Tremors

The Sounds of Silence

Season 1, Episode 10, Aired 7/18/03

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The valley has an infestation of strange bugs that make loud noises when they are about to feed. They start eating dry wood, but soon enough they move onto meat and begin making their way toward the town. Meanwhile, Larry has decided to move into town.

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Dean Norris

W.D. Twitchell
Marcia Strassman

Nancy Sterngood
Lela Lee

Jodi Chang

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Larry comes to the fore again and another scientist arrives to visit Perfection.

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"Good"

By Ailran, Sep 26, 2005 Report Abuse

After last weeks disappointing episode starts of with two interesting twists.
First is the appearance of another Graboid in Perfection, at least according to Dr. Donna Debevic, an animal sound specialist, which has to be the oddest job title I have ever heard.
Secondly, Larry is back, this time permanently, moving in to annoy the residents of Perfection and bring his comedic chatterbox style to the viewers. His continual use of film quotes and comparisons are more often than not hilarious. He is, as I have said before, such a great character that I am overjoyed to see that the writers obviously agree and have written him in to the series.
Larry is needed even more than ever in this episode, Burt is out of town and without Burt Perfection needs a comedy character (actually what it needs is more characterisation all round, though it is slowly getting better at this)
The other characters have their comedy sides but are all there to be the straight men to Burt really. They are all slowly getting a bit of characterisation but it is not getting their quickly enough. Rosalita really needs work; her character is so much of an enigma that we know next to nothing about her.
Donna though is a scientific Burt. Apart from her dress style her speech and treatment of others is very reminiscent of our favourite paranoid conspiracy survivalist.
In fact even Tyler spots this, saying "Wait till Burt gets back, you just might hit it off"

The addition of Larry and Donna don't really make up for the loss of Burt, what can after all, but they do make a great double team, which is good as otherwise this would be a mundane story.
After a little bit of investigation it turns out there is not another Graboid in the town but a new breed of insect. A mixmastered cross between Termite/Cicada and Maggot. A swarm of this new creature is invading the desert and heading towards Perfection, which could make an interesting story.
A swarm of small dangerous creatures need an intelligent plan of action if the townspeople want to survive them, unlike the larger ones that can just be gunned down by superior firepower. This makes a refreshing change, and is maybe why Burt is not in this one.
It does not quite hit the mark though, it is not as good as some of the earlier episodes, though it is much better than 'Graboid Rights' and 'Project 4-12'. I guess this would come under the grading of good, mainly due to Larry and Donna, but not good enough.
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- At the beginning, Tyler gets Dr. Debevic's attention by stomping his foot on the ground. With her devices to hear sounds she would have heard his truck come close even before he arrived. Edit
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- Michael Gross does not appear in this episode. Edit
- Originally scheduled to air May 30, 2003 at 9:00 p.m. EST. Edit
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- Larry: We've got five... somethings on the monitor. Could it be a graboid, or could it be something worse. Dr. Debevic: Drop your socks and grab our boxers gentleman, we got work to do. Twitchell: (pointing to Dr. Debevic) Friend of Gummers? Edit
- Twitchell: Wait a second, wait a second. I was told, there's another Graboid out here, bigger than the Loch Ness monster, rampaging around, eating hundreds of fence posts and stuff. Tyler: Who told you that? Twitchell: (points to Larry) Obi-Wan Kedork over here. So what are they, if not El Blanco and his friends? Tyler: I don't know. But I do know that Graboids do not eat wood. Twitchell: Wait a minute, they don't eat wood? They eat cows, they eat people, they eat burros you said they ate you car. But somehow they draw the line at wood! Edit
- Twitchell: (seeing a fireball) It's either amazingly good news, or unbelievably bad. Edit
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