WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
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1451 | Could have said it worse ourselves | Give us a humorously bad "first draft" of a famous line from history, literature or entertainment. | H |
273 | UNSEENS WE'D LIKE TO SEE | Provide examples of any of the provided categories of things that will never happen. | H H 3 |
160 | SEEKING WISE GUYS | Come up with cool new bad-guy terms. | I H H |
135 | JERRY-BUILT SOLUTIONS | Come up with Seinfeld-isms: whiny, quirky musings on little questions of life. | H |
126 | EVERYBODY'S TALKIN' | What are these people, etc., saying or thinking? | H |
125 | ASK BACKWARD VI | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | E |
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 |
121 | IT'S NO USE | Come up with useless products. | H 4 |
120 | SIMILE OUTRAGEOUS | Come up with inept analogies, rotten comparisons as a literary device. | H 3 |
119 | MUZAK TO OUR EAR | Come up with unfortunate Muzak songs to hear on the phone while on hold. You can use either a song title or a lyric. | H |
117 | GIVE 'EM HELOISE | Come up with a tribute to Heloise, that queen of inanely creative recycling. | H H 1 |
112 | POOP FICTION | Come up with the opening lines of a book so bad it will compel you to stop reading immediately; maximum 50 words. | H |
110 | DO NOT INHALE THIS PAGE | Come up with absurd warning labels that might be found on common products. | H |
108 | NEAR MISSES | Come up with the first drafts of great lines in history, entertainment or literature. | H H |
103 | SEND HELP. | Come up with ways to raise some badly needed cash for the District of Columbia. | H H H H 3 |
102 | HELP! I'M A PRISONER IN THIS CONTEST | Come up with fortune cookie messages that you would love to see, but never will. | H |
101 | [deliberately left blank] | [deliberately left blank] | H H H H H |
100 | THE JOKE'S ON YOU | Retell any of these jokes as they would be told by some celebrity, living or dead. | H |
99 | WHAT'S WRONG WITH THESE PICTURES? | What's wrong with these pictures? | H 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 H |
96 | STICK IT IN YOUR ERA | Come up with a catch phrase for the 1990s. | H H |
94 | WEEKS 1-93 | Come up with a great answer to any previous Style Invitational contest, an answer you may have thought of after the contest was over. | H H H |
93 | I WANT THE MONGOOSE | Tell us, in 50 words or fewer, why you must have this elegant piece of taxidermy featuring a snake being killed by a mongoose. | H H H |
92 | PLOTBOILERS | Tell us what excerpts from celebrities' novels might look like. | 4 |
90 | BILL US NOW | Come up with funny legislation based on the names of the 102 freshman congresspersons. | 3 |
89 | CHILD'S PLAY | Come up with bad ideas for new toys for the Christmas season. | H H H 1 |
85 | PLAY MYTHTY FOR ME | Come up with new urban myths, those vaguely believable, wildly paranoid stories that circulate by word of mouth until they are generally accepted as true. | H |
80 | NICK KNACKS | Come up with a great nickname for any contemporary celebrity. | H |