FOURTH TRIAL

[imthetrashman]

[The banner up above the basketball court has burnt up, replacing the first part of the phrase. It now just reads “SMOKE EM OUT!”. Coraline’s podium has been replaced with a dead mouse while Morty’s has turned into a pickle - it’s pickle podium.

King Dice’s stand is now selling Pickle Rick merchandise.]

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Space Jam. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of Looney Tunes Lore most of the jokes will go over a typical viewers head. There's also Michael’s pessimistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Space Jam truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Porky wetting himself which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Wayne Knight's genius wit unfolds itself on their computer screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂 And yes, by the way, i DO have a Space Jam tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎

Comments

Wound check?

[in4apounding]

It could help, yes. Um-

[Addressing the room at large.]

Everyone whose hair might match the one Otis found, can we check to make sure you're not hurt? Just- on your heads. Since that's where the hair would've come from.

[standsforrevenge]

[Dead on the inside, but otherwise unharmed!]

[in4apounding]

[Can't match the hair if you don't have any hair to be missing.]

[fiftyyearspast]

[No head wounds here! Maybe some old scars, but nothing recent for sure!]

[codeofhero]

[Dinobot removes his helmet and reveals his long, luxurious dark hair and- no, that's nonsense.

But he does have a thought.]

The hair was found in the shop, yes? Could it perhaps have been planted there?

[in4apounding]

Maybe? How would the culprit have gotten it, though?

[She doesn't. Have to comb her hair. She doesn't know how easily it can come out.]

[oh_worm]

My hair gets everywhere, man, it's a thing, I'll admit to that.

[codeofhero]

Hmm, were you in that store, then?

[oh_worm]

No, the only time I did any drugs this week was with Audrey, and she already had them in her room.

[codeofhero]

[eyes that thread above]

Yes, it appears that way. When was that?

[oh_worm]

[ listen Beth Tezuka is doing what she does best and furiously refusing to examine her emotions don't call her out ]

Saturday? Yeah, it would have to have been.

[codeofhero]

[...hmm.]

Then it would have nothing to do with this investigation.

[in4apounding]

So- we're looking for someone strong enough to do what happened to Morty, and smart enough to deliberately frame someone and confuse the evidence?

[udderly]

. . . It was in kind of a weird place to find a hair.

[carbonairhead]

So... Wait, then how'd it get there?

[ Fizzy is so lost. ]

[udderly]

Someone might have taken it and put it there, Fizzy.

[codeofhero]

You said yourself that it didn't look like there had been a fight.

[udderly]

Yeah, it kind of just looked like someone broke the glass and took a lighter when you'd expect a lot more stuff thrown around.

[codeofhero]

[HMMM]

It would appear then, that someone was either in a rush to grab that item, or had a poor understanding of what they were doing.

[Maybe both.]

[in4apounding]

I still don't understand why they'd set something on fire and then throw it into one of those washing machines to put it out. If it hadn't been turned on I wouldn't have found it at all, leaving it off would've hidden it better.

[udderly]

. . . What if they wanted it to be found?

[in4apounding]

Another planted thing, like maybe the hair was? Maybe, but that would work better if it- actually pointed at someone else, we can't even figure out what it is.

[udderly]

Well, everyone knows I can smell things other people can't so maybe they were counting on the fact that it would implicate Mr. Dinosaur over there.

[codeofhero]

Perhaps it was something they realized they didn't want to lose.

[oh_worm]

[ No wounds! ]