This Friday, July 25, is your last day to start or renew - - - - |
- - - - This fall, the CBS television network will be debuting a new show called Joan of Arcadia. Based on early promos, it seems the weekly drama tells the story of God, who takes the form of a cute boy at Arcadia High School so he can boss around a sophomore named Joan and possibly drive her insane. Now it seems likely the producers of this program came up with the title pun first, then reverse engineered the story to fit the title. Here at the Brain Exploder, this seems like a very easy way to make money. We made up three title puns, then wrote treatments for television shows to fit each of them. Read the synopses below and try to figure out the names of the programs. Next week, we'll print the original titles, as well as the best and most entertaining guesses we receive from readers. (Note: the answers don't necessarily have to follow the name/place format of the above example.) From all the respondents, our staff will pick one person to win a McSweeney's book of our choosing. Send your answers to carltondoby@hotmail.com by noon Friday, August 1. 1. Born in Munich and recently arrived in America, Olga settles on the Gulf coast of Florida where she amuses the locals with her Bavarian accent and teaches German at the local high school. When a mega-corporation wants to tear down six homes to build the state's largest Coffee Depot, Olga refuses to sell in order to save the heron habitat that stretches through her backyard. Although she must contend with scheming corporate executives and half-a-dozen colorful but angry neighbors, Olga forms a special bond with the rescued birds. Highly intelligent and organized, the herons show their gratitude by doing Olga favors around the house, coming to the aid of troubled youths in her German class, and by smiting Olga's enemies in bloody, Hitchcockian, aerial assaults. Don't miss the show TV Guide calls "Willard, but with a German lady and giant birds instead of rats!" - - - - Read the answers to last week's Brain Exploder, "Celebrity 'Phil' in the Blank."
OTHER McSWEENEY'S STORIES:
An Immigrant's Guide to Translating American Workplace Slang By John Leary Things I've Been Thinking About By Colleen Werthmann On the Occasion, Give or Take, Of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Staging, In Paris, Of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, A Few Representative Selections from The Annotated Treasury of Waiting For Godot Parodies By Ben Greenman You Have Problems with Paper, I Have Paper and Paper-Product-Related Credentials…No Problem By Dan Kennedy McSweeney's Brain Exploder: Celebrity "Phil" in the Blank By Carlton Doby |
Red dot denotes content that is new today.
Black dot denotes newish content.