Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: Introduces the Ancient Communication Stones, telepathic devices that SG-1 will later use to make first contact with the Ori in Season 9, and become an important plot device in the sequel show ''Series/StargateUniverse''.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 21 (click to see context) from:
* CallBack: After hearing the premise of [[Recap/StargateSG1S5E17Failsafe "Failsafe"]], Fred remarks that he's "seen [[Film/{{Armageddon}} this movie]], it hits Paris," the exact same line delivered by O'Neill in the episode.
to:
* CallBack: After hearing the premise of [[Recap/StargateSG1S5E17Failsafe "Failsafe"]], Fred remarks that he's "seen [[Film/{{Armageddon}} [[Film/Armageddon1998 this movie]], it hits Paris," the exact same line delivered by O'Neill in the episode.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After everything he's seen and experienced for seven years, Joe gets O'Neill to talk to his wife and assure her he's not crazy.
* LampshadeHanging: Carter points out what the audience had likely already considered before that point: that the link could work both ways, allowing O'Neill to see visions of Joe's life. Well, he was. He was pretty certain that he told someone about it at some point over the years, but he didn't.
* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: Joe actively writes stories based on his visions and submits them to magazines; he gets nothing but rejection letters. Jack actually expresses some disappointment that all of Joe's stories were rejected, taking it to mean that no one does want to see their adventures.
Changed line(s) 68 (click to see context) from:
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: For seven years, while Joe was seeing what O'Neill was seeing, O'Neill could see events in Joe's life and never told anyone. He, in fact, stated he found the images relaxing.
to:
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: For seven years, while Joe was seeing what O'Neill was seeing, O'Neill could see events in Joe's life and never told anyone. He, in fact, stated he found the images relaxing.relaxing.
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Joe's increasingly desperate efforts to get his family and friends to believe him.
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Joe's increasingly desperate efforts to get his family and friends to believe him.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 8 (click to see context) from:
* ActorAllusion: In a roundabout way--Joe mentions that Colonel O'Neill likes Mary Steenbergen. Though she doesn't appear, Mary and Joe's actor, Dan Castellaneta, previously worked with each other in the short-lived cartoon adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/BackToTheFuture'' that aired in the early 90s, where Dan played Doc Brown--though Christopher Lloyd reprised his role in live-action segments that bookended each ep.
to:
* ActorAllusion: In a roundabout way--Joe mentions that Colonel O'Neill likes Mary Steenbergen. Though she doesn't appear, Mary and Joe's actor, Dan Castellaneta, previously worked with each other in the short-lived cartoon adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/BackToTheFuture'' that aired in the early 90s, '90s, where Dan played Doc Brown--though Christopher Lloyd reprised his role in live-action segments that bookended each ep.
Changed line(s) 25 (click to see context) from:
-->'''Joe:''' It doesn't matter, it could be a monkey. The point is --
to:
-->'''Joe:''' It doesn't matter, it could be a monkey. The point is --is--
Changed line(s) 30 (click to see context) from:
** Joe watches a commercial for [[Recap/StargateSG1S5E12WormholeXTreme "Wormhole X-Treme!"]]
to:
** Joe watches a commercial for [[Recap/StargateSG1S5E12WormholeXTreme "Wormhole X-Treme!"]]''[[Recap/StargateSG1S5E12WormholeXTreme Wormhole X-Treme!]]''
Changed line(s) 40 (click to see context) from:
* ItsBeenDone: Joe's son points out [[ShowWithinAShow ''Wormhole X-treme'']] and launches into a jaded teen diatribe on how "there's no such thing as original thought anymore".
to:
* ItsBeenDone: Joe's son points out [[ShowWithinAShow ''Wormhole X-treme'']] ''[[ShowWithinAShow Wormhole X-treme]]'' and launches into a jaded teen diatribe on how "there's no such thing as original thought anymore".
Changed line(s) 47 (click to see context) from:
-->'''Andy:''' Whoa. ''(nervous laugh)'' Has he totally lost it or what?
to:
-->'''Andy:''' Whoa. ''(nervous laugh)'' [''nervous laugh''] Has he totally lost it or what?
