The Crapparatus

Post-Traumatic Slide Syndrome [early draft script]

Written by Nan Hagan

MSTed by SL4ever

Script courtesy earth62.net


 PTSS - Part II

Arturo <as he pours champagne> : "To you, Madame."

SL4: For running such an excellent brothel, Madame Mallory.

Wade <into the kitchen phone> : "I know. Isn't it unbelievable?"

TBH: <mimicking older woman, simulating Wade's mother> : Actually, it IS. Now tell me where you've really been! Was it our Greek pool boy? He "disappeared" right after you did. Did he go Skating with the Martians while you were Sliding with college professors and fifth rate lounge singers?

Wade: "I'm gonna tell you the whole story when I get home."

HurriKain: Oh god, don't mention stories to me right now, 'fore I have to hurt someone. <glares at SL4ever>

TBH: HK!!! Sit down and work out some of those aggressions, ole bean.

HK: Delighted to. I brought some gumbo-

SL4: Woo Hoo!!!

HK: - for the OTHER two. :-P

HTWD: Roll it, projection boy!!

Projectionist: <mutters expletives under breath>

Wade: "I'm gonna tell you the whole story when I get home."

HTWD: And I brought some choccies from Swiss America world that are to DIE for!

Wade: "I know. I love you too."

HK: But if you keep this up about the Greek guy I might just have to kill you.

Wade: "Give me back to Mom and Dad, okay?"

TBH: That's a pretty good way to broach the subject of divorce, now that I think about it.

HTWD: It beats coming home and finding only an air mattress and a can of spam left in the apartment, that's for sure.

Quinn: "You should have seen this guy, Mom."

SL4: He would have been perfect for you! He had a very buff ass and a nice tan!

Quinn: "On one world he introduced a strain of antibiotics."

HK: They hit it off and now are happily married.

Quinn: "He singlehandedly stopped a plague."

HTWD: He never did explain why he refused to use his other hand, though.

Remmy: "Don't forget the world where he brought down an asteroid with an atom bomb."

TBH: And then dropped the key plan to allow a nitwit like Bennish bring about a nuclear holocaust on that world, completing the job started by the asteroid.

Mrs. Mallory: "An atom bomb."

HK: Yes, it's a very powerful bomb. Like the two dropped on Japan in WWII? Geez, Quinn, your mother is a doorknob if she's never heard of an atom bomb!

Arturo: "I, uh, jerry-rigged the detonator. The fashionable material was already there."

SL4: It's a good thing you used it when you did then. We all know fashions change at the drop of a hat.

MM: "Oh my. That's wonderful."

HTWD: I'm taking bets on whether she is bored out of her skull or just humoring them until she can contact the men with the butterfly nets.

Arturo: "No big deal. Just one of many worlds that needed saving."

TBH: Attention everyone! Arturo's loose grip on his ego has left the building! Grab the nearest barf bag and prepare to be ill.

Quinn <to Wade, who's finished her phone call> : "How'd they take it?"

HK: Mom's convinced it was the Greek pool guy, Dad wants you incarcerated for kidnapping me, and my sister wants Remmy's phone number. I'm going upstairs to slit my wrists.

Wade: "Everyone was basically in a state of shock."

SL4: I've been to that state many times. The roads suck but people don't drive much so it's okay.

Wade: "My sister just screamed 'Oh my god' for ten minutes."

HTWD: So this is the infamous use of "Oh my god" in this ep? Funny, I still don't have any goosebumps.

SL4: If you don't stop it I'm gonna have you stuffed and mounted on the wall!

HTWD: Try it, pink-boy.

Remmy: "How about a toast?"

Lister: I don't want any smegging toast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TBH: Who was that? He just ducked his head in here, said that, and left.

SL4: It's a long story.

Quinn: "Go ahead professor."

HK: Go ahead and give us a toast. This will be your last sustenance for two weeks, so drink it up, Arturo.

Arturo: "No, my boy. The honor should be yours."

SL4: If he fakes modesty one more time I'm going to need that barf bag.

Quinn: "Seems to me there is only one thing to say..."

HTWD: LET'S GO BACK TO LOVE GODS WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-P~~~~~~~~~~~

Quinn: "To friendship."

HK: And to stabbing friends in the back as soon as we get back home!!!

Remmy: "To home!"

TBH: And may the money flow from the ATM like tears from Ryan Leaf's eyes.

<Scene change. Arturo is standing in Quinn's basement, looking at the blackboard with the formula written on it.>

SL4: I wonder if the Quinn on this world needed help from genius boy to finish it?

Quinn <from the top of the stairs.> : "Professor?"

HTWD: Mary Ann got kidnapped by a bunch of pirates and Gilligan got his head blown off trying to stop them. Can you invent something out of bamboo and sand to solve this dilemma?

<The other three Sliders descend the stairs.> Wade: "What are you doing down here?"

HK: And why is there a wet towel on the floor?

Arturo: "Thinking, Miss Welles."

TBH: Thinking about how I can betray all of you and keep the glory to myself! MWA-HA-HA-HA!!!!!

SL4: Um, the double hasn't taken over yet.

TBH: We know that this Arturo would have done it too! He would have sold them out faster than a green snake goes up a sugar cane!

Remmy: "So this is where it all started, huh? The real basement."

HTWD: That's nice. You've been traveling 18 months with the genius who invented Sliding but the four walls and a floor where it took place is more impressive.

Remmy: "I've always imagined it was a lot bigger."

TBH: You mean you've never looked before????????????

Remmy: "You called it the bat cave."

HK: Will you shut up about the smegging basement??? Do you and the basement want to spend some time alone?

Quinn: "More like my fortress of solitude."

SL4: This is the line that gave Peckinballs the idea to make Quinn be from another planet.

Quinn: "What are you thinking Professor?"

TBH: <mimicking Arturo> : "I'm thinking that if I can't wait for the movie "The Sixth Day" to open. It looks good." <Mimicking Wade> "But you hate Arnold ... it's a double! Grab him!!!"

Arturo: "We're sitting on 95% of one of the greatest scientific discoveries the world has ever known."

HTWD: If YOU'RE sitting on it, Professor, I think I know where the other 5% is.

Arturo: "Nevertheless, we're still lacking the other 5%, the ability to harness this beast, and make it safe."

HK: And after we harness and tame the beast, we'll lock it in a cage, throw in a couple plastic trees and some dog food and sell tickets.

Wade: "What are you saying?"

SL4: He's saying he want's to start mistreating animals ... or something like that.

Arturo: "I'm suggesting we keep our experience a secret for now."

TBH: At least until I can figure out a way to >:-# all of you.

Remmy: "Is he kidding? You got any idea the boost a thing like this could give to the Crying Man's career?"

HTWD: So, by that reasoning, all Yoko Ono has to do is Slide and then she'll be as huge as Madonna? I think it takes more than publicity, Remmy.

Arturo: "This is not the time to be thinking about free publicity, Mr. Brown."

SL4: This is the time to think about a chili cheese burrito, a mashed potato sandwich, and a fried grape biscuit. TOMORROW is the time to think about free publicity.

HK: <rises> : Well, I can't sit around riffing all day. Things are hectic; my sanity won't be returning for at least another month.

SL4: Do you still hate me?

HK: Ask me again in a month you *)%@^&)+~@&^$(#_+!@&#$*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TBH: Thanks for the gumbo!