Protection

"Protection" is the thirty-first televised episode of the series Gargoyles, and the eighteenth episode of Season 2.

• Story Editor: Gary Sperling
• Writer: Gary Sperling

Tidbits

The very first scene (the man hailing a taxi) is re-used from Awakening Part Four.

This is another good episode for guest appearances; Travis Marshall, Officer Morgan, and Mr. Jaffe all turn up in this story. Art and Lois are introduced (they would later on re-appear in Hunter's Moon Part One and then Nightwatch).

Goliath pronounces "dry-cleaners" in the same slow and careful fashion that he had pronounced "detective" in Season One.

One of the most noteworthy aspects of Protection is its introduction of the famous (or infamous) cry of "Jalapeña!" into Gargoyles. Keith David (who did the voice of Goliath) had the habit of using it as a periodic exclamation (having picked it up from a female jazz singer). Voice Director Jamie Thomason bet Greg Weisman that he couldn't write it into a script; Greg took him up on his bet and put it into Protection (introducing the set-up for it with the jalapeña peppers being brought into Dracon's suite and which Broadway helps himself to). Greg remained fond of the cry, though it drove almost everyone else on the production team up the wall.

Incidentally, Broadway uses "Jalapeña!" as an expression during his clash with Pal Joey and his bomb, before Goliath's own encounter with a jalapeña pepper that would provide the precedent for such an exclamation.

Links

• Background Memo
• Greg's Ramble
• Extensive Synopsis and Review

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