Changed line(s) 56 (click to see context) from:
-->'''Daniel:''' ''(on meeting Joe)'' Broke into your house?
to:
-->'''Daniel:''' ''(on [''on meeting Joe)'' Joe''] Broke into your house?
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 8 (click to see context) from:
* ActorAllusion: In a roundabout way--Joe mentions that Colonel O'Neill likes Mary Steenbergen. Though she doesn't appear, Mary and Joe's actor, Dan Castellaneta, previously worked with each other in the short-lived cartoon adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/BackToTheFuture'' that aired in the early 90s, where Dan played Doc Brown- though Christopher Lloyd reprised his role in live-action segments that bookended each ep.
to:
* ActorAllusion: In a roundabout way--Joe mentions that Colonel O'Neill likes Mary Steenbergen. Though she doesn't appear, Mary and Joe's actor, Dan Castellaneta, previously worked with each other in the short-lived cartoon adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/BackToTheFuture'' that aired in the early 90s, where Dan played Doc Brown- though Brown--though Christopher Lloyd reprised his role in live-action segments that bookended each ep.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 8 (click to see context) from:
* ActorAllusion: In a roundabout way- Joe mentions that Colonel O'Neill likes Mary Steenbergen. Though she doesn't appear, Mary and Joe's actor, Dan Castellaneta, previously worked with each other in the short-lived cartoon adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/BackToTheFuture'' that aired in the early 90s, where Dan played Doc Brown- though Christopher Lloyd reprised his role in live-action segments that bookended each ep.
to:
* ActorAllusion: In a roundabout way- Joe way--Joe mentions that Colonel O'Neill likes Mary Steenbergen. Though she doesn't appear, Mary and Joe's actor, Dan Castellaneta, previously worked with each other in the short-lived cartoon adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/BackToTheFuture'' that aired in the early 90s, where Dan played Doc Brown- though Christopher Lloyd reprised his role in live-action segments that bookended each ep.
Changed line(s) 12 (click to see context) from:
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Joe's wife Charlene initially encourages him to write his stories down, claiming that he's gotten in touch with his "inner muse". She later comes to regret this when his obsession with the visions starts to take over his life.
to:
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Joe's wife Charlene initially encourages him to write his stories down, claiming that he's gotten in touch with his "inner muse". muse." She later comes to regret this when his obsession with the visions starts to take over his life.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
**It's also easy to imagine the things he says to Sam, Daniel, and Teal'c at the end as being the things a fan would say upon meeting SG-1 in real life.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 66 (click to see context) from:
-->'''Fred:''' Look, no offense, but how many times can these folks save the world from Apophis? What's it up to now? Five, six times?
to:
-->'''Fred:''' Look, no offense, but how many times can these folks save the world from Apophis? What's it up to now? Five, six times?times?
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: For seven years, while Joe was seeing what O'Neill was seeing, O'Neill could see events in Joe's life and never told anyone. He, in fact, stated he found the images relaxing.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: For seven years, while Joe was seeing what O'Neill was seeing, O'Neill could see events in Joe's life and never told anyone. He, in fact, stated he found the images relaxing.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* CelebrityParadox: Jack is a huge ''Simpsons'' fan, but doesn't react at all to starting Creator/DanCastellaneta in the face.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* ActorAllusion: In a roundabout way- Joe mentions that Colonel O'Neill likes Mary Steenbergen. Though she doesn't appear, Mary and Joe's actor, Dan Castellaneta, previously worked with each other in the short-lived cartoon adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/BackToTheFuture'' that aired in the early 90s, where Dan played Doc Brown- though Christopher Lloyd reprised his role in live-action segments that bookended each ep.
Changed line(s) 37 (click to see context) from:
* ItsBeenDone: Joe's son points out [[ShowWithinAShow ''Wormhoke X-treme'']] and launches into a jaded teen diatribe on how "there's no such thing as original thought anymore".
to:
* ItsBeenDone: Joe's son points out [[ShowWithinAShow ''Wormhoke ''Wormhole X-treme'']] and launches into a jaded teen diatribe on how "there's no such thing as original thought anymore".
