200th Episode Special

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SG-1 teammembers serve as advisors on a television series that bears remarkable similarities to the goings-on at Stargate Command. As they pitch to the producer the many adventures that they have been involved with over the years, the team discovers that truth really is stranger than fiction, but that nothing is stranger than the machinations of Hollywood.

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"200"

[NOTE: At various times throughout the special there are intercuts to individual cast and crew interviews. These "scene changes" are not always labeled. With the exception of Brad Wright and Robert Cooper's interview, presume only one individual is being interviewed.]

EXT—BRIDGE STUDIOS LOT, VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, DAY

CREDIT—SciFi Channel presents Sci Fi Inside Stargate SG-1's 200th Episode

[Gary Jones, who plays Sgt. Walter Harriman, wears his Harriman costume of a green Air Force jumpsuit and marches across the lot.]

INT—BRIDGE STUDIOS PRODUCTION OFFICES

[Jones enters the studio and climbs the stairs, stopping to catch his breath along the way.]

[Jones enters the outer offices and approaches Tanya at her desk.]

JONES
Hey, Tanya.

TANYA
Oh, hey Gary.

JONES
Hey. Any idea whether or not I'm in the 200th episode?

TANYA
I don't know, Gary. You'll have to check with the back hall. Brad and Robert are down there.

JONES
Those guys are totally scary. I don't want to talk to them.

INT—ROBERT C. COOPER'S OFFICE

[Jones hovers outside the door, then hesitantly knocks. Cooper, Stargate SG-1's executive producer, sits at his desk with legs propped up, his laptop open beside him.]

JONES
Hey, uh, Rob? Robert? Mr. Cooper?

COOPER
Yeah?

JONES

(entering)

Okay, uh, Rob, listen. Do you have any idea if I'm going to be in this episode or not? Do-do you know? You know-I-you know…I wasn't in the 100th episode, which…

[Cooper picks up his phone and punches an extension.]

COOPER

(into phone)

Hi. Did-did you let Gary in here?…All right, uh, yeah, n-next time, don't…definitely don't.

JONES
It's okay, it's okay. You're busy. You're busy.

[Jones quickly departs.]

COOPER

(waving farewell)

See you, Jim!

5.12 "WORMHOLE X-TREME"

MARTIN (tapping camera)
Tilt up! Tilt up!

[The camera pans up to show a spaceship descending through the clouds.]

[Clips from various episodes play ending with the Stargate SG-1 credit.]

INT—STUDIO SET

[Tapping, dressed in Carter costume, sits on a director's chair on set.]

TAPPING
This is SciFi Inside: Stargate SG-1's 200th episode.

INT—SGC GATE ROOM SET

[A pink script labeled Stargate SG-1 200 is propped on an easel in front of the ramp to the Stargate.]

INT—STUDIO SET

TAPPING
And we are pulling out all the stops. Plus a few surprises.

EXT—LOCATION SET

[Anderson is interviewed on a wooded location set. While he speaks footage of 10.06 "200" is shown.]

ANDERSON
Possibly, after ten years, we might share a romantic moment, and O'Neill might…get pregnant. That would be cool.

INT—DAEDALUS/ODYSSEY SET

COOPER
It's almost a sketch comedy. Like, you know, Saturday Night Live".

INT—GATE ROOM SET

[Filming takes place on set of 10.06 "200" of SG-1 with O'Neill and Landry in the Gate room.]

ANDERSON/O'NEILL
Come on, it'll be fun!

INT—BRIEFING ROOM SET

[Filming of O'Neill's entry into the briefing room.]

WOOD
And cut!

INT—ORI WARSHIP SET

JUDGE
We're gonna take a look back at the last ten years of SG-1…to see how hairstyles have changed, how weight has fluctuated, and how we have or haven't gotten along…

[While Judge speaks, clips of various episodes appear.]

EXT—LOCATION SET, DAY

WOOD
Action.

LATER

[Cast approaches director Martin Wood.]

TAPPING
I couldn't do it.

SHANKS

(in teasing manner)

She couldn't do it.

TAPPING

(mimicking Shanks)

I couldn't do it. I suck!

INT—ORI WARSHIP SET

JUDGE
Do Teal'c and Daniel finally kiss..?

[In a separate interview, Shanks, in Daniel costume, gets out of his chair, approaches the camera, and kisses the lens.]

JUDGE
…No.

SHANKS
We're gonna show you the best bad guys…

[Clips of the various Stargate villains are shown.]

SHANKS
the best visual effects…

[Clips of some of the visual effects on the show.]

INT—DAEDALUS/ODYSSEY SET

BRIDGES
And you're gonna find out it's not all about just going around killing aliens.

7.22 "LOST CITY PART 2"

[Anubis cowers as his ship is attacked.]

ANUBIS No!

BRIDGES
There's gotta to be some laughs.

9.01 "AVALON PART 1"

VALA
Thank you so much for the lovely greeting party. We all had a wonderful time searching each other, didn't we boys?

TAPPING
Ten years. 200. 200 episodes. One show. Stargate SG-1

9.20 CAMELOT

[Mitchell fires his P-90 at the black knight, but the bullets pass through the hologram.]

10.06 "200"

INT—SGC GATE ROOM

MITCHELL
Yeah, this is gonna be huge. The big 2-0-0.

[The Stargate powers down. SG-1 turns back and looks at the control room, where the technician shrugs.]

OPENING CREDIT

INT—SGC GATE ROOM SET

[Claudia Black, in Vala costume, sits in a director's chair on the Gate room set.]

BLACK
Hi, I'm Claudia Black, and you're watching Sci Fi Inside: Stargate SG-1's 200th episode.

EXT—CRAFT SERVICES TENT, DAY

[Jones approaches, Glen Mowatt with Craft Services.]

JONES
Hey Glen!

GLEN
Yeah.

JONES
Have you heard whether or not I'm on the 200th episode? I-I-I Nobody seems to know. I'm trying to find out…

GLEN

Are you kidding, man? I'm not in the loop. I'm Craft Service. I'm just…
(notices the cookie in Jones's hand)

Are you working today?

JONES
Well, not technically, but…

GLEN
Well, can you put that back? We've got a lot of people here to feed.

[Glen takes the cookie and moves back to the craft services table.]

JONES

Yeah, yeah okay, no, I understand.
(turns away, mortified)

Oh my God!

INT—STARGATE COMMAND SET

[Scattered images of the Stargate Command standing set.]

EXT—LOCATION SHOOT

[Crew move a camera on a dolly track.]

[Browder, in Mitchell costume and wearing sunglasses, tosses a football, while waiting to shoot a scene.]

[A montage of clapboards closing.]

INT—STUDIO SET

[While Tapping speaks visual clips of the cast and crew preparing for the "1969" dialogue scene of 200 are shown. Tapping, Black, and Shanks talk with crew, hold their script sides, and laugh with each other.]

TAPPING

Not a lot a shows last ten years and two hundred episodes. Lucky for me, Stargate SG-1 is one of them. This doesn't feel like the two hundredth episode. In some ways, it—it still feels really new. In other ways, it feels like oh-ho 200!
(she rolls her eyes and groans as if exhausted)

But for the most part, it's still like, it doesn't feel like ten years have gone by. I can't even fathom that a decade of my life has gone by.

1.01 "CHILDREN OF THE GODS PART 1"

CARTER
You don't have to worry, Major. I played with dolls when I was a kid.

[Other clips of the pilot episode intercut more of Tapping's interview.]

TAPPING

When I auditioned, I auditioned in Toronto. I got the sides for the audition. Went, "wow, this is a cool character." All the Sam Carters, all the Teal'cs, all the Daniels, all the Hammonds were all hanging out together. Which is surreal—to have all these actors in a final callback, kinda staring each other down.
(laughs)

But, Chris and Michael and I actually hit it off at that audition, and started talking and hanging out. And Michael waited for me to finish, and we took a cab back to the hotel together. And I just…very distinctly remember giving, you know, we gave each other a hug and said "well, good luck", "good luck." "Hopefully, I'll see you in Vancouver!"

CARTER
I knew I'd like you.

DANIEL
You mean I'm right?

