“Hey, Bob! So how’s death been treating you?”

“Whoa! Listen to that, Marge! ... I said that kid was playing a mean sax!”

Expatriates, they migrated in the 1920s to Paris’s Left Bank, gathering in their favorite haunts and discussing the meaning of cream pies and big shoes. They were, in fact, the original Boclownians.

“Oh, wow! How could you even think that, Wendy? Of course it’s your mind I’m attracted to!”

“We've done it! They've linked up! … Man, Feldman must be freaking out—he even hates spiders.”

A tragedy occurs off the coast of a land called Honah-Lee.

“Give me a hand here, Etta … I got into a nest of wiener dogs over on Fifth and Maple.”

To the horror of the lifeboat's other members, Madonna loses her balance and falls on her face.

Until his medical license was suspended, cosmetic surgeon Dr. Irwin Blumenfeld left many of his patients with the tragic side effect known as “buffalo nose.”

Tales of the Known

More tension on the Lewis and Clark expedition

Scene from The Crying Game II: The Rural Version

“Oh, good heavens, no, Gladys—not for me. … I ate my young just an hour ago.”

Llamas at home

The operation was a success: Later, the duck, with his new human brain, went on to become the leader of a great flock. Irwin, however, was ostracized by his friends and family and eventually just ambled south.

Inside tours of Acme Fake Vomit, Inc.

Laura runs to greet her pa in this scene from Big Nose on the Prairie.

“Hold on there! I think you misunderstood—I’m Al Tilley … the bum.”