I wouldn’t say I was exactly a “fan” of the show, but I did occasionally watch Sliders back in the mid-90s. The premise of travelling across parallel worlds interested me, the acting wasn’t too bad, and I think the show actually might have been the first time I ever heard a reference to string theory. I’m sure the science would have made a real physicist cry, but for a TV show that was often on when I had nothing else to do, it was an okay way to waste time. Plus, I liked the way the intro sort of whispered, “Ssssliders.”

I also really liked Arrested Development. Like practically every other kid in the 80s, I’d watched Family Ties with Justine Bateman in the role of Mallory Keaton. It’s not difficult to tell that Justine and Jason Bateman are siblings because they look alike, but what I did not know until yesterday, when I was roaming about teh intarwebs, reading about child stars, was that…the dude who played Quinn Mallory in Sliders did, in fact, not later appear as Michael Bluth in Arrested Development. I watched (and indeed, own) all three seasons of AD, and when I first saw it, I distinctly recall thinking, “Oh, that’s the guy from Sliders…Justine Bateman’s brother, Jason.” No, it isn’t. Oops.

Jerry O’Connell, Quinn Mallory in Sliders:

Jason Bateman, Michael Bluth in Arrested Development:

Looking at both images, I do see a resemblance, but it’s obvious that I don’t pay too much attention to actors, because it doesn’t take much observation skill to see that those two are not the same guy, and certainly not with ten years’ age difference. 😛

Heh…I knew the intro would be on YT.

P.S. I’m not going out there today. I’d rather stay here and upgrade something…or stare at my desktop…or poke sharp objects into my face…anything. I didn’t go on Thursday, but I thought it would do me some good to get outside yesterday (surrounding myself with the shapes, colours and sounds of nature has a calming effect), plus it was sunny and not cold, so I went. I thought most of the guys would still be hangin’ with relatives visiting for the holidays, but I was only half right. Practically all of them had relatives over, but they were interested in getting the hell away from them, so there were ten playing yesterday. Since there are no bugs now (okay, winter crane flies, a few “fall flies”, the odd lacewing and some spiders), I’ve been looking for insects in their winter forms, and collecting some of them, mostly praying mantis oothecae, plus I found some katydid eggs. It’s interesting and fun, but the guys didn’t split into two groups yesterday (Matt’s idea, though if I had to go home to his wife, I wouldn’t be in a hurry, either), so a game that should have taken a couple of hours took for-fucking-ever. As if we didn’t already have enough, halfway through the game some obnoxious little shit turned up and played along with the guys. Just a high school student, but apparently he knows Derek somehow, and OH MY GOD he was annoying. By the time he’d been there for two holes, I was ready to break off a large, heavy branch and bash him over the fucking head so he’d SHUT THE FUCK UP. I don’t know his name (P told me, I forget, and AFAIC, it’s “loud, stupid little shithead”), but I know that if that little bastard is ever again anywhere within a 3km radius of that park, I’m leaving…because it would unfortunately be illegal to knock the little shit unconscious and chuck him over the creek bank. 😀