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Pure Imagination

Darkly comic short stories and improvised skits concerning such topics as Neil Armstrong's Giant Leap for Mankind Pancake House, Tragedy Karaoke Night, and the lunar robot band Infinitron Superdroid, all set to hypnotic music.
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Episodes

Parallelism

In one universe Cat Stevens will always be Cat Stevens...

Oct 14, 20161 hr 28 min

Anecdotal Evidence

So this one time I was at a salad bar with Travolta...

Sep 09, 20161 hr 4 min

Minimum Security

A newly incarcerated inmate at the Federal Prison Camp at Dadeland Mall adjusts to minimum-security life and pines for his sweet Maria.

Jul 20, 20131 hr 23 min

You're Doing an Excellent Job!

Clerical workers for the Royal Centre of Dragon and Basilisk Preparedness feud with the independently contracted Knights of the White Rose.

May 21, 20131 hr 8 min

Pecos Bill

Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and Slue-Foot Sue navigate the treacherous passes of adolescence at Lone Star High and Our Lady of the Holy Cross.

Feb 18, 20131 hr 39 min

Battle

An itinerant, busking bluesman helps an awkward high school senior write a love song for a Battle of the Bands.

Oct 02, 20121 hr 7 min

Softly, as in an Unpaid Internship

The director of interns at a failing Midwestern circus tries to repair his relationship with a married trapeze artist and discover the truth about a workplace mauling.

Feb 25, 20121 hr 29 min

Olympus

Selected labors of Heracles, summer style tips from the three Fates, a commercially sponsored odyssey, and more modern myths.

Feb 18, 201230 min

Career Day

It's Career Day at Grover Cleveland Middle School.

Feb 12, 20121 hr 7 min

Pre-Christmas Special

Santa experiences an existential crisis and glances through his spam email folder, and a couple's marriage is strained during the twelve days of Christmas.

Dec 14, 201156 min

American Mythic

A divorced mall oracle contends with a swarm of protesters upset with her prophecies.

Oct 15, 20111 hr 2 min

The Stan Years

A Stan in decline changes his name in an attempt to reclaim his former glory, a miller's daughter struggles to guess the name of a scheming, gold-spinning homunculus, and other stories.

Oct 08, 201145 min

Alt Disney

The Little Mermaid visits Red Lobster, Geppetto carves Pinocchio a girlfriend, and Snow White confides in the Magic Mirror.

Oct 01, 201153 min

Cortez

A recent high school graduate works for the Novelty Parking Enforcement Department and clashes with a Machiavellian tenant subletting a crawlspace in his parents' house.

Sep 19, 20111 hr 23 min

Great Men in Hell

Honest Abe Lincoln and the other assassinated presidents bide their time in the seventh circle of hell.

Sep 04, 20111 hr 8 min

Reunion

Old flames, new flames, and lost attendees of the Midwest Celebrity Impersonators Association's annual retreat convene at a ten-year high school reunion.

Jun 21, 20111 hr 15 min

The Ex-President

The Ex-President struggles to adjust to post-presidential life at a Polynesian-themed backyard luau.

Sep 21, 20101 hr 7 min

Permutations

Everyone's gone to the movies, now we're alone at last . . .

Apr 26, 20101 hr 16 min

The Dial-a-Grave

A young child believes that an accountant lives beneath his bed, beleaguered parents turn to outsourcing, a single mother works for the Human Lotto, and a thrifty father purchases his dead wife a Dial-a-Grave.

Feb 08, 201039 min

Maxine

A server at Neil Armstrong's Giant Leap fo Mankind Pancake House regales his customers with tales of heartbreak and woe.

Feb 01, 20102 hr 22 min

Apocalypse Day

The apocalypse will be televised.

Jan 25, 20101 hr 9 min

Stars

The daughter of Elvis and Cher impersonators lives in an RV called Graceland, a man launches the American history/youth lifestyle magazine "Historical Gossip for Teens," and more stories of life on the periphery of celebrity.

Jan 18, 201047 min

Lewis and Clark

Lewis and Clark provide the inspiration for three primetime television hits: a crime procedural, a family sitcom (set in an oversized fiberglass replica of Elvis Presley's digestive system) and Lewis and Clark: The College Years.

Feb 02, 200952 min

Infinitron Superdroid

A boy grows to manhood on a failing dairy farm on the bad side of the moon.

Jan 26, 200957 min

The Auteur

A troubled avant garde German director makes infomercials, corporate training videos, and the Driver's Ed Trilogy.

Nov 04, 200852 min

Hello Incoming Freshmen

A campus tour, an anthropology lecture, and a graduation speech at EducationLand! Miami-Dade North.

Oct 28, 200844 min
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