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Voyagers! was a short-lived Science Fiction TV show from the 1980s. It told the story of Phineas Bogg (played by Jon-Erik Hexum), a man who works as a "Voyager": a member of a mysterious group of people who travel through time and make sure history is the way it should be. Unlike in other Time Travel series, there was no clear reason why history was changing. The series was meant as a way to subtly teach history to the target audience. In the pilot episode, Bogg is joined in his travels by Jeffrey Jones (played by Meeno Peluce), a young boy from 1982 (who is something of a history expert) after Bogg loses his Voyager's manual; Bogg had failed to pay enough attention during his training and didn't know what to do without the book.Compare and Contrast Time Squad.The program ran for one season on NBC (1982-1983). Unfortunately, most people's awareness of the show is due to the unfortunate accidental death of Jon-Erik Hexum a year after the show had been canceled. (While on the set of his next series, Cover Up, he shot himself in the head with a pistol loaded with blanks as a joke, and died of a skull fracture.) | |
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Applied Phlebotinum | |
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Applied Phlebotinum: The pocketwatch-like device, the Omni, used by the Voyagers to time travel. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Olivia plans to quit after failing to save the Mona Lisa from the Titanic's sinking and unintentionally endangering Jeffrey. She gets over it after collaborating with Phineas at a second attempt to rescue the painting. | |
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The Glomp | |
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The Glomp: When they reunite after being separated or facing a dangerous situation, Bogg and Jeffrey often meet with a hug. | |
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Kneel, Push, Trip | |
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Kneel, Push, Trip: In "Created Equal", Bogg knocks a large gladiator backwards over Jeff. | |
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Fire-Forged Friends | |
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Fire-Forged Friends: Bogg and Jeffrey start out at odds, with Bogg blaming Jeffrey for the loss of his guidebook and Jeffrey angry about being taken from his own time. But even then, Bogg shows a protective instinct, pulling Jeffrey out of danger multiple times before they start to get along. In the end, they develop a good working relationship after facing armed soldiers, conducting a life-threatening experiment with a prototype airplane, and shooting down the Red Baron. | |
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Alliterative Title: "Bully and Billy". | |
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Trapped in the Past | |
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Trapped in the Past: As the Omni is only supposed to go up until 1970 and Bogg's arrival in 1982 was a fluke, he can't return Jeffrey to his own time. | |
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Everyone Went to School Together | |
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Everyone Went to School Together: Bogg turns out to have been at the academy with at least three of the other Voyagers we meet during the series (Olivia, Susan, and Drake). Then again, as far as we know, there is only one Voyager school. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: Jeffrey's parents died in a car accident before the beginning of the show (and his aunt, who was boarding him in the pilot, wasn't too keen on having him there), hence his willingness to chase around time and space with Bogg. It helps that Phineas attempts to fill the gap. | |
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Eternal English | |
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Eternal English: Absolutely everyone in every single time period visited by Jeffrey and Bogg spoke flawless, 20th Century English, from Cleopatra to Kublai Khan. | |
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Disapproving Look | |
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Disapproving Look: Jeffrey often gives this to Bogg when the latter doesn't recognize an important historical icon. Less frequently, it can be used the other way around when Bogg disapproves of Jeffrey's behavior. | |
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Emergency Temporal Shift | |
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Emergency Temporal Shift: Once per Episode, any time the protagonists are in a dangerous situation, they time travel to a random location. | |
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TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers | |
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The Last of These Is Not Like the Others: While trying to cheer up/distract Jeffrey during "Cleo and the Babe", Bogg lists three examples of Manly Tears occurring during history: Napoleon at Waterloo, George Washington at Valley Forge, and General Eisenhower at Bunker Hill. Jeffrey, as intended, reacts in surprise, knowing that the third is inaccurate. | |
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Adventures in the Bible | |
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Adventures in the Bible: In the pilot, Bogg and Jeffrey find the infant Moses and send him down the Nile where he is found by the Pharaoh's daughter. | |
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Ripple Effect Indicator | |
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Ripple Effect Indicator: Red Light = History Needs Fixing. Green Light = History's Been Fixed. | |
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Misplaced Accent | |
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Misplaced Accent: Given that everyone speaks English, this comes up in most episodes but it's never more glaring than in "Buffalo Bill and Annie Play the Palace" which depicts Queen Victoria, her granddaughter Princess Victoria and Grand Duke Michael of Russia as having American accents. It's all the more noticeable as every other British character on the series has some variety of British accent, as does the odd non-Briton for that matter. In "Jack's Back", Arthur Conan Doyle (who was Scottish) has an English accent. | |
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Parental Substitute | |
