Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!\n\nIn which Alan Davis's Excalibur is a spiritual sibling to The Muppet Show; Captain Britain gets a Captain Britain lesson; Opal Luna Saturnyne has no time for your nonsense; Meggan and Rachel take a brief detour into a Hammer film; Earth-148 is extra heroic; no member of Excalibur will ever use a bathroom in peace; Cerise joins the team; Technet embraces the future; and the end of the world is nigh.\n\nX-PLAINED:\n\n \tPixie's powers and parentage\n \tSeveral eccentricities of Jay's apartment\n \tExcalibur #45-47\n \tEarth-148 (Ee'rath)\n \tComics pacing vs. podcast pacing\n \tTechnet (more) (again)\n \tAmelia Witherspoon and several references related thereto\n \tThe N-Men\n \tHow to Captain Britain\n \tThe multiversal significance of the lighthouse\n \tA portentous chess game\n \tA particularly aggressive retcon\n \tThe return of the Neuri\n \tThe real Meggan\n \tNecrom\n \tA heroic death\n \tThe true curse of Excalibur\n \tSome very specific citations\n \tA reunion\n \tKylun (Colin McKay)\n \tA blessed event\n \tCerise\n \tWhether Rogue can control Cyclops's powers\n \tLaura Kinney's upcoming reversion to X-23\n\nNEXT EPISODE: Bishop joins the X-Men!\n\n\n\nENTIRELY IRRELEVANT UPDATE: The wall on which Jay was attempting to mount a desk turned out to be plaster over sheetrock. Office plans are being revised accordingly.\n\n\n\nCheck out the visual companion to this episode on our blog!\n\nFind us on\xa0iTunes\xa0or\xa0Stitcher!\n\nJay\xa0and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to\xa0help support the podcast\u2013and unlock more cool stuff\u2013you can do that\xa0right here!\n\nWe\u2019re in the process of migrating our\xa0official shop to TeePublic!\xa0Click over to check it out!\xa0(You can still find the designs we haven\u2019t moved yet\xa0at Redbubble.)