…that your wife wanted to get rid of.
Having them lined up at work would be kind of boring. What could you do instead?
If you put one on co-workers desks when no one was around, how would they take it? Suppose you put some thought into each one and found some characteristic about the character that reminded you about the co-worker, how many of them would be flattered versus confused versus insulted?
Did I get Groundskeeper Willy cause I’m strong and always willing to help or because I have an accent and not the sharpest tool in the shed?
Was I given Smithers because I’m a solid right hand man that will goto any lengths to support his superior, or is it because I have plenty of closetted habits?
What’s Flanders doing on my desk?
Yeah. It could be fun huh?
(I’m gonna have to post date this post so that I can get a chance to do it before I ruin the surprise for folks…)
…So I did it. Turns out that the characters were from the movie, which I hadn’t seen and there weren’t as many as I had thought there would be. Here’s how it broke down.
Flanders: Sean. Just cause who else would say Okely-dokely?
Bart: Ben. Just cause he’s got a skateboard.
Krusty: Pawson. I really enjoyed how he was moved by the fact that when we played that Family Feud game at the offsite, that he got Class Clown, but didn’t make the board for funniest. That is funny.
Comic book dude: Chuck. He might still think that Luke goes to ComiCon.
Nelson: Travis. No real reason. Just wanted to give him one. He can be funny in that jerky way I suppose that’s why it went to him. I guess I had to give it to someone, that’s why he got it. Not cause I wanted to give Travis one.
Apu: No one. Who could it be?
Some dude I don’t know. I had to look him up on the web and have since forgotten who he was. Some EPA guy from the movie? Gave him to Dan. Cause I figured Dan would be the one most disturbed trying to figure out why this EPA dude was on his desk. I really wanted to give Dan Milhouse, but he wasn’t in the set.
Burns: Kelly. If there was the Burns/Smithers combo, I wrestled with giving Burns to Ben Strong and Kelly Smithers, but I didn’t have that choice after all.
I think I gave Joe T someone too. I forget who. Maybe Dr. Hibbert? No reason. Just to mix things up. Make sure enough of the fantasy guys were represented that it didn’t look like I was picking favorites.
Maggie or Lisa went to Michelene cause she’s the girl.
I left myself Barney – again to throw people off the track of who was putting these things on people’s desks.
Plus, it didn’t hurt that I was on vacation this past week…
I knew it was you! Who else lived at Burger King in 2007 and actually remembers that I’m a comic book geek?
PS: I still want to believe that Luke was running around San Diego this past weekend as Wolverine. That lie rang so true…