"Monsters" anthology series 1988

Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports
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One of the entries in this series was an episode entitled “Mr Swlabr,” about a boy with some real jerky family members.

He gets something out of a cereal box, adds water, and it turns into some disgusting (talking) reptilian critter called “Mr Swlabr,” who befriends the boy, and protects him from his jerky step-father.

Maybe the writer was a Cream fan? I thought he picked the name out of thin air since the critter “slobbered” a lot (or so I seem to recall).

And I bet that you thought that by the subject it had nothing to do with the mailbag!
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mswlabr.html

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Just curious–I didn’t see the show, I wondered how the audience knew it was spelled that way. Did they show it written down somewhere?

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Maybe that was the episode title?

It’d be hard to independently transliterate slobber with a “W”. I’ll bet the writer just riffed on SWLABR, and Disraeli Gears was the inspiration for the whole episode–I seem to remember it was the inspiration for a few of my lives.

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Yep. That was the episode title, listed as it came on.