Like ghosts appear in cigarette smoke

[sovay]

After careful perusal of box-office figures for 1981, we have determined that my answer to that data-scraping meme in which the main character of the number-one film of the year in which you were born is now starring in the first movie you ever saw is Indiana Jones and the Dancing Cavalier. Since spatch informs me that Indy was canonically born in 1899, he would be in his late twenties for the events of Singin' in the Rain (1952) and since I find it funnier to interpret this meme as a crossover rather than a substitution, I am now trying to figure out what archaeological mishegos he could be perpetrating in Hollywood that would bring him into contact with Cosmo, Kathy, and Don—and whether, depending on the nature of the mishegos and the timeline of his tenure at Marshall College, he could have Marcus with him. Inevitably, some producer is going to offer him a contract to star in an adventure serial.

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[moon_custafer]

Wait, I think I reversed this—- the first film I can recall seeing was Raggedy Anne and Andy and the top picture the year I was born was Towering Inferno, so I pictured myself as a talking, singing rag doll in a flaming skyscraper, but if it’s *protagonist* from the top film in the plot of the first one you saw… I guess I’m a structural engineer on a quest through a surreal animated landscape where my most nightmarish antagonist is an ocean of sentient taffy?

[sovay]

I guess I’m a structural engineer on a quest through a surreal animated landscape where my most nightmarish antagonist is an ocean of sentient taffy?

Under those circumstances, I can see why they need a structural engineer.