Moral
of the Story -> The Dream Masters!
Date: 08/18/2001
From: Blinker
SYNTHIA: So, what triumph of the third season do we have down for this weekend?BLINKER [setting aside Prize-Sac® to check notes inscribed on palm]: Um... "The Cream Wasters."
SYNTHIA: ...
BLINKER [scratching at the ink with one finger] Uh... "The Llama Tasters"?
SYNTHIA [rolling eyes]: Oh, that's brilliant. So however *did* you determine that rearranging the text at random would magically render it MORE legible?
BLINKER: Hey, it works on Slider120 fiction!
SYNTHIA [slumping]: Open the bag.
• Slider_Quinn21 wins the collected dissertations of A. Tad Bland!
• SL4Beaver wins two tickets to the set of Tracy Tormé's "Outer Limits" episode, "Rule of Law!"
• FogBoy wins "The Best New, Wildly Varied, Through and Through Hard Sci-Fi of 1996," edited by vehement Sliders hater Gardner Dozois!
• Mychand wins a stylish new flotation device. Insert Kari reference here!
• Recall317 wins a French kiss from Sabrina Lloyd!
• Callie21V wins a Danny DeVito mask! There's no better way to simultaneously resemble the enigmatic midget butler from "The Prisoner" AND scare the 7>:-# out of passers-by!
• DieselMickeyDolenz wins a "Planet of the Apes" licensed Ape Cleaning Kit! "Get your paws on this product for a *damn* clean ape!"™
• ...and The_Seer wins a GOLD STAR!=== MORAL OF THE STORY: THE DREAM MASTERS ===
SYNTHIA: I learned that all those within an unspecified radius who are suffering bad LSD trips are telepathically linked together in the dream world. What were these scriptwriters ON?!
BLINKER: Well, it sure as hell wasn't *just* LSD. And as for my lesson... from here on in, the definition of "a true family show" includes "go-go dancing strippers every three episodes." Thank you, David Peckinpah. 7>:-#
SYNTHIA: We'll see you in "The Fire Within," ladies.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DAVID PECKINPAH: I object to this treatment! Those go-go dancers happen to be the wives of my close personal friends... the biker gang from "Easy Slider." And once and for all, our episode "The Dream Masters" bore NO connection whatsoever to the Elm Street film series!
BLINKER: *cough* "This time around, one of the teenagers has the gift of summoning others into her dreams. Together, she, Nancy, and the other inmates try to learn how to control the elements of the dream world and fight back at Freddy." -- http://www.amateurcritics.com/reviews/n/nightmareonelmstreet3.html *cough*
SYNTHIA: *cough* http://www.johncarlbuechler.com/n4/ *cough*
PECKINPAH: Uh... okay, so it was a "re-imagining." See, I'm just like Tim Burton!
BLINKER: What you are is the lowest possible form of human filth.
SYNTHIA: Ehh... you're half right. DMD, would you be a dear and hand me that kit?
=====
So... what'd YOU learn?
- Blinker 7:-P
http://slidersweb.net/blinker"I just love the 'bobbly' sound, and the feeling's just GREAT."
Moral...
Date: 08/18/2001
From: Slider_Quinn21
Don't piss off Dave Titus!
The
lesson...
Date: 08/18/2001
From: SpaceTime
You're allowed to construct a giant underground catacomb of tunnels for Dream Master victims as long as it isn't expressedly prohibited by the Tenant's Association or your lease!- ST
Dream
a little dream...
Date: 08/18/2001
From: Callie21V
Lessons learned? Well, Wade may have faced down dinosaurs, flesh-eating zombies, and vampires without flinching*, but she's packed with more phobias than an especially neurotic Woody Allen character.• Being cut.
• Snakes.
• Flying.Considering what her role had been reduced to by that point, I guess we could say "Slither" brought her face to face with all three. :-P
>>> C/21
* Okay, so technically she hid in a cave / hid in a cave again with her hands over her head wailing "Remmy, do something!!!"; suffered a nervous breakdown; and sold the others out for her sleazy, immortal punk hunk. So sue me!
Not
a good day for the TMster...