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* ItsBeenDone: Joe's son points out [[ShowWithinAShow ''Wormhoke X-treme'']] and launches into a jaded teen diatribe on how "there's no such thing as original thought anymore".
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 59 (click to see context) from:
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Joe tells O'Neill that he agrees with his analogy of [[Recap/StargateSG1S7E22LostCityPart1 Burns as Goa'uld]]. Incidentally, Dan Castellaneta, who plays Joe, also [[ActorAllusion provides the voice for Homer Simpson]].
to:
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Joe tells O'Neill that he agrees with his analogy of [[Recap/StargateSG1S7E22LostCityPart1 [[Recap/StargateSG1S7E21LostCityPart1 Burns as Goa'uld]]. Incidentally, Dan Castellaneta, who plays Joe, also [[ActorAllusion provides the voice for Homer Simpson]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
->''"You ruined my life!"''
-->'''-- Joe Spencer'''
O'Neill is confronted by Joe Spencer, a barber from Indiana who claims he's been having visions of O'Neill's life for the last seven years.
----
!!"Citizen Joe" provides examples of the following tropes:
* AbortedArc: Lampshaded after Joe finishes telling one of his customers the plot of [[Recap/StargateSG1S3E17AHundredDays "A Hundred Days"]] and informs her that she will "just have to wait for the sequel" to find out if Laira was pregnant with O'Neill's child. The episode in question never ''had'' a sequel, with the issue remaining unresolved.
* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Joe's son Andy, to begin with.
* AudienceSurrogate: Joe's reactions to various events in the series often correspond to things that have been said by real-life fans.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Joe's wife Charlene initially encourages him to write his stories down, claiming that he's gotten in touch with his "inner muse". She later comes to regret this when his obsession with the visions starts to take over his life.
* BigNo: Joe does this after receiving a vision of Daniel's death in [[Recap/StargateSG1S5E21Meridian "Meridian"]].
* BizarreAlienBiology: Lampshaded when Joe tries to explain the Goa'uld life cycle to his co-workers:
-->'''Bert:''' The bad guys. You said they got snakes in their heads?
-->'''Joe:''' Symbiotes, yes.
-->'''Gordie:''' And what about the fellas with the ones in their bellies?
-->'''Joe:''' They're different; they're called Jaffa. They incubate the symbiotes until they're ready for implantation.
-->'''Fred:''' Now, you see Joe, that's confusing.
-->'''Bert:''' He's right, boss. Why can't there just be one kind of bad guy? You know, snake goes in the head, he's evil, the end.
* CallBack: After hearing the premise of [[Recap/StargateSG1S5E17Failsafe "Failsafe"]], Fred remarks that he's "seen [[Film/{{Armageddon}} this movie]], it hits Paris," the exact same line delivered by O'Neill in the episode.
* CannotTellAJoke:
-->'''Joe:''' So there's this fella who walks into a bar, and he sees an ape sitting there. Sorry, no: he sees a gorilla. That's it. Right, there's this gorilla sitting there, drinking a Coke. So he says to the bartender, "Hey, what's with that gorilla drinking that drink?" Well, the bartender says, "Yeah, that ape usually orders a Coke." ''(long pause)'' I mean a beer. He usually orders a beer.
-->'''Bert:''' Boss, is it an ape or a gorilla? 'Cause they're completely different species, you know.
-->'''Joe:''' It doesn't matter, it could be a monkey. The point is --
-->'''Fred:''' The point is, Joe, it's a good thing you can cut hair.
* ClipShow: The show's fifth and final clip show episode, following [[Recap/StargateSG1S1E20Politics "Politics"]], [[Recap/StargateSG1S2E22OutOfMind "Out of Mind"]], [[Recap/StargateSG1S6E17Disclosure "Disclosure"]] and [[Recap/StargateSG1S7E20Inauguration "Inauguration"]].
* ContinuityNod:
** Joe watches a commercial for [[Recap/StargateSG1S5E12WormholeXTreme "Wormhole X-Treme!"]]
** Daniel mentions that this is the [[Recap/StargateSG1S8E14FullAlert "second week in a row"]] that somebody has broken into O'Neill's house.
