I like the idea of hashtag games. I keep thinking I should, you know, actually engage in them. Only—
The other day, Adam Beechen, author of Hench and What I did on my Hypergalactic Interstellar Summer Vacation and childhood friend of Your Humble Blogger, tweeted this:
In the spirit of "Les Miserobots," here’s another sci-fi musical: "Miss Saiborg." #scifimusicals
— Adam Beechen (@sonnova) January 16, 2013
I came up with two right away: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Fifth Dimension and Hello, Dhalgren!. Then I sent out this one:
Stop the World I Want to Get Off #scifimusicals oh wait--
— Vardibidian (@Vardibidian) January 16, 2013
Oh, I was proud of that one. Then I spend quite some time trying to decide where to put the skiffy into The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. The obvious thing is to set it on Titan, but I decided, in the end, after an extended debate in my mind utilizing three separate levels of analysis, that The Best Little Wormhole in Texas is funnier.
I don’t know whether the game had quietly died whilst I argued out the humor with myself. If it didn’t, that one killed it.
See, I could happily do these all day.
- A Most Happy Phalanx
- Pump Blobs and Dinettes
- City of Weeping Angels
- The Full Na’vi
- Thoroughly Modern Mad Max
- The Wookiee Singer
- The Psychlo Pimpernel
- Five Clones Named Moe
- Fuzzy Girl
- Dirty Rotten Sandworms
- Bye Bye Body Snatcher!
- A My Name is Alien
- Galactic Overtures
- Sunday in the Park with GELF
- The Kree Nobody Knows
- My Fair Lensman
- On the Thirtieth Century
- Microscopic Me
- Ben Franklin on Pluto
- Vogon Babies
- Irma la Droid
- The Music Mantis
- 451 in the Shade
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Flying
- Side By Side By Stargate
- Ferengi Girl
- Legally Borg
- The Kzin King
- Gallifrey Gardens
- The Klaatu Will Rock
- A Day on Trantor, A Night in the Foundation
Really, the only hard part is stopping.
Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,
-Vardibidian.