Brainstorm and Pitch exciting story ideas.

Elevator Pitch

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## The Game
**The Game** is a single comedic idea the scene is focused on, the core premise that summarizes what’s funny about the scene in one sentence. It is a pattern of unusual behavior, justified in a believable way, which we will gradually heighten to make the scene progressively more absurd.

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- Create the **Base Reality** - Who, What, Where - characters in a situation doing something. Establish a believable, ordinary world and characters, so that anything funny or unusual can clearly stand out in contrast to it.
- Find the first **Unusual Thing** - play the scene until something unusual, surprising, absurd, unexpected, or weird happens, something out of the ordinary in the context of Base Reality, a behavior that breaks from the pattern of normal life.
- **Justify** the Unusual Thing - come up with an explanation for the absurdity, invent a logical rationale for the unusual behavior, make it believable, ground it in reality.
- **Heighten** the absurdity, make the Unusual Thing even weirder, take it farther away from the expected reality we have established at the beginning. 
- Repeat the last two steps to continue the pattern of unusual behavior, progressively heightening and justifying the absurdity. End the scene as soon as we’ve made it as absurd as we can.

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