BLINKER: Since "Desert Storm" was such a crappy episode, all of today's prizes are... well, really crappy!

SYNTHIA [thuds face into hands]: We broke our budget again, didn't we...

BLINKER: Hey, giving TM full ownership of Wal-Mart was YOUR idea.

SYNTHIA: Um, true... but *you* insisted on tossing in that copy of "Cosmopolitan!"

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• SL4ever wins a day at Ellen DeGenerate's place, replete with "Oral B" and "cross action!"
• Slider_Quinn21 wins some more brown water... from a paperless toilet!
• ThomasMalthus wins Tim Curry and Mrs. Garrett from 'The Facts of Life' in "The Worst Waterwitch!"
• vortex62 wins this box of Girl Guide mint cookies. They're just like the chocolate and vanilla types, only deliciously inedible!
• SweetOne wins The Fan's Guide to Osbcure Sliders Eps, so she can finally Recall even the blandest of 'em!
• TemporalFlux wins Tom Baker and Tom Servo in "The MSTs of Time"!
• MissingTimeRyan wins a thousand thousand slimy things!
• SpiderMonkeeDolenz wins a "crystal amulet" I picked up from the prize bin at the dentist's office, so he can finally trade up!
• Joey_Starr wins a railroad spike to hide in sliderseth's Ovaltine! Wait for him to swallow it and watch the hilarity ensue!
• sliderseth wins a kick in the pants!

And now, yet another iteration of "Good Thing, Bad Thing." To play along yourself, cite something positive and something negative about "DragonSlide." Ready? Let's go!

=== GOOD THING, BAD THING ===

- BLINKER -

• On the up side: of the first 400 US airings of Sliders episodes, as compiled by the amazing Kromagg1 at http://www.scifi.com/bboard/browse.cgi/1/5/2326/8638, only four of them were "DragonSlide."

• On the flip side: A fan survey asking for possible alternate history ideas at [ http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:members.nbci.com/earthprime_/stacks/results.htm ] included such howlers as "back in time and find Aurto again," "Aworld where Quinn is naked 99% of the time," "something religious," and "Where people grow from the ground like corn"... yet EVERY ONE OF THEM is superior to the premise of "DragonSlide."

- SYNTHIA -

• According to Slider120 at http://www.scifi.com/bboard/browse.cgi/1/5/1900/837, the filming of this episode magically caused the events it depicted to be "brought to life."

• Wait, that's a bad thing.

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

"As she nears the collection, she is tripped by Honey. She then admires the gold statue of Budha and begins to lick it. Of course, Honey starts trembling by this."

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