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 Title text: That's actually the original Japanese version of A Million Random Digits, which is much better than the American remake the book was based on. |
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Cueball is looking through Black Hat's downloaded movies, which are all adaptations of non-literary works, improbable sequels, and/or crossovers between very disparate properties. Cueball reacts with increasing incredulity to Black Hat's collection, while Black Hat casually responds with equally unlikely (non-)explanations. Knowing Black Hat, his movie folder is deliberately weird just to provoke this kind of reaction.
Black Hat's downloaded movies
| Title | Explanation | |
|---|---|---|
| Lorem Ipsum: The Movie | Lorem Ipsum are the first two words of a common block of pseudo Latin filler text used by typesetters to layout pages before real text is available. This title implies that this movie is entirely random filler with no meaningful content. | |
| Titanic XCVIII | Implies that there were 98 Titanics which all sank, creating an artificial reef | |
| Debbie Did 9/11 | A combination of Debbie Does Dallas and a 9/11 conspiracy theory | |
| Time Jam: A Connecticut Huskie on King Arthur's Court | A combination of A Connecticut Yankee in King Author's Court and Space Jam | |
| Harold and Kumar Go to Howl's Moving Castle | A combination of Harold and Kumar go to White Castle and Howl's Moving Castle | |
| A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates | This is actually a real book | |
| Michael Bay's The Vagina Monologues | The Vagina Monologues as directed by Michael Bay (who is known for over-doing explosions in the movies he directs) |
Title text then talks about A Million Random Digits again and says that it is an adaptation of Japanese version. But in modern world digits are universal, so it is hard to understand how adaptation would be different from original.
Transcript
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- [Black Hat is sitting in a chair reading his phone.]
- Cueball (off-panel): Your movie folder is so weird. Where do you find all this stuff?
- Black Hat: Dunno.
- Black Hat: Around.
- [Cueball is sitting at a computer.]
- Cueball: Lorem Ipsum: The Movie?
- Cueball: Titanic XCVIII?
- Black Hat (off-panel): That series gets good when they start hitting the reef created by all the previous wrecks.
- [Cueball leans in closer to the screen.]
- Cueball: Debbie Did 9/11?
- Cueball: Time Jam: A Connecticut Huskie on King Arthur's Court?
- Black Hat: Really underrated Space Jam sequel.
- [Close-up of Cueball's head and the monitor.]
- Cueball: Harold and Kumar Go to Howl's Moving Castle?
- Cueball: A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates?
- Black Hat: That's the original--the book was a novelization.
- [Back to Black Hat sitting in the chair.]
- Cueball (off-panel): Michael Bay's The Vagina Monologues!?
- Black Hat: It's pretty good, despite all the CGI explosions.
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