How do you string to following together and make it funny? And by the way, they were inspired by toast. Yes, toast.
Back to the Future
Robots a la The Stepford Wives
A Rube Goldberg machine
Danny DeVito
pederasts
empty movie theaters
predestination
ghost writers
meta-murder mysteries
Pee Wee Herman
Indian baseball Chicago Cubs fan who only goes to games to sing songs during the seventh-inning stretch
The Challenger Shuttle explosion
The invention of a earthquake, tsunami, cyclone detection device made from boride (a complete fabrication)
Switchblade combs
Corporate presentations followed by a striptease (by a dude)
sour patch kids (the candy)
telephone operator suffering a breakdown due to a) a devastating divorce or b) the weather
Christopher Lloyd
taxis
English taxis
overpriced English taxis
fate and causality v. free will
Slow motion fight scenes that last for 14 days
Michael J. Fox’s year of death
Ronald Reagan’s Alzheimer’s
wrestling
burgling wrestlers
burgling wrestlers who play in rock bands called Snake Pit
The answer? By watching The Reckoning, the improv troupe from Chicago. They rocked tonight. Love Best of Charleston? Help the Charleston City Paper keep Best of Charleston going every year with a donation. Or sign up to become a member of the Charleston City Paper club.