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Parental Substitute: While they don't have an average father/son relationship, Jeffrey gives signs of seeing Bogg as a substitute for his parents, who were killed before the beginning of the show. | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
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Would Hurt a Child: Equally likely to be subverted or played straight in this show. Due to television laws at the time restricting violence against children, Jeffrey is often left out of fight scenes—even when he is involved, he won't be directly hurt. However, villains on the show have no qualms about arresting him, or selling him into slavery, or chasing him through dangerous environments. | |
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Intergenerational Friendship | |
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Intergenerational Friendship: Bogg and Jeffrey are close friends, but so far apart in age that they are often mistaken for father and son. | |
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I Want My Mommy! | |
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I Want My Mommy!: A gender-flipped variation from "Voyagers of the Titanic". While sick and half-conscious from rabies, Jeff moans for Bogg. The two are sometimes portrayed as having an almost father/son relationship. | |
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Workaholic | |
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Workaholic: Although Bogg is prone to distractions during missions, as long as there isn't a pretty blond around, he is intensely focused on his work. Much to Jeffrey's chagrin, he often turns down invitations to dinner from other characters or chances to witness historical events for the fun of it. | |
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Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory | |
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Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: After setting history back on course, Jeffrey and Bogg are the only ones who remember the alternative timelines. | |
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I Work Alone | |
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I Work Alone: Bogg insists on this in the beginning, but it soon becomes clear that he can't do much without Jeffrey's help. | |
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Time Travel Escape | |
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Time Travel Escape: This happens once per episode, though Bogg and Jeffrey always return to set history back on course. | |
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Artistic License – History | |
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Artistic License – History: In "Agents of Satan", Bogg is convicted of witchcraft at the Salem witch trials on November 13, 1692 and is sentenced to burn at the stake. In reality, none of the 19 people convicted of witchcraft in Salem received this sentence; they were all hanged. Giles Corey was crushed to death for refusing to enter a plea. | |
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Orphan's Ordeal | |
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Orphan's Ordeal: A recurring plot point is Jeff dealing with the deaths of his parents. As emotionally close as he becomes to Bogg, he still remembers his mother and father and frequently finds his memories of them being triggered. The loss of his parents also heightens his fear when it seems like something might happen to Bogg or the two might be separated. | |
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Men Don't Cry | |
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Men Don't Cry: Mentioned in "Cleo and the Babe". At one point, Jeffrey tears up at seeing Yankee Stadium, as he used to go there with his father. He tells Bogg he doesn't want to be seen like this as crying is "sissy" for a man. | |
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The Power of Family | |
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The Power of Family: "Merry Christmas, Bogg" seems like it's going to go this route, with Jeffrey finding an instant connection with his great grandparents. But in the end, it's shown that his kinship with Bogg is stronger. | |
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Berserker Tears | |
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Berserker Tears: Jeffrey is susceptible to tearing up when he gets angry. | |
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San Dimas Time | |
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San Dimas Time: Most episodes start with Jeffrey and Bogg arriving in one time period, jumping to another time period (usually to escape a sticky situation), and then returning to the first time period to fix history. This often results in Bogg wanting to hang around in the second time period (usually because of a woman) while Jeffrey anxiously tries to impress on him the urgency of needing to go back to the first time period "before it's too late", despite how little sense this makes. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In the first episode, "Voyagers", Bogg is chewing Jeffrey out and listing the events that could happen as a result of him losing his guidebook: empires falling, wars raging, and Bogg losing his job. | |
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Broken Pedestal | |
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Broken Pedestal: "Bully and Billy" has Jeff encountering Billy the Kid, who he thinks is not honestly such a bad person. He changes his mind after seeing how mean and dishonorable he could be. In "Jack's Back", Bogg is disillusioned with Nellie Bly after she falsely accuses him and has him arrested for attacking her at night in London, instead of being the dogged Investigative Journalist history painted her to be. | |
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Brainy Brunette | |
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Brainy Brunette: Jeffrey is quite resourceful and knowledgeable and has brown hair. Jackie Knox is an Intelligence officer and daughter of an Army General stationed on Pearl Harbor. She gets to prove herself during the attack on Pearl Harbor in the episode, "Sneak Attack." | |
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Heartwarming Orphan | |