TAPPING

(pretending to be on the phone)

And then finding out, "oh they've cast Daniel." "Who got it, who got it?" "Michael Shanks." "Right on! He was great. Oh cool. Hope I get it. Hope I get it."

INT—HA'TAK SET

[Tapping laughs at a camera surrounded by other equipment and dressed in Carter outfit.]

INT—DAEDALUS/ODYSSEY SET

[Executive producer/writer Robert C. Cooper and Co-creator/executive producer/writer Brad Wright sit in director's chairs.]

[While they speak, more scenes from the pilot episode are shown.]

WRIGHT
When I saw Amanda's audition, I thought, "that's her." When we saw Teal'c [sic] come in, I thought "that's Teal'c."

COOPER

(catching Wright's mistake)

Strangely enough, he was named, "Teal'c."

WRIGHT

(laughing)

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

INT—ORI WARSHIP SET

[Judge is interviewed while sitting in a director's chair. More scenes of the pilot are intercut with his monologue.]

JUDGE
There were three Daniel Jacksons, three Sam Carters, three General Hammonds…and ten Teal'cs! And the ten Teal'cs looked like the Rainbow Coalition. There was an Asian guy, there was a kind of a Spanish guy, there was, a, uh, just, a…a mixed bag of Teal'cs. They kept calling names, and I kept seeing Teal'cs leave, so we got down to two Daniel Jacksons, two Carters, and two General Hammonds, and I looked around, and I was the only Teal'c!

[A shot of Christopher Judge's empty director's chair, labeled with his name.]

EXT—LOCATION SET

[Judge, wearing a fleece over his Teal'c costume, tosses a football while waiting for a shoot.]

INT—DAEDALUS/ODYSSEY SET

[More intercuts and split screens of the pilot episode are shown during this interview.]

WRIGHT
There were three pretty strong candidates for the character of Daniel, and one of them was Michael Shanks. But he was so young, he was really young, and in person, he was even younger. He was like, twenty-four years old or something when he started "Doctor Daniel Jackson" with nine PhDs and speaks seventy-four languages. So, he comes in, and he was very nervous, he was very nervous, but I still felt he was Daniel. And we go all the way around the room, and everybody said "the other guy" "the other guy" "the other guy" "the other guy", and they came to me, and I said, "It's Shanks, sorry guys." And boy, it was a good thing we went with a twenty-five year old guy, because we went ten years! Now he's perfect!

[More shots from Daniel scenes in episodes ranging from Hathor to Meridian appear.]

INT—ORI WARSHIP SET

[Shanks sits in a director's chair during the interview.]

SHANKS
Oh, well the character came really easy, because I just ripped off James Spader's role, um, just ripped off all of his mannerisms and acting, and they-they liked that. And then all of sudden, they said: "and now do it for ten years", and I went: "oh-ho, yeah, that's great. Paint yourself into that corner."

1.01 "CHILDREN OF THE GODS"

DANIEL
It was…embarrassing.

INT—BRIEFING ROOM SET

[Crew mill around preparing for a shot. A makeup artist touches up Shanks while he sits at the briefing room table. While Shanks speaks more clips appear of him smiling on the SGC set and on location between takes.]

SHANKS
So-I-I-I knew I had to kind of evolve the character from that original form, and I've had plenty o'time to do it. Fans of the show come up and say, "man, I like your version better than James Spader's version of it", and I go, "well, I've had a little more time with it. Thank God." I'd hate to say if they still liked his version over mine, and they were still watching…boy oh boy, I-I don't think I've got another hundred episodes to really make them happy.

9.01 "AVALON PART 1"

[Mitchell and Daniel look at each other as if to study why Vala would think they look like each other and do a double take before looking forward again.]

1.01 "CHILDREN OF THE GODS PART 1"

HAMMOND
You ever think about writing a book about your exploits in the line of duty?

O'NEILL
I've thought about it, but then I'd have to shoot anyone that actually read it.

[Hammond and Samuels stare at O'Neill.]

O'NEILL
That's a joke, sir.

INT—STARGATE SET

[The rear screen projection for the Stargate is active, showing not only the puddle effect but "Stargate 200" caption in its center. Anderson speaks in a director's chair during the press conference for the 200 episode.]

ANDERSON
The misbehaving factor there is necessary for me. It's like, I come into an environment, and the only demand I make of a set, and of a crew, and of the people that I work with is a sense of humor.

EXT—LOCATION SET

[Anderson sits in the shade in a director's chair. He mouths the word "rolling" while making circular motions with his fingers.]

[While Anderson speaks, the scene intercuts of him acting the fool more during the interview and laughing with producer N. John Smith in the briefing room set.]

ANDERSON

(mock serious)

It was just right. I mean, every, you know, there's nothing about the personalities of-of…what are their names?

9.01 "AVALON PART 1"

MITCHELL
Did you ever get a bad feeling about something?

INT—BRIEFING ROOM SET

[Browder and Judge laugh at something between takes of the "1969" dialogue sequence of 200. Later Browder can be seen laughing as the camera gets coverage of Black, Shanks, and Tapping.]

INT—SGC CONTROL ROOM SET

[Browder leans against a set piece while being interviewed.]

BROWDER

Yeah, the cast is-is a lot of fun to be around. You spend any time around them, you-you get the sense of how much fun we have while we're at work, and beyond that, it's just great to be working.
(he laughs)

Actors, eh, you know, we're a dime a dozen. We come, we go, and, I'm-I'm very privileged to be a part of this show.

INT—BRIEFING ROOM SET

[Browder gets ready for another take.]

INT—DAEDALUS/ODYSSEY SET

COOPER
You know, Ben and Claudia, have been great new additions. And it's funny, because the old cast, the new cast all came together and gelled so quickly. It-it never really felt like a season one, it felt like, the whole thing just kept going. And, uh, it was a great experience, and the audience obviously responded to it, because we're still here.

[While Cooper speaks, there are intercuts of in-between takes of the briefing room scene. Guest star Willie Garson speaks to Anderson while Bridges stands nearby, smiling. Judge and Shanks start up the stairs, smiling.]

[In another intercut, Shanks smiles at Judge and hands him his script, while next to him, Black and Tapping embrace and start rocking as if slow dancing while laughing with Browder.]

[In yet another intercut, Shanks, Browder, and Judge discuss something with Cooper on the briefing room set.]

9.01 "AVALON PART 1"

LANDRY
The fact is, I like yelling at people! Never get the damn chance!

INT—DAEDALUS/ODYSSEY SET

[Beau Bridges, in Landry costume, sits at the ship set.]

[While Bridges talks, some clips are shown of setting up for a scene in the Gate room for 10.06 "200". Bridges talks to someone. He and several others are wearing down jackets in the set.]

BRIDGES
Yeah, I think it's remarkable that they're celebrating their 200th. I mean, that's an incredible accomplishment. For me to be a part of it is like, you know, jumping on a running train, but everyone has been very gracious about welcoming me to the cast, and uh, making me feel a part of it, so, uh, I have no complaints. This is my second year, and uh, in the 200, I get to play the Wizard of Oz, so…what more can a man ask?

[He grins.]

9.01 "AVALON PART 1"

VALA
I'm pregnant.

[Landry scoffs.]

VALA
Pretty sure it's yours anyway. There's at least a one in, mmm, ten chance?

[She winks at Mitchell, who does a double take.]

[More clips from Vala's appearance in "Avalon Part 1" are shown.]

INT—GATE ROOM SET

BLACK
I feel like I'm…just coming along for the ride on this 200th episode. It's, um, an amazing achievement for everybody who's been here from the beginning.

INT—BRIEFING ROOM SET

[Another clip of Tapping and Black rocking back and forth while embracing each other, goofing off between takes. Black spots the camera filming them and speaks to it while someone offscreen gives Shanks and others directions of what's about to happen.]

BLACK
And now we will kiss…

[Tapping eyes the camera and blows it a loud "smooch".]

BLACK

(continuing)

…in a really hot, saucy way.

[They break off their embrace as the off-screen man continues to give directions. Tapping mimics a "Superstar" pose a la Molly Shannon's SNL/movie character.]

