The Crapparatus

Post-Traumatic Slide Syndrome [early draft script]

Written by Nan Hagan

MSTed by SL4ever

Script courtesy earth62.net


 PTSS - Part VI

TBH: It's about smeggin' time you got back in the theater!

SL4: Hey! I was away on business; get off my can. I-

HTWD: Nobody wants to hear your life story. Projectionist! Roll 'em!!!!

Quinn: "We've got 36 hours, Wade. If I can't convince you and find the timer, we're going to spend the rest of our lives here."

SL4: And when our doubles from this world return they'll beat us to a pulp for stealing their lives and then take what's left of your million dollars.

Wade: "Maybe that wouldn't be so bad."

HTWD: Speak for yourself, Quinn hasn't found a way to sell out yet.

Wade: "I'm sorry, I know you're having a hard time with all this."

TBH: Don't try to be magnanimous now, >:-#. You've been ridiculing me for ten minutes.

Wade: "Are you going to the opening of the Sliders Exhibit?"

SL4: I'll be over there right after I perfect a perpetual motion machine. So hold your breath.

Wade: "You've got to go, Quinn. If you don't go, the Professor's gonna hog all the credit."

HTWD: Um, that's an unfortunate way to put it, Wade. How about steal all the credit?

Quinn: "You don't hear a word I'm saying."

TBH: What was that about birds braying? Aren't donkeys the ones who bray?

Wade: "I hear every word. I don't think you hear me."

SL4: Ah yes, the defensive counter-accusation. They sound like a married couple now.

Wade: "I'm home, Quinn. I'm not going anywhere."

HTWD: That's right, just keep digging a bigger hole for yourself.

<scene change to the opening of the Sliders exhibition. Arturo, Wade, and Remmy are posing for countless pictures>

Wade: "All these flashbulbs are giving me a headache."

TBH: Jesus, you're rich AND famous, aren't you ever happy? Next you'll be complaining that your free drink is above 32 degrees.

Arturo: "Okay. No more photographs, gentlemen, please."

SL4: And someone tell the parrot to shut up while you're at it.

Arturo: "Anyone heard from Mr. Mallory."

HTWD: Last time I saw him he was at a gun shop.

Remmy: "I don't think he's gonna make it, professor."

TBH: But he said he'd be there to see you the next time you walk to your car by yourself.

Arturo: "Pity. Life offers so few opportunities like this."

SL4: I know, it's not every day you get a golden opportunity to sell out close friends.

Arturo: "There's plenty of glory to go around."

HTWD: Oh, do smeg off. Prince would be more likely to share glory than your pompous >:-#.

Wade: "What did you expect him to do, Professor?"

TBH: I had nightmares involving Miracle Whip, radishes, and chainsaws, so I'll take him not showing up in a heartbeat!

Wade: "You appropriated his entire life's work."

TBH: <mimicking Arturo> : I'll have you know that I've never collected a single baseball card! I actually HAVE a life!

Arturo: "Is that what he told you?"

SL4: No, what he actually told us is unprintable. But to paraphrase, you're a lying scum-sucking weasel.

Arturo: "Miss Welles, understand. I laid the essential groundwork of Sliding. Mr. Mallory was my research assistant, nothing more, nothing less."

HTWD: <rising> : I have to seek higher ground, the >:-# is getting pretty thick around here.

Vonbaeck: "Maximillian. They're about to start the unveiling."

TBH: Oooooo, they're finally going to reveal how big his ego is! Everyone stand back!

Arturo: "Very good. To be continued."

SL4: When they've had a chance to recover from biting their tongues.

TBH: Man, I wouldn't have bitten myself! I would've asked him to do it for me!

<A huge, imposing statue of Arturo is unveiled. Large in scale and intricate in detail.>

HTWD: So they had time to check his math and science, authenticate his evidence, realize his genius and the importance of his discovery, set up a museum, order and receive this massive statue ... all in about a week? This world is amazing!

Wade: "I don't believe this!"

TBH: <mimicking Wade> : This is making me look bad! Somebody stop him!

Remmy: "Who does this egomaniac think he's fooling?"

SL4: Remmy is confronted with someone even more self absorbed than he is. AHHHHHHHH!!

Remmy: "We've got to stop this. I've got people here from Rolling Stone for God's sake."

HTWD: Now there's the Remmy we know and love. For a minute I thought he'd been replaced by an altruistic double.

Wade: "Remmy! Look!"

TBH: It's Oprah! Let's go suck up!

<She points to a case displaying the timer.>

Remmy: "Arturo must have stolen it."

SL4: Really??? How come you're singing instead of working as a private detective?

Wade: "I'm gonna call Quinn."

HTWD: Oh god. What will it be this time? The glass that has been under his bed since the 5th grade has two mold splotches instead of one?

SL4: Steve Deberg threw five interceptions in 1990 instead of four?

TBH: Lucy charges 6 cents a session instead of 5?

Wade: "I wanted to kill him. It's inconceivable he'd do that."

SL4: What? Order three appetizers along with my main course? I've done THAT before.

Wade: "Quinn, listen to me. You can't just break in and steal a museum exhibit."

HTWD: Sure you can. I see it on TV every week.

Wade: "There's security all over the place."

TBH: Don't you watch movies and TV? The only people more incompetent than museum guards are Republican lawyers. If they're not watching TV or sleeping they're be in a closet spanking the weasel. Anyone can waltz right in.

Wade: "Don't you have a lawyer?"

SL4: No? Want to borrow one of my five?

Wade: "No time? Quinn, I don't want to go through this again. We're home."

HTWD: Don't confuse me with reality, I've already made up my mind!

Wade: "I'm just telling you where the timer is, okay? Do what you want."

TBH: Never tell an irrational man to do what he wants.

<Wade hangs up and walks toward her apartment windows. She sees the Bridge and stops in shock.>

SL4: Even worse than realizing that she's not home is realizing that Quinn is going to be in "smug mode" for six months.

TBH: After the way she's treated him it should be a year!

Wade: "Oh my God..."

HTWD: So this is the infamous "Oh my God" statement, eh? Funny, I still don't feel chills down my spine.

SL4: <sighs> : NO, this is NOT the smegging one everyone talks about!!

HTWD: Hey! It's not my fault they say "Oh my God" every five seconds in this ep. No wonder everyone remembers that line from this show!

Wade <in shock> : "It's blue."

SL4: Not as blue as Remmy's going to be when he sees this...