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What did they REALLY look like??


So i was always wondering what the aliens looked like in their original alien forms.

This is the info i can remember:

-They are purple, and tube shaped

-They possibly have heads, tongues, and a back (when they first came to the planet, dick said "Can anyone swivel their head around? Then how do you lick your back??" This could possibly be from another form they previously used though)

Tommy is the oldest, which possibly means he is the biggest and/or tallest of the gang (Dick pointed out that he was bigger on earth even though tommy was older, hinting that age=size in their race)

They likely do not have blood and are not accustomed to life-forms that do (sally fainted when she first saw blood, as even though she had inflicted thousands of wounds worse than the small, bleeding cut, she had never done so on a life-form that bleeds)

They are really, really small (their entire spaceship could fit in dick's human "pants," though i think he meant pocket)

Their eyelids are transparent (harry thought he went blind when his eyelids were closed, and found they were manual, this might mean that they possibly dont even have eyelids, or that their eyes work entirely different)



So does anyone have any other quotes or descriptions of the gang's alien forms that they remember from the show that i missed?? I'd love to have basically all the hints they gave sooner or later lol.

Here are the ONLY TWO pictures of what people think the aliens from 3rd rock from the sun look like on the entire web. I couldnt find any other pictures, ANYWHERE lol. The first one is pretty good, the second one is kinda meh, the second one was the only one around for years lol.

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/049/d/b/thirdrockaliens_by_fabl epaint-d772p7l.jpg

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs38/f/2008/318/9/6/3rd_Rock_From_the_Sun_b y_Dragon_Wing_Z.jpg


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S3 E19 we found out there is no gravity on their planet, and apparently drafty.

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I don't think they really looked like anything. What it sounds like was that tidbits of absurd and often contradictory information were thrown out for comic effect.

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You nailed it, lunchboxattacks!

I agree that it was a running gag, something like Snoopy's doghouse in "Peanuts"; the doghouse was normal size for a beagle, but over the years a warehouse worth of stuff wound up going in and out. It just didn't add up.

I don't know if the production team ever dished about this publicly. But I doubt that they worked up a full behind-the-scenes description or model of the Solomons' default alien bodies*. It was sufficient to keep throwing out crazy bits and pieces that don't really add up, so that the audience could keep scratching its collective head-- sort of a big, giant head-- and wonder what in the world (or out of this world) their alien forms actually looked like.

*Or, if they did, they may have been saving it for a movie version with big-budget CGI effects. 😉

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Personally I tended to imagine them as purple celery.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8257/8685843307_c9fbf33489_b.jpg

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Aren't they actually really huge? In the last episode Dick tells Mary that she would be the size of a trophy on their home planet.

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I always figured they looked the purple tentacle from Maniac Mansion:

https://pleasantplushies.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/purple-tentale-mm.jpg

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