Fusion Club [guest idea by Conley Owens]
Virginia Tech hosts a fair for “fusion clubs”, which includes, but is not limited to, the following:
Open carry furries,
hula-hooping jazz musicians
black culture fencers
fantasy football larpers
LGBT motorcyclists
mycophiliac mushroom-collecting poets
manga ultimate frisbee team
knitting on ice
Hokie Gear [A special episode created by Conley Owens]
Freddie and Bridgette are sent to review a new restaurant in the area, The Fork and Roast, located on First and Main. They enjoy the food, although it’s not that great, so they wonder what the big deal is about this place. When the waiter asked them how their food is, they misinterpret some secret signal, and are then directed to a back room where there is a black market, selling contraband unlicensed Hokie gear at a reasonable price.
They Found His Body in the Duck Pound [A guest episode created by Conley Owens]
A scuba diver discovers a body in the duck pond, a human corpse that had been weighed down by concrete boots. Every possible explanation is arrived at until the campus police discover it’s a prank played by the VCOM students, using a cadaver.
VCOM Practice Patient
Students at VCOM practice diagnosing an elderly volunteer who roleplays that he has Alzheimer’s. They ask him questions and find out he doesn’t remember who even dropped him off, and they successfully diagnose him.
Only to realize he really is experiencing dementia and does not know where he is or where to go next.
The Culturally Naive Writing Teacher
Bridgette takes a writing course offered to the community, and her classmates are a diverse set of community immigrants and international students. The teacher begins making good-intentioned but awkward comments about his classroom being like the UN and assumes he knows about other cultures, only for the students to give him blank stares like he’s an idiot. He keeps apologizing for the English language being so complicated until an Indian student raises his hand and says “actually, English was very easy for me to learn,” and several students nod their heads. The teacher, flustered, begins making the assignments harder to prove that English is so hard to learn.
Graduation: Almost
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Radio Killed the Talent Show
Shelor Motor Mile hosts their annual high school talent show, and invite the stars of a local radio program to host the show.
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The BT Bus That Ate Everyone
It’s early morning. A host of zombified Blacksburgians shuffle down the sidewalks to the bus stop, where they board a Blacksburg Transit bus. Josh Edwards, bus driver in a camo hat and beard, lets the weary zombies aboard, where they take their seats and stare blankly out the window. Amidst the silence of 7:45, the human Josh Edwards glances back at the zombies, and begins to speak to the undead:
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White Scholars
A grad student becomes angry that the African American Heritage room in the student center is never occupied, except by white students looking for a quiet place to study. She tries to stage a protest against this act of racial oppression. A couple other students show up, but a miscommunication has led to the protest organizational meeting being held in a room that at the same time is occupied by a class on Anglo-Saxon language and literature that had to move from its normal meeting place. The student views this as an act of white aggression, and doubles her efforts to protest white suppression of blacks.
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Book Meditation Group
A combination yoga meditation group/book club forms at a local coffee shop wherein attendees read from a “spiritual/non-religious” book and then meditate. It becomes problematic when members are trying to place themselves in difficult meditation postures and keep their books open to the page they are reading together at the same time. The group leader spends most of the meeting attempting to help everyone stay in their posture and keep their book open at the same time. Everyone grows frustrated, until they look around and see the relaxing posture of other patrons who are silently reading, legs curled up in a booth, with a cup of coffee, as if meditating.
