TNBLE-NYC: At Home Edition!

One of my very favorite things about The Nervous Breakdown’s Literary Experience-NYC, is the games.

Not that I don’t love the readings or meeting my fellow TNB writers or drinking heartily and making out with each and every one of them, but the very best part for me, is making the ‘Experience’ interactive.

Getting the audience involved.
Brainwashing the masses.
Buying your affection.
With fabulous prizes.

At the first TNBLE-NYC, we tried TNBingo! and played “Name That Author/Face-off” as a[n unnecessary] tie-breaker.

At the second, we tried three-word comments on each of the readings and then played “Name That French Thing!” in honor of Bastille Day.

At the third, we had folks write down their favorite Happy Ending (in exactly three-words) on little slips of paper, read them aloud in-between readings, and then drew one from a hat for the fabulous giveaway.

And this time, at TNBLE-NYC Ed. #4, we skipped all the intermediary mumbo-jumbo and went straight for the kill: we played “Name That Obscure Holiday Film” and then had a[nother unnecessary] tie-breaker, “Name That Rankin/Bass TV Classic”, using secondary characters/subplots from the shows.

I made it tough. No simple gimmes like Christmas Vacation or Bad Santa or The Little Drummer Boy. I went for the jugular.

And what did I learn?

Our audiences are, in fact, hard-core readers/lit-nerds, and not cine- or telephiles in the least.

Whoops.

Regardless.

Assuming you live too far away, or found it too cold to come down to Chinatown last week, my holiday gift to you, is a taste of what you missed.

To buy your affection.
With fabulous prizes.

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Here’s how we’ll play. You put your answers in the comments section (no cheating!) before 11:59 (EST) on Christmas Day.

Whoever gets the MOST right (including the tie-breaker to determine… well… ties) will get a fabulous prize.

From me to you.

Enjoy!

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NAME THAT OBSCURE HOLIDAY FILM!

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And now onto the…

TIE-BREAKER ROUND!!

Name the Rankin/Bass Holiday TV Classic from which each of these stills came. BONUS POINT if you can also name the CHARACTER (which will determine the tie-breaker if there’s another tie.)

Tie-breaker #1:

Tie-breaker #2:

Tie-breaker #3:

Tie-breaker #4:

Tie-breaker #5:

ALL ANSWERS WILL BE POSTED THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS, AFTER THE WINNER HAS BEEN DETERMINED

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ALSO: If you missed them the first time around, here, again, for your reading/viewing pleasure is our TNBLE-NYC ‘HOLIDAZE’ recap:

Kimberly M. Wetherell / “The 12 Dates of Christmas”
Read It. / Watch It.

Amy Shearn / “A Lonely Jew on Christmas”
Read It. / Watch It.

Don Mitchell / “Is There Really a Hawaiian Word for Christmas?”
Read It. / Watch It.

Will Entrekin / “The Evolution of the Christmas Jollies”
Read It. / Watch It.

Robin Antalek / “SantaJesus”
Read It. / Watch It.

Jason Rice / “Offender”
Read It. / Watch It.