BLINKER [grimacing at Otherworlds graphics in progress]: Ugh! Ten gazillion images on the web and not a single shot of a room made of algae melting in on itself!

SYNTHIA: You could always modify a picture of your fridge.

BLINKER [annoyed]: I was hoping you'd suggest taking a break to review "The Other Slide of Darkness."

SYNTHIA: Yeah, there's that.

• DieselMickeyDolenz wins a bottle of calamine lotion!
• Recall317 wins the second-worst book of all time: Kevin Keegan's "Keegan: It's a Funny Old Name!"
• ThomasMalthus wins M. Night Shyamalan's ode to the alternate history of "Easy Slider," "Halt Signs"!
• TemporalFlux wins a memento from that other Guy Pearce movie! I just can't remember the title... oh right, "Ravenous."
• SL4ever wins the lost episode in which an amnesiac Lenny shoots Squiggy to avenge his brutal murder of Laverne!
• Slider_Quinn21 wins a prize that our purchasing department hasn't obtained yet!
• Vigeant wins "Glugging all the Way: The Best of Jingle Fish!"
• MissingSliderRyan wins Arturo and Wade's sequel to "9½ Weeks," "Seven Days in Mayo!"
• The_Seer wins the cheesiest Sliders script ever, "The Last of Edam"!

Finally, the GOLD STAR OF OBSERVATIONAL SKILLS goes to MSR for being the first to nail that nitpick! WOO HOO!

-- "THE OTHER SLIDE OF DARKNESS" --

BLINKER: Welcome to Show and Tell, the show where you tell us about objects from or inspired by "The Other Slide of Darkness"! Today I'm exercising that "inspired by" clause and presenting this mail-in token from a cereal box.

SYNTHIA: ...

BLINKER: See, TOSOD plays as if the writers were desperately trying to appease fans with some "token" continuity without having to spend a single cent of budget on it. "We can't bring back Jason Gaffney... but we can bring back a past Quinn double! That wouldn't cost anything! And we can't use the Kromaggs with their prison worlds and manta ships... but we can throw in stock footage from 'Invasion'! Now, what implausible excuse can we use to tie 'em both together?" Not to mention how this double revelation is crammed into the last ten minutes of the show and has pretty much zero connection to the remainder of the plot.

SYNTHIA: And so it was that the continuity of "Invasion" was ripped to shreds in the name of giving fans some continuity back.

THIRD SEASON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DAVID PECKINPAH [rolling eyes]: Yeah, like anyone cared about "Invasion."

SYNTHIA: Well, for my part, I brought in the maaaaaaaaaaaagical bag used to intimidate the villagers. Hey, wait a minute! How come the money spent on THAT couldn't have gone toward a Gaffney appearance?

[ The hosts turn towards Peck, only to see a smoky rendering of the blind seeress' face wafting up from the bag on the ground. In the distance, we hear rapidly receding footsteps followed by a door slamming shut. ]

BLINKER: Well, that's about it for us. What'd *you* bring in?

SYNTHIA: If FogBoy doesn't play this episode, there IS no justice.

TEMPTRESSINFINITY [snatching at DMD]: I believe that's mine?

- Blinker 7:-/
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"If I were any more sanguine about telling you this story, I'd be glad you asked!"