I don’t actually think she’ll tilt like she tilted at Joe. Look at her face – she looks surprised, sure, but it’s more sadness than anger. I don’t think she’ll snap – at least not *at* Joyce and Walky.
having the first class near midnight in one such dark and spooky place is mandatory…
Kaiden
Everyone who shows up is automatically deducted 20 points from their grade.
Yotomoe
“I could have just killed you all! Didn’t you read the summer reading!?”
Tunaro
Summer reading for a college class? Fuck that, I’d rather take on the homicidal prof. At least that’d be excitin’.
Kaiden
“And you two in the back, stop making out!” (Revs chainsaw)
Flipz
Someone PLEASE make this a thing. 😀
Maxi
Everyone knows, the best thing to in any horror movie is give the main villain a swift kick to the jewels, and if that doesn’t work, always remember to double tap.
John
“Wolfman’s got ‘nads!”
Blob Marley
Fuck yeah Monster Squad. That Wolfman Nard Kick was a defining moment of my childhood.
John
I never even saw it. I just saw a TV ad for it that included that line like three million times.
Kyrros
Okay… here goes.
Bunch of college kids decide to take a summer elective to get it out of the way between semesters/quarters – turns out to be a film studies class with a focus on ‘Horror and Suspense’ tropes. The very creepy/strange/spacey professor that has been there for decades is absent most days and most sessions are lead by the sexy/hunky summer teaching assistant just hired by the department. This has the effect of getting the classmates of the opposite gender (even some of the same gender – hey, it’s the 21st century) something to focus on in an otherwise boring summer class.
Couple of weeks in, a classmate dies in a drunk driving accident – but nobody (including the audience) thinks anything of it, since “Hey, it’s college, people get drunk and do stupid things”. It’s business as usual for another week or two. Different movie tropes (and their subversions) are discussed and tested on. The whole time, classmates are complaining about how stupid the class is, threatening to drop the class. Eventually, a couple of people stop showing up – “oh well, guess they decided to drop the class”… couple more days, then another gone… and another… [You get the idea]
The class realizes that some of those gone are missing ‘everywhere’, not just in class. It’s a summer class session – these kids didn’t go home – so noone is expecting them, noone else notices they’re missing – the few with actual jobs have bosses that assume the kids just decided to not show up since it was probably a crappy job anyways. Finally, one of the students who ‘dropped the class’ turn up dead and is determined to have already been dead for quite a while, but havign no credible leads, motives, or suspects, the case goes cold. All the while, the few lectures that the professor is actually present for get stranger and darker every time – some eerily similar to recent real-life events. The students begin to suspect some very foul deeds afoot with the crazy old prof. “Could this really be happening?” they ask each other. They decide to get to the bottom of things, the summer session is almost over, and who knows what unsafe things could happen once a full student body returns for the new school year. The remaining few classmates head to the crazy old professor’s last known address in the public record only to find traces of other ‘missing’ classmates in the form of distinctive backpacks and even a laptop/smart phone that’s immediately recognized by the group – Shit just got real – one by one the several of the remaining classmates are killed off using the most overused and unimaginative tropes possible, until they find the crazy old professor dead in the home-office. “Guess the prof realized we figured it out and decided to end it once and for all… the jig was up… no going back” The very shaken-up kids called the police in, and they ruled it a murder-suicide.
*Cut to the last day of class a few weeks later*
The kids are taking their final exam for the film class with the teaching assistant overseeing the remainder of the class course. The camera slowly pans around the room, witnessing the students busy with the lengthy exam – when one student slowly comes to a stop and begins looking around at the rest of the student still steady in the exam taking. A horrible realization can be visibly seen in the student, still looking around. The student and the assistant locks eyes… [ZOMG it can’t be?!]. The student slowly rises and approaches the assistants desk – (surely it’s safe when there’s all these other witnesses…?)
‘Why?’ the student whispered.
‘I am here to teach kids – there is a no more noble calling than that’ the assistant whispered in return.
‘You can’t stop me from going to the police with this – there’s nothing you can say or give to stop me’ the student threatened in a low voice.
‘I’ve gotten too good at this’ the assistant said with a knowing smile. ‘You can’t seriously think this is the first class I’ve done this with?… besides, I have no intention of GIVING you anything… only that which you’ve earned.’
‘Earned?…’
‘Your A+… and the reward of freedom from this ‘lesson learned’ – forever.’
‘What about the rest of them?’ the student indicated to the rest of the class.
‘They’ll soon understand, that learning is lifelong – or rather, ‘lifeshort’ – and that it’s doesn’t stop simply because the class bell rings for the day.
*sudden break to black … a school bell rings… silent credits begin to roll*
303 thoughts on “Intent”
AHR
Smooth, Walkerton.
Cheryl
Dem virgin ears doe.
