Stopover in a Quiet Town story
A married couple wakes up after drinking too much at a party and find themselves in a strange town devoid of life – except for the distant laughter of a child. Directed by: Ron Winston. Story by: Earl Hamner, Jr.
10 total · 1 choice · 4 major · 5 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| what if I woke up in a strange place and didn't remember how I got there | choice | Bob and Millie Frazier woke up in a weird town with no knowledge of how they got there. |
| drunk driving | major | The couple last remember having been driving home drunk from a party. |
| human vs. inexplicable adversity | major | Bob and Millie were at loss to explain how they might have come to wake up in an artificial town. |
| husband and wife | major | Bob and Millie Frazier. |
| ironic twist of fate | major | The closing narration clearly implied that the couple had been abducted by aliens as a consequence of having been driving drunk. |
| alien abduction | minor | The closing narration made clear that Bob and Millie had been abducted by aliens in order to be pets. |
| coping with a bad hangover | minor | Bob woke up with a headache after a night of drinking and partying. |
| extraterrestrial being | minor | Bob and Millie got abducted by giant humanoid aliens. |
| giant person | minor | Bob and Millie had been abducted by giant aliens in order to be pets. |
| what if I was a specimen animal in a zoo | minor | In this case it was an alien girl's private little pet zoo. |