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A shaggy-dog-story/horror/suspense/comedy/drama about a Las Vegas magician who has committed a series of murders and been sentenced to death. The film follows the final hours prior to the execution, leading up to the execution itself. In the twist ending, the lights flicker during the execution, and when they come back on we see that the condemned man and the executioner have suddenly and inexplicably swapped places. The magician, now dressed in his full stage get-up, flicks the switch that sets the execution device going, and shouts "Ta-da". Then the credits roll.


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Comedy skit: A spoof of The Big Bang Theory and Breaking Bad in which a drug dealing Walter White/Sheldon Cooper hybrid character pedantically berates his customers for not knowing the difference between amphetamine and methamphetamine

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Horror-comedy. A group rents a cabin for a vacation. One bedroom of the cabin is haunted, the rest of the cabin is completely normal. The occupant of the haunted bedroom appears more and more insane to the others as the nature of the hauntings becomes more and more severe throughout the week and allows him diminishing amounts of sleep.

https://www.apnews.com/6482bb8522ef427c8dba0d117327f1b2

Annnnnd then the East coast fisheries are fucked.

I'm surprised that there hasn't been a lot more stuff like this. Between tariffs on our side raising prices and tariffs on China's side reducing business we should already be in a recession

PDS bumping yet another old topic with irrelevant stupid garbage.

Ha ha the U.K. never has sun, that joke sure is new, and relevant, and not at all what literally everyone immediately thought of and dismissed as too fucking obvious, no sir!

It's TWO FUCKING YEARS OLD, that means it's current and important and topical!

It's not like there's more than two or three actually active topics here

A Sesame Street episode dealing with religious diversity with a side focus on teaching alphabet letters, including muppet versions of various religious fingues including Jesus of Nazareth - who has an aside about the lowercase letter "t" - and Charles Manson - who teaches the kids about the letter "X"

The planet is very earth-like, and the constant cloud cover is basically over a landmass the size of the UK. The rest of the planet has regular weather, more or less.

So basically it's the UK?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwjfUFyY6M

So, I don't know if anyone else here is following this, but it turns out a Falun Gong media outfit worked to get Trump elected because they believe he has been sent by Heaven to cause the fall of the Communist Regime.

This same network has been fuelling online propaganda for...Qanon.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-qanon-impending-judgment-day-behind-facebook-fueled-rise-epoch-n1044121?fbclid=IwAR2koWWr8vKsF6uREmkID3YDsM-s7OCngZaBbKeuiBRaPEaFdo4OZiuXtGU

This explains a really weird amount of the disproportionate pull QAnon has had.

It does.

It also made at least one researcher, someone who is pretty much an expert in Aum Shinrikyo, freak out.

Because she's been saying for years that Aum didn't start out as a terrorist group. No, they started out as a new age movement with a side in conspiracy theory.

Like the Manson Family?

A parody of A Clockwork Orange in which Alex is replaced with Schroeder from the comic strip Peanuts, his droogs are replaced with other Peanuts characters, and P.R.Deltoid's voice sounds like a trombone

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"*Wah wah wah*"

"Not true, sir. It was only a slight tolchock. She was breathing, I swear it."

"*Wah wah*"

"You try to frighten me, sir, admit so, sir. This is some new form of torture."



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Comedy sketch in which Charles Manson is a high school English teacher who assigns his students to analyze the symbolism in a "poem" which is actually the song "Helter Skelter" by the Beatles.

3.) An out of control trolley is barreling down the tracks. If not stopped it will strije and kill four people. Before that, in exactly one minute, it will come to a switchtrack that can send it to a different track where only one man is standing. There is a button which you can press that will cause the tracks to switch once after half a minute, switch again after a further quarter of a minute, switch again after a further eighth of a minute, again after a further sixteenth of a minute, and so on and so on. Should you press the button.

4.) There is an out of control trolley barreling down the tracks. If not stopped it will run over the entire population of China. However you can pull a switch and send it to a different track where it will only run over the population of two medium sized Japanese cities. Should you pull the switch?

1.) An out of control trolley is barreling down the track. If not stopped it will strike and kill King Friday, Lady Elaine, X the Owl, and Daniel Tiger Sr., who are make-believe, however you can pull a switch  that will send it onto a different track where it will bruise the arm of Mr.McFeely, who is real and is leaning on the track. Should you pull the switch?

2.) An out of control trolley is barreling down the track. There is nobody on the track. However, you can pull a switch that will send it onto a different track where Donald Trump and Mike Pence, are standing. Should you pull the switch? What if there was also a homeless person on the track with Trump and Pence? What if there were two homeless people? How many homeless people would have to be added before it became morally wrong to pull the switch?

*A cyberpunk political drama set in a world where consciousness uploading is common and uploaded consciousnesses are permitted to vote. In this world political power is directly proportional to processing power. Parties gain additional votes for themselves by running many concurrent copies of uploaded supporters. Whichever party has the resources to copy its supporters the most times wins the election

*A skit examining the Trolley Problem, except it's set in Mr.Rogers' Neighborhood of Make-Believe, and instead of examining whether it's ok to kill one person to save several people, it examines whether it's ok to mildly bruise a real person to save the life of a make believe person.

*A person deals with the guilt of a hit-and-run accident in a world in which staying with the body of an accident victim causes them to magically come back to life. "magically come back to life" is the actual termonology used in the story. "If only I hadn't driven away," they lament, "than those people would have magically come back to life"

*Skit: fake commercial advertising a satanic version of Lucky Charms cereal with marshmallow goat heads, sacrificial daggers, voodoo dolls, and necronomicons

*Steampunk story where the twist is that instead of being set in the past it's set in the Amish areas of modern Penmsylvania

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*Sesame Street episode where the count goes full-on vampire and has to be subdued with the lowercase letter "t"

phlebotinium

Well if we're doing this than I have to point out that that idiom misuses the prefix phlebo-

It should only be used in contexts similar to its original use in vampire action-science-fantasy media

*A parody of childrens' books with talking animals. On a farm two friends, Cock and Pussy, get into a lot of doubke-entendre filled hijinks and learn about friendship

*A documentary on the coathanger and how it's shady as fuck (it's used for breaking into cars, back alley abortions, beating whores, etc.)

*A parody of animes like "Pokemon", "Beyblade", and "Yu-Gi-Oh" in which a competition of some sort defines all of society. In this parody the competition is a literal dick measuring contest. The protagonist travels the world seeking pumps and pills and supplements so that he can be the best.

A sort of combinationmof Final Destination and terrible books from literature class, maybe with a bit of Scream thrown in. It follows a group of middleschool children.  One of the characters has a prophetic dream that allows them to avoid their poignant untimely death which would have taught their friends about loss. However, Death comes for them again and starys coming for each of their friends in turn. One of them realizes that their deaths would set into motion events similar to ones in books that they've read in english class, and using this informatiom they ultimately manage to beat Death by deliberately becoming less lovable and thus breaking out of the trope.

Now France is the enemy. 

https://www.apnews.com/a4e811bd0d3b428dac7a93b4cde67aea

Wait! Trump doesn't drink alcohol!? Could've fooled me.

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Oh wait, he became famous in the 1980's. I guess he probably does cocaine instead.