[More clips of Black between scenes on the Atlantis set with Joe Flanigan, and laughing at something in Landry's office, as well as another finished clip from "Avalon Part 1".]

INT—GATE ROOM SET

BLACK
And it's fun to be here and help everyone celebrate.

INT—STUDIO SET

[Clips of Wormhole X-Treme are shown, as well as clips of Martin in 200.]

TAPPING
It's crazy. It's hilarious. We-we-we riff on Wizard of Oz, we just…all the stuff that we've played with. The perfect way to do it was to introduce this movie, and have Willie Garson's character come back…

10.06 "200"

MARTIN
You're an alien, right?

VALA
Aren't you also an alien?

MARTIN
Yeah, but I've been here quite a while.

[Another clip from the "Teal'c P.I." sequence of 200.]

TAPPING
And to play out all of our fantasies. What if we did this in the movie?

INT—DAEDALUS/ODYSSEY SET

[While Browder speaks, parts of the "zombie sequence" of 200 is shown.]

BROWDER
Hey, doing sci-fi's fantastic. You know, you get to play and do things you wouldn't get to do on a cop show, or a lawyer show, or a doctor show. You know, its just—you go out, blow up a planet, kiss the alien babe, it's all good.

10.06 "200"

MITCHELL
Jackson, how often do we get to give notes on a big Hollywood feature script?

TEAL'C
I believe this is intended to be a television movie.

INT—ATLANTIS GATE ROOM SET

HEWLETT
Hello. My name is David Hewlett: Rodney McKay on Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis.

6.02 "REDEMPTION PART 2"

CARTER
I hate you.

MCKAY
Well, it can't get any worse, then, can it?

[While Hewlett speaks, more footage appears of filming his scenes at Atlantis.]

HEWLETT
And I just wanted to thank SG-1 for putting me in three of those 200 episodes that they made, and of course causing my meteoric rise to fame and fortune. Good luck, kids. I just wanted to say thank you to the little guys who got me there.

EXT—LOT TRAILERS, BRIDGE STUDIOS, DAY

[Jones walks up to a trailer whose door is labeled "A.D." (for Assistant Director).]

JONES
Steve?

[Jones knocks, and on hearing nothing, opens the trailer door and starts going through the papers on a shelf there.]

CATLIN
Hey, Gary.

[Jones immediately puts the papers down.]

JONES
Hey, Steve.

CATLIN
What's going on?

JONES
I just-uh-uh, am I in this episode? Do you know? I'm just trying to find my name.

[Steve Catlin, Stargate SG-1's 3rd Assistant Director, comes to the trailer and picks up the papers Jones was rifling through.]

CATLIN
Well, uh…

JONES
Do you know if I'm in this episode? I-need…I gotta know.

CATLIN
Well, you're usually number ten, right?

JONES
Uh, yeah.

[Catlin looks at the papers.]

CATLIN
It's been, uh, whited out.

JONES
Whited out?

CATLIN

Okay, Gary, I'm uh, really busy. I've got some stuff to do.
(into radio)

Copy that.

[He passes Gary and enters the trailer totally, while Jones walks down the steps in shock.]

JONES
Uh, yeah. But…

CATLIN
Talk to you later, Gary.

JONES
Yeah, okay, okay, yeah.

[Catlin closes the door.]

JONES

(to closed door)

Catch you later, Steve.

INT—SOUNDSTAGE

[Chris Judge, dressed in casual clothes and wearing a stocking cap, laughs maniacally in the dark room as laser lights flash overhead.]

[Judge stops the performance and walks away, laughing in a normal manner about the silliness.]

EXT—LOCATION SHOOT, DAY

[Tapping, in Carter costume, stands near some of the crew.]

TAPPING
Kirk, I'm funny right?

KURT
Uh…yes?

[More clips of the cast through the years goofing off behind the scenes.]

INT—LOCATION SHOOT, DAY

[Peter DeLuise stands near a camera man and other crew. They are all dressed in cold weather gear. Based on the "Erebus" reference, it was probably during the filming of 7.04 "Orpheus".]

DELUISE
This is the planet known as Erubus, the first level of hell.

INT—ORI SHIP STAGE

JUDGE
You know, after two hundred episodes, uh, there's a lot of stuff to choose from for the "Best Of" categories. Well, right here are some of our favorites.

[Various clips of SG-1 characters saying "What?" (A great majority of the time by O'Neill).]

BROWDER
Mitchell has a catch phrase, and it's, uh…"what?" That's it. That's pretty much it. That's me. "What?"

[More clips of O'Neill and Carter saying "What?"]

CREDIT—TEN YEARS OF BAD GUYS

[Clips of the various Stargate SG-1 villains.]

SHANKS
I like the Ori. I like the fact too that the Ori specifically, that we, uh, have encountered don't have a face. I think that the wonderful thing about not showing the villain, it's like Jaws, the less you see of them, the more scary it is; the more it's in your imagination. So I love the idea of the Ori being our villains, and I don't want to see them.

[While Shanks, and later while Tapping speaks, clips of the Ori episodes arc are shown.]

TAPPING
It's a weird sort of pervasive thing with the Ori, because I think it's topical. I think it's…relatable to kind of what's happening today, this sort of fundamentalist religious group that's ruling by fear and oppression and…bullying. I don't know, I just think it's-it's topical.

[Clips of the Goa'uld in 1.02 "Children of the Gods Part 2".]

INT—STUDIO SET

[On the studio set, Director/Supervising Producer Peter DeLuise is interviewed.]

DELUISE
We started to meet Goa'ulds, the most, uh, dastardly of which was Apophis.

TAPPING

He was my first bad guy.
(simpers in a joking manner)

You never forget your first.

[More clips of Apophis are shown intercut through Tapping's and DeLuise's interviews.]

DELUISE
He had that…if you watch the movie, he talks like this:

[DeLuise makes grunting noises echoing through his hands.]

DELUISE
That's my best imitation. And then his eyes would glow. And he'd look over his shoulder a lot. He'd go like this a lot.

[DeLuise looks over his shoulder in a melodramatic, menacing manner.]

[Clips of Ba'al from 6.06 "Abyss".]

JUDGE
I think the most resilient bad guy, and kind of one of my favorites, is Ba'al.

O'NEILL
Just…Ball?

JUDGE
There's not only one Ba'al…there's many Ba'als.

O'NEILL
As in, bocce?

[More clips of Ba'al appearances are shown.]

JUDGE
He kind of has that panache, that-that flair.

[Recurring guest actor Cliff Simon, who plays Ba'al, is interviewed between takes of a briefing room scene (likely the filming of 9.06 "Ex Deus Machina" based upon costumes).]

SIMON
He's very, very powerful. And he's killed a helluva lot more people than any of the other system lords.

[More clips of Ba'al appearances and Simon behind the scenes intersperse Judge's interview.]

JUDGE
He's a bad guy, but you kinda like him, because he's so arrogant, and just so…never, ever plays it like he's defeated. He can be standing there surrounded, or having just been zatted or shot or… and he still has that great smirk on his face. I love that.

6.06 "ABYSS"

[O'Neill is in obvious pain as two daggers protrude from his chest. Ba'al raises a third dagger and points it at O'Neill.]

BA'AL
Once you have told me everything I ask, you'll be allowed to die…one…last…time.

EXT—LOCATION SET

ANDERSON

(grinning)

I think Hathor because of the ludicrousness of the character.

[Clips of Hathor scenes intersperse Anderson's interview.]

ANDERSON

(continuing)

…and I got to sit in a tub full of, uh, jumbo shrimp and boil for half a day. And also I stole her headdress and wore it for a costume—Halloween costume one year, and was just the belle of the ball. So, for so many selfish reasons, I really like Hathor.

[Anderson rolls his eyes and starts cracking up laughing.]

ANDERSON

God, I can't say it with a straight face.
(feigns serious expression)

Hathor was my favorite.

INT—ORI WARSHIP SET

[Clips of Anubis are shown interspersing Shanks interview.]

SHANKS
A lot of people liked Anubis. I didn't get Anubis. You know, he looked like an oil slick.

6.01 "REDEMPTION PART 1"

ANUBIS
I…am…Anubis.

O'NEILL

(low, to Carter)

Come on…who talks like that?

