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- Well, anyway, I just want to read through some of these summaries.
- I'll start. Brad, do you want to read your episode? Ryan, why do you share your episode?
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- Activity description: So now I'd like to introduce a new segment, which is all about our favorite character, Maris. Activity request: Well, anyway, I just want to read through some of these summaries. Method: I'll start. Brad, do you want to read your episode? Ryan, why do you share your episode? Result qualification: By the way, I don't know if it's funny if we talk about these episode premises, or if reading them is enough. Notable references: authorMention: Paul B.; sourceMention: Frasier Online; form: paragraph-long premises
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Premise: And he wrote these paragraph-long premises of episodes. In all, he wrote 30 seasons of 24 episode premises for the Ross spinoff he invented. So Marta is the only character you'll recognize from Frasier. The rest are original. Answer qualification: It is not clear to me. I did not dive deep enough to get a sense for the timeline of where his episodes…
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Premise: And he wrote these paragraph-long premises of episodes. In all, he wrote 30 seasons of 24 episode premises for the Ross spinoff he invented. So Marta is the only character you'll recognize from Frasier. The rest are original. Answer qualification: It is not clear to me. I did not dive deep enough to get a sense for the timeline of where his episodes line up with the show Frasier. Activity description: So now I'd like to introduce a new segment, which is all about our favorite character, Maris. So I did some sleuthing this weekend, and I discovered some very wild things about the Frasier universe. It turns out, after the show Frasier ended, there was a fan who, starting on fan forums, started writing fan fiction. And he basically started with a spinoff centered on Ross as the station manager of KACL. And he wrote these paragraph-long premises of episodes. In all, he wrote 30 seasons of 24 episode premises for the Ross spinoff he invented. I'm sorry, how many seasons? 30. 3-0. 30. It was like 700 episodes. What? Yes. Do they have like... So this depends. If they have like real season arcs, insane. If he just like spewed word vomit for, you know, 30 times, 24 times, that's... We're going to read a few of the premises, and I think you'll find there more... But he not only creates new characters who were never in the Frasier shows, apparently he created other... Like he created like several spinoffs of Frasier. Some of them were spinoffs of his own spinoff that were centered entirely around characters he made up that were never in Frasier. That's wild. That's love right there. Yeah. So I thought this was an amazing story, and I thought it deserved some love from us. And specifically after the Rod show, he did another spinoff centered around Maris. So I have got a few episodes of his... Episode summaries of his ideas for what an episode of a Maris show would be. Now this all basically centers on the various employees of her house, and most of the plots revolve around her. Marta, who I think we met, she was the one feeding her from the straw. Yeah. Yeah. So Marta is the only character you'll recognize from Frasier. The rest are original. So are these... These are all from after season 11 of Frasier, or he just started writing whatever he felt like? It is not clear to me. I did not dive deep enough to get a sense for the timeline of where his episodes line up with the show Frasier. Because I don't believe Marta and Maris ever meet again once Maris flees. What's crazy is this premise came up after 30 years. I mean, I'm sure he didn't take 30 years to write them, but like presumably 30 seasons of Raz was on the air. And then he did another spinoff called Maris. So like 30 years after Frasier ended, they were going to pick up with Maris. Like, I don't know if they were going to do that in real time, or if it was just set during Frasier's time. Did they have to recast? I don't know. Looks like the spinoff was going to be called Hey, Raz. Oh boy. That's a terrible name. Well, anyway, I just want to read through some of these summaries. I'll start.
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Well, anyway, I just want to read through some of these summaries. I'll start.
Prompt: Well, anyway, I just want to read through some of these summaries. I'll start. Interaction mode: self initiated first reading
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The Card is Always Greener
Title: The Card is Always Greener Submission type: reading third party episode premise discourseRole: reading third party fiction; clauses: When Marta's green card expires, she is forced to retake her citizenship test. The servants rally to help her learn everything about America. Tommy discovers that the biggest collection of literature in American history is…
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Title: The Card is Always Greener Submission type: reading third party episode premise discourseRole: reading third party fiction; clauses: When Marta's green card expires, she is forced to retake her citizenship test. The servants rally to help her learn everything about America. Tommy discovers that the biggest collection of literature in American history is in Seattle. Gabriel becomes convinced that it is somewhere in the mansion as Maris is a huge history buff. He and Kitty start searching for a hidden entrance to the lost library and soon realize it is accessed through Maris' bathroom. They tell Marta, but when Maris' schedule suddenly changes, Marta accidentally walks in on her naked and experiences hysterical blindness. This puts a crimp on Marta's efforts to renew her green card and Kitty and Ben must appeal for an extension in her time limit. Later, they get locked in the library and almost share a kiss before rescue comes. Final phrase attribution: Who reads the first premise, The Card is Always Greener?: Curtis
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What is hysterical blindness?
