Miscalculation story
While fooling around in chemistry class, luckless-in-love college student Phil spills a chemical element on a picture of a puppy, and brings it to life. He tries using this chemical to bring his pornographic magazines and pin-ups to life so he can finally have a girlfriend, but the results are both surprising and horrifying. Directed by: Tom Holland. Story by: Michael McDowell.
7 total · 1 choice · 3 major · 3 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| teenage angst | choice | The story concerns the college student Phil's desperation over being single and his resolve to do something about it by Friday night, or "die trying". |
| be careful what you wish for | major | Phil tried to conjure an attractive and love thirsty vixen from one of his many skinny magazines, but repeatedly got in trouble with the resulting women. |
| speculative technology | major | Phil accidentally concocted a special blue goo that turned pictures of people in magazines into the real thing. |
| unrequited love | major | A comely looking girl threw herself at Phil but he ignored her in his pursuit of an impossible ideal. In the end, she won him over. |
| flirtation | minor | Phil tried pickup approaches from a self-help book on every pretty woman he happened across. |
| law enforcement | minor | The police showed up at Phil's dorm room just time time to find him in coital negotiations with the upper half of a beautiful woman. |
| what it is like in university | minor | One scene was set in a college chemistry classroom. The viewer was shown some goings on in a college dorm. |