INT—DAEDALUS/ODYSSEY SET

[Browder looks upward as he tries to recall.]

BROWDER
Let's see. I faced a semi-ascended being. I faced a…black knight.

[Clips of Mitchell's sword fight with the Black Knight of Camelot are shown.]

BROWDER
Should you have a favorite bad guy?

CREDIT—FAVORITE MOMENTS

TAPPING

(rolling her eyes and hamming an accent)

My god, my favorite moments! It's been ten years! Geez, how do you pick?

5.21 "MERIDIAN"

[Carter sits by Daniel's deathbed.]

CARTER

(weeping)

You have an effect on people, Daniel…God, I don't know why we wait to tell people how we really feel.

TAPPING

(serious)

I just think that it-it's moment where it sort of tests your mettle, like where the writers have actually stepped up with the character, like stepped it up a notch, given you a new depth, or a new layer, or a new part of your backstory that people didn't necessarily know about.

[While Tapping speaks, scenes from the raid scene of 8.07 "Affinity" are shown.]

TAPPING

And it's usually in moments of crisis, so…
(chuckles)

…we've had quite a few of those in ten years!

EXT—LOCATION SET

[Several clips of O'Neill and Teal'c firing powerful guns and/or alien weapons intersperse Anderson's interview, many from 3.22 "Nemesis" and 6.09 "Allegiance".]

ANDERSON

I liked a time when Chris and I were firing these big guns, these big rifle Spaz-80, 90 (sic.), something else big-gish, explosive. There was another time when I got to shoot the .50 cal, that sucker, you had to pull back and you'd get a [beep/censored] by doing this thing with you know.
(he mimes having a constant kickback from firing an automatic weapon)

And it kept jamming on me, so I had bloody fingers, and I didn't care. I just kept pulling back and firing away.

8.02 "New Order Part 2"

O'NEILL
Who's your daddy?

ANDERSON

(chuckling)

Yeah, it was all very…kind of sickly sexual in a bad way to be shooting those big guns. 'Cause I hate them in real life, but man when they're not shooting live ammo…it's quite a hoot!

INT—GENERAL'S OFFICE SET

[Anderson sits behind O'Neill's desk and holding one of the model planes that adorns the desk.]

DELUISE
Action!

[Anderson acts like the model plane is taking fire.]

INT—DAEDALUS/ODYSSEY SET

BROWDER

I still like the moment Vala came first through the Gate.
(he laughs then suddenly stops)

Huh?

9.01 "AVALON PART 1"

VALA
Well, don't you all have me surrounded?

INT—GATE SET

[While Black is interviewed, clips of Vala from 9.01 "Avalon Part 1" and 9.02 "Avalon Part 2" are shown.]

BLACK
The outfit was so extraordinary, and I felt fantastic wearing it. And, uh, and for some reason we were always filming sort of shots here.

[She gestures with her hands to an angle cutting just below her bodice up to her face.]

BLACK

(with false naivete)
That was the frame. I-I-I don't know why.
(grins)

Had something to do with the bustier, I'm thinking.

9.02 "AVALON PART 2"

DANIEL

(sotto voce)

People are starting to stare.

VALA
Should we walk about and try to appear normal, hmm?

INT—ORI WARSHIP SET

SHANKS
Last year we did an episode arc called Avalons 1 & 2, and Origin, and in that, Claudia's and my character take great delight in laying into one another and slagging each other off and calling each other names and finding different ways to dig on each other, and there's a lot of antagonism throughout it.

9.02 "AVALON PART 2"

[Vala is manacled to the Ara; the flames draw closer.]

VALA

(frightened)

Daniel?

[More clips of Vala's burning and resurrection scene intersperse Shanks's interview.]

SHANKS
And then there's this horrific, uh, sequence that we shot where her character is-is set ablaze, and-and-and essentially killed in front of him. And, then this other character steps in and…resurrects her, for lack of a better term. And there's just this wonderful, touching beat where she comes back to life and my character is sort of holding her, and they-they're caressing each other, and you-you can tell there's genuine affection there underneath all this witty banter, and there's a certain depth of emotion there that was a really nice feeling to play.

VALA

(still in shock)

I've got tingles all over…And don't flatter yourself, I'm pretty sure it's not you.

INT—ORI WARSHIP SET

3.06 "POINT OF VIEW"

ALTERNATE CARTER
All we needed was the ratio of the decay rate of naquadah relative to the energy output.

JUDGE
Carter's giving these, uh, just, uh, unintelligible scientific explanations of how we can destroy these hyperdrive chambers.

[Clips of various episodes where Carter (or her alternates)
recites technobabble, followed by O'Neill's usual reaction of "Aah!" to them.]

O'NEILL
Are you Carters going to be able to figure this out?

CARTER and ALTERNATE CARTER
We'll figure it out.

CREDIT—PRACTICAL JOKES

EXT—CIRCUS, OUTSIDE MICHAEL SHANKS'S TRAILER, DAY

[Judge turns to the cameraman and points to the door.]

JUDGE
That's Michael Shanks.

[Judge quietly opens the door and sneaks inside, the camera following.]

INT—SHANKS'S TRAILER

[Shanks lies curled on his side on a couch in the trailer, apparently sleeping. He is wearing Daniel's BDU pants and an extra t-shirt, the collar of the extra shirt is pulled over his face.]

JUDGE
Shanks!

[Shanks curls up tighter as Judge shouts and pounces on his friend. Shanks grunts. Judge rolls to put his feet up to the ceiling, forcing Shanks farther into the couch.]

JUDGE
Wassup, man?

INT—DAEDALUS/ODYSSEY SET

[Director Martin Wood is interviewed.]

WOOD
Almost every practical joke we do is aimed at Chris Judge, 'cause he's the easiest target. Though, there was time when…we were in the infirmary, and he was lying in a bed. And he actually fell asleep. So, I got everybody to leave. Everybody left the room. And it took him about five minutes, and he finally woke up, and he was alone in this scene. And he woke up. And the look on his face was absolutely priceless! He had no idea where he was. And when it clicked in where he was, he had no idea where the rest of the crew was.

[As Wood speaks, clips of Teal'c unconscious, in the machine in 8.06 "Avatar" are shown.]

INT—SGC CONTROL ROOM SET

[While Browder speaks, a clip shows of Shanks, Judge, and Browder laughing and talking with each other on the briefing room set. Bridges and other crew members are nearby.]

BROWDER
Michael waited till about the sixteenth episode before he finally got up with me and…it was actually both me and Judge he got fed up with. And he put in earplugs so he didn't have to listen to us carp at one another all day long. And, for an entire week, Michael was wearing earplugs through the entire episode.

[Browder grins and nods.]

INT—ANTARCTICA SET, FILMING 1.18 "SOLITUDES"

[Tapping, ostensibly playing Carter, chips at the ice covered DHD while Anderson as O'Neill collapses across the other side.]

ANDERSON/O'NEILL
Ow.

INT—DAEDALUS/ODYSSEY SET

WOOD
I remember the biggest one that I set up was the first one that I directed where we were chipping away at the ice, and one of O'Neill's lines is "I don't know what to do." And she just looks at him, and goes…

[As Wood speaks, more of the filming of the Solitudes" scene is shown.]

TAPPING

(feigning disgust as Carter)

What, you just spent seven years on MacGyver, and you can't figure this one out? We-we got belt buckles and shoelaces and a piece of gum. Build a nuclear reactor, for crying out loud. You used to be MacGyver, MacGadget, MacGimmick. Now you're Mr. MacUseless.

[Anderson at first remained in character, but it slowly dawns on him what Tapping is saying. He turns around to look at Wood offscreen and raises an eyebrow. The crew are laughing offscreen. Tapping chips away at the ice few more times, then melodramatically crawls across the DHD.]

TAPPING
Dear God! Stuck on a glacier with MacGyver!

INT—"MOYA"/WRAITH SHIP SET

[The Asgard puppet, in Rygel costume, is "interviewed." As he speaks the camera shows at least two of the puppeteers working the controls below him.]

ASGARD
Hello, and welcome to SciFi Inside: SG-1's 200th Episode…starring me!

