Unknown Facts • The Breeder

Date: 03/04/2004
From: SynthIA

• Recall317 wins Cabot and Ostello's "Fielder's On First!"
• DieselMickeyDolenz wins a crate of Dexfen-phen, the PIE loss drug!
• PhantomDennis wins an all-expenses paid trip to Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania!

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What *don't* we know about this episode? Lots. What's the story on that creature's homeworld? How can it give you an extra pair of eyelids (hey, *another* "Operation: Annihilate" similarity!) from its location in the stomach, and take them with it once it's banished? How did they get Eleah "Heartwarming Family Episode" Horwitz to write this >:-#?

My fact: the generic 3D model that's presumably meant to represent Maggie...

http://earth62.net/epguide/ep_breeder07.JPG

...was only chosen after repeated attempts to model her true proportions kept crashing the renderer.

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Family Viewing

Date: 03/04/2004
From: PhantomDennis

When Peckinpah was asked how this episode squared with his promise to make SLIDERS more "family friendly". (Because everyone knows the first two seasons were like a cross between Sex in the City and the Sopranos.), he responded "How do you think families are made?"

So...can we have your liver then?

Date: 03/05/2004
From: Recall317

All right, you talked me into it.

Writer Eleah Horwitz lost a lot of money at the track the weekend before this assignment came up.

R317

<Walks past the zombies...>

Date: 03/05/2004
From: ThomasMalthus

Beginning Text must go to Haiti's... finest dance club!

My unknown fact? Production had every intention of tying the laughable concept of "The Breeder" together with the lamentable concept of the breeding camps in a late Season Four episode entitled "Breeder 2: Sabine Boogaloo." The deal fell through, however, when Ben Vereen declined to appear as Rembrandt's non-identical double.

ThomasMalthus

A Sliders first.... and last.

Date: 03/05/2004
From: DieselMickeyDolenz

"The Breeder" has the unknown distinction of being the only episode of Sliders to actually have been improved by the firing of John Rhys-Davies. In the original screenplay it was the Professor that was inhabited by the parasite, and you *don't* want to ever see JRD in this scene: http://www.earth62.net/epguide/ep_breeder19.JPG

DMD

Worst. Episode. Ever.

Date: 03/06/2004
From: sliderules

BT can't even compare.

Good lord I hate Breeder. In fact, I hated it so much, that when I found this out, I realized I would have enjoyed the episode more if this was the case.

Did you know that the Alien was originally going to have a voice, ala Look Who's Talking and Looking Who's Talking Too? The voice of Adam West was going to play the slimy green thing, and comment every now and then on how slutty its host was, and how it wished it could get some of that ass for itself.

Interesting. -_-

~sliderules
"NANANANANANANA BREEDER!"

"Who do I do now?"

Date: 03/06/2004
From: Callie21V

Found in a memo, on "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" stationery, salvaged from a Universal Studios trashcan:

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FROM: David "The Peck Man" Peckinpah
TO: Eleah Horwitz
RE: Alt. epilogue idea - feedback?
DATE: 2/9/97
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The breeder thought it had it made. The Sliders that had carried it here were gone, and the only other person aware of the threat it posed was under its control. In a matter of months, the symbionts on this world would outnumber the humans!

But in a cruel twist of fate, its new host (the one it had selected for her extraordinary beauty!) was by any other world's standards, a freakish monstrosity. One likened among co-workers to a troll, a pelican, a yak, and the thing from "Predator." The intern who had found her didn't even need to see the scales on her eyes to run screaming from her come-on.

Slinking through the city, she tried every pick-up line in the Breeder Handbook, from "I want you, baby!" to "Show me more of this thing you host beings call 'love'"... but to no avail. And as we SLOW PAN away from her sobbing frame huddled in an alley...

ROBERT ENGLUND, OR IF WE CAN'T GET HIM AGAIN, FORREST WHITTAKER
(stepping onscreen)
Now the questions that come to mind. Where did this parasite come from, what kind of world where ugliness is the norm and beauty the deviation from that norm? The answer is, it doesn't make any difference. Because the old saying happens to be true: only hot people get lucky in LA. In this year or a hundred years hence, on this planet or wherever there is human life, perhaps out among the stars... only hot people will *ever* get lucky in LA. Lesson to be learned...in the "Species" Zone.
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>>> C/21

Everyone needs a hug :-)

Date: 03/10/2004
From: BabyCasanova

Even BT needs a hug, but not from me. :-D


It's harder to hug someone with them on! O:-)
So it's off with Maggie's clothes


Hug Me!
Casanova

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