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fandomhigh2012-05-21 12:38 am
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Steven Spielberg Presents: History!, Monday, Period 4
Today's class began without Yakko at the front of the room. But it DID feature him doing a voiceover seconds after the lights went out.
"The year was 2012. There was a workshop at a big fancy high school on a small fancy island called Steven Spielberg's Presents: History. A lone genius named Yakko decided to make that class title a little more literal than usual just for one week."
"And so this week, Yakko Warner Presents: A Historical Film By Steven Spielberg: One of the Illinois Smith Movies!"
A flashlight turned on by the students' desks, shining a bright light on the whiteboard. And then Yakko started performing a half-remembered compilation of all four Illinois Smith movies with scenes in random orders, some characters missing entirely, and some clearly replaced with Yakko playing himself. And it was all done with shadow puppets.
It was probably best to just accept that there was no physical way for Yakko to be doing the highly complicated shadow puppets he was making with his hands. Otherwise, your poor brains would probably be shattered by the opening titles sequence, which featured detailed credits, all in the proper fonts and logos despite Yakko not using any props. But frankly, the fight scene with the Nazi aliens in the nightclub while a teenage greaser kept signing 'no no no no no no no no' was probably the most impressive part, since that would have required at least seven hands more than Yakko had.
He kept this up for the whole class period. At no point did the presentation seem to approach an actual ending.
[OOC: I worked 13 hours today and didn't get home until just before midnight. And Monday's going to be nuts. So this is the best I can do at the moment. Sorry about that.]
"The year was 2012. There was a workshop at a big fancy high school on a small fancy island called Steven Spielberg's Presents: History. A lone genius named Yakko decided to make that class title a little more literal than usual just for one week."
"And so this week, Yakko Warner Presents: A Historical Film By Steven Spielberg: One of the Illinois Smith Movies!"
A flashlight turned on by the students' desks, shining a bright light on the whiteboard. And then Yakko started performing a half-remembered compilation of all four Illinois Smith movies with scenes in random orders, some characters missing entirely, and some clearly replaced with Yakko playing himself. And it was all done with shadow puppets.
It was probably best to just accept that there was no physical way for Yakko to be doing the highly complicated shadow puppets he was making with his hands. Otherwise, your poor brains would probably be shattered by the opening titles sequence, which featured detailed credits, all in the proper fonts and logos despite Yakko not using any props. But frankly, the fight scene with the Nazi aliens in the nightclub while a teenage greaser kept signing 'no no no no no no no no' was probably the most impressive part, since that would have required at least seven hands more than Yakko had.
He kept this up for the whole class period. At no point did the presentation seem to approach an actual ending.
[OOC: I worked 13 hours today and didn't get home until just before midnight. And Monday's going to be nuts. So this is the best I can do at the moment. Sorry about that.]
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Then it went on.
And on.
And ... yeah, okay, he was going to spend some time reading Gizmondo on his phone instead of trying to figure out how Yakko was doing the puppets.
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"Who's the old Scotsman supposed to be, and why'd they name the hamster Illinois?"
Ah, the perils -- or possibly benefits, because there were whole catalogs of movies somebody needed to catch her up on -- of coming from 1987.
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. . . fascinating, though. Hence Stephanie with her chin propped up on both hands, watching the entire thing with wide-eyed, rapt, and thoroughly incredulous intensity.
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Not that he would have recognized... whatever this was... in any case.
So he was just gonna sit here, being vaguely confused by it all.
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You know. In case either comes in handy today.