User Reviews

I actually really enjoyed this episode. The humour really worked for me, despite the usual mediocre acting.

The out of sequence airing dates for the first season are very confusing. I believe this is supposed to come earlier in the season than Is listed on IMDB.

References to a war in the Australian outback with the Outback Cong are completely ludicrous and absurd. As an Australian myself that was really bizarre to listen to. It's so stupid that it's funny.

The spider wasps looked surprisingly terrifying.

A planet of the Hippies is a funny idea.

Rembrandt shines in this one as the fake returned husband who gets to live out a schoolboy fantasy, only to discover his crush is a complete harpy.

I also like that we don't have to spend much time with boring Wade.

The group lands on a world with giant spider wasps and must quickly use the timer to escape. In the process, Quinn and the professor are separated from Rembrandt and Wade who land in a hippie commune. She quickly becomes their spiritual guru. Mr. Bennish makes another appearance as the stoner physicist on Earth Prime the FBI needs to help find the sliders. On the parallel world, he's a clean-cut young Republican promoting the war. Oliver North is the president, which doesn't surprise me in a nation full of conservatives. A gun-toting conservative old lady rents a room to Quinn and the professor only to snitch on them to the FBI.

Meanwhile, Rembrandt finds out his alternate is married to his childhood crush, but he supposedly died in the war, so Rembrandt takes his place during his wake. This is a valuable lesson to men everywhere. You may think you've found a great housewife, but in reality, she could be a house monster! There was even a reference by Quinn to the wishbone offense in football, which reminded me of my Oklahoma Sooners. Overall, this was a pretty good episode. I just hope the group can find much better worlds than the ones they've visited thus far. I would like to see them land on a world that lives by nudity and sexual fluidity or bisexuality. THAT would be a world to see.

Although shown later in the season, this was meant to be the follow on episode from the pilot.

The team land in San Francisco and the timer is acting wonky. It is an San Francisco as it has been plagued by Spiderwasps even getting inside a building will not be safe.

They try to leave and Rembrandt and Wade land nearby some hippies who revere them. It is 1995 and General Oliver North is President of the USA.

Quinn and Arturo went through a second tunnel and are separated from the others. Just as in the pilot, this is an America that is authoritarian. A landlady regard them as subversives and informs the FBI.

This is an America that has gone though a Vietnam type conflict but over Australia in the alternate world. There is still a culture war between hippies and conservatives.

There was some satire but that has aged. Some people might not even know who Oliver North is. The cultural war element and the authoritarian law enforcement looks more relevant.

Much better was Rembrandt visiting his old house and ending up in a remembrance service devoted to him.

There is something missing. It looks like a series where they end up somewhere and just want to leave. Here they try to get back into the portal with the FBI chasing them.