Last game: "Dead Man Sliding"
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Today's "didn't have the replies with me when I wrote this up" prize theme: your handles!

• MissingSliderLogan wins a "hot" date with Arturo!
• sliderules wins "When In Doubt, Do Nothing: Remmy and Maggie's Complete Guide to Sliding the Peck Way!"
• Slider_Quinn21 wins a 3:2 payout!
• ThomasMalthus wins a sustainable food supply!
• The_Seer wins this pin! [ http://www.earth62.net/ebay/proppin.jpg ]
• TemporalFlux wins constancy of spirit! Don't kill those guys... yet!
• svetlanamonsoon wins a Monsoon™ brand premium audio system. As one of the marketplace's most innovative, prestigious and best-selling premium audio systems, Monsoon™ combines crisp highs and resonant lows to achieve truly dimensional sound!
• Recall317 wins a nomination to replace Gray Davis!

The always-popular GOLD STAR OF DUAL MORALS, ONE OF WHICH BROUGHT A CLASSIC EXECUTIVE POST TO MIND shall go to Slider_Sarah (and not just because her handle is hard to riff.) Affix it with pride!

-- "THIS SLIDE OF PARADISE" --

BLINKER: And here we are: the episode near-unanimously proclaimed in this forum's own Survivor poll to be the worst ever produced. In view of its overwhelming awfulness, we're waiving the usual "Good Thing/Bad Thing" premise and making this one a "Bad Thing/Worse Thing."

SYNTHIA: Bad thing: Nan Hagan's original script, which goes from an X-Files-style "teaser victim"* to supplying fans another reason to hate Maggie: her poor judgment and revenge fixation deny the others their way home.

BLINKER [nodding]: Not bad. I mean... ugh, never mind.

SYNTHIA: Worse thing: David Peckinpah's anonymous rewrite, which adds such highlights as Rembrandt's abrupt and meaningless relationship with a bipedal cat who enjoys licking pans of milk.

THIRD SEASON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DAVID PECKINPAH: Yeah, I was worried all that interracial romance he got in the first couple seasons might've alienated our viewers in the South. So an interspecies romance was my way of making it up to them.

SYNTHIA [aghast]: You should be shot.

BLINKER: Bad thing: Michael York's appearance in this "Dr. Moreau" rip-off somehow seems even *more* pointless than Robert Englund's NON-appearance in the "Elm Street" rip-off. Worse thing: six years later, I *still* can't get the horror out of my head! [clawing at head] Out! Out, damn TSOP!

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

* Previously seen in "Dream Masters," "Paradise Lost," "The Exodus, Part I," "Sole Survivors," and "Stoker."