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28. The Country Husband, 3 stars. Man has a midlife crisis after coming out unscathed from a minor plane crash, lusts for the underage babysitter.
29. The Duchess, 3 stars. Wealthy heiress shows no inclination to marry royalty (or at all) until after her parents' deaths.
30. The Scarlet Moving Van, 3 stars. Charming new neighbors are problematic, go from town to town alienating everyone with drunk shenanigans.

25. The Trouble of Marcie Flint, 3 stars. Working man drags out his time away from home as long as possible, skips out on family the first chance he gets.
26. The Bella Lingua, 3 stars. American working in Italy struggles to learn the language, tries (unsuccessfully) to stay out of his instructors' private affairs.
27. The Wrysons, 3 stars. Snooty wife has nightmares about the bomb, uptight husband bakes in secret.

Wiki: "As far as I could make out the Misses Tripp were vegetarians, theosophists, British Israelites, Christian Scientists, spiritualists and enthusiastic amateur photographers."

Wiki: "You were wearing a tank top, and I studied the murals on your arms as I described our state-of-the-art resomation chamber, which you called a human Crockpot."

Wiki: "She squeezes my thigh and turns on the television — more conspiracy theorists who believe the starship is part of some Noah’s ark project planning to leave the rest of humanity behind when a supposed planetary body they call Nibiru crashes into Earth."

27. The Green Thumb, 3 stars. Woman is blessed/cursed by being an amazing chef, husband only likes bland food.
28. Caveat Emptor, 3 stars. Unscrupulous "friend" tries to sell another person's soul for a cash payout, leaves him poorer than he started.
29. The Weissenbroch Spectacles, 3 stars. Young man has a hankering for buxom women, inherits some glasses that let him check out the goods.

Wiki: "The reward the bushman liked best was a button in the shape of a sunflower with 'Vote for Landon' written across it."

24. Gin Comes in Bottles, 3 stars. Man hires a slow boy to be his servant, buys the wrong type of gin for his cocktail party.
25. There'd Be Thousands in It, 3 stars. Inventor fails to explain how to operate his dressing machine, girlfriend accidentally activates it while sleeping alone.
26. The Black Ball, 3 stars. Mob lawyer is sent to shakedown a man that can accurately predict future numbers.

20. Oh, Say! Can You See?, 3 stars. Rich man falls for a girl with a mysterious living situation, gets nosy.
21. The Rape of the Lock, 3 stars. Gifted amulet opens doors into unexpected places.
22. Bell, Book, and Candle, 3 stars. Stinky young man tries to exorcise the family ghost so his MIL can move in.
23. All That Glitters, 3 stars. Foolhardy politician abuses his family luck charm, despite granny's warnings.

16. Methought I Heard a Voice, 3 stars. Lecturer attracts junkies that get high on his droning voice.
17. One Man's Meat, 3 stars. Traveling spy/salesman does an old god a favor, gets a sneaky sausage in return.
18. My Brother's Keeper, 3 stars. Twins have opposite personalities, but the same taste in women.
19. A Dime Brings You Success, 3 stars. Man tries too hard to make people like him, gives them bad luck.

Wiki: "There was no precedent for it in the present century, at least; learned men in communications compared him simultaneously with two historical figures named Adlai E. Stevenson and Oliver J. Dragon."

Wiki: "The scene before him was more suggestive of a bourse than of a message center in any ordinary sense."

12. The Stone of the Sages, 3 stars. Man chucks away the philosopher's stone after stomping on it.
13. Corpus Delectable, 3 stars. Salesman is the perfect model corpse, gets stalked by undertakers.
14. The Palimpsest of St. Augustine, 3 stars. Catholic priest is horrified by his sudden supernatural powers.
15. Where To, Please?, 3 stars. Drunken men accidentally jump through time, but only one makes it home.

08. No Forwarding Address, 3 stars. Well traveled librarian does a runner with a much younger woman.
09. The Untimely Toper, 3 stars. Jerk kills an innocent bat, gets lost in time peeing out his booze.
10. The Eve of St. John, 3 stars. Unlucky man tries to outsmart a fairy's curse/blessing, goes broke with an unhappy wife.
11. The Love Nest, 3 stars. Doctor fancies pretty patient, overlooks her oddities & boyfriend.

05. Beasts of Bourbon, 3 stars. Hardcore alcoholic manifests cute little critters into the world after a blacked out night of occultism.
06. The Gift of God, 3 stars. Insincere writer of religious poems gets an unwelcome blessing from god after visiting a Quebecois church.
07. The Better Mousetrap, 3 stars. Man with a mouse problem lightly mocks a magician, ends up making a bad bargain for the loan of a dragon.

Wiki: "I think that would be the spectral tarsier."

01. Elephas Frumenti, 3 stars. Drunks dream up a pet elephant the size of a kitten.
02. The Ancestral Amethyst, 3 stars. Dane has an unfair magical advantage in a drinking contest.
03. Here, Putzi!, 3 stars. Belligerent husband turns into a sweet little dog when he drinks too much.
04. More Than Skin Deep, 3 stars. Plain women get a love potion style makeover that wears off after 3 weeks.

Wiki: "Macready survived the performance, but two dozen or so ruffians and bystanders were killed by soldiers shooting into what became known as the Astor Place Riot."

Wiki: "The Park is treated as a sanctuary for one species of particular note: the rare blue bear, also known as the glacier bear."

22. The Housebreaker of Shady Hill, 3 stars. Brown-noser loses his job, discovers he's a moron, tries to take up a life of petty crime.
23. The Bus to St. James’s, 3 stars. Bored man has an affair with a pretty neighbor, feigns interest in her life, can't be bothered to be discreet.
24. The Worm In the Apple, 2 stars. Bitter observer of a happy family keeps waiting for the mask to slip, still waiting, any day now.

Wiki: "Lying in bed at night, they will think tenderly of the big winner who lost his pari-mutuel ticket, of the great novelist whose magnum opus was burned mistakenly for trash, and of Samuel Tilden, who lost the Presidency of the United States through the shenanigans of the electoral college."

19. The Day the Pig Fell into the Well, 3 stars. Wealthy family summers in a small town, take turns telling the same funny story every year.
20. The Five-Forty-Eight, 4 stars. Cruel bastard is followed home by an unstable woman he slept with the had fired, thinks he given her the slip.
21. Just One More Time, 3 stars. Con-artist couple are popular socially despite their hijinks, charm and chutzpah go a long way.

Wiki: "A wave takes form, accelerates its ride over the shallows, boils, and breaks, revealing Consuelo Roosevelt and Mr. and Mrs. Dundas Vanderbilt, with the children of both marriages."

Consuelo Vanderbilt > Blenheim Palace: 9th Duke of Marlborough

16. The Children, 4 stars. Lonely man plods through a life of thankless service, seems happy enough to toil away dragging his family with him.
17. The Sorrows of Gin, 3 stars. Little rich girl observes the evils of alcohol in her servants/parents, decides skedaddle on the first train out.
18. O Youth and Beauty!, 4 stars. Washed up ex-athlete/current shitty husband takes his angst about aging out on his wife.

Wiki: "He had paid large sums to research his genealogy and claimed to be descended from Scottish adventurers left stranded by the Darién disaster."

Wiki: "Well, after all they didn’t exactly suggest the Vere de Veres, you know."

Lady Clara Vere de Vere > House of de Vere

Wiki: "They told me Carlyle was a great writer ... I persuaded myself that I thought George Meredith magnificent ... they told me that to admire Walter Pater was to prove myself a cultured young man..."

Word: "Smith said that Roy was a time server."

1. One who adapts his conduct to the time or season; usually, one who on grounds of self-interest shapes his conduct in conformity to the views that are in favour at the time; a temporizer, a ‘trimmer’.

08. A Lonely Coast, 4 stars. Jealous woman & slutty man egg each other on, inevitably ends poorly for everyone.
09. The Governors of Wyoming, 2 stars. Child molesting hypocrite sabotages his neighbors out of boredom?
10. 55 Miles to the Gas Pump, 3 stars. Wife cuts her way into attic, finds her husband's victims.
11. Brokeback Mountain, 4 stars. Men have a long term affair, one is too afraid to take it seriously.