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April 27, 2005
Time to show off your creativity.
I am enamored of the exploding German toads story below.
Here's where I need your help. Imagine that the Fox network got the rights to tell the story in a dramatic 2-hour movie. What would the title be and who would star?
My idea:
Ribbit! Terror in Hamburg! (or) When Toads Attack!
Either way it has to star Hasselhoff.
Posted by Dan at April 27, 2005 09:16 PM
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Tale of the Tumescent Toads
And it'd have to star Tim Robbins. And probably Tom Hanks.
This is a very serious subject, and quite the potential tearjerker.
Rob Reiner should direct.
Posted by: Kimm at April 27, 2005 09:40 PM
I fail to see the humor in this. Having been a victim of a company who dumped chemical pollutants into the village sewer and then contaminating my drinking water, this doesn't strike me as particularly funny. Shooting a toad with a bb gun is one thing...
Posted by: Ralph at April 27, 2005 11:04 PM
"The pond's water quality is no better or worse than other bodies of water in Hamburg." -from the story itself.
Who said anything about chemical pollutants?
I think the toads are the first wave of an alien invasion of some sort.
Posted by: Dan at April 27, 2005 11:58 PM
Amphibian Nation
starring Joan Rivers (b/c it would take the least amount of work to make her look like one)
It would also employ a bit of sci-fi embellishment, introducing the toads as aliens from another planet who weren't quite prepared to deal with Earth's atmospheric pressure.
Posted by: Alex at April 28, 2005 12:16 AM
I'm no biologist but it sure sounds like pollution to me. It reminds me of the story a while back where frogs in Minnesota were growing extra arms. I never heard a follow up on that. As they said in the sixties, "Pollution, it ain't no solution."
Regards,
Chicken Little
Posted by: Ralph at April 28, 2005 08:53 AM
Ever drive through a rainstorm of frogs? It's pretty bizarre.
Posted by: Ara at April 28, 2005 02:36 PM
Mr. Toad went a courtin'
and he did 'splode
mm-hmmm, mm-hmmm...
Posted by: Pete at April 28, 2005 03:03 PM
"Spontoadious Combustion" - the harrowing story of a small town that is inundated by exploding toads and the exterminator brought to kick frog and take names...
Starring John Goodman, Tobey Maguire and Star Jones. Also starring Wilford Brimley as "Papaw"
Posted by: Barry at April 28, 2005 03:05 PM
Hmm..would be called " Legs" and be the sinister story of a deranged pub owner who decides to put his joint on the map with the newest catch of the day...frog legs...only to keep up with the supply and demand, alternate methods of "harvesting" have to be found...thus the explosion aspect....(I picture maniacal laughter as the guy slips through the pond watching gleefully as the toads swell and pop so that he my easily pluck the still kicking legs from their slimy little bodies)....ok..so,starring in this little comedy.....Christopher Walken as the pub owner...Bea Arthur as his surly chef.
Posted by: jo at April 28, 2005 04:01 PM
If jo's scenario were made as a modern opera you could title it "Sweeney Toad".
Christopher Walken... sweet.
Posted by: Pete at April 28, 2005 04:20 PM
Not just Christopher Walken... Christopher Walken as the pub owner.
Posted by: Dan at April 28, 2005 05:12 PM
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