SYNTHIA: So, what triumph of the third season do we have down for this weekend?

BLINKER [setting aside Prize-Sacฎ to check notes inscribed on palm]: Um... "The Cream Wasters."

SYNTHIA: ...

BLINKER [scratching at the ink with one finger] Uh... "The Llama Tasters"?

SYNTHIA [rolling eyes]: Oh, that's brilliant. So however *did* you determine that rearranging the text at random would magically render it MORE legible?

BLINKER: Hey, it works on Slider120 fiction!

SYNTHIA [slumping]: Open the bag.

• Slider_Quinn21 wins the collected dissertations of A. Tad Bland!
• SL4Beaver wins two tickets to the set of Tracy Torm้'s "Outer Limits" episode, "Rule of Law!"
• FogBoy wins "The Best New, Wildly Varied, Through and Through Hard Sci-Fi of 1996," edited by vehement Sliders hater Gardner Dozois!
• Mychand wins a stylish new flotation device. Insert Kari reference here!
• Recall317 wins a French kiss from Sabrina Lloyd!
• Callie21V wins a Danny DeVito mask! There's no better way to simultaneously resemble the enigmatic midget butler from "The Prisoner" AND scare the 7>:-# out of passers-by!
• DieselMickeyDolenz wins a "Planet of the Apes" licensed Ape Cleaning Kit! "Get your paws on this product for a *damn* clean ape!"™
• ...and The_Seer wins a GOLD STAR!

=== MORAL OF THE STORY: THE DREAM MASTERS ===

SYNTHIA: I learned that all those within an unspecified radius who are suffering bad LSD trips are telepathically linked together in the dream world. What were these scriptwriters ON?!

BLINKER: Well, it sure as hell wasn't *just* LSD. And as for my lesson... from here on in, the definition of "a true family show" includes "go-go dancing strippers every three episodes." Thank you, David Peckinpah. 7>:-#

SYNTHIA: We'll see you in "The Fire Within," ladies.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DAVID PECKINPAH: I object to this treatment! Those go-go dancers happen to be the wives of my close personal friends... the biker gang from "Easy Slider." And once and for all, our episode "The Dream Masters" bore NO connection whatsoever to the Elm Street film series!

BLINKER: *cough* "This time around, one of the teenagers has the gift of summoning others into her dreams. Together, she, Nancy, and the other inmates try to learn how to control the elements of the dream world and fight back at Freddy." -- http://www.amateurcritics.com/reviews/n/nightmareonelmstreet3.html *cough*

SYNTHIA: *cough* http://www.johncarlbuechler.com/n4/ *cough*

PECKINPAH: Uh... okay, so it was a "re-imagining." See, I'm just like Tim Burton!

BLINKER: What you are is the lowest possible form of human filth.

SYNTHIA: Ehh... you're half right. DMD, would you be a dear and hand me that kit?

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So... what'd YOU learn?

- Blinker 7:-P
http://slidersweb.net/blinker

"I just love the 'bobbly' sound, and the feeling's just GREAT."