{"id":8880,"date":"2022-10-17T08:49:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T12:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=8880"},"modified":"2022-10-12T22:10:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T02:10:02","slug":"surely-your-show-didnt-do-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/surely-your-show-didnt-do-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Surely Your Show Didn&#8217;t Do Worse&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/j-avatar-e1443983489508.png\" alt=\"by jen\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>when you punch a comet<\/li>\n<li>knitting at a fast and skilled pace<\/li>\n<li>Perhaps it\u2019s a signature talisman<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWith an accent like that I\u2019ll believe anything he tells me.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>filled with snow and lumps of ice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 739 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Surely your show didn&#8217;t do worse than <em>When You Punch a Comet<\/em>,&#8221; I said. That was the worst performing program in Contrarian television history, which is saying a lot. Contraria&#8217;s space program was nowhere near ready to send boxers into orbit, and the whole thing had been a big snore. Just an endless succession of training montages interspersed with footage of old women <em>knitting at a fast and skilled pace<\/em> as they raced to complete the spacesuit prototypes. One of the boxers carried around a goat bone. <em>Perhaps it&#8217;s a signature talisman<\/em> for his family, I don&#8217;t know. But it was very off-putting. None of the trainers would work with him. Fleur and Isolde&#8217;s father, the Warlord of Contraria, was ready to fund a second season until the head of NASA talked him out of it. The Warlord said, <em>&#8220;With an accent like that I&#8217;ll believe anything he tells me.&#8221;<\/em> (He had a weird thing for Americans.) &#8220;And he tells me not to waste my money, so there you go.&#8221; In the finale, the boxers did not go to space, which was a good thing because they would undoubtedly have died in their knitwear spacesuits. Instead of a comet with its icy tail, they punched a giant plastic bag <em>filled with snow and lumps of ice<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was Harry&#8217;s favorite show,&#8221; Isolde said with a shake of her head.<\/p>\n<p>bonus points for using them in order<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stichomancy Writing Prompts\" href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompts\/\">about stichomancy writing prompts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompt-generator\/\">try our stichomancy writing prompt generator!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>when you punch a comet knitting at a fast and skilled pace Perhaps it\u2019s a signature talisman \u201cWith an accent like that I\u2019ll believe anything he tells me.\u201d filled with snow and lumps of ice Tune in next time part 739 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments &#8220;Surely your show didn&#8217;t do worse than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,4],"tags":[91,549,409,403,486],"class_list":["post-8880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-bubblier","tag-television","tag-tune-in-next-time","tag-zeppelin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8880"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8902,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8880\/revisions\/8902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}