** It's mentioned that the SGC stone was found on the planet where [[Recap/StargateSG1S1E19ThereButForTheGraceOfGod Daniel went through the quantum mirror]].
** Joe references Teal'c's recent change in appearance, asking whether he used to be "more gold-colored". Additionally, a flashback to O'Neill activating the stones, taking place sometime early in season 2, shows Daniel with long hair.
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: When Joe confronts O'Neill and rattles off a long list of facts to convince him that he's been having visions of O'Neill's life:
-->'''Joe:''' You're Brigadier General Jack O'Neill, head of Stargate Command at Cheyenne Mountain. You used to command SG-1, which is now led by Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter. You once visited a planet called [[Recap/StargateSG1S1E8BriefCandle Argos]], and the nanites in your blood caused you to age artificially. You had [[Recap/StargateSG1S2E15TheFifthRace the entire repository of the Ancients' knowledge downloaded into your brain.]] [[Recap/StargateSG1S7E21LostCityPart1 Twice!]] You have a thing for ''The Simpsons'', fishing, Mary Steenbergen, the color peridot, and you're a ''terrible'' ping-pong player!
-->[...]
-->'''O'Neill:''' Well first of all, Joe, I'm not a terrible ping-pong player.
* InMediasRes: The first scene of the episode has Joe breaking into O'Neill's house and claiming that he "ruined his life", before flashing back to show the events of the last seven years from Joe's perspective.
* InadvertentEntranceCue: After he's taken to the SGC at the end of the episode, Joe begins to promise O'Neill that he "won't say anything about his feelings for..." Cue Carter entering the room.
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Joe worries that this will be his fate if anyone important finds out he's been getting insight into classified information.
* LowerDeckEpisode: The protagonist of the episode is a barber from Indiana, with the main cast only showing up in the opening and closing scenes and clips from previous episodes.
* RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun: The first thing Joe says on being introduced to Carter is that he was "particularly impressed with the time she [[Recap/StargateSG1S4E22Exodus blew up that sun]]".
* RunningGag: When Joe first tries to contact O'Neill through the Air Force, he clarifies that it's "Colonel Jack O'Neill, [[SpellMyNameWithAnS two 'L's]]".
* SandInMyEyes: Bert claims that he has "something in his eye" when he starts crying at the ending of [[Recap/StargateSG1S3E17AHundredDays "A Hundred Days"]].
* SanitySlippage: When Joe thinks Charlene has thrown out the stone and begins frantically searching for it in the trash.
-->'''Andy:''' Whoa. ''(nervous laugh)'' Has he totally lost it or what?
* SelfDeprecation: The show has some fun mocking several of its less successful episodes though the context of Joe trying to get the events published as stories.
-->'''Gordie:''' See, I'm not sure you should have sent in this one about [[Recap/StargateSG1S3E2Seth Seth]]. It wasn't one of your best.
-->'''Bert:''' They rejected [[Recap/StargateSG1S1E13Hathor "Hathor"]]?! Oh, but it was gold!
** Later:
-->'''Charlene:''' I read [[Recap/StargateSG1S2E17Holiday "Holiday"]], [[Recap/StargateSG1S4E18TheLight "The Light"]], [[Recap/StargateSG1S5E20TheSentinel "The Sentinel"]]...
-->'''Joe:''' Okay, I admit those may have been a few small missteps, but on the whole they're getting better, aren't they?
* SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome: The first time we see Joe's son Andy after he starts having the visions, he's a small child who looks to be around seven or eight. Three years later, he's inexplicably a teenager who has to be at least sixteen.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: When discussing how to stop people from breaking into O'Neill's house:
-->'''Daniel:''' ''(on meeting Joe)'' Broke into your house?
-->'''O'Neill:''' Yeah.
-->'''Daniel:''' Second week in a row.
-->'''O'Neill:''' Mm-hmm.
-->'''Daniel:''' ''Alarm.''
-->'''O'Neill:''' I'm thinking dog.
-->'''Joe:''' You could try locking your front door.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Joe tells O'Neill that he agrees with his analogy of [[Recap/StargateSG1S7E22LostCityPart1 Burns as Goa'uld]]. Incidentally, Dan Castellaneta, who plays Joe, also [[ActorAllusion provides the voice for Homer Simpson]].
