E17Holiday" (which "only" involved body-swapping, not implanted consciousness subjugating a body's resident consciousness) the "villain" was explicitly called out as being no different from a Goa'uld, stealing someone else's body to prolong his life. Cadman takes over Rodney's body because. . . she's bored and annoyed.

** The comedy aspect is rather less funny when one remembers that, over on ''Stargate: SG-1'', the idea of another consciousness living in your body, taking control over it and making you watch while it acts without your consent or input is the exact MO of the Goa'uld, and this has consistently been portrayed a AFateWorseThanDeath. Especially if one remembers "StargateSG1S2E17Holiday" (which "only" involved body-swapping, not implanted consciousness subjugating a body's resident consciousness) the "villain" was explicitly called out as being no different from a Goa'uld, stealing someone else's body to prolong his life. Cadman takes over Rodney's body because. . . she's bored and annoyed.

* MistakenForGay: Beckett seems genuinely surprised that [=McKay=]'s date is with a woman.

* DoubleStandardRapeSciFi: A female airman ends up sharing [=McKay=]'s body by accident. After they argue a bit about who's in charge, she simply takes over after he falls asleep, takes his body for a run, then showers and sleeps naked. Later she wrests control from him to force him to kiss his girlfriend (which he'd been too shy to do), and then to kiss Dr. Beckett against the man's will. She did all this without ever asking [=McKay=]'s permission, and while ignoring his protests. It's a [[BlackComedyRape comedy episode]] and we're supposed to side with the [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale woman]] during all of this, though both [=McKay=] and the therapist call the airman on it. Website/SFDebris also pointed out that [[Series/StargateSG1 the previous series's main villains]] were a species of {{Puppeteer Parasite}}s who took over people's bodies without their consent, and it was treated as rape when two Goa'uld made their hosts have sex with each other (Apophis and Daniel's wife Sha're).

* TheCyrano: Cadman really wants to play this role for [=McKay=] on his date with Dr. Brown, up to the point of exerting her GrandTheftMe powers when he fails to listen to her advice.