THE JILTING OF GRANNY WEATHERALL: Two
gerontophiles fall in love with the same Granny. Liza, a junior at the University of Pennsylvania who is visiting the Granny for
a couple of weeks during the summer, decides to seduce the gerontophiles to end
their nauseating behavior.
DEAD FISH STORY: Sophia, a young clothing
designer, leaves a dead fish under the seat of a New York City taxicab.
THE APPOINTMENT: A 55-year-old discharge
planner at Cedars-Sinai Hospital doubles as a
“periodontist to the stars” with an illegal underground practice in her
apartment. All goes well until one of her patients is a vampire.
THE MAN IN BLACK: It's 1983. A depressed
undertaker named Mickey Bibis is reunited with his lost love at the funeral of Judge
Julius Hoffman, who presided at the trial of the “Chicago Seven.” Now Mickey
Bibis, who abandoned Rivka years earlier, must confront his weight, his financial issues, and the 1960s before he can
proceed with the business of living.
HOT DOG: The day before she’s to leave for
Harvard, Megan finds an old hot dog in her family’s basement refrigerator. She
eats the hot dog and is transported back to the Watergate scandal — with David
Brinkley (Donald Sutherland) as her “Virgil.”
THE TURTLE GANG: A small suburban town
inhabited by church-going all-American families is plunged into controversy
when a teenage girl exposes a secret society of skateboarding tenth grade girls
and their Moms.
LET IT JUST BE: A man unwittingly unleashes a
cadre of motivational speakers upon his town.
TALE OF TWO BIRDS: A small-time gangster
accidentally kills a rare pelican owned by Mr Big. The small-time gangster
finds his life in turmoil as he faces blackmail threats from two talking
parrots who know about the death but did not actually see it.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Chloe, a high school math
whiz, turns down an acceptance from Harvard to enroll at Uncle Ben University.
THE A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI STORY: A washed-up
former major leaguer hires on as a Little League coach, then as manager of a
rental car office, and finally as the guy who hands out towels at the Yale
Club. He becomes president of Yale University and eventually commissioner of baseball.
MAMIE, HOW I LOVE YA: An average,
non-athletic high school senior guy writes a term paper on Mamie Eisenhower’s
alleged alcoholism, leading to a lawsuit. Oprah Winfrey (playing herself) is
the “dea ex machina.”
SERGEANT RAFFERTY CALLING: A burned out game
show host invents a machine that allows him to enter other people’s dreams. He
intends to market it to marriage and family therapists – but all hell breaks
loose when it’s stolen by a chimp.