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• Abby
  
  
  
  
  • https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/10813
  
  


• Pat
  
  
  
  
  • https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyperheartcom/gotchacards
  
  

Topics:

• The pear scene


• Capsule machines vs. claw games


• Designing UIs for TV


• This be the Verse, by Philip Larkin
  
  
  
  
  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-be-the-verse
  
  

Microtopics:

• My Brother the Car.


• A card game that is not totally random.


• Deciding to focus on something else in 2020.


• Rock Paper Scissors vs. Rock Scissors Paper.


• Which of the twins to take a kidney from


• Committing to a bit that breaks the rhythm of what people expect you to say.


• Making a game where people get crushed by debt but making it fun.


• Everybody Loves Raymond.


• Sitcoms that have plenty of opportunity to disappoint you.


• A show that lives and dies in the performance.


• Nine years to stop trying.


• The most profitable sitcom of all time.


• Adapting Raymond.


• Ray Romano explaining the concept of having parents to a puzzled audience.


• The kind of argument where both people make sense and are both trying to be nice.


• Trying to be nice but failing.


• 'Til Death.


• The demeanor of a revenant.


• Whether Brad Garrett listens to this show.


• Hitting 100 episodes and going into syndication.


• Musicians needing a body that can strike.


• Writing an increasingly ludicrous sitcom for an audience of nobody.


• A son who is always on the wacky tobacky.


• A sitcom husband who notices that his wife has been recast and realizes he's on a sitcom.


• Continuing to give Brad Garrett chances to star in sitcoms because he's so tall.


• A sitcom that made you feel seen.


• The workplace sitcom vs. the domestic sitcom.


• Aimlessness in a post-Seinfeld era.


• Abed Ghaith's striptease.


• Is that Abed Ghaith's penis in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?


• Claw game skill issues.


• A billionaire trying to figure out how best to do good in the world and who decides to operate several generous claw machines.


• Decorating a desk space with a pocket full of miniature delights.


• Mona Lisa Breakdancing.


• The rice cooker that King Piccolo was trapped in.


• Rubik's Cube but all the faces are Mahjong tiles.


• The coolest and most popular racial atrocity.


• Ramen Man vs. Kikko Man.


• A bowl of ramen in the shape of a tube.


• Homer Simpson: visual ripoff of Kinnikuman.


• Seeing an aquarium fish that looks just slightly too human.


• Reading a book about bugs and itching like mad.


• Worrying that you are ruining eyes for yourself.


• Famous JAV title "Reincarnated as a Spider"


• Conveying the idea of receiving a DM on social media to a television audience.


• My face in a tube dot com.


• Saying "youshmoob" really fast and hoping nobody notices.


• Wanting to put a Russian Roulette scene in your TV show but being unable to negotiate the rights to Russian Roulette from ELORG so you need to hire Alexey Pajitnov to design a replacement game.


• A joke that is very funny when you explain it but impossible to convey in any known medium.


• The flag that says "bang!"


• The Joker not being confident enough in his jokes so he has to use laughing gas.


• Silent Comedy Joker has to work a bit harder.


• Naming a difficulty level after a pop culture allusion to babies.


• The ending of a Clockwork Orange in the UK depicting the protagonist as deciding to renounce violence and become a better person, but in the US they omitted that chapter because it's unrealistic.


• The UK edition of A Clockwork Orange depicting the protagonist renouncing violence and becoming a better person so he joins the police force, whereas in the US edition the protagonist decides to remain brutal and violent so he joins the police force.


• Where's the bridge, Larkin?


• This be the verse you grave for me.


• Poets being jerks to all different kinds of people.


• Kefka creating a tower of garbage in Final Fantasy while everyone tries to convince him it's worthwhile to have a family.


• Which kids inspired Lord of the Flies.


• Suggesting that your mom read Chainsaw Man Part 1 so that you can talk to her about grief.

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