Show
and Tell ------------> Greatfellas!
Date: 02/22/2001
From: Blinker
Welcome back to the Satellite of TWIW. Today we're looking at another classic from the recent marathon: "Greatfellas." But first, the prize patrol:• Vigeant wins a stick with which to bat off his evil double from Earth 69!
• Slider_Quinn21 wins a Post-It notepad!
• Recall317 wins a wed wose... and a wuined univewse!
• SL4ever wins a copy of 'Red Dwarf: Backwards'! 7>:-P
• dellyone wins a new John Grisham novel in which lawyer Vance454 helps people get off!
• Jenneration_X wins a free pass to the filming of 'Buying the Cow'... which also entitles her to sock Jerry O'Connell in the nose!
• ThomasMalthus wins a detailed 'Knight Rider' model kitt [sic], and yet another Gold Star!
• DieselMickeyDolenz wins Brooke Langton!-- SHOW AND TELL: GREATFELLAS --
BLINKER: Whew! It's good to be back. Again. Anyway, for "Greatfellas" I brought in these snazzy new missile command codes. [ holds up attaché case ]
SYNTHIA: Huh?
BLINKER: You know, like the ones the mob was trying to obtain so they could force secession from the......
SYNTHIA: Did you watch this ep on Earth 4260 or something?! There WAS no such plot point. Geez, pay attention for once! Anyway, I brought Brooke Langton. [ snatches her away from DMD ]
BROOKE LANGTON: HEY!
DMD: What she said! >:-|
BLINKER: Uh... Brooke Langton wasn't in "Greatfellas" either...
EXECUTIVE: Wrong again, Blinker! You must have viewed a parallel Earth version of the episode, because Quinn stuffed her in a trunk soon after they first met! ;-)
ALL: [ blank stares ]
BLINKER: Moving right along... does anyone have an item that's NOT from the copious script outtakes?
BROOKE LANGTON: I resent being labeled an "item"! >:-O
DMD: You mean... we're not? :'-(
DORKY: I've arrived, having brought the Ronald Reagan campaign signs, which will say "A Waffle In Every Pot." You love him as president, now trust him as Shawn Connery. :)
SYNTHIA [ gritting teeth ]: It's gonna be one of those days...
BLINKER [ offering attaché case ]: I take it you'll be wanting these?
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Toss us a bone here, people... so long as it's from one of the actors in the episode. What did YOU bring in?
- Blinker 7:-P
http://slidersweb.net/blinker"Cool! You must be the dark family secret my mother was always obliquely alluding to!"
I
brought...
Date: 02/22/2001
From: HurriKain
... some casino chips. It's not much, but I went through a LOT of trouble to get these.
HK
I
brought the notion...
Date: 02/22/2001
From: SL4ever
...that you can be well read and still be a dumb>:-#, as was the case with all the goons in this ep. I mean, the gangsters quoting books was pricele-BLINKER: You're thinking of Eggheads.
SL4: Oh. OH, yeah, Greatfellas was the one with Peckinbals' dad in it, right? I remember now.
BLINKER: Dexibal, eat this mendicant.
I
brought something.
Date: 02/22/2001
From: DieselMickeyDolenz
I brought a bottle of the hooch that everyone was drinking at the Wedding ceremony. It's a little something from the Greenfeld's "private reserve," since prohibition is still in effect. This stuff is so strong that NOBODY noticed a vortex opening up above the pool and four people falling out.I've had a shmall taste of idt alare#ady, and eye'll be shending it alonyg ash shoon as i cnfad ne223 snds snzzzzzzz.........
Looky,
looky what I have here...
Date: 02/22/2001
From: Recall317
Recall: I brought Mel Torme's hat! [adjusts hat]Recall: Hey everyone! I'm a cowboy! Howdy, howdy, howdy!
[Jeff Jarrett sneaks up behind Recall and smacks him over the head with Mel Torme's guitar.]
JJ: Care to make any more insightful comments about the hat, Slapnutz?
Recall: Ugh...it's magic...
JJ: How so?
Recall: When in the proximity of a vortex, it can allow it to remain open for up to a minute and 45 seconds!
JJ: Wow! A normal vortex can barely make it past 60 seconds.
Recall: Just like one of your matches...Ow! Let go of me!
Oooh!
Oooh! Look! Mine!
Date: 02/22/2001
From: Vigeant
I brought an exotic dancer named Michelle!Blink: That's not from the show!
Vig: Stare into my eyes....
Blink: No! What the heck are you talking about!
Vig: You are under MY command..
Blink: My..command..Cool, where's Mychand?
Vig: No!
Blink: What?
