"I think my pussy is a wormhole."
— Mae Cannon
Slip is a 2023 comedy series created for The Roku Channel. The show stars Zoe Lister-Jones as Mae, a woman who finds herself traveling to alternate universes every time she has sex.
This show provides examples of:
- Alternate Universe: Mae travels through several of them, every time she orgasms.
- Alternate Self: Mae meets alternate dimension versions of people she knows, such as her husband and her best friend.
- Big Applesauce: The entire show takes place in the New York City area, and Mae works at the fictional Radner Museum of Art.
- Childhood Friends: Mae and Gina have been inseparable since childhood, having been in the same foster home.
- The Constant: The one thing that never changes between dimensions is the fact that Mae and Gina are always best friends, even when they have wildly different lives.
- Costume-Test Montage: In "The Lush," Mae raids her alternate universe self's closet and tries on several outfits, only to decide that she and her counterpart have totally different tastes in clothes.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Mae is implied to have had a pretty rough childhood, having grown up in a series of bad foster homes. This is part of the reason why she's hesitant to have children, as she says that "family" is a loaded word for her.
- First-Episode Twist: The first episode ends with Mae cheating on her husband... and then waking up in a parallel dimension where she's married to the man she had the affair with.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: Mae and Gina. Their friendship even transcends dimensions.
- Mood Whiplash:
- The first episode begins with a philosophical narration by Mae... only for it to turn out that she's not talking to the audience, she's been venting to a confused restaurant employee, who just asked her how she was doing.
- In "The Dakini," Mae sings a heartfelt performance of "Every Breath You Take", which is abruptly cut off by DeShawn's mom, complaining about the smell of weed.
- Motor Mouth: Rose, Elijah's alternate universe wife. She talks nonstop (mostly about herself), and Mae flat out calls her a "hypermanic narcissist."
- New Job as the Plot Demands: People Mae knows usually have different jobs in different universes, which gives her a convenient excuse to keep running into them. When Mae explains her multiverse adventures to Gina, she tells Gina that she really works at a museum, much to her confusion (she was a dog walker/pet psychic in that reality).
- Noodle Incident: In "The Mother," Gina offhandedly mentions the time she "drank that boba tea that had those mushrooms in it."
- Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Tymika Tafari (Gina) pronounces the odd word in her Jamaican English.
- Sassy Black Woman: Gina, although she's a lot more well-educated and articulate than most examples (she's a museum curator in one universe, and has a graduate degree in at least one other).
- Sexless Marriage:
- This is what starts the plot of the show. Mae and her husband Elijah have a happy but dull marriage. Mae cheats on her husband with a stranger, and ends up traveling to another dimension.
- Lampshaded in the first episode, where Elijah jokingly suggests that he and Mae should get a television for their bedroom because "It's boring in there."
- Statuesque Stunner: Vanessa, Mae's boss, as played by the 5'10" Lily Gao. Gina compliments her looks, and the fact that she's a porn star in at least one alternate universe speaks volumes.
