In the episode of "The Critic" called "Sherman, Woman, and Child" (March 5, 1995), there is an amusing, brief spoof called "A Few More Good Men," which is said to star Jack Nicholson, Christian Slater, and William Devane. The spoof re-enacts the famed "You can't handle the truth" scene from Rob Reiner's 1992 classic "A Few Good Men," only with Slater in the Tom Cruise role. The joke of the scene is that both Nicholson and Slater sound identical. The truth Slater can't handle is that he imitates Nicholson with every phrase and mannerism. William Devane plays the stenographer, and he, too, sounds the same as Nicholson and Slater.

This sketch from 1995 was emblematic of how many filmgoers felt about Slater at the time. Although a unique actor possessed of his own brand of smarmy charm, many

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