HOME / low concept: Dubious and far-fetched ideas.

Coming Never to a Theater Near YouAn unusually moronic movie trivia slide show.

By Robert Leighton and Cate PlysPosted Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006, at 3:48 PM ET

Click to see a slide show.Is conversation dead? It must be, when people can't even talk before a movie because they're too busy staring at those cretinous trivia slide shows. Here's one that'll stop any conversation dead in its tracks.

Click here to open Slate's movie trivia slide show.

.

.

Print This ArticlePRINTEmail to a FriendE-MAILShare This ArticleRECOMMEND...Get Slate RSS FeedsRSS
Robert Leighton, a New Yorker cartoonist and puzzle-writer, most recently co-authored The New Yorker Book of Cartoon Puzzles and Games. Cate Plys, a Chicago journalist and playwright, is most recently the co-author of White Hot Black Comedy.
What did you think of this article?
Join The Fray: Our Reader Discussion Forum
POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES
TODAY'S PICTURES
TODAY'S CARTOONS
TODAY'S DOONESBURY
TODAY'S VIDEO
Back in the summer of '69—in Afghanistan.85/090701_TP.jpg
Cartoonists' take on Iraq.22/090701_TC.jpg
Tongue of Newt. 52/DoonesburyPlaceholder.jpg