# "Monsters" anthology series 1988

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [May 26, 2000, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-anthology-series-1988/20600 "2000-05-26T14:11:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-anthology-series-1988/20600/1 "2000-05-26T14:11:45Z")

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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](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mswlabr.html)

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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-anthology-series-1988/20600/2 "2000-05-26T21:50:59Z")

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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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**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-anthology-series-1988/20600/3 "2000-05-27T14:43:18Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-anthology-series-1988/20600/4 "2000-05-27T16:58:36Z")

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