INT—STUDIO SET

[While Tapping speaks, clips of filming scenes with the puppet are shown.]

TAPPING

The Asgard puppet…is a bit of a prima donna. He has, like, an entourage of at least five people. Bit of a sexual deviant. He harasses women.
(she shrugs in mock disgust)

That's what he does. He's touched my bum on more than one occasion and claimed that he didn't know he was doing it. "I couldn't feel it," he said, "through my rubber hands." I dunno. I think he's a liar.

[The Asgard puppet laughs maniacally.]

INT—STUDIO SET

[Jones talks low to Black.]

JONES
Do you know if I'm in this episode? It's the 200th, and you know, it's really important to me. I was not in the 100th episode, and I don't know if I'm in the 200th. I really wanna be in it? Have you heard anything?

BLACK
What's your character's name again?

JONES
Harriman! I'm like the Gate Technician!

BLACK
Oh, you're the one that does the "Chevron One engaged and…"

JONES

(talking over her, annoyed)

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've been in it longer than you, how about.

BLACK
I—oh.

[She groans in confusion, then looks closer at him, noting his technician clothing.]

BLACK
Are you working today?

JONES
No, not…not technically. But still…no.

BLACK
Then, why are you in costume?

JONES
I…just thought I'd…show up to see if I could…you know, be ready to go if they needed me.

BLACK
You're kidding, right?

[Jones turns around and leaves. Black walks away in the other direction, laughing.]

BLACK
I'm sorry, that's really funny.

[Montage of clips filming the series are shown.]

SHANKS
There's no way that Stargate SG-1 could've reached two hundred episodes without the creative contributions of so many people…who all get about three days off a year.

[A clip of "the circus", a caravan of trucks and trailers are on a dirt road.]

WOOD
Like a million trucks.

UNKNOWN MAN
Living the dream.

[More clips of aspects of filming scenes, from lighting a scene, to viewing scripts, to covering the green screen behind the Stargate in the Gate room.]

WOOD
Ten thousand people, and you know, you've got all this stuff to do. And, you know, you've got these scripts, and they're like, these big tomes of these visual effects and things and you've got about seven and a half days to prep them.

[One of the crew's dogs, a black labrador, looks at the camera, then heads down the hall in the production offices.]

EXT—LOCATION SET

[Shanks is interviewed while crew prepare a shoot in a forest location (by the costumes and the presence of Chaka, it is probably the filming of 5.07 "Beast of Burden").]

SHANKS
The Stargate crew. We could definitely do a story behind this because these people make this place run. This is the best group of people on the planet. It's the best crew I've ever worked with.

CAMERAMAN

(deadpan)

I don't know. What are some of their names?

SHANKS

(in mock confusion)

Um…I—it's the crew. I dunno. We don't, like, talk or anything like that.

INT—N. JOHN SMITH'S OFFICE

[Smith is interviewed while a caption reads, "John Smith, the guy who gets s*#t done." In truth, he is executive producer of the series.]

SMITH
This is my tenth season. I started, I had no grey hair, I had hair, and I didn't wear glasses.

[A montage of clips of filming Stargate SG-1 are shown while he speaks, including when he's laughing and talking with Richard Dean Anderson during the filming of 10.06 "200".]

SMITH
No, it's been a lot of fun. We've enjoyed every minute of it. We're shooting Atlantis on SG-1s sets and SG-1 on Atlantiss sets. We're intertwining the casts.

[A shot of SG-1 and Atlantis cast preparing for a shot in the Atlantis briefing room set for 10.03 "The Pegasus Project".]

SMITH
If we average five sets per episode…lotta times we build eight or nine, some we only do one or two, but let's say five an episode, there's a thousand sets.

[A montage of the various set pieces are shown, followed by a tour of Smith's offices, complete with a mock up bust of the Asgard puppet.]

SMITH
For me, the pride of all that is, my crew is still totally approachable, nobody's heads got too big. It's nice to see that the egos haven't gotten, you know, gotten big with the success, because, I've seen it, you know, go so much the other way.

[Smith tosses his glasses onto the desk and picks up the phone.]

SMITH

(into phone, mock serious)

Eric?…Get my helicopter ready, I'm ready to go home.

[Clip of F-302 jumping into hyperspace.]

INT—DAEDALUS/ODYSSEY SET

WOOD
We hadn't done a lot of model work. We'd done some in, uh, in Redemption, when we crashed a glider where we used a model. We didn't—haven't used a lot of models for the show, just because they're so expensive to do. It always looks better, but there just isn't the time or the money to be able to do it in television often. In Full Circle, when you start blowing things up, and there's this scale model that we blew up. It's just, it adds that extra piece in it that makes it more look a feature film than a television show should.

[While Wood speaks, clips of destroying Anubis's Stargate weapon in 6.02 "Redemption Part 2" and the filming and final episode clip of the destruction of Abydos in 6.22 "Full Circle" are shown.]

INT—ORI WARSHIP SET

[Scenes from the climactic space battle of 9.20 "Camelot" are shown while Judge speaks.]

JUDGE
Bar none, I think the end of Season Nine, was probably the greatest "space battle." You look at the Star Wars franchise, or you look at any other, um, space franchise, and that battle sequence at the end of Season Nine, it rates with any, uh, battle sequence you've ever seen.

CREDIT—REAL ACTING IS…WAITING

INT—BRIEFING ROOM SET

[Shanks is interviewed while the cast and crew mill around waiting for the next shot to be set up.]

SHANKS
In ten years, I think I've probably waited eight.

[Someone offscreen laughs.]

SHANKS
See. Watch watch. Pan over here. Wait with me….Just wait…wait…still here…waiting…www-ai-ting.

[Clips of the various cast and crew loitering on set, waiting…and waiting.]

[Later]

SHANKS

That last scene was about twelve seconds long. We waited…
(checks watch)
I've been here since…twenty of. We've been here an hour and a half, waiting on twelve seconds.
(He grins and nods, pointing)

Hollywood, kids!

[Clips of Anderson goofing off on set, pulling a ball out of his pants, blowing bubblegum, etc.]

INT—DAEDALUS/ODYSSEY SET

WRIGHT
We didn't know whether or not we were going to be able to get Richard Dean Anderson to be in the episode. So some of the ideas that are in the 200th episode are ideas that would've worked had we not been able to get Rick.

10.06 "200"

DANIEL
Sam, who're you talking to?

[Carter gestures to the empty chair.]

CARTER
Oh, Colonel O'Neill. I was just explaining to him how we're going to make him visible again.

DANIEL
No you're not.

INT—CARTER'S LAB SET

[Crew films Shanks/Daniel approach and, after waving his arm over the empty chair, sit in it.]

SHANKS/DANIEL
Jack's in, uh, Hammond's office.

[Tapping as Carter raises her arm in frustration.]

TAPPING/CARTER
I can't believe he did that to me again!

[The crew finishes filming the scene. Anderson is offscreen amongst the crew.]

COOPER

There's a scene in which O'Neill is invisible and is walking down the hall with Teal'c. And in discussing the…
(Wright laughs)

…uh, scene in production, Martin [Wood] said, "well, wouldn't it be great if he was carrying a coffee mug, so that you'd just see this coffee mug marching down the hall." So then we started talking about, "well, how do you shoot that?", and you have to have a guy in a green suit. And then it came up for some reason in the-in the production meeting that we didn't have a guy to be in the green suit but that Rick was there that day and he's gonna do the scene anyway. It's going to be Rick in the green suit.

[While Cooper speaks, clips of the filming of that scene are shown, with Anderson wearing the "green suit", with a sweatshirt over top of it in rehearsals.]

ANDERSON/O'NEILL
Oh. I get it. Good one.

JUDGE/TEAL'C
I can see right through you.

[Judge walks offscreen behind the camera.]

ANDERSON/O'NEILL
Don't push it, fella.

[Anderson mimes drinking from the mug while wearing the green face covering cowl.]

WOOD
And, cut.

[Wood and Judge start cracking up laughing.]

INT—STUDIO SET

[Jones stands next to Martin Wood, director of 10.06 "200".]

WOOD
Why are you here?

