A couple years back, my friend Dave and I started discussing what might be good plot elements for a skit, book, movie, etc. In the hope that we might come up with something entertaining by combining a few good ideas, we brainstormed for a bit and made a list, occasionally adding to it later. Plot elements are not necessarily the entire plot, but rather a component of it or merely something to spice up the story. After many months, my friend Noelle and I added several more entries to the list. Noelle and Dave have since asked me for the list, so I've provided it below. Be warned that some items may offend folks, and many are just plain stupid. New suggestions are welcome.
1. "Obesia" -- fat girl's name (Italian?)
2. Motorized Lazy-boy char -- can drive around town
3. LCD polarizing privacy windows for homes/bathrooms and power outages
4. Scientology
5. Amway
7. Crystals that heal
8. Diarrhea in large animals
9. Asparagus piss
10. Porcupines
11. Smelling books/that new book smell
12. Pants and rotating belt
13. Goldfish in X
14. Prison labor programmers, cross-stitchers, etc.
15. Nuclear powered scooters
16. Mad scientist invents tic-tac-doe game that always wins, devestating people to tears. He then feels great anguish.
17. Geriatric flasher
18. Blue ice (sewage falling from airplanes)
19. Road kill in freezer
20. Microsoft intern at BillG's house during a summer intern dinner party jams toilet, floods house with raw sewage.
21. Grandma farts a lot
22. 3 thumb movie reviewer
23. Environmentally-correct washable cloth "toilette paper"
24. The heads on coins are alive and talking
25. Student reports answers in "Chinese"
26. Instant Messenger comes up during presentations with embarrassing messages.
27. Professional dog walkers
28. Odd classes at college, e.g. dog bed-making
29. Bravest mini Chihuahua in the world, maintains his stare, never blinks
30. Martha Stewart Prison Show
31. Brain surgery on wheels/mobile doctor.
32. Putting grandparents in rented public storage shed to help "get rid of the clutter"
33. Renting a car to enter in "smash-up" derby and returning the car wrecked
34. Complicated way to make peanut butter and jelly. Boiled peanut brittle, jelly extracted from doughnuts, bread from McDonald's hamburger
35. Home pregnancy-type test to determine if gay
> 33. Renting a car to enter in "smash-up" derby and returning the car wrecked
This idea was fully explored in last year's film "Jackass: The Movie."
Posted by: Dave at July 11, 2003 11:25 AMYou forgot to copy in the entertaining and good ideas. Oh wait, thats right. There weren't any! :-)
Posted by: Noelle at July 11, 2003 11:11 PMI haven't seen Jackass: The Movie; its score of 6.2/10 on imdb.com didn't seem to justify the price of a movie ticket, but I would like catch it on DVD, especially to check out the smash-up derby stunt.
I don't recall previews of that scene from the movie, but it is possible that I saw it and then (consciously) forgot. With ideas, there is a spectrum of originality, ranging from brilliantly novel to the combination of existing ideas to outright duplication. I honestly don't know where in the spectrum that idea is.
Posted by: Sean at July 12, 2003 10:55 PMAs a wasabi grower, you might find "Jackass: The Movie" interesting for its demonstration of a new method of wasabi consumption.
Posted by: Dave at July 13, 2003 04:50 PM