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I started this as a twist on the "plastic paddy" phenomena, only for @pocky469.bsky.social to inform me it was valid to his Korean American experience as well. In both directions. <sigh> Humans.

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I have an appropriately quizzically-eyebrowed relationship to all formalized religion. This merely seemed a benign example, with more historical precedent than most.

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In the 1990s I ran a 4 part campaign with this theme. I was already a fan of "How to Steal a Million" and this seemed an appropriate spiritual successor. www.imdb.com/title/tt0060...

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Go to IMDB.com and perform a search for "I Was a Teenage" and behold the marvel.

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 23h

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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! His foreign-born cousin comes to Daegu, and easygoing, never-been anywhere Jho Seo-jun is tired of Jho Ha-Jun’s ‘more Korean than thou’ act. They finally break through unexpected cultural barriers in “My American Cousin (1995).”

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A wine-making family establishes a Universalist Monastery next door. The older family bachelors go there for quiet contemplation, wine making, tax advantages, great steak sandwiches, prayer, and “St. Audoin's Poker Night (2002).”

A stained-glass window of a man in a rough brown hoodie sitting at the poker table with an enormous pile of poker chips in front of him. The title reads "St. Audoin's Poker Night."

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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Brute force solving 3->4 and it was literally the last combination I could use. Wordle 1,935 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! When the naive Father Kačinskas discovers his superior used to be an infamous art thief, he resolves to swap the forgery in the museum with the original. Old and unexpected new talent conspire to “Reframe the Question (1987).”

Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A boy of 16 is groomed by his father to inherit the megachurch. Leading his first youth group he discovers girls, and that love of God doesn't necessarily mean you should be in the biz. Pray for 1964's “I Was a Teenage Minister.”

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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's "Willard" capitalizing on the "Bay of Plenty." Look, some of these were just for me. I'll express some token shame and move on.

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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! As dementia takes hold on a kindly old cat lady from Tauranga (New Zealand), her astounding connection to her 103 cats is revealed, leading to a series of grizzly murders. Will Miss Fluffykins relent?! It's 1982's “Plenty o' Cats.”

Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You look like you are perplexed by the concept of cameras.

Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Ryan AKA Ben Graven @bengraven.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Fox News says the kids are becoming “radical”. So I grabbed my pogs and Gameboy and rode my BMX down to the mall. No hot pink or neon green to be found. Turns out they just wanted to talk about human rights, inclusivity and equality, and universal healthcare.

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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My brain probably came up with the title phrase as in "Christian-themed charlatans" then gave it a double twist.

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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In the earlier days of Hollywood, the English language version of productions would be filmed in the day and he Spanish language ones at night. Different actors and directors, same sets, interesting variation in the scripts. Lookin into "Spanish Dracula" for a great example.

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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Not an unbroken line of first born male heirs, and not the seventh son of a seventh son, but something inbetween. Some movies might make the punchline "he's gay," but why wait until the end for that when we can mine all the comedy of the unease and the stupidity of the cultists throughout?

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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm not sure if this was direct-to-video. I know it has that slightly sleazy quality that would have made it ideal for that.

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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This was both an excuse to bring out Doris Sands and to explore the Biblical horror of being touched by the holy. Seriously, there's blessed then there's "oh no, forget having a normal life every again" terror.

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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I had the movie "Toys" on my mind, but more of a "Home Alone" approach.

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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It occurred to me that while cleaning a crime scene is difficult, confusing the heck out of it would be easy. Make the investigators trace so many leads that if one thing slips through they don't notice anything that might be missing. This one has a sequel somewhere in the list.

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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Some people would escalate the humor into espionage and intrigue. Not me. I always want the fact the most ridiculous thing is not the important thing.

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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Title first, back-constructed plot second, and Wisconsin is underrated as a comedy word, because it is overshadowed by Minnesota.

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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Any time people say "this sort of thing didn't happen in my day" the facts say "they did." I may have had "founders effect" on my mind too.