* ThoseTwoGuys: Bert and Gordie, the two guys who work in Joe's barber shop.
* TrustPassword: Joe reels off a whole slew of these to convince O'Neill that he isn't crazy.
* TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed: Lampshaded:
-->'''Fred:''' Look, no offense, but how many times can these folks save the world from Apophis? What's it up to now? Five, six times?
-->'''-- Joe Spencer'''
O'Neill is confronted by Joe Spencer, a barber from Indiana who claims he's been having visions of O'Neill's life for the last seven years.
----
!!"Citizen Joe" provides examples of the following tropes:
* AbortedArc: Lampshaded after Joe finishes telling one of his customers the plot of [[Recap/StargateSG1S3E17AHundredDays "A Hundred Days"]] and informs her that she will "just have to wait for the sequel" to find out if Laira was pregnant with O'Neill's child. The episode in question never ''had'' a sequel, with the issue remaining unresolved.
* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Joe's son Andy, to begin with.
* AudienceSurrogate: Joe's reactions to various events in the series often correspond to things that have been said by real-life fans.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Joe's wife Charlene initially encourages him to write his stories down, claiming that he's gotten in touch with his "inner muse". She later comes to regret this when his obsession with the visions starts to take over his life.
* BigNo: Joe does this after receiving a vision of Daniel's death in [[Recap/StargateSG1S5E21Meridian "Meridian"]].
* BizarreAlienBiology: Lampshaded when Joe tries to explain the Goa'uld life cycle to his co-workers:
-->'''Bert:''' The bad guys. You said they got snakes in their heads?
-->'''Joe:''' Symbiotes, yes.
-->'''Gordie:''' And what about the fellas with the ones in their bellies?
-->'''Joe:''' They're different; they're called Jaffa. They incubate the symbiotes until they're ready for implantation.
-->'''Fred:''' Now, you see Joe, that's confusing.
-->'''Bert:''' He's right, boss. Why can't there just be one kind of bad guy? You know, snake goes in the head, he's evil, the end.
* CallBack: After hearing the premise of [[Recap/StargateSG1S5E17Failsafe "Failsafe"]], Fred remarks that he's "seen [[Film/{{Armageddon}} this movie]], it hits Paris," the exact same line delivered by O'Neill in the episode.
* CannotTellAJoke:
-->'''Joe:''' So there's this fella who walks into a bar, and he sees an ape sitting there. Sorry, no: he sees a gorilla. That's it. Right, there's this gorilla sitting there, drinking a Coke. So he says to the bartender, "Hey, what's with that gorilla drinking that drink?" Well, the bartender says, "Yeah, that ape usually orders a Coke." ''(long pause)'' I mean a beer. He usually orders a beer.
-->'''Bert:''' Boss, is it an ape or a gorilla? 'Cause they're completely different species, you know.
-->'''Joe:''' It doesn't matter, it could be a monkey. The point is --
-->'''Fred:''' The point is, Joe, it's a good thing you can cut hair.
* ClipShow: The show's fifth and final clip show episode, following [[Recap/StargateSG1S1E20Politics "Politics"]], [[Recap/StargateSG1S2E22OutOfMind "Out of Mind"]], [[Recap/StargateSG1S6E17Disclosure "Disclosure"]] and [[Recap/StargateSG1S7E20Inauguration "Inauguration"]].
* ContinuityNod:
** Joe watches a commercial for [[Recap/StargateSG1S5E12WormholeXTreme "Wormhole X-Treme!"]]
** Daniel mentions that this is the [[Recap/StargateSG1S8E14FullAlert "second week in a row"]] that somebody has broken into O'Neill's house.
** It's mentioned that the SGC stone was found on the planet where [[Recap/StargateSG1S1E19ThereButForTheGraceOfGod Daniel went through the quantum mirror]].
** Joe references Teal'c's recent change in appearance, asking whether he used to be "more gold-colored". Additionally, a flashback to O'Neill activating the stones, taking place sometime early in season 2, shows Daniel with long hair.
