Unsought Input

Musicals. If you stop and think about it, it’s bizarrely amazing that musicals continue to exist. The fact that they make up a whole genre of theater and film is stranger still.

People just start singing, for no reason, or for contrived reasons. They dance around, in the middle of the day. Don’t get me wrong, musicals take a lot of skill to write, score, direct, and act in. But let’s face it - if there were no such thing as musicals, and you had never heard of The Sound of Music, or Grease, or Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and someone tried to explain the concept to you, the only possible response would be, “WTF?”

Which is why I have developed a theory: the best musicals are the ones that make fun of musicals, or at the very least point out the absurdity of the whole business. Here is empirical, scientific proof. The ten best musicals that make fun of musicals:

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One of the more interesting aspects of the Batman / Bruce Wayne character is that in addition to fighting crime, he also runs a large, multinational corporation. Actually, it’s not so much interesting as it is an excuse for him to have enough money to constantly buy bat-supplies.

But you have to wonder what it must be like to work for Wayne Enterprises. Since you are reading this, instead of doing work, it is probably more pertinent to wonder what it’s like to get fired from Wayne Enterprises.

Below are 10 ways to get fired from Wayne Enterprises. Note to fanboys: all the items below are strictly in canon (see references in (parenthesis)). (more…)