| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1228 | That movie is SO about you | Name someone who was the "secret inspiration" for a certain movie. | H |
| 306 | YOUNGIAN THERAPY | Suggest ways in which the Style Invitational or any other Washington area institution can become more relevant to younger people. | P |
| 292 | PAYING THE BILL | Propose appropriate punishments for President Clinton. | H |
| 270 | PALINODE--HAVE PUN, WILL TRAVEL | Write a "palinode", retracting something said in an earlier poem. Your poem must be four lines long and contain at least one rhyme. | 1 |
| 252 | MAKE YOUR MOVIE | Propose people who were the secret inspiration for famous movies. | W H |
| 247 | BLACK AND WHITE AND WED ALL OVER | Propose the marriage of any two people, and the song they should not play at their wedding. The people must be a man and a woman. | H |
| 243 | VERSE THAN EVER | Write a rhyming poem of two to eight lines as a tribute to someone famous who died in 1997, the more awful the better. We will particularly value rhymes that thud, and extremes of emotion and sentiment. | W H |
| 242 | SACRED COW PIES | Take cheap shots at sacred institutions only, places and things that are so noble and wholesome they are beyond reproach, from among the items provided. | W |
| 238 | CHALK IT UP TO STUPIDITY | Propose apologies for yourself in the style of Bart Simpson writing on his blackboard. | H |
| 230 | TALES FROM THE CRYPTOGRAM | Take any proper noun--a person, a book, a movie, whatever--and create for it an appropriate cryptogram. | H |
| 229 | WE CAN'T HEAR YOU | Supply an example for any of the five "Things you don't want to hear" categories provided. | H H |
| 227 | WILD PITCHES | Come up worthy successors to Joe Camel. Name the product, and describe the totally inappropriate cartoon character that would be created to represent it. | 2 |
| 214 | ASK BACKWARDS IX | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are your answers. What are the questions? | H |
| 203 | CAN IT GET MUCH VERSE? | Create Very Bad Poetry, containing banalities masquerading as profundities, overstretched metaphors, etc. Special attention should be paid to dreadful syntax and painful rhyme | W |
| 199 | WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? | Tell us the difference between any two of the provided items. | H 3 |
| 194 | ADVICE SQUAD | Answer any of the provided questions unwisely. | H |
| 193 | ASK BACKWARDS VIII | You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the answers. What are the questions? | 4 |
| 177 | SOUNDS LIKE TROUBLE | Tell us what any of the provided sounds are. | H |
| 169 | DIFF'RENT JOKES | Tell us the difference between any two of the provided items. | H |
| 157 | WARNING SIGNS | Complete any of these "you might be about to" warning sentences. | H |
| 149 | O, NO! | Come up with a palindrome, a line that reads the same backward and forward, and then use it as a punchline to a joke. | 4 |
| 141 | ASK BACKWARD VII | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | H |
| 136 | NEW END IN SIGHT | Come up with new endings to make literary classics more suitable for Hollywood in the 1990s. | H |