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: When Joe confronts O'Neill and rattles off a long list of facts to convince him that he's been having visions of O'Neill's life:
-->'''Joe:''' You're Brigadier General Jack O'Neill, head of Stargate Command at Cheyenne Mountain. You used to command SG-1, which is now led by Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter. You once visited a planet called [[Recap/StargateSG1S1E8BriefCandle Argos]], and the nanites in your blood caused you to age artificially. You had [[Recap/StargateSG1S2E15TheFifthRace the entire repository of the Ancients' knowledge downloaded into your brain.]] [[Recap/StargateSG1S7E21LostCityPart1 Twice!]] You have a thing for ''The Simpsons'', fishing, Mary Steenbergen, the color peridot, and you're a ''terrible'' ping-pong player!
-->[...]
-->'''O'Neill:''' Well first of all, Joe, I'm not a terrible ping-pong player.
* InMediasRes: The first scene of the episode has Joe breaking into O'Neill's house and claiming that he "ruined his life", before flashing back to show the events of the last seven years from Joe's perspective.
* InadvertentEntranceCue: After he's taken to the SGC at the end of the episode, Joe begins to promise O'Neill that he "won't say anything about his feelings for..." Cue Carter entering the room.
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Joe worries that this will be his fate if anyone important finds out he's been getting insight into classified information.
* LowerDeckEpisode: The protagonist of the episode is a barber from Indiana, with the main cast only showing up in the opening and closing scenes and clips from previous episodes.
* RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun: The first thing Joe says on being introduced to Carter is that he was "particularly impressed with the time she [[Recap/StargateSG1S4E22Exodus blew up that sun]]".
* RunningGag: When Joe first tries to contact O'Neill through the Air Force, he clarifies that it's "Colonel Jack O'Neill, [[SpellMyNameWithAnS two 'L's]]".
* SandInMyEyes: Bert claims that he has "something in his eye" when he starts crying at the ending of [[Recap/StargateSG1S3E17AHundredDays "A Hundred Days"]].
* SanitySlippage: When Joe thinks Charlene has thrown out the stone and begins frantically searching for it in the trash.
-->'''Andy:''' Whoa. ''(nervous laugh)'' Has he totally lost it or what?
* SelfDeprecation: The show has some fun mocking several of its less successful episodes though the context of Joe trying to get the events published as stories.
-->'''Gordie:''' See, I'm not sure you should have sent in this one about [[Recap/StargateSG1S3E2Seth Seth]]. It wasn't one of your best.
-->'''Bert:''' They rejected [[Recap/StargateSG1S1E13Hathor "Hathor"]]?! Oh, but it was gold!
** Later:
-->'''Charlene:''' I read [[Recap/StargateSG1S2E17Holiday "Holiday"]], [[Recap/StargateSG1S4E18TheLight "The Light"]], [[Recap/StargateSG1S5E20TheSentinel "The Sentinel"]]...
-->'''Joe:''' Okay, I admit those may have been a few small missteps, but on the whole they're getting better, aren't they?
* SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome: The first time we see Joe's son Andy after he starts having the visions, he's a small child who looks to be around seven or eight. Three years later, he's inexplicably a teenager who has to be at least sixteen.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: When discussing how to stop people from breaking into O'Neill's house:
-->'''Daniel:''' ''(on meeting Joe)'' Broke into your house?
-->'''O'Neill:''' Yeah.
-->'''Daniel:''' Second week in a row.
-->'''O'Neill:''' Mm-hmm.
-->'''Daniel:''' ''Alarm.''
-->'''O'Neill:''' I'm thinking dog.
-->'''Joe:''' You could try locking your front door.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Joe tells O'Neill that he agrees with his analogy of [[Recap/StargateSG1S7E22LostCityPart1 Burns as Goa'uld]]. Incidentally, Dan Castellaneta, who plays Joe, also [[ActorAllusion provides the voice for Homer Simpson]].
* ThoseTwoGuys: Bert and Gordie, the two guys who work in Joe's barber shop.
* TrustPassword: Joe reels off a whole slew of these to convince O'Neill that he isn't crazy.
* TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed: Lampshaded:
-->'''Fred:''' Look, no offense, but how many times can these folks save the world from Apophis? What's it up to now? Five, six times?
