The BEST episodes of Sealab 2021
Every episode of Sealab 2021 ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Sealab 2021!
The year is 2021. Deep below the ocean's surface, looms a vast, magnificently high-tech compound: Sealab. A multi-national scientific station with an annual budget in the trillions, dedicated to the research and exploration of man's final frontier... Sealab's crew is charged with exploring the possibility of underwater colonization. As the Earth's surface, by this time, has gotten just generally crowded, hot, and icky. However, as most government-funded agencies usually are, Sealab is manned by a motley collection of malcontents and screw-ups who were unfit for work in the private sector. They really don't get any research done, but instead spend their time bickering among themselves or just plain goofing off. The crew have manipulated their luckless leader, Captain Murphy, into submission, and are content to ride the government clock, raking in fat, hazardous-duty paychecks.
#1 - Return of Marco
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/2004
The much-ballyhooed return of Marco finally occurs in this eponymously-titled episode, with Marco playing the titular Marco. Marco, Sharko. Sharko, Marco. We'll just leave you two to get acquainted. Also, don't drink that pee.
#2 - Vacation
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/2/2003
Dear Dr. Quinn: Well, I hope you are having a great vacation and doing lots of fun things. Yes, have a great time. Oh, wait. Never mind. Because you're not going ANYWHERE! Love, Murphy.
#3 - Sharko's Machine
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/2004
Marco's illegitimate son applies for a job on Sealab. Can he pass the civil service exam with Debbie and Quinn helping?
#4 - Frozen Dinner
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/31/2003
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.
#5 - Der Dieb
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/12/2002
When things start going missing on Sealab, fingers start to point and tempers start to flare. It'll be up to Murphy and his cadre of Martian Knights to quell the chaos. Or, more accurately, to exacerbate the existing chaos into something much more chaotic. But in the end, there might be cake.
#6 - All That Jazz
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/28/2001
Murphy is stuck under a soda machine. To make matters worse, everyone else is out at a concert and can't help him! To make matters worse still, who should happen upon poor, defenseless Murphy but an angry scorpion and a tooth-collecting maintenance robot?
#7 - Green Fever
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/28/2004
Zombies ravage Sealab as Debbie plans her (fifth) 30th birthday party.
#8 - Return to Oblivion
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/16/2003
A network executive audits the set of the hard-hitting action drama Sealab 2021, with hopes of somehow salvaging the dwindling series.
#9 - The Policy
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/2002
In a fevered spurt of conspicuous consumption, Murphy runs up a hundred grand in credit card bills. And let's face it, he just doesn't have that kind of money. So he sends his unwilling crew in search of sunken treasure. Sharks? Sure. Lack of oxygen? You bet. And hey, isn't that dynamite over there? Well, I'll be darned.
#10 - ASHDTV
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/20/2004
What's better than a TV? An HDTV. And what's better than that? An ASHDTV. And what does the AS stand for? You probably guessed "[adult swim]" but it's "Asteroid Smasher." And that's what the crew of Sealab stole from Spacelab.
#12 - Moby Sick
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/11/2005
Abalon, a terminally ill whale, comes to Sealab and asks Doctor Quinn to kill him. While Quinn wonders whether or not he could end a life Stormy recognizes Abalon as the star of a show called ‘I Gotta Have That Dick' and starts bugging him with fan fics. While Quinn examines Abalon's whale cancer Marco accidentally eats some of it and is inspired to create his own drink called F-YEAH!
#13 - Butchslap
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/13/2005
Marco convinces Debbie to give up her "questionable" ways through a pep talk, leading her to find religion and dump Quinn. Meanwhile, Sparks recognizes the pep talk from a 60's show, which leads a drunken Quinn to sic the network on the fugitive TV star Marco.
#14 - Casinko
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/6/2005
As it turns out Sealab was built on an ancient Indian burial ground and is now sinking into the ocean floor. The only hope to save Sealab is John Bear, Sealab's resident Native American. But in order to save Sealab Shank's must agree to turn the Mess Hall into a casino which he does. But once the casino opens John Bear still won't stop the sinking (or let Debbie have a lounge show).
#15 - Article 4
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/16/2003
Affirmative Action promotes everyone to the rank of Captain... except for Quinn. And also except for Captain Murphy, because he is already a Captain. That's why his name is Captain Murphy.
#16 - Swimming in Oblivion
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/5/2002
Well, a summary of this episode would, in its essence, be a spoiler. But get ready to see some of your old favorites (and some soon-to-be favorites) in this season finale: Chopper Dave. The Bebop Cola Robot. The Forest Ranger Guy. Skanky Darlene. The Martian Quinn. And who can forget Debbie's boobies?
#17 - I, Robot
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/30/2000
A news item about Django, the little monkey whose brain was transplanted into a robot body, plunges the crew into a lengthy debate on whether or not they would allow their brains to be put in robot bodies. Meanwhile, Sealab's in imminent danger of imploding, and Dr. Quinn is the only one on board who seems to care.
#18 - Isla de las Chupracabras
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/2004
A team-building exercise goes horribly awry when the crew of Sealab finds themselves on the dreaded "Isla de Las Chupacabras!" In English, that's "Island of the Goatsuckers." And the episode is in English.
#19 - Craptastic Voyage
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/11/2004
When Shanks refuses treatment for a festering, pulsing head-tumor, the crew decides to dust off the old shrink ray and then basically reenact the plot of a 1960's sci-fi movie starring that actress.
#20 - Red Dawn
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/7/2003
Kommissar Murphy brings Marxist-Leninist ideals to Sealab.
#21 - Tourist Season
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/30/2003
A horde of tourists descends upon Sealab. There are some fatalities. Doctor Virjay makes a startling (and delicious) discovery about meat. Yummy!
#22 - Brainswitch
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/26/2003
When something majorly weird happens, involving an explosion, something else majorly weird happens, involving Quinn's and Stormy's brains.
#23 - Feast of Alvis
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/29/2002
Capt. Murphy's attempts at a happy Alvistide go awry thanks to non-Alvian crew members, an uncooperative electrician, and Alvis himself "crapping the buffet".
#24 - Chickmate
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/2/2001
Debbie wants to have a baby so she starts to interview the crew to see who will be the father. Marco makes time with the other Debbie (aka "Black" Debbie).
#25 - Predator
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/16/2001
A flesh-eating invisible monster has invaded the Sealab and is killing everyone. The crew tries to lure it into a trap by having Dolphin Boy wear a life-jacket made of meat.