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Heartwarming Orphan: Jeffrey Jones, an orphan at the beginning of the series, tends to be liked by most of the people he encounters. One of the bigger examples is his effect on Bogg, who transforms from self-proclaimed loner to protective caretaker after getting stuck with him. | |
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In Love with Love | |
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In Love with Love: In the first episode, Bogg explains that Agnes and the Wright Brothers are this: "This is a case of three people being confused about what they really want. Agnes thinks she wants love, but all she really cares about is romance. Orville and Wilbur think they want Agnes, but all they really care about is flying." | |
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And Knowing Is Half the Battle | |
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And Knowing Is Half the Battle: During the credits, viewers are told if they want to know more about the people, places, and events featured in the episode, to visit their local public library. | |
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Vagabond Buddies | |
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Vagabond Buddies: Bogg and Jeffrey. | |
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Set Right What Once Went Wrong | |
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Set Right What Once Went Wrong: This was also the plot for the entire series — Phineas and Jeffrey would travel through time to give history "a shove where it's needed". (Alternate phrase from the word "push") | |
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Red-plica Baron | |
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Red-plica Baron: The pilot episode sees Bogg and Jeffrey dogfighting with Richthofen when they travel back in time. In that episode, Richthofen personally challenges American ace Eddie Rickenbacker; in reality, no such engagement ever occurred. | |
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Badass and Child Duo | |
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Badass and Child Duo: An unconventional example of this trope, as Bogg is much more reliant on Jeffrey's skills than the traditional badass. However, Jeffrey's inability to defend himself often brings out Bogg's fighting abilities and resourcefulness. | |
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Wacky Parent, Serious Child | |
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Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Played with. Bogg and Jeff's relationship is odd, but there are hints that it's partially a father/son bond. Bogg is historically ignorant and easily distracted by a pretty face, often needing Jeff to advise him or get him back on track. However, there are cases where it's Jeff who needs Bogg to keep him in line. | |
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Like a Son to Me | |
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Like a Son to Me: After a little while of time-traveling together, Phineas comes to see Jeff as being like his son (he actually says to another character that Jeff isn't his son, but he wishes he could say he was). While they don't quite have an average father/son relationship, he does try to teach and protect him. | |
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Near-Villain Victory | |
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Near-Villain Victory: "The Trial of Phineas Bogg." Drake has convicted and banished thirty Voyagers and it looks like Phineas is going to be the thirty-first, until Susan turns up with Drake's copy of The Prince, in which he wrote all the unethical things he did. Drake would have won if he'd been able to resist leaving a record for posterity. | |
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No Historical Figures Were Harmed | |
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No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Mary Murphy, who appears in the pilot, is an obvious one for Mary Pickford, given that she's the most famous actress of the silent era. She was also a close friend of Douglas Fairbanks, to whom Mary Pickford was married from 1920 to 1936. Pickford was later mentioned in "Destiny's Choice". In "Destiny's Choice", a bunch of little child actors run around the Hollywood studio causing mischief and try to run away from Jeffrey with the Omni. They're called the "Terrible Tots" because the estate of Hal Roach wouldn't allow the "Little Rascals" name to be used. | |
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The Queen's Latin | |
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The Queen's Latin: In "Created Equal", Cicero and the slave-master Bitiatus both have upper class English accents. | |
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Double Standard | |
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Double Standard: Discussed in "Buffalo Bill and Annie Play the Palace". Annie Oakley, matched in a shooting contest against the Grand Duke Michael, is asked to throw the contest to avoid making him look bad in front of his intended. She says that it would be an insult to her to lose on purpose, especially because in her life she's had to work twice as hard just to be considered equal to a man. | |
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Devoted to You | |
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Devoted to You: While Bogg flirts with and falls for a woman in nearly every episode of the series, "The Barriers of Sound", shows the first time he finds himself helplessly in love when he meets Mabel Gardiner Hubbard. He even considers giving up his life as a Voyager to be with her. But Mabel's destined husband, Alexander Graham Bell is similarly devoted to her. In the end, he's happy to serve as a shoulder to cry on after her heart is broken. | |
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Skilled, but Naive | |
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Skilled, but Naive: Jeffrey can often hold his own with his book smarts and resourcefulness, but his immaturity can occasionally come to the surface, most notably in his idolization of Billy the Kid in "Bully and Billy." | |
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Crash Course Landing | |
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Crash Course Landing: At one point in the episode "All Fall Down," Jeffery must land a plane after everyone else on board is knocked out (including Bogg). He's walked through it by an air traffic controller, and manages to successfully land the plane. | |
