Show
& Tell ---------> Murder Most Foul!
Date: 01/07/2002
From: Blinker
• ThomasMalthus wins a contract to write Earth 29093, in which a sliding mall Santa teaches the joys of sentimentality to a thousand different worlds!
• SL4ever wins an "Edible Man" anatomy kit, with linguini spine AND olive eyeballs!
• Slider_Quinn21 wins an auto-autographed "Quinn is replying to this thread, so it must be funny" card!
• Callie21V wins a recording of Frank Lloyd Wright singing "Tiers in my Fro!"
• MissingSliderRyan wins a snow globe containing a miniature Cerberus!SYNTHIA: Huh?
BLINKER: "Unleash hell"... leash... dog... get it?... never mind...
• TemporalFlux wins Razor Gillette's Gillette razor!
• The_Seer wins temporary mind transfers from TM and Kari Wuhrer, with which to destroy BT and morals respectively!
• Recall317 wins a punch in the face!RECALL317: HEY!!
• ...that he can administer to an irritating mendicant of his choice!
RECALL317: Oh. Well all right, then.
=== SHOW AND TELL: MURDER MOST FOUL ===
BLINKER: Ahh, "Murder Most Foul." What can one say about this ep without quoting from a public washroom stall?
SYNTHIA: Or discussing its intended use.
BLINKER: Thankfully, we're not here to *discuss* it per se... just to show off trinkets that will presumably lead to amusing gibes about its craptastulence. So what've you got?
SYNTHIA: This here's the syringe used to jab Arturo in the back of the neck during the teaser, turning him into a drooling, mumbling idiot. Talk about your textbook foreshadowing!
BLINKER: And I've got the footprints he went on to cast from the murder site.
MISSINGSLIDERMICHELE: I saw Sid walk there a couple of times. It's got his palmprints *all* over it.
[pause]
MISSINGSLIDERMICHELE: So he walks on all fours every now and then. It's his "thing."
SYNTHIA [turning to posters]: This one is ripe with possibilities, people...
BLINKER [rolling eyes]: Unlike its premise...
SYNTHIA: ...so get to it!
- Blinker 7:-P
http://slidersweb.net/blinker"A better time period [than 9pm Wednesday] would be 8 p.m. Fridays, where more kids could see this imaginative sci-fi show. Sliders made me feel like a kid again, a pretty neat trick for a time-traveling series." - The Orlando Sentinel's Hal Boedeker's review of the Pilot. Well, he was *half* right...
And
now...a repeat!!
Date: 01/08/2002
From: ThomasMalthus
Warning: post contains NSR ranting! May not be discernable to the Whedon's-world-impaired!!On October 5th, 2000, I posted:
<I learned that if you're a guest actor in a bad "Sliders" episode with a drug theme (Julie Benz in "Electric Twister Acid Test"; J. August Richards in "Just Say Yes") you get recurring roles on "Angel", a series which looks to be around for a while.>Little did I know there was another episode (and actor) that fit the bill. "Murder Most Foul" features Brigid Brannagh, who would later land herself four guest appearances on the aforementioned "Buffy" spinoff as the wealthy (and decidedly nonvirginal) Virginia Bryce. And there can be no doubt about the drug theme in "Murder Most Foul".
Rather than give us a moral, this episode just raises questions of morality. Do Benz, Richards and Brannagh have a common agent? Has Joss Whedon taken pity on the much maligned guest actors of Seasons Three and Four, deciding to give them another chance on his also much maligned (of late) WB series? Are David Peckinpah and "Angel" co-creator David Greenwalt connected somehow, as Info sometimes implies? And, really, what's with all the drug references in S3 and S4?
Aside from the fact Peckinpah and crew were smoking CRACK the whole time that is.
"I hired Brigid because I felt very sympathetic to her plight. Having the same last name as her famous uncle, Kenneth, really made it hard for her to distinguish herself. Similarly, J. August Richards, as the famed longlost stepson of scientist Reed Richards and Julie Benz, descended from a long line of car manufacturers, were hired because I felt sorry for them. I couldn't be more pleased that they're now getting work on a regular TV series and that I'm... not." -David Peckinpah, interview with ThomasMalthus in the dwindling minutes of 1/7/02.
"I love the baby! It's a great homage to 'Three Men and a Baby'. Only with only one vampire and some other people who aren't all men. Hmm, I wonder if we should have went baby in 'Stoker'. I knew we gave that Wade chick too much screen time." -Peck again, commenting on the current storyline on 'Angel', later on in the aforementioned interview, after he became lucid again.