LWS
While he has her attention, would now be a good time for him to enlighten her as to the meaning of “strap-on?”
ocbrad1
Yeah, Walky. Way to break Joyce.
Mr.hatt
You can almost see the war going on behind her eyes.
TwentyThree
The war is losing, her eyebrows are retreating to the heavens.
Vivvav
Here it comes. Those four words. Or is it three? Is “pre-marital” one word or two?
Yotomoe
Well Pre- isn’t a word. It’s a “Pre”-fix. So…one.
Broken Products
If it’s hyphened, one.
Kaiden
Three words. And something tells me they’re going to be CAPS LOCK BOLD
Vex Godglove
I would argue that “hanky-panky” is a compound word similar to “topsy-turvy” and thus Joyce’s signature phrase is actually only two words.
tinfoil theory
Hear, hear!
Bill
Pass the popcorn; this is gonna be good!
pyrophobia
11th post is pass-the-popcorn. I’m disappointed in you all, I thought for sure it’d be sooner.
davidbreslin101
If she decides to say it in German it’ll be all one word. Like “premaritalhankypanky”, only German-er.
Lieutenant Dan
Premaristraßhankenpanken?
tyren22
I imagined a German voice saying “hankenpanken” and now I can’t stop laughing.
Charlie Spencer
Not to be confused with “slobben ze knobben”.
slicedtoad
so without looking that up, here’s my thought process:
slobben = slobber
ze = the
knobben = knob
slobber the knob = suck the dick
phroggonalog
+1
das-g
Finden Sie das nicht einen etwas absonderlichen Ausdruck für vorehelichen Geschlechtsverkehr?
asmcint
Ja, ja es ist. Aber dann wieder, das ist Joyce für Sie.
Roborat
Yup, Joyce yells P.M.H.P. at the top of her lungs, then points at Dorothy and Walky and emits a high pitched scream.
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(ie: last scene of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.)
Earnest
I don’t actually think she’ll tilt like she tilted at Joe. Look at her face – she looks surprised, sure, but it’s more sadness than anger. I don’t think she’ll snap – at least not *at* Joyce and Walky.
Tunaro
I would actually enjoy a college class on how to not die in a horror movie.
Doctor_Who
I have a book called the Horror Movie Survival Guide that would make a great textbook.
Jamie Lee Curtis and Heather Langenkamp would make great guest lecturers.
Yotomoe
Count your losses and don’t look around for your friend in the spooky haunted house. Just go home and try to forget them.
Tunaro
But don’t like 40% of deaths in horror movies happen in peoples’ homes after the first victim is down?
Morgauxo
Isn’t that just a setup for their ghost to get vengence on you in the sequal or something like that?
Annie
Depends on if it’s a slasher-type horror movie or a paranormal one.
Of course I suppose if it were the former, then some relative or boy/girlfriend could try to kill you to get revenge.
NCP19
So the professor can blow the class off and have you sit through the Scream movies? It’s…semi-educational in this context…almost.
Tunaro
That would either make it a Film Study course or some kind of Lit class, I think.
Kaiden
Horror Survival 101.
Our first lecture will be on dark places, and how to not go near them.
Jacknoir
having the first class near midnight in one such dark and spooky place is mandatory…
Kaiden
Everyone who shows up is automatically deducted 20 points from their grade.
Yotomoe
“I could have just killed you all! Didn’t you read the summer reading!?”
Tunaro
Summer reading for a college class? Fuck that, I’d rather take on the homicidal prof. At least that’d be excitin’.
Kaiden
“And you two in the back, stop making out!” (Revs chainsaw)
Flipz
Someone PLEASE make this a thing. 😀
Maxi
Everyone knows, the best thing to in any horror movie is give the main villain a swift kick to the jewels, and if that doesn’t work, always remember to double tap.
John
“Wolfman’s got ‘nads!”
Blob Marley
Fuck yeah Monster Squad. That Wolfman Nard Kick was a defining moment of my childhood.
John
I never even saw it. I just saw a TV ad for it that included that line like three million times.
Kyrros
Okay… here goes.
Bunch of college kids decide to take a summer elective to get it out of the way between semesters/quarters – turns out to be a film studies class with a focus on ‘Horror and Suspense’ tropes. The very creepy/strange/spacey professor that has been there for decades is absent most days and most sessions are lead by the sexy/hunky summer teaching assistant just hired by the department. This has the effect of getting the classmates of the opposite gender (even some of the same gender – hey, it’s the 21st century) something to focus on in an otherwise boring summer class.
