SYNTHIA: Late much?

BLINKER: ARGH! I can't believe we came THAT close to actually discussing the one and only overtly seasonal episode at an appropriate time!

SYNTHIA: I dunno... I thought "This Slide of Paradise" had a real Valentine's vibe.

THIRD SEASON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DAVID PECKINPAH: Well it's ABOUT TIME someone picked up on that!

SYNTHIA: Yeah. It's just *such* a shame it couldn't air until the end of the season...

THIRD SEASON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DAVID PECKINPAH: Exactly what I told FOX! Like I keep saying, it was a *constant* struggle to produce quality television under those bean-counters!

• MissingSliderRyan wins a job as a MAC-27 repairwoman!
• TemporalFlux wins a tour of duty in the navy!
• Slider_Quinn21 wins a job as humourist Dave Barry's pun advisor!
• The_Seer wins a career as a basement redecorator!
• SpiderMonkeeDolenz wins the position of Chief Memory Blocker on Story Game #2 world!
• SL4ever wins a role as John Edward's next guest!
• ThomasMalthus wins a stint painting white lines down the middle of highways!
• DoctorWhy wins a Vegas lounge act as an "allusionist"!
• Recall317 wins Howie Mandel's job! Try topping THAT comic for ineptitude!
• Joey_Starr wins a job as sliderseth's personal "lumberjack"! Hoist that axe!

=== MORAL OF THE STORY: SEASON'S GREEDINGS ===

SYNTHIA: Is this about the story Arturo told those kids, or the story of "Season's Greedings" in general?

BLINKER: (B).

SYNTHIA: Oh, good; I was hoping for at least a MINIMAL challenge. Okay, the moral of the episode is that just as "certain clusters" of the universe permit wizardry and shape-changing, "certain frequencies" of a TV display permit the insertion of invisible lettering that magically compels viewers to carry out its will.

THIRD SEASON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DAVID PECKINPAH: Well, the universe clusters in question are made up of collapsing neutron pulsars. Which are pretty much like asteroids, except with glowing light thingies at either end. Whereas the frequencies are the same ones Wade managed to "blow" in "Stoker" by getting drunk. And as we learned in "Exodus," they're beamed around the brain by neurotransmitters, which are these little radio towers in your skull.

SYNTHIA: I'm sorry I even wondered. [turns to Blinker] You got one?

BLINKER: Thanks to Kelly Welles, I learned I'm not alone in having hair that resembles a particularly shoddy robin's nest after two dozen woodchucks held an orgy in it.

SYNTHIA: Ooooookay. On to the public's morals! Steven Bochco need not apply.

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

"Sliders, filled with dialogue like 'The guy is Three Mile Island - it's going to take him years to cool down,' is a Mighty Morphin Power Rangers for teenagers who actually read newspapers." - Time Magazine's review of the Pilot, April 1995