ThomasMalthus
The
Rose she had offered,
Date: 01/08/2002
From: MissingSliderRyan
Was truly an enchanted rose,
Which would bloom for many years.
If he could learn to love another,
And earn her love in return
By the time the last petal fell,
Then the spell would be broken.
If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast
For all time.BT brought to you by Lwaxana, I love with you, but according to my society I'm too old and I have to commit ritual suicide but I'm not going to get blasted into oblivion while rising in the air like those people in 'Logan's Run' in the Levitating flower under the bell-shaped cover.
I'm bringing the rose that Erin, that woman that got killed by the Ripper. Not as good as the Wade's rose in LOTD. ;-)
Sliding off topic for the moment and onto Crossing Jordan.
Macy: I'm not the resident conspiracy theorist.JOC as Det. Hoyt: You guys are like a regular Mulder and Scully except switched around. <points to Jordan> You're more like Mulder and <points to Jordan> you're like...
Macy: Thanks Woody. I got it.
Hoyt: I love that show.
Hoyt also remarks on his tie. Shades of another young rookie with an eye for bad ties. Bwhahahahaahahaha. I do wonder if he becomes a recurring character and if he turns out to be a bad cop. LOL."Krycek. Alex Krycek."
MSR
The
magical mystery watch.
Date: 01/08/2002
From: DieselMickeyDolenz
Yes, I've got Arturo's pocket watch from Walt Dismal World's Tragic Kingdom™. Not only does it soothe the nerves and keep him hypnotized, it has that really neat purple glow. I'm not really sure how it managed to keep the Professor under, tho'. I mean, I'm looking at it right now and it ... doesn't .... seem ..... to ....... affect ........
Not
much to show...
Date: 01/08/2002
From: Recall317
...even less to tell.DMD must have used that watch on me too cause I can barely remember a single detail about this ep. I recall I couldn't stand Adam Wylie, and I was a huge Picket Fences fan, so it said a lot about the script.
One of the only clear memories I have is of Quinn running up a ramp to make the slide and I remember thinking, "Where the hell did the ramp come from?"
So I brought the ramp. Even though I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist. Hmmm...the existential debate over a ramp...who said Peckinpah wasn't deep!
R317
Holds
violently moving bag
Date: 01/08/2002
From: TemporalFlux
Struggling with the bag...Well, I brou - stop it! - brought something spec - calm down you little - special from the episod - OW! That hurt you piece a...
(hits the bag a few times and it calms down)
A-hem. As I was saying, I brought something special from the episode. I brought the annoying little smart boy! Of course, he doesn't seem so smart now...*does* he!
Tf
temporalflux@hotmail.com
http://dimensionofcontinuity.com
Here
we have the cup o' joe...
Date: 01/09/2002
From: Callie21V
Beginning Text must be vaporized!!...that was spilled on the Professor. Notice the elegant styrofoam construction, usually indicative of the late 20th century North American dynasties. Moving inside, you'll observe what scientists call "coffee" -- "brownish liquid" to the layman -- in a state of
ARTURO: DRINK IT, DON'T CATALOGUE IT, YOU IDIOT!!! COFFEE IS TO BE *POURED*, NOT PORED *OVER*!!!
CALLIE21V: Well soooorrRY.
>>> C/21
well
haven't seen it in ages....
Date: 01/09/2002
From: Slider_Sarah
... but Blinker made me so....I'll bring the pretend whore's dresses!
What? I can abrely remember anythign about the episode!
Sarah.
WOOHOO!
Date: 01/09/2002
From: Slider_Quinn21
Beginning text isn't going to ruin my excitement!I bring...
REUNION TOWER(That building from the beginning with the ball on top). That's Dallas'(my home city) biggest landmark, and it made it into Sliders...
WOOHOO! ;-)
Quinn
http://slidersweb.net/otherworlds/214
Told
ya I was too late for the last one!
Date: 01/14/2002
From: Joey_Starr
Beginning text was at fault.
I bring a tie from one of the many suits at the beginning of the ep. If properly used it may strangle the desired culprit(sliderseth, perhaps). It is also a good metaphor for how I felt thru a lot of this ep; like a man who's necktie was on too tight. Oh well, at least it had the original four in it.
JS
I'm probablt too late for this one as well!
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