Couple of weeks in, a classmate dies in a drunk driving accident – but nobody (including the audience) thinks anything of it, since “Hey, it’s college, people get drunk and do stupid things”. It’s business as usual for another week or two. Different movie tropes (and their subversions) are discussed and tested on. The whole time, classmates are complaining about how stupid the class is, threatening to drop the class. Eventually, a couple of people stop showing up – “oh well, guess they decided to drop the class”… couple more days, then another gone… and another… [You get the idea]
The class realizes that some of those gone are missing ‘everywhere’, not just in class. It’s a summer class session – these kids didn’t go home – so noone is expecting them, noone else notices they’re missing – the few with actual jobs have bosses that assume the kids just decided to not show up since it was probably a crappy job anyways. Finally, one of the students who ‘dropped the class’ turn up dead and is determined to have already been dead for quite a while, but havign no credible leads, motives, or suspects, the case goes cold. All the while, the few lectures that the professor is actually present for get stranger and darker every time – some eerily similar to recent real-life events. The students begin to suspect some very foul deeds afoot with the crazy old prof. “Could this really be happening?” they ask each other. They decide to get to the bottom of things, the summer session is almost over, and who knows what unsafe things could happen once a full student body returns for the new school year. The remaining few classmates head to the crazy old professor’s last known address in the public record only to find traces of other ‘missing’ classmates in the form of distinctive backpacks and even a laptop/smart phone that’s immediately recognized by the group – Shit just got real – one by one the several of the remaining classmates are killed off using the most overused and unimaginative tropes possible, until they find the crazy old professor dead in the home-office. “Guess the prof realized we figured it out and decided to end it once and for all… the jig was up… no going back” The very shaken-up kids called the police in, and they ruled it a murder-suicide.
*Cut to the last day of class a few weeks later*
The kids are taking their final exam for the film class with the teaching assistant overseeing the remainder of the class course. The camera slowly pans around the room, witnessing the students busy with the lengthy exam – when one student slowly comes to a stop and begins looking around at the rest of the student still steady in the exam taking. A horrible realization can be visibly seen in the student, still looking around. The student and the assistant locks eyes… [ZOMG it can’t be?!]. The student slowly rises and approaches the assistants desk – (surely it’s safe when there’s all these other witnesses…?)
‘Why?’ the student whispered.
‘I am here to teach kids – there is a no more noble calling than that’ the assistant whispered in return.
‘You can’t stop me from going to the police with this – there’s nothing you can say or give to stop me’ the student threatened in a low voice.
‘I’ve gotten too good at this’ the assistant said with a knowing smile. ‘You can’t seriously think this is the first class I’ve done this with?… besides, I have no intention of GIVING you anything… only that which you’ve earned.’
‘Earned?…’
‘Your A+… and the reward of freedom from this ‘lesson learned’ – forever.’
‘What about the rest of them?’ the student indicated to the rest of the class.
‘They’ll soon understand, that learning is lifelong – or rather, ‘lifeshort’ – and that it’s doesn’t stop simply because the class bell rings for the day.
*sudden break to black … a school bell rings… silent credits begin to roll*
Slinx
*applause for Kyrros*
StClair
“Mr. Bradsaw, will you stand up, please?”
Fish lord
Just like my Tuesday activities
tinfoil theory
Ironically, most homicides happen in well-lit areas.
Plasma Mongoose
Makes sense, it’s harder to kill someone you cannot see properly after all.
Jenn Jamison
Of course, you cant forget get the lecture on how to run away without tripping over thin air. That always drives me crazy in horror films!
etybolik
What if a horror movie villain attended the class in disguise and learned all the same stuff you did?
tinfoil theory
You mean there could be another motive to attending this course?
Wonder Wig
PMHP
Tunaro
People Must Has Pizza?
Doctor_Who
Purchase More Health Potions?
Pimp My Humongous Pig?
Prime Minister Harry Potter?
…That last one sounds like a good fanfic idea.
carl320
Pimp my Honda Pilot
JustCheetoDust
http://bossip.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/xzibit.png
Yotomoe
Poke my hot Poop?
KingMabel
Pickles, mustard and ham on pumpernickel?
Tunaro
Can’t tell if that would be delicious or not…confused and hungry. Must investigate this.
Cragalanch
Pig men hurt people?
Bilfred
PMHP’s Meaning Has Passed
Kelly
Recursive, nice!
WaveRocker
Permanent Mage HP?
Post-Modern Harry Potter?
arank11
Please Make Hippos Pee
Penguins Must Hate Pancakes
Pick More Harmful Pirates
Parrots Might Have Packages
I could go on for eternity
Horrible Person
Please make her pregnant…?
Shogouki
Pre-marital hanky panky.
Carla
Thank you 🙂
Roborat
Pokémon must hate pokeballs?
King
In Italian:
Praticamente Mi Hai Pedinato.
Opus the Poet
Dorothy and Walky will be the first ones to die when Joyce snaps.
etybolik
Nah. She’ll take out Walky first and save Dorothy for last for betraying her or something.
Plasma Mongoose