Question: What is hysterical blindness? I think it's when you're so shocked by something that you go blind. Activity description: What? What? This puts a crimp on Marta's efforts to renew her green card and Kitty and Ben must appeal for an extension in her time limit. Later, they get locked in the library and almost share a kiss before rescue comes. What is…
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Question: What is hysterical blindness? I think it's when you're so shocked by something that you go blind. Activity description: What? What? This puts a crimp on Marta's efforts to renew her green card and Kitty and Ben must appeal for an extension in her time limit. Later, they get locked in the library and almost share a kiss before rescue comes. What is hysterical blindness? I think it's when you're so shocked by something that you go blind. What happened to me? What was so shocking that you went blind? Meeting you. Boom, boom, boom. Beach. What? Why? I don't know. The joke just worked. That implies like I'm super good looking or something. Like, what do you mean? That's not what that means. Are you suggesting that Maris is super good looking? Is that your take? I don't know. I assume so. Okay. Just take it as a compliment that Brad went hysterically blind at your presence. No thanks. Final phrase attribution: Who asks What is hysterical blindness?: Ryan; Who explains hysterical blindness?: Curtis Question speaker: Ryan Answer speaker: Curtis
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Brad, do you want to read your episode?
Prompt: Brad, do you want to read your episode? Final phrase attribution: Who hands the second reading to Brad?: Curtis
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Maris be damned
Title: Maris be damned Maris B. Domed. Submission type: reading third party episode premise discourseRole: reading third party fiction as transcribed; clauses: The servants are annoyed when Maris implements a swear jar in the mansion. Ben, in particular, shruggers to get through the day without dropping a few F-minus bombs in the kitchen, despite losing a…
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Title: Maris be damned Maris B. Domed. Submission type: reading third party episode premise discourseRole: reading third party fiction as transcribed; clauses: The servants are annoyed when Maris implements a swear jar in the mansion. Ben, in particular, shruggers to get through the day without dropping a few F-minus bombs in the kitchen, despite losing a quarter of each wall. Maris is using the money from the guard to pay off the parking tickets. The turtle who Maris hurt just deserts. Kate tells everyone of Maris' scheme, providing them a real reason to quit cursing. However, a visit from Maris' snotty friends presents them a greater challenge. Meanwhile, Marta realizes she can't identify curse words and asks Tommy to teach her them. Answer qualification: It's so unfair to the listener, because they'll think that Brad was mostly just reading it, because it is poorly written. But then he also shit at reading, and they won't know which one's which.
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In the Google document, he just changed his name from Brad to Bradley. Why would you say F-minus bombs? By the way, I don't know if it's funny if we talk about these episode premises, or if reading them is enough. But I want to try it out. Response context: Ben, in particular, struggles to get through the day without dropping a few F-minus bombs in the kitchen.…
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In the Google document, he just changed his name from Brad to Bradley. Why would you say F-minus bombs? By the way, I don't know if it's funny if we talk about these episode premises, or if reading them is enough. But I want to try it out. Response context: Ben, in particular, struggles to get through the day without dropping a few F-minus bombs in the kitchen. Activity description: Yes, Bradley does. Would like to read his. What? Sorry, I just had to make one change. Just a huge mistake. In the Google document, he just changed his name from Brad to Bradley. No, he just drew a penis. Did you see that? What? Put in four equal signs. Here we go. Maris B. Domed. The servants are annoyed when Maris implements a swear jar in the mansion. Ben, in particular, shruggers to get through the day without dropping a few F-minus bombs in the kitchen, despite losing a quarter of each wall. Why? What is wrong with you? Why would you say that? Why would you say F-minus bombs? Maris is using the money from the guard to pay off the parking tickets. Parking tickets. The turtle who Maris hurt just deserts. Kate tells everyone of Maris' scheme, providing them a real reason to quit cursing. However, a visit from Maris' snotty friends presents them a greater challenge. Why would you think this was a good idea? Meanwhile, Marta realizes she can't identify curse words and asks Tommy to teach her them. Oh, I've never been happier with my decision. It's so unfair to the listener, because they'll think that Brad was mostly just reading it, because it is poorly written. But then he also shit at reading, and they won't know which one's which. Oh, yeah. By the way, I don't know if it's funny if we talk about these episode premises, or if reading them is enough. I'm not sure. But I want to try it out. It's hard to talk about. There's a lot of characters we just don't know. I know. I mean, I think the hysterical blindness was the part that made me go, okay, this is worth sharing. That's funny enough. Ben, in particular, struggles to get through the day without dropping a few F-minus bombs in the kitchen. I don't know what to do with that. Get out of the kitchen, Ben. Final phrase attribution: Who asks Why would you say F-minus bombs?: Ryan; Who gives the feedback distinguishing poor writing from Brad’s reading?: Ryan Question speaker: Ryan Feedback speaker: Ryan
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Ryan, why do you share your episode?