Vig: You are under Vig's command.
Blink: You are under... Vig's command.. It's nice to see someone in charge of themself.
Vig: Forget it. Just give me the golden star.
Blink: Hmmm.. I don't know..
I
bring >>>
Date: 02/22/2001
From: SpaceTime
... the knowledge that Advanced Number Theory allows you to predict card patterns in a six-deck shoe!Was an Improbability Drive attached to the casino, or the writer's computer?
- ST
I
brought....
Date: 02/22/2001
From: Cheerio
....the annoyingly cheerful audience that applauded at every other thing that came out of Mel Torme's mouth. I MEAN COME ON! The guy may have been a great singer and all but:
MT: And my-Audience: WOooOOHOOOOOoooo! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYY!! *clap clap clap*
MT: Is-
Audience: YIPEEEEEEEeeeee! WOOOOOHOOOO! YeeeeeEEEeeeHAAAAA!
I
brought this....
Date: 02/22/2001
From: Slider_Quinn21
A DVD copy of "Goodfellas"...So that you can watch Clinton replace Cleavant and slide with the group!!!! :-)
I
didn't bring...
Date: 02/23/2001
From: ThomasMalthus
...anything directly from the episode. Inspired by the Pauly Shore reference in the beginning of "Greatfellas", David Peckinpah hatched an elaborate plan to make Season Four based completely on Pauly Shore movies, in hopes of getting Shore, his alltime favorite actor, to guest star in some episodes...as Wade. Here's the list:"Encino Slide": After going a million years B.C. (with appropriately skimpy clothing for Maggie), the Sliders accidentally force a caveman (played by Jon Seda) into the vortex with them. The episode then takes a serious turn, chronicling the everyday oppression and public humiliation suffered by the caveman simply because he will not discard his putrid loincloth in favor of modern clothing. The Sliders use this as a pretext for overthrowing that world's government.
"In the Army How?": Maggie decides to make some money for the group by doing what she does best (no not THAT), namely joining the armed forces. However, while in basic training, Maggie hits her head on one of those tire thingies and becomes a jabbering lunatic who says "baaaady" every five seconds. Quinn decides to join the army with her to keep her from endangering herself, and you know, so he could increase his chances of scoring with her. The timer is put in danger some way (that Peck doesn't even bother to resolve) and Rembrandt saves the day by finally doing what he has dreamed of for years: whacking Maggie over the head with a large piece of lumber.
"Slider-in-Law": Deciding to finally get married to one of those chicks-of-the-week that he regularly makes time with, Quinn is astonished to learn that the human girl he has been going out with inexplicably has a Kromagg for a father. The eye-eating ape monster disapproves of his daughter being matched up with Quinn, "the one who may or may not have given us sliding", so he comes up with several ludicrous tests for Quinn to undertake before the two can get married. Colin's Amish roots are also explored when the group go to an oldfashioned Kromagg mantaship-raising, which tragically ends with the death of Quinn's blonde girlfriend. After two seconds of remorse, Quinn moves on with some Swedish triplets in a spa on the next world.
"BioDumb": The sliders find a group of other sliders living off of certain specially selected plants in the BioDumb, a place that Quinn's father set up to imprison other sliders just for the fun of it. When they realize that there isn't enough resources for everyone to last until they're supposed to slide out, our heroes kill and eat all the other sliders. Speaking for the group, Maggie gave an eloquent solioquy in which she explained the sliders' actions. "Hey, it was US or THEM." As to why they then ate their former companions instead of the food all around them they supposedly killed for, Maggie got indignant. "There is no way I'm eating salad for four days."
The rest of the season was supposed to be a combination of these plots, culminating in the season finale, "In the BioArmy Now with My Caveman Son-in-Law Dome". 'Sadly', Shore could not appear in these episodes and so Peck scrapped these plans and decided to "go with whatever that Zicree guy came up with, and then, you know, butcher it".
ThomasMalthus
I'd
Like to bring....
Date: 02/23/2001
From: Jenneration_X
something from the show... But I couldn't think of anything to bring so I sat here and wondered what to bring.. Then all of a sudden who walks in but the one and only "Fantastic" Actor Jerry O'Connell.. Then he started braggin so I bitch slapped him. Then The Crack Whore Kari walked in and started Hittin on my so I bitch Slapped her. So then Walked in Professer Arturo from the dead! He was pretty scary so I ran away.. and who do I run into? Non other than the Cryin Man himself!! So He's who I brought! I Brought Rembrant Brown!~J~
LOL!
Date: 02/25/2001
From: Vance454
LOL, you're crazy Blink!Vance454
vance454 on aol im
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