Lance and Janice

Lance and Janice is a holovision series featured in Up Your Arsenal, Deadlocked, A Crack in Time, All 4 One, and mentioned in Tools of Destruction and Into the Nexus. It is a soap opera starring titular characters Lance and Janice in a romantic plot, though its writing is often ridiculous. The show has been running for a long time, as it originally played on old-fashioned holo-vid players, and reached its tenth season during A Crack in Time. It is broadcast on the Vox Network.

The show focuses on the love between Lance, a humanoid-looking man, and Janice, a green alien with tentacles and a single eye. Many of the plot-threads appear to be outlandish, including one involving Lance having an evil twin brother named Englebert, one in which he claims to be cursed by a tribe of gypsy ninjas, and one involving him becoming a "flesh-eating zombie."

The show is most notable for playing as part of Dr. Nefarious' malfunction. During a fit of rage, Nefarious can malfunction and freeze up, causing him to play portions of Lance and Janice and pick up the radio waves, until whacked by another character, normally Lawrence. Aside from Nefarious, several other characters are shown to be fans of the show, including Captain Qwark, Flint Vorselon, as well as Cronk and Zephyr.

In When the Cold Breeze Blows Away, it's even more notable for playing as part of Victor Nevarez's malfunction to freeze up during a fit or rage, which causes him to play portions of this soap opera and pick up the radio waves until whacked by another character, normally Jonathon Marple. It was became his reconstructed body is mainly made out of outdated alien machinery.