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| [[File:TRS - Resurrection Ship - Sunshine Boys.jpg|thumb|The Sunshine Boys' visit to [[Galen Tyrol]] and {{callsign|Helo}} (unseen) is interrupted by Col. [[Jack Fisk]] (unseen) {{TRS|Resurrection Ship, Part II}}.]]
| | The '''Sunshine Boys''' is a referential term coined by [[Karl Agathon]] to refer to two crewmen, [[Vireem]] and [[Gage]], from the [[Mercury class battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''. The Sunshine Boys are best known for taking it upon themselves to assault [[Galen Tyrol]] and Karl Agathon \{\{TRSResurrection Ship, Part II}} after Tyrol kills Lieutenant [[Alastair Thorne]] {{TRS|Pegasus (episode)}}, although they are subsequently stopped by Colonel [[Jack Fisk]] before they can inflict much damage {{TRS|Resurrection Ship, Part II}}. |
| The '''Sunshine Boys''' is a referential term coined by {{Callsign|Helo}} to refer to two crewmen, Specialists [[Vireem]] and [[Gage]], from the [[Mercury class battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''. | |
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| ==Overview==
| | The Sunshine Boys and Agathon later have a run-in during [[Gaeta's Mutiny]], as the Sunshine Boys separate Agathon from his wife and daughter {{TRS|The Oath}}. For their participation in the mutiny, they are incarcerated aboard ''[[Astral Queen]]'' {{TRS|Blood on the Scales}}. |
| Vireem and Gage first come to the attention of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'''s crew when they and several other ''Pegasus'' crewmembers boast to Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] and Lieutenant [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]] of their participation in the gang rape of the Cylon prisoner [[Gina Inviere]]. Vireem additionally taunts Agathon that ''Galactica'''s own Cylon prisoner, [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon Valerii]], is next in line for such treatment from Lieutenant [[Alastair Thorne]]. Agathon's subsequent intervention to stop Thorne results in Thorne's accidental death at Tyrol's hands, and the arrest of both officers by Admiral [[Helena Cain]] {{TRS|Pegasus (episode)}}.
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| With Agathon and Tyrol imprisoned in the ''Pegasus'' brig awaiting execution, Vireem and Gage take personal revenge for Thorne's death. Aided by two [[Colonial Marines]], they bind Tyrol and Agathon and beat them with bars of soap stuffed inside towels — an assault halted only when Colonel [[Jack Fisk]] arrives and dresses them down. Though Fisk intervenes, he makes plain that his sympathy lies with the attackers: he tells Agathon that he, and approximately fifty other members of the ''Pegasus'' crew, owe Thorne their lives {{TRS|Resurrection Ship, Part II}}.
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| After the [[Battle of New Caprica|destruction of ''Pegasus'']] during the [[Second Exodus]], both specialists transfer to the crew of ''Galactica''. Following the discovery of the devastated [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], they join [[Felix Gaeta]]'s [[Gaeta's Mutiny|mutiny]] against Admiral [[William Adama]]. During the mutiny, Gage leads the group that forcibly removes the [[Karl Agathon|Agathon]] family from their quarters, beats Agathon unconscious, threatens [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon]], and later takes over Gaeta's tactical station in [[CIC]]. Vireem, meanwhile, participates in freeing [[Tom Zarek]] from the brig {{TRS|The Oath}}. For their roles in the mutiny, both are taken into custody when Adama's loyalists retake control of the ship and are presumably incarcerated on ''[[Astral Queen]]'' {{TRS|Blood on the Scales}}.
| | The "Sunshine Boys" are referred to as the "Yee-Haw Boys" by [[Ron D. Moore|Ron Moore]] in [[Podcast:Resurrection Ship, Part II|the podcast]] for "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]." |
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| * The name "Sunshine Boys" originates in the script itself and is used by [[Ron D. Moore|Ron Moore]] when referring to the characters in [[Podcast:Resurrection Ship, Part II|the podcast for "Resurrection Ship, Part II"]]; Moore also refers to them as the "Yee-Haw Boys" in the same commentary, echoing Helo's in-episode term.