Prompt: Ryan, why do you share your episode? Final phrase attribution: Who hands the third reading to Ryan?: Curtis
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The Ice Brother Cometh
Title: The Ice Brother Cometh Submission type: reading third party episode premise discourseRole: reading third party fiction; clauses: The servants prepare for a visit from Maris' brother, Randall. They expect him to be a cold-hearted, demanding pest like Maris, but are pleased to find that he is very likable. Randall impresses the servants when he modernizes…
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Title: The Ice Brother Cometh Submission type: reading third party episode premise discourseRole: reading third party fiction; clauses: The servants prepare for a visit from Maris' brother, Randall. They expect him to be a cold-hearted, demanding pest like Maris, but are pleased to find that he is very likable. Randall impresses the servants when he modernizes the staff room and gets a better union. However, Marta reveals that she always thought Maris didn't have any brothers or sisters. It is soon apparent that Randall has only come to distract everyone while Maris slashes their paychecks. Paychecks and moves their accounts offshore. Ben is elected to lead a strike against Maris with the union Randall provided. The servants enjoy goofing off around the mansion, but stubborn Maris refuses to listen to their demands or take on any of their chores herself. Everyone is disgusted by Marta's betrayal when her impulsive desire to clean gets the best of her. Ben struggles with his new leadership duties and tries to come up with a speech to boost everyone's morale. While Maris's negotiation tactics grow considerably worse.
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Adjudication: I didn't really get a vibe of who the Ice Brother is. But then, why on earth would her plan to distract them involve unionizing them? Why is he Ice Brother? Answer qualification: But Maris is considered a very cold person, I think. So Ice Brother. Notable events: Spoiler jail. You're in the penalty box. Activity description: All right, my episode…
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Adjudication: I didn't really get a vibe of who the Ice Brother is. But then, why on earth would her plan to distract them involve unionizing them? Why is he Ice Brother? Answer qualification: But Maris is considered a very cold person, I think. So Ice Brother. Notable events: Spoiler jail. You're in the penalty box. Activity description: All right, my episode is called The Ice Brother Cometh. Can't imagine where they got that name from. The servants prepare for a visit from Maris' brother, Randall. They expect him to be a cold-hearted, demanding pest like Maris, but are pleased to find that he is very likable. Randall impresses the servants when he modernizes the staff room and gets a better union. However, Marta reveals that she always thought Maris didn't have any brothers or sisters. It is soon apparent that Randall has only come to distract everyone while Maris slashes their paychecks. I don't think that's how that word's spelled. I think he's British. Oh, okay. Paychecks and moves their accounts offshore. Ben is elected to lead a strike against Maris with the union Randall provided. The servants enjoy goofing off around the mansion, but stubborn Maris refuses to listen to their demands or take on any of their chores herself. Everyone is disgusted by Marta's betrayal when her impulsive desire to clean gets the best of her. Her. This is not at all. Ben struggles with his new leadership duties and tries to come up with a speech to boost everyone's morale. While Maris's negotiation tactics grow considerably worse. Oh my gosh. I didn't really get a vibe of who the Ice Brother is. Yeah. It doesn't seem like the Ice Brother comes. Best I can tell, it sounded like the point of him coming was to distract while Maris stole their money. But then, why on earth would her plan to distract them involve unionizing them? Why is that good for her? Why is that a good idea? I don't know. No idea. Yeah. Why is he Ice Brother? That just didn't make sense. Not if it made sense. I mean, it doesn't make sense. Just as a story we're unfamiliar with. I think, I don't know if you've... I know you haven't clocked this yet, but I don't know if you've been exposed to this yet. But Maris is considered a very cold person, I think. So Ice Brother. Like, brother to the ice. Oh, we have not clocked that yet. Spoiler jail. Oh, yeah. You're in the penalty box. Oh, no. My bad. So super spoiler. I don't know what to do with it, but super spoiler. Final phrase attribution: Who objects that the distraction plan involves unionizing the staff?: Curtis Objection speaker: Curtis
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What do you think of these? What would you think this would have been a successful show?
Prompt: What do you think of these? What would you think this would have been a successful show?
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It's just, it's deep. I'll tell you that. It's thought through. I don't know if it's well thought through. There's so many characters and so many storylines and so much information. I mean, they're just paragraph summaries, but so much is packed into them. A lot's covered. Final phrase attribution: Who gives the assessment beginning It’s just, it’s deep?: Ryan; Who adds A lot’s covered at the end of that assessment?: Ryan Final speaker: Ryan
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Notable references: Paul B. Ending or payoff: Paul B, reach out. We'll try reaching out to you. Get on you, Paul. Commit to it.
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