Well, since last week’s Inky Pinky post went off so well, we thought we’d try a different game this weekend, just to entertain ourselves between cocktails. Despite what you may think, this has nothing to do with jokes about Arnold’s recently discovered progeny.
To a few of you-Chris, Salome, Blix, Naugahyde, and Uncle Billy, among others, this is an old one that we played over a year ago back on Crosstalk.
The premise is simple: Take two separate pop-culture items (two movies, a movie and a TV show, etc. You get it) and combine them, presenting us with a title and a plot. Hopefully we’ll come up with something worth producing, and we can start script-writing next week. I hear Mel Gibson might be available.
To get you started, let me give a couple of examples, just to show how this thing works:
Mad Max: Bio-Thunderdome: Mel Gibson and Pauly Shore form an unlikely duo as Mad Max becomes a part of an ecological project gone wrong, and becomes the only way out for the rest of the subjects.
Rickrollin’ Down the River: Tina Turner is one pissed off diva when the video during her latest farewell concert is hijacked by the inescapable Astley hit.
District 9 1/2 Weeks. A hard-charging Wall Street narcissist spends 9 1/2 cocaine-fueled weeks in a South African slum living out his sadomasochistic sexual fantasies with an extraterrestial arthropod. Some of those fantasies involve diapers.
Have at it!