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| * Both [[Mike Dopud]] (Gage) and [[Derek Delost]] (Vireem) appear uncredited in "Resurrection Ship, Part II."
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| * Vireem's tattoo — a dragon with the [[w:Chinese language|Chinese]] character 吉 ("good") on his left bicep — is the actor's own.
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| ==Behind the scenes==
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| The assault scene in "Resurrection Ship, Part II" draws on two films explicitly cited by writer-producer [[Ron D. Moore|Ron Moore]] in [[Podcast:Resurrection Ship, Part II|the episode podcast]]. Moore described the central inspirations:
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| {{quote|Some of this is inspired by "Full Metal Jacket", the scene in "Full Metal Jacket" where they're beating on one of the recruits with a bar of soap and a towel was a very sort of haunting — disturbing is a better word to use — that I always remembered. The scene in "The Grifters" where Anjelica Huston is briefly threatened that maybe she is going to be beaten in the stomach with oranges wrapped up in a towel — both of those notions were always sort of chilling and frightening and so I thought that they'd be really effective to use in this scene — that there is something classic about the notion that you hit someone in the stomach when you don't want to leave a mark and yet it's incredibly painful.<ref group="production" name="moore_podcast_rs2_fmj_grifters">{{cite web|url=https://en.battlestarwiki.org/Podcast:Resurrection_Ship,_Part_II#:~:text=Some%20of%20this%20is%20inspired%20by%20%22Full%20Metal%20Jacket%22|title=Podcast: Resurrection Ship, Part II|publisher=Battlestar Wiki|accessdate=May 17, 2026}}</ref>}}
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| The technique depicted — a "blanket party," in which all participants share in the assault so that the victim cannot single out any one attacker — is the same method used in the ''[[w:Full Metal Jacket|Full Metal Jacket]]'' barracks scene, a point Moore makes himself in the podcast.
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| The assault scene was originally conceived as a single continuous scene together with the preceding Helo-and-Tyrol conversation. It was cleaved into two parts in post-production to help balance the running times of "Resurrection Ship, Part I" and "Resurrection Ship, Part II," with the Sunshine Boys' entrance providing a clean editorial cut point.<ref group="production" name="moore_podcast_rs2_scene_split">{{cite web|url=https://en.battlestarwiki.org/Podcast:Resurrection_Ship,_Part_II#:~:text=this%20scene%2C%20was%20another%20thing%20that%20cleaved%20in%20half%20very%20nicely|title=Podcast: Resurrection Ship, Part II|publisher=Battlestar Wiki|accessdate=May 17, 2026}}</ref>
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| The scene's presence in "Resurrection Ship, Part II" was also a deliberate dramatic choice. As Moore explained, having Vireem and Gage confined to ''Pegasus'' with Tyrol and Agathon made their reappearance a natural consequence:
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| {{quote|It quickly came up that, "Hey, the Yee-Haw Boys, the Sunshine Boys as they're called in the script, may have something to say too and it may not be very pleasant."<ref group="production" name="moore_podcast_rs2_sunshine_boys_origin">{{cite web|url=https://en.battlestarwiki.org/Podcast:Resurrection_Ship,_Part_II#:~:text=the%20Yee-Haw%20Boys%2C%20the%20Sunshine%20Boys%20as%20they%27re%20called%20in%20the%20script%2C%20may%20have%20something%20to%20say|title=Podcast: Resurrection Ship, Part II|publisher=Battlestar Wiki|accessdate=May 17, 2026}}</ref>}}
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| More footage of the assault was shot than appears in the final cut. Moore described editing the sequence down deliberately:
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| {{quote|As shot there was a lot more fighting and kicking back and forth and there was actually a point where Tyrol got a shot back at one of these guys and there was more beatings going on and I felt very strongly that the way to maintain dramatic cohesion in the scene was to have less beating, it's more effective — the suspense... it's more about the suspense of when are they gonna do this? What are they gonna do? And you're dragging out the tension as far as possible.<ref group="production" name="moore_podcast_rs2_editing_restraint">{{cite web|url=https://en.battlestarwiki.org/Podcast:Resurrection_Ship,_Part_II#:~:text=As%20shot%20there%20was%20a%20lot%20more%20fighting%20and%20kicking%20back%20and%20forth|title=Podcast: Resurrection Ship, Part II|publisher=Battlestar Wiki|accessdate=May 17, 2026}}</ref>}}
