The Details

• The timer which reads 18 seconds until the slide during Quinn's sentencing.
• The Cryin' Man convention is at the Oakland Hilton.
• "Tears In My 'Fro" entered the charts at #4 and went on to hold the #1 spot for nine weeks.
• On the news, the Sliders are caught on video by a tourist from Cincinnati named Marc Freedlander. The newscaster mentions that it will rival the Zapruder film in historical importance. Abraham Zapruder was the Dallas clothing merchant who shot the famous film of JFK's assassination.
• Newscaster Penny Jensen works for the SFN network, channel 43.
• Acts that Captain Jack Brim manages include country-western Chinese sensation Walon Chung, and the Bass Ace who's a hit on the senior citizens' circuit.
• The Sliders stay in room 12 at the Motel 12.
• Maurice Fish's red Cadillac convertible has personalized license plates that read KRI BABY with a registration sticker that expires in September.
• Rembrandt's double has appeared on the cover of Tempo Magazine.
• Maurice Fish's old house is at 1913 South Bell Terrace in East Oakland, but now he's living near Telegraph [street] at the intersection of Povill Street in a red house on the south corner, named after Executive Script Consultant Jon Povill (who also wrote Luck of the Draw).

Character Information

• The first single that Rembrandt released after he split from the Spinning Topps was "Tears In My 'Fro." It failed to chart.
• Rembrandt can cry out of each eye individually.
• Arturo jokes that he only sings opera in the shower after he's thought to be Luciano Pavarotti.
• After he left the Spinning Topps to go solo, Captain Jack Brim begged Rembrandt to take him on as a manager but Rembrandt refused.
• Boxers or briefs? It seems Arturo prefers boxer shorts.
• Rembrandt has thought of making the big time ever since he was a kid.
• Rembrandt's standard play list includes the songs "Tears In My 'Fro," "Love Explosion," "Cry Like A Man," "Explosion of Love," "I'm A Tear Jerk," "Head Butt Me," "Weeping Wall Of Tears," and "Who Stole My Woman?"

Notable Quotes

• "You're popular here, which means this can't possibly be our Earth." — Arturo, to Rembrandt.
• "Gentlemen, check your flies." — Arturo, in response to the laughter brought about by Rembrandt's uncanny resemblance to the King.
• "He was a jerk but ... maybe I made a mistake." — Rembrandt, wondering what his career would have done if he hadn't turned down Capt. Jack Brim's request to be his manager on Earth Prime.
• "Stand back! Or I'll slice him like a biscuit." — Maurice, to the other Sliders while holding a straight razor to Rembrandt's neck.

Arturoisms

• "Mr. Pavarotti is an Italian. He speaka likea this. Do I speaka likea this? No. Why? Because I am an Englishman, you blistering idiot!" — to hotel clerk Gomez Calhoun, who makes the mistake of referring to Arturo as Mr. Luciano Pavarotti.

Song Lyrics

• Rembrandt's double sings "Purple Hawaii" in a television video.
• Maurice Fish sings "Slap Me, Love Me" when holding Rembrandt hostage.
• No less than four people belt out lyrics to Rembrandt's solo effort "Tears in My 'Fro."

Purple Hawaii | play song
Performed by Cleavant Derricks

I'm surfin'
On an ocean of tears
Seems like I've been
I've been weeping for years

Oh, my little island girl
You set my mind a whirl
And I think I need
Oh, to drink a couple of beers.

Well, we gonna have...

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Slap Me, Love Me | play song
Performed by Tom Pickett

Slap me, love me, grab me
bump me, bump me, bump me
It takes your love
to really, really stump me.

Whoo!

Whip me, kick me, lick me
lick me, lick me, lick me.
A girl like you,
could really, really trick me.

Whoo!

Baby, baby please,
down on my knees.
You the girl I adore,
let me have some more.
Slap me, love me.

Whoo!
Oh yes.

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Tears In My 'Fro | Song available at Gate Haven
Performed by Cleavant Derricks and Clinton Derricks-Carroll

I've got tears in my 'fro
'cause I'm standing on my head over you
And I, I've got a long way to go
Will this crying stop?
I wish I knew.

At first I thought our love was never-ending
Together, you and I until eternity
Now I realize I'm just pretending
I'm only half the man that I used to be

Yeow!
I got tears in my 'fro
'cause my world is upside down over you
Ya, I should comb 'em out, I know
But that's the saddest thing I've ever had to do

I've got tears in my 'fro
'cause I'm standing on my head over you
yeah, yeah, yeay, yeah
ooh, ooh, ooh.

Neatpicks

• The judge on Law and Order World bears an uncanny resemblance to Judge Lance Ito, who presided over the criminal trial of O.J. Simpson.
• On the television in the hotel room, Quinn and Wade watch "Skipper's Island," which is essentially "Gilligan's Island" except the roles are reversed; Gilligan is the grumpy slave-driver while the Skipper is the bumbling idiot.
• In Captain Jack Brim's office, the Del Rubio sisters sing a few lines from the hit song "Whip It" (reached #14 in 1980) by the group Devo. Episode composer Mark Mothersbaugh fronted that band with his brother Bob in the late '70s.

Nitpicks

• When Wade slides into Cryin' Man World, you can see her bounce off a trampoline that is mostly off-screen.
• In an editing error, while the alternate relaxes in his lake-side cabin, he sees a television commercial promoting the king's comeback special but the commercial says it is on tonight. In reality, the concert is the next night.
• Twin brother or not, Clinton Derricks-Carroll bears little resemblance to Cleavant Derricks.

Rewind That!

• Though it is not widely picked up by viewers, the people behind this episode intended the home video footage of the Sliders to mimic the famous Abbey Road photo of The Beatles, walking in single file in a cross-walk.

Money Matters

• The Sliders check into a hotel room.
• After Capt. Jack offers Rembrandt one million dollars per song for his concert Wade remarks: "A million dollars a song? We'd never have money problems again that's for sure."
• On Ice Cream World, Rembrandt and Quinn must get jobs as ice cream vendors.

Additional Cast

Chuck McCann	Captain Jack Brim
Clinton Derricks-Carroll1	Alternate Rembrandt
Tom Pickett2	Maurice Fish

Special Guest Appearances by:

Eadie Del Rubio
Elena Del Rubio	The Del Rubio Sisters
Milly Del Rubio

Co-Starring:

Janet Kent	Lawyer
Michelle T. Carter3	Penny Jensen [SFN newscaster]
Sheri D. Wilson	Secretary [Sissy]

Featuring:

William Sasso4	Gomez Calhoun
Judith Maxie	Charmange
Nicholas Harrison	Nick
Peter Hanlon	Expert [video] Analyzer
Richard Ihara	Judge
Tyler Van Blankenstein	First Kid

Unaccredited:

• The two men whose pictures are used in Capt. Jack's talent album.

1. Clinton Derricks-Carroll, Cleavant's twin brother, is an accomplished stage performer and got Cleavant his first major acting job in the stage production of "Hair." Clinton would return for the second season Sliders episode Greatfellas and the third season's Prince of Slides.
2. Tom Pickett returns briefly in Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome.
3. MCA and Fox list this character as Pam Jensen.
4. William Sasso returns as Gomez Calhoun, the role he originated in Fever and continued in Time Again and World, Gillian of the Spirits and Greatfellas.