(Y'all remember how this goes, right?)

Presenting the dissectors of "This Slide of Paradise":

http://bboard.scifi.com/bboard/browse.cgi/1/5/545/4067114

• The_Seer wins a complete DVD set of "Keeping Up Appearances"!
• DieselMickeyDolenz wins the part of Brannon Braga responsible for "Threshold"!
• Slider_Quinn21 wins "The Island of Dr. Monroe," a Hallowe'en special from a world where Simpsons writers don't overlook the most obvious ideas!
• sliderules wins a ticket to a Mexico City fresh air booth!
• JTHeyman wins a "Frodo Lives" bumper sticker with "Frodo" scratched out and "Wade Welles" written in!
• ThomasMalthus wins "The Mekkan Devil's Dictionary," featuring such definitions as "Kurx: Collective noun for a group of starship captains" and "Space fishing: The sport of kurxes!"
• Recall317 wins TM's nude pictures of Dr. Zoidberg!
• MissingSliderLogan wins "Crispy Whirlpool of Love: The Kari Wuhrer's Gynecologist Story!"

And of course, ThomasMalthus wins the GOLD STAR OF MUSICAL EXCELLENCE. I mean, there's tour de force and there's *tour de force*, and this guy pulls off the latter with ridiculous frequency. There's also Tour de France but I can't see how it's relevant.

-- "GENESIS" --

SYNTHIA: Here's the procedure: watch your tape of "Genesis," then reply to this post and describe an item from or related to the episode.

BLINKER: Er... put it this way: in the last couple weeks, on the heels of my first-ever visit to the United States, I've endured a fever, headaches, sore throat, 3-4 hours of sleep a night, lung congestion, runny nose, sudden vomiting at 3 AM, insomnia due to saliva glands overproducing a strange chalky substance, and - in a side effect of the prescribed antibiotic - my stomach contents bubbling like a fourth grade science experiment. I've even learned what it's like to cough and sneeze simultaneously, and to wake up with one's nose contents mysteriously crusted dry. And despite my extremely limited presence of mind, at no point in this whirlwind of delirium has re-watching "Genesis" seemed like a good idea. So let's say we leave the 'tape' thing as strictly an option.

SYNTHIA [nodding slowly]: Strong words. Strong, bewildering words. [holds up a large cylinder] Itemwise, I brought this burning trashcan. It's standard TV shorthand for a world o' chaos... or, I suppose, for conveying that a being of living flame is gearing up for a rampage in Oiltown, but I can't imagine *that* scenario ever coming up. Your turn.

BLINKER: Well, I have to admit, I didn't entirely hate this episode at first. Not that I *enjoyed* seeing the Kromaggs reimagined as horny Neanderthals and Wade reduced to their sex slave, or the rainy streets of Vancouver and the sunny streets of LA being replaced by a single soundstage with cinematography so false it set my teeth on edge, or the entire mythology of the show torn up and replaced with a half-assed copy of "Superman"... but so help me, after the hell that was 1997, it felt good to get *any* Sliders back on the air that didn't involve giant reptiles or mutants that suck body fluids.

SYNTHIA: And... you brought?

BLINKER [pausing to throw up in the burning trashcan]: A symbol of my revised opinions on "Genesis": the thumbscrews I'd like to turn on David Peckinpah.

SYNTHIA: I can think of a lot more appropriate places to attack him than his thumbs...

BLINKER: When did I say thumbs?

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

- MEKKAN DEVIL -
Fencing soulstones, fixing zarnfights, weaving those indecent tapestries
These are the crimes for which you've earned
Eternities of getting burned
I'd have to say that you're phlupherned
On Level Twelve of Mekkan Hellllllll!

- LYCURGUS TARKALAN -
Hey, is this about me? My eartubes are burning!