Importantly, this episode featured the introduction of something that would become one of the most famous aspects of the show - Agent Vib's famous space pencil. Speaking at a panel at EffectCon '87, Sylthe described the origin of the pencil: “The space pencil... yeah, the space pencil... uh... I hate to bring this up but... there was mention of a buffet?” ~ Kerry Slythe on the legendary Phenomenon Effect space pencil The highlight of the script was of course the legendary "submarine" speech, of which Slythe said