Moral
of the Story > Season's Greedings!
Date: 01/03/2002
From: Blinker
SYNTHIA: Late much?BLINKER: ARGH! I can't believe we came THAT close to actually discussing the one and only overtly seasonal episode at an appropriate time!
SYNTHIA: I dunno... I thought "This Slide of Paradise" had a real Valentine's vibe.
THIRD SEASON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DAVID PECKINPAH: Well it's ABOUT TIME someone picked up on that!
SYNTHIA: Yeah. It's just *such* a shame it couldn't air until the end of the season...
THIRD SEASON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DAVID PECKINPAH: Exactly what I told FOX! Like I keep saying, it was a *constant* struggle to produce quality television under those bean-counters!
• MissingSliderRyan wins a job as a MAC-27 repairwoman!
• TemporalFlux wins a tour of duty in the navy!
• Slider_Quinn21 wins a job as humourist Dave Barry's pun advisor!
• The_Seer wins a career as a basement redecorator!
• SpiderMonkeeDolenz wins the position of Chief Memory Blocker on Story Game #2 world!
• SL4ever wins a role as John Edward's next guest!
• ThomasMalthus wins a stint painting white lines down the middle of highways!
• DoctorWhy wins a Vegas lounge act as an "allusionist"!
• Recall317 wins Howie Mandel's job! Try topping THAT comic for ineptitude!
• Joey_Starr wins a job as sliderseth's personal "lumberjack"! Hoist that axe!=== MORAL OF THE STORY: SEASON'S GREEDINGS ===
SYNTHIA: Is this about the story Arturo told those kids, or the story of "Season's Greedings" in general?
BLINKER: (B).
SYNTHIA: Oh, good; I was hoping for at least a MINIMAL challenge. Okay, the moral of the episode is that just as "certain clusters" of the universe permit wizardry and shape-changing, "certain frequencies" of a TV display permit the insertion of invisible lettering that magically compels viewers to carry out its will.
THIRD SEASON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DAVID PECKINPAH: Well, the universe clusters in question are made up of collapsing neutron pulsars. Which are pretty much like asteroids, except with glowing light thingies at either end. Whereas the frequencies are the same ones Wade managed to "blow" in "Stoker" by getting drunk. And as we learned in "Exodus," they're beamed around the brain by neurotransmitters, which are these little radio towers in your skull.
SYNTHIA: I'm sorry I even wondered. [turns to Blinker] You got one?
BLINKER: Thanks to Kelly Welles, I learned I'm not alone in having hair that resembles a particularly shoddy robin's nest after two dozen woodchucks held an orgy in it.
SYNTHIA: Ooooookay. On to the public's morals! Steven Bochco need not apply.
- Blinker 7:-D
http://slidersweb.net/blinker"Sliders, filled with dialogue like 'The guy is Three Mile Island - it's going to take him years to cool down,' is a Mighty Morphin Power Rangers for teenagers who actually read newspapers." - Time Magazine's review of the Pilot, April 1995
So
the "Mighty Morphin Texas Rangers"...
Date: 01/03/2002
From: ThomasMalthus
...line from "The Good, the Bad and the Wealthy" was a slam at Time Magazine, eh? Subtle, very subtle. Next time I watch that ep I think I'll look for digs at Texas' governor at the time: a certain George W. Bush (which I point out just in case a few of us "Sliders" fans *don't* read newspapers).Hmm, the moral of Season's Greedings? I'd say the moral is that a parallel world where consumerism has taken over Christmas at the expense of sentimentality is not perhaps as foreign as one would hope. However, the notion that one mall Santa could make a difference in the collective viewpoint of children on the matter is distinctly otherworldly.
Also, I learned that SL4ever's "The Santa Race" is waaaay better than this ep, despite the fact that this was one of the tolerable hours produced by the S3 crew.
ThomasMalthus
"Sliders, filled with dialogue like 'It was, like, better than sex' nonetheless suffers from the absence of Mighty Morphined Kari Wuhrer, who makes the show infinitely more appealing to teenagers who 'read' our magazine." -Maxim's belated review of the Pilot, April 2001.
The
moral is ....
Date: 01/03/2002
From: SL4ever
not availible in BT. Peek in!!...Arturo is the best natural Santa since that >:-#-er from the original "Miracle on 34th Street" died.
Also, to quote Michael Douglas, "GREED ......... is good!"
And a very special :-* to this ep for inspiring the horrid SL4ever Sliders Christmas Series.
"Time Magazine, filled with decisionmaking morons who once named a COMPUTER 'Man of the Year,' floated the trial balloon of giving Bin Laden that honor recently ... only to see it decimated by so much verbal fury and backlash they darted under the bed so quickly they left behind their linguini spines." -SL4ever's review of TIME magazine, 1-3-02
Leave the TV reviews to less "important" magazines, fellows.
Me....
Date: 01/03/2002
From: Slider_Quinn21
Bringing back the old omnireplytitle(Hey, its a word! :-) )The moral of the story is that the "Rembrandt is signing in this episode so it will be good" card doesn't always work.
A moral that is repeated a few more times before the series ended...
"Unleash
hell!"
Date: 01/03/2002
From: MissingSliderRyan
BT brought to you by the wonderful Wade in Live, grow stronger, slide another day.I guess the moral of the story would be don't give Arturo any babies. I swear I could hear him saying, "I want some baby back baby back ribs. Jump in my belly. I'm so hungry!"
I'm snowed in and watching the snow fall once again this evening.
MSR
Wheel
of Morality, turn turn turn
Date: 01/04/2002
From: TemporalFlux
tell us the lesson we should learn.Today's moral is...
#56 Wearing a fake beard on top of a real beard can lead to chaffing.
Tf
temporalflux@hotmail.com
http://dimensionofcontinuity.com
Violence
begets violence...
Date: 01/04/2002
From: Recall317
...and ratings.
How else can we explain Quinn's needless assault on our evil corporate CEO? However, it was my moment of Zen in this ep. With everyone else reverting to their pre-Peckinpah characters, it was good to see Quinn deck a guy and hit on Wade's sister.
R317
This
one's easy
Date: 01/05/2002
From: The_Seer
BT and morals must be destroyed!********************************
The moral of the story here is that if a strange woman asks you to hold her baby, especially one that may not have been changed in quite a while, then the proper response is to "Run! Run like hell!"
I
learned...
Date: 01/05/2002
From: Callie21V
...that Beginning Text must die!!!...that the CGI hacks were so determined to override the laws of physics, they even ignored the scripts.
http://www.earth62.net/epguide/ep_seasons06.JPG
Do you see any of the supporting tiers Quinn posited? I sure don't. And they'd *have* to be there, because NO antigrav-suspended cloud city could remain balanced with JRD stepping aboard!
>>> C/21
Yule come back now, ya hear?
The
REAL moral is this...
Date: 01/10/2002
From: Joey_Starr
BT was sent to us by David Peckinpah!!!
yes it IS required by networks for the X-Mas episode of the series to be utterly dull and boring. Even in a fantastic series do we get the shaft of wasted air time not just when it is time to play it based on order of episodes but also when its the week of X-mas. To this episode I said bah, humbug! The only saving grace is that it IS a season 3 ep and therefore catered to David's love monkey sliderseth. Well honky fuckin' dory for them. May they raise a beautiful litter of kangahairlessballsasswipe pups!
JS
I bet THIS one was too late!
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