Unknown Fact • The Guardian

Date: 02/11/2004
From: SynthIA

• DieselMickeyDolenz wins the classic Goonie Show sketch, "The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler of Astoria-on-Sea!"
• ThomasMalthus wins a laser gyro from a Greek restaurant... OF THE FUTURE!
• Recall317 does not win Mitchell's autograph!
• PhantomDennis wins Isaac Clarke's "Flow My Blood, the Soldier Said!"

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SYNTHIA: Hi there, and welcome to the game where the episodes are real but the facts are made up!

BLINKER: In the spirit of "The Guardian," I will promptly bend that self-imposed rule and present a true fact about a made-up episode. The Earth 69 version of this ep originally ended with Peck objecting to actor Philip van Dyke's name as inappropriate for a family series... on the grounds that "dyke" is slang for... you know... a guy's wee-wee. But I cut it because such adult themes would no doubt horrify the board.

SYNTHIA [glancing at Flame Tournament archives]: Mm-hm... and my fact is that for budget reasons, Arturo's EEG was constructed out of Legos.

http://earth62.net/epguide/ep_guard03.JPG

BLINKER: And then when Tormé hangs up, he mutters "dykehead!"

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Unknown? Perhaps.

Date: 02/11/2004
From: DieselMickeyDolenz

Unbelievable? Perhaps not.

We all know that this episode marked Tracey Tormé's last real involvement with Sliders. What you didn't know until now is what David Peckinpah's "vision" was for this episode. In his own words:

DAVID PECKINPAH: "Yeah, Tracey was bound and determined to do things his way this time around. I still like my idea better. I felt like as long as we were doing this time travel episode that Quinn could do something more worth while than save his younger self from breaking some kid's knee. Why not let us meet 16 year old Quinn? Old Quinn could then point out which girls ended up being 'easy,' and help the young stud have a much more enriched and satisfying young adulthood. Plus, it'd give us lots of excuses for teen T&A."

Just a Bigelow

Date: 02/11/2004
From: ThomasMalthus

Life goes on without BT. We wish.

Yes, your favorite "Sliders" scribe and mine, William Bigelow, was originally given the assignment of churning out an episode called "The Guardian". In his first draft, Quinn traveled to the past to teach Abner Doubleday how not to use a bat. Using causation logic that would later be exemplified by James Mangold in "Kate & Leopold", our sliders arrive in the present to find such sporting landmarks as Wrigley Field and Fenway Park existing only as gaping maws in time and space.

Once he learned "Sliders" wasn't a time travel show, Bigelow altered the story significantly. And by significantly, I mean he changed Abner's last name to Alternateday. Luckily, this was the point where Tracy Torme stepped in.

ThomasMalthus

Oh Boy! It's the Quantum Leap, episode.

Date: 02/11/2004
From: PhantomDennis

Tracy Torme got so tired of people describing "Sliders" as a Quantum-Leap rip-off, that he decided to actually rip-off QL for one episode.

* They don't just land on an earth 12 years behind the times. They land on one with the exact history as "Earth Prime.

* Jerry O'Connell's new Haircut makes him look like a young Scott Bakula

* Quinn romances a teacher he had a crush on just like Sam did once.

* They "leap" shortly after Quinn puts right what went went wrong.
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The other unknown fact is that Tracy just forgot that he that Arturo had mentioned football previosly.a wishbone offense previously. It's not a clue at all.

I can't think of anything

Date: 02/12/2004
From: Recall317

I guess that makes me Rick Santorum

Bada-bing!

This Unknown Fact is brought to you by the letter D.

Arturo's presence at the 49ers game set off an unexpected chain reaction which led to the Seattle Seahawks being the dominant force of the NFL, culminating in 4 consecutive championships over the Buffalo Bills in the early 90s. I guess some things remained the same.

Damn you, butterfly effect!

R317

"Choose your ground, choose your weapon,

Date: 02/16/2004
From: MissingSliderRyan

BT's weapon of choice is... revelations.

"... and face what is to come."
~~~ Rebecca to Amanda in 'Methuselah's Gift'


This actually reminded me of the episode 'City on the Edge of Forever' that had my dad in it. Trying to change the past to make the future a little better. Here we see young Quinn fighting against a bully after his father died. At first we wanted young Quinn to take out the bully in a more... how do you say it... a more covert way such as letting him do an experiment in the science lab... you know something MacGyverish like telling the bully to add sugar to hydrochloric acid. But that was turned down because the direction of the show changed from science to action. As my dad said, "Aah!Pain!Pain!Pain! That's all I got, Captain...
waves and waves of searing pain."


~~~Adam Nimoy, director of The Guardian


MSR

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