“Ignition” · Season 7, Episode 11
In this episode: Tony DiNozzo (3), Ziva David (3), Timothy McGee (2), Leroy Jethro Gibbs (1), Abby Sciuto (1), Ducky Mallard (1), Jimmy Palmer (1)
The August 1928 issue of Amazing Stories first stirred the national imagination. It featured the Skylark of Space on the cover, and then you've got Buck Rogers.
What's really amazing is how much more fascinating jet-pack trivia gets the eleventh time you've heard it.
Slow drivers.
Bad drivers.
What is so hard? You go as fast as possible, when something gets in your way, you turn.
You're quoting Better Off Dead. I told you to watch that.
It's a remote control receiver?
Yes, it is.
What is the range?
Almost a kilometer.
I don't speak Canadian. How far is that?
The military experiments with jetpacks?
No... well, yeah, they did, but... [sighs] "After years of testing various designs, ultimately they decided helicopters were more practical for earth-atmosphere flight..."
"Although NASA's compressed gas-powered Man-Maneuvering Unit evolved from Bell Systems's rocket belt technology..."
"'Rocket belt' being the original terminology rather than the more colloquial 'jetpack... '"
McGee's very passionate about the subject. We spend a lot of time here, just the three of us.
I was telling him about the bonus features section on the "Thunderball" DVD, which were pretty interesting, and he says, "um, Tony, bonus features aren't science", and so he...
He schooled you.
Yep.
[autopsying a dead squirrel]
This reminds me of my junior year abroad. I was staying with a family outside of Lyons who spoke only French, and my French was... okay at best. Now, whatever you may think of the people of France, the squirrels are extraordinarily friendly. So I had to explain to them my fear of squirrels. You see, in D.C. there are brown squirrels and black squirrels, and at a time, black squirrels carried rabies. So my mother used to bait traps with peanut butter, capture the squirrels and release them on the other side of the river. But I confused the word écureuil, which means "squirrel," with the much-less accurate requin, which means, uh... "shark."
How they must have pictured your strange homeland with your shark-hunting mother.
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