Next
time you take a bubble bath, take a really close look at those suds…
Because
bubbles, foam and suds have often been a serious threat to protagonists in cult
television programming.
On
Doctor
Who in the era of the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton), one 1969
serial “The Seeds of Death” found the time-lord battling ever-expanding foam (really
a fungus spawned by the Martian Ice Warriors…).
One
of my all-time favorite episodes of Space: 1999 (1975 – 1977) is called “Space
Brain.” It reveals an alien brain’s
antibodies flooding Moonbase Alpha in an attempt to crush the intruder in its
space. The antibodies are depicted as,
you guess, it soap suds.
An
early episode of Blake’s 7 (1978 – 1981), “Space Fall” also uses foam as a
visual threat. One a crewman gets caught in a spaceship bulkhead that has been
punctured, foam fills in the gap so as to prevent de-pressurization.
And
in one episode of The Brady Bunch, 1973’s “Law and Disorder,” soap suds run wild
in the Brady House, thanks to an overflowing washing machine.
Of
course, soap suds aren’t always evil. In “Hollywood A.D.,” an X-Files
(1993 – 2002) episode that takes Mulder, Scully and Skinner to Tinsel Town, the
three FBI agents enjoy bubble baths and champagne, not to mention a conference
call.
Bubble
baths of this non-lethal variety have also occurred on Farscape (1999 – 2003)
and The
Vampire Diaries (2009 – present).
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