Synopsis
Sealab 2021 (2003), Season 3 — watch online on iFILM, twelve episodes of the absurd animated comedy about an undersea station where science lost to sloth and chaos long ago.
This is the crew fully off the leash. An accident leaves Quinn in a coma while dim-witted Stormy seems suddenly brilliant — did they swap brains? A loophole in the station charter promotes nearly everyone to captain. Murphy opens Sealab to tourists one week and imposes Marxist-Leninist rule as a commissar the next. Near the end the gang mounts a desperate rescue to an ice station where one resident has turned cannibal. Episodes stay disconnected as ever — there's even a whole installment built around eight minutes of nothing happening outside the hull.
By its third year the show keeps toying with its own form: one meta episode has a network executive auditing the "failing series" from the inside. This is the final run under the Sealab 2021 name, and the most daring in its tricks. Stream Season 3 online on iFILM.
12 episodes
S3·E1Brainswitch
An accident leaves Quinn comatose and Stormy allegedly smarter. Have they really switched brains?
S3·E2Vacation
Dr. Quinn forcibly takes a well-deserved vacation, inside Sealab's walls, the crew attempts to find out what he's doing.
S3·E3Fusebox
The electricity is out in Sealab, and the crew tries to turn the power back on. This episode shows the outside of the Sealab for 8 minutes, during which time nothing happens besides Stormy destroying a section of the Sealab, and occasional appearances by fish, sharks, and bubbles.
S3·E4Article 4
A loophole in the Sealab charter turns everyone into captains, except Stormy (too stupid), Quinn (too proud to exploit the loophole), and the Chinese crew members (because of previous Asian accomplishments, including anime, among other things). How will Sealab survive? And where did Capt. Murphy go?
S3·E5Return to Oblivion
A network executive audits the set of the hard-hitting action drama Sealab 2021, with hopes of somehow salvaging the dwindling series.
S3·E6Splitsville
Debbie and Quinn break up, while Dr. Virjay gets his old rock band back together.
S3·E7Tourist Season
Captain Murphy opens Sealab to tourists, eventually prompting Dr. Virjay to renounce his religion, and begin to eat meat from cows.
S3·E8Red Dawn
Kommissar Murphy brings Marxist-Leninist ideals to Sealab.
S3·E9Meet Beck Bristow
Hollywood Actor Beck Bristow (Brian Bloom) comes to Sealab to study for a television role.
S3·E10I, Robot, Really
Due to an incident with Chubby Carol, Quinn (who doesn't think Carol is so chubby) is blackmailed into giving each crew member a robot body, but what is to become of the crew's old bodies?
S3·E11Frozen Dinner
The Sealab crew attempts a daring rescue mission to Ice Station Zebra, one of whose inhabitants has turned to cannibalism. They are accompanied by a German who "came with the sub," bears more than a passing resemblance to Jürgen Prochnow and is given to firing his pistol inside the sub and shouting "Sieg Heil, Cornelius Drebbel!" Unfortunately, the two inhabitants of Ice Station Zebra cannot be rescued due to a lack of wetsuits, thanks to Debbie packing an attractive dress for herself instead.
S3·E12Tornado Shanks
As Captain Murphy leaves for The Great Spice Wars, a new captain, Tornado Shanks, is given the helm.
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