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Sliders
Pater: Qvid amusat?
polutrope: I'm watching a terrible tv show called sliders
I alternate between laughing because it's amusing and because it's terrible in an entertaining way
pater: one understands
polutrope: He goes to different dimensions! alternate dimension him said horrible things to his professor and kissed his coworker!
pater: and he remembers and they don’t?
polutrope: No! No one believes it's not him! he gets Fired!
pater: in both worlds?
polutrope:
No.
OMG GO STEAL HIS PROOF PROF ENGLISH ACCENT!
[At this point, his professor is in his basement looking at his invention; the professor’s lead-up leads one to believe that academic fraud is imminent. Alas, it is not.]
pater: he steals an accent?
polutrope: No
He's not going to, but it would have been awesome
pater: Isuppose it would
polutrope: His name is Prof. English Accent as long as I don't know his name
polutrope: They found a really terrible world :(
pater: They get to pick worlds?
polutrope: Nope!
polutrope: Oh my word, there's an ice tornado
pater: we don’t have them
polutrope: Also, Teenage Main Character is totally clueless about the fact that Female Character likes him
pater: a regular Henry Huggins
polutrope: OMG COMMUNIST!AMERICA I LOVE THIS SHOW
pater: When is this from?
polutrope: 1990s, I think
And the crazy guy from the park is a senator in this universe!
[the crazy guy from the park had given speeches to the pigeons about how America was going to fall. ]
pater: Does anybody else know about this?
polutrope: I dunno
Started in 1995
One of the travelers is trying to explain what happened to the communist people! and he sounds crazy, of course
Sent at 1:54 AM on Friday
polutrope: OMG ACCIDENTALLY INVOLVED WITH REVOLUTIONARIES
YES ALTERNATE UNIVERSE HIM IS A COMMANDER [At this point I was wrong: alternate universe!her was a commander]
YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS SHOW DRIVES ME TO CAPSLOCK
pater: I am beginning to. I understand that
the show only appears to you
polutrope: That's not true!
pater: I was hoping that you would say that
polutrope: AND PARALLELL PROF. ENGLISH ACCENT IS EEEEEVIL
pater: Russian?
accent?
polutrope: no
Just a commander
LOL SINO-KOREAN EMPIRE
Pick up your phone and pledge to public television...or else!
I can't tell whether this is actually good or if I'm just being sucked in
People's Court is a Threatening Tool of the Soviets
After being sentenced to 15 years in a gulag: "Small claims my beep!"
pater: It sounds unhinged
polutrope: It's hilarious
pater: Who is responsible for this show?
polutrope: No idea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliders
OK, his name is Maximillian Arturo
No more Prof. English Accent
My word, he is my favorite charater
OH DAMN THEY FIGURED IT OUT
At this point Pater enters the room with a thermometer, to see if I am delirious.
polutrope: "She's off looking for herself"
This episode has everything! [After things blow up spectacularly
pater: !
What ever possessed NBC to go with this?
polutrope: I have no idea. None at all.
polutrope: This is kind of weird in 95, though
This part is just so height-of-cold-war
polutrope: YOU CAN'T HAVE WACKY ADVENTURES WITH AN ATOM BOMB PROF ARTURO [The good professor has just suggested destroying the travelling machine, and compares it to the atom bomb.
polutrope: I'm watching a terrible tv show called sliders
I alternate between laughing because it's amusing and because it's terrible in an entertaining way
pater: one understands
polutrope: He goes to different dimensions! alternate dimension him said horrible things to his professor and kissed his coworker!
pater: and he remembers and they don’t?
polutrope: No! No one believes it's not him! he gets Fired!
pater: in both worlds?
polutrope:
No.
OMG GO STEAL HIS PROOF PROF ENGLISH ACCENT!
[At this point, his professor is in his basement looking at his invention; the professor’s lead-up leads one to believe that academic fraud is imminent. Alas, it is not.]
pater: he steals an accent?
polutrope: No
He's not going to, but it would have been awesome
pater: Isuppose it would
polutrope: His name is Prof. English Accent as long as I don't know his name
polutrope: They found a really terrible world :(
pater: They get to pick worlds?
polutrope: Nope!
polutrope: Oh my word, there's an ice tornado
pater: we don’t have them
polutrope: Also, Teenage Main Character is totally clueless about the fact that Female Character likes him
pater: a regular Henry Huggins
polutrope: OMG COMMUNIST!AMERICA I LOVE THIS SHOW
pater: When is this from?
polutrope: 1990s, I think
And the crazy guy from the park is a senator in this universe!
[the crazy guy from the park had given speeches to the pigeons about how America was going to fall. ]
pater: Does anybody else know about this?
polutrope: I dunno
Started in 1995
One of the travelers is trying to explain what happened to the communist people! and he sounds crazy, of course
Sent at 1:54 AM on Friday
polutrope: OMG ACCIDENTALLY INVOLVED WITH REVOLUTIONARIES
YES ALTERNATE UNIVERSE HIM IS A COMMANDER [At this point I was wrong: alternate universe!her was a commander]
YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS SHOW DRIVES ME TO CAPSLOCK
pater: I am beginning to. I understand that
the show only appears to you
polutrope: That's not true!
pater: I was hoping that you would say that
polutrope: AND PARALLELL PROF. ENGLISH ACCENT IS EEEEEVIL
pater: Russian?
accent?
polutrope: no
Just a commander
LOL SINO-KOREAN EMPIRE
Pick up your phone and pledge to public television...or else!
I can't tell whether this is actually good or if I'm just being sucked in
People's Court is a Threatening Tool of the Soviets
After being sentenced to 15 years in a gulag: "Small claims my beep!"
pater: It sounds unhinged
polutrope: It's hilarious
pater: Who is responsible for this show?
polutrope: No idea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliders
OK, his name is Maximillian Arturo
No more Prof. English Accent
My word, he is my favorite charater
OH DAMN THEY FIGURED IT OUT
At this point Pater enters the room with a thermometer, to see if I am delirious.
polutrope: "She's off looking for herself"
This episode has everything! [After things blow up spectacularly
pater: !
What ever possessed NBC to go with this?
polutrope: I have no idea. None at all.
polutrope: This is kind of weird in 95, though
This part is just so height-of-cold-war
polutrope: YOU CAN'T HAVE WACKY ADVENTURES WITH AN ATOM BOMB PROF ARTURO [The good professor has just suggested destroying the travelling machine, and compares it to the atom bomb.