| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 288 | PICTURE THIS | What is happening in these pictures? | H H |
| 284 | ASK BACKWARDS MCLXVII | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | H |
| 283 | UH-OH | Come up with "uh-oh" lines, statements that occur in the middle of a seemingly benign speech or conversation, suddenly alerting the listener that he is about to hear some bad news. | H |
| 278 | THE STALE INVITATIONAL | Begin with a word. Add, subtract or change a single letter only, and then provide a new definition. | H |
| 239 | NAME THAT TOON | Send us the captions for cartoons not provided. | H |
| 225 | WE RESPECTfully decline to publish any dumb entries by YOU. | Come up with signs for a T-shirt or a bumper sticker that hide the real message in tiny type. | H |
| 222 | TRIP DEUCES | Take the two subject listings at the top of any page of the Yellow Pages and create a dictionary definition for the compound word they form. | 5 |
| 219 | VERBOSITY | Come up with new, obnoxious, self-conscious faux verbs and use them in sentences. | H |
| 211 | GIVE US THE BACKS OFF YOUR SHIRTS | Design the back of the fourth Style Invitational T-shirt, with anything that captures the transcendent indignity of this contest. | H |
| 209 | WE NEED SOME SEASONING | Come up with the first signs of spring in Washington. | H H |
| 208 | SEND IN THE CLONES | Suggest questions a commission to investigate the moral, legal and practical question raised by cloning might consider. | H |
| 174 | THE EDGE OF MIGHT | Complete any of the four provided "you might" phrases. | H |
| 170 | THE ELEMENTS OF SMILE | Why are these people smiling? | H |
| 164 | MEAN MEANINGS | Translate things politicians say into what they really mean. | H H |
| 150 | TRIAL BALLOONS | What are the people saying? | H |
| 123 | WHY IS POOP FUNNY? | Come up with creative answers to any of the five questions above that might be asked by a 5-year-old. | H |
| 98 | YOUR CHEATIN' ART | Come up with titles for country music songs featuring any one or more of the following themes: cheatin', thievin', drinkin', truckin', lovin' or dogs. | H |
| 91 | ASK BACKWARD IV | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | H |
| 88 | GIVE US SOME GOOD NEWS | Come up with ways things are going to be different now that Republicans have ascended to power. | H 2 |
| 80 | NICK KNACKS | Come up with a great nickname for any contemporary celebrity. | 3 |
| 22 | STUMP US | Come up with slogans for the 1996 presidential campaign. | H |
| 14 | COLLECTIVE INSANITY | Modernize collective nouns (as in a "pride" of lions or an "exaltation" of larks), inventing snide new names for groups of things. | H |