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Crisis Catch-and-Carry | |
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Crisis Catch And Carry: In the opening and at the end of the first episode, Bogg picks up Jeff and runs away with him when the situation in the part of the time stream they jump into gets very dangerous very fast. Bogg ends up doing this a lot, given his younger partner's relative lack of strength and speed. | |
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Evil Former Friend | |
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Evil Former Friend: While they have contrasting views of their past together, Drake claims that he and Bogg were friends when they were classmates. | |
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Time-Travelers Are Spies | |
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Time-Travelers Are Spies: In "Sneak Attack", Jackie Knox mistakes Bogg and Jeffrey for Axis spies in Pearl Harbor on December 6, 1941. | |
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Steampunk | |
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Steampunk | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
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Cassandra Truth: Jeffrey, anguished about all the loss of life that's going to occur, tries to warn people that the Titanic is going to hit an iceberg. History continues on course because he can't get anyone to believe him. However, Captain Smith seems a little rattled and discreetly orders more seamen on watch. | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds: With their clashing values and personalities, Bogg and Jeffrey are prone to bickering about how to go about missions. But through it all, they are shown to respect and care for one another, and they never hesitate to act when the other is in danger. | |
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Last-Name Basis | |
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Last-Name Basis: Jeffrey always refers to Bogg by his surname, never as Phineas, which gets pretty odd during highly emotional moments. | |
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All Women Are Lustful | |
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All Women Are Lustful: One of Bogg's defining traits is his inability to control himself around a pretty face, but there's something to be said about the way he's almost never turned down. Occasionally, even women who are already taken fall for his charms. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: Bogg has two: "Bat's breath!" and "Smart kids give me a pain." When Jeffrey finds something amiss in history, he usually says "Bogg, this is all wrong!" | |
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Plagued by Nightmares | |
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Plagued by Nightmares: The series begins with Jeffrey dreaming about being unable to save his parents in a swashbuckling escapade—likely influenced by the book he fell asleep reading as well as his real guilt surrounding his parents' deaths. In "The Trial of Phineas Bogg", when he worries that he and Bogg will be separated, he reveals that his nightmares had recently stopped, but he worries that they'll come back—this time about losing Bogg. | |
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Beethoven Was an Alien Spy | |
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Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Though the show did not make bizarre claims about the backstories of the historic figures Bogg and Jones met during their adventures, there were a few odd moments... Cleopatra running around Prohibition-era New York with gangsters, and meeting Babe Ruth, while speaking perfect English. Jules Verne naming the globetrotting hero of Around the World in Eighty Days Phileas Fogg after meeting Bogg. Subverted later in "Jack's Back". Jeff asks if Jack the Ripper was really Drake. Bogg says it isn't like him and thinks he's just trying to mess up history by going after Nellie Bly. | |
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Great Big Book of Everything | |
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Great Big Book of Everything: Averted in that Bogg loses his "Voyagers Guidebook" in the pilot. Jeffrey tags along to help, as he is a history buff (and Bogg can't return him to his own time, as his omni only goes up to 1970). Voyager Olivia Dunn uses the Guidebook in the episode "Voyagers of the Titanic". In "The Trial of Phineas Bogg", Professor Garth, the leader of the Voyager Tribunal is about to give Bogg his replacement Guidebook after his trial, but Bogg and Jeff disappear happily because they won the case and can remain Voyager partners. | |
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Platonic Declaration of Love | |
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Platonic Declaration of Love: In "The Trial of Phineas Bogg", Drake accuses Phineas of endangering Jeffrey during their time-travel experiences. Phineas responds that he loves Jeffrey and wouldn't let anything hurt him. As Phineas said in an earlier episode that he would like to be able to say Jeffrey was his son, it's pretty clear it isn't sexual. | |
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Young Future Famous People | |
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Young Future Famous People: In the first episode, Jeffrey and Bogg find the infant Moses in his basket and send it down the Nile where it was discovered by the Pharaoh's daughter. They later meet the 12-year-old Samuel Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain) in Hannibal, Missouri in 1847 and the 14-year-old Buffalo Bill Cody (whom they had previously met as an adult at Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee celebrations in London in 1887) working the Pony Express in 1860. Furthermore, they often meet historical figures before they become famous but who are already adults such as Spartacus, Harriet Tubman and Theodore Roosevelt. Bogg helps deliver Dwight D. Eisenhower in "Barriers of Sound". | |
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Cut Short | |
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Cut Short: Due to the show's cancellation, the plot ended with Bogg and Jeff wrapping up another case successfully (of course, there will always be another one) but failing to capture Drake. | |
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