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! An apocalyptic cult steals a fleet of nuclear submarines. Seven years pass, until the end of the world, when they breach the surface to take the blessed to an underwater paradise in 1978's “the Second Conning of Christ.”

A submarine with an oversized conning tower, stylized as a glowing Christian cross, breaks the surface of the ocean at twilight. The title reads "the Second Conning of Christ."

Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Film-making gnomes cut a deal so they can use the human sets at human studios at night to produce gnomish versions of the films. Friendly rivalries, union strife, and romance abounds in 1937’s “The Night Shift Players.”

Silhouette of two gnomes behind an old (1920s-ish) movie camera and the title "the Night Shift Players."

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! An esoteric cult worships the second-born sons of an ancient bloodline. When the current scion prefers men, the cult panics, and their confused methods of intervening spiral out of control in 1994's “Helpless Before God.”

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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! A space outlaw is sought out by her long-estranged brother to rescue his boyfriend. The robot-duplicate of her own lost paramour leads the villains, but it is less and more than it seems in 1996’s “Roboslavers of the Ninth Sector.”

Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A scatterbrained guardian angel (Doris Sands) performs too many supernatural feats for her charge, who begins to believe she is the Daughter of God. It'd take a miracle to stop the miracles in “the Annunciation of Susan (1988).”

In a forest glade, the upper back, shoulder and back of the head of a woman. A humanoid-but-winged shadow looms over her. The title reads "The Annunciation of Susan."

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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I made some legitimately bad guesses in this chain. Wordle 1,931 5/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Three bank robbers light aircraft emergency lands on top of a conference center during a national toy fair. They take a toy designer hostage and his friends come to the rescue in 1997’s “SWAT: Silly Weapons, Amusements, and Toys.”

Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Shelly is called in to confuse crime scenes, add meaningless 'clues,' and taint physical evidence. The police are baffled by him or her, and the forensics specialist determined to unmask the perp calls her “the Obfuscator (1994).“

Three yellow flag-markers with unusual symbols ("}q", an Interrobang, and an Ouroboros/Infinity symbol) on a green marble floor. The title reads "the Obfuscator," and it has a bloody shadow that has some of the letters transposed.

Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I said it again and I'll say it before, I love time travel.

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! When tired rumors recirculate about the disappearance of Gunter’s father, the only man who knows the truth isn’t allowed to say—but he can craft and spread a better rumor to make Gunter believe “The Better of Two Lies (2012).”

A snowy, grainy street scene and the title "The Better of Two Lies."

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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Milk doesn't do a body good when a bovine supervirus infects the herd of a Wisconsin dairy farm. Consumers mutate and rampage through the mid-West until a medicated cheese is developed to save ”the Intolerant Lactoids (2003).”

Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! A poor Edinburgh sculptor retraces his grandfather's journey. At Loch Fyne, coincidence reveals a village of his surprise first-cousins and an old church that needs a fifty-year touch-up. See 1958's “Grandfather's Little Ramble.”

Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Go, go No Such Agent!" "Wah! No Such Agent has intercepted my encrypted payment for illegal sneakers to pay off drug lords! It's time to power up Mr. Cleaner!" <a washing machine with coins for eyes is zapped by a grow ray>

Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Originally posted to the eX-screaming-bluebird site? I don't know, the file timestamps got updated when I upgraded computers.

A mash-up of the Wordle game and Space Invaders. At the bottom of the screen, a small artillery piece shoots out Wordle blocks.

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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You know you wanted to see John Ritter in a 1970s wood-paneled basement recreation room with his family desperately putting on skits to get him to perform daily tasks.

Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A man suffers a psychological condition wherein he believes all advertising. After failing total avoidance, his family is forced to enact commercials targeted to the audience of one in 1978's “And Now, a Word From Our Sister.”

Against a wood-paneled backdrop and sitting on a Formica surface, a portable television displays "And Now, a Word from Our Sister."

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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When I first was exposed to to D&D, I wondered why monks were these violent MADMs (Martial Arts Death Machines). I "got it" when I was exposed to Hong Kong cinema. Then I took it back to western Christian monks.