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| The placement of the scene in the teaser — cutting away before the beating begins — was similarly deliberate: because of the pair's earlier behavior toward [[Gina Inviere]], many viewers feared that what was about to happen to Agathon and Tyrol would be far worse than a physical beating.<ref group="production" name="bsgwiki_rs2_analysis_teaser">{{cite web|url=https://en.battlestarwiki.org/Resurrection_Ship,_Part_II#:~:text=many%20viewers%20left%20the%20teaser%20fearing%20that%20far%20worse%20was%20going%20to%20happen|title=Resurrection Ship, Part II|publisher=Battlestar Wiki|accessdate=May 17, 2026}}</ref>
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| Moore's inspiration for the Fisk intervention scene — understated, hostile to the victims, and ending with "you can't rape a machine" — came in part from a personal memory of a shipboard disciplinary moment observed during his Navy ROTC service aboard the frigate ''USS W.S. Sims''. He described the coda's purpose:
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| {{quote|It's another way of always providing a sense of imbalance, of the audience never being quite comfortable in their assumptions of what's going on and who to root for and how they should deal with a very complicated situation.<ref group="production" name="moore_podcast_rs2_imbalance">{{cite web|url=https://en.battlestarwiki.org/Podcast:Resurrection_Ship,_Part_II#:~:text=another%20way%20of%20always%20providing%20a%20sense%20of%20imbalance|title=Podcast: Resurrection Ship, Part II|publisher=Battlestar Wiki|accessdate=May 17, 2026}}</ref>}}
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| Actor [[Mike Dopud]], who portrays Gage, described the character's through line in a 2022 interview as entirely self-interested across both the Season 2 and Season 4 appearances:
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| {{quote|Gage was such an asshole, for lack of a better term. He was, he just didn't care... Specialist Gage was a guy that looked after himself. That's all he cared about. [He didn't care] about anything else. And that's the way I approached him, and I think it was right. That was the tone, and that was what was necessary from Gage.<ref group="production" name="dopud_dialthegate_ep152_gage_approach">{{cite web|url=https://www.dialthegate.com/videos/152-mike-dopud-actor-multiple-sg-roles-interview/#:~:text=Gage%20was%20such%20an%20asshole%2C%20for%20lack%20of%20a%20better%20term|title=152: Mike Dopud, Actor, Multiple SG Roles (Interview)|publisher=Dial the Gate|date=November 26, 2022|accessdate=May 17, 2026}}</ref>}}
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| Dopud also credited a writers' strike accommodation for the characters' return in [[Season 4 (2008-09)|Season 4]], noting that the [[w:2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike|2007–08 WGA strike]] had disrupted cast availability across ''Galactica'''s final season but that the production worked around the scheduling conflict to bring Gage back:
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| {{quote|There was a big writers' strike going on at the time, when ''Battlestar'' had their last season, and some of the actors were cast in other shows. And then I was doing something else, but we were able to work it out that I was able to do some. So I was glad that it did work out, because it was nice to come back to the show.<ref group="production" name="dopud_dialthegate_ep152_season4_return">{{cite web|url=https://www.dialthegate.com/videos/152-mike-dopud-actor-multiple-sg-roles-interview/#:~:text=There%20was%20a%20big%20writers%27%20strike%20going%20on%20at%20the%20time%2C%20when%20Battlestar%20had%20their%20last%20season|title=152: Mike Dopud, Actor, Multiple SG Roles (Interview)|publisher=Dial the Gate|date=November 26, 2022|accessdate=May 17, 2026}}</ref>}}
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