Date: 08/18/2001
From: ThomasMalthus
...I get MSTied by a bunch of people from the MST3K boards, I don't get any prizes from Blinker, Cypress Hill stole my orchestra and Sonic Youth is in my cooler! Get out of there you kids!!Seriously, not that I don't deeply respect Mychand and The_Seer, but how exactly did they win prizes without playing? Were there posts I didn't see? Was there a game after Good Thing, Bad Thing Invasion? Maybe I'm missing something, I don't know. But I will tell you that I have not, to my recollection, missed one of these games since you started them, Blinker. Because they're way too much fun!
OK, my moral comes straight from the David Peckinpah Series of Lessons to Memorize and Repeat, Volume 9. And I quote, "To make clear to the audience that what you're showing them is an HOMAGE to another piece of work and not the dreaded RIPOFF, cast someone from the original work in your episode to let the viewer know it's all tongue-in-cheek. Telling a story that has similar story features to "Nightmare on Elm Street"? Then get somebody cheap from the original films who can guest star. Not that Robert Englund guy, we're saving him for the robot episode. How about Rodney Eastman, who played Joey Crusel in "Nightmare"s 3 and 4? You say he can get off early from Baskin Robbins that day? Perfect! Now for the resurrection of Michael York..."
ThomasMalthus
Bear
with me...
Date: 08/18/2001
From: Recall317
I haven't seen this episode since 1996 and can barely remember it, but if memory serves me, the moral of the story is that infinite worlds with infinite possibilities is not enough. We need trippy dreams and VR episodes to fill in the creative gaps. Same planet, different dimension is all right and all, but damn that 'science' thing this show is sorta based off of!But I know you're waiting for the cheap joke about the episode:
The Moral of the Story is that it's best to script a nap for Jerry O'Connell in episode so he's at least semi-fresh for the scenes he's expected to talk and you know, act.
R317
You
see, Timmy...
Date: 08/18/2001
From: DieselMickeyDolenz
It's okay to berate your friend for falling asleep as long as it turns out that he was just drugged. After all, it's not like *Arturo* would ever be distracted when his friends need him.QUINN: Professor! We need your help! Now! Logan's back and she's holding Wade at gunpoint!
ARTURO: Just a minute my dear boy. This lovely waitress here was just about to introduce me to a delightful eclair.
DMD
What
I learned ...
Date: 08/19/2001
From: The_Seer
... is that if you act today, you too can be a member of the Dream Masters. Do you look like Danny Bonaduce after an acid trip? Do you wear geeky looking glasses? Have you been turned down for a date by every popular girl at your school? Then the Dream Masters may be just the cult for you! Act now and we'll throw in a free leisure suit, the official uniform of the Dream Masters.I also learned that I should never ever accuse Remmy of letting Wade down. Okay, I wouldn't do that to the Professor either. And Quinn too. Uh, wait a minute ... never mind about Quinn. For a moment there I forgot about the entire 4th season.
Reminds
me of this famous scene...
Date: 08/19/2001
From: MissingSliderRyan
Three men sitting around a campfire in Yosemite National Park.o/` Row, row, row your boat... o/` started the first man.
The second one came on the next part of the round, O/` Row, row, row your boat...
Continued the first man, O/` Gently down the stream... o/`
"Hey, you were supposed to start off with Row, row, row your boat."
"That is illogical."
Yep Star Trek V: William Shatner's Final Directorial Foray.
I can't wait for Chairman Shatner to announce the next ingredient. ;-)
So I guess the moral would be...At least the director wasn't William Shatner.
Damn forgot about S4, S5. Come to think of it most of S3. Maybe ole Bill was directing in Jerry's place. You did notice all those chicks Quinn was after? Little Kirk without the trademark breaking voice.
MSR
I
learned....
Date: 08/19/2001
From: SL4ever
That is takes a fifth of Jack Daniels, two hits of CRACK, a hooker named Ginger, and a five pound PIE to get through this hideous ep.Oh, and that teenagers are disenfranchised.
*12 hours until you can beging trying to solve the mystery...*
Power
corrupts.
Date: 08/19/2001
From: Tigs
How's that for a moral. Give someone a taste of power and 9 people out of 10 will use it to subvert others to their will. That one, rare, person will use it to help others. So, the moral of this story is that most people aren't moral.
ktf
Tigs
Don't
Do Drugz!
Date: 08/20/2001
From: Jenneration_X
Drugz are just bad. You do drugz and you start hallucinatin and stuff. Some of that Wade Dreamin Schit was F-ed up!! lolol~J~
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