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Sliders - Review of Episode 3 (Teste di Uova;Sesso Debole)

Reviewing Episode 3 broadcast on 6th August 2000 on Italia UNO. The series title in italian is Viaggiatori) meaning Travellers.

Eggheads

Sliding onto the next world, Quinn's alter-ego in this world which we can call Egghead Earth, is famous like a national basketball star in our world. Alternate Quinn is the captain of the MINDGAME team (the Eggheads) of the University of California. He is also in debt, $1,000,000 , to a gangster who speaks Latin. We get to see William B. Davis, more known as the Cigarette Smoking Man in X-Files. Alternate Arturo's wife is alive in this world, while in ours she died in the age of 27 of a brain aneurism. He still loves her, but here she has just filed for divorce. Both the Alternate Arturo and Alternate Quinn are missing, our Sliders were never able to confirm that they have left on a slide. On this world the super-intelligent have their fans just like our world's athletes. Nikke (the Alternate Nike) uses the slogan: "Just think it." Quinn is beaten up by the gangsters, but still wins the game (they asked him to lose or they would kill him). They slide off the building at the last chance.

Sliders Team  
The Weaker Sex

On the world they enter, they find themselves in a nice quiet park. No trouble can be seen, it is a calm day. Wells makes a comment, perhaps they have returned home. Arturo recognises a kiosk selling doughnuts. He buys one and splits it in four. The man in the kiosk tells them to shut up, the President is going to speak on tv. Yes, it is President Clinton.

Unfortunately it is President Hillary Clinton! On this world women rule and men are discriminated against. Women here hold public office, fly planes, play professional sports and are the captains of industry, while men stay home, take care of the kids and maybe get a job as a receptionist. Wells gets a computer job, while since Quinn is thought to be her boyfriend, he gets a job to prepare coffee at the office where Wells works. Arturo runs for Mayor, the first man to have done this. Since hundreds of years ago, this world has not known war. Arturo survives an assassination attempt, he attempts to get voters not to vote for him, but fails. He almost wins, but CNN reports a loss. This is a great moment in the episode. Before he has just promised Wells that should he lose, he will be her slave (?) for the next slide. In fact he ends up having to serve her with drinks in a Tahiti world in the next slide. After they are gone, we find out that he did not lose at all, CNN made a mistake, but the Sliders can't know this!

 

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