• Recall317 wins a haunted bathtub!
• JTHeyman wins a Worm Soufflé from the Bait-N-Breakfast!
• PhantomDennis wins the guardianship of a fair infant dying of a cough!
• ThomasMalthus wins "The Best Simpsons Episodes Whose Titles Play On 'The Last Temptation of Christ!'"
• sliderules wins a role in a Worm Goo commercial! "Worm Goo. It tastes like crap, and it works."

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After a protracted run of episodes that teetered on the edge of crap (and sometimes plunged straight in), Sliders stood at a crossroads. In many ways, "The Exodus, Part 1" looked promising: the plot was relatively original, we were finally looking at sliding in a novel way beyond "slide in, have an hour-long adventure, and slide out," and hey look! Our first cliffhanger! Just try to ignore how these (and pretty much all the other) aspects were handled with comprehension-defying stupidity. It'll make tomorrow's letdown all the more crushing!

But for now, how about telling us something we *didn't* know:

The last shot (with the legend "To Be Continued") was intended to be shown in widescreen, but what with nobody putting in any effort whatsoever, they forgot and stretched it vertically to fit.

http://earth62.net/epguide/ep_1exodus51.JPG

Wait, that actually sounds plausible. So I'd better point out to any new players that the notion is to *make up* your facts. Okay, let 'er rip!

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