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Tremors

Shriek & Destroy

Season 1, Episode 13, Aired Aug 08, 2003

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Shriekers are spotted in Juniper, Arizona, and Twitchell sends Burt and Tyler to handle the situation. However, the Fish and Wildlife Service are also in town and manage to kill five Shriekers. They take one alive for study and when it gets a hold of some food, the Shriekers start to multiply again. Now Burt and Tyler have to stop them from massacring the entire town.moreless

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Toni Cafaro

Famer's Wife
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Clayton Blocker

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Hosea Simmons

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Dean Norris

W.D. Twitchell
Michael Gross

Burt Gummer
Marcia Strassman

Nancy Sterngood
Lela Lee

Jodi Chang
Victor Browne

Tyler Reed
Gladis Jimenez

Rosalita Sanchez

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By 10thdoctorfan, Sep 01, 2011

Tremors the series ends with this?

A regular Shrieker killing!?

Sure we get a good scene of Burt commanding a baseball team to fire on those mindless beasts.

But, why did SciFi cancel it!?

I just found out abootu it this year and i loved the episodes online. Why did they have to screw with a good thing on TV? Who else was wanting more and mroe stories about Mixmaster and government secrets more deadly than El Blanco? Sure, Melvin would have kept coming back to try killing the worm to make Perfection Valley his playground, but hey! That's what made this show so great. It's been 8 years since cancelation. The actors are still alive! I hope they can make more episodes for the TV series. (Sobs uncontrolably)moreless
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Getting back to what Tremors should be, a fitting finale.

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By Ailran, Oct 19, 2005

Once more Burt and Tyler are sent off to deal with Graboid problems elsewhere in the US. This time they are sent to the state of Arizona.

Those two work so well together that you don't really mind that, again, all the female characters are pushed out of the limelight.

What makes this different form the other Shrieker hunt episodes, for yes the Graboids do mutate into Shriekers,, is the involvement of the Wildlife and Fisheries department and a sanctioned bounty hunter called in by them to deal with the 'animal' problem.

The interplay between Burt and the so-called expert hunter brings Burt back to his crazy anti government ranting best.

Although this episode is a bit similar to 'Night of the Shriekers', in the sense that it is basically all building up to a massive gunfight, it is different enough to be very enjoyable, mainly because of the wonderful bounty hunter. Also with Burt, Tyler and Twitchell all together you know you are going to get some classy banter between them.

In fact Twitchell has a great scene with Burt which leads to one of the best lines in the whole series.

Twitchill: 'I really don't appreciate your sarcasm'
Burt: 'Then why do you keep coming back for more?'

Ok, maybe that doesn't work quite so good in paper and without the facial expressions and the look on their faces.

All in all though this is a fitting end to a fun series. You do feel though that so much more could have been done in Perfection. While fun the series as a whole showed little cohesion, or continuity, and has very little in it to make viewers come back to it the following week.

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- Twitchell: That guy (Burt) operates on a whole other level.
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- Burt: Damn, I told Twitchell a thousand rounds wouldn't be enough!
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- Burt: You've been here for two days and there's still Shriekers alive. You need our help. McClane: Well, even if I did, it wouldn't be from a couple of redneck survivalists. Tyler: Hey, hang on, let's be clear – he's a survivalist, I'm the redneck.
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- Burt: Stop wasting their money, i.e. tax dollars, i.e. my money. Tyler: "i.e."? Burt: Yes, i.e.!
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- Jodi: Burt, for someone who knows a lot about surviving, you sure don't know very much about surviving economically.
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- Twitchell: You know, I really don't appreciate your sarcasm. Burt: Why do you keep coming back for more?
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- Burt: Don't fire until you see the whites of their...heat seeking organs!
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- When the episode originally aired, it was followed by a special sneak preview of the upcoming Battlestar Galactica mini-series.
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- When Burt and Tyler fire at the Graboids as they pop up through the laundry sheets, it looks like a lot like the on-line SciFi Channel Tremors game.
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