• Joey_Starr wins a working timer from a Crackerjack box!
• MissingSliderRyan wins a shovel, so she can teach Jerry how much REAL chicks "dig" the spacesuit!
• Recall317 wins Scott Smith Miller's attention!
• DieselMickeyDolenz wins The Arachnids' "Rubber Thorax"!
• TemporalFlux wins an MP3 of "Crappy Hour," as performed by Brud Peckinsnip!
• SL4ever wins a tape of Colin Mochrie (not to be confused with Colin Mockery, the national pastime of Slidonia) pantomiming the concept of a scorpion burger!
• Slider_Quinn21 wins an all-expenses-paid trip to the afterlife! And, uh, back again! Of course!
• Vigeant wins a GOLD STAR for his wacky, hilarious, and uniquely formatted reply! Okay, that and because he hasn't posted in a while and it's good to see him around!
• The_Seer wins a Sliders VHS collection in which the original timer has been digitally inserted over the Egyptian version in all scenes where it appears! Of course, the benefit of this modification to "The Breeder" was negligible, so we *also* inserted the original timer in place of the symbiont!
• ThomasMalthus wins Miss Cleo's Award of Predictulation Excellence for correctly forecasting Recall's post!

=== MORAL OF THE STORY: PARADISE LOST ===

BLINKER: Hard to believe we're finally here, isn't it?

SYNTHIA: Standing ready to riff the most hilariously inept episode of all time?

BLINKER: No, being ready AT ALL. A whole week between posts?! I should be ashamed!

SYNTHIA: You do that. Meantime, I learned that mutant nemerteans have safety ropes for tongues.

BLINKER: Either that, or the stagehands were still learning the ropes. [rim shot amid pained groans from audience] Anyway, this episode taught me that worms are allergic to mail carriers.

SYNTHIA: Allergic? Huh???

BLINKER: Okay, the creature is driven mad with hunger by the stresses of its reproductive cycle, right? As observed by the villains when they find the dead mailman, right? So WHY IS THE MAILMAN'S BODY STILL THERE?!?

SYNTHIA: Well, you know how those worms are. Always eating with their eyes. Or rudimentary chemosensory organs, as the case may be.

BLINKER: It could've at least dragged the guy off to its cave like it did everyone else. But wait! It gets better! The inexplicably discarded mailman is then hauled off to serve as a plot contrivance, because Sheriff Jerk needs a corpse as bait to lure Arturo into the cove.

TRUDY [eyes wide as dinnerplates]: The cove... the COVE...

BLINKER: So the Professor runs around the beach for a few minutes, and guess what? THE WORM *STILL* IGNORES THE DEAD MAILMAN!

THIRD SEASON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DAVID PECKINPAH: Well yeah, but we tried to make up for that by having the body inexplicably vanish in the long shots.

BLINKER: Ugh...

SYNTHIA: Anyhow! Speaking of mail, let's take a look at viewer feedback for our last few segments. [pulls out a big bag o' letters]

THIRD SEASON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DAVID PECKINPAH [recoiling from Synthia]: AAGH! [runs from room]

BLINKER: QandD. Er, Q.E.D. [turns to readers] So what'd YOU learn?

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

It's news to me too, Quinn.
http://slidersweb.net/blinker/sounds/toldyou.mp3