I actually fell asleep during the episode but I don’t blame the show, I blame working 10 hour days, 3 days in a row and getting 5 hours of sleep the night before and making the mistake of thinking I could lay down on the couch to watch and not fall asleep. I do have it on tape so I will watch the rest soon, even though I’ve been spoilered a little by reading this thread.
I just wanted to comment that I really wish they’d give us more Vincent story/backstory. There is something fishy about that dog … he knows things.
Has anyone ever found a website that transcribes and translated Jin and Sun’s Korean dialogue? I would love to know what Jin was yelling back at Sun when she was telling him she’ll only speak to him in English.
I’m guessing it was something along the lines of “don’t you try me, woman!”
Overall a fun episode if you don’t think about it too much.
But it did contain one of the greatest moments of Losties-having-no-curiosity ever, when they find a DHARMA MAP OF THE ISLAND, say “huh, they were building a dirt road”, and then immediately forget about it.
Oh, and don’t you think having a functioning engine with gasoline might be a useful thing for, say, attaching to a homemade boat, rather than driving around in circles on a meadow?
Hilarious. Doesn’t contribute a whole lot to the arcs, but darned good fun.
Hey, the Cluck place is in Diamond Bar…That’s not far away!
Great Sawyer-bestowed nicknames…International House of Pancakes, Jumbotron, Jiminy Cricket, Jin-bo.
Three things you need to know in English–or in any language:
“I’m sorry.”
“You’re right.”
“Those pants don’t make you look fat.” 
Not really, no.
I’m waiting on the Vincent flashback episode. You know, someone says something, camera looks at Vincent staring off into nowhere then (vwooop sound effect) the point-of-view switches to black-and-white and a foot off the ground and all the dialog becomes “blah blah blah blah Vincent blah blah. Blah blah squirrel blah blah blah.” 
Okay, I laughed out loud at that one. Thanks for the laugh, but I’d still enjoy the episode if that’s all it was.
I still think he knows things.
the engineer boyfriend ALSO started pointing out all the reasons the thing wouldn’t start, but fiver has a point about things being strangely well preserved on Lost Island.
i just pointed out the near-jump cuts the editors inflicted on the ep. watch again right when the van juuust starts rolling down the hill. if you look closely, just before the camera cuts away, the van’s about to tip itself over.
loved the ep. didn’t advance a damn thing in the storyline and i laughed myself silly through most of it, cause it was just fun.
thank god it was little to no jack/juliet/kate. sawyer’s allowed because well, he’s eye candy for us ladies, and he had the best oneliners of the night.
By the way, how did Sawyer find Hurley and Jin? Apparently, this van was well hidden because no one found it before but if it was so close to the camp that Sawyer could see Hurley and Jin from there it would have been found sooner. Hurley didn’t tell anyone the exact location of the car, just that it was in the jungle, so no one else could have given Sawyer exact directions. Maybe Sawyer is a better tracker than he lets on?
Oh wait, I figured it out. Vincent took him to the van.
I think that dog may know things.
Maybe Hurley should rent out time so that everyone can charge up their iPods.
It’s still the fall of 2004 in LOST, might’ve passed election day, though, but still not his 2nd term.
It’s a myth that dogs only see in b/w or are color blind. They don’t have the range humans have (that being sacrificed for better night vision) and their vision tends to emphasize blue-green hues, and not so much red-yellow. But they do see in color.
Just sayin’, is all.
Niice
Although, that’s similar to the Jin flashbacks, except those are in color.
Did anyone else notice Sawyer calling Charlie a munchkin? That’s awfully close to calling him a hobbit…
If he calls him a hafling then we’ll know that the writers are screwing with us AND that Sawyer plays D&D.
Oh my god, I now have a burning desire to see that episode!
- See Vincent being cruelly pulled away from his mother by his new owner.
- Learn to play fetch in the front yard as a van with a Dharma logo rolls slowly past.
- Find the location of the Others’ homes (over the hill, cross the stream, and turn right) as he chases a particularly fast squirrel through their yards.
Well I didn’t think anything could out-pointless the Sawyer/Boar episode from the first season, but there you go… Loved it though; it cheered me up.
That said, the reintroduction of Danielle easily makes up for all the silliness. I was seriously worried that the writers had forgotten about her. Hasn’t Vincent also been absent for some time? I’m fond of the theory that he’s a physical manifestation of Smokey.
It’d be great if Hurley runs over Charlie on the way back to the beach next episode. At any rate, how long is that car going to run for? It better not turn out that the island heals cars just like it heals people. I’m hoping it becomes an addition to the beach set.
I also wondered how Sawyer found the VW, and yeah – I laughed out loud at him tossing the plans away. They better come back to that. Maybe super-sleuth Nikki will find them?
I didn’t like the use of Paolo this episode. I was hoping he’d be enthusiastic about the car. Then at least we’d have something to like about him.
One thing that’s been bugging me for a while now, and it came up on this latest episode as well…
Where do they get all those torches?
I mean, a torch isn’t something that grows on trees, just waiting for you to pluck them should you need light. You’d need something like pitch to burn… and even then, it probably won’t burn more than fifteen minutes or so.
Thirty-nine:
Pointless? That episode showed us why Sawyer was in Australia, and had him meeting with Jack’s father.
Why isn’t Outdoorswoman Kate aware that it’s pretty much impossible to sneak through the dark when you’re holding a fucking lit torch?
“Ooh, I’m going to hide under cover of this air!”
-Joe