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However, unfortunately it's this episode which says the final good-bye to Leonard Nimoys great William Bell. But not w/o spending some inside jokes on him and at least one of his former roles (guess which one ;-)). So we see:

• the intended replacement body, which takes a totally different view on the nick name "Belly"

• Bell and Peter doing the old "You go left, I go right" stunt from Star Treks "Devil in the Dark"

(and probably much more, but that's what I saw).

Add the wonderful effect of LSD on Agent Broyles (including a Warner Bros jaybird), and several cartoon zombies as icing on the cake, and you have a top mixture in this episode quite worthy of it's title.

And they did not even forget the cliffhanger :-)

The Matrix, Inception, Day of the Dead... All are homaged here in season 3's "Novelty 19th" episode.

Bellivia is strapped to an electric chair, waiting to be transferred into a body that would give new dimension to the nickname "Belly" - The Jiggling Mass Wobbles but Belly is not shunted into this "Host." No time to try again.

Like Season 2's "Brown Betty," this is another peep into the Mind of Walter, one in which we get to go on an LSD trip with him and Peter and Belly. But in order to see it they must enter Olivia's mind.

We enter a NYC that is populated by people garbed in the Blacks and Grays which Olivia usually wears. As with "Inception," the populace immediately starts chasing Walter and Peter who run into one of the WTC Towers, where they are greeted by Nina, who tries to get them into an elevator with an empty shaft, but they shove "Nina" down instead.

Meanwhile, the lab is visited by Broyles who gets a dose of LSD by touching one of the sugar-cubes that have the mega-dose. Needless to say, Broyles has never done LSD before, so Astrid has to babysit him as well as monitor Walter, Peter and Bellivia, who are strapped-down "Matrix" fashion.

When Walter and Peter enter Belly's office in the WTC tower, they become animated, and Olivia is not there and they have to figure out that Olivia must be hiding, and in that nightmare landscape, "where" is a good question.

After escaping from Brandon-Nerd Zombies, (which Peter gets to dispose of like a roach down a garbage disposal) they take a Dirigible ride to Jacksonville, where they meet "Mr X" (Ulrich Thomsen) who shoots a hole in the Dirigible and jumps out, sucking Walter out with him. Walter wakes up back in the lab, Where Astrid is assembling a Massive Dynamics computer with the most memory chips I have ever seen in my life.

But the stoned Broyles sees a bird landing on Walter's shoulder, causing Walter to drop an important irreplaceable Vacuum Tube, shattering it. He has to cannibalize his beloved turntable to fix it.

So it is up to Peter and Belly to get Olivia to come out from where she is hiding.

This episode has some of the best Television Animation ever done. We assumed this would be the last of Belly, at least in that time-line. In the end, the computer project he set Walter on was a red herring, as he knew "the dog wouldn't hunt."

And we still have the mystery of "Mr X" which to date still has not been revisited (unless you account for the appearance of the symbol on Mr X's chest appearing in the Season 4 Finale Episodes). But maybe Walter is right: some secrets, are not for us to know.

This one appeals to the anime geek inside you. In a blatant rip-off of Inception, Peter and Walter (and Bell) decide to drop LSD, grouplink their brains to Olivia's, and dive inside her mind to find her core consciousness. Olivia has gone hiding inside herself and has erected barriers of protection in the form of a city populated with "people" plus Nina and her step father, all pursuing and attempting to stop Peter and company. Straight out of Inception. (There are even zombies for some reason, which is the only notable difference between that movie and this episode.) At one point, for no reason at all, the format switches to Linklater's rotoscoping animation. I can only assume it was cheaper to pay for Leonard Nimoy's voice rather than his full acting self. Too bad none of the characters, including him, remotely look like their real life counterparts.

I like anime but it didn't really work here. Beyond the bad character profiling there weren't any super cool scenes that couldn't have been done with sound sets or matte paintings. I don't feel it added anything and it was distracting. As for the story, again, blatant rip-off of Inception. It's a good one, but that's why it was a multi-million dollar box office success. As far as Fringe goes, it was average sci-fi.