JONES
I-I just need to know if I'm in the 200th episode. Nobody's told me. I talked to…

WOOD
I told you last time. Last day. Here's the last check you'll ever get from us. You are not ever supposed to come back.

JONES
Oh, you're-you're kidding me. Come on. We go way back!

[Jones punches Wood playfully several times in the chest.]

WOOD

(feigning unamusement)

Yeah, yeah. Way back. I'm gonna say this to you one more time.

JONES
I'm in the gear! Look, I'm ready to go. Can you just please…

WOOD
Never again. What don't you understand about "never again"?

JONES

(dismissively)

Oh, you've said that before, and it happened. Come on, I'm in the gear!

WOOD
It happened because you had an injunction against us! Now…

[Jones sighs, then waves his hand and makes a pshaw sound.]

JONES
That's…

WOOD
We're all over you, man. We're all over you.

[Jones punches Martin several more times in the chest in a "buddy" manner.]

WOOD
Stop doing that.

JONES
Okay.

WOOD
Just leave.

JONES
All right.

[Jones walks away, forlorn, while Wood walks in the other direction.]

INT—ORI WARSHIP SET

[Shanks adopts a pose mimicking Alistair Cooke as host of Masterpiece Theatre.]

SHANKS
And now, some of the things you've never known about the making of Stargate SG-1.

9.20 "MOEBIUS PART 2"

[A Goa'uld shock grenade lands in front of the team.]

O'NEILL
Aw, sh…

[A montage of clips from various episodes throughout the years.]

INT—DAEDALUS/ODYSSEY SET

COOPER
Well, you know, you make choices uh, that-that are…at the time, they seem they seem like the right thing to do. And then, as you develop storylines or-or whatever as you go along, you-you just, you look back, and you say "oh, that's a mistake."

[While Cooper and Wright speak, clips of filming the show within a show of 5.12 "Wormhole X-Treme" appear.]

WRIGHT
Sometimes, you'll make a decision in the-in the heat of production. For example, Jonathan [Glassner] needed to get rid of a body. He decided to change the rule, or make up the rule that with a zat gun: shoot once, it stuns, you shoot twice, it kills you, you shoot three times, and you disappear.

[Various clips of the team using a zat gun are shown.]

3.07 "DEADMAN SWITCH"

O'NEILL
We're exactly one zat gun short of actually having a zat gun.

[O'Neill shoots Aris Boch.]

[Clips of writers working on scripts and scenes from 5.12 "Wormhole X-Treme" are shown while Wright continues to speak.]

WRIGHT

(exasperated)

We've had to live with it! And so much so, we-we just, in the 100th episode, we had to, we had to make a joke about it, because it was a giant can of worms. You could make anything disappear! And, so, you know, the joke in the hundredth episode was shoot it four times, of course it comes back.

5.12 "WORMHOLE X-TREME"

DIRECTOR
We've already established that one shot stuns, and two shots kills. Nick just shot everybody twice.

MARTIN
So, three shots disintegrates them!

DIRECTOR

(approaches Martin and speaking low)

Okay, you know what? I'm going to pretend you didn't say that, because that is quite possibly the stupidest thing I have ever heard you say.

EXT—LOCATION SET

WOOD
Okay, action!

[The crew films SG-1 running through a field and firing their weapons for the replicator/Jaffa escape scene of 10.06 "200".]

[Later the cast walks back to Wood. Browder moves out of view of the camera. Tapping approaches Wood while Shanks and Judge stand nearby.]

WOOD
It would look like a replicator flew at you…

TAPPING

(out of breath)

I was trying to run, and speak technobabble, and clear the weapon at the same time.

[She takes earplugs out of her ears as Judge joins Browder. Shanks approaches.]

WOOD
It worked, it worked fine.

SHANKS

(teasing and interrupting)

And she couldn't do it.

TAPPING
I couldn't do it.

SHANKS

(in teasing manner)

She couldn't do it.

TAPPING

(mimicking Shanks)

I couldn't do it. I suck!

WOOD
Did you not get the line out?

[Shanks removes "his" glasses and takes out his own earplugs.]

TAPPING
I got the line out! I just didn't clear the weapon. I ran out of [unintelligible] time.

WOOD

(blankly)

You didn't clear the weapon?

UNKNOWN MAN (ASSISTANT DIRECTOR?)
We got a jam. We got a jam on that little weapon there, sir.

[Wood slumps and turns.]

WOOD
Let's do it again.

[The crew films the same sequence again.]

[Later…Judge, Shanks, and Tapping are again in front of Wood.]

WOOD

(to Shanks)

You were a little close to camera, and we were cutting you here.

[He indicates the camera cutting off Shanks's head in the shot.]

TAPPING

(accusingly)

Uh, Michael?

JUDGE

(accusingly)

Michael?

SHANKS

(defensively)

I was—no. That's where the dandelion line was! I-I stuck to it this time!

WOOD
You were a little outside the dandelion line.

[Shanks shakes his head and strikes a pose similar to a hockey player blocking defensively.]

JUDGE

(with mock disgust)

Why don't you go back and read your books!?!

SHANKS

(mock affront)

Shut up!

[The crew films SG-1 running through the field…again.]

WOOD
That's the one!

INT—STUDIO SET

[Tapping claps and makes sound effects of a large crowd cheering. She speaks in an exaggerated British accent.]

TAPPING
The men cheered; the women fainted; the children waved multi-colored flags!

CREDIT—HOW THEY'VE CHANGED

[While Wood speaks, clips of Teal'c and Judge behind the scenes throughout the years are shown.]

WOOD
The biggest change, in growth, I think has been in…Teal'c, because he's gotten way bigger on the top, and way smaller in the stomach. It's funny, if you actually put clips of Teal'c together from year one to ten years later…He used to be a big, fat guy, but you never knew it because he's sort of like, proportional.

INT—REPLICATOR SHIP CELL SET

[Judge is interviewed (likely from some point in Season Eight).]

[More clips of Judge behind the scenes.]

JUDGE

(grinning)

You know what, I'm getting older, and it's harder to "be thin." All-all it is, is that I'm the butt of more jokes now.

[He laughs.]

WOOD
He goes, ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh.

[Wood mimes expanding and contracting with his hands.]

[More clips of Teal'c scenes are shown.]

WOOD
It's just so funny.

7.04 "ORPHEUS"

TEAL'C

(to Daniel)

Leave me be.

INT—ORI WARSHIP SET

[Judge in current interview again as more clips of previous behind the scenes and episode excerpts are shown.]

JUDGE

I like to call them my: "I don't care about physical appearance, I'm an artist" years.
(He fights to keep a straight face, then rolls his eyes.)

Hoo boy!

5.12 "WORMHOLE X-TREME"

O'NEILL

(wincing)

Show biz, huh?

[Teal'c drops the Chulak style sandwiches onto the table.]

INT—JUDGE'S TRAILER

[Scenes from Judge being interviewed from a season in which Teal'c was bald. He sits at a table wearing Teal'c's costume with several cups and a large plate of food.]

JUDGE
Scrambled eggs, bacon, and sausage. The key to starting a good day.

INT—ORI WARSHIP SET

[Judge in current interview again while more clips of past Teal'c scenes and Judge behind the scenes throughout the years are shown.]

JUDGE
I had a lot of Twinkies that year. And, you know, it's just, it is really amazing, though, to look back and see what we all used to look like or sound like. But the one great thing is that we're still having fun doing it now.

INT—STUDIO SET

[Several clips of Carter throughout the years, including her various hairstyles, are shown.]

[Tapping laughs.]

TAPPING
And how many bad hairstyles has Carter had? I thought, oh, I just really want, I want her to have longer hair. I want her to be more feminine. When I had auditioned, I had long, like shoulder length, hair, and they wanted it shorter. And I never felt that we got it until, you know, quite recently, till in the last few years, we actually got it. I tried to grow it longer, and that was like a massive mistake. And then, uh, I just chopped it all off, like super-short. Which was kinda cute for about ten minutes, and then I got bored. So, I don't know. In a perfect world, I'd have long hair again, but I can't, 'cause it's the military.

[Tapping makes a face.]

[Various excerpts of Carter are shown while Tapping speaks.]

TAPPING

(continuing)
In the flashbacks, and in, you know, fun little jaunts like that I get to have long hair.
(She shrugs.)

It's weird. You know, it's just become such a thing, and I actually went to Europe, and I had longer hair and nobody recognized me. And the next year I went back with short hair, and I was barraged everywhere I went. "Sam Carter! Sam Carter!" And I went: "Wow, it's really identifiable." I've had women come up to me: "I cut my hair like yours, what products do you use?" Wow. Hoo. Okay.

[Tapping laughs in disbelief.]

INT—ORI WARSHIP SET

5.12 "MERIDIAN''

[Daniel crashes through the window he just shot out.]

SHANKS

(rolling his eyes)

Oh God. I-I haven't got the full death count. I know of about four, maybe five deaths on camera? I think Spader died in the original movie. Um, I died, supposedly in the first season of the show.

[While Shanks speaks, clip of ascended Daniel in 6.22 "Full Circle" is shown.]

5.21 "MERIDIAN"

DANIEL
I'm gonna miss you guys.

[As Shanks continues talking, more clips of recently descended Daniel, ascended Daniel, and dying Daniel are shown, as well as Shanks goofing off behind the scenes.]

SHANKS

And I died of course for good in season five, came back. Died again season eight. Uh, what are we up to now?
(looks at fingers)

Is that—I don't know. I've lost count of my fingers. So, there's about, I'd say five, maybe you know, there's a vague sixth death in there somewhere. I've ascended twice…and counting, of course.

6.06 "ABYSS"

O'NEILL
It's a shame you're a delusion.

DANIEL
No, I'm here. I'm…really here.

O'NEILL
Sure you are.

[O'Neill takes off his shoe and throws it through Daniel.]

SHANKS
And apparently there's something interesting in store for the character this year that people don't know about that I won't, um, get into detail about, but there's supposedly something that's not death, not ascension…somewhere in between.

[He grins wickedly and raises his eyebrows, waggling his fingers in front of him.]

CREDIT—AND THE STUNT AWARD GOES TO…

9.02 "AVALON PART 2"

[Teal'c fires his gun at the black knight, but the bullets pass through. Vala and Daniel watch in shock.]

TEAL'C
It appears to be a hologram.

MITCHELL
A hologram?!?

[The black knight hits Mitchell in the back with its sword. Mitchell collapses with a pained cry.]

BROWDER
I try to do as much stunt work as they'll allow me to do. It's the fun stuff. It's the boy stuff. And as long as I can get out of my chair to go do it, I like doing it.

[While Browder speaks more scenes of the sword fight with the black knight of Avalon are shown.]

DANIEL
You, uh, you've done this before?

BROWDER
I love doing the sword fights, particularly the sword fight in Camelot. I like whenever we're falling down, getting muddy, dirty, smacking each other around. In the next episode, if it's a Three Stooges episode, I'm there. It's the fun stuff, and it is the stuff that you don't get to do on mainstream network fare on any kind of regular basis.

[Scenes of the battle with the black knight of Camelot in 9.20 "Camelot" are shown while Browder speaks.]

EXT—LOCATION SET

UNKNOWN PERSON
Three…two…one…

[Several stunt people are ratcheted back through the air to land on mats while filming the teaser scene of 9.06 "Beachhead".]

[Other rehearsals and filming of the scene are shown.]

INT—DAN SHEA'S OFFICE

[Dan Shea, Stunt Coordinator for Stargate SG-1, and the man who plays Sgt. Siler, is interviewed in his office.]

SHEA
Uh, we've been here for ten years, and…let's say twenty-two episodes a year, a couple of stunts an episode, so that adds up to…let's see, the square root of twenty nine…seven…times…so, I would say, like, a lot. I would say like thousands of stunts. We're big on ratchets here, like with the staff blasts, and with the ribbon device. Lotta times we'll put the foamy, you know, a little bit that way and you slam right into the steel as opposed to the foamy.

[While Shea speaks, numerous takes of filming Siler getting thrown against the gate room shield in 10.06 "200" appear.]

SHEA
And it looks cooler because you get a better reaction when the eyes flutter up into the skull, a little bit of subcutaneous blood trickling down the left nostril…and that's all great.

[Cameras film Shea as Siler trying to recover from the blast. Special effects sparks fly.]

SHEA/SILER
Why does this always happen to me?

WOOD

(chuckling)

And cut! Nice. One more.

CREDIT—I'LL NEVER KISS AND TELL!

TAPPING

(suppressing laughter)

That's hard to answer. I—now I have to go back and relive every kiss. Hmm.

[Harp arpeggio plays as clips of Carter kissing the various men/aliens in her life are shown. Clips still appear as Tapping continues.]

TAPPING
Richard Dean Anderson's a great kisser. David DeLuise was a really good kisser. David DeLuise and I got to play this…new part of Sam. This more sexual and mature and more adult situation Sam, and so, those kisses were different. They were far more passionate, so I would have to say David because they were really passionate kisses.

[Tapping grins.]

CREDIT—HOW "INDEED" IS "INDEED"?

7.19 "RESURRECTION"

LEE
The light's turned off, that means it's off, right?

TEAL'C
Indeed.

JUDGE
That's something I'd like to know. How many times has Teal'c said: "indeed"?

[Clips of various occasions Teal'c has said "indeed" appear.]

JUDGE

I believe, uh, that a fan actually counted up how many times Teal'c has said "indeed". Not counting this season, season ten, but through the end of season nine, I believe it was 27,896 times.
(Judge chuckles and shakes his head)

That's just a number I just made up. No one's actually ever counted.

7.08 "SPACE RACE"

CARTER

(teasingly, to Teal'c)

Indeed.

EXT—BRIDGE STUDIO LOT ENTRANCE, DAY

[Jones marches over to the security gate kiosk, where Shelly Ramsell, a security guard for Bridge Studios, mans the gate.]

RAMSELL
Can I help you, sir?

JONES
Yeah, um, I'm on Stargate: SG-1", and um…

RAMSELL
And what do you do there?

JONES
I'm one of the actors.

RAMSELL
Background or principal?

JONES
No, one of the actors, like a…well, not a…yeah, a principal. I'm just wondering if you would know whether or not I'm in the 200th episode.

RAMSELL
Not personally I wouldn't. What's your name?

JONES

(scoffing)

I mean, I'm a recurring regular.

RAMSELL
Do you have a PACE card?

JONES

(sighing)

No, I don't have a PACE card. I didn't get it this year. Are you sure…?

[Ramsell pulls her call sheet.]

RAMSELL
Having a PACE card is very helpful. What's your number when you shoot?

JONES
Well, it changes all the time. It's like 7, 13, 11, depending on whatever other actors are on, so I don't know.

RAMSELL

(scanning call sheet)

The numbers don't go up that high for the next few days. They end at four.

JONES

(crestfallen)

Yeah.

RAMSELL

(shrugging)

Sorry.

JONES
Thanks.

[Jones looks heartbroken.]

[A variety of episode clips throughout the years are shown. As more clips appear, an interview excerpt with Matt Roush, senior critic for TV Guide (likely from Season Nine era) airs. Included amongst the clips is the TV Guide cover article on Stargate SG-1, featuring Anderson and Shanks.]

ROUSH
What people do like about the Stargate series is that it's not set in the far future. It imagines the fact that we have this technology in our hands right now. That the military is keeping it secret from us. That they have a team that's going along and having these adventures through the portals, but they come back into our world and our time right now. I think that's kind of provocative.

5.03 "ASCENSION"

CARTER
Hey guys, what are you doing here?

O'NEILL
We brought pizzas and a movie.

TEAL'C
Star Wars.

O'NEILL
He's seen it, what? Eight times?

TEAL'C
Nine.

O'NEILL
Nine times.

[More clips from the pilot appear as the interview with Roush continues.]

ROUSH
The fact that so many science fiction shows are set in some kind of nebulous future century—well, the fact is that the future is now on Stargate.

INT—GATE ROOM SET

[The 200 logo is on the blue screen effect of the Stargate as people mill about in preparation for the press conference.]

INT—BRIEFING ROOM SET

[The cast, including Anderson and Garson, sit and stand around the briefing room table, The rest of the filming crew also surround the set doing their jobs.]

WOOD
Before we get started, I'd want to welcome everybody to the 200th episode of Stargate: SG-1.

[Everyone applauds and cheers.]

INT—GATE ROOM SET

[Browder, Anderson, Black, Shanks, Tapping, and Judge pose on the gate ramp behind a large sheet cake commemorating the occasion. The numbers 2 0 0 stick up on the cake, the zeros looking like Stargates with blue event horizons.]

[Catering staff prepares for the party and slices the cake while cast members are interviewed by the press. The green screen behind the Stargate shows clips from the episodes during the press interviews.]

INT—DAEDALUS/ODYSSEY SET

[While Cooper and Wright speak, more clips of behind the scenes during 10.06 "200" and the on set celebration are shown.]

COOPER

I said at the beginning when we started talking about this coming up…I said: "let's just not do anything, you know, special as far as the episode goes. Let's just, you know, let's have a big party and celebrate it for the crew and the cast. But, let's just make a normal episode of television, not go outside the box." (chuckling)

So, that's how we ended up going completely outside the box.

WRIGHT
We're so far outside the box, uh…

COOPER
Nobody listens to me!

WRIGHT
Yeah.

[Both Wright and Cooper laugh.]

INT—JOSEPH MALLOZZI'S OFFICE, BRIDGE STUDIOS

MALLOZZI
Well, I gotta tell you, it'll be very interesting to see the fan reaction to this particular episode.

INTERVIEWER
True.

MALLOZZI
Because, there's no doubt, that, uh, I mean, a lot of the fans complain. You know, they'll say, they argue back and forth, about oh, episode Wormhole X-Treme was the episode where they jumped the shark, or you know, they may argue "no, no, no, it was Avenger 2.0. That's the one where they jumped the shark." And then there's another contingent that'll say. "No, it was actually Space Race that'll…they jumped the shark." This 200th episode will put that debate to rest.

[The person interviewing Mallozzi laughs.]

[While Mallozzi speaks, clips from the episodes he mentions appear.]

INT—DAEDALUS/ODYSSEY SET

[More clips of filming 10.06 "200" and the cast and crew goofing off between takes are shown while Cooper and Wright are interviewed.]

WRIGHT
I mean, it's fun. That's what the show is.

COOPER
Fans of the show, uh, who've been with us for—since the beginning are gonna get a ton of inside jokes. People who haven't seen the show as much will still hopefully think of it an entertaining hour.

EXT—LOCATION SET

[Anderson as O'Neill ad libs during rehearsal of the "meet the Furlings" scene.]

ANDERSON/O'NEILL

(in babytalk)

Oh, de babies! Oh, they're so cute!

[Wood pretends to be a Furling and approaches Anderson in a crouch making strange noises.]

ANDERSON
You're so cute. Come on.

[When Wood comes close enough, Anderson pretends to shoot his weapon, making a pow sound with his mouth. Wood spins and collapses with a melodramatic cry. Anderson pretends to riddle Wood with more bullets complete with sound effects while the crew laughs.]

EXT—LOCATION SET

[Anderson being interviewed while more clips of filming 10.06 "200" are shown.]

ANDERSON

I actually had to ask Brad [Wright]…um, or Robert [Cooper], they're starting to look like each other.
(chuckles)
Yeah.
(more serious)

If this was an episode that stood alone, or if it was part of what has been transpiring prior, like is there a through-line bad guy that we kind of have to dance around.

INT—GATE ROOM SET

[Crew prepares to film a scene.]

WOOD

(facetiously)

Remember, play it with greed.

EXT—LOCATION SET

[More clips of the cast and crew filming and having fun behind the scenes while Anderson speaks.]

ANDERSON
He said: "No, this is a completely different entity. It stands all by itself, and um, it's a fun episode. So you'll have that fun backboard."

INT—STUDIO SET

TAPPING
I-I love that Richard's back. It's only right.

INT—BRIEFING ROOM SET

[Wood speaks to cast and crew before filming.]

WOOD
Richard Dean Anderson, ladies and gentlemen.

[Everyone smiles and applauds.]

INT—STUDIO SET

TAPPING
It wouldn't feel right if he wasn't back with us. I mean, his first entrance was pure Rick. He was wearing sweat pants and long, baggy shorts over top, and a big t-shirt, and he looked like a complete clown, and that's Rick.

[More clips of Anderson goofing off between takes, including mimicking Steve Martin's "Wild and Crazy Guy" character.]

JUDGE
It was really great to be reminded of what a pain in the ass he is, um…

[Judge laughs.]

8.02 "NEW ORDER PART 2"

O'NEILL
Teal'c. What's with the hair?

INT—DAEDALUS/ODYSSEY SET

WOOD
It's so irreverent toward the people who make and own the shows.

[A clip appears of studio & network executives giving speeches during the on set 200 party.]

WOOD
It's so irreverent against the people who write and create the shows.

[Clips of some of the writing staff are shown.]

WOOD
It's so irreverent against the actors who do the show.

[A shot of the cast during filming of the invisible O'Neill ha'tak capture scene.]

WOOD

(deadpan)

It's-it's irreverent against everybody except the director, who uh, you know, the integrity is always there for the director, even in 200.

[More clips of filming intersperse other interviews.]

BRIDGES
I think there's a little something for everybody certainly in this episode. I mean, it's all going on. We're uh, kind of dealing with a lot of different sci-fi shows, sending a lot of them up.

ANDERSON/O'NEILL
I wouldn't mind one last jaunt through the old orifice.

SHANKS

We share the same sort of Galaxy Quest ideas about-about science fiction, and we all want to write this movie about a bunch of actors on a science fiction show because the experiences are so similar. The rumble hits and the firing guns that don't really fire…
(mimes firing a gun with his hand)

because, "oh, there's going to be a ray that comes out of it," so you'll feel like a complete jackass standing there going…

[While Shanks speaks, clips of the show within a show of 5.12 "Wormhole X-Treme" are shown, including…]

DANNING

(melodramatically)

God help us!

PETER DELUISE playing THE DIRECTOR (offscreen)
BANG! Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.

[The actors collapse to the ground, shaking and spasming as if being electrocuted until completely limp.]

INT—DAEDALUS/ODYSSEY SET

[More clips from 9.20 "Camelot" are shown during the interview.]

COOPER
When you're on for eight years [sic.], I think there's a certain point at which people feel like: "Huh, you know that show's been on a while. Maybe I should check it out. Maybe it's good. You know."

WRIGHT

(mimicking pressing a remote)
Yeah, the reluctant viewer. "Okay, I'll watch it, geez!"
(seriously)

Yeah, I make the analogy that instead of being this big flaming hit that, you know burns out after a number of years, we're like a slowly burning candle that's just you know…

COOPER
Always there and always on.

WRIGHT

(chuckling)

Always on.

EXT—BRIDGE STUDIO LOT, TRAILERS, DAY

[Jones approaches Beau Bridge's trailer and knocks on the door. Bridges opens the door and stands in the doorway, a cell phone at his ear.]

BRIDGES

(into phone)
That sounds good to me…yeah…One second.
(to Jones)

Hey, Gary.

JONES
Hey, Beau. Listen, I'm trying to get on the 200th episode. I've been talking to everybody, including Rob Cooper. The guy hasn't got a clue. He's up there in his big office: "I dunno. I dunno." The point is, you're my last resort. Okay, is there any way you can get me on the show? And if you can, I've got, in my pocket here, I've got 100 large…for you.

BRIDGES
You're walking around with $100,000.00 in your shirt pocket?

JONES
No, no, a hundred Canadian. It's yours. Can you do it?

[Jones shows Bridges a small wad of Canadian twenty dollar bills. Bridges sighs and looks around before grabbing the bills. He goes to shut the door to his trailer.]

JONES
Okay, Beau, Beau, Beau. So that-that's a guarantee, right? If you take that, I-I'm on the show?

BRIDGES
Guarantee? What do you want, a receipt? This is a bribe!

JONES
It's not so much a bribe as it is a…gratuity.

[Bridges scoffs and shuts the door.]

[Montage of clips from